In the year 1930, the Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance (Jan 13), the 3M company markets Scotch Tape (Jan 31), Pluto is discovered (Feb 18), Salt March led by Mahatma Gandhi starts the Civil Disobedience Movement in India (Mar 12), the snack cake Twinkies are invented (Apr 6), neoprene is invented by DuPont (Apr 17), Looney Tunes, the first cartoon series, is released (Apr 19), the first FIFA World Cup starts (Jul 13), Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia (Nov 2), the chocolate chip cookie is invented - and all these fine people were born:

1930-0101 1930-0103 Robert Loggia* actor - New York, NY USA (2015/85) 1930-0104 Sorrell Booke* actor - Buffalo, NY USA (1994/64) 1930-0105 Kay Lahusen* photographer/ writer/gay rights activist - Cincinnati, OH USA (2021/91) 1930-0107 O Kuk-ryol* North Korean military general - Onjō, Japanese Korea (2023/93) 1930-0111 Rod Taylor* actor - Lidcombe, NSW Australia (2015/84) 1930-0112 Tim Horton* hockey player (NHL 100) /entrepreneur - Cochrane, ON Canada (1974/44) 1930-0119 Tippi Hedren* actress/animal rights activist - New Ulm, MN USA **** 1930-0120 Buzz Aldrin* astronaut/ #2Moon1969 - Glen Ridge, NJ USA **** 1930-0123 Derek Walcott* poet/ playwright/N - Castries, Saint Lucia (2017/87) 1930-0125 1930-0130 Samuel Byck* hijacker/attempted assassin - Philadelphia, PA USA (1974/44) 1930-0130 Gene Hackman* actor/novelist - San Bernardino, CA USA (2025/95) 1930-0130 Osamu Suzuki* 鈴木 修 (b Matsuda) businessman (Suzuki Motor Corporation) - Gero, Empire of Japan (2024/94) 1930-0201 1930-0203 Gillian Ayres* painter - Barnes, London, England (2018/88) 1930-0206 Albert Stubblebine* general/ psychic interests - USA (2017/87) 1930-0208 1930-0210 Russell Kerr* ballet dancer/choreographer/producer - Auckland, New Zealand (2022/92) 1930-0210 Robert Wagner* actor - Detroit, MI USA **** 1930-0211 Mary Quant* fashion designer/fashion icon - Woolwich, London, England (2023/93) 1930-0215 Sara Jane Moore* would-be-assassin of Gerald Ford - Charleston, WV USA **** 1930-0216 Ricou Browning* actor/ underwater cinematographer/producer - Fort Pierce, FL USA (2023/93) 1930-0217 Ruth Rendell* mystery writer - South Woodford, Essex, England (2015/85) 1930-0218 Pauline Bart* sociologist - Brooklyn, NY USA (2021/91) 1930-0220 1930-0222 Bill Miller* athlete (javelin/OS) - Lawnside, NJ USA (2016/86) 1930-0225 Wendy Beckett* religious sister/hermit/art historian - South Africa (2018/88) 1930-0227 Joanne Woodward* actress/m to Paul Newman - Thomasville, GA USA **** 1930-0228 Arne Weise* journalist/ television personality - Malmö, Sweden (2019/89) 1930-0301 1930-0307 Olavi Mannonen* mounted police/modern pentathlete/OS - Viipuri, Finland (2019/89) 1930-0309 Taina Elg* Finnish-American dancer/actress/to U.S. at age 23 - Helsinki, Finland **** 1930-0310 1930-0312 Robin Cavendish* responaut/medical aid developer/advocate for disabled people - Middleton, Derbyshire, England (1994/64) 1930-0313 Doug Harvey* umpire - South Gate, CA USA (2018/87) 1930-0313 Sue Johanson* (b Powell) registered nurse/sex educator - Toronto, ON Canada (2023/93) 1930-0314 Ludwig Finscher* musicologist - Kassel, Hesse-Nassau, Weimar Germany (2020/90) 1930-0315 Martin Karplus* Austrian-American theoretical chemist/to