On this day: 30 July
Events, births and deaths on 30 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · 2025 Kamchatka earthquake
- Deaths · George Nigh
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Gloria DeHaven
100 years ago1926
- Births · Betye Saar
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 26
- 1419(Julian date)Hussite Wars — 15th-century wars fought between Protestant Hussites and Catholic forces
- 16271627 Gargano earthquake — July 1627 earthquake in Apulia, Italy
- 1635Siege of Schenkenschans — 1635–1636 siege of the Eighty Years' War
- 1864Battle of the Crater — 1864 American Civil War battle
- 1866New Orleans massacre of 1866 — racially motivated massacre of July 1866
- 1912Taishō era — period of Japanese history from 1912 to 1926, under the reign of Emperor Taishō
- 1916Black Tom explosion — munitions explosion via sabotage
- 19301930 FIFA World Cup Final — 1930 FIFA World Cup match
- 19321932 Summer Olympics — Games of the X Olympiad, in Los Angeles, USA
- 1962Trans-Canada Highway — highway and highway system in Canada
- 1965Medicare — US federal health insurance
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup Final — 1966 FIFA World Cup match
- 1971All Nippon Airways Flight 58 — 1971 mid-air collision
- 1978730 — day in Okinawa when the change from right-hand traffic to left-hand traffic occurred
- 1980Vanuatu — island country in Oceania
- 1992TWA Flight 843 — aborted passenger aircraft flight at high speed
- 2006Qana airstrike — 2006 airstrike on civilians
- 20122012 India blackouts — power outage
- 20142014 Malin landslide — natural disaster
- 2018
- 2020death and funeral of Lee Teng-hui — 2020 death of Taiwanese statesman Lee Teng-hui
- 20232023 Khar bombing — suicide bombing in Pakistan
- 20242024 Wayanad landslide — landslide in Kerala, South India
- 20252025 Kamchatka earthquake — magnitude 8.8 earthquake in the Russian Far East
- 20262026 Ceuta migrant crisis — International incident, diplomatic escalation and migration crisis between Spain and Morocco
- 20262026 Broad Peak avalanche — avalanche disaster in Pakistan
Births · 60
- 1470(Julian date)Hongzhi Emperor — 10th emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1470–1505)
- 1511(Julian date)Giorgio Vasari — Italian painter, architect, writer and historian (1511-1574)
- 1549(Julian date)Ferdinando I de' Medici — Grand Duke of Tuscany (1549-1609)
- 1641Regnier de Graaf — Dutch physician (1641-1673)
- 1751Maria Anna Mozart — Austrian musician
- 1818Emily Brontë — English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
- 1857Thorstein Veblen — American economist and sociologist (1857–1929)
- 1863Henry Ford — American business magnate (1863–1947)
- 1881Smedley Butler — United States Marine Corps general, two time Medal of Honor recipient, activist, lecturer, official, and writer (1881-1940)
- 1898Henry Moore — English sculptor (1898–1986)
- 1909C. Northcote Parkinson — British naval historian (1909–1993)
- 1914Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin — Irish journalist and President of the IOC (1914-1999)
- 1936Buddy Guy — American blues guitarist and singer
- 1936Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz — Spanish Royal (1936-2020)
- 1939Peter Bogdanovich — American film director (1939–2022)
- 1940Clive Sinclair — English entrepreneur and inventor (1940–2021)
- 1941Paul Anka — Canadian singer and actor
- 1944Jimmy Cliff — Jamaican musician (1944–2025)
- 1944Frances de la Tour — English actress
- 1945Patrick Modiano — French writer
- 1945David Sanborn — American saxophonist (1945-2024)
- 1947
- 1947Françoise Barré-Sinoussi — French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV
- 1947William Atherton — American actor
- 1948Jean Reno — Spanish-French actor
Deaths · 60
- 579(Julian date)Benedict I — pope
- 1286(Julian date)Bar Hebraeus — Primate of Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (1226–1286)
- 1566(Julian date)
- 1652Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours — French military leader and magnate
- 1683Maria Theresa of Spain — Queen Consort of France (1660-1683)
- 1700(Julian date)Prince William, Duke of Gloucester — son of Queen Anne (1689-1700)
- 1718(Julian date)William Penn — English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)
- 1771Thomas Gray — English poet and classical scholar (1716–1771)
- 1811Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla — Catholic priest, leader of the Mexican War of Independence
- 1870Aasmund Olavsson Vinje — Norwegian poet and journalist (1818–1870)
- 1875George Pickett — Confederate States Army general (1825–1875)
- 1884Gustave Le Gray — French photographer (1820–1884)
- 1898Otto von Bismarck — German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)
- 1900Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha — Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1893 to 1900 (1844–1900)
- 1912Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan from 1867 until 1912
- 1916Albert Neisser — German physician (1855-1916)
- 1918Joyce Kilmer — American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier (1886–1918)
- 1930Joan Gamper — Swiss football pioneer, player and club president (1877-1930)
- 1941Hugo Celmiņš — Latvian politician (1877-1941)
- 1946Nikolay Morozov — Russian revolutionary, scientist, writer
- 1947Joseph Cook — 6th prime minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914
- 1965Jun'ichirō Tanizaki — Japanese author (1886–1965)
- 1970George Szell — Classical conductor and composer (1897–1970)
- 1975James Blish — American science fiction and fantasy author (1921–1975)
- 1976Rudolf Bultmann — German theologian (1884–1976)
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