1930

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
Births
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 - Vigdis Finnbogadottir, 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 21 - Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia
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)