50+ Celebrities Born on August 30
August 30 has been a special day in the world of glitz and glamour, marking the birthdays of several celebrities and historical figures both living and deceased who have left their mark on entertainment. From Hollywood stars, such as Cameron Diaz and Peggy Lipton, to music maestros, like Bebe Rexha, to sports stars, like Andy Roddick, this list celebrates those famous faces born on this late summer day. Whether they're known for blockbuster movies, chart-topping hits, or groundbreaking performances, each has contributed uniquely to the cultural landscape. Here’s a look at some well-known personalities who share this birthday, shedding light on how they've influenced their respective fields and why they continue to captivate fans around the globe.
- Cameron Diaz, born on August 30, 1972, in San Diego, California, is a renowned Hollywood actress who has made a significant impact within the global film industry. She began her career as a model at the tender age of 16, working for elite agencies such as Elite Model Management. Diaz's modeling career took her around the world, giving her exposure to different cultures and experiences. Her first break in acting came unexpectedly when she auditioned for The Mask, opposite Jim Carrey, despite having no previous acting experience. The film was a box office hit, propelling her into stardom and setting the stage for an illustrious acting career. Diaz's charm, comedic timing, and versatility set her apart from her contemporaries. Over the course of her career, she has showcased her talent in a wide range of genres, from comedy to drama, and has worked with some of the most respected directors in Hollywood. Some of her most notable performances include roles in There's Something About Mary, Charlie's Angels, and Vanilla Sky. Diaz's performance in Being John Malkovich earned her a Golden Globe nomination, solidifying her status as one of Hollywood's top actresses. Despite her success in the film industry, Diaz has never allowed herself to be boxed into a single role. In addition to acting, she is also a successful author and environmental activist. Her book, The Body Book: Feed, Move, Understand and Love Your Amazing Body, co-written with Sandra Bark, became a New York Times bestseller, demonstrating her ability to captivate audiences beyond the silver screen. As an environmentalist, Diaz is committed to raising awareness about environmental issues and advocating for sustainable living.
- Birthplace: San Diego, California, USA
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- Lewis Black, born on August 30, 1948, is a renowned American comedian, author, playwright, social critic, and actor. His comedic style, characterized by his trademark angry face and simulated mental breakdowns, has been delighting audiences for decades. Black's humor centers around satirizing a wide range of topics including history, politics, religion, and cultural trends. Black was born and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. He developed an interest in theatre during his time at the University of North Carolina, where he earned a degree in playwriting. Following this, Black further honed his skills at the prestigious Yale School of Drama. He spent several years as a playwright before transitioning to stand-up comedy in the 1980s. This shift marked the beginning of his successful career in the entertainment industry, spanning numerous HBO specials, Grammy Awards, and regular appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In addition to his extensive work in stand-up comedy, Black has also made significant contributions to literature. He authored three best-selling books that were well-received both critically and commercially. Moreover, his voice-over work in animated films, notably Pixar's Inside Out, further expanded his repertoire. Black's varied career underscores his versatility and talent, making him a significant figure in American entertainment. Despite his often caustic humor and abrasive stage persona, Lewis Black remains an influential and respected figure, using his platform to provoke thought and inspire laughter.
- Birthplace: Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
- Margaret Ann "Peggy" Lipton was born on Aug. 30, 1946, in New York City, NY. Upon moving with her family to Los Angeles in 1964, a teenage Lipton kicked off what would become a long career on the small screen. Her earliest roles took form as one-off appearances on sitcoms like "Bewitched" (ABC 1964-1972) and "The John Forsythe Show" (NBC 1965-66). After only a few short years playing minor roles, Lipton landed a starring position on the crime drama series "The Mod Squad" (ABC 1968-1973). Lipton played Julie Barnes, runaway-turned-undercover cop and one third of an elite crime-fighting troupe completed by Clarence Williams III and Michael Cole. Alongside her role on the show, Lipton made her film debut in the western "Blue" (1968), and also pioneered a singing career. She turned out an eponymous album in 1968, as well as additional successful numbers like "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" (1970). In 1974, after the conclusion of "The Mod Squad," Lipton married renowned musician and record producer Quincy Jones Jr., subsequently withdrawing from acting in order to raise a family. She gave birth to fashion designer Kidada Jones that same year, and actress and writer Rashida Jones in 1976. Lipton returned to television upon accepting a role in David Lynch's paranormal mystery drama series "Twin Peaks" (ABC 1990-91); she played acerbic diner owner Norma Jennings and star-crossed love interest of Everett McGill's character Big Ed. Following the short but resonant run of the program, Lipton appeared in films like "The Postman" (1997), "Jackpot" (2001), and "When in Rome" (2010). She also appeared on daughter Rashida Jones' comedy series "Angie Tribeca" (TBS 2016-19), playing her mother, Peggy Tribeca. After returning to her role as Norma Jennings in the revival of "Twin Peaks" (Showtime 2017), Lipton appeared in the film "A Dog's Purpose" (2017), her final screen role. Peggy Lipton died of colon cancer on May 11, 2019 at the age of 72.
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
- Andrew Stephen Roddick (born August 30, 1982) is an American former world No. 1 professional tennis player. Roddick became world No. 1 shortly after he won the title at the 2003 US Open, defeating French Open champion Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final and overtaking him as the top-ranked player in the process. Despite several more years as one of the world's best players, the 2003 US Open title would remain his only Grand Slam triumph. He is the most recent North American male player to win a Grand Slam singles event, reach the top ranking, and claim the year-end world No. 1 ranking (2003). Roddick reached four other Grand Slam finals (Wimbledon in 2004, 2005 and 2009, and the US Open in 2006), losing to nemesis Roger Federer every time. Roddick was ranked in the year end top-10 for nine consecutive years (2002-2010) and won five Masters Series titles in that period. He is married to Brooklyn Decker, a Sports Illustrated swimwear model and actress. On August 30, 2012, during the 2012 US Open and on his 30th birthday, Roddick announced that he would retire after the tournament. Following a fourth-round defeat by Juan Martín del Potro, the 2009 US Open champion, Roddick retired from the sport with the aim of focusing on his work at the Andy Roddick Foundation.In 2015, Roddick played for the Austin Aces in World Team Tennis. This was his eighth season in World Team Tennis and the fifth team for which he has played. He was also the 2015 Champion of the QQQ Champions Series; a feat that he repeated again in 2017.
- Birthplace: USA, Nebraska, Omaha
- Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams was an American Major League Baseball left fielder, and later manager. Williams played his entire 19-year major league career for the Boston Red Sox from 19391942 and 19461960. Nicknamed "The Kid", "The Splendid Splinter", "Teddy Ballgame", "The Thumper" and "The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived", Williams is regarded as one of the greatest hitters in baseball history.
