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 &ndash; Gene Hackman, American actor
### February 
* February 10 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Steve McQueen, American actor (died 1980)
* March 26 – Sandra Day O'Connor, US Supreme Court justice
* March 30 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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)