Anniversaries 30 July

Birth

Giorgio Vasari7

Italian painter, architect, writer and historian 1511–1574

Samuel Rogers16

British poet 1763–1855

Emily Brontë151

English novelist and poet 1818–1848

John Campbell Shairp14

British writer 1819–1885

Wajid Ali Shah1

Nawab of Awadh 1822–1887

George Lemuel Woods1

American politician 1832–1890

Thorstein Veblen41

American academic 1857–1929

Henry Ford80

American industrialist 1863–1947

Smedley D. Butler18

United States Marine Corps General, 2 time Medal of Honor r… 1881–1940

Emmet Fox7

American New Thought writer 1886–1951

Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington2

Duchess of Wellington 1889–1956

Casey Stengel9

American baseball player and coach 1890–1975

Fatima Jinnah6

Pakistani dental surgeon, biographer, stateswoman and one o… 1893–1967

Henry Moore44

English artist 1898–1986

Mário Quintana1

Brazilian writer 1906–1994

C. Northcote Parkinson7

British naval historian 1909–1993

Anne Ridler1

English poet, editor 1912–2001

Govind Chandra Pande2

Indian historian 1923–2011

William H. Gass16

Fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor 1924–2017

Alexander Trocchi1

Scottish writer 1925–1984

Bud Selig18

American baseball executive 1934

Carl Oglesby4

American political activist 1935–2011

Patrick Modiano42

French writer 1945

Arnold Schwarzenegger52

actor, businessman and politician of Austrian-American heri… 1947

Harriet Harman23

British politician 1950

Maureen Corrigan5

American journalist and writer 1955

Lev Leviev8

Soviet-born Israeli businessman, philanthropist and investor 1956

Kate Bush319

British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and … 1958

Lisa Kudrow3

American actress 1963

Caridad Svich2

American writer 1963

Jürgen Klinsmann5

German footballer and manager 1964

Ann Brashares136

American children's writer 1967

Christopher Nolan4

British–American film director, screenwriter, and producer 1970

Cherie Priest6

writer 1975

Ville Niinistö1

Finnish politician 1976

Jaime Pressly5

American actress, model, producer 1977

Javier Botet2

Spanish actor 1977

Celeste Ng17

American novelist 1980

Jeff Foster13

Spiritual teacher 1980

Hope Solo9

American association football player 1981

Fadzayi Mahere2

Zimbabwean lawyer and politician 1985

Death

William Penn53

English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker… 1644–1718

Nahum Tate4

Anglo-Irish poet and playwright 1652–1715

Thomas Gray81

English poet, historian 1716–1771

Lyman Heath3

American musician 1804–1870

Shlomo Ganzfried2

Hungarian rabbi 1804–1886

George Fitzhugh52

American activist 1806–1881

Mark Pattison8

English author and Church of England priest 1813–1884

Otto von Bismark1

German statesman, Chancellor of Germany 1815–1898

Otto von Bismarck35

German statesman, Chancellor of Germany 1815–1898

Walter Pater11

essayist, art and literature critic, fiction writer 1839–1894

Leopold Mandić3

Catholic priest; saint 1866–1942

Rudolf Karl Bultmann10

German theologian 1884–1976

Joyce Kilmer42

American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier 1886–1918

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki4

Japanese author 1886–1965

Claudette Colbert2

French-American actress 1903–1996

George Novack1

American politician 1905–1992

Michelangelo Antonioni39

Italian film director and screenwriter 1912–2007

Jimmy Hoffa19

American labor leader 1913–1982

Ingmar Bergman75

Swedish filmmaker 1918–2007

Murray Bookchin24

American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosop… 1921–2006

James Blish30

American author 1921–1975

Ali Meshkini7

Iranian ayatollah 1922–2007

Robert N. Bellah4

American sociologist 1927–2013

Robin Cook3

English crime writer 1931–1994

Maeve Binchy10

Irish novelist 1940–2012

Archie Roach1

Australian musician 1956–2022