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

 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 – 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)