1930

1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar.

• 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)