Born on March 30
March 30 birthdays & history
If you were born on March 30, you share a birthday with Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya and Celine Dion. March 30 babies are Aries, with aquamarine as their birthstone and the daffodil as their birth flower. March 30 is the 90th day of the year in leap years (89th in other years).
Famous people born on March 30
- 1853Vincent van Gogh, Dutch-French painter and illustrator
- 1746Francisco Goya, Spanish-French painter and sculptor
- 1968Celine Dion, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1432Mehmed the Conqueror, Ottoman sultan
- 1844Paul Verlaine, French poet
- 1945Eric Clapton, English guitarist and singer-songwriter
- 1986Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer
- 1811Robert Bunsen, German chemist and academic
- 1892Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician and academic
- 1979Norah Jones, American singer-songwriter and pianist
What happened on March 30
- 1730The Author's Farce, by Henry Fielding, premiered at the Little Theatre in London.
- 1818Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid.
- 1822The United States merged East Florida and West Florida to create the Florida Territory.
- 1822The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
- 1841The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.
- 1842Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
- 1863George I became King of the Hellenes.
- 1867U.S. secretary of state William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for US$7.2 million.
- 1900Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover the first clay tablet with hieroglyphic writing in a script later called Linear B.
- 1912Sultan Abd al-Hafid signed the Treaty of Fes, making Morocco a French protectorate.
- 1964Jeopardy!, the popular American game show created by Merv Griffin, made its debut on the NBC television network.
- 1977Annie Hall had its first screening at the LA Film Festival; it was voted the funniest screenplay ever by members of the Writers Guild of America.
Also observed on March 30
- Land Day (Palestine)
- National Doctors' Day (United States)
- Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
Questions, answered
What star sign is March 30?
People born on March 30 are Aries. Their birthstone is aquamarine and their birth flower is the daffodil.
Which famous people were born on March 30?
Vincent van Gogh (1853), Francisco Goya (1746), Celine Dion (1968), Mehmed the Conqueror (1432), Paul Verlaine (1844), Eric Clapton (1945) were all born on March 30.
What happened on March 30 in history?
Among other things: in 1912, Sultan Abd al-Hafid signed the Treaty of Fes, making Morocco a French protectorate; in 1964, Jeopardy!, the popular American game show created by Merv Griffin, made its debut on the NBC television network; in 1977, Annie Hall had its first screening at the LA Film Festival; it was voted the funniest screenplay ever by members of the Writers Guild of America.
Can I get a newspaper front page from March 30?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any March 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, “March 30”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.