Category:1930 births

January-February

January 2 - Julius LaRosa, American singer January 12 - Jennifer Johnston, Irish writer January 20 - Buzz Aldrin, American pilot and astronaut January 23 - Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate January 26 - John Straffen, British serial killer January 29 - Bobby Bland, American singer January 30 - Gene Hackman, American actor February 27 - Joanne Woodward, Oscar-winning American actress February 27 - Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003) February 28 - Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

March

March 3 - Heiner Geißler, German politician March 6 - Allison Hayes, American actress (d. 1977) March 6 - Lorin Maazel, French-born conductor March 7 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon March 10 - Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist and composer March 15 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate March 17 - James Irwin, astronaut (d. 1991) March 19 - Ornette Coleman, American musician March 20 - Willie Thrower, American football player March 22 - Pat Robertson, American televangelist March 22 - Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist March 24 - David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003) March 24 - Steve McQueen, American actor, film director, and producer (d. 1980) March 25 - John Keel, American author March 26 - Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice March 27 - David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980) March 28 - Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate March 30 - John Astin, American actor March 30 - Rolf Harris, Australian-born entertainer March 30 - Peter Marshall, American game show host

April

April 3 - Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany April 8 - Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma, Aristocrat April 10 - Pertti "Spede" Olavi Pasanen, Finnish television personality (d. 2001) April 11 - Anton LaVey, American religious leader (d. 1997) April 15 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland April 16 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (d. 2003) April 21 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989) April 25 - Paul Mazursky, American director and writer April 29 - Jean Rochefort, French actor

May-August

May 4 - Roberta Peters, American soprano May 8 - Heather Harper, Irish soprano May 9 - Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001) May 10 - Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster May 15 - Jasper Johns, American painter May 19 - Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (d. 1965) May 21 - Malcolm Fraser, twenty-second Prime Minister of Australia May 22 - John Barth, American writer May 22 - Harvey Milk, American politician and civil rights activist (d. 1978) May 31 - Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer June 2 - Charles Conrad, astronaut (d. 1999) June 8 - Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics June 9 - Monique Serf, French musician (d. 1997) June 12 - Jim Nabors, American actor, musician, and comedian June 17 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000) June 22 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998) June 27 - Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician July 2 - Carlos Menem, President of Argentina July 3 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004) July 4 - George Steinbrenner, baseball team owner July 11 - Harold Bloom, American literary critic July 15 - Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (d. 2004) July 25 - Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto July 25 - Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricket captains (d. 1985) August 1 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist August 5 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut August 12 - George Soros, Hungarian-born businessman August 17 - Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998) August 21 - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002) August 25 - Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor August 30 - Warren Buffett, American investor

September-December

September 3 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (d. 2002) September 7 - King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993) September 16 - Anne Francis, American actress September 25 - Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, and humorist (d. 1999) September 26 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d. 1966) September 30 - Ray Charles, American singer and musician (d. 2004) October 1 - Richard Harris, Irish actor (d. 2002) October 5 - Anne Haddy, Australian actress (d. 1999) October 5 - Pavel Popovich, cosmonaut October 5 - Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel Prize laureate October 6 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000) October 8 - Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d. 1996) October 10 - Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate October 10 - Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel Prize laureate October 11 - Sam Johnson, American politician October 17 - Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003) October 28 - Bernie Ecclestone, English auto racing tycoon October 30 - Timothy Findley, Canadian author (d. 2002) November 4 - Doris Roberts, American actress November 14 - Edward White, astronaut (d. 1967) November 16 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer November 24 - Bob Friend, baseball player December 1 - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002) December 2 - Gary Becker, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate December 6 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia {d. 2000) December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor December 15 - Edna O'Brien, Irish writer/author December 21 - Adebayo Adedeji, Nigerian UN official

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Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (d. 1996) Barney Glaser, American sociologist

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