October 30 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 30, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♏︎ Scorpio
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#264 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 30 birthdays
Alfred Sisley · French, British painter1839
Paul Valéry · French poet, essayist, and philosopher1871
Francisco I. Madero · Mexican revolutionary leader and president1873
Ezra Pound · American poet and critic1885
Dickinson W. Richards · American physician, Nobel Prize recipient1895
Gerhard Domagk · German bacteriologist1895
Ruth Gordon · American actress and writer1896
Daniel Nathans · American microbiologist1928
Leland H. Hartwell · American biologist1939
Grace Slick · American musician, writer and painter1939
Theodor W. Hänsch · German physicist and nobel laureate1941
Henry Winkler · American actor1945
William Thurston · American mathematician1946
Diego Maradona · Argentine football player and manager1960
Sandra Magnus · American astronaut1964
Zoran Milanović · President of Croatia since 20201966
Nia Long · American actress1970
Matthew Morrison · American actor, dancer, and singer1978
Ivanka Trump · American businesswoman, socialite and political advisior1981
Devin Booker · American basketball player1996
On this day in history
1938CBS Radio broadcast "The War of the Worlds", a radio drama that newspapers accused of tricking Americans into believing there was an actual Martian invasion.
2001Michael Jackson released Invincible, his final studio album and the most expensive album ever produced.
2002After his terminal-cancer diagnosis, Warren Zevon made his last public appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, giving the advice to "enjoy every sandwich".
2010American comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert hosted the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington, D.C.
1953President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
1960At the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Michael Woodruff performed the first successful kidney transplantation in the United Kingdom.
1983As the military dictatorship came to an end, Argentina's first democratic election in a decade resulted in Raúl Alfonsín being elected president.
1991The Madrid Conference, an attempt by the international community to revive the Israeli–Palestinian peace process through negotiations, convened.
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