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{{redirect|August 30th|the song by Delirious?|August 30th (song)}} {{pp-pc1}} {{pp-move-indef}} {{calendar}} {{This date in recent years}} {{Day}} ==Events== ===Pre-1600=== *[[AD 70|70]] – [[Titus]] ends the [[Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)|siege of Jerusalem]] after destroying [[Second Temple|Herod's Temple]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bunson|first=Matthew|title=A Dictionary of the Roman Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HsrGEFpW80UC&pg=PA212+A+DICTIONARY+OF+THE+ROMAN+EMPIRE+P.212|access-date=12 April 2018|year=1991|publisher=OUP USA|isbn=9780195102338|page=212}}</ref> *[[1060]] – The [[Mirdasids]] defeat the [[Fatimid Caliphate]] at the [[Battle of al-Funaydiq]], signalling the definitive loss of [[Aleppo]] for the Fatimids.<ref>{{cite book | last = Bianquis | first = Thierry | author-link = Thierry Bianquis | title = Damas et la Syrie sous la domination fatimide (359-468/969-1076). Deuxième tome | publisher = Presses de l’Ifpo | year = 1989 | url = https://doi.org/10.4000/books.ifpo.6458 | isbn = 978-2-35159-526-8 | language = French | pages=569–571}}</ref> *[[1282]] – [[Peter III of Aragon]] lands at [[Trapani]] to intervene in the [[War of the Sicilian Vespers]]. *[[1363]] – The five-week [[Battle of Lake Poyang]] begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders ([[Chen Youliang]] and [[Zhu Yuanzhang]]) meet to decide who will supplant the [[Yuan dynasty]]. *[[1464]] – [[Pope Paul II]] succeeds [[Pope Pius II]] as the 211th [[pope]]. *[[1574]] – [[Guru Ram Das]] becomes the Fourth [[Sikh Guru]]/[[guru|Master]]. *[[1590]] – [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] enters [[Edo Castle]]. (Traditional [[Japanese calendar|Japanese date]]: August 1, 1590) *[[1594]] – King [[James VI of Scotland]] holds a [[masque at the baptism of Prince Henry]] at [[Stirling Castle]].<ref>Martin Wiggins & Catherine Richardson, ''British Drama 1533–1642: A Catalogue: 1590–1597'', vol. 3 (Oxford, 2013), p. 247.</ref> ===1601–1900=== *[[1721]] – The [[Great Northern War]] between [[Sweden]] and [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]] ends in the [[Treaty of Nystad]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Toivo J. Paloposki|title=Suurvallan loppu|publisher=Weilin & Göös|year=1985|isbn=951-35-2492-2|location=Espoo|language=fi}}</ref> *[[1727]] – [[Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange|Anne]], eldest daughter of King [[George II of Great Britain]], is given the title [[Princess Royal]]. *[[1757]] – [[Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf]]: Russian force under Field Marshal [[Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin]] beats a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal [[Hans von Lehwaldt]], during the [[Seven Years' War]].<ref>Peter H. Wilson, ''The Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire.'' Penguin, 2016, pp. 478–479.</ref> *[[1791]] – {{HMS|Pandora|1779|6}} sinks after having run aground on the outer [[Great Barrier Reef]] the previous day. *[[1799]] – The entire Dutch fleet [[Vlieter Incident|is captured]] by British forces under the command of Sir [[Ralph Abercromby]] and [[Admiral]] Sir Charles Mitchell during the [[War of the Second Coalition]]. *[[1800]] – [[Gabriel Prosser]] postpones a planned [[slave rebellion]] in [[Richmond, Virginia]], but is arrested before he can make it happen. *[[1813]] – [[First Battle of Kulm]]: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-[[Prussia]]n-Russian alliance. * 1813 – [[Creek War]]: [[Fort Mims massacre]]: [[Creek people|Creek]] "[[Red Sticks]]" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of [[Mobile, Alabama]]. *[[1835]] – Australia: [[Melbourne, Victoria]] is founded. *[[1836]] – The city of [[Houston]] is founded by [[Augustus Chapman Allen]] and [[John Kirby Allen]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Houston: A History |first=David G. |last=McComb |publisher=University of Texas Press |location=Austin |year=1981 |edition=2nd |page=11}}</ref> *[[1862]] – [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Richmond]]: [[Confederate States of America|Confederates]] under [[Edmund Kirby Smith]] rout [[Union Army|Union]] forces under General [[William "Bull" Nelson]]. *[[1873]] – Austrian explorers [[Julius von Payer]] and [[Karl Weyprecht]] discover the [[archipelago]] of [[Franz Josef Land]] in the Arctic Sea. *[[1896]] – [[Philippine Revolution]]: After Spanish victory in the [[Battle of San Juan del Monte]], eight provinces in the [[Philippines]] are declared under martial law by the Spanish [[Governor-General of the Philippines|Governor-General]] [[Ramón Blanco y Erenas]]. ===1901–present=== *[[1909]] – [[Burgess Shale]] fossils are discovered by [[Charles Doolittle Walcott]]. *[[1914]] – [[World War I]]: Germans defeat the Russians in the [[Battle of Tannenberg]]. *[[1916]] – [[Ernest Shackleton]] completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on [[Elephant Island]] in [[Antarctica]]. *[[1917]] – [[Vietnam]]ese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn [[Thái Nguyên uprising|mutiny]] at the [[Thái Nguyên]] penitentiary against local French authority. *[[1918]] – [[Fanni Kaplan]] shoots and seriously injures [[Bolshevik]] leader [[Vladimir Lenin]], which along with the assassination of [[Bolshevik]] senior official [[Moisei Uritsky]] days earlier, prompts the decree for [[Red Terror]]. *[[1922]] – [[Battle of Dumlupınar]]: The final battle in the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919–22)|Greco-Turkish War]] ([[Turkish War of Independence]]). *[[1936]] – The [[RMS Queen Mary|RMS ''Queen Mary'']] wins the [[Blue Riband]] by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing. *[[1940]] – The [[Second Vienna Award]] reassigns the territory of [[Northern Transylvania]] from [[Romania]] to Hungary. *[[1941]] – The [[Tighina Agreement]], a treaty regarding administration issues of the [[Transnistria Governorate]], is signed between [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] and Romania.