April 30 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on April 30, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♉︎ Taurus
Apr 20 – May 20
Birth stone
Diamond
Birth flower
Daisy
How common
#306 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous April 30 birthdays
Jaroslav Hašek · Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist1883
Simon Kuznets · Russian-born American economist and statistician1901
Theodore Schultz · American economist1902
Eve Arden · American actress1908
Claude Shannon · American mathematician and information theorist1916
Cloris Leachman · American actress and comedian1926
Larry Niven · American writer1938
Burt Young · American actor1940
Jill Clayburgh · American actress1944
Carl XVI Gustaf · King of Sweden since 19731946
António Guterres · Secretary-General of the United Nations since 20171949
Lars von Trier · Danish film director and screenwriter1956
Stephen Harper · 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 20151959
Isiah Thomas · American basketball player, coach, executive1961
Victor Glover · American astronaut1976
Kirsten Dunst · American actress1982
Gal Gadot · Israeli actress, and model; Miss Israel 20041985
Dianna Agron · American actress1986
Travis Scott · American rapper, singer and record producer1991
Marc-André ter Stegen · German association football player1992
On this day in history
1883New York governor Grover Cleveland signed legislation that led to the creation of Niagara Falls State Park, the United States' first state park.
1894A crowd of workers, unemployed due to the Panic of 1893, concluded the first significant popular protest march on Washington D.C.
1927The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opened near Alderson, West Virginia, as the first federal prison for women in the United States.
2004The New Yorker published an online article and photographs detailing accounts of torture and abuse by American military personnel of Iraqi prisoners held at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
1789George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City.
1803The United States purchased France's claim to the Louisiana Territory for 80 million francs, or less than US$.03 per acre ($.07/ha).
1994Riverdance was performed for the first time, as the interval act for the Eurovision Song Contest.
2000Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun whose apparitions of Jesus inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, was canonized by Pope John Paul II.
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