On This Day — December 30
3617 noted people were born and 2023 died on December 30 in our archive, including Antonio Pappano, John Milne and Yuen Kwok-yung.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on December 30
Antonio Pappano
b. 1959
John Milne
1850 – 1913
Yuen Kwok-yung
b. 1956
Albert de Lapparent
1839 – 1908
Andrew Ranicki
1948 – 2018
Barksdale Hamlett
1908 – 1979
Bartosz Arłukowicz
b. 1971
Bernard Clerfayt
b. 1961
David R. Nygren
b. 1938
Deborah M. Gordon
b. 1955
Eikō Kaneta
1942 – 2022
Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski
1888 – 1974
Faouzia Charfi
b. 1941
Fernando Ledesma Bartret
b. 1939
François-André Vincent
1746 – 1816
Helge Ingstad
1899 – 2001
Horace Engdahl
b. 1948
Janko Prunk
b. 1942
Jerry Coyne
b. 1949
John N. Bahcall
1934 – 2005
Josef Bohuslav Foerster
1859 – 1951
João Tamagnini Barbosa
1883 – 1948
Kersti Kaljulaid
b. 1969
Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka
1929 – 1997
Mike Pompeo
b. 1963
Norman I. Platnick
1951 – 2020
Olikoye Ransome-Kuti
1927 – 2003
Otto Ruff
1871 – 1939
Persis Drell
b. 1955
Randy Schekman
b. 1948
Sean Hannity
b. 1961
Sergei Korolev
1906 – 1966
Shigeru Mizohata
1924 – 2002
Stanisław Saks
1897 – 1942
Theodor Fontane
1819 – 1898
Tu Youyou
b. 1930
Adolphe Max
1869 – 1939
Akhtar Imam
1917 – 2009
Akosua Busia
b. 1966
Alexander Bugge
1870 – 1929
Alexander Pomerantsev
1849 – 1918
Andrew Likierman
b. 1943
András Róna-Tas
b. 1931
Anna Pieńkosz
b. 1976
Anne Reemann
b. 1962
Antoine Pinay
1891 – 1994
Antonios Mikos
b. 1960
Archie Hamilton, Baron Hamilton of Epsom
b. 1941
Arrmanatha Nasir
b. 1971
Arvils Ašeradens
b. 1962
Ato Boldon
b. 1973
Bill English
b. 1961
Bjarne Stroustrup
b. 1950
C. Y. Lee
b. 1938
Charles E. Young
1931 – 2023
Charles Fries
b. 1962
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond
1870 – 1935
Charles Yorke
1722 – 1770
Corrado Passera
b. 1954
Cécile La Grenade
b. 1952
David M. Shoup
1904 – 1983
Diego Della Valle
b. 1953
Eckart Viehweg
1948 – 2010
Edita Hrdá
b. 1963
Edward Bolitho
b. 1955
Edward Ellington
1877 – 1967
Elbridge Colby
b. 1979
Emin Amrullayev
b. 1982
Ernesto Pernia
b. 1943
Ernst Georg Ravenstein
1834 – 1913
Eva Åkesson
b. 1961
Francis Brinkley
1841 – 1912
Gerard Schouw
b. 1965
Gilmar Mendes
b. 1955
Glenda Adams
1939 – 2007
Graham Vick
1953 – 2021
Hans Ussing
1911 – 2000
Heather Wilson
b. 1960
Henri Ciriani
1936 – 2025
Hermann David Weber
1823 – 1918
Hermogenes Ebdane
b. 1948
Hideki Tojo
1884 – 1948
Honoria Acosta-Sison
1888 – 1970
Ilse Fromm-Michaels
1888 – 1986
Ināra Mūrniece
b. 1970
Irma Vitovska
b. 1974
Jack Lord
1920 – 1998
Jacques Seydoux
1870 – 1929
Janet T. Mills
b. 1947
Jean-Jacques Nattiez
b. 1945
Jean-Pierre Bel
b. 1951
Jessalyn Gilsig
b. 1967
Jim Flaherty
1949 – 2014
John Houghton
1931 – 2020
John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset
b. 1952
Jonas Jablonskis
1860 – 1930
Jonathan Rosenberg
b. 1951
Joseph Toynbee
1815 – 1866
José Pedro Pérez-Llorca
1940 – 2019
José Santiago Rodríguez Zorrilla
1752 – 1832
Jozef IJsewijn
1932 – 1998
Judith Aitken
b. 1937
Kalle Kasemaa
b. 1942
Kate Zambreno
b. 1977
Kenneth Murray
1930 – 2013
Luís da Câmara Cascudo