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309415043|title=The beginning of war in the East and hastening the approaches against the Jewish population|first1=Adina|last1=Babeș|first2=Alexandru|last2=Florian|journal=Holocaust. Studii și cercetări|issue=7|year=2014|pages=30–44}}</ref> *[[1942]] – World War II: The [[Battle of Alam el Halfa]] begins. *[[1945]] – The [[Japanese occupation of Hong Kong]] comes to an end. * 1945 – The [[Commander-in-chief#United States|Supreme Commander]] of the Allied Forces, General [[Douglas MacArthur]] lands at [[Atsugi Air Force Base]]. * 1945 – The [[Allied Control Council]], governing Germany after World War II, comes into being. *[[1959]] – South Vietnamese opposition figure [[Phan Quang Dan]] [[1959 South Vietnamese legislative election|was elected to the National Assembly]] despite [[Army of the Republic of Vietnam|soldiers]] being bussed in to vote for President [[Ngo Dinh Diem]]'s candidate.<ref>{{cite book| title=The Last Confucian: Vietnam, South-East Asia, and the West | first=Denis |last=Warner| year=1964 |location=Sydney |publisher=Angus and Robertson |pages=112–114}}</ref> *[[1962]] – Japan conducts a test of the [[NAMC YS-11]], its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war. *[[1963]] – The [[Moscow–Washington hotline]] between the leaders of the U.S. and the [[Soviet Union]] goes into operation. *[[1967]] – [[Thurgood Marshall]] is confirmed as the first [[African American]] [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. *[[1974]] – A [[Belgrade]]–[[Dortmund]] express train [[Zagreb train disaster|derails]] at the main train station in [[Zagreb]] killing 153 passengers. * 1974 – A powerful bomb [[1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing|explodes]] at the [[Mitsubishi Heavy Industries]] headquarters in [[Marunouchi]], Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975, by Japanese authorities. * 1974 – The Third [[World Population Conference]] ends in Bucharest, Romania. At the end of the ceremony, the UN-Romanian Demographic Centre is inaugurated.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.revistadestatistica.ro/supliment/file-de-istorie/vasile-ghetau-2/ | title=Vasile Gheţău }}</ref> *[[1981]] – President [[Mohammad-Ali Rajai]] and Prime Minister [[Mohammad-Javad Bahonar]] of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the [[People's Mujahedin of Iran]]. *[[1983]] – [[Aeroflot Flight 5463]] crashes into Dolan Mountain while approaching [[Almaty International Airport]] in present-day [[Kazakhstan]], killing all 90 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev Tu-134A СССР-65129 Alma-Ata |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19830830-0 |access-date=2020-08-22 |website=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=[[Flight Safety Foundation]]}}</ref> *1983 – [[STS-8]]: The [[Space Shuttle Challenger|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'']] takes off on the first night launch of the shuttle program. [[Guion Bluford]] becomes the first African-American in space on this mission.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jenkins |first=Dennis R. |title=Space Shuttle – the history of the national space transportation system: the first 100 missions |publisher=Midland |year=2001 |isbn=1-85780-116-4 |edition=3rd |pages=271}}</ref> *[[1984]] – [[STS-41-D]]: The [[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Space Shuttle Discovery|Discovery]]'' takes off on its maiden voyage. *[[1991]] – [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union]]: [[Azerbaijan]] declares independence from Soviet Union. *[[1992]] – The 11-day [[Ruby Ridge]] standoff ends with [[Randy Weaver]] surrendering to federal authorities. *[[1995]] – [[Bosnian War]]: [[NATO]] launches [[Operation Deliberate Force]] against [[Bosnian Serb]] forces. *[[1998]] – [[Second Congo War]]: Armed forces of the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] (DRC) and their [[Angola]]n and [[Zimbabwe]]an allies recapture [[Matadi]] and the [[Inga dams]] in the western DRC from [[Rally for Congolese Democracy|RCD]] and [[Rwanda]]n troops. *[[2002]] – [[Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823]] crashes on approach to [[Rio Branco International Airport]], killing 23 of the 31 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Embraer EMB-120ER Brasilia PT-WRQ Rio Branco-Plácido de Castro International Airport, AC (RBR) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20020830-0 |access-date=2019-07-20 |website=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=Flight Safety Foundation}}</ref> *[[2008]] – A [[Conviasa]] [[Boeing 737]] [[2008 Conviasa Boeing 737 crash|crashes]] into [[Illiniza|Illiniza Volcano]] in [[Ecuador]], killing all three people on board.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-291 YV102T Toacaso |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20080830-0 |access-date=2019-08-13 |website=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=Flight Safety Foundation}}</ref> *[[2014]] – Prime Minister of Lesotho [[Tom Thabane]] flees to South Africa as the army [[2014 Lesotho political crisis|allegedly stages a coup]]. *[[2021]] – The last remaining [[Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2020–2021)|American troops leave Afghanistan]], ending U.S. involvement in [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|the war]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Macias |first1=Amanda |title=U.S. ends 20-year war in Afghanistan with final evacuation flights out of Kabul |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/30/afghanistan-update-last-us-troops-leave-kabul-ending-evacuation.html |website=CNBC |date=August 30, 2021}}</ref> *[[2023]] – [[2023 Gabonese coup d'état|Gabonese coup d'état]]: After [[Ali Bongo Ondimba|Ali Bongo Ondimba's]] reelection, a military coup ousted him, ending 56 years of Bongo family rule in [[Gabon]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-08-30 |title=Gabon coup: Army annuls elections and seizes power |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66654965 |access-date=2023-08-30}}</ref> ==Births== ===Pre-1600=== *[[1334]] – [[Peter of Castile]] (d. 1369) *[[1574]] – [[Albert Szenczi Molnár]], Hungarian writer and translator (d. 1634) ===1601–1900=== *[[1609]] – [[Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet]], English politician (d. 1644) * 1609 – [[Artus Quellinus the Elder]], Flemish sculptor (d. 1668) *[[1627]] – [[Itō Jinsai]], Japanese philosopher (d. 1705) *[[1716]] – [[Capability Brown]], English landscape architect (d. 1783) *[[1720]] – [[Samuel Whitbread (1720–1796)|Samuel Whitbread]], English brewer and politician, founded [[Whitbread]] (d. 1796) *[[1748]] – [[Jacques-Louis David]], French painter and illustrator (d. 1825) *[[1768]] – [[Joseph Dennie]], American author and journalist (d. 1812) *[[1797]] – [[Mary Shelley]], English novelist and playwright (d. 1851)<ref>{{cite book|last=Marsh|first=Nicholas|title=Mary Shelley: Frankenstein|location=Basingstoke|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2009|isbn=978-0-23020-097-5 |page=183}}</ref> *[[1812]] – [[Agoston Haraszthy]], Hungarian-American businessman, founded [[Buena Vista Winery]] (d. 1869) *[[1818]] – [[Alexander H. Rice]], American businessman and politician, 30th [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (d. 1895) *[[1839]] – [[Gulstan Ropert]], French-American bishop and missionary (d. 1903) *[[1842]] – [[Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia]] (d. 1849) *[[1844]] – [[Emily Ruete|Emily Ruete/Salama bint Said]], also called Sayyida Salme, a Princess of Zanzibar and Oman (d. 1924)<ref name="Said-Ruete1993">{{cite book|last=Said-Ruete|first=Emilie|title=An Arabian Princess Between Two Worlds: Memoirs, Letters Home, Sequels to the Memoirs : Syrian Customs and Usages|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mU2w8K8IyoEC&pg=PA1|access-date=13 April 2018|date= 1993|publisher=Brill|isbn=9789004096158|page=1}}</ref> *[[1848]] – [[Andrew Onderdonk]], American surveyor and contractor (d. 1905) *[[1850]] – [[Marcelo H. del Pilar]], Filipino journalist and lawyer (d. 1896) *[[1852]] – [[Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff]], Dutch chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1911) * 1852 – [[J. Alden Weir]], American painter and academic (d. 1919) *[[1855]] – [[Evelyn De Morgan]], English painter (d. 1919) *[[1856]] – [[Carl David Tolmé Runge]], German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist (d. 1927) *[[1858]] – [[Ignaz Sowinski]], Galician architect (d. 1917)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.architektenlexikon.at/de/615.htm|title=Ignaz Stanislaus Sowinski|publisher=[[Architekturzentrum Wien]]|language=de|access-date=Nov 30, 2020}}</ref> *[[1860]] – [[Isaac Levitan]], Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1900) *[[1870]] – [[Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia]] (d. 1891) *[[1871]] – [[Ernest Rutherford]], New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1937) *[[1883]] – [[Theo van Doesburg]], Dutch artist (d. 1931) *[[1884]] – [[Theodor Svedberg]], Swedish chemist and physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1971) *[[1885]] – [[Tedda Courtney]], Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1957) *[[1887]] – [[Paul Kochanski]], Polish violinist and composer (d. 1934)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://culture.pl/pl/tworca/pawel-kochanski|title=Paweł Kochański – Twórca – Culture.pl|publisher=|access-date=21 November 2016}}</ref> *[[1890]] – [[Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson]], English captain and pilot (d. 1918) *[[1893]] – [[Huey Long]], American lawyer and politician, 40th [[Governor of Louisiana]] (d. 1935) *[[1896]] – [[Raymond Massey]], Canadian-American actor and playwright (d. 1983) *[[1898]] – [[Shirley Booth]], American actress and singer (d. 1992) ===1901–present=== *[[1901]] – [[John Gunther]], American journalist and author (d. 1970) * 1901 – [[Roy Wilkins]], American journalist and activist (d. 1981)<ref name="UPI">{{cite web |title=Famous birthdays for Aug. 30: Cameron Diaz, Andy Roddick |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2022/08/30/Famous-birthdays-for-Aug-30-Cameron-Diaz-Andy-Roddick/5471661703916/#:~:text=30%3A%20Cameron%20Diaz%2C%20Andy%20Roddick%20%2D%20UPI.com |publisher=[[UPI]] |access-date=29 August 2023 |date=30 August 2022}}</ref> *[[1903]] – [[Bhagwati Charan Verma]], Indian author (d. 1981) *[[1906]] – [[Joan Blondell]], American actress and singer (d. 1979)<ref>{{cite book | last=Kennedy | first=Matthew | title=Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes | url=https://archive.org/details/joanblondelllife00kenn | url-access=limited | place=Jackson | publisher=University Press of Mississippi | year=2007 | isbn=978-1-5780-6961-3 | page=[https://archive.org/details/joanblondelllife00kenn/page/n24 12]}}</ref> * 1906 – [[Olga Taussky-Todd]], Austrian mathematician (d. 1995)<ref>{{cite book | last1=Grinstein | first1=Louise S. | last2=Campbell | first2=Paul J. | title=Women of Mathematics : a Biobibliographic Sourcebook | place=New York | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-3132-4849-8 | page=[https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/225 225] | url=https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/225 }}</ref> *[[1907]] – [[Leonor Fini]], Argentine painter, illustrator, and author (d. 1996)<ref>{{cite book | last=Gaze | first=Delia | title=Concise Dictionary of Women Artists | place=New York | publisher=Routledge | year=2011 | isbn=978-1-5795-8335-4 | page=293}}</ref> * 1907 – [[Bertha Parker Pallan]], American archaeologist (d. 1978) * 1907 – [[John Mauchly]], American physicist and co-founder of the first computer company (d. 1980) *[[1908]] – [[Fred MacMurray]], American actor (d. 1991)<ref name="UPI"></ref> *[[1909]] – [[Virginia Lee Burton]], American author and illustrator (d. 1968)<ref>{{cite book | last=Kirkpatrick | first=D.L. | title=Twentieth-Century Children's Writers | place=London | publisher=Macmillan | year=1978 | isbn=978-0-3332-3414-3 | page=213}}</ref> *[[1910]] – [[Roger Bushell]], South African-English soldier and pilot (d. 1944) *[[1912]] – [[Edward Mills Purcell]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1997)<ref>{{cite web |title=E.M. Purcell | American physicist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-M-Purcell |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=17 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> * 1912 – [[Nancy Wake]], New Zealand-English captain (d. 2011)<ref>{{cite book | last=FitzSimons | first=Peter | title=Nancy Wake A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine | year=2002 | isbn=978-0-7322-7456-6 | page=6| publisher=HarperCollins Publishers Australia }}</ref> *[[1913]] – [[Richard Stone]], English economist and statistician, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1991) *[[1915]] – [[Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland]] (d. 