Famous people born in 1930

The best-known people born in 1930, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Neil Armstrong
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
August 5 · d. 2012
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Sean Connery
Scottish actor (1930–2020)
August 25 · d. 2020
Photo: Rob Bogaerts for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
August 30
Photo: USA International Trade Administration, Public domain
Clint Eastwood
American actor and film director (born 1930)
May 31
Photo: Raffi Asdourian, CC BY 2.0
Helmut Kohl
Chancellor of West Germany and reunified Germany (1982–1998)
April 3 · d. 2017
Photo: Christian Lambiotte, CC BY 4.0
Buzz Aldrin
American astronaut (born 1930)
January 20
Photo: NASA, Public domain
Harold Pinter
British playwright (1930–2008)
October 10 · d. 2008
Photo: Jack de Nijs for Anefo, CC0
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic (1930-2013)
November 16 · d. 2013
Photo: Carlo Bavagnoli, Public domain
Ray Charles
American singer, pianist and songwriter (1930–2004)
September 23 · d. 2004
Photo: William Morris Agency (management)/Photo by Maurice Seymour, New York., Public domain
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
August 12
Photo: Aris Oikonomou - European Commission, CC BY 4.0
Jacques Derrida
French philosopher (1930–2004)
July 15 · d. 2004
Photo: Auto-épreuve, CC BY 4.0
Jean-Luc Godard
French and Swiss film director (1930–2022)
December 3 · d. 2022
Photo: Gary Stevens, CC BY 2.0
Hafez al-Assad
President of Syria from 1971 to 2000
October 6 · d. 2000
Photo: Government of Syria, Public domain
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright (1930–2017)
January 23 · d. 2017
Photo: Bert Nienhuis, CC BY-SA 3.0
Tu Youyou
Chinese medical scientist
December 30
Photo: Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0
Mobutu Sese Seko
Congolese politician and military officer, the first and only president of Zaire from 1971 to 1997 (1930 – 1997)
October 14 · d. 1997
Photo: Frank Hall, Public domain
Michael Collins
American astronaut (1930–2021)
October 31 · d. 2021
Photo: NASA; restored by Coffeeandcrumbs, Public domain
Gene Hackman
American actor and novelist (1930–2025)
January 30 · d. 2025
Photo: Chicago Daily News, Public domain
Pierre Bourdieu
French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (1930–2002)
August 1 · d. 2002
Photo: Bernard Lambert, CC BY-SA 4.0
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
May 11 · d. 2002
Photo: Hamilton Richards, CC BY-SA 3.0
Zhores Alferov
Soviet-Russian physicist (1930–2019)
March 15 · d. 2019
Photo: Рустем Кадыров, CC BY 4.0
Steve McQueen
American actor (1930-1980)
March 24 · d. 1980
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Icelandic politician, 4th President of Iceland
April 15
Photo: Rob Croes for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
Maximilian Schell
Swiss and Austrian film and stage actor (1930–2014)
December 8 · d. 2014
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain
Leon Cooper
American physicist (1930–2024)
February 28 · d. 2024
Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 3.0
Carlos Menem
Argentinean president between 1989 and 1999
July 2 · d. 2021
Photo: Víctor Bugge, CC BY 2.0
Ion Iliescu
President of Romania (1990–1996; 2000–2004)
March 3 · d. 2025
Photo: Aluísio/Vice-presidência da República, CC BY 3.0 br
Richard Harris
Irish actor and singer (1930–2002)
October 1 · d. 2002
Photo: City of Boston Archives, CC BY 2.0
Joanne Woodward
American actress (born 1930)
February 27
Photo: MGM, Public domain
Baudouin I of Belgium
fifth king of the Belgians (1930–1993)
September 7 · d. 1993
Photo: Anefo, CC0

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Month by month

January

January 1 · Adunis, Syrian poet, writer and translator (born 1930)
January 1 · Gaafar Nimeiry, Sudanese President (1931-2009)
January 3 · Robert Loggia, American actor (1930–2015)
January 11 · Rod Taylor, Australian actor (1930-2015)
January 18 · Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Portuguese politician (1930–2004)
January 19 · Tippi Hedren, American actress, model and activist

