Born on August 30
August 30 birthdays & history
If you were born on August 30, you share a birthday with Ernest Rutherford, Alexander Lukashenko and Warren Buffett. August 30 babies are Virgo, with peridot as their birthstone and the gladiolus as their birth flower. August 30 is the 243rd day of the year in leap years (242nd in other years).
Famous people born on August 30
- 1871Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1954Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian marshal and politician, 1st President of Belarus
- 1930Warren Buffett, American businessman and philanthropist
- 1797Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright
- 1972Cameron Diaz, American model, actress, and producer
- 1852Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1958Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and activist
- 1748Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator
- 1912Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1982Andy Roddick, American tennis player
What happened on August 30
- 1574Guru Ram Das became the fourth of the Sikh gurus, the spiritual masters of Sikhism.
- 1594King James VI of Scotland held a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry, his first child.
- 1835Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
- 1836The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.
- 1909Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
- 1916Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
- 1936The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
- 1940The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
- 1959Writer and politician Abdul Muis became the first person to be awarded the posthumous title of National Hero of Indonesia.
- 1963The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
- 1967Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice.
- 1984Discovery, the third orbiter of NASA's Space Shuttle program, lifted off on its maiden voyage from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Also observed on August 30
- Constitution Day (Kazakhstan)
- Constitution Day (Turks and Caicos Islands)
- Independence Day (Tatarstan, Russia not formally recognized)
- International Day of the Disappeared
- International Whale Shark Day
- Popular Consultation Day (East Timor)
Questions, answered
What star sign is August 30?
People born on August 30 are Virgo. Their birthstone is peridot and their birth flower is the gladiolus.
Which famous people were born on August 30?
Ernest Rutherford (1871), Alexander Lukashenko (1954), Warren Buffett (1930), Mary Shelley (1797), Cameron Diaz (1972), Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852) were all born on August 30.
What happened on August 30 in history?
Among other things: in 1963, The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation; in 1967, Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice; in 1984, Discovery, the third orbiter of NASA's Space Shuttle program, lifted off on its maiden voyage from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Can I get a newspaper front page from August 30?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any August 30 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “August 30”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.