1930

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.

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

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

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

• 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 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 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 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 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 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

• 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)

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Little Caesar

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