- Birthplace: USA, California, San Diego
- Distinct and intense, actor Michael Chiklis spent years on the cusp of stardom before finally exploding onto the cultural landscape playing corrupt LAPD detective Vic Mackey on the hardcore cop drama, "The Shield" (FX, 2002-08). Prior to his portrayal of the reprehensible, but doggedly loyal Mackey, Chiklis bounced around episodic television and small features - including his first feature film "Wired" (1989), the controversial telling of comic John Belushi's tailspin into drugs up to his ultimately death. When he was only in his late twenties, Chiklis was cast as "The Commish" (ABC, 1991-95) on the likable cop drama about the chief of police in a New York state town who often solves his crimes in an unorthodox manner. While established as a bona fide, Emmy-winning television star on "The Shield," self-professed comic book fan Chiklis sought feature stardom by playing Ben Grimm/The Thing in "The Fantastic Four" (2005) and the sequel "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" (2007). Despite high-profile recognition in a summer popcorn movie, Chiklis was long revered for his turn as Vic Mackey, one of the most complicated and fascinating characters to have ever been created for series television.
- Birthplace: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
- A tough artist to pin down, singer/songwriter Bebe Rexha collaborated with artists from a broad range of styles including pop, country, and R&B, and initially earned as much success for her contributions to other people's records as she did for her own releases. She was born Bleta Rexha in Brooklyn, New York on August 30, 1989, and displayed an early musical aptitude, learning multiple instruments in her youth and singing in a choir. She began pursuing a career in music when she was still a teenager, and when she was barely out of her teens Rexha became part of Fall Out Boy singer Pete Wentz's side project Black Cards. But in 2013 she got herself a deal with Warner Bros. Before she even released her first solo record, though, Rexha was already writing tunes for major artists. She co-wrote "Like a Champion" for Selena Gomez, for instance, as well as "The Monster," which became a huge hit and Grammy winner for Eminem and Rihanna. Rexha scored a modest hit with her first solo single, 2014's "I Can't Stop Drinking About You." She also sang on Pitbull's "This Is Not a Drill" and David Guetta's Top 10 hit "Hey Mama." Rexha's debut EP, I Don't Wanna Grow Up, was released in 2015 but did not trouble the charts. Her duet with G-Eazy on his "When It's Dark Out," however, went Platinum five times over and hit the Top 10. Rexha released a pair of EPs in 2017, All Your Fault: Pts. 1 & 2, and "Meant to Be," a collaboration with country duo Florida Georgia Line from the second of those, became a No. 2 hit and a triple Platinum single, raising her profile higher than ever before. All of this occurred before Rexha even got around to releasing her first full LP, the aptly titled Expectations, which finally came out in 2018.
- Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
- It took only a single year to raise English actress Jessica Henwick from relative obscurity to global attention, thanks to a significant role on "Game of Thrones" (HBO, 2011- ) and in "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens" (2015). Born August 30, 1992 in Surrey, England, Henwick was the daughter of a British father and a Singaporean-Chinese mother, and spent much of her childhood traveling between the two countries. She received her initial training in performance at the Redroofs Theatre School and National Youth Theatre before making her television debut at the age of 16 on BBC Two's "Spirit Warriors" (2010- ). The children's adventure series, about a trio of Asian siblings who discover that they possess magical powers, was the first U.K. series to feature a predominately East Asian cast, and won critical praise as well as awards from several TV groups. When the show ran its course the following year, Henwick began a steady schedule of guest appearances on television series like Armando Ianucci's "The Thick of It" (BBC Four, 2005- ) and as activist and writer Jane Jeong Trenka on an episode of "Obsession: Dark Desires" (Investigation Discovery, 2014- ), which concerned incidents of stalking. After making her feature debut in the independent thriller "Dragonfly" in 2015, Henwick was vaulted to international attitude when she was cast as Nymeria Sand on the fifth season of "Game of Thrones." A member of a group of sisters known as the Sand Snakes, Nymeria is the illegitimate daughter of Prince Oberyn Martell (played by Pedro Pascel), and is frequently called with her siblings into plots against the Lannister family. That same year, she was also cast in an unnamed role in "The Force Awakens."
- Birthplace: Surrey, England, UK
- Unconventionally beautiful, gifted performer who appeared in over 80 films while maintaining a successful stage career. Blondell played a number of leads, secondary leads and, later, character parts, often as brassy but warm-hearted types; among her best known films are "Golddiggers of 1933" (1933), "Nightmare Alley" (1947) and "The Cincinatti Kid" (1965). She was married to cinematographer George Barnes (1933-35), actor Dick Powell (1936-45) and producer Mike Todd (1947-50).
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
- Warren Buffett, often referred to as the "Oracle of Omaha," is widely considered one of the most successful investors of all time. Born in Nebraska in 1930, Buffett demonstrated an early knack for business and investing, purchasing his first stock at the tender age of 11 and running a successful pinball machine business while still in high school. Buffett graduated from the University of Nebraska before earning a master's degree in economics from Columbia University, where he studied under renowned economist Benjamin Graham. Buffett's approach to investing is grounded in Graham's philosophy of value investing, which involves buying securities that appear underpriced by some form of fundamental analysis. Buffett applied these principles when he took control of Berkshire Hathaway, a struggling textile company, in 1965. Under his leadership, Berkshire Hathaway became a holding company for a multitude of investments that have consistently outpaced market averages. Buffett's astute investments in companies such as Coca-Cola, Gillette, and American Express have generated enormous wealth, making him one of the richest people in the world. Throughout his career, Buffett has been admired not only for his investment prowess but also for his down-to-earth personality and philanthropic endeavors. He has committed to giving away more than 99% of his fortune to philanthropic causes, primarily via the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This commitment led him to co-found The Giving Pledge with Bill Gates, an initiative encouraging billionaires to commit the majority of their wealth to charitable causes. Despite his immense wealth, Buffett is known for his frugality, residing in the same Omaha house that he purchased in 1958. His life and career embody his famous advice, "Price is what you pay, value is what you get."
- Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- Though most television viewers knew Lisa Ling from her 1999-2002 stint as co-host of "The View" (ABC, 1997- ), she first distinguished herself as an investigative reporter at age 15. She continued to do so as host of "National Geographic Explorer" (National Geographic Television, 1985- ), and as a special correspondent for "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (syndicated, 1986-2011), for which she traveled the globe and braved dangerous situations to spotlight humanitarian concerns like child trafficking in Ghana and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on the residents of New Orleans. From her first few months on "The View," it became apparent that this educated and passionate voice would need more than celebrity gossip to sustain her, and upon her departure Ling was inundated with offers to bring her journalistic talent to a wide range of television outlets.
- Birthplace: Sacramento, California, USA
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English writer who was known for writing "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein," "Young Frankenstein," and "Frankenstein."