America at age 8 - Vienna, First Austrian Republic (2024/94) 1930-0316 1930-0317 James Irwin* astronaut/#8Moon1971 - Pittsburgh, PA USA (1991/61) 1930-0318 Mahmoud Reda* dancer/choreographer - Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt (2020/90) 1930-0320 1930-0322 Pat Robertson* evangelist - Lexington, VA USA (2023/93) 1930-0322 Stephen Sondheim* composer - New York, NY USA (2021/91) 1930-0324 Steve McQueen* actor - Beech Grove, IN USA (1980/50) 1930-0325 Paavo Noponen* sportscaster - Helsinki, Finland (2016/86) 1930-0325 Russell Sherman* pianist/ educator/author - Manhattan, NY USA (2023/93) 1930-0325 Ben Wagin* artist/ author/composer - Jastrow, Prussia, Weimar Republic (2021/91) 1930-0331 1930-0401 Grace Lee Whitney* actress (Star Trek)/singer - Ann Arbor, MI USA (2015/85) 1930-0402 Sue Mingus* (b Graham) record producer/band manager - Chicago, IL USA (2022/92) 1930-0403 Lawton Chiles* politician/ Governor of Florida - Lakeland, FL USA (1998/68) 1930-0403 Max Frankel* journalist/ father of David Frankel - Gera, Thuringia, Weimar Republic (2025/94) 1930-0403 Helmut Kohl* politician/ statesman - Ludwigshafen, Weimar Republic (2017/87) 1930-0403 Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio* playwright/ puppeteer/educator - Manila, Insular Government of the Philippine Islands (2020/90) 1930-0405 Maxine Cheshire* feared newspaper reporter - Harlan, KY USA (2021/90) 1930-0406 Qiu Dahong* coastal and offshore engineer - Shanghai, China (2025/94) 1930-0408 1930-0410 Pertti “Spede” Pasanen* actor/ inventor - Kuopio, Finland (2001/71) 1930-0411 Walter Krüger* athlete (javelin/OS) - Altenpleen, Prussia, Weimar Republic (2018/88) 1930-0411 Anton LaVey* (b Levey) author/musician/ occultist - Chicago, IL USA (1997/67) 1930-0412 John Landy* middle-distance runner/OB/state governor - Melbourne, VIC Australia (2022/91) 1930-0412 Bryan Magee* philosopher/ broadcaster/ politician - Hoxton, London, England (2019/89) 1930-0415 Vigdís Finnbogadóttir* politician/P - Reykjavik, Kingdom of Iceland **** 1930-0418 Jean Guillou* composer/pianist/pedagogue - Angers, France (2019/88) 1930-0424 Richard Donner* film director - New York, NY USA (2021/91) 1930-0425 Paul Mazursky* film director - Brooklyn, NY USA (2014/84) 1930-0426 Bruce Jay Friedman* novelist/ screenwriter/actor - The Bronx, NY USA (2020/90) 1930-0430 Jackie McLeod* hockey player/coach - Regina, SK Canada (2022/92) 1930-0501 Maj Fant* (b Lindberg) social worker/journalist/author - Malmö, Sweden (1995/65) 1930-0501 John Hirsch* Hungarian-Canadian theater director - Siófok, Kingdom of Hungary (1989/59) 1930-0501 Richard Riordan* lawyer/ investment banker/politician - New York City, NY USA (2023/92) 1930-0503 Edward Nixon* entrepreneur/ brother of Richard Nixon - Whittier, CA USA (2019/88) 1930-0505 Douglas Turner Ward* actor/playwright/theatrical producer - Burnside, LA USA (2021/90) 1930-0506 May Abrahamse* opera singer - District Six, Cape Town, South Africa (2025/94) 1930-0506 Merrill J. Fernando* businessman/founder of the tea company Dilmah - Negombo, British Ceylon (2023/93) 1930-0509 Eeva-Maija Tammekann* Finnish chief librarian - Tarto, Estonia (2016/86) 1930-0510 1930-0513 Mike Gravel* reforming politician - Springfield, MA USA (2021/91) 1930-0515 Cotton