October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 62 days remaining until the end of the year.
Famous people born on 30 Oct
1218 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)
1513 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (d. 1593)
1624 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693)
1735 - John Adams, President of the United States (d. 1826)
1751 - Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright (d. 1816)
1762 - André Chénier, French writer (d. 1794)
1786 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871)
1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
1839 - Alfred Sisley, French artist (d. 1899)
1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
1847 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
1861 - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
1871 - Paul Valery, French poet (d. 1945)
1881 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941)
1882 - William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (d. 1959)
1882 - Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d. 1944)
1885 - Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
1886 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
1893 - Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945)
1894 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977)
1895 - Gerhard Domagk, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1895 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1896 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
1896 - Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
1897 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
1900 - Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1908 - Patsy Montana, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
1909 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
1911 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
1914 - Richard E Holz, American composer
1915 - Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
1917 - Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (d. 1994)
1928 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
1930 - Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)
1930 - Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956)
1932 - Louis Malle, French film director (d. 1995)
1934 - Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician
1935 - Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer
1935 - Michael Winner, British film director
1935 - Robert Caro, American biographer
1937 - Claude Lelouch, French film director
1939 - Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1939 - Grace Slick, American singer (Jefferson Airplane)
1939 - Edward Holland, Jr., American singer
1940 - Ed Lauter, American actor
1941 - Otis Williams, American singer
1943 - Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
1945 - Henry Winkler, American actor
1947 - Timothy B. Schmit, American musician (Eagles)
1948 - Rusty Goffe, British actor
1951 - Harry Hamlin, American actor
1953 - Charles Martin Smith, American actor
1956 - Juliet Stevenson, English actress
1957 - Kevin Pollak, American actor
1957 - Andy Archer, Scottish dramatist
1958 - Stefan Dennis, Australian actor
1960 - Diego Armando Maradona, Argentine footballer
1962 - Courtney Walsh, West Indian cricketer
1963 - Michael Beach, American actor
1963 - Kristina Wagner, American actress
1966 - Scott Innes, American voice actor
1967 - Gavin Rossdale, English musician
1968 - Jack Plotnick, American actor
1969 - Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer
1970 - Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer
1970 - Nia Long, American actress
1971 - Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and singer
1973 - Silvia Corzo, Colombian newscaster
1977 - Jason Adelman, American actor
1979 - Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
1980 - Sarah Carter, Canadian actress
1981 - Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
Events
1502 - Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut for the second time.
1918 - The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
1922 - Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
1925 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
1941 - World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
1960 - Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1975 - Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
1985 - Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
1987 - In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.
2007 - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay at 08:04:54 PM (PDT) local time.
2007 - NASA to lead project aiming for human outpost on the moon more
