The Birthday Gazette

Born on September 30

September 30 birthdays & history

If you were born on September 30, you share a birthday with Monica Bellucci, Elie Wiesel and Truman Capote. September 30 babies are Libra, with sapphire as their birthstone and the aster as their birth flower. September 30 is the 274th day of the year in leap years (273rd in other years).

Famous people born on September 30

  • 1964Monica Bellucci, Italian actress and fashion model
  • 1928Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1924Truman Capote, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
  • 1997Max Verstappen, Dutch race car driver
  • 1975Marion Cotillard, French actress and singer
  • 1986Olivier Giroud, French footballer
  • 1870Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1945Ehud Olmert, Israeli lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Israel
  • 1980Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
  • 1921Deborah Kerr, Scottish-English actress

What happened on September 30

  • 1791Mozart conducted the premiere of his last opera, The Magic Flute, in Vienna.
  • 1863Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
  • 1882The Vulcan Street Plant in Appleton, Wisconsin, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, went online.
  • 1895Friedrich Nietzsche finished writing The Antichrist, with the 7 propositions Law Against Christianity, marked by him as a Day of Salvation, Day and Year 1 of a new calendar.
  • 1906The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, is established in La Coruña, Spain.
  • 1909The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
  • 1920Times Square Theater opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar Selwyn.
  • 1935The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
  • 1936American journalists Herbert R. Ekins, reporter for the New York World-Telegram, Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of The New York Times start the race to travel around the world on commercial airline flights. The race takes 18 ½ days.
  • 1939NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.
  • 1982Cheers, an American television sitcom, debuted with its pilot episode on NBC.
  • 1998The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses in the Internet, was incorporated.

Also observed on September 30

  • Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
  • Birth of Morelos (Mexico)
  • Boy's Day (Poland)
  • International Translation Day (International Federation of Translators)
  • National Day for Truth and Reconciliation or Orange Shirt Day (Canada)

Questions, answered

What star sign is September 30?

People born on September 30 are Libra. Their birthstone is sapphire and their birth flower is the aster.

Which famous people were born on September 30?

Monica Bellucci (1964), Elie Wiesel (1928), Truman Capote (1924), Max Verstappen (1997), Marion Cotillard (1975), Olivier Giroud (1986) were all born on September 30.

What happened on September 30 in history?

Among other things: in 1939, NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets; in 1982, Cheers, an American television sitcom, debuted with its pilot episode on NBC; in 1998, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses in the Internet, was incorporated.

Can I get a newspaper front page from September 30?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any September 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, “September 30”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.