- Birthplace: London, England, UK
- Actor Trevor Jackson was most commonly known for his roles in television dramas. Jackson made acting appearances on "Cold Case" (CBS, 2003-2010) and "Criminal Minds" (CBS, 2005-). Jackson also contributed music to the comedic adventure "Blue Crush" (2002) with Kate Bosworth. Several more television roles followed in the early 2000s and the 2010s, including stints on "Eureka" (2005-2012), "Austin & Ally" (Disney, 2011-16) and "American Crime" (ABC, 2014-17). His work around this time also included a part on the TV movie "Let It Shine" (Disney, 2011-12). Jackson also created music for "DOA: Dead or Alive" (2007). Most recently, Jackson acted on "K.C. Undercover" (Disney, 2014-).
- Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1999, the 45th anniversary year of the publication. Playboy magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.
- Birthplace: USA, Tacoma, Washington
- Gabriel Eugène Aubry (born August 30, 1976) is a Canadian model.
- Birthplace: Montreal, Canada
- John Edmund Andrew Phillips (August 30, 1935 – March 18, 2001) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and promoter of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Phillips was a member and leader of the vocal group The Mamas & the Papas.
- Birthplace: USA, South Carolina, Parris Island
- Frederique van der Wal (also Frédérique van der Wal) (born 30 August 1967) is a former model from The Netherlands, known for having appeared in Victoria's Secret, and the covers of magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Vogue. She grew up in The Hague.
- Birthplace: The Hague, Netherlands
- Clifton Phifer Lee (born August 30, 1978) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played for 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Between 2002 and 2014 he played for four teams, most notably the Philadelphia Phillies, before an elbow injury forced him into retirement. During his career, Lee was a member of four All-Star teams, won the Cy Young Award, and had consecutive World Series appearances in 2009 and 2010 with the Phillies and Texas Rangers.
- Birthplace: Benton, Arkansas
- For over four decades, actor Fred MacMurray embodied the Everyman in a string of popular comedies and musicals, including "Remember the Night" (1940) and "The Egg and I" (1947) as well as a series of well-loved Disney live-action films like "The Absent-Minded Professor" (1961) and the long-running family series "My Three Sons" (ABC/CBS, 1960-1972). A handsome, affable presence, he made an ideal onscreen romantic partner to some of Hollywood's biggest female stars, including Claudette Colbert and Carole Lombard. So believable was MacMurray as upstanding young men that it seemed unlikely that he could play anything else, a notion that was dispelled by his chilly turn as a doomed murderer in Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity" (1944). He proved equally successful in portraying the dark flipside to the Everyman, seduced by the lure of power, prestige and sex in "The Caine Mutiny" (1953) and Wilder's "The Apartment" (1960), though by the early 1960s, his status as America's favorite father figure was essentially complete. And if his versatility was often overshadowed by the vast number of audience-friendly pictures to his name, Fred MacMurray remained one of the screen's most likable personalities for decades, even long after his death in 1991.
- Birthplace: Kankakee, Illinois, USA
- Robert Parish (born August 30, 1953) is an American retired basketball center who played 21 seasons in the NBA, tied for the most in league history. He played an NBA-record 1,611 regular season games in his career. Parish was known for his strong defense, high arcing jump shots, and clutch rebounding late in games. Parish was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003. In 1996, Parish was also named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. His nickname was The Chief, after the fictitious Chief Bromden, a silent, giant Native American character in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. According to Parish, former Celtics forward Cedric Maxwell gave him this nickname because of his stoic nature.
- Birthplace: Shreveport, Louisiana
- Huey Pierce Long Jr. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and was a member of the United States Senate from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. As the political leader of Louisiana, he commanded wide networks of supporters and was willing to take forceful and dictatorial action. He established the long-term political dominance and dynasty of the Long family. During Long's years in power, large expansions were made in infrastructure, education and health care. Long was notable among southern politicians for avoiding race baiting and explicit white supremacy, and he sought to improve the conditions of impoverished blacks as well as impoverished whites. Under Long's leadership, hospitals and educational institutions were expanded, a system of charity hospitals was set up that provided health care for the poor, and massive highway construction and free bridges brought an end to rural isolation. A Democrat and an outspoken left-wing populist, Long denounced the wealthy urban Baton Rouge and D.C. elites, oligarchs and the banks. Initially a supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt during his first 100 days in office, Long eventually came to believe that Roosevelt's "New Deal" policies were an insufficient compromise and did not do enough to alleviate the issues of the poor or tackle the Depression. In time, he developed his own solution: the "Share Our Wealth" program, which would establish a net asset tax, the earnings of which would be redistributed so as to curb the poverty and homelessness epidemic nationwide during the Great Depression.Long's Share Our Wealth plan was established on February 23, 1934 with the motto "Every Man a King." To stimulate the economy, Long advocated federal spending on public works, schools and colleges, and old age pensions. Long argued that his plan would enable everyone to have at least a car, a radio, and a home worth $5,000.Long split with Roosevelt in June 1933 to plan his own presidential bid for 1936 in alliance with the influential Roman Catholic priest and far-right radio commentator Father Charles Coughlin. Long was assassinated in 1935, and his national movement soon faded, but his legacy continued in Louisiana through his wife, Senator Rose McConnell Long; his son, Senator Russell B. Long; and his brothers, Earl Kemp Long and George S. Long, as well as several other more distant relatives. He remains a controversial figure in Louisiana history.
- Birthplace: Winnfield, Louisiana, USA
- Adam Parrish Wainwright (born August 30, 1981) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Atlanta Braves selected him 29th overall in the first round of the 2000 amateur draft from Glynn Academy in Brunswick, Georgia. His performance in the minor leagues brought him notice as one of the Braves' top pitching prospects. The Braves traded him to the Cardinals after the 2003 season, receiving outfielder J. D. Drew in a deal which has since been considered lopsided in favor of the Cardinals. Wainwright made his MLB debut on September 11, 2005, against the New York Mets. After spending his first full MLB season as a relief pitcher, Wainwright briefly assumed closer duties, saving the series-clinching games of both the 2006 National League Championship Series and World Series. The next season, he returned to starting pitching, a role in which he has since remained, except for 2011, which he missed due to Tommy John surgery. He emerged as an ace as he led the National League multiple times in wins, innings pitched, and games started. He also has multiple top-ten finishes in earned run average, strikeouts, walks plus hits per inning pitched, and complete games. In 2014, he became the first pitcher in Major League history to post nine of his first 18 starts with seven innings pitched and no runs allowed. In his career, Wainwright has won more than 150 games, three All-Star selections, two Rawlings Gold Glove Awards and finished in the top three in the Cy Young Award balloting four times. With 1,705 strikeouts in his career to date, Wainwright is second in Cardinals' history to Bob Gibson (3,117) in Cardinals franchise history in strikeouts. He runs a fantasy football league where the registration fees go to charity. He is currently signed through 2019.
