1930 in the United States

none August 2021 February 2026 1930 1930 February 2025 Events from the year 1930 in the United States. Incumbents Federal government President: Herbert Hoover (R-California) Vice President: Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (Ohio) (until February 3) Charles Evans Hughes (New York) (starting February 13) Speaker of the House of Representatives: Nicholas Longworth (R-Ohio) Senate Majority Leader: James Eli Watson (R-Indiana) Congress: 71st State governments Governors and lieutenant governors Governors 30em Governor of Alabama: Bibb Graves (Democratic) Governor of Arizona: John Calhoun Phillips (Republican) Governor of Arkansas: Harvey Parnell (Democratic) Governor of California: Clement C. Young (Republican) Governor of Colorado: Billy Adams (Democratic) Governor of Connecticut: John H. Trumbull (Republican) Governor of Delaware: C. Douglass Buck (Republican) Governor of Florida: Doyle E. Carlton (Democratic) Governor of Georgia: Lamartine G. Hardman (Democratic) Governor of Idaho: H. C. Baldridge (Republican) Governor of Illinois: Louis L. Emmerson (Republican) Governor of Indiana: Harry G. Leslie (Republican) Governor of Iowa: John Hammill (Republican) Governor of Kansas: Clyde M. Reed (Republican) Governor of Kentucky: Flem D. Sampson (Republican) Governor of Louisiana: Huey P. Long (Democratic) Governor of Maine: William Tudor Gardiner (Republican) Governor of Maryland: Albert C. Ritchie (Democratic) Governor of Massachusetts: Frank G. Allen (Republican) Governor of Michigan: Fred W. Green (Republican) Governor of Minnesota: Theodore Christianson (Republican) Governor of Mississippi: Theodore G. Bilbo (Democratic) Governor of Missouri: Henry S. Caulfield (Republican) Governor of Montana: John E. Erickson (Democratic) Governor of Nebraska: Arthur J. Weaver (Republican) Governor of Nevada: Fred B. Balzar (Republican) Governor of New Hampshire: Charles W. Tobey (Republican) Governor of New Jersey: Morgan Foster Larson (Republican) Governor of New Mexico: Richard C. Dillon (Republican) Governor of New York: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) Governor of North Carolina: Oliver Max Gardner (Democratic) Governor of North Dakota: George F. Shafer (Republican) Governor of Ohio: Myers Y. Cooper (Republican) Governor of Oklahoma: William J. Holloway (Democratic) Governor of Oregon: A. W. Norblad (Republican) Governor of Pennsylvania: John Stuchell Fisher (Republican) Governor of Rhode Island: Norman S. Case (Republican) Governor of South Carolina: John Gardiner Richards Jr. (Democratic) Governor of South Dakota: William J. Bulow (Democratic) Governor of Tennessee: Henry Hollis Horton (Democratic) Governor of Texas: Dan Moody (Democratic) Governor of Utah: George Dern (Democratic) Governor of Vermont: John E. Weeks (Republican) Governor of Virginia: Harry F. Byrd (Democratic) (until January 15), John Garland Pollard (Democratic) (starting January 15) Governor of Washington: Roland H. Hartley (Republican) Governor of West Virginia: William G. Conley (Republican) Governor of Wisconsin: Walter J. Kohler Sr. (Republican) Governor of Wyoming: Frank C. Emerson (Republican) Lieutenant governors 30em Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: William C. Davis (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: William Lee Cazort (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of California: H. L. Carnahan (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: George Milton Corlett (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Ernest E. Rogers (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: James H. Hazel (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: O. E. Hailey (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Fred E. Sterling (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Edgar D. Bush (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Arch W. McFarlane (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Jacob W. Graybill (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: James Breathitt Jr. (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Paul N. Cyr (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: William S. Youngman (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Luren D. Dickinson (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Charles Edward Adams (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Bidwell Adam (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Edward Henry Winter (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Frank