On this day: 30 September
Events, births and deaths on 30 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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Events · 31
- 489(Julian date)Battle of Verona — 489
- 737(Julian date)Battle of the Baggage — battle between the forces of the Umayyad Caliphate and the Turkic Turgesh tribes
- 1061(Julian date)1061 papal election — 1061 election of the Catholic pope
- 1342(Julian date)Battle of Morlaix — 1342 battle during the Hundred Years' War
- 1744Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo — 1744 battle during the War of the Austrian Succession
- 1862Blood and Iron — Otto von Bismarck speech in 1862
- 1882Vulcan Street Plant — first Edison hydroelectric central station
- 1906Royal Galician Academy — organization dedicated to the study of Galician culture and language
- 1907McKinley National Memorial — burial place of William McKinley
- 1918Battle of Dibrivka — 1918 battle in the Ukrainian War of Independence
- 1919Elaine Race Riot — anti-black violence in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919
- 1920Times Square Theater — former Broadway and movie theater in Manhattan, New York
- 1938Munich agreement — 1938 cession of German-speaking Czechoslovakia to the German Reich
- 1941Battle of Moscow — 1941 World War II campaign in Russia
- 1941Babi Yar — ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and site of Nazi massacres
- 1944Battle of the Nijmegen Salient — battle in the Netherlands during WW2
- 1955death of James Dean — car crash that killed American actor James Dean
- 1960The Flintstones — American animated sitcom
- 196530 September Movement — 1965 Indonesian military faction that attempted a coup
- 1966Botswana — sovereign state in Southern Africa
- 1966President of Botswana — head of state and government of Botswana
- 1975Malév Flight 240 — 1975 aviation incident
- 1978Finnair Flight 405 — aircraft hijacking on 30 September 1978
- 1982Cheers — American television sitcom (1982–1993)
- 19931993 Latur earthquake — earthquake in India
- 1999Tōkaimura criticality accident — nuclear accident
- 2000Killing of Muhammad al-Durrah — 2000 shooting of a Palestinian boy in the Gaza Strip
- 2005Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy — controversy relating to the publication of depictions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- 2006Nangpa La shooting incident — Shooting incident
- 20092009 Sumatra earthquakes — earthquake
- 20192019–20 Peruvian constitutional crisis — political event in Peru
Births · 60
- 1207Rumi — Iranian poet
- 1227(Julian date)Nicholas IV — pope of the Catholic Church from 1288 to 1292 (1227–1292)
- 1700Stanisław Konarski — Polish poet, dramatist (1700-1773)
- 1714Étienne Bonnot de Condillac — French academic
- 1732Jacques Necker — Genevan minister resident in France, French statesman, and finance minister of Louis XVI (1732-1804)
- 1765
- 1852
- 1863Reinhard Scheer — German admiral (1863-1928)
- 1870Jean-Baptiste Perrin — French physicist (1870–1942)
- 1882Hans Geiger — German physicist (1882–1945)
- 1895Lewis Milestone — Russian-American film director (1895-1980)
- 1905Nevill Francis Mott — English physicist, Nobel prize winner
- 1905Michael Powell — English film director (1905–1990)
- 1908David Oistrakh — Soviet violinist (1908-1974)
- 1917Buddy Rich — American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917–1987)
- 1920Eileen Chang — Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter (1920–1995)
- 1921Deborah Kerr — British actress (1921–2007)
- 1924Truman Capote — American writer (1924-1984)
- 1928Elie Wiesel — Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
- 1931Angie Dickinson — American actress (born 1931)
- 1932Shintarō Ishihara — Japanese politician and author, Governor of Tokyo (1932–2022)
- 1933Michel Aoun — 13th President of Lebanon from 2016 to 2022
- 1933Cissy Houston — American singer (1933–2024)
- 1934Udo Jürgens — Austrian singer and composer (1934–2014)
- 1937Valentyn Sylvestrov — Soviet and Ukrainian pianist and composer (b. 1937)
Deaths · 60
- 420(Julian date)Jerome — 4th and 5th-century Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint and Doctor of the Church
- 653(Julian date)Honorius — member of the Gregorian mission to the Anglo-Saxons and Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1246(Julian date)Yaroslav II of Vladimir — Grand Prince of Vladimir (1191-1246)
- 1288(Julian date)Leszek II the Black — High Duke of Poland
- 1551(Julian date)Ōuchi Yoshitaka — daimyo (1507-1551)
- 1560(Julian date)Melchor Cano — Spanish theologian (1509-1560)
- 1572(Julian date)Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía — Grandee of Spain and Jesuit priest (1510–1572)
- 1626Nurhaci — Jurchen chieftain of Later Jin, founder of Qing Dynasty (1559 - 1626)
- 1627Tianqi Emperor — emperor of the Ming Dynasty
- 1628Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke — English politician (1554-1628)
- 1770George Whitefield — English minister and preacher
- 1888Eunice Newton Foote — American scientist, inventor and women's rights activist (1819–1888)
- 1891Georges Ernest Boulanger — French general (1837-1891)
- 1897Thérèse of Lisieux — French Discalced Carmelite nun, Doctor of the Church (1873–1897)
- 1910Maurice Lévy — French engineer (1838–1910)
- 1913Rudolf Diesel — German inventor and mechanical engineer (1858–1913)
- 1938Tang Shaoyi — First Premier of the Republic of China (1862-1938)
- 1942Hans-Joachim Marseille — German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1919–1942)
- 1943Franz Oppenheimer — German-Jewish physician, sociologist and political economist (1864-1943)
- 1946Takashi Sakai — Japanese general and war criminal (1887-1946)
- 1948Edith Roosevelt — First Lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909
- 1955James Dean — American actor (1931–1955)
- 1973Li Shizeng — Chinese educator, esperantist and politician (1881-1973)
- 1974Carlos Prats Gonzalez — Chilean Army officer and politician t(1915–1974)
- 1977Mary Ford — American musician (1924-1977)
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