On this day: 30 December
Events, births and deaths on 30 December. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Khaleda Zia
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Stan Tracey
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1066 · Events · 1066 Granada Anti-Jewish massacre
- 1115 · Deaths · Theodoric II
- 999 · Events · Battle of Glenmama
Events · 25
- 999(Julian date)Battle of Glenmama — 1000 battle of the Viking wars in Ireland
- 1066(Julian date)1066 Granada Anti-Jewish massacre — event on 30 December 1066, in which a mob stormed the royal palace in Granada, in the Taifa of Granada, crucified the Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela, and massacred much of the Jewish population of the city
- 1419(Julian date)Battle of La Rochelle — 1420 part of the Hundred Years' War
- 1460Battle of Wakefield — 1460 battle
- 1890Drexel Mission Fight — 1890 armed confrontation between Lakota warriors and the United States Army
- 1903Iroquois Theatre fire — deadliest theater fire and the deadliest single-building fire in United States history
- 1906All India Muslim League — political party within the Indian Empire
- 1918Communist Party of Germany — former Marxist–Leninist political party in Germany
- 1922Soviet Union — former country in Eurasia (1922–1991)
- 1927Ginza Line — metro line in Tokyo, Japan
- 1927Asakusa Station — railway station and metro station in Taitō, Tokyo, Japan
- 1936Flint Sit-Down Strike — 1936–37 labor strike at the General Motors plant in Michigan
- 19521952 Luqa Avro Lancaster crash — 1952 military aviation accident in Luqa, Malta
- 1954National Bureau of Investigation — national law enforcement agency of Finland
- 1958Mexico–Guatemala conflict — 1958-59 armed dispute between Mexico and Guatemala
- 1967Aeroflot Flight 51 — aviation accident
- 1997Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 30 December 1997 — 1997 mass killings during the Algerian Civil War
- 2000Rizal Day bombings — Bombings in Manilla, December 2000
- 2004República Cromañón nightclub fire — deadly 2004 fire in Buenos Aires
- 2005Tropical Storm Zeta — Atlantic tropical storm in 2005 and 2006
- 2006Execution of Saddam Hussein — Execution of former president of Iraq
- 20062006 Madrid–Barajas Airport bombing — Van bomb by the Basque separatist organisation ETA
- 2009Camp Chapman attack — Terrorist attack
- 2013December 2013 Kinshasa attacks — hostage-taking of journalists from Congolese National Radio-Television in Kinshasa
- 20202020 Aden Airport attack — Attack in Yemen
Births · 60
- 39(Julian date)Titus — tenth Roman Emperor (79–81)
- 1371(Julian date)Vasily I of Moscow — Grand Prince of Moscow (1372-1425)
- 1673Ahmed III — 23th Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1703–1730)
- 1819Theodor Fontane — German novelist and poet (1819–1898)
- 1842Osman Hamdi Bey — Ottoman statesman, academic and artist (1842-1910)
- 1865
- 1869Stephen Leacock — Canadian writer and economist (1869–1944)
- 1873Al Smith — American statesman and governor (1873–1944)
- 1879Ramana Maharshi — Indian spiritual teacher (1879–1950)
- 1884Hideki Tojo — Japanese general and politician (1884–1948)
- 1890Adolfo Ruiz Cortines — 54th President of Mexico
- 1904Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky — composer, conductor (music), pianist, music teacher
- 1906Carol Reed — English film director (1906–1976)
- 1910Paul Bowles — American composer and writer (1910–1999)
- 1927Robert Hossein — French film actor, director, and writer of Azerbaijani origin (1927-2020)
- 1928Bo Diddley — American guitarist (1928–2008)
- 1930Tu Youyou — Chinese medical scientist
- 1935Omar Bongo — Gabonese politician (1935–2009)
- 1937Gordon Banks — English association football player (1937–2019)
- 1942Vladimir Bukovsky — Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union
- 1942Fred Ward — American actor (1942–2022)
- 1942Michael Nesmith — American musician, songwriter, actor (1942–2021)
- 1945Davy Jones — British musician (1945–2012)
- 1946Patti Smith — American singer, songwriter, author and poet (born 1946)
- 1946Berti Vogts — German football manager
Deaths · 60
- 274(Julian date)Felix I — Pope and bishop of Rome from 269 to 274
- 1115Theodoric II — Duke of Lorraine
- 1331(Julian date)Bernard Gui — Dominican friar, inquisitor and bishop of Lodeve (Limousin)
- 1436(Julian date)Louis III, Elector Palatine — Elector Palatine
- 1460(Julian date)Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York — Duke of York (1411-1461)
- 1460Edmund, Earl of Rutland — English earl
- 1525(Julian date)Jakob Fugger — German merchant (1459-1526)
- 1572(Julian date)Galeazzo Alessi — architect
- 1573(Julian date)Giovanni Battista Giraldi — an Italian novelist and poet
- 1591Innocent IX — pope of the Catholic Church in 1591 (1519–1591)
- 1643Giovanni Baglione — painter and biographer of artists (c. 1566–1643)
- 1644Jan Baptist van Helmont — chemist, physiologist, and physician from the Spanish Low Countries
- 1662Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria — Archduke of Austria (1628-1662)
- 1777Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria — Duke of Bavaria (1727-1777)
- 1788Francesco Zuccarelli — Italian painter (1702-1788)
- 1803Francis Lewis — Signatory of the US Declaration of Independence, from Wales
- 1880Achille Guenée — French lawyer and entomologist (1809–1880)
- 1896José Rizal — Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
- 1906Josephine Butler — British feminist and social reformer fighting to end child prostitution (1828–1906)
- 1928Jean Collas — French rugby union player (1874–1928)
- 1941El Lissitzky — Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer and architect (1890–1941)
- 1944Romain Rolland — French author (1866-1944)
- 1947Alfred North Whitehead — English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)
- 1947Han van Meegeren — Dutch painter and art forger (1889-1947)
- 1947Riichi Yokomitsu — Japanese writer (1898-1947)
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