August 30
August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, writer († 1851)
- 1871 - Ernest Rutherford, physicist († 1937)
- 1893 - Huey Long, American politician († 1935)
- 1896 - Raymond Massey, actor († 1983)
- 1898 - Shirley Booth, actress († 1992)
- 1901 - Roy Wilkins, civil rights leader ( 1981)
- 1906 - Joan Blondell, actress († 1979)
- 1908 - Fred MacMurray, actor († 1991)
- 1918 - Ted Williams, baseball player († 2002)
- 1919 - Kitty Wells, country music singer
- 1927 - Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer
- 1930 - Warren Buffett, entrepreneur
- 1930 - Jerry Tarkanian, college basketball coach
- 1935 - John Phillips, singer, The Mamas and the Papas. († 2001)
- 1939 - John Peel, Radio 1 DJ
- 1943 - Jean-Claude Killy, skier
- 1943 - R. Crumb, cartoonist
- 1944 - Molly Ivins, political humorist
- 1947 - Peggy Lipton, actress
- 1951 - Timothy Bottoms, actor
- 1972 - Cameron Diaz, actress
- 1982 - Andy Roddick, tennis player
Deaths
Holidays and observances
August 29 - August 31 - July 30 - September 30 -- listing of all days
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December\n
