Anniversaries 30 August

Birth

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley94

English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, … 1797–1851

Théophile Gautier15

French writer 1811–1872

Marcelo H. del Pilar10

Filipino writer, lawyer, and journalist (1850-1896) 1850–1896

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff3

Dutch physical and organic chemist 1852–1911

Ernest Rutherford16

New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist 1871–1937

Theo van Doesburg46

Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer 1883–1931

Huey Long20

American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United Stat… 1893–1935

Virginia Lee Burton1

American children's writer and illustrator 1909–1968

Edward M. Purcell3

American physicist 1912–1997

Richard Stone11

British economist, Nobel Memorial Prize winner 1913–1991

Denis Healey32

British Labour Party politician and Life peer 1917–2015

Ted Williams6

American professional baseball player 1918–2002

Warren Buffett146

American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist 1930

Sylvia Earle7

American oceanographer 1935

Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf5

Diplomatic politician and he was the Iraqi Information Min… 1940

Jonathan Aitken4

Conservative Member of Parliament, former British governmen… 1942

Robert Crumb25

American cartoonist 1943

Molly Ivins19

American journalist 1944–2007

Martin Dada Abejide Olorunmolu1

Nigerian catholic priest 1948

Fred Hampton8

African-American activist 1948–1969

Lewis Black58

American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social crit… 1948

Robert Parish2

American basketball player 1953

Alexander Lukashenko10

President of Belarus since 20 July 1994 1954

Jeff McMahan (philosopher)6

American philosopher 1954

Guy Kawasaki9

American businessman and author 1954

Anna Politkovskaya2

Russian journalist 1958–2006

Paul Oakenfold1

British record producer and a trance music DJ 1963

Nathalie Cabrol1

French American astrobiologist 1963

William Barber II3

civil rights leader from North Carolina 1963

Ben Emmerson3

British Queen's Counsel 1963

Sara Ahmed5

Australian and British academic 1969

Rozario Menezes1

Catholic bishop 1969

Cameron Diaz3

American actress 1972

Lisa Ling2

American journalist, television presenter, and author 1973

Bisco Hatori24

Japanese manga artist 1975

Raúl Castillo3

American actor, writer 1977

Adam Wainwright2

baseball player 1981

Andy Roddick1

US tennis player 1982

Ian Purkayastha2

1992

Death

Musa al-Kadhim15

Seventh of the Twelve Imams and regarded by Sunnis as a ren… 745–799

Dara Shukoh3

Indian prince 1615–1659

Marianne North1

English biologist and botanical artist 1830–1890

Ilia Chavchavadze4

Georgian poet and politician; a saint of Georgian Orthodox … 1837–1907

J. J. Thomson8

British physicist 1856–1940

Ada Leverson7

British writer 1862–1933

Henri Barbusse197

French novelist 1873–1935

Taylor Caldwell31

Novelist 1900–1985

Paul Lazarsfeld5

American sociologist 1901–1976

Naguib Mahfouz7

Egyptian writer 1911–2006

George Mikes7

Hungarian-born British author 1912–1987

Ad Reinhardt22

American painter 1913–1967

Donald Davidson (philosopher)6

scriitor amator 1917–2003

Marjorie Boulton2

British writer 1924–2017

Jean Tinguely21

Swiss painter and sculptor 1925–1991

Louise L. Hay23

American writer 1926–2017

Killer Kowalski1

Canadian professional wrestler 1926–2008

Bipan Chandra1

Indian historian 1928–2014

A. James Gregor64

American political scientist 1929–2019

Oliver Sacks18

British neurologist and writer 1933–2015

Seamus Heaney29

Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer 1939–2013