- Birthplace: Brunswick, Georgia
- Paul Oakenfold, born in London in 1963, is a renowned figure in the world of electronic music. His illustrious career spans over three decades, during which he has worn many hats - record producer, remixer, DJ, and a record executive. His passion for music ignited at an early age, and by his late teens, he was already touring with famous bands and artists, providing him with invaluable exposure to a diverse musical landscape. Oakenfold's popularity skyrocketed in the late 1980s when he started spinning records at several clubs in Ibiza, a place that profoundly influenced his sound. This period marked the birth of "Balearic Beat", a melange of dance, trance, and ambient music with Oakenfold at its helm. His unique style and innovative approach to music production and disc jockeying earned him international recognition, making him one of the pioneers of electronic music genre. Over the years, Oakenfold has produced remixes for numerous high-profile artists including Madonna, U2, and The Rolling Stones, further cementing his reputation as a leading force in the music industry. In addition to his successful career as a DJ and record producer, Oakenfold co-founded Perfecto Records, a label that became a powerhouse in dance music. He also scored music for several Hollywood films, exhibiting his versatility and creative prowess. Despite having an incredibly busy career, Oakenfold never let go of his roots. He has tirelessly championed the cause of electronic music, pushing its boundaries while inspiring countless other musicians along the way. Paul Oakenfold's legacy is a testament to his unwavering dedication and immense contribution to the world of music.
- Birthplace: London, England, UK
- Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (Russian: А́нна Степа́новна Политко́вская, IPA: [ˈanːə sʲtʲɪˈpanəvnə pəlʲɪtˈkofskəjə]; Ukrainian: Га́нна Степа́нівна Політко́вська [ˈɦɑnːɐ steˈpɑnʲiu̯nɐ pɔlʲitˈkɔu̯sʲkɐ]; born Mazepa [mɐˈzɛpɐ]; 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian journalist, writer, and human rights activist who reported on political events in Russia, in particular, the Second Chechen War (1999–2005).It was her reporting from Chechnya that made Politkovskaya's national and international reputation. For seven years she refused to give up reporting on the war despite numerous acts of intimidation and violence. Politkovskaya was arrested by Russian military forces in Chechnya and subjected to a mock execution. She was poisoned while flying from Moscow via Rostov-on-Don to help resolve the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis, and had to turn back, requiring careful medical treatment in Moscow to restore her health. Her post-1999 articles about conditions in Chechnya were turned into books several times; Russian readers' main access to her investigations and publications was through Novaya Gazeta, a Russian newspaper known for its often-critical investigative coverage of Russian political and social affairs. From 2000 onwards, she received numerous international awards for her work. In 2004, she published Putin's Russia, a personal account of Russia for a Western readership.On 7 October 2006, she was murdered in the elevator of her block of flats, an assassination that attracted international attention. In June 2014, five men were sentenced to prison for the murder, but it is still unclear who ordered or paid for the contract killing.
- Birthplace: New York City, USA, New York
- Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, , HFRSE, LLD (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937), was a New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. Encyclopædia Britannica considers him to be the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday (1791–1867).In early work, Rutherford discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, the radioactive element radon, and differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation. This work was performed at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. It is the basis for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry he was awarded in 1908 "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances", for which he was the first Canadian and Oceanian Nobel laureate. Rutherford moved in 1907 to the Victoria University of Manchester (today University of Manchester) in the UK, where he and Thomas Royds proved that alpha radiation is helium nuclei. Rutherford performed his most famous work after he became a Nobel laureate. In 1911, although he could not prove that it was positive or negative, he theorized that atoms have their charge concentrated in a very small nucleus, and thereby pioneered the Rutherford model of the atom, through his discovery and interpretation of Rutherford scattering by the gold foil experiment of Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden. He performed the first artificially induced nuclear reaction in 1917 in experiments where nitrogen nuclei were bombarded with alpha particles. As a result, he discovered the emission of a subatomic particle which, in 1919, he called the "hydrogen atom" but, in 1920, he more accurately named the proton. Rutherford became Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in 1919. Under his leadership the neutron was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932 and in the same year the first experiment to split the nucleus in a fully controlled manner was performed by students working under his direction, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton. After his death in 1937, he was honoured by being interred with the greatest scientists of the United Kingdom, near Sir Isaac Newton's tomb in Westminster Abbey. The chemical element rutherfordium (element 104) was named after him in 1997.
- Birthplace: Brightwater, New Zealand
- A celebrated Broadway star of long standing, Shirley Booth graced two TV series and a handful of films with her warm, if often acerbic, presence. Leaving high school to pursue acting, Booth appeared in over 600 plays in stock before her career really got off the ground. Her Broadway debut came in the 1925 "Hell's Bells" (which also featured newcomer Humphrey Bogart), but it wasn't until a decade later that she enjoyed her first major success in George Abbott's Runyonesque comedy, "Three Men on a Horse" (1935).
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
- Kwon So-hyun (born August 30, 1994) is a South Korean actress and singer. She was known as a member of the South Korean girl group 4Minute, under Cube Entertainment. She is also a former member of the South Korean girl group, Orange. Before June 15, 2016 (end of her contract with Cube), Kwon left 4Minute and the record label along with members Nam Ji-hyun, Heo Ga-yoon, and Jeon Ji-yoon.
- Ernests Gulbis (Latvian pronunciation: [ˈærnests ˈɡulbis], born 30 August 1988, and nicknamed "The Gull" or "Ernie") is a Latvian professional tennis player. In 2008, Gulbis won his first ATP Tour doubles title at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, teaming with Rainer Schüttler, and in 2010 won his first ATP Tour singles title in the Delray Beach, defeating Ivo Karlović in the final. In total, Gulbis has six ATP titles to his name. His best performance at a Grand Slam is reaching the semifinals of the 2014 French Open. He had previously reached the quarterfinals of the 2008 French Open. Gulbis' career-high singles ranking is world No. 10, making him the only Latvian tennis player ever to be ranked inside the top 10 in ATP Singles Ranking. He achieved this in June 2014. Gulbis' professional training in tennis began at the age of 12, when he was enrolled at the Niki Pilić Tennis Academy in Germany. Beginning after Wimbledon 2011, Gulbis was coached by Austrian Günter Bresnik, until his departure the day before the 2016 French Open. Previously, he was coached by Guillermo Cañas, and before that by Hernán Gumy (who before that was Marat Safin's coach), but their partnership ended due to Gumy's schedule; during that time, Darren Cahill served as Gulbis' consultant for several tournaments. Before Gumy, Gulbis was coached by Karl Heinz Wetter and subsequently Nikola Pilić, the former professional Croatian tennis player and Croatian and German Davis Cup captain.