February

February 1 · María Elena Walsh, Argentine author and composer
February 1 · Hussain Muhammad Ershad, President of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990 Former (6th) Army chief of Bangladesh
February 10 · Robert Wagner, American actor (born 1930)
February 11 · Mary Quant, British fashion designer (1930–2023)
February 17 · Ruth Rendell, British writer (1930-2015)
February 19 · John Frankenheimer, American film and television director (1930-2002)

March

March 2 · Tom Wolfe, American author and journalist (1930–2018)
March 9 · Ornette Coleman, American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer (1930–2015)
March 15 · Martin Karplus, Austrian-born American theoretical chemist (1930–2024)
March 19 · Lina Kostenko, Ukrainian writer
March 26 · Sandra Day O'Connor, American lawyer and jurist (1930–2023)
March 28 · Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist

April

April 11 · Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan; author of the Satanic Bible (1930-1997)
April 23 · Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (1930–1989)
April 24 · José Sarney, President of Brazil from 1985 to 1990
April 24 · Richard Donner, American film director (1930–2021)
April 28 · James Baker, American lawyer and statesman (born 1930)
April 29 · Jean Rochefort, French actor (1930–2017)

May

May 3 · Luce Irigaray, Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist (born 1930)
May 10 · George E. Smith, Nobel prize winning American physicist
May 21 · Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (1930-2015)
May 22 · Harvey Milk, American politician and gay rights activist (1930–1978)
May 27 · John Barth, American writer (1930–2024)
May 28 · Frank Drake, American astronomer and astrophysicist (1930–2022)

June

June 2 · Pete Conrad, American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–1999)
June 8 · Robert Aumann, Israeli-American mathematician
June 19 · Gena Rowlands, American actress (1930–2024)
June 24 · Claude Chabrol, French film director (1930–2010)
June 28 · Itamar Franco, Brazilian politician (1930-2011)
June 28 · William C. Campbell, Irish biochemist

July

July 2 · Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist (1930-2023)
July 3 · Carlos Kleiber, German-born Austrian conductor
July 7 · Tadao Kobayashi, Japanese association football player
July 11 · Harold Bloom, American literary critic, scholar, and writer (1930–2019)
July 15 · Stephen Smale, American mathematician
July 22 · Sonny Liston, American boxer (c. 1930–1970)

August

August 17 · Ted Hughes, English poet and children's writer (1930–1998)
August 19 · Frank McCourt, Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
August 21 · Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, British princess (1930–2002)
August 23 · Michel Rocard, French politician (1930–2016)
August 25 · Georgiy Daneliya, Soviet film director and screenwriter (1930–2019)
August 28 · Ben Gazzara, American actor (1930–2012)

September

September 5 · Ken Naganuma, Japanese association football player and manager (1930–2008)
September 7 · Sonny Rollins, American jazz saxophonist and composer (1930–2026)
September 12 · Akira Suzuki, Japanese chemist (1930 - )
September 17 · Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (1930-2016)
September 24 · John Young, American astronaut, naval officer, test pilot and aeronautical engineer (1930–2018)
September 28 · Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist and economic historian (1930–2019)

October

October 1 · Philippe Noiret, French actor (1930–2006)
October 5 · Reinhard Selten, German economist (1930-2016)
October 10 · Yves Chauvin, French chemist (1930–2015)
October 24 · Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist and peace scholar
October 28 · Bernie Ecclestone, British business magnate (born 1930)
October 29 · Niki de Saint Phalle, plastician, painter and sculptor (1930–2002)

November

November 11 · Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist (1930-2017)
November 11 · Hugh Everett III, US physicist and discoverer of the relative-state interpretation of quantum mechanics
November 14 · Ed White, American astronaut (1930-1967)
November 15 · J. G. Ballard, British novelist (1930–2009)
November 22 · Owen K. Garriott, American electrical engineer and astronaut (1930-2019)
November 25 · Jan P. Syse, 31st Prime Minister of Norway

December

December 2 · Gary S. Becker, American economist (1930-2014)
December 11 · Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor (1930–2022)
December 15 · Edna O'Brien, Irish writer (1930–2024)
December 15 · Henri B. Kagan, French chemist
December 17 · Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor (born 1930)
December 31 · Odetta, American singer (1930–2008)

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