A. Hazelbaker (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: George A. Williams (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Morley Griswold (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: vacant Lieutenant Governor of New York: Herbert H. Lehman (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Richard T. Fountain (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: John W. Carr (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: John T. Brown (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: vacant Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Arthur H. James (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: James G. Connolly (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Bothwell Butler (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: John T. Grigsby (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Sam R. Bratton (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Barry Miller (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Stanley C. Wilson (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Junius Edgar West (Democratic) (until January 15), James H. Price (Democratic) (starting January 15) Lieutenant Governor of Washington: John Arthur Gellatly (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Henry A. Huber (Republican) Demographics 1930 United States census Events January–March January 6 The first diesel engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City). The first literary character licensing agreement is signed by English author A. A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works. January 13 – The Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.Robert Heide John Gilman Disneyana: Classic Collectibles 1928-1958 https://books.google.com/books?id=gBY4AQAAIAAJ February 25, 2002 Disney Editions 978-0-7868-5376-2 38 January 19–23 – Watsonville riots: violent assaults on Filipino American farm workers by white residents in California.De Witt Howard A. 1979 The Watsonville Anti-Filipino Riot of 1930: A Case Study of the Great Depression and Ethnic Conflict in California Southern California Quarterly 61 3 290 February 18 Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in an airplane, and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane. While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of Pluto, a heavenly body considered a planet until 2006, when officially redefined as a dwarf planet. March 6 – The first frozen foods of Clarence Birdseye go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts. March 17 – The Empire State Building begins construction in New York City. March 20 – Colonel Sanders opens the first Kentucky Fried Chicken in North Corbin, Kentucky. March 31 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next 40 years. April–June thumb|right|upright|May 27: Chrysler Building completed April 3 – The 2nd Academy Awards, hosted by William C. DeMille, are presented at the Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles), with Harry Beaumont's The Broadway Melody winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh's In Old Arizona and Ernst Lubitsch's The Patriot jointly receive the most nominations with five. April 6 – Jimmy Dewar invents Hostess Twinkies (snack cakes).Business Builders In Sweets and Treats 2005 80 The Oliver Press Aaseng, Nathan 1-881508-84-6 https://books.google.com/books?id=lXBPiDJ5R8YC&q=%22april+6%22+dewar+continental&pg=PA80 April 19 – Warner Bros. in the United States release their first cartoon series, called Looney Tunes, which runs until 1969. April 21 – A fire in the Ohio Penitentiary near Columbus kills 320 people.133 April 22 – The United States, United Kingdom and Japan sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding. April 28 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas. May 10 – The National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded in Washington, D.C. May 14 – Carlsbad Caverns National Park is established in New Mexico. May 15 – Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess, aboard a Boeing tri-motor flying from Oakland, California, to Chicago, Illinois. May 27 – The Chrysler Building is completed in New York City, becoming the world's first man-made structure taller than us 1000 ft m 3. May 30 Film director Sergei Eisenstein arrives in Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures; they part ways by October. Shedd Aquarium, one of the first inland aquariums in the world, opens in Chicago. June 9 – Chicago