- Birthplace: Riga, Latvia
- Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, (born 30 August 1950), is a British sculptor. His works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998, Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, a multi-part site installation which premiered in London in 2007, around Madison Square in New York City, in 2010, in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2012, and in Hong Kong in 2015–16. In 2008 The Daily Telegraph ranked Gormley number 4 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".
- Birthplace: London, United Kingdom
- Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and deputy chairman of the national BPP. Hampton and fellow Black Panther Mark Clark were killed during a raid by a tactical unit of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in December 1969.In January 1970, a coroner's jury held an inquest and ruled the deaths of Hampton and Clark to be justifiable homicide. However, a civil lawsuit was later filed on behalf of the survivors and the relatives of Hampton and Clark. It was eventually resolved in 1982 for a settlement of $1.85 million with the City of Chicago, Cook County, and the federal government each paying a third to a group of nine plaintiffs.
- Birthplace: Summit, New Jersey
- Shaun Edward Alexander (born August 30, 1977) is a former American football running back who played for the Seattle Seahawks and Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Alabama, and was drafted by the Seahawks 19th overall in the 2000 NFL Draft. In May 2011, he was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. Alexander set numerous NFL and Seattle Seahawks' franchise records, and was named the NFL MVP in 2005. He was also named to the NFL's 2000 All-Decade team.
- Birthplace: USA, Kentucky, Florence
Grim Sleeper
Age: 72Grim Sleeper is the nickname for convicted serial killer Lonnie David Franklin Jr., (August 30, 1952 – March 28, 2020) responsible for at least ten murders and one attempted murder in Los Angeles, California. The attacker was dubbed the "Grim Sleeper" because he appeared to have taken a 14-year break from his crimes, from 1988 to 2002. In July 2010, Franklin was arrested as a suspect, and, after many delays, his trial began in February 2016. On May 5, 2016, the jury convicted him of killing nine women and one teenage girl. On June 6, 2016, the jury recommended the death penalty, and on August 10, 2016, the Los Angeles Superior Court sentenced him to death for each of the ten victims named in the verdict.- Birthplace: California
- Johanna Elizabeth Braddy (born August 30, 1987) is an American actress. She played the leading role in the 2009 horror film The Grudge 3, and has appeared in Hurt (2009), Easy A (2010), Paranormal Activity 3 (2011), and The Levenger Tapes (2011). She also starred as Jenny Matrix in the hit web series Video Game High School from 2012 to 2014. In 2015, Braddy co-starred as Anna Martin in the Lifetime dark comedy-drama series Unreal. She also starred as Shelby Wyatt in the ABC thriller series Quantico.
- Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- The pint-sized star of the movie "Leave it to Beaver" (1997), Cameron Finley won the coveted title role as a result of a nationwide talent search conducted in seven major cities, involving 5,000 boys. Having worked professionally since the age of three when he landed his first commercial (for Shell Oil), Finley saw his first two feature films open three weeks apart in 1993, "A Perfect World," followed by "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," in which he played one of Mary Steenburgen's children. He portrayed a young Lane Frost (Luke Parry as a kid) in "8 Seconds" (1994) and made the first of his many appearances on TV that same year. Finley, who played a supporting part in "Hope Floats" (1998), starring Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick Jr, continues to live in Garland, Texas where his parents protect his normalcy as best they can.
- Birthplace: Garland, Texas, USA
- John Leonard Swigert Jr. (August 30, 1931 – December 27, 1982) was an American test pilot, mechanical and aerospace engineer, United States Air Force pilot, and NASA astronaut. He was one of twenty-four astronauts who have flown to the Moon.Before joining NASA in 1966, Swigert was a civilian test pilot and fighter pilot in the Air National Guard. After leaving NASA, he was elected to Congress from Colorado's new 6th district, but died before being sworn in.
- Birthplace: Denver, Colorado, USA
- Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский, listen ; August 30 [O.S. August 18] 1863 – September 27, 1944) was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in colour photography and his effort to document early 20th-century Russia.Using a railroad-car darkroom provided by Tsar Nicholas II, Prokudin-Gorsky traveled the Russian Empire from around 1909 to 1915 using his three-image colour photography to record its many aspects. While some of his negatives were lost, the majority ended up in the U.S. Library of Congress after his death. Starting in 2000, the negatives were digitised and the colour triples for each subject digitally combined to produce hundreds of high-quality colour images of century-ago Russia.
- Birthplace: Kirzhachsky District, Russia
- Hazen Shirley "Kiki" Cuyler (; August 30, 1898 – February 11, 1950) was a Major League Baseball right fielder from 1921 until 1938 who later was inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Cuyler established a reputation as an outstanding hitter with great speed. He regularly batted .350 or higher and finished with a .321 lifetime batting average. In 1925 Cuyler hit 18 home runs with 102 RBI. Cuyler's Pirates won the World Series that year, the only time in his career that he contributed to a World Series winner.
- Birthplace: Harrisville, Michigan
- Exceptionally tall, with distinctive, unconventional features and a commanding presence, actor Raymond Massey built an impressive career out of playing reassuring authority figures and scheming villains equally well. The Canadian-born actor first honed his craft on the stages of the U.K. for nearly 10 years before venturing across the Atlantic to appear on Broadway as "Hamlet" and in early sound pictures like "The Speckled Band" (1931), in the role of Sherlock Holmes. Massey demonstrated his versatility with venomous characters in films like "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1937) juxtaposed against his career-defining portrayal of the 16th U.S. president in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" (1940), based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play written with him in mind. Massey became the stuff of Hollywood legend when the aftermath of his divorce from actress Adrianne Allen inspired the beloved Tracy-Hepburn comedy "Adam's Rib" (1949). As an actor, Massey continually impressed with is ability to make difficult characters sympathetic in such films as "The Fountainhead" (1949), opposite Gary Cooper, and as James Dean's emotionally unavailable father in "East of Eden" (1955). A younger generation of fans came to appreciate his later work as Richard Chamberlain's authoritative mentor Dr. Gillespie on "Dr. Kildare" (NBC, 1961-66). Even as his half-century career neared its end, Massey continued to make memorable contributions to such big-budget Hollywood offerings as the Western "Mackenna's Gold" (1969). One of the first and best examples of a "working actor" in film, Massey never failed to elevate the integrity of any project.
- Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- David Emmanuel Paymer (born August 30, 1954) is an American character actor, comedian, and television director. He has been in films such as Mr. Saturday Night, Quiz Show, Searching for Bobby Fischer, City Slickers, Crazy People, State and Main, Payback, Get Shorty, Carpool, The American President, Ocean's Thirteen, and Drag Me to Hell. Paymer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1992 for Mr. Saturday Night. He played the lead role as the Boss in Bartleby, an adaptation of Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener." He played a mob boss in the television series Line of Fire.