1898 – 1986
Marielle Smith
b. 1986
Marijke van Beukering-Huijbregts
b. 1971
Marnie Barrell
b. 1952
Marty Meehan
b. 1956
Max C. Starkloff
1858 – 1942
Michael Dively
b. 1938
Nicolae Giosan
1921 – 1990
Oleksandr Sviatotskyi
b. 1953
Olexander Liashko
1915 – 2002
Olivier Giscard d'Estaing
1927 – 2021
Parris H. Chang
1936 – 2023
Pasha Angelina
1912 – 1959
Paul Bowles
1910 – 1999
Pavał Sieviaryniec
b. 1976
Pekka Myrberg
1892 – 1976
Reinhold Glière
1874 – 1956
Richard Grenier
1933 – 2002
Richard M. Durbin
b. 1960
Robert G. Lahita
b. 1945
Robert M. Goodman
b. 1945
Roberto Venturini
b. 1960
Rodney Brooks
b. 1954
Rolando Chuaqui
1935 – 1994
Romain Garnier
b. 1976
Roy Yorke Calne
1930 – 2024
Russell A. Rourke
1931 – 2003
Sabina Magliocco
b. 1959
Sabine Kunst
b. 1954
Sam Fay
1856 – 1953
Sergio Bitar
b. 1940
Sergio Doplicher
1940 – 2025
Sir Trevor Lawrence, 2nd Baronet
1831 – 1913
Sjur Refsdal
1935 – 2009
Stephen E. Calvert
b. 1935
Stephen Jaffe
b. 1954
Stephen Leacock
1869 – 1944
Sverker Åström
1915 – 2012
Sylvester Jordan
1792 – 1861
Tara Cheyne
b. 1986
Toomas Savi
b. 1942
Vladimir Bukovsky
1942 – 2019
Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch
1894 – 1973
William Aberhart
1878 – 1943
William J. Fallon
b. 1944
William Randolph Lovelace II
1907 – 1965
Wu Yuzhang
1878 – 1966
Yevdokiya Pasko
1919 – 2017
Yvonne Brill
1924 – 2013
Zoé Whitley
b. 1979
Éric Teyssier
b. 1962
Aamer Anwar
b. 1967
Abbas Zakour
b. 1965
Adam Neylon
b. 1984
Adaora Udoji
b. 1968
Ahmad Fuadi
b. 1972
Ahmed III
1673 – 1736
Al Smith
1873 – 1944
Alain Testart
1945 – 2013
Alan Eggleston
1941 – 2025
Alessandra Mussolini
b. 1962
Alessandro Mazzucotelli
1865 – 1938
Alexander Nicolaus Scherer
1771 – 1824
Alexander Tikhmenev
1879 – 1959
Alfred Einstein
1880 – 1952
Alfredo Rosende Verdugo
1898 – 1951
Ali Lmrabet
b. 1959
Alison McGovern
b. 1980
Alister Henskens
b. 1963
Anatoly Logunov
1926 – 2015
Andra Day
b. 1984
Andreea Marin
b. 1974
Andrew Dolkart
b. 1951
Andrew Stark
1916 – 2006
André Capron
1930 – 2020
André Messager
1853 – 1929
Apolline Dreyfuss
b. 1986
Archibald Strong
1876 – 1930
Arturo Droguett del Fierro
1906 – 1977
Ashley Zukerman
b. 1983
Barry Greenstein
b. 1954
Batyn Batbaatar
b. 1973
Ben Johnson
b. 1961
Ben Witherington III
b. 1951
Benjamin Rabier
1864 – 1939
Bernard Barrow
1927 – 1993
Betty Aberlin
b. 1942
Beverly M. Earle
b. 1943
Bill Logan
1934 – 2018
Bjarni Thorarensen
1786 – 1841
Bruno Canino
b. 1935
C. D. Broad
1887 – 1971
C. J. Wilcox
b. 1990
Carl-Göran Ekerwald
1923 – 2025
Carlo Renaldini
1615 – 1698
… and 3,417 more
Died on December 30
Bert Bolin
1925 – 2007
Philip Hall
1904 – 1982
Rita Levi-Montalcini
1909 – 2012
Alexander Dickson
1836 – 1887
Antonio Brack Egg
1940 – 2014
Carl Woese
1928 – 2012
Eleanor J. Gibson
1910 – 2002
Eliakim Hastings Moore
1862 – 1932
Fraser Stoddart
1942 – 2024
George Eulas Foster
1847 – 1931
Giuseppe Occhialini
1907 – 1993
Ivan Alekseevich Dvigubski
1771 – 1839
James Paget
1814 – 1899
Khachim Karmokov
1941 – 2023
Luboš Kohoutek
1935 – 2023
Nelson Harding
1879 – 1944
Neville Henderson
1882 – 1942
Robert A. Frosch
1928 – 2020
Romain Rolland
1866 – 1944
Trygve Lie
1896 – 1968
William Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill
1893 – 1965
Abdurrahman Wahid
1940 – 2009
Abraham Ginzburg
1926 – 2020
Adam White
1817 – 1878
Adolf Henryk Silberschein
1882 – 1951
Aleksander Kakowski
1862 – 1938
Alexey Kurakin
1759 – 1829
Alfons Hoffmann
1895 – 1963
Alfred Heurtaux
1893 – 1985
Alfred North Whitehead
1861 – 1947
Aliaksandar Ćvikievič
1888 – 1937
Andrés Soriano
1898 – 1964
Archduke Eugen of Austria
1863 – 1954
Augusto Del Noce
1910 – 1989
Augustus Agar
1890 – 1968
Barbara Walters
1929 – 2022
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
1933 – 2025
Charles Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel
1933 – 2019
Christian Herter
1895 – 1966
Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger
1803 – 1863
Danilo Dolci
1924 – 1997
David Duncan
1831 – 1886
Douglas J.J. Peters
1963 – 2023
Edmond Buat
1868 – 1923
Ellis Clarke
1917 – 2010
Era Bell Thompson
1905 – 1986
Eric Teed
1926 – 2010
Eugène Crosti
1833 – 1908
Fritz von Miller
1840 – 1921
Félix Raugel
1881 – 1975
Gaston Eugene Marie Bonnier
1853 – 1922
George Farwell
1845 – 1915
Gjergj Fishta
1871 – 1940
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
1885 – 1964
Heinrich Scholz
1884 – 1956
Henri Büsser
1872 – 1973
Howard C. Berg
1934 – 2021
Hugo Laur
1893 – 1977
Héctor Timerman
1953 – 2018
James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose
1755 – 1836
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose
1799 – 1874
Jan Prüffer
1890 – 1959
Jean Baptiste Boisduval
1799 – 1879
Jo Cals
1914 – 1971
John Flateau
1950 – 2023
John I. Yellott
1908 – 1986
Jorge Lanata
1960 – 2024
Josef Krainer junior
1930 – 2016
José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca
1728 – 1808
Juan Prim, 1st Marquis of los Castillejos
1814 – 1870
Judith Ortiz Cofer
1952 – 2016
Khalid Shameem Wynne
1953 – 2017
Kim Geun-tae
1947 – 2011
Kim Soo-han
1928 – 2024
Kirill Meretskov
1897 – 1968
Konstantin Vershinin
1900 – 1973
Kuzma Derevyanko
1904 – 1954
La Vern E. Weber
1923 – 1999
Ludwig Elster
1856 – 1935
Luke McNamee
1871 – 1952
Mabel Miller
1906 – 1978
Macario Peralta, Jr.
1913 – 1965
Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre
1806 – 1879
Martin “John” M. Atalla
1924 – 2009
Mihail Manoilescu
1891 – 1950
Mikhail Somov
1908 – 1973
Mrinal Sen
1923 – 2018
Mykola Zaludyak
1941 – 2010
Neal Macrossan
1889 – 1955
Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison
1559 – 1630
Oswald Külpe
1862 – 1915
Piero Sacerdoti
1905 – 1966
Prosper Grech
1925 – 2019
Reinhard Mecke
1895 – 1969
Robert Wipper
1859 – 1954
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
1860 – 1935
Saddam Hussein
1937 – 2006
Shmuel Toledano
1921 – 2022
Sibusiso Bengu
1934 – 2024
Syd Mead
1933 – 2019
Timothy S. Healy
1923 – 1992
Tyrus Wong
1910 – 2016
Vasily Starodubtsev
1931 – 2011
Vikram Sarabhai
1919 – 1971
Vincent Massey
1887 – 1967
Walker Hancock
1901 – 1998
Yevgeny Fyodorov
1910 – 1981
A. Felix du Pont, Jr.
1905 – 1996
Aarnoud van Heemstra
1871 – 1957
Abbas Uddin
1901 – 1959
Ada Wright
1861 – 1939
Alejandro Llorente y Lannas
1814 – 1901
Alexander Bannerman
1788 – 1864
Alexander Hamilton, Jr.
