On this day: 30 January
Events, births and deaths on 30 January. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Marianne Faithfull
- Deaths · Dick Button
- Deaths · Julius Chan
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Frank Finlay
- Deaths · Francisco Flores
100 years ago1926
- Births · Vasili Arkhipov
- Deaths · Barbara La Marr
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 970 · Deaths · Peter I of Bulgaria
- 1018 · Events · Peace of Bautzen
Events · 24
- 1018(Julian date)Peace of Bautzen — 1018 peace treaty ending the German–Polish War
- 1607Bristol Channel floods, 1607 — 1607 coastal flooding along the Bristol Channel in southwest England
- 1649(Julian date)execution of Charles I — 1649 beheading of Charles I of England
- 1667Truce of Andrusovo — peace treaty
- 1889Mayerling Incident — Events surrounding the apparent murder–suicide of the Crown Prince of Austria and his mistress in 1889
- 1902Anglo-Japanese Alliance — 20 year alliance between imperial Japan and Great Britain in the early 20th century
- 1920Mazda — Japanese multinational automaker
- 1933Machtergreifung — Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor and subsequent establishment of the Nazi dictatorship
- 193930 January 1939 Reichstag speech — prophecy
- 1942Battle of Ambon — World War II battle between Allied and Japanese forces which occurred on the island in 1942
- 1944Battle of Cisterna — 1944 battle during World War II
- 1945Raid at Cabanatuan — rescue of Allied prisoners of World War II in Cabanatuan, Philippines
- 19481948 Winter Olympics — 5th edition of Winter Olympics, in Sankt Moritz, Switzerland
- 1948assassination of Mahatma Gandhi — 1948 murder in New Delhi, India
- 1948BSAA Star Tiger disappearance — Disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle
- 1959Jebel Akhdar War — 1954-1959 armed conflict in Oman
- 1964
- 1968Tet Offensive — 1968 military campaign during the Vietnam War
- 1969The Beatles' rooftop concert — final public performance of The Beatles
- 1972Bloody Sunday — shooting of 26 civilians by British soldiers in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1972 during the Troubles
- 1974Pan Am Flight 806 — aviation accident
- 1975Turkish Airlines flight 345 — 1975 aviation accidents
- 1979PP-VLU — aircraft that went missing over the Pacific Ocean near Japan on January 30, 1979
- 2000Kenya Airways Flight 431 — aviation accident
Births · 60
- 59 BCE(Julian date)Livia — first Roman empress as consort to Augustus, as well as mother of emperor Tiberius
- 1697Johann Joachim Quantz — German flutist, flute maker and composer (1697-1773)
- 1775Walter Savage Landor — English writer, poet, and activist (1775–1864)
- 1781Adelbert von Chamisso — German poet and botanist (1781–1838)
- 1832Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier — Infanta of Spain (1832-1897)
- 1841Félix Faure — 7th President of the French Republic (1841–1899)
- 1878A. H. Tammsaare — Estonian writer (1878–1940)
- 1882Franklin Delano Roosevelt — president of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1882–1945)
- 1894Boris III of Bulgaria — king of Bulgaria (1894–1943)
- 1899Max Theiler — South African-American virologist and doctor (1899-1972)
- 1901Rudolf Caracciola — German/Swiss racing and motorcycle driver (1901–1959)
- 1902Nikolaus Pevsner — German-born British scholar (1902-1983)
- 1911Roy Eldridge — American trumpeter (1911–1989)
- 1912Barbara W. Tuchman — American historian and author (1912–1989)
- 1913Amrita Sher-Gil — Hungarian-Indian painter (1913–1941)
- 1915Joachim Peiper — SS officer and convicted Nazi war criminal (1915–1976)
- 1915John Profumo — British politician (1915-2006)
- 1920Delbert Mann — American television and film director (1920–2007)
- 1920Michael Anderson — English film director (1920–2018)
- 1924S. N. Goenka — Burmese teacher of vipassanā meditation (1924–2013)
- 1925Douglas Engelbart — American engineer and inventor (1925–2013)
- 1926Vasili Arkhipov — Soviet submarine officer who averted nuclear war (1926–1998)
- 1927Olof Palme — Swedish Prime Minister (1969–76, 1982–86)
- 1929Isamu Akasaki — Japanese engineer (1929-2021)
- 1930Gene Hackman — American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
Deaths · 60
- 680Balthild — Wife of Clovis II
- 970(Julian date)Peter I of Bulgaria — Bulgarian ruler
- 1181(Julian date)Takakura — Emperor of Japan
- 1384(Julian date)Louis II, Count of Flanders — Count of Flanders, Nevers and Rethel (1330-1384)
- 1574(Julian date)Damião de Góis — Portuguese philosopher
- 1649(Julian date)Charles I of England — King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1625 to 1649 (1600-1649)
- 1836Betsy Ross — American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives with making the first American flag
- 1838Osceola — Billy Powell, leader of the Seminole in Florida (1804-1838)
- 1847Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe — wife of Edgar Allan Poe (1822-1847)
- 1858Coenraad Jacob Temminck — Dutch aristocrat and zoologist (1778–1858)
- 1867Emperor Kōmei — Emperor of Japan from 1846 to 1867
- 1881Arthur O'Shaughnessy — British poet and herpetologist (1844–1881)
- 1888Asa Gray — American botanist (1810–1888)
- 1889Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria — Austrian archduke (1858-1889)
- 1923Columba Marmion — Irish monk (1858-1923)
- 1926Barbara La Marr — American actress and screenwriter (1896-1926)
- 1928Johannes Fibiger — Danish physician
- 1946Hajime Kawakami — Japanese economist, activist and writer (1879–1946)
- 1947Frederick Blackman — British botanist (1866–1947)
- 1948Mahatma Gandhi — Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
- 1951Ferdinand Porsche — Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
- 1958Ernst Heinkel — aircraft designer and manufacturer (1888-1958)
- 1963Francis Poulenc — French composer and pianist (1899–1963)
- 1968Makhanlal Chaturvedi — Indian writer (1889-1968)
- 1969Dominique Pire — Belgian Dominican friar (1910–1969)
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