- Birthplace: USA, New York, Oceanside
- Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, author, political commentator, and humorist. Born in California and raised in Texas, Ivins attended Smith College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She began her journalism career at the Minneapolis Tribune where she became the first female police reporter at the paper. Ivins joined the Texas Observer in the early 1970s and later moved to The New York Times. She became a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald in the 1980s, and then the Fort Worth Star-Telegram after the Times Herald was sold and shuttered. The column was subsequently syndicated by Creators Syndicate and carried by hundreds of newspapers. A biography of Ivins, Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life, was co-written in 2010 by PEN-USA winning presidential biographer Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith. The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 stated: Ivins's pithy assessments of politics and life at large crackle with broad Texas humor. Combining her talent for culling information with her razor-sharp wit, she throws a powerful knockout punch. ... Whether one agrees with her or not, Ivins's pen pierces both the brain and the funny bone.
- Birthplace: Monterey, California
- Eamon Wade Sullivan (born 30 August 1985) is an Australian former sprint swimmer, three-time Olympic medallist, and former world record-holder in two events. He is also the winner of Celebrity MasterChef Australia.
- Birthplace: Perth, Australia
- Lars Erik Frederiksen (born Lars Erik Dapello August 30, 1971) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Rancid, as well as the frontman of Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards and The Old Firm Casuals. In addition, he currently plays guitar in Oxley's Midnight Runners, Stomper 98, and The Last Resort. He was also briefly a member of the UK Subs in 1991. He joined Rancid in 1993 after the band was searching for a second guitar player and was present on their second album Let's Go. He has produced albums for bands such as Dropkick Murphys, Agnostic Front, The Business, Swingin Utters, Marky Ramone and the Intruders, Anti-Heros, Pressure Point, The Forgotten among others. He recently mixed GBH's 2010 album entitled Perfume and Piss, as well as Cock Sparrer's 2007 album "Here We Stand" both alongside Michael Rosen.
- Birthplace: Campbell, California
- Richard Burton Cronin (August 30, 1974 – September 8, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter and rapper, best known for being the lead singer and primary songwriter for the pop and hip hop group LFO.
- Birthplace: West Roxbury, Boston, USA, Massachusetts
- Marcelo H. del Pilar (born Marcelo Hilario del Pilar y Gatmaitán; August 30, 1850 – July 4, 1896), better known by his pen name Plaridel, was a Filipino writer, lawyer, journalist, and freemason. Del Pilar, along with José Rizal and Graciano López Jaena, became known as the leaders of the Reform Movement in Spain.Del Pilar was born and brought up in Bulakan, Bulacan. At an early age, he became a critic of the monastic rule in the country (the Spanish friars). He was suspended at the University of Santo Tomas and jailed in 1869 after he and the parish priest quarrelled over exorbitant baptismal fees. In the 1880s, he expanded his anti-friar movement from Malolos to Manila. He went to Spain in 1888 after an order of banishment was issued against him. Twelve months after his arrival in Barcelona, he succeeded López Jaena as editor of the La Solidaridad (Solidarity). Publication of the newspaper stopped in 1895 due to lack of funds. Losing hope in reforms, he planned to lead a revolution against Spain. He was on his way home in 1896 when he contracted tuberculosis in Barcelona. He later died in a public hospital and was buried in a pauper's grave.On November 30, 1997, the Technical Committee of the National Heroes Committee, created through Executive Order No. 5 by former President Fidel Ramos, recommended del Pilar along with the eight Filipino historical figures to be National Heroes. The recommendations were submitted to Department of Education Secretary Ricardo T. Gloria on November 22, 1995. No action has been taken for these recommended historical figures. In 2009, this issue was revisited in one of the proceedings of the 14th Congress.
- Birthplace: Bulakan, Bulacan, Philippines
- Sylvia Earle is an actress who appeared in "The 11th Hour," and "Mission Blue."
- Birthplace: Ocean Township, New Jersey, USA
- George Ryan Ross III (born August 30, 1986) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter best known for his work as the lead guitarist and primary songwriter of the band Panic! at the Disco before his departure in 2009. Ross and former Panic! bassist Jon Walker formed The Young Veins the same year, in which Ross is the lead vocalist. They broke up in 2010.
- Birthplace: Summerlin, Nevada
- Born in Evansville, IN on Aug. 30, 1966, Michael Michele Williams frequently finds herself cast as strong-willed attorneys, doctors and police detectives. Michele initially garnered notoriety in director-star Mario Van Peebles' gritty blaxploitation movie "New Jack City" (1991). From there, it was on to a brief starring role on the adventure series "Dangerous Curves" (CBS, 1992-93) and a recurring character throughout the first season of the urban crime drama, "New York Undercover" (Fox, 1994-98). Demonstrating an aptitude for playing professional women in the public service sector, Michele took on roles on two of the most acclaimed programs of the day - first, as Det. Rene Sheppard on "Homicide: Life on the Street" (NBC, 1993-99), followed by three seasons as Dr. Cleo Finch on "ER" (NBC, 1994-2009). With the increased recognition came more parts in feature films, most notably as Veronica Porsche Ali, former wife of "The Greatest" opposite Will Smith in director Michael Mann's biopic, "Ali" (2001). Other film appearances included supporting work in the grim L.A. cop-drama "Dark Blue" (2002) and the romantic-comedy "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" (2003). The actor was also seen on the short-lived legal-drama "Kevin Hill" (UPN, 2004-05), followed by several recurring appearances on such series as "Gossip Girl" (The CW, 2007-13) in 2011. Michele ably projects inner-resolve and mental toughness to each of her characters.
- Birthplace: Evansville, Indiana, USA
- Jun Matsumoto is a Japanese actor and director who appeared in "The Last Princess," "My Sister, My Love," and "Boys Over Flowers: Final."
- Birthplace: Tokyo,Japan
- Derrick LaRon Ward (born August 30, 1980) is a former American football running back in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the New York Jets in the seventh round of the 2004 NFL Draft and played for the New York Giants, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Houston Texans. He played college football at Fresno State University and Ottawa University. Ward earned a Super Bowl ring with the Giants in Super Bowl XLII, beating the New England Patriots. He is the cousin of former Patriots running back J.R. Redmond.
- Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
- Helge Schneider (born 30 August 1955 in Mülheim an der Ruhr) is a German comedian, jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist, author, film and theatre director, and actor. Schneider's works are an unconventional mixture of horseplay humor, parody, and jazz-influenced music. They involve spontaneity and improvisation as important elements.