2013) * 1915 – [[Robert Strassburg]], American composer, conductor, and educator (d. 2003) *[[1916]] – [[Shailendra (lyricist)|Shailendra]], Pakistani-Indian songwriter (d. 1968) *[[1917]] – [[Dan Enright]], American television producer (d. 1992)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2000/scene/people-news/erica-enright-1117796843/|title=Erica Enright|date=21 July 2000}}</ref> * 1917 – [[Denis Healey]], English soldier and politician, [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] (d. 2015) * 1917 – [[Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia]] (d. 1992) *[[1918]] – [[Harold Atcherley]], English businessman (d. 2017) * 1918 – [[Billy Johnson (baseball)|Billy Johnson]], American baseball player (d. 2006) * 1918 – [[Ted Williams]], American baseball player and manager (d. 2002)<ref name="UPI"></ref> *[[1919]] – [[Maurice Hilleman]], American microbiologist and vaccinologist (d. 2005) * 1919 – [[Wolfgang Wagner]], German director and manager (d. 2010) * 1919 – [[Kitty Wells]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012) *[[1920]] – [[Arnold Green (politician)|Arnold Green]], Estonian soldier and politician (d. 2011) *[[1922]] – [[Lionel Murphy]], Australian jurist and politician, 22nd [[Attorney-General of Australia]] (d. 1986) * 1922 – [[Regina Resnik]], American soprano and actress (d. 2013) *[[1923]] – [[Barbara Ansell]], English physician and author (d. 2001) * 1923 – [[Charmian Clift]], Australian journalist and author (d. 1969) * 1923 – [[Vic Seixas]], American tennis player (d. 2024)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Goldstein |first=Richard |date=2024-07-06 |title=Vic Seixas, Winner of 15 Grand Slam Tennis Titles, Dies at 100 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/sports/tennis/vic-seixas-dead.html |access-date=2024-07-07 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> *[[1924]] – [[Kenny Dorham]], American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (d. 1972) * 1924 – [[Lajos Kisfaludy]], Hungarian chemist and engineer (d. 1988) * 1924 – [[Geoffrey Beene]], American fashion designer (d. 2004) *[[1925]] – [[Laurent de Brunhoff]], French author and illustrator (d. 2024)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Green |first1=Penelope |title=Laurent de Brunhoff, Artist Who Made Babar Famous, Dies at 98 |work=The New York Times |date=22 March 2024 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/laurent-de-brunhoff-dead.html |access-date=March 22, 2024}}</ref> * 1925 – [[Donald Symington]], American actor (d. 2013) *[[1926]] – [[Daryl Gates]], American police officer, created the [[Drug Abuse Resistance Education|D.A.R.E. Program]] (d. 2010) *[[1927]] – [[Bill Daily]], American actor and comedian (d. 2018) * 1927 – [[Piet Kee]], Dutch organist and composer (d. 2018) *[[1928]] – [[Lloyd Casner]], American race car driver (d. 1965) * 1928 – [[Harvey Hart]], Canadian director and producer (d. 1989) * 1928 – [[Johnny Mann]], American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 2014) *[[1929]] – [[Guy de Lussigny]], French painter and sculptor (d. 2001) * 1929 – [[Ian McNaught-Davis]], English mountaineer and television host (d. 2014) *[[1930]] – [[Warren Buffett]], American businessman and philanthropist<ref name="AP">{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Mike |title=Today's famous birthdays list for August 30, 2022 includes celebrities Warren Buffett, Michael Chiklis |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2022/08/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-august-30-2022-includes-celebrities-warren-buffett-michael-chiklis.html |website=[[The Plain Dealer]] |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=29 August 2023 |date=30 August 2022}}</ref> * 1930 – [[Noel Harford]], New Zealand cricketer and basketball player (d. 1981) *[[1931]] – [[Jack Swigert]], American pilot and astronaut (d. 1982)<ref name="UPI"></ref> *[[1933]] – [[Don Getty]], Canadian football player and politician, 11th [[Premier of Alberta]] (d. 2016) *[[1934]] – [[Antonio Cabangon Chua]], Filipino media mogul and businessman (d. 2016) *[[1935]] – [[John Phillips (musician)|John Phillips]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)<ref name="UPI"></ref> * 1935 – [[Alexandra Bellow]], Romanian-American mathematician *[[1936]] – [[Peter North (legal scholar)|Peter North]], English scholar and academic *[[1937]] – [[Bruce McLaren]], New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the [[McLaren|McLaren racing team]] (d. 1970) *[[1938]] – [[Murray Gleeson]], Australian lawyer and judge, 11th [[Chief Justice of Australia]] *[[1939]] – [[Elizabeth Ashley]], American actress<ref name="AP"></ref> * 1939 – [[John Peel]], English radio host and producer (d. 2004) *[[1940]] – [[Jack Biondolillo]], American bowler (d. 2021)<ref name=JB-PBA-Death>{{cite web |url=https://www.pba.com/2021/october/jack-biondolillo-original-pba-tv-300-game-bowler-passes-away-81?fbclid=IwAR39-8fsAUD_ffY7Iiq5nDMq0ILRc2KEPmFDDPiPUW2pGgkfS9cuNp8jYhI |title=Jack Biondolillo, the Original PBA TV 300 Game Bowler, Passes away at 81 |website=PBA.com |date=October 6, 2021 |accessdate=October 6, 2021}}</ref> *[[1941]] – [[Ignazio Giunti]], Italian race car driver (d. 1971) * 1941 – [[Ben Jones (American actor and politician)|Ben Jones]], American actor and politician<ref name="AP"></ref> * 1941 – [[Sue MacGregor]], English journalist and radio host * 1941 – [[John McNally (musician)|John McNally]], English singer and guitarist *[[1942]] – [[Jonathan Aitken]], Irish-British journalist and politician, [[Minister for Defence Procurement]] * 1942 – [[John Kani]], South African actor<ref name="AP"></ref> * 1942 – [[Pervez Sajjad]], Pakistani cricketer *[[1943]] – [[Tal Brody]], American-Israeli basketball player and coach * 1943 – [[Robert Crumb]], American illustrator<ref name="AP"></ref> * 1943 – [[Colin Dann]], English author * 1943 – [[Nigel Hall (sculptor)|Nigel Hall]], English sculptor and academic * 1943 – [[Jean-Claude Killy]], French skier<ref name="UPI"></ref> * 1943 – [[David Maslanka]], American composer and academic (d. 2017) *[[1944]] – [[Frances Cairncross]], English economist, journalist, and academic * 1944 – [[Freek de Jonge]], Dutch singer and comedian * 1944 – [[Molly Ivins]], American journalist and author (d. 2007)<ref