July 30 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on July 30, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♌︎ Leo
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Birth stone
Ruby
Birth flower
Larkspur
How common
#77 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous July 30 birthdays
Emily Brontë · English novelist and poet1818
Thorstein Veblen · American economist and sociologist1857
Henry Ford · American business magnate1863
Henry Moore · English sculptor1898
Peter Bogdanovich · American film director1939
Patrick Modiano · French writer1945
Arnold Schwarzenegger · Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician1947
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi · French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV1947
Jean Reno · Spanish-French actor1948
Kate Bush · English singer, pianist and songwriter1958
Richard Linklater · American director and screenwriter1960
Laurence Fishburne · American actor1961
Lisa Kudrow · American actress1963
Jürgen Klinsmann · German footballer and manager1964
Terry Crews · American actor, television host, and American football player1968
Christopher Nolan · English and American filmmaker1970
Hilary Swank · American actress1974
Hope Solo · American soccer player1981
Fabiano Caruana · Italian-American chess player1992
Joey King · American actress1999
On this day in history
1916World War I: German agents sabotaged U.S.-made munitions in New York Harbor that were to be supplied to the Allies.
1975American labor-union leader Jimmy Hoffa disappeared after last being seen outside a restaurant near Detroit.
2018Emmerson Mnangagwa was elected to his first full term as president, having served as leader since the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état.
2020NASA's Mars 2020 mission is launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
1966In London, the England national football team won the FIFA World Cup, winning the final against West Germany 4–2 after extra time.
1969Vietnam War: U.S. president Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
1974Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.
1981Amid a widespread economic crisis and food shortages in Poland, up to 50,000 people, mostly women and children, took part in the largest of nationwide hunger demonstrations in Łódź.
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