- Birthplace: Mülheim, Germany
- Katherine Megan McArthur (born August 30, 1971) is an American oceanographer and a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut. She has served as a Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) for both the space shuttle and space station. Megan McArthur has flown one space shuttle mission, STS-125. She is known as the last person to be hands on with the Hubble Space Telescope (although she was not actually "hands on" since she was using the robotic arm at the time). McArthur has served in a number of positions including working in the Shuttle Avionics Laboratory (SAIL). She is married to fellow astronaut Robert L. Behnken. Megan also features as herself in a space based episode of the kids programme, Blaze and the Monster Machines.
- Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii
- Robin Hughes Harris (August 30, 1953 – March 18, 1990) was an American comedian and actor, known for his recurring comic sketch about Bébé's Kids.
- Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Brian Yuzna is a Filipino producer, director, writer, and actor who is known for producing "Suitable Flesh," "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids," and "Darkness."
- Birthplace: Manila, Philippines
- David S. Reynolds (born 1948) is an American literary critic, biographer, and historian who has written about American literature and culture. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, on the Civil War era—including figures such as Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Lippard, and John Brown. Reynolds has been awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Christian Gauss Award, the Ambassador Book Award, the Gustavus Myers Book Award, the John Hope Franklin Prize (Honorable Mention), and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is a regular reviewer for the New York Times Book Review.
- Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island
- An effortlessly funny performer with a knack for playing easily confused sidekicks, Bill Daily rose to fame with two perennially popular television series, "I Dream of Jeannie" (NBC, 1965-1970) and "The Bob Newhart Show" (CBS, 1972-78). In both cases, Daily regularly stole scenes from his leading men and ladies, a practice he had been perfecting since his early days on the Midwestern nightclub circuit and later in Chicago area TV. Daily's brand of humor never wore thin, and he enjoyed steady work in television until the late 1990s, when he retired from acting. However, his two best roles remained in the public eye thanks to reruns, which ensured him a lasting legacy for many years. Born Aug. 30, 1927 in Des Moines, IA, Daily lost his father at an early age, and was raised largely by his mother with the aid of extended family members. In 1939, he and his mother moved to Chicago, where he spent his teenage years. Music held a particular fascination for him, and he got his earliest taste of entertaining crowds in Korea, where he and actor-musician Dick Contino entertained troops with a musical act. After his discharge, Daily tried his hand at becoming a professional musician, and played standup bass with a number of groups in the Midwest. He began adding comedy bits between songs and noticed that they were getting a positive response. He soon switched fulltime to comedy, and began working the club circuit. Daily added stage training to his c.v. through the Goodman Theatre School, and after graduation, took a job at WMAQ, the NBC affiliate in Chicago. There, he worked as an announcer and floor manager before working his way up to writer and director. Daily caught the eye of talk show host Mike Douglas, whose show "The Mike Douglas Show" (syndicated/CBS, 1962-1982) was filmed in Chicago in its early years, and he became a regular guest on the program. This led to a national job with Steve Allen on his syndicated talk show "The New Steve Allen Show" (ABC, 1961-65), which in turn led to guest shots on various sitcoms, starting with "Bewitched" (ABC, 1964-1972). In 1965, he played Roger Healy for the first time in the pilot for "I Dream of Jeannie." The role was initially a minor one, but producer Sidney Sheldon saw Daily's comic skills and elevated him to second banana alongside Larry Hagman. Healy was a classic sitcom sidekick - a harmless goof who made Larry Hagman's Major Nelson look upstanding and handsome, no matter what shenanigans he became involved with. Daily made the role look effortless - which was no small feat, as tensions on the "Jeannie" set ran high due to Hagman's alcohol problems and dissatisfaction with the scripts. Daily, himself, would pen one script for the show during its five-year run. After "Jeannie" ended, Daily made his first film appearance in the Disney live-action film "The Barefoot Executive" (1971). A year later, he was back on TV as befuddled commercial airline navigator Howard Borden on "The Bob Newhart Show" (CBS, 1972-78). Borden was neighbor to Newhart and Suzanne Pleshette's Bob and Emily Hartley, and more often than not, an intrusive and deeply confused presence in their lives. A constant state of jet lag was the culprit - Borden, a divorced father, juggled an impossible schedule in order to raise his son - but his befuddlement was frequently the source of great hilarity on the show. While enjoying his tenure on "Newhart," Daily was also a popular guest on "Match Game 73" (CBS, 1973-79), and became a regular on the show during its final three years on the network. When "Newhart" ended its run, Daily turned to guest shots on various series, with occasional stints as a recurring character, including on "Aloha Paradise" (ABC, 1981), a short-lived attempt to recreate the success of "The Love Boat" (ABC, 1977-1986). He was handed two shots at leading his own series; first in 1983 with "Small & Frye" (CBS, 1983), and the second, "Starting from Scratch" (syndicated, 1988). Neither lasted a single season. In 1985, he reprised Roger Healy in a reunion movie, "I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later" (NBC, 1985), which replaced a reluctant Hagman with Wayne Rogers, and returned again six years later for "I Still Dream of Jeannie" (NBC, 1991). In 1999, Daily appeared with Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman for the first time since the original show's final episode for a reunion on the "Donny & Marie" (syndicated, 1998-2000) talk show. His most prominent TV role post-"Newhart" was perhaps that of Dr. Larry Dykstra, who occasionally provided counseling to the alien known as "ALF" (NBC, 1986-1990). Daily reunited with Newhart three times in the years after "Newhart" - once on a 1990 episode of "Newhart" (CBS, 1982-1990) and later on the short-lived "Bob" (CBS, 1992) and "George and Leo" (CBS, 1997-98). These were among his few television appearances in the late 1990s; by then, Daily was largely retired and living in Albuquerque, NM, where he directed local theater and served as host of a local morning radio program from 2006-09. That same year, he returned to features for the first time in over three decades with a cameo in the Joe Estevez-directed horror-comedy, "Horrorween" (2011). Bill Daily died of undisclosed natural causes in Santa Fe, New Mexico on September 4, 2018. He was 91.
- Birthplace: Des Moines, Iowa, USA
- Emily Jordan Bear (born August 30, 2001) is an American composer, pianist, songwriter and singer who has received notice at an early age. After beginning to play the piano and compose music as a small child, Bear made her professional piano debut at the Ravinia Festival at the age of five, the youngest performer ever to play there. She gained wider notice from a series of appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show beginning at the age of six. She has since played her own compositions and other works with orchestras and ensembles in North America, Europe and Asia, including appearances at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, the Montreux Jazz Festival and Jazz Open Stuttgart. She has won two Morton Gould Young Composer Awards and was the youngest person ever to win the award. She has also won two Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Awards. In 2013, Bear released her first studio album, Diversity, containing her own jazz compositions, produced by her mentor, Quincy Jones. She composes and plays both classical and jazz music, studies film scoring and is heard on the 2015 Broadway cast recording of the musical Doctor Zhivago. She leads her own jazz trio, with which she recorded an EP, Into the Blue, released in 2017. Later in 2017, Bear became the youngest performer in the history of the Night of the Proms tour.