name="UPI"></ref> * 1944 – [[Tug McGraw]], American baseball player (d. 2004) * 1944 – [[Alex Wyllie]], New Zealand rugby player and coach (d. 2025) *[[1946]] – [[Queen Anne-Marie of Greece]] * 1946 – [[Peggy Lipton]], American model and actress (d. 2019)<ref name="UPI"></ref> *[[1947]] – [[Allan Rock]], Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, [[Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations]] *[[1948]] – [[Lewis Black]], American comedian, actor, and author<ref name="AP"></ref> * 1948 – [[Fred Hampton]], American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the [[Black Panther Party]] (d. 1969) * 1948 – [[Victor Skumin]], Russian psychiatrist, psychologist, and academic *[[1949]] – [[Ted Ammon]], American financier and banker (d. 2001) * 1949 – [[Don Boudria]], Canadian public servant and politician, 2nd [[Minister for International Cooperation (Canada)|Canadian Minister for International Cooperation]] *[[1950]] – [[Antony Gormley]], English sculptor and academic * 1950 – [[Dana Rosemary Scallon]], Irish singer and activist *[[1951]] – [[Timothy Bottoms]], American actor<ref name="UPI"></ref> * 1951 – [[Gediminas Kirkilas]], Lithuanian politician, 11th [[Prime Minister of Lithuania]] (d. 2024) * 1951 – [[Jim Paredes]], Filipino singer-songwriter and actor *[[1952]] – [[Simon Bainbridge]], English composer and educator (d. 2021) * 1952 – [[Wojtek Fibak]], Polish tennis player *[[1953]] – [[Ron George]], American businessman and politician * 1953 – [[Lech Majewski]], Polish director, producer, and screenwriter * 1953 – [[Horace Panter]], English bass player * 1953 – [[Robert Parish]], American basketball player<ref name="UPI"></ref> *[[1954]] – [[Alexander Lukashenko]], Belarusian marshal and politician, 1st [[President of Belarus]]<ref name="UPI"></ref> * 1954 – [[Ravi Shankar Prasad]], Indian lawyer and politician, [[Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)|Indian Minister of Communications and IT]] * 1954 – [[David Paymer]], American actor and director *[[1955]] – [[Jamie Moses]], English-American guitarist * 1955 – [[Martin Jackson]], English drummer *[[1956]] – [[Frank Conniff]], American actor, producer, and screenwriter *[[1957]] – [[Gerald Albright]], American musician<ref name="AP"></ref> *[[1958]] – [[Karen Buck]], Northern Irish politician * 1958 – [[Fran Fraschilla]], American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster * 1958 – [[Muriel Gray]], Scottish journalist and author * 1958 – [[Anna Politkovskaya]], Russian journalist and activist (d. 2006) * 1958 – [[Peter Tunks]], Australian rugby league player and sportscaster *[[1959]] – [[Mark "Jacko" Jackson]], Australian footballer, actor, and singer *[[1960]] – [[Ben Bradshaw]], English journalist and politician, [[Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport]] * 1960 – [[Gary Gordon]], American sergeant, [[Medal of Honor]] recipient (d. 1993) * 1960 – [[Guy A. Lepage]], Canadian comedian and producer *[[1962]] – [[Ricky Sanders]], American football player * 1962 – [[Craig Whittaker]], English businessman and politician *[[1963]] – [[Dave Brockie]], Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2014) * 1963 – [[Michael Chiklis]], American actor, director, and producer<ref name="AP"></ref> * 1963 – [[Sabine Oberhauser]], Austrian physician and politician (d. 2017) * 1963 – [[Phil Mills]], Welsh race car driver *[[1964]] – [[Gavin Fisher]], English engineer and designer * 1964 – [[Ra Luhse]], Estonian architect *[[1966]] – [[Peter Cunnah]], Northern Irish singer-songwriter and producer * 1966 – [[Joann Fletcher]], English historian and academic * 1966 – [[Michael Michele]], American actress<ref name="AP"></ref> *[[1967]] – [[Frederique van der Wal]], Dutch model and actress * 1967 – [[Justin Vaughan]], New Zealand cricketer *[[1968]] – [[Diran Adebayo]], English author and critic * 1968 – [[Vladimir Malakhov (ice hockey)|Vladimir Malakhov]], Russian ice hockey player *[[1969]] – [[Vladimir Jugović]], Serbian footballer * 1969 – [[Dimitris Sgouros]], Greek pianist and composer *[[1970]] – [[Carlo Checchinato]], Italian rugby player and manager * 1970 – [[Paulo Sousa]], Portuguese footballer and manager * 1970 – [[Michael Wong (singer)|Michael Wong]], Malaysian-Chinese singer-songwriter *[[1971]] – [[Lars Frederiksen]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref name="AP"></ref> * 1971 – [[Julian Smith (politician)|Julian Smith]], Scottish politician *[[1972]] – [[Cameron Diaz]], American model, actress, and producer<ref name="AP"></ref> * 1972 – [[Pavel Nedvěd]], Czech footballer * 1972 – [[Hani Hanjour]], Saudi terrorist, hijacker of [[American Airlines Flight 77]] during the [[September 11 attacks]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=staff |first=CBSNews com staff CBSNews com |date=2001-09-14 |title=The FBI's Hijacker List - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-fbis-hijacker-list/ |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref> (d. 2001) *[[1973]] – [[Lisa Ling]], American journalist and author<ref name="AP"></ref> *[[1974]] – [[Javier Otxoa]], Spanish cyclist (d. 2018) *[[1975]] – [[Radhi Jaïdi]], Tunisian footballer and coach *[[1976]] – [[Mike Koplove]], American baseball player *[[1977]] – [[Shaun Alexander]], American football player * 1977 – [[Marlon Byrd]], American baseball player * 1977 – [[Raúl Castillo]], American actor<ref name="AP"></ref> * 1977 – [[Michael Gladis]], American actor<ref name="AP"></ref> * 1977 – [[Kamil Kosowski]], Polish footballer * 1977 – [[Félix Sánchez (hurdler)|Félix Sánchez]], American-Dominican runner and hurdler *[[1978]] – [[Sinead Kerr]], Scottish figure skater * 1978 – [[Cliff Lee]], American baseball player *[[1979]] – [[Juan Ignacio Chela]], Argentine tennis player * 1979 – [[Leon Lopez]], English singer-songwriter and actor * 1979 – [[Scott Richmond]], Canadian baseball player *[[1980]] – [[Roberto Hernández (starting pitcher)|Roberto Hernández]], Dominican baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Roberto Hernandez |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/roberto-hernandez-433584 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=29 August 2023}}</ref> *[[1981]] – [[Germán Legarreta]], Puerto Rican-American actor * 1981 – [[Adam Wainwright]], American baseball player *[[1982]] – [[Will Davison]], Australian race car driver * 1982 – [[Andy