In the year 1830, Greece gains independence from the Ottoman Empire (Feb 3), the Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York (Mar 26), Joseph Smith and five others found the Church of Christ (Apr 6), the Indian Removal Act is passed, affecting the future domiciles of Native Americans (May 28), France invades Algeria (Jul 5), the Belgian Revolution begins (Aug 25), the independence of Belgium from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands is recognized by the Great Powers (Dec 20) - and all these fine people were born:
1830-0107 Albert Bierstadt* German-American painter/to U.S. at age 1 - Solingen, German Confederation (1902/72) 1830-0108 Hans von Bülow* virtuoso pianist/composer - Dresden, German Confederation (1894/64) 1830-0117 John Albrinck* German-American Catholic prelate/educator/to U.S. at age 6 - Hunteburg, German Confederation (1902/72) 1830-0201 1830-0203 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil* “Lord Salisbury”/statesman/PM - Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England (1903/73) 1830-0208 Abdulaziz* the 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire - Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (1876/46) 1830-0208 Henrik Borgström Jr.* businessman/ economist/founder of banks - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1865/35) 1830-0208 Karl Gabriel Leinberg* teacher/historian - Turku, GD of Finland (1907/77) 1830-0216 Lars Hertervig* painter - Tysvær, Norway (1902/71) 1830-0228 1830-0301 1830-0315 Paul Heyse* writer/translator/N - Berlin, German Confederation (1914/84) 1830-0316 Christopher Powers Higgins* businessman/a founder of Missoula, Montana/to America at age 18 - Ireland (1889/59) 1830-0326 Dewitt Clinton Senter* politician/governor - McMinn County, TN USA (1898/68) 1830-0409 Eadweard Muybridge* pioneering photographer - Kingston upon Thames, England (1904/74) 1830-0421 Clémence Royer* self-taught scholar/lecturer/writer - Nantes, Kingdom of France (1902/71) 1830-0421 James Starley* inventor/ father of the bicycle industry - Albourne, Sussex, England (1881/51) 1830-0422 Emily Davies* feminist/suffragist - Southampton, England (1921/91) 1830-0505 John B. Stetson* hat manufacturer/inventor of the cowboy hat - Orange, NJ USA (1906/75) 1830-0510 François-Marie Raoult* chemist - Fournes, Kingdom of France (1901/70) 1830-0529 Louise Michel* teacher/deportee in New Caledonia/anarchist - Vroncourt-la-Côte, Kingdom of France (1905/74) 1830-0601 Martha Hooper Blackler Kalopothakes* (b Blackler) missionary/ journalist/translator - Marblehead, MA USA (1871/41) 1830-0613 Henry H. Bliss* the first car accident casualty in the U.S. - USA (1899/69) 1830-0622 Theodor Leschetizky* pianist/ composer - Łańcut, Kingdom of Poland (1915/85) 1830-0722 William Sooy Smith* civil engineer/Union Army general during the American Civil War - Tarlton, OH USA (1916/85) 1830-0725 John Jacob Bausch* German-American maker of optical instruments/ co-founder of Bausch & Lomb - Süßen, Kingdom of Württemberg (1926/95) 1830-0818 Franz Joseph I* of Austria - Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austrian Empire (1916/86) 1830-0826 Daniel Webster Jones* Mormon pioneer/active in Mexico - Booneslick, Howard County, MO USA (1915/84) 1830-0831 1830-0908 Frédéric Mistral* writer/lexicographer/N - Maillane, France (1914/83) 1830-0920 Edward Reed* naval architect/railroad magnate - Sheerness, Kent, England (1906/76) 1830-1010 Isabella II of Spain* Queen regnant of Spain (1833-1868) - Madrid, Spain (1904/73) 1830-1012 Andreas Syngros* Greek banker/philanthropist - Constantinople (Istanbul), Ottoman Empire (1899/68) 1830-1015 Francis Lyman Worden* prominent businessman/a founder of Missoula, Montana - Marlboro, VT USA (1887/56) 1830-1107 Emanuele Luigi Galizia* architect/ civil engineer - Malta (1907/76) 1830-1108 Oliver Otis Howard* Army officer/Union general in the Civil War - Leeds, ME USA (1909/78) 1830-1130 1830-1205 Christina Rossetti* poet - London, England (1894/64) 1830-1210 Emily Dickinson* poet - Amherst, MA USA (1886/55) 1830-1210 Yrjö Sakari Yrjö–Koskinen* (b Georg Forsman) senator/ historian/Fennoman - Vaasa, GD of Finland (1903/72) 1830-0 1830-0 1830-0 Updated 2025-0511 Helsinki Search for another year here