August 30 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 30, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Peridot
Birth flower
Gladiolus
How common
#28 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 30 birthdays
Friedrich Ratzel · German geographer and ethnographer1844
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff · Dutch physical and organic chemist1852
Ernest Rutherford · New Zealand physicist1871
Theo van Doesburg · Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer1883
Theodor Svedberg · Swedish chemist1884
Shirley Booth · American actress1898
Fred MacMurray · American actor1908
Edward Mills Purcell · American physicist1912
Richard Stone · British economist, Nobel Memorial Prize winner1913
Warren Buffett · American investor, entrepreneur and businessman1930
Sylvia Earle · American oceanographer1935
Peggy Lipton · American actress and singer1946
Alexander Lukashenko · President of the Republic of Belarus1954
Anna Politkovskaya · Russian journalist1958
Cameron Diaz · American actress and model1972
Pavel Nedvěd · Czech association football player1972
Andy Roddick · American tennis player1982
Simone Pepe · Italian association football player1983
Bebe Rexha · American singer1989
Paco Alcácer · Spanish association football player1993
On this day in history
1800Gabriel Prosser planned to hold a slave rebellion in Virginia, U.S., but it was postponed due to rain; he was captured before he could reschedule it.
1959South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Đán was elected to the National Assembly, despite soldiers being bussed in to vote multiple times for President Ngô Đình Diệm's candidate.
1967Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice.
1984Discovery, the third orbiter of NASA's Space Shuttle program, lifted off on its maiden voyage from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
1963The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
1983STS-8: The Space Shuttle Challenger takes off on the first night launch of the shuttle program. Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space on this mission.
1990Gulf War: US General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. issued General Order No. 1 prohibiting US troops from consuming alcohol or possessing pornographic material.
2021The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war.
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