Roddick]], American tennis player<ref name="UPI"></ref> *[[1983]] – [[Emmanuel Culio]], Argentine footballer * 1983 – [[Gustavo Eberto]], Argentine footballer (d. 2007) * 1983 – [[Jun Matsumoto]], Japanese singer, dancer, and actor * 1983 – [[Simone Pepe]], Italian footballer * 1983 – [[Tian Qin]], Chinese canoe racer * 1983 – [[Marco Vianello]], Italian footballer *[[1984]] – [[Anthony Ireland (cricketer)|Anthony Ireland]], Zimbabwean cricketer * 1984 – [[Joe Staley]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Joe Staley |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/10472/joe-staley |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=29 August 2023}}</ref> * 1984 – [[Michael Grant Terry]], American actor<ref name="UPI"></ref> *[[1985]] – [[Duane Brown]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Duane Brown |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/11260/duane-brown |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=29 August 2023}}</ref> * 1985 – [[Richard Duffy]], Welsh footballer * 1985 – [[Joe Inoue]], American singer-songwriter * 1985 – [[Leisel Jones]], Australian swimmer * 1985 – [[Éva Risztov]], Hungarian swimmer * 1985 – [[Steven Smith (footballer, born 1985)|Steven Smith]], Scottish footballer * 1985 – [[Eamon Sullivan]], Australian swimmer * 1985 – [[Anna Ushenina]], Ukrainian chess player * 1985 – [[Holly Weston]], English actress *[[1986]] – [[Theo Hutchcraft]], English singer-songwriter * 1986 – [[Lelia Masaga]], New Zealand rugby player<ref>{{cite web |title=Lelia Corona Tony Masaga |url=http://en.espn.co.uk/timeline/rugby/player/98269.html |website=ESPN scrum |access-date=24 April 2020 |archive-date=26 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726113043/http://en.espn.co.uk/timeline/rugby/player/98269.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 1986 – [[Ryan Ross]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref name="AP"></ref> * 1986 – [[Zafer Yelen]], Turkish footballer *[[1987]] – [[Johanna Braddy]], American actress<ref name="AP"></ref> * 1987 – [[Tania Foster]], English singer-songwriter *[[1988]] – [[Ernests Gulbis]], Latvian tennis player *[[1989]] – [[Simone Guerra]], Italian footballer * 1989 – [[Ronald Huth]], Paraguayan footballer * 1989 – [[Bebe Rexha]], American singer-songwriter<ref name="AP"></ref> *[[1991]] – [[Seriki Audu]], Nigerian footballer (d. 2014) * 1991 – [[Jacqueline Cako]], American tennis player * 1991 – [[Liam Cooper]], Scottish footballer *[[1992]] – [[Jessica Henwick]], British actress *[[1994]] – [[Monika Povilaitytė]], Lithuanian volleyball player * 1994 – [[Heo Young-ji]], South Korean singer<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-08-30 |title= |script-title=ko:[NI스타] 2018년 8월 30일, 오늘 생일 연예인은?…허영지·권소현·이장원 |trans-title=[NI Star] August 30, 2018, which celebrity has a birthday today?... Heo Youngji, Kwon Sohyun, Lee Jangwon |url=http://www.newsinside.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=505704 |access-date=2022-12-22 |website=News Inside |language=ko}}</ref> * 1994 – [[Kwon So-hyun]], South Korean singer-songwriter and actress<ref>{{cite book |author=Mark Russell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=etDZAwAAQBAJ |title=K-Pop Now!: The Korean Music Revolution |date=2014 |publisher=Tuttle Publishing |isbn=978-1-4629-1411-1 |page=85}}</ref> *[[1996]] – [[Mikal Bridges]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Mikal Bridges Stats, Height, Weight, Position |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/bridgmi01.html |website=basketball-reference.com |access-date=20 April 2023}}</ref> * 1996 – [[Trevor Jackson (performer)|Trevor Jackson]], American actor and singer-songwriter<ref name="UPI"></ref> *[[2002]] – [[Fábio Carvalho (footballer, born 2002)|Fábio Carvalho]], Portuguese footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Fábio Carvalho: Overview |url=https://www.premierleague.com/players/32289/F%C3%A1bio-Carvalho/overview |publisher=Premier League |access-date=25 October 2023}}</ref> * 2002 – [[Drake Maye]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Drake Maye Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MayeDr00.htm |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |access-date=August 28, 2024}}</ref> <!--Please do not add yourself or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. No red links, please. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence. If there are multiple people in the same birth year, put them in alphabetical order. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. --> ==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[526]] – [[Theodoric the Great]], Italian ruler (b. 454) * [[832]] – [[Cui Qun]], Chinese chancellor (b. 772) *[[1131]] – [[Hervey le Breton]], bishop of Bangor and Ely *[[1181]] – [[Pope Alexander III]] (b. c. 1100–1105) *[[1329]] – [[Khutughtu Khan Kusala]], Chinese emperor (b. 1300) *[[1428]] – [[Emperor Shōkō]] of Japan (b. 1401) *[[1483]] – [[Louis XI of France]] (b. 1423)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hourihane |first1=Colum |title=The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture |date=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-539536-5 |page=226 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FtlMAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA5-PA226 |access-date=31 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1500]] – [[Victor, Duke of Münsterberg]] and Opava, Count of Glatz (b. 1443) *[[1580]] – [[Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy]] (b. 1528) ===1601–1900=== *[[1604]] – [[John Juvenal Ancina]], Italian Oratorian and bishop (b. 1545) *[[1619]] – [[Shimazu Yoshihiro]], Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535) *[[1621]] – [[Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī]], co-founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (b. 1547) *[[1751]] – [[Christopher Polhem]], Swedish physicist and engineer (b. 1661) *[[1773]] – [[Narayan Rao|Peshwa Narayan Rao]], Prime Minister of [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha Empire]] (b. 1755, assassinated) *[[1856]] – [[Gilbert Abbott à Beckett]], English lawyer and author (b. 1811) *[[1879]] – [[John Bell Hood]], American general (b. 1831) *[[1886]] – [[Ferris Jacobs, Jr.]], American general and politician (b. 1836) *[[1896]] – [[Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky]], Russian