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 captain (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

Date unknown

Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (d. 1996)

Barney Glaser, American sociologist

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