Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 30
Births
[edit]- 1377 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
- 1720 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)
- 1748 - Jacques-Louis David, (pictured) French painter (d. 1825)
- 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
- 1821 - Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters) (d. 1849)
- 1871 - Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1937)
- 1893 - Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
- 1930 - Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur
- 1943 - Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
- 1954 - Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
- 1972 - Cameron Diaz, American actress
- 1982 - Andy Roddick, American tennis player
Deaths
[edit]- 526 - Theodoric the Great (b. 454)
- 1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
- 1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632)
- 1938 - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
- 1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
- 1963 - Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
- 2003 - Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
- 2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
- 2006 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)