- Birthplace: Rockford, Illinois, USA
- Maurice Ralph Hilleman (August 30, 1919 – April 11, 2005) was an American microbiologist who specialized in vaccinology and developed over 40 vaccines, an unparalleled record of productivity. Of the 14 vaccines routinely recommended in current vaccine schedules, he developed eight: those for measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia and Haemophilus influenzae bacteria. He also played a role in the discovery of the cold-producing adenoviruses, the hepatitis viruses, and the potentially cancer-causing virus SV40. He is credited with saving more lives than any other medical scientist of the 20th century. Robert Gallo described him as "the most successful vaccinologist in history".
- Birthplace: Miles City, Montana
- Aaron Asher Barrett (born August 30, 1974) is the lead singer, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter of the American ska-punk band Reel Big Fish. Following the departure of Matt Wong in 2007, he became the sole remaining original member of the group. Prior to forming Reel Big Fish, Barrett played trombone in another ska-punk act, The Scholars, along with future Reel Big Fish bandmates Scott Klopfenstein and Grant Barry. More recently Barrett formed The Forces of Evil (now defunct) with former members of Jeffries Fan Club, The Scholars and Lone Raspberry. The Forces of Evil sounded similar to Barrett's main band, although lyrically they were much more pessimistic. The Forces of Evil ceased touring and playing in early 2005, and several members went on to play with Reel Big Fish. Barrett is also featured in Serious Awesomeness, a DVD by The Aquabats, interviewing attendees of an Aquabats show outside of The Glass House in Pomona, California, calling himself "Joe Famous"; he is also seen briefly on stage with the band. Barrett also made a cameo appearance in the music video for "Come Back Home" by Suburban Legends in an Elvis Presley costume and a cameo appearance in the music video for "I'm OK, You're OK" by MxPx as a doughnut-shop employee.
- Birthplace: USA, California
- Carla Evelyn Giraldo Quintero (born on 30 August 1986 in Medellín, Colombia) is a Colombian actress, model and singer. She made her debut in television when she was 13 in telenovela Me Llaman Lolita where she portrays young Lolita Rengifo.
- Birthplace: Medellín, Colombia
- Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone (30 August 1913 – 6 December 1991) was an eminent British economist, educated at Westminster School, Cambridge University (Caius and King's), who in 1984 received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing an accounting model that could be used to track economic activities on a national and, later, an international scale.
- Birthplace: London, United Kingdom
- Alois Carigiet (30 August 1902 – 1 August 1985) was a Swiss graphic designer, painter, and illustrator. He may be known best for six children's picture books set in the Alps, A Bell for Ursli and its sequels, written by Selina Chönz, and three that he wrote himself. In 1966 he received the inaugural Hans Christian Andersen Medal for children's illustrators.
- Birthplace: Trun, Switzerland
- Best-known for playing bohemian advertising copywriter Paul Kinsey in "Mad Men" (AMC, 2007-2015), Michael Gladis also enjoyed recurring roles in action parody "Eagleheart" (Adult Swim, 2011-14), legal drama "Reckless" (CBS, 2014) and crime remake "Feed the Beast" (AMC, 2016-). Born in Houston, TX in 1977, Gladis began acting at a private all-girls school in need of male performers, and went on to study Theater at the State University of New York at New Paltz before making his screen debut as senior seaman Yevgeny Borzenkov in submarine thriller "K-19: The Widowmaker" (2002). Gladis spent the next decade focusing on television, landing his first regular gig on "Third Watch" (NBC, 1999-2005) as rookie paramedic Eugene Rossi in 2003, making one-off appearances in numerous hit shows including "The Good Wife" (CBS, 2009-2016), "House" (Fox, 2004-2012) and "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" (NBC, 1999-), and enjoying a multi-season stint on period drama "Mad Men" (AMC, 2007-2015) as Paul Kinsey, a Sterling Cooper copywriter renowned for his Orson Welles-esque appearance who reluctantly converted to Hare Krishna. Following his exit from the show, Gladis made a cameo as a club owner in biopic" J. Edgar" (2011), was cast as the paternal police chief in the spoof "Eagleheart" (Adult Swim, 2011-14), and guested on "How I Met Your Mother" (CBS, 2005-2014), "Justified" (FX, 2010-15) and "The Mentalist" (CBS, 2008-2015). Gladis then returned to the film world to executive produce and star in crime comedy "Armed Response" (2013), portray Jessie Misskelley Jr.'s defense attorney Dan Stidham in West Memphis Three tale "Devil's Knot" (2013) and play LARPer King Diamond in comedy horror "Knights of Badassdom" (2013). After a six-episode stint as Deputy Chief Holland Knox in the short-lived "Reckless" (CBS, 2014), Gladis showed up as a vengeful whistleblower in psychological thriller "Not Safe for Work" (2014), biologist Nate Malone in sci-fi series "Extant" (CBS, 2014-15) and Lt. Matias in "Terminator: Genysis" (2015). Guest parts on "House of Lies" (Showtime, 2012-16), "The Librarians" (TNT, 2014-) and "Elementary" (CBS, 2012-) then followed before Gladis was cast as the softly-spoken but fearsome teeth-pulling mobster Patrick Woichik in crime drama "Feed the Beast" (AMC, 2016-)., an English-language remake of Danish series "Bankerot" (DR1, 2014-).
- Birthplace: Houston, Texas, USA
- Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw, Jr. (August 30, 1944 – January 5, 2004) was an American professional baseball relief pitcher and the father of country music singer and actor Tim McGraw. As a Major League Baseball (MLB) player, Tug McGraw is often remembered for coining the phrase, "Ya Gotta Believe", which became a popular rallying cry for the New York Mets teams of the mid-60s and early 70s, and for recording the final out, via a strikeout of the Kansas City Royals' Willie Wilson, in the 1980 World Series, thereby bringing the Philadelphia Phillies their first world championship. He was the last active big league player to have played under legendary manager Casey Stengel.
- Birthplace: Martinez, California, USA
- Jacques-Louis David (French: [ʒaklwi david]; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity and severity and heightened feeling, harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime. David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794), and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French Republic. Imprisoned after Robespierre's fall from power, he aligned himself with yet another political regime upon his release: that of Napoleon, The First Consul of France. At this time he developed his Empire style, notable for its use of warm Venetian colours. After Napoleon's fall from Imperial power and the Bourbon revival, David exiled himself to Brussels, then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, where he remained until his death. David had a large number of pupils, making him the strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century, especially academic Salon painting.
- Birthplace: Paris, France
