July 30
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July 30 is the 212th day of the year (213th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 153 days remaining after July 30 until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 1751 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (d. 1829)
- 1818 – Emily Bronte, English writer (d. 1848)
- 1818 – Jan Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1897)
- 1857 – Thorstein Veblen, American political economist (d. 1929)
- 1863 – Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
- 1889 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-American physicist and inventor (d. 1982)
- 1890 – Casey Stengel, American baseball manager (d. 1975)
- 1893 – Fatimah Jinnah, sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah (d. 1967)
- 1898 – Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
- 1914 – Lord Killanin, Irish Olympic official (d. 1999)
- 1927 – Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
- 1936 – Buddy Guy, American Blues guitarist and singer
- 1936 – Infanta Pilar of Spain
- 1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, American director
- 1941 – Paul Anka, Lebanese-Canadian singer
- 1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born actor, bodybuilder and Governor of California
- 1948 – Jean Reno, Moroccan-French actor
- 1950 – Harriet Harman, British politician
- 1958 – Kate Bush, British singer
- 1961 – Laurence Fishburne, American actor
- 1963 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress
- 1964 – Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer
- 1969 – Simon Baker, Australian-American actor
- 1974 – Hilary Swank, American actress
- 1980 – Justin Rose, English golf player
- 1981 – Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer
- 1981 – Hope Solo, American goal keeper
- 1982 – Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
- 1991 – Diana Vickers, British singer
- 2002 – Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese Royal
[change] Deaths
- 578 – Jacob Baradaeus, bishop of Edessa
- 1652 – Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
- 1680 – Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
- 1683 – Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
- 1691 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
- 1715 – Nahum Tate, Irish poet (b. 1652)
- 1718 – William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
- 1771 – Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)
- 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1753)
- 1875 – George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
- 1898 – Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor (b. 1815)
- 1900 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
- 1912 – Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852)
- 1918 – Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
- 1930 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman (b. 1892)
- 1947 – Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
- 1965 – Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (b. 1886)
- 1971 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
- 1983 – Lynn Fontanne, stage and film actress (b. 1887)
- 1985 – Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
- 1992 – Joe Shuster, Canadian comic artist (b. 1914)
- 1996 – Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (b. 1903)
- 1997 – Bao Dai, Vietnamese Emperor (b. 1913)
- 2003 – Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Murray Bookchin, American Libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
- 2007 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
- 2007 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director (b. 1918)
- 2009 – Peter Zadek, German theatre director (b. 1926)
[change] Events
- 762 – Baghdad is founded.
- 1629 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills around 10,000 people.
- 1729 – The city of Baltimore in Maryland is founded.
- 1792 – La Marseillaise, the current national anthem of France, is sung for the first time.
- 1811 – The Mexican revolutionary Miguel Hidalgo is executed.
- 1930 – Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup, beating Argentina 4-2 in the final.
- 1956 – 'In God We Trust' becomes the national motto of the United States.
- 1965 – In the US, the Medicare insurance programme for senior citizens is signed into law.
- 1966 – England wins the FIFA World Cup, beating West Germany 4-2, in a match that included the disputed Wembley Goal.
- 1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 aircraft and a Japanese Air Force F-86 plane collide over Morioka, Japan, killing 162 people.
- 1978 – Car traffic in Okinawa switches from the right to the left side of the road.
- 1980 – The New Hebrides become independent, and change their name to Vanuatu.
- 2003 – The last Old Style Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line in Mexico.
- 2006 – The BBC music programme Top of the Pops is shown for the last time, after a run of more than 42 years.
- 2006 – The Israeli air force bombs the town of Qana in Lebanon, killing 28 people.
- 2007 – Film directors Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman die on the same day as each other.
- 2009 – A bomb explodes in Palma Nova, Mallorca, killing 2 police officers.
