May 30 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 30, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#189 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 30 birthdays
Mikhail Bakunin · Russian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher1814
Amadeo I of Spain · Italian Royal and temporary Head of State of Spain1845
Alexander Archipenko · American sculptor and artist of Ukrainian origin1887
Howard Hawks · American film director, producer and screenwriter1896
Irving Thalberg · American film producer1899
Hannes Alfvén · Swedish electrical engineer1908
Mel Blanc · American voice actor1908
Benny Goodman · American jazz clarinetist and bandleader1909
Julius Axelrod · American biochemist1912
Idi Amin · President of Uganda1928
Agnès Varda · French artist, film director, screenwriter and photographer1928
Alexei Leonov · Soviet-Russian pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk1934
Fernando Lugo · 47.° President of Paraguay1951
Brian Kobilka · American physiologist1955
Katerina Sakellaropoulou · Greek judge, former president of the Hellenic Republic1956
Tom Morello · American guitarist and musician1964
Idina Menzel · American actress and singer1971
CeeLo Green · American singer, songwriter, rapper, actor and record producer1975
Marissa Mayer · American business executive and engineer, former CEO of Yahoo!1975
Steven Gerrard · English association football player and manager1980
On this day in history
1922The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., featuring a sculpture of the sixteenth U.S. president Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French, opened.
1948A dike holding the Columbia River broke, causing a flood that destroyed Vanport, Oregon, U.S., only five years after the city was built.
2005American student Natalee Holloway disappeared on a high-school graduation trip to Aruba.
2024Donald Trump was convicted of falsifying business records in a New York trial, becoming the first former U.S. president found guilty in a criminal case.
1854The Kansas–Nebraska Act became law, establishing the U.S. territories of Nebraska and Kansas, and allowing their settlers to determine if slavery would be permitted.
1899Pearl Hart, one of the few female outlaws of the American Old West, committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies, about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Globe, Arizona.
1914RMS Aquitania, the last surviving four-funnel ocean liner, departed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York City.
2020Crew Dragon Demo-2 became the first commercial mission to the International Space Station.
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