1816 – 1889
Alfred Inselberg
1936 – 2019
Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter
1852 – 1912
Amelia Bloomer
1818 – 1894
Amos Fries
1873 – 1963
Angelina Beloff
1879 – 1969
Anne Marie Staub
1914 – 2012
Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac
1739 – 1798
Antoniotto Botta Adorno
1688 – 1774
Antony Lambton
1922 – 2006
Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen
1856 – 1936
Arend Langenberg
1949 – 2012
Artie Shaw
1910 – 2004
Baken Kydykeyeva
1923 – 1993
Balasaheb Vikhe Patil
1932 – 2016
Beate Sirota Gordon
1923 – 2012
Benjamin K. Phelps
1832 – 1880
Benjamin M. Golder
1891 – 1946
Benno Baginsky
1848 – 1919
Brian Glencross
1941 – 2022
Bruce Hale
1918 – 1980
Butler B. Hare
1875 – 1967
Carlos Padrós
1870 – 1950
Charles Daniélou
1878 – 1953
Charles Palmer Nott
1872 – 1954
Charles du Bois de Vroylande
1835 – 1888
Chester David Hartranft
1839 – 1914
Chula Chakrabongse
1908 – 1963
Cleveland Dear
1888 – 1950
Clinton Clauson
1895 – 1959
Dawn Wells
1938 – 2020
Dezső Garas
1934 – 2011
Dmitri Ivanenko
1904 – 1994
Dono
1951 – 2001
Doris Edna Fales
Dorothy Popenoe
1899 – 1932
Doug Atkins
1930 – 2015
Eduardo Ugarte
1900 – 1955
Elene Akhvlediani
1898 – 1975
Elsi Borg
1893 – 1958
Ernest Henri Dubois
1863 – 1930
Eugene Peyton Deatrick
1924 – 2020
Eugeniu Stătescu
1836 – 1905
Evelyn Fix
1904 – 1965
Felice Napoleone Canevaro
1838 – 1926
Francis Burton Craige
1811 – 1875
Francis Lewis
1713 – 1803
Francisco de Enzinas
1518 – 1552
Franjo Šeper
1905 – 1981
Frank Atkinson
1924 – 2014
Frank Butner Clay
1921 – 2006
Frank Gaines Harris
1871 – 1944
Frank Steunenberg
1861 – 1905
Friedrich Matz
1843 – 1874
George Basden
1873 – 1944
George Henslow
1835 – 1925
George Howard Earle III
1890 – 1974
George Stone
1946 – 1993
Gian Matteo Giberti
1495 – 1543
Giovanni Battista Giraldi
1504 – 1573
Gopala Krushna Rath
1945 – 2016
Grace L. Drake
1926 – 2020
Gustaf Nyström
1856 – 1917
Göte Turesson
1892 – 1970
Habib Bey Salimov
1881 – 1920
Hans Niels Andersen
1852 – 1937
Hector Charlesworth
1872 – 1945
Hendrik Klopper
1903 – 1977
Henri Lucien Doucet
1856 – 1895
Henry Luesing Brooks
1905 – 1971
Henry Percy, Earl Percy
1871 – 1909
Henry Winter Davis
1817 – 1865
Henry Yule
1820 – 1889
Heqin Chen
1892 – 1982
Hirakushi Denchū
1872 – 1979
Howard Davis
1956 – 2015
Howard Pawley
1934 – 2015
Humphrey Bennet
1605 – 1667
Hunter Liggett
1857 – 1935
Huston Smith
1919 – 2016
Innocent IX
1519 – 1591
Ion G. Duca
1879 – 1933
Isamu Noguchi
1904 – 1988
Jacquie Sturm
1927 – 2009
James C. Corman
1920 – 2000
Jamshid bin Abdullah Al Busaidi
1929 – 2024
Jan Baptist van Helmont
1577 – 1644
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