1930

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1900s  1910s  1920s  – 1930s –  1940s  1950s  1960s
Years:	1927 1928 1929 – 1930 – 1931 1932 1933

Events

• November 2 – Haile Selassie became King of Ethiopia
• The Trump Building is built in New York City which is at the time the world's tallest building
• The Chrysler Building surpasses The Trump Building and also claims world's tallest building

Births

• January 3 - Robert Loggia, American actor (d. 2015)
• January 10 - Roy E. Disney, American businessman (d. 2009)
• January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut
• February 19 - John Frankenheimer, American movie director (d. 2002)
• February 19 – Milenko Stefanovic, Serbian clarinet player
• March 7 - Robert D. Cardona, American model-maker
• March 22 – Pat Robertson, American preacher and television host
• March 26 – Sandra Day O'Connor, US Supreme Court justice
• April 3 – Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany
• April 7 – Andrew Sachs, German born British actor
• April 13 - Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian movie director (d. 2013)
• April 15 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, 4th President of Iceland
• April 28 - James Baker, former United States Secretary of State
• May 8 – Gary Snyder, American writer
• May 13 – Mike Gravel, former US Senator from Alaska (d. 2021)
• May 21 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia
• May 31 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, producer
• July 2 – Carlos Menem, President of Argentina (d. 2021)
• July 4 – Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet – Armenian actor (d. 1993)
• July 4 – Johnny Saxton, American boxer
• July 30 – Captain Lou Albano, Italian – American professional wrestler and manager (d. 2009)
• August 1 - Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat (d. 2011)
• August 5 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut (d. 2012)
• August 8 – Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, Bengali Mother of the Nation (d. 1975)
• August 10 - Barry Unsworth, British writer (d. 2012)
• August 14 - Earl Weaver, American baseball manager (d. 2013)
• August 21 – Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
• August 25 – Sean Connery, Scottish actor (d. 2020)
• August 28 - Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
• August 30 - Warren Buffett, American businessman
• September 7 – Baudouin I, King of Belgium (d. 1993)
• September 7 - Sonny Rollins, American musician
• September 23 – Ray Charles, American singer and musician (d. 2004)
• September 29 - Colin Dexter, British writer
• October 1 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (d. 2006)
• October 6 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
• October 10 - Harold Pinter, British playwright (d. 2008)
• October 14 - Mobutu Sese Seko, leader of Zaire (d. 1998)
• October 28 - Bernie Ecclestone, British racing executive
• October 31 - Michael Collins, American astronaut (d. 2021)
• November 15 - J. G. Ballard, British writer (d. 2009)
• November 16 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (d. 2013)
• December 2 - Gary Becker, American economist
• December 8 - Maximilian Schell, Swiss-Austrian actor (d. 2014)
• December 17 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor

Deaths

• March 8 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• March 19 – Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
• July 7 – Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer and doctor (b. 1859)
• September 29 - Ilya Repin, Ukrainian painter (b. 1844)
• October 26 – Mary Harrison McKee, American First Lady, daughter of Benjamin Harrison (b. 1858)
• after November 2 - Alfred Wegener, German geologist (b. 1880)
• November 22 - Paul Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)

Movies released

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Little Caesar

Nobel Prizes

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Karl Landsteiner, Austrian doctor, (1868 – 1943)