politician and diplomat, [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)|Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia]] (b. 1824) ===1901–present=== *[[1906]] – [[Hans Auer]], Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the [[Federal Palace of Switzerland]] (b. 1847) *[[1907]] – [[Richard Mansfield]], American actor and manager (b. 1857) *[[1908]] – [[Alexander P. Stewart]], American general (b. 1821) *[[1928]] – [[Wilhelm Wien]], German physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1864) *[[1935]] – [[Henri Barbusse]], French journalist and author (b. 1873) * 1935 – [[Namık İsmail]], Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890) *[[1936]] – [[Ronald Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn]], English peer (b. 1886) *[[1938]] – [[Max Factor, Sr.]], Polish-born American make-up artist and businessman, founded the [[Max Factor|Max Factor Company]] (b. 1877) *[[1940]] – [[J. J. Thomson]], English physicist and mathematician, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1856) *[[1941]] – [[Peder Oluf Pedersen]], Danish physicist and engineer (b. 1874) *[[1943]] – [[Eddy de Neve]], Indonesian-Dutch footballer and lieutenant (b. 1885) * 1943 – [[Eustáquio van Lieshout]], Dutch priest and missionary (b. 1890) *[[1945]] – [[Alfréd Schaffer]], Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1893) *[[1946]] – [[Konstantin Rodzaevsky]], Russian lawyer (b. 1907) *[[1947]] – [[Gunnar Sommerfeldt]], Danish actor and director (b. 1890) *[[1948]] – [[Alice Salomon]], German-American social reformer (b. 1872)<ref>{{cite book|first=Joachim|last=Schlör|title=Das Ich der Stadt: Debatten über Judentum und Urbanität, 1822–1938|language=DE|location=Göttingen|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|year=2005|page=359|isbn=978-3-52556-990-0}}</ref> *[[1949]] – [[Arthur Fielder]], English cricketer (b. 1877) *[[1951]] – [[Konstantin Märska]], Estonian director and cinematographer (b. 1896) *[[1954]] – [[Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster]], Italian cardinal (b. 1880) *[[1961]] – [[Cristóbal de Losada y Puga]], Peruvian mathematician (b. 1894)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mineriaonline.com.pe/pagedeta.asp?idtipo=5&idpage=1943 |title=Cristóbal de Losada y Puga: Matemático por excelencia e ilustre científico peruano |publisher=Revista del Instituto de Ingenieros de Minas del Perú (IIMP)|access-date=18 September 2019|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813040433/http://mineriaonline.com.pe/pagedeta.asp?idtipo=5&idpage=1943|archive-date=13 August 2016}}</ref> * 1961 – [[Charles Coburn]], American actor (b. 1877) *[[1963]] – [[Guy Burgess]], English-Soviet spy (b. 1911) *[[1964]] – [[Salme Dutt]], Estonian-English lawyer and politician (b. 1888) *[[1967]] – [[Ad Reinhardt]], American painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1913) *[[1968]] – [[William Talman (actor)|William Talman]], American actor and screenwriter (b. 1915) *[[1970]] – [[Del Moore]], American comedian and actor (b. 1916) * 1970 – [[Abraham Zapruder]], American clothing manufacturer, witness to the [[assassination of John F. Kennedy]] (b. 1905)<ref>{{Cite news|date=1970-08-31|title=Abraham Zapruder Dies (Published 1970)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/31/archives/abraham-zapruder-dies-filmed-kennedy-death-footage-of-tragedy-in.html|access-date=2021-02-06|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> *[[1971]] – [[Ali Hadi Bara]], Iranian-Turkish sculptor (b. 1906) *[[1979]] – [[Jean Seberg]], American actress (b. 1938) *[[1981]] – [[Vera-Ellen]], American actress and dancer (b. 1921) * 1981 – [[Mohammad-Ali Rajai]], Iranian politician, 2nd [[President of Iran]] (b. 1933) *[[1985]] – [[Taylor Caldwell]], English-American author (b. 1900) *[[1988]] – [[Jack Marshall]], New Zealand colonel, lawyer and politician, 28th [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (b. 1912) *[[1989]] – [[Seymour Krim]], American journalist and critic (b. 1922) *[[1990]] – [[Bernard D. H. Tellegen]], Dutch engineer and academic (b. 1900) *[[1991]] – [[Cyril Knowles]], English footballer and manager (b. 1944) * 1991 – [[Vladimír Padrůněk]], Czech bass player (b. 1952) * 1991 – [[Jean Tinguely]], Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925) *[[1993]] – [[Richard Jordan]], American actor (b. 1938) *[[1994]] – [[Lindsay Anderson]], English director and screenwriter (b. 1923) *[[1995]] – [[Fischer Black]], American economist and academic (b. 1938) * 1995 – [[Sterling Morrison]], American guitarist and singer (b. 1942) *[[1996]] – [[Christine Pascal]], French actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1953) *[[1999]] – [[Reindert Brasser]], Dutch discus thrower (b. 1912) * 1999 – [[Raymond Poïvet]], French illustrator (b. 1910) *[[2001]] – [[Govan Mbeki]], ANC activist and father of President of South Africa [[Thabo Mbeki]] (b. 1910) *[[2002]] – [[J. Lee Thompson]], English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914) *[[2003]] – [[Charles Bronson]], American actor and soldier (b. 1921) * 2003 – [[Donald Davidson (philosopher)|Donald Davidson]], American philosopher and academic (b. 1917) *[[2004]] – [[Fred Lawrence Whipple]], American astronomer and academic (b. 1906) *[[2006]] – [[Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon]], New Zealand lawyer and judge (b. 1926) * 2006 – [[Glenn Ford]], Canadian-American actor and producer (b. 1916) * 2006 – [[Naguib Mahfouz]], Egyptian journalist and author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1911) *[[2007]] – [[Michael Jackson (writer)|Michael Jackson]], English author and journalist (b. 1942) * 2007 – [[Charles Vanik]], American soldier and politician (b. 1918) *[[2008]] – [[Brian Hambly]], Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1937) * 2008 – [[Killer Kowalski]], Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1926) *[[2009]] – [[Klaus-Peter Hanisch]], German footballer (b. 1952) *[[2010]] – [[J. C. Bailey]], American wrestler (b. 1983) * 2010 – [[Alain Corneau]], French director and screenwriter (b. 1943) * 2010 – [[Myrtle Edwards]], Australian cricketer and softball player (b. 1921) * 2010 – [[Francisco Varallo]], Argentine footballer (b. 1910) *[[2013]] – [[William C. Campbell (golfer)|William C. Campbell]], American golfer (b. 1923) * 2013 – [[Howie Crittenden]], American basketball player and coach (b. 1933) * 2013 – [[Allan Gotthelf]], American philosopher and academic (b. 1942) * 2013 – [[Seamus Heaney]], Irish poet and playwright, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1939) * 2013 – [[Leo Lewis (running back)|Leo Lewis]], American football player and coach (b. 1933) *[[2014]] – [[Charles Bowden]], American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist (b. 1945)<ref>[https://lccn.loc.gov/n81090470 Library of Congress Name Authority File]</ref> * 2014 – [[Bipan Chandra]], Indian historian and academic (b. 1928) * 2014 – [[Igor Decraene]], Belgian cyclist (b. 1996) * 2014 – [[Andrew V. McLaglen]], English-American director and producer (b. 1920) * 2014 – [[Felipe Osterling]], Peruvian lawyer and politician (b. 1932) *[[2015]] – [[Wes Craven]], American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1939) * 2015 – [[Edward Fadeley]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1929) * 2015 – [[M. M. Kalburgi]], Indian scholar, author, and academic (b. 1938) * 2015 – [[Marvin Mandel]], American lawyer and politician, 56th [[Governor of Maryland]] (b. 1920) * 2015 – [[Oliver Sacks]], English-American neurologist, author, and academic (b. 1933) *[[2017]] – [[Louise Hay]], American motivational author (b. 1926)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Genzlinger |first1=Neil |title=Louise Hay, Widely Read Self-Help Author, Dies at 90 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/obituaries/louise-hay-dead-widely-read-self-help-author.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/obituaries/louise-hay-dead-widely-read-self-help-author.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited |website=The New York Times |date=September 2017 |access-date=11 December 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * 2017 – [[Skip Prokop]], Canadian drummer, guitarist and keyboardist (b. 1943)<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Bliss |first1=Karen |title=Skip Prokop, Co-Founder of Canadian Jazz-Rock Group Lighthouse, Dies at 73 |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7949898/skip-prokop-dead-lighthouse |magazine=Billboard |access-date=11 December 2019}}</ref> *[[2019]] – [[Valerie Harper]], American actress and writer (b. 1939)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Langer |first1=Emily |title=Valerie Harper, actress beloved as the chronically single, irrepressible funny Rhonda Morgenstern, dies at 80 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/valerie-harper-actress-beloved-as-the-chronically-single-irrepressibly-funny-rhoda-morgenstern-dies-at-80/2019/08/30/8f7114a4-ae20-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html?outputType=amp |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=11 December 2019}}</ref> *[[2022]] – [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], 8th and final [[List of leaders of the Soviet Union|leader]] of the [[Soviet Union]] (b. 1931)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Berger |first1=Marilyn |date=30 August 2022 |title=Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/world/europe/mikhail-gorbachev-dead.html |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=[[The New York Times]] |publisher=}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Tūheitia Paki]], Māori King (b. 1955)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-30 |title=Māori King Tuheitia dies aged 69, just days after Koroneihana |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/526561/maori-king-tuheitia-dies-aged-69-just-days-after-koroneihana |access-date=2024-08-29 |website=[[RNZ]] |language=en-nz}}</ref> * 2024 – [[Fatman Scoop]], American rapper, hype man and radio personality (b. 1971)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/rapper-fatman-scoop-dies-medical-emergency-ct-19735120.php|title=Rapper Fatman Scoop dies at 53 after medical emergency during CT performance|first=Jayden|last=Nguyen|work=ctinsider.com|date=August 31, 2024|access-date=September 6, 2024|archive-date=August 31, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831135602/https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/rapper-fatman-scoop-dies-medical-emergency-ct-19735120.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> <!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.--> ==Holidays and observances== * Christian [[feast day]]: ** [[Alexander of Constantinople]] ([[Eastern Orthodoxy]]) ** [[Beatification|Blessed]] [[Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster]] ** Blessed [[Eustáquio van Lieshout]] ** Blessed [[Stephen Nehmé]] ([[Maronite Church]] / [[Catholic Church]]) ** [[Charles Chapman Grafton]] ([[Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church)|Episcopal Church]]) ** [[Fantinus]] ** [[Felix and Adauctus]] ** [[Saint Fiacre|Fiacre]] ** [[Jeanne Jugan]] ** [[Narcisa de Jesús]] ** [[Pammachius]] ** [[Theodosius of Oria]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nicolella |first1=Damiano |title=San Teodosio di Oria |url=https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/94503 |website=Santiebeati.it |access-date=20 January 2024}}</ref> ** [[August 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]] * [[Constitution Day (Kazakhstan)]] * [[National Day|Constitution Day]] ([[Turks and Caicos Islands]]) * [[National Day|Independence Day]] ([[Tatarstan]], [[Russia]] not formally recognized) * [[International Day of the Disappeared]]<ref>{{cite web |title=International Days |url=https://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-days/ |website=www.un.org |access-date=2 January 2021 |language=en |date=6 January 2015}}</ref> * International Whale Shark Day<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gvi.co.uk/?post_type=post&p=37439 | title=Home Page }}</ref> * [[Popular Consultation Day]] ([[East Timor]]) * [[Saint Rose of Lima's Day]] ([[Peru]]) * [[Victory Day (Turkey)]] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{commons}} * {{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/30 |title=On This Day |publisher=BBC}} * {{NYT On this day|month=08|day=30}} * {{cite web |url=https://www.onthisday.com/events/august/30 |title=Historical Events on August 30 |publisher=OnThisDay.com}} {{months}} {{DEFAULTSORT:August 30}} [[Category:Days of August]]
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