August 30 is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining.

Births

526 - Theodoric the Great (b. 454)
1158 - King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
1428 - Emperor Shōkō (b. 1401)
1483 - King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
1580 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
1617 - Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632)
1751 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811)
1879 - John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (b. 1831)
1886 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1836)
1896 - Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
1906 - Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)
1907 - Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
1928 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
1935 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
1938 - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
1943 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch Catholic priest (b. 1890)
1946 - Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed) (b. 1907)
1946 - Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
1949 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1961 - Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
1963 - Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
1970 - Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916)
1971 - Nathan Leopold, American murderer (b. 1904)
1981 - Vera-Ellen, American actress (b. 1921)
1985 - Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900)
1989 - Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist, and literary critic (b. 1922)
1991 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
1994 - Lindsay Anderson, English film director (b. 1923)
1995 - Fischer Black, American economist (b. 1938)
1995 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)
1999 - Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910)
2003 - Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
2003 - Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
2004 - Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)
2006 - Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1916)
2006 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) Holidays and observances

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