1930

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1900s  1910s  1920s  – 1930s –  1940s  1950s  1960s
Years:	1927 1928 1929 – 1930 – 1931 1932 1933

1930 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1930 MCMXXX
Ab urbe condita	2683
Armenian calendar	1379 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԹ
Assyrian calendar	6680
Bahá'í calendar	86–87
Balinese saka calendar	1851–1852
Bengali calendar	1337
Berber calendar	2880
British Regnal year	20 Geo. 5 – 21 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2474
Burmese calendar	1292
Byzantine calendar	7438–7439
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4626 or 4566     — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4627 or 4567
Coptic calendar	1646–1647
Discordian calendar	3096
Ethiopian calendar	1922–1923
Hebrew calendar	5690–5691
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1986–1987
- Shaka Samvat	1851–1852
- Kali Yuga	5030–5031
Holocene calendar	11930
Igbo calendar	930–931
Iranian calendar	1308–1309
Islamic calendar	1348–1349
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 5 (昭和５年)
Javanese calendar	1860–1861
Juche calendar	19
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4263
Minguo calendar	ROC 19 民國19年
Nanakshahi calendar	462
Thai solar calendar	2472–2473
Tibetan calendar	阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 2056 or 1675 or 903     — to — 阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 2057 or 1676 or 904

1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1930th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 930th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1930s decade.

Events

• November 2 – Haile Selassie became King of Ethiopia
• The Trumpov Building is built in New York City which is at the time the world's tallest building
• The Chrysler Building surpasses The Trumpov Building and also claims world's tallest building

Births

January

• January 3 - Robert Loggia, American actor (died 2015)
• January 10 - Roy E. Disney, American businessman (died 2009)
• January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut
• January 30 – Gene Hackman, American actor

February

• February 10 – Robert Wagner, American actor
• February 19
  • John Frankenheimer, American movie director (died 2002)
  • Milenko Stefanovic, Serbian clarinet player

March

• March 7
  • Robert D. Cardona, American model-maker
  • Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Lord Snowdon, British photographer and member of the British Royal Family from 1960 to 1978
• March 22 – Pat Robertson, American preacher and television host
• March 24 – Steve McQueen, American actor (died 1980)
• March 26 – Sandra Day O'Connor, US Supreme Court justice
• March 30 – Rolf Harris, Australian born- British cartoonist, singer and television presenter

April

• April 3 – Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany
• April 7 – Andrew Sachs, German born-British actor
• April 13 - Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian movie director (died 2013)
• April 15 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, 4th President of Iceland
• April 28 - James Baker, former United States Secretary of State

May

• May 8 – Gary Snyder, American writer
• May 9 – Joan Sims, British comedy actress (died 2001)
• May 13 – Mike Gravel, former US Senator from Alaska (died 2021)
• May 14 – Ali La Pointe, Algerian revolutionary
• May 21 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia
• May 29 – Jack Catain Jr., American businessman and convicted criminal (d. 1987)
• May 31 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, producer

June

• June 1 – Edward Woodward, British actor (died 2009)

July

• July 2 – Carlos Menem, President of Argentina (died 2021)
• July 4
  • Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet – Armenian actor (died 1993)
  • Johnny Saxton, American boxer
• July 7 – Lord Wyn Roberts of Conwy, Welsh politician (died 2013)
• July 30 – Captain Lou Albano, Italian born-American professional wrestler and manager (died 2009)

August

• August 1 - Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat (died 2011)
• August 5 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut (died 2012)
• August 8 – Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, Bengali Mother of the Nation (died 1975)
• August 10 - Barry Unsworth, British writer (died 2012)
• August 14 - Earl Weaver, American baseball manager (died 2013)
• August 21 – Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (died 2002)
• August 25 – Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor (died 2020)
• August 28
  • Windsor Davies, Welsh comedy actor (died 2019)
  • Ben Gazzara, American actor (died 2012)
• August 30 - Warren Buffett, American businessman

September

• September 7
  • Baudouin I, King of Belgium (died 1993)
  • Sonny Rollins, American musician
• September 23 – Ray Charles, American singer and musician (died 2004)
• September 29 - Colin Dexter, British writer

October

• October 1
  • Richard Harris, Irish actor and singer (died 2002)
  • Philippe Noiret, French actor (died 2006)
• October 6 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (died 2000)
• October 10 - Harold Pinter, British playwright (died 2008)
• October 14 - Mobutu Sese Seko, leader of Zaire (died 1998)
• October 28 - Bernie Ecclestone, British racing executive
• October 31 - Michael Collins, American astronaut (died 2021)

November

• November 14 – Michael Robbins, English actor (died 1992)
• November 15 - J. G. Ballard, British writer (died 2009)
• November 16 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (died 2013)

December

• December 1 – Matt Monro, British singer (died 1985)
• December 2 - Gary Becker, American economist
• December 8 - Maximilian Schell, Swiss-Austrian actor (died 2014)
• December 17 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor

Deaths

• March 8 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• March 19 – Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
• July 7 – Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer and doctor (b. 1859)
• September 29 - Ilya Repin, Ukrainian painter (b. 1844)
• October 26 – Mary Harrison McKee, American First Lady, daughter of Benjamin Harrison (b. 1858)
• after November 2 - Alfred Wegener, German geologist (b. 1880)
• November 22 - Paul Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)

Movies released

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Little Caesar

Nobel Prizes

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Karl Landsteiner, Austrian doctor, (1868 – 1943)