Tribune journalist Jake Lingle is shot in Chicago. Newspapers promise $55,000 reward for information. Lingle is later found to have had contacts with organized crime. June 14 – An act of Congress establishes the Federal Bureau of Narcotics as a replacement for the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit. June 17 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law. July–September July 4 – Nation of Islam founded by Wallace Fard Muhammad in Detroit. July 21 – The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established. July 26 – Charles Creighton and James Hargis leave New York City for Los Angeles on a roundtrip journey, driving 11,555 km using only a reverse gear; the trip lasts the next 42 days. July 30 – New York City television station W2XBS is put in charge of NBC broadcast engineers. July 31 – The radio drama The Shadow airs for the first time. August 6 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York City and disappears. August 7 – Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana. They are hanged; James Cameron survives. This will be the last recorded lynching of African Americans in the Northern United States. August 9 – Cartoon character Betty Boop premieres in the animated film Dizzy Dishes. September 8 – 3M introduces Scotch Tape. September 9 – Governor of Louisiana Huey P. Long wins the 1930 Democratic Senate primary election in Louisiana, he would later win the Senate election. October–December October 8 – The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 2, to win their 5th World Series Title. November 4 W9XAP in Chicago, Illinois, broadcasts the U.S. senatorial election returns, the first time a senatorial race, with non-stop vote tallies, is televised. Benjamin M. Miller is elected the 39th governor of Alabama defeating Hugh A. Locke. November 5 – The 3rd Academy Awards, hosted by Conrad Nagel, are presented at the Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles). Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front wins the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Milestone winning Best Director. The film and George Hill's The Big House both receive the most awards with two, while Ernst Lubitsch's The Love Parade receives the most nominations with six. November 15 – Jean Harlow has her first major film role, in Howard Hughes' epic war film Hell's Angels. Her platinum hair and sensual persona cause an immediate sensation, turning her into one of the decade's most iconic and discussed film stars. December 2 – Great Depression: U.S. President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy. December 7 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts, broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I. J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show. Undated A Jamaican ginger ("Jake") paralysis outbreak occurs across the South and Midwest. 1930–1931 – Crazy Horse’s lifelong friend, He Dog, is interviewed by journalist Eleanor Hinman and Nebraska writer Mari Sandoz. A record drought in the eastern part of the nationHenry Alfred J. The Weather of 1930 in the United States Monthly Weather Review December 1930 351–354 10.1175/1520-0493(1930)58<351:TGDOIT>2.0.CO;2 free sees Upper Tract, West Virginia record only 9.50 in mm 1 of precipitation for the year – the record lowest for a calendar year in the US east of the Mississippi.http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/special/minann.pdf Record Minimum Annual Precipitation by State 1.ncdc.noaa.gov May 2, 2023 November 6, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211106161122/https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/special/minann.pdf dead Averaged over the contiguous US the twelve months from July 1930 to June 1931 remains the driest such period on record.https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/national/time-series/110/pcp/12/6/1895-2023?base_prd=true&begbaseyear=1896&endbaseyear=1974&trend=true&trend_base=100&begtrendyear=1975&endtrendyear=2023&filter=true&filterType=binomial Climate at a Glance: Contiguous US Precipitation July to June National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ongoing Lochner era (c. 1897 – c. 1937) U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)The long legacy of the U.S. occupation of Haiti https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/08/06/haiti-us-occupation-1915/ Washington Post August 19, 2022 Prohibition (1920–1933)Volstead Act History, Definition, & Significance Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/Volstead-Act