Ivy* author/entertainer/politician  - Decaturville, TN USA (2021/91) 1930-0518 Don Lind* scientist/naval officer/astronaut - Midvale, UT USA (2022/92) 1930-0520 Betty DeGeneres* (b Pfeffer) LGBT rights activist/mother or Ellen DeGeneres - New Orleans, LA USA **** 1930-0522 Kenny Ball* jazz musician/bandleader - Ilford, Essex, England (2013/82) 1930-0522 Harvey Milk* reforming politician/activist - Woodmere, NY USA (1978/48) 1930-0523 Friedrich Achleitner* poet/ architecture critic - Schalchen, First Austrian Republic (2019/88) 1930-0527 William S. Sessions* attorney/jurist - Fort Smith, AR USA (2020/90) 1930-0528 Frank Drake* astronomer/ astrophysicist - Chicago, IL USA (2022/92) 1930-0531 Clint Eastwood* actor/ director/ composer - San Francisco, CA  USA **** 1930-0531 Uno Loop* singer/athlete/actor - Tallinn, Estonia (2021/91) 1930-0601 1930-0602 Pete Conrad* astronaut/ #3Moon1969 - Philadelphia, PA USA (1999/69) 1930-0603 Joe Coulombe* entrepreneur/ founder of Trader Joe’s - San Diego, CA USA (2020/89) 1930-0604 Bill Treacher* actor - Dagenham, Essex, England (2022/92) 1930-0605 Ursula Lehr* (b Leipold) gerontologist/ politician - Frankfurt, Prussia, Weimar Republic (2022/91) 1930-0606 1930-0608 Julian Haviland* print and broadcasting journalist - Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England (2023/93) 1930-0610 Theo Sommer* German newspaper editor/intellectual - Konstanz, Republic of Baden, Weimar Republic (2022/92) 1930-0611 Ellen Schwiers* actress - Stettin, Pomerania, Weimar Republic (2019/88) 1930-0612 Otto Schenk* - Vienna, First Austrian Republic (2025/94) 1930-0613 1930-0615 Jussi Jurkka* actor - Turku, Finland (1982/51) 1930-0615 Marcel Pronovost* hockey player/coach - Lac-à-la-Tortue, QC Canada (2015/84) 1930-0616 1930-0617 Rosemary Brown* Jamaican-Canadian politician - Kingston, Jamaica (2003/72) 1930-0617 Shatzi Weisberger* nurse/ death educator/activist - USA (2022/92) 1930-0618 1930-0619 Barry Downs* architect /urban planner - Vancouver, BC Canada (2022/92) 1930-0619 Gena Rowlands* actress - Madison, WI USA (2024/94) 1930-0621 Sune Larsson* cross-country skier/OB (Vasaloppet) - Sweden **** 1930-0622 Walter Bonatti* mountaineer/ journalist - Bergamo, Italy (2011/81) 1930-0623 John Elliott* historian/ Hispanist - Reading, Berkshire, England (2022/91) 1930-0623 Ensio Koivunen* serial killer - Impilahti, Finland (2003/72) 1930-0625 1930-0627 Enda McDonagh* Catholic priest - Bekan, County Mayo, Irish Free State (2021/90) 1930-0627 Ross Perot* business magnate/philanthropist - Texarkana, TX USA (2019/89) 1930-0628 Maureen Howard* novelist/ memoirist/editor - Bridgeport, CT USA (2022/91) 1930-0630 1930-0701 1930-0702 Carlos Menem* politician - Anillaco, Argentina (2021/90) 1930-0704 George M. Steinbrenner* businessman/ owner of the New York Yankees - Bay Village, OH USA (2010/80) 1930-0706 George Armstrong* hockey player - Skead, ON Canada (2021/90) 1930-0706 Phil Roth* actor - Kansas City, MO USA (2002/72) 1930-0707 Theodore McCarrick* Roman Catholic bishop/cardinal - New York City, NY USA (2025/94) 1930-0708 1930-0710 Bruce Boa* actor - Calgary, AB Canada (2004/73) 1930-0712 Gordon Pinsent* actor/ director/singer - Grand Falls, NL Canada (2023/92) 1930-0713 Grace Robertson* photographer - Manchester, England (2021/90) 1930-0713 Viktor Tsybulenko* athlete/ javelin/OG - Kyiv, Ukraine (2013/83) 1930-0714 Mary Noel Menezes* Guyanese Roman Catholic nun/historian/of Madeiran descent - Georgetown, British Guiana (2022/92) 1930-0715 Betty Wagoner* baseball player - Lebanon, MO USA (2006/75) 1930-0720 1930-0725 Mitzi Shore* comedy club owner - Menominee, WI USA (2018/87) 1930-0727 Tadao Takashima* 高島忠夫  actor - Kobe, Japan (2019/88) 1930-0730 Tony “Lip” Vallalonga* driver/bodyguard/ actor- Beaver Falls, PA USA (2013/82) 1930-0731 Oleg Popov* clown/prominent circus artist - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union (2016/86) 1930-0801 Peter S. Feibleman* author/ screenwriter/actor -  New York City, NY USA (2015/85) 1930-0805 Neil Armstrong* astronaut/ #1Moon1969 - Wapakoneta, OH USA (2012/82) 1930-0808 Nita Talbot* (b Anita Sokol) actress - New York City, NY USA **** 1930-0810 R. Nagaswamy* historian/ archaeologist/epigraphist - Madras, British India (2022/91) 1930-0812 George Soros* business magnate/ philanthropist - Budapest, Hungary **** 1930-0815 Tom Mboya* trade unionist/ independence activist/Pan Africanist - Kilima Mbogo, Kenya Colony (1969/38) 1930-0820 1930-0821 Princess Margaret* - Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland (2002/71) 1930-0825 Sean Connery* actor - Edinburgh, Scotland (2020/90) 1930-0827 Aase Foss Abrahamsen* (b Dommerud) writer - Drammen, Norway (2023/92) 1930-0828 Windsor Davies* Welsh actor - Canning Town, Essex, England (2019/88) 1930-0828 Ben Gazzara* actor - New York, NY USA (2012/81) 1930-0901 Charles Correa* architect/ urban planner/of Goan descent - Secunderabad, British India (2015/84) 1930-0903 Cherry Wilder* (b Lockett) sci-fi and fantasy writer - Auckland, New Zealand (2002/71) 1930-0907 Baudouin of Belgium* King of the Belgians/son of King Leopold III - Stuyvenberg Castle, Brussels, Kingdom of Belgium (1993/62) 1930-0908 Mario Adorf* German actor - Zürich, Switzerland **** 1930-0912 Akira Suzuki* 鈴木 章 chemist/N - Mukawa, Hokkaido, Japan **** 1930-0916 Anne Francis* actress - Ossining, NY USA (2011/80) 1930-0917 Edgar Mitchell* astronaut/ #6Moon1971 - Hereford, TX USA (2016/85) 1930-0920 Paavo Rintala* novelist (Pojat)/ theologian - Viipuri, Finland (1999/68) 1930-0923 Colin Blakely* actor - Bangor, Northern Ireland (1987/56) 1930-0923 Ray Charles* musician/singer - Albany, GA USA (2004/73) 1930-0924 John Young* astronaut/ #9Moon1972 - San Francisco, CA USA (2018/87) 1930-0925 Elis Sella* (b Salutskij) actor/singer/married to Seela Sella - Viipuri, Finland (1992/62) 1930-0 1930-0926 Philip Bosco* actor - Jersey City, NJ USA (2018/88) 1930-0926 Joe Brown* mountaineer - Ardwick, Manchester, England (2020/89) 1930-0926 Alice Harnoncourt* violinist/ concertmaster - Vienna, First Austrian Republic (2022/91) 1930-0928 “Country” Johnny Mathis* country singer/songwriter - Maud, TX USA (2011/80) 1930-1001 Richard Harris* actor - Limerick, Ireland (2002/72) 1930-1002 Antonio Gala* poet/ playwright/novelist - Brazatortas, Spanish Empire (2023/92) 1930-1006 Hafez al-Assad* politician - Qardaha, French mandate for Syria and Lebanon (2000/69) 1930-1010 Harold Printer* playwright/screenwriter/N/ director - Hackney, London, England (2008/78) 1930-1011 1930-1012 Joseph A. Doorley Jr.