On this day: 30 August
Events, births and deaths on 30 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Andrii Parubii
- Events · Assassination of Andriy Parubiy
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Marc Riboud
- Events · Chinese Embassy in Bishkek bombing
100 years ago1926
- Births · Daryl Gates
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1060 · Events · Battle of al-Funaydiq
Events · 27
- 1060(Julian date)Battle of al-Funaydiq — 1060 battle
- 1363(Julian date)Battle of Lake Poyang — 1363 naval battle of the Red Turban Rebellion, between Han and Ming fleets
- 1721(Julian date)Treaty of Nystad — August 1721 peace treaty between Russia and Sweden
- 1757Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf — 1757 battle
- 1799Vlieter incident — conflict in 1799
- 1808Convention of Sintra — 1808 agreement allowing French troops to evacuate from Portugal
- 1813Fort Mims massacre — part of the Creek War (1813)
- 1835Melbourne — capital city of Victoria, Australia
- 1896Battle of San Juan del Monte — 1896 battle of the Philippine Revolution
- 1940Second Vienna Award — 1940 border agreement
- 1942Battle of Alam el Halfa — 1942 battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
- 1945Liberation of Hong Kong — British resumes sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1945
- 1959
- 1974Zagreb train disaster — 1974 train wreck
- 19741974 Mitsubishi heavy industries explosion incident — far-left terrorist attack in Tokyo
- 1983Aeroflot Flight 5463 — plane crash
- 1990Tatarstan — federal subject of Russia
- 1995Operation Deliberate Force — 1995 campaign by NATO and UN forces against Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War
- 1999East Timorese independence referendum, 1999 — referendum
- 20082008 Conviasa Boeing 737 crash — 2008 aviation accident
- 20092009 Japanese general election — general election in Japan held in 2009
- 20142014 Lesotho political crisis — political event in Lesotho
- 2016Chinese Embassy in Bishkek bombing — 2016 attack in Kyrgyzstan
- 20202020 MTV Video Music Awards — annual US music awards ceremony
- 2022death and funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev — death and funeral proceedings of Mikhail Gorbachev
- 20232023 Gabon coup d'état — military coup in Gabon on 30 August 2023
- 2025Assassination of Andriy Parubiy — 2025 murder in Ukraine
Births · 60
- 1334(Julian date)Peter of Castile — king of Castile and León from 1350 to 1369
- 1748Jacques-Louis David — French painter (1748–1825)
- 1785Lin Tse-hsu — Chinese scholar and politician (1785-1850)
- 1797Mary Shelley — English writer (1797–1851)
- 1811Théophile Gautier — French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic (1811–1872)
- 1850
- 1852Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff — Dutch physical and organic chemist (1852-1911)
- 1855Evelyn De Morgan — Pre-Raphaelite artist (1993- (1855–1919)
- 1856Carl David Tolmé Runge — German mathematician and physicist (1856–1927)
- 1870Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark — daughter of George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia; wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
- 1871Ernest Rutherford — New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
- 1883Theo van Doesburg — Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer (1883–1931)
- 1884Theodor Svedberg — Swedish chemist (1884-1971)
- 1893Huey Long — American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United States Senator (1893-1935)
- 1896Raymond Massey — Canadian American actor (1896–1983)
- 1898Shirley Booth — American actress (1898–1992)
- 1906Joan Blondell — American actress (1906–1979)
- 1906Olga Taussky-Todd — mathematician (1906–1995)
- 1908Fred MacMurray — American actor (1908–1991)
- 1912Edward Mills Purcell — American physicist (1912-1997)
- 1912Nancy Wake — New Zealander and Australian war heroine
- 1913Richard Stone — British economist, Nobel Memorial Prize winner (1913-1991)
- 1915Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland — Welsh model who became a member of the Swedish royal family (1915-2013)
- 1918Ted Williams — American baseball player and fighter pilot
- 1919Maurice Hilleman — American vaccinologist (1919–2005)
Deaths · 60
- 526Theodoric the Great — king of the Germanic Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy (493–526)
- 1181(Julian date)Alexander III — pope of the Catholic Church from 1159 to 1181
- 1329(Julian date)Khutughtu Khan — emperor of the Yuan Dynasty
- 1428(Julian date)Shōkō — emperor of Japan
- 1483(Julian date)Louis XI of France — king of France from 1461 to 1483 (1423–1483)
- 1580(Julian date)Emanuele Filiberto I, Duke of Savoy — Duke of Savoy from 1553 to 1580 (1528-1580)
- 1619Shimazu Yoshihiro — [島津義弘] samurai of the Sengoku period
- 1751Christopher Polhem — Swedish inventor (1661-1751)
- 1773Narayanrao Peshwa — 10th Peshwa of Maratha Empire
- 1856John Ross — Scottish naval officer and polar explorer (1777–1856)
- 1856Gilbert Abbott à Beckett — English barrister and humorist (1811-1856)
- 1879John Bell Hood — Confederate general (1831–1879)
- 1928Wilhelm Wien — German physicist (1864-1928)
- 1928
- 1935Henri Barbusse — French author (1873-1935)
- 1938Max Factor — American businessman (1872–1938)
- 1940Joseph John Thomson — British physicist (1856-1940)
- 1945Alfréd Schaffer — Hungarian footballer and manager (1893–1945)
- 1946Konstantin Rodzaevsky — Russian Fascist (1907-1946)
- 1948Alice Salomon — German social reformer (1872–1948)
- 1954Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster — Metropolitan Archbishop of Milan and Cardinal of the Catholic Church, beatified in 1996
- 1961Charles Coburn — American film, theater actor (1877–1961)
- 1963Guy Burgess — British-born radio producer, intelligence and Foreign Office officer and double agent
- 1967Ad Reinhardt — American painter and printmaker (1913–1967)
- 1970Abraham Zapruder — witness to the Kennedy assassination (1905-1970)
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