August 30
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August 30 is the 243rd day of the year (244th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 122 days remaining after August 30 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1334 – King Peter I of Castile (d. 1369)
- 1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
- 1797 – Mary Shelley, British author of Frankenstein (d. 1851)
- 1852 – Jacobus Henricus van t'Hoff, Dutch chemist (d. 1911)
- 1855 – Evelyn de Morgan, British painter (d. 1919)
- 1860 – Isaac Lewitan, Russian painter (d. 1900)
- 1871 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand chemist and physicist (d. 1937)
- 1884 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1971)
- 1893 – Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
- 1896 – Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (d. 1983)
- 1901 – Roy Wilkins, American Civil rights activist (d. 1981)
- 1908 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1912 – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born Australian spy in World War II, known as the "White Mouse" (d. 2011)
- 1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist (d. 1997)
- 1913 – Richard Stone, British economist (d. 1991)
- 1917 – Denis Healey, British politician
- 1917 – Vladimir Kirillovich, pretender to the Russian throne (d. 1992)
- 1918 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
- 1919 – Wolfgang Wagner, German festival organiser (d. 2010)
- 1930 – Warren Buffett, American businessman
- 1930 – Mauro Ramos, Brazilian footballer (d. 2002)
- 1931 – Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
- 1937 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand racing driver (d. 1970)
- 1939 – John Peel, British DJ (d. 2004)
- 1939 – Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
- 1943 – Robert Crumb, American cartoonist.
- 1949 – Peter Maffay, German singer
- 1950 – Antony Gormley, British sculptor
- 1951 – Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuanian politician.
- 1951 – Dana, Irish singer and politician
- 1954 – Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
- 1958 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and author (d. 2006)
- 1962 – Alexander Litvinenko, British citizen and ex-KGB agent (d. 2006)
- 1963 – Mark Strong, British actor
- 1970 – Paulo Sousa, Portuguese footballer
- 1972 – Cameron Diaz, American actress
- 1972 – Pavel Nedved, Czech footballer
- 1973 – Lisa Ling, American journalist
- 1975 – Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
- 1977 – Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
- 1978 – Sinead Kerr, Scottish figure skater
- 1982 – Andy Roddick, American tennis player
- 1985 – Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
- 1986 – Ryan Ross, American guitarist (Panic! at the Disco)
- 1988 – Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
[change] Deaths
- 1158 – King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
- 1483 – King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
- 1619 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
- 1751 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
- 1856 – Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, writer (b. 1811)
- 1879 – John Bell Hood, Confederate general (b. 1831)
- 1906 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)
- 1907 – Richard Mansfield, actor-manager, (b. 1857)
- 1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist (b. 1864)
- 1935 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
- 1940 – J.J. Thomson, English physicist (b. 1856)
- 1941 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
- 1943 – Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, ss.cc., Dutch Roman Catholic priest (b. 1890)
- 1961 – Charles Coburn, actor (b. 1877)
- 1981 – Vera-Ellen, actress (b. 1921)
- 1985 – Taylor Caldwell, American author (b. 1900)
- 1991 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss kinetic artist (b. 1925)
- 1994 – Lindsay Anderson, film director (b. 1923)
- 1997 – Ernst Willimowski, Polish footballer (b. 1916)
- 2001 – Govan Mbeki, South African political activist (b. 1910)
- 2003 – Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
- 2003 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
- 2004 – Fred Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
- 2005 – Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (b. 1890)
- 2006 – Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor (b. 1916)
- 2006 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer (b. 1911)
- 2008 – Killer Kowalski, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1926)
- 2010 – J. C. Bailey, American professional wrestler (b. 1983)
- 2010 – Alain Corneau, French filmmaker (b. 1943)
- 2010 – Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (b. 1910)
[change] Events
- 711 – K'inich K'an Joy Chitam, king of Palenque, disappears from history. He was probably taken prisoner by a rivalling city state.
- 1574 – Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master
- 1813 – Battle of Kulm - French forces are defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
- 1850 – Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city.
- 1862 – Battle of Richmond, Kentucky - Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright.
- 1862 – Union forces defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run.
- 1914 – Battle of Tannenberg
- 1918 – Assassins seriously injure Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin and kill Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky, prompting the decree for Red Terror.
- 1922 – Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence").
- 1941 – The Siege of Leningrad begins.
- 1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan.
- 1963 – Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
- 1965 – Casey Stengel announces his retirement from baseball.
- 1965 – Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influential album Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."
- 1967 – Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- 1974 – A train crash in Zagreb kills 153 people.
- 1976 – Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show.
- 1990 – Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.
- 1991 – Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR.
- 1992 – Michael Schumacher wins his first Formula One race at the Belgian Grand Prix.
- 1993 – The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco, is inaugurated.
- 1993 – The Late Show with David Letterman debuts on CBS.
- 1999 – The East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.
- 2002 – The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas ceases to operate.
- 2009 – Yukio Hatoyama is elected Prime Minister of Japan, taking office on September 16. He resigns on June 2, 2010.
