1930

**1930** (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar.

## Events

- November 2 – Haile Selassie became King of Ethiopia
- The Trump Building is built in New York City which is at the time the world's tallest building
- The Chrysler Building surpasses The Trump Building and also claims world's tallest building

### January

- January 3 - Robert Loggia, American actor (died 2015)
- January 10 - Roy E. Disney, American businessman (died 2009)
- January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut
- January 30 – Gene Hackman, American actor

### February

- February 10 – Robert Wagner, American actor
- February 19
    - John Frankenheimer, American movie director (died 2002)
    - Milenko Stefanovic, Serbian clarinet player

### March

- March 7
    - Robert D. Cardona, American model-maker
    - Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Lord Snowdon, British photographer and member of the British Royal Family from 1960 to 1978
- March 22 – Pat Robertson, American preacher and television host
- March 24 – Steve McQueen, American actor (died 1980)
- March 26 – Sandra Day O'Connor, US Supreme Court justice
- March 30 – Rolf Harris, Australian born- British cartoonist, singer and television presenter

### April

- April 3 – Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany
- April 7 – Andrew Sachs, German born-British actor
- April 13 - Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian movie director (died 2013)
- April 15 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, 4th President of Iceland
- April 28 - James Baker, former United States Secretary of State

### May

- May 8 – Gary Snyder, American writer
- May 9 – Joan Sims, British comedy actress (died 2001)
- May 13 – Mike Gravel, former US Senator from Alaska (died 2021)
- May 14 – Ali La Pointe, Algerian revolutionary
- May 21 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia
- May 29  Jack Catain Jr., American businessman and convicted criminal (d. 1987)
- May 31 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, producer

### June

- June 1 – Edward Woodward, British actor (died 2009)

### July

- July 2 – Carlos Menem, President of Argentina (died 2021)
- July 4
    - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet – Armenian actor (died 1993)
    - Johnny Saxton, American boxer
- July 7 – Lord Wyn Roberts of Conwy, Welsh politician (died 2013)
- July 30 – Captain Lou Albano, Italian born-American professional wrestler and manager (died 2009)

### August

- August 1 - Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat (died 2011)
- August 5 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut (died 2012)
- August 8 – Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, Bengali Mother of the Nation (died 1975)
- August 10 - Barry Unsworth, British writer (died 2012)
- August 14 - Earl Weaver, American baseball manager (died 2013)
- August 21 – Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (died 2002)
- August 25 – Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor (died 2020)
- August 28
    - Windsor Davies, Welsh comedy actor (died 2019)
    - Ben Gazzara, American actor (died 2012)
- August 30 - Warren Buffett, American businessman

### September

- September 7
    - Baudouin I, King of Belgium (died 1993)
    - Sonny Rollins, American musician
- September 23 – Ray Charles, American singer and musician (died 2004)
- September 29 - Colin Dexter, British writer

### October

- October 1
    - Richard Harris, Irish actor and singer (died 2002)
    - Philippe Noiret, French actor (died 2006)
- October 6 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (died 2000)
- October 10 - Harold Pinter, British playwright (died 2008)
- October 14 - Mobutu Sese Seko, leader of Zaire (died 1998)
- October 28 - Bernie Ecclestone, British racing executive
- October 31 - Michael Collins, American astronaut (died 2021)

### November

- November 14 – Michael Robbins, English actor (died 1992)
- November 15 - J. G. Ballard, British writer (died 2009)
- November 16 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (died 2013)

### December

- December 1 – Matt Monro, British singer (died 1985)
- December 2 - Gary Becker, American economist
- December 8 - Maximilian Schell, Swiss-Austrian actor (died 2014)
- December 17 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor

## Deaths

- March 8 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
- March 19 – Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
- July 7 – Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer and doctor (b. 1859)
- September 29 - Ilya Repin, Ukrainian painter (b. 1844)
- October 26 – Mary Harrison McKee, American First Lady, daughter of Benjamin Harrison (b. 1858)
- after November 2 - Alfred Wegener, German geologist (b. 1880)
- November 22 - Paul Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)

## Movies released

- _All Quiet on the Western Front_
- _Little Caesar_

## Nobel Prizes

- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Karl Landsteiner, Austrian doctor, (1868 – 1943)