* lawyer/ politician - Providence, RI USA (2022/91) 1930-1012 Michael Granit* Swedish architect - Helsinki, Finland (2019/88) 1930-1014 Syed Mustafa Siraj* writer - Murshidabad, Bengali, British India (2012/81) 1930-1017 Robert Atkins* physician/ creator of the Atkins Diet - Columbus, OH USA (2003/72) 1930-1017 Jimmy Breslin* author/ columnist - Jamaica, NY USA (2017/88) 1930-1018 1930-1019 Sylvester da Cunha* advertising professional/theatre personality - Bombay, British India (2023/92) 1930-1019 Mavis Nicholson* writer/radio and television broadcaster  - Briton Ferry, Neath, Glamorgan, Wales (2022/91) 1930-1020 1930-1024 J. P Richardsson Jr.* musician/ songwriter/ disc jockey - Sabine Pass, TX USA (1959/28) 1930-1027 Rex Shelley* entrepreneur/author - Singapore (2009/78) 1930-1030 Michael Collins* American astronaut (Apollo 11) - Rome, Italy (2021/90) 1930-1101 1930-1103 Shalom Cohen* Israeli Sephardi rabbi - Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine (2022/91) 1930-1104 Kate Reid* Canadian actress - London, England (1993/62) 1930-1105 Richard Davalos* actor/of Finnish/Spanish descent - New York City, NY USA (2016/85) 1930-1110 1930-1113 René-Samuel Sirat* French rabbi/director of Hebrew studies - Bône, French Algeria (2023/92) 1930-1116 Salvatore Riina* chief of the Sicilian mafia - Corleone, Sicily, Italy (2017/87) 1930-1120 1930-1122 Owen Garriott* electrical engineer/astronaut - Enid, OK USA (2019/88) 1930-1122 Li Yining* 厉以宁 economist/in favor of privatization of state-owned companies - Nanjing, China (2023/92) 1930-1129 Bruno Huber* astrologer - Switzerland (1999/68) 1930-1130 Seppo H.** land surveyor - Ilmajoki, Finland () 1930-1130 G. Gordon Liddy* lawyer/FBI agent/figure in the Watergate scandal/ radio talk show host /actor - New York City, NY USA (2021/90) 1930-1201 1930-1203 Jean-Luc Godard* film director - Paris, France (2022/91) 1930-1204 Rudolf Gelbard* Holocaust survivor/political campaigner - Vienna, First Austrian Republic (2018/87) 1930-1207 Lupe Serrano* ballet dancer/ballet teacher - Santiago, Chile (2023/92) 1930-1209 Lourdes Castro* artist - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (2022/91) 1930-1209 Buck Henry* (b Henry Zuckerman) actor/comedian/filmmaker - New York City, NY USA (2020/89) 1930-1210 1930-1213 Robert Prosky* actor - Philadelphia, PA USA (2008/77) 1930-1217 Thomas E. Bearden* free energy conceptualist - Cheniere, LA USA (2022/92) 1930-1217 Armin Mueller-Stahl* German actor - Tilsit, East Prussia, Weimar Republic **** 1930-1218 1930-1219 Peter Buck* physicist/ restaurateur (Subway)/philanthropist - South Portland, ME USA (2021/90) 1930-1220 1930-1221 Kalevi Sorsa* politician - Keuruu, Finland (2004/73) 1930-1226 Donald Moffat* actor - Plymouth, Devon England (2018/87) 1930-1228 Hans Holmér* police chief/in charge of the murder investigation of Olof Palme - Stockholm, Sweden (2002/71) 1930-1229 Lilliane Brady* local politician/mayor - NSW Australia (2021/90) 1930-1230 Elmira Minita Gordon* educator/ psychologist/the first governor general of Belize - Belize City, British Honduras (2021/90) 1930-1231 Lasse Holmqvist* journalist/ writer/television personality - Malmö, Sweden (1996/65) 1930-0 1930-0 1930-0 Updated 2025-0511 Helsinki-Vienna Search for another year here