December 30 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 30, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♑︎ Capricorn
Dec 22 – Jan 19
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#62 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 30 birthdays
Theodor Fontane · German novelist and poet1819
Rudyard Kipling · English writer and poet1865
Hideki Tojo · Japanese general and politician1884
Bo Diddley · American guitarist1928
Tu Youyou · Chinese medical scientist1930
Omar Bongo · Gabonese politician1935
Fred Ward · American actor1942
Patti Smith · American singer, songwriter, author and poet1946
Randy Schekman · Nobel prize winning American cell biologist1948
Bjarne Stroustrup · Danish computer scientist, creator of C++1950
Tracey Ullman · British-American actress1959
Mike Pompeo · American politician, United States Secretary of State1963
Kersti Kaljulaid · Estonian politician and president of Estonia1969
Tiger Woods · American golfer1975
Laila Ali · American television personality and retired professional boxer1977
Tyrese Gibson · American singer and actor1978
Eliza Dushku · American actress1980
LeBron James · American basketball player1984
Ellie Goulding · English singer and songwriter1986
V · South Korean singer, actor and dancer1995
On this day in history
1813War of 1812: British forces captured Buffalo, New York, and burned down nearly all its buildings.
1940The Arroyo Seco Parkway, one of the first freeways built in the U.S., connecting downtown Los Angeles with Pasadena, California, was officially dedicated.
2005Tropical Storm Zeta became a tropical depression, making it the record-breaking 28th tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, the most active in recorded history until 2020.
2009Pro-government counter-demonstrators held rallies in several Iranian cities in response to recent anti-government protests on the holy day of Ashura.
1853Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
1902The Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott attained a new Farthest South point in Antarctica.
1954The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation was established to consolidate criminal investigation and intelligence into a single agency.
1958The Guatemalan Air Force fired on Mexican fishing boats that had strayed into Guatemalan territory, triggering an eight-month conflict.
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