August 30: Today's Notable Birthdays

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August 30th was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

August 30th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Robert Crumb, American cartoonist (Fritz the Cat) was born on August 30, 1943.

Jacques Louis David French Neoclassical painter (Antoine Mongez and His Wife Angelica, The Battle of the Romans and Sabines, Bernard, Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine, The Death of Marat, The Death of Socrates, The Distribution of the Eagles, Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, Madame Récamier, Napoleon Crossing the Saint Bernard Pass, The Oath of the Horatii and The Rape of the Sabines), was born on August 30, 1748.

Argentine Surrealist painter Leonor Fini (Casta Diva, Colloque Entre Monos et Una, La Fete Secrete, Les Quartres Saisons, Reverie, La Tempete and Tristan und Isolde) was born on August 30, 1908.

Georges Minne, Flemish sculptor (L'Agenouille, Badende, Boy Kneeling at the Spring, L'Enfant Prodique and Kneeling Youth), was born on August 30, 1866.

August 30th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Richard (Butch) Johnson, American archer and Olympic gold medalist (1992 and 1996), was born on August 30, 1955.

Barbara Anne Kendall, New Zealand yachter and Olympic gold medalist (1992), was born on August 30, 1967.

Jean-Claude Killy, French alpine skier and Olympic gold medalist (1968), was born on August 30, 1943.

August 30th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

American children's book author and illustrator Virginia Lee Burton (Calico the Wonder Horse, Choo-Choo, Katy and the Big Snow, The Little House, Maybelle the Cable Car and Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel) was born on August 30, 1909.

American journalist and author John Gunther (Death Be Not Proud, The Golden Fleece and The Lost City) was born on August 30, 1901.

Dr. David Hartley, British Moralist philosopher (Observations on Man), was born on August 30, 1705.

Huey Pierce (Kingfish) Long, American political leader, U.S. Senator (D-LA), Louisiana Governor and author (Every Man a King), was born on August 30, 1893.

British author Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley (Falkner, Frankenstein, The Last Man, Lodore, Perkin Warbeck, Rambles in Germany and Italy and Valperga), was born on August 30, 1797.

Sir John Nicholas Richard Stone, British economist and Nobel Prize winner (1984), was born on August 30, 1913.

August 30th Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders

Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer, was born on August 30, 1927.

American businessman (Berkshire Hathaway) and philanthropist Warren Edward Buffett was born on August 30, 1930.

Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educator (Montessori Schools), was born on August 30, 1870.

August 30th Birthdays: Famous Performers

American actress Elizabeth Ashley (The Carpetbaggers, Coma, Dragnet, Evening Shade, Paternity and Ship of Fools) was born on August 30, 1939.

Lewis Niles Black, American comedian (The Daily Show and The Root of All Evil), was born on August 30, 1948.

Joan Blondell, American actress (The Blue Veil, The Champ, The Cincinnati Kid, Gold Diggers of 1933, Grease, Nightmare Alley, Opening Night, Penny Arcade, The Perfect Specimen, The Public Enemy, The Real McCoys, Sinners' Holiday, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter) and Academy Award winner (1951), was born on August 30, 1906.

American actor Timothy James Bottoms (Dirt, Elephant, The Girl Next Door, Johnny Got His Gun, The Last Picture Show, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, The Paper Chase, Texasville and That 70s Show) was born on August 30, 1951.

Michael Charles Chiklis, Greek-American actor (The Commish, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, The Shield and Wired), was born on August 30, 1964.

Bill Daily, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie and Newhart), was born on August 30, 1928.

Muriel (Kitty Wells) Deason, American country singer (The Grand Old Opry), was born on August 30, 1919. Kitty Wells has been called "The Queen of Country Music."

Cameron Diaz, American actress (Any Given Sunday, Being John Malkovich, Charlie's Angels, Feeling Minnesota, Full Throttle, Gangs of New York, In Her Shoes, The Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding, She's the One, Shrek, There's Something About Mary, Vanilla Sky and What Happens in Vegas), was born on August 30, 1972.

American actress and Thelma (Shirley Booth) Ford, American actress (Come Back Little Sheba, The Glass Menagerie, Hazel and Time of the Cuckoo) and Academy Award winner (1952) was born on August 30, 1907.

John Landis, American actor (Darkman, Laws of Deception, Mad City, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Sleepwalkers, Spiderman 2 and Surviving Eden) and film director (An American Werewolf in London, Animal House, Beverly Hills Cop, Black or White, Blues Brothers, Coming to America, Kentucky Fried Movie, Slasher, Spies Like Us, The Stupids, Three Amigos, Trading Places and Twilight Zone: The Movie), was born on August 30, 1950.

Peggy Lipton, American actress (The Mod Squad and Twin Peaks) was born on August 30, 1947.

Canadian-American actor Raymond Massey (Arsenic and Old Lace, Dr. Kildare and East of Eden), was born on August 30, 1896.

Frederick (Fred) Martin MacMurray, American actor (Above Suspicion, The Absent-Minded Professor, Alice Adams, The Apartment, The Caine Mutiny, Double Indemnity, The Gilded Lily, Hands Across the Table, My Three Sons, Pushover, The Shaggy Dog, Son of Flubber, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, True Confession and Where Do We Go From Here), was born on August 30, 1908.

American actor David Paymer (The American President, Carpool, City Slickers, Crazy People, Get Shorty, Line of Fire, Mr. Saturday Night, Ocean's Thirteen, Payback, Quiz Show and Searching for Bobby Fischer) was born on August 30, 1954.

American singer and songwriter John Phillips (The Mamas and the Papas) was born on August 30, 1935.

Ryan Ross, American rocker (Panic at the Disco), was born on August 30, 1986.

Michael Michele Williams, American actress (Ali, Dangerous Curves, ER, Homicide: Life on the Street, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Kevin Hill, New Jack City and New York Undercover), was born on August 30, 1966.

August 30th Birthdays: Famous Scientists

Edward M. Purcell, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1952), was born on August 30, 1912.

Ernest Lord Rutherford, New Zealand physicist, chemist (Rutherford Scattering) and Nobel Prize winner (1908), was born on August 30, 1871. Rutherford has been called the "father of nuclear physics" for his pioneering research into the atom.

Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and Nobel Prize winner (1926), was born on August 30, 1884.

Jacobus Henricus Van 't Hoff, Dutch physical chemist and Nobel Prize winner (1901), was born on August 30, 1852.

August 30th Birthdays: Famous World (and Other) Leaders

Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, American First Lady, (to 21^st U.S. President Chester A. Arthur), was born on August 30, 1837.

Happy Birthday, August 30th.

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