www.britannica.com August 15, 2022 en Great Depression (1929–1933) Dust Bowl (1930–1936) Births January thumb|120px|Robert Loggia thumb|120px|Tippi Hedren thumb|120px|Buzz Aldrin thumb|120px|Gene Hackman January 1 Ty Hardin, actor (d. 2017) Frederick Wiseman, film maker (d. 2026) January 2 – Julius La Rosa, pop singer (d. 2016) January 3 Ray Barra, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 2025) Robert Loggia, actor (d. 2015) Barbara Stuart, actress (d. 2011) January 4 Sorrell Booke, actor (d. 1994) Don Shula, American football player and coach (d. 2020)Schudel Jeff Don Shula at 80: From Harvey to Hall http://www.news-herald.com/general-news/20100718/don-shula-at-80-from-harvey-to-hall-with-slideshow-video November 2, 2013 The News-Herald August 9, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131103234608/http://www.news-herald.com/general-news/20100718/don-shula-at-80-from-harvey-to-hall-with-slideshow-video November 3, 2013 dead January 5 Edward Givens, United States Air Force officer, test pilot and NASA astronaut (d. 1967)Lee Ellis Who's who of NASA Astronauts https://books.google.com/books?id=z-M-YksXsqcC&pg=PA405 2004 Americana Group Publishing 978-0-9667961-4-8 405 Don Rondo, singer (d. 2011) January 6 W. Wallace Cleland, biochemist and educator (d. 2013) Professor Tanaka, wrestler and actor (d. 2000) Vic Tayback, actor (Alice) (d. 1990) January 7 Ann Bedsole, politician (d. 2025) Jack Greene, country music singer-songwriter (d. 2013) Eddie LeBaron, American football player, manager and sportscaster (d. 2015) January 8 Dorothi Fox, actress Bill James, politician (d. 2022) Doreen Wilber, archer (d. 2008) January 10 – Roy E. Disney, film and television executive (d. 2009) January 12 – Glenn Yarbrough, singer (d. 2016)http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/08/12/singer-glenn-yarbrough-dead-86/88599116/ Juli Thanki Singer Glenn Yarbrough dies at 86 The Tennessean August 12, 2016 January 13 – Frances Sternhagen, actress (d. 2023) January 14 – C. Arlen Beam, judge January 15 James Millstone, journalist and editor (d. 1992) Margaret Mary Vojtko, linguist (d. 2013) January 16 – Mary Ann McMorrow, judge (d. 2013)Illinois Blue Book https://books.google.com/books?id=njtPAQAAMAAJ 1991 The Secretary 177 January 17 Dick Contino, American accordionist (d. 2017) Lucille Miller, American murderer (d. 1986) January 18 – James M. Bobbitt, chemist and professor (d. 2021) January 19 – Tippi Hedren, actress January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, astronaut, Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11 and second person to walk on the Moon January 22 – David Rosen, businessman (d. 2025) January 23 William R. Pogue, astronaut (d. 2014) Benjamin Tatar, actor (d. 2012) January 24 Edward Diego Reyes, politician (d. 2018) Rita Lakin, screenwriter (d. 2023) John Romita Sr., comic book artist (d. 2023)John Romita Sr obituary January 25 – Ruth Kligman, artist (d. 2010)Blume Lesley The Canvas and the Triangle https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/09/jackson-pollock-ruth-kligman-love-triangle Vanity Fair September 19, 2017 January 26 – Thomas Gumbleton, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2024)Retired Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit dies at 94 January 27 – Bobby Bland, African-American singer (d. 2013) January 28 Ruth Cohen (actress), actress (d. 2008) Ralph Engelstad, businessman (d. 2002) January 30 Gene Hackman, actor and novelist (d. 2025) Frank O'Bannon, politician, 47th governor of Indiana (d. 2003) January 31 – Al De Lory, record producer, arranger, musician (d. 2012) February thumb|120px|Robert Wagner thumb|120px|Joanne Woodward thumb|120px|Leon Cooper February 2 Ruth M. Kirk, politician (d. 2011)https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/06hse/former/html/msa12253.html Ruth M. Kirk (1930-2011) Maryland Manual Online May 18, 2020 C. M. Newton, basketball player, coach and administrator (d. 2018) February 3 – David Edward Foley, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018) February 4 – Jim Loscutoff, basketball player (d. 2015)Robert W. Cohen 40 Greatest Players in Boston Celtics Basketball History https://books.google.com/books?id=ta-zDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA324 August 1, 2017 Down East Books 978-1-60893-626-7 324 February 5 – Don Goldie, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1995) February 7 – Jack Biddle, politician (d. 2022)32-year former