July 30
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July 30 is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 154 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, writer and architect (d. 1574)
- 1549 – Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
- 1751 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (d. 1829)
- 1763 – Samuel Rogers, English poet (d. 1855)
- 1818 – Emily Brontë, English writer (d. 1848)
- 1818 – Jan Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1897)
- 1825 – Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian inventor, academic and memoirs writer (d. 1893)
- 1855 – Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1919)
- 1856 – Richard Burton Haldane, Scottish philosopher, lawyer and statesman (d. 1928)
- 1857 – Thorstein Veblen, American political economist (d. 1929)
- 1863 – Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
- 1872 – Princess Clementine of Belgium (d. 1955)
- 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)
- 1901 – Alfred Lepine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
- 1909 – Magda Schneider, German actress (d. 1996)
- 1909 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (d. 1993)
- 1914 – Lord Killanin, Irish Olympic official (d. 1999)
- 1915 – Francisco Urcuyo Malianos, Nicaraguan politician (d. 2001)
- 1927 – Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
- 1928 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1934 – Bud Selig, American businessman and Commissioner of Baseball
- 1936 – Buddy Guy, American Blues guitarist and singer
- 1936 – Infanta Pilar of Spain
- 1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, American director
- 1940 – Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor
- 1941 – Paul Anka, Lebanese-Canadian singer
- 1943 – Giuseppe Versaldi, Italian cardinal
- 1945 – David Sanborn, American jazz saxophonist
- 1947 – Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, French virologist
- 1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born actor, bodybuilder and Governor of California
- 1948 – Jean Reno, Moroccan-French actor
- 1950 – Harriet Harman, British politician
- 1957 – Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer
- 1958 – Kate Bush, British singer
- 1958 – Daley Thompson, British athlete
- 1958 – Neal McCoy, American singer-songwriter
- 1960 – Richard Linklater, American director
- 1961 – Laurence Fishburne, American actor
- 1963 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress
- 1963 – Chris Mullin, American basketball player
- 1964 – Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer
- 1968 – Sean Moore, Welsh musician
- 1969 – Simon Baker, Australian-American actor
- 1970 – Christopher Nolan, English film director
- 1971 – Tom Green, American actor and comedian
- 1971 – Christina Taylor, American actress
- 1973 – Dean Edwards, American actor and comedian
- 1974 – Hilary Swank, American actress
- 1977 – Ian Watkins, Welsh singer
- 1977 – Jaime Pressley, American actress
- 1979 – Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer
- 1980 – Justin Rose, English golfer
- 1981 – Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer
- 1981 – Hope Solo, American goal keeper
- 1982 – Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
- 1983 – Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
- 1990 – Coco Sumner, British singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1991 – Diana Vickers, British singer
- 1993 – Miho Miyazaki, Japanese singer (AKB48)
- 1999 – Joey King, American actress
- 2002 – Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese Royal
Deaths [change]
- 578 – Jacob Baradaeus, bishop of Edessa
- 579 – Pope Benedict I
- 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)
- 1927 – Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner (b. 1848)
- 1930 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman (b. 1877)
- 1947 – Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
- 1965 – Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (b. 1886)
- 1970 – George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)
- 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)
- 1992 – Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)
- 1996 – Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (b. 1903)
- 1997 – Bao Dai, Vietnamese Emperor (b. 1913)
- 2003 – Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
- 2005 – John Garang, South Sudanese politician (b. 1945)
- 2006 – Murray Bookchin, American Libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
- 2007 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
- 2007 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director (b. 1918)
- 2007 – Teoctist Arapasu, Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (b. 1915)
- 2009 – Peter Zadek, German theatre director (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Mario Echandi Jimenez, President of Costa Rica (b. 1915)
- 2012 – Maeve Binchy, Irish author (b. 1940)
Events [change]
- 762 – Baghdad is founded.
- 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill 7 members of the Prague city council.
- 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay of Islands off present-day Honduras during his fourth voyage.
- 1629 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills around 10,000 people.
- 1656 – Swedish forces under Charles X Gustaf of Sweden defeat forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
- 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.
- 1859 – First successful climb of Grand Combin in the Alps.
- 1863 – American Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, agreeing to stop the harassment of emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater - Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
- 1865 – The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers.
- 1871 – The Staten Island ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
- 1912 – Emperor Meiji of Japan dies, being succeeded by his son Yoshihito, now known as Emperor Taisho.
- 1930 – Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup, beating Argentina 4-2 in the final.
- 1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 people.
- 1956 – 'In God We Trust' becomes the national motto of the United States.
- 1962 – The Trans-Canada Highway opens.
- 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.
- 1975 – Teamsters Union President Jimmy Hoffa disappears from a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, and is never seen or heard from again.
- 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.
- 1991 – Luciano Pavarotti celebrates 30 years in opera by giving a free concert in Hyde Park, London.
- 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.
- 2008 – Radovan Karadzic is transferred to The Hague after being arrested on war crimes charges.
- 2009 – A bomb explodes in Palma Nova, Mallorca, killing 2 police officers.
- 2012 – A massive power grid failure affects 7 states and over 360 million people in northern India.
Observances [change]
- Independence Day (Vanuatu)