state legislator Jack Biddle dies in Gardendale February 8 Jim Dooley, American football player and coach (d. 2008) Arlan Stangeland, American farmer and politician (d. 2013) February 10 Anne Wexler, American political consultant and public policy advisor (d. 2009) Robert Wagner, American actor February 11 – James Polshek, American architect (d. 2022)https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/10/arts/james-stewart-polshek-dead.html James Stewart Polshek, Quiet Giant of Modern Architecture, Dies at 92 Clay Risen September 10, 2022 May 2, 2023 The New York Times February 12 Bert Clark, American football player and coach (d. 2004) Arlen Specter, American politician (d. 2012) February 13 – Frank Buxton, American actor, television writer, director and author (d. 2018) February 14 – Bernie Papy Jr., American politician (d. 1995) February 15 Sara Jane Moore, attempted assassin of President Gerald Ford (d. 2025) Robert Edward Mulvee, Roman Catholic Prelate (d. 2018) February 16 Ricou Browning, stuntman and film director (d. 2023) Noah Weinberg, American-born Israeli rabbi, founder of Aish HaTorah (d. 2009 in Israel) February 17 – Roger Craig, American baseball player, coach and manager (d. 2023) February 18 – Pauline Bart, American sociologist (d. 2021)https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/30/us/pauline-bart-dead.html Pauline Bart, 91, Sociologist Who Mapped Women's Challenges, Dies Penelope Green October 30, 2021 May 2, 2023 The New York Times February 19 – John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002) February 22 James McGarrell, American painter (d. 2020) Marni Nixon, American vocalist (d. 2016) February 24 Joan Diener, American theater actress and singer (d. 2006) Barbara Jo Lawrence, American actress and model (d. 2013) Anita Steckel, American feminist artist (d. 2012) February 25 Roger A. Madigan, American politician (d. 2018) Delford M. Smith, American aviator (d. 2014) February 26 – Robert Francis, American actor (d. 1955) February 27 Barney Glaser, American sociologist (d. 2022) Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003) Joanne Woodward, American actressCaryn Hannan Georgia Biographical Dictionary https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8QGF2QH5K0C&pg=PA446 January 1, 1999 State History Publications 978-1-878592-42-2 446 February 28 – Leon Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2024) March thumb|120px|James Irwin thumb|120px|Steve McQueen March 2 John Cullum, actor and singer Tom Wolfe, author, journalist (d. 2018)Tracy Chevalier Encyclopedia of the Essay https://books.google.com/books?id=nOwBEsoNiUMC&pg=PA903 October 12, 2012 Routledge 978-1-135-31410-1 903 March 5 – Del Crandall, baseball player and manager (d. 2021) March 6 – Allison Hayes, actress (d. 1977)Paul Donnelley Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries https://books.google.com/books?id=EmYcAQAAIAAJ 2000 Omnibus 978-0-7119-7984-0 273 March 9 – Ornette Coleman, jazz saxophonist (d. 2015) March 16 Olen Lovell Burrage, American native businessman (d. 2013) Hobie Landrith, baseball player (d. 2023)https://www.sportskeeda.com/baseball/hobie-landrith-cause-death-new-york-mets-legend-passes-away-93 Hobie Landrith cause of death: New York Mets legend passes away at 93 Zachary Roberts April 9, 2023 Sportskeeda.com May 2, 2023 March 17 – James Irwin, astronaut (d. 1991) March 18 – Adam Maida, Roman Catholic prelate March 19 Wayne Fitzgerald, film title designer (d. 2019) Richard Wald, American television executive (d. 2022)https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/richard-wald-former-nbc-news-president-abc-news-executive-dies-92-rcna28705 Richard Wald, former NBC News president and ABC News executive, dies at 92 NBC News May 13, 2022 May 2, 2023 March 21 – James Coco, American actor (d. 1987) March 22 Derek Bok, American lawyer and academic Pat Robertson, American televangelist, motivational speaker, author and television host (d. 2023) Stephen Sondheim, American composer, lyricist (d. 2021) Willie Thrower, American football player (d. 2002) March 24 – Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980) March 25 John Keel, American journalist, urologist (d. 2009) Russell Sherman, American pianist (d. 2023)Russell Sherman, Poetic Interpreter at the Piano, Is Dead at 93 March 26 – Sandra Day O'Connor, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States(d. 2023)Ex-Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor dies aged 93 March 27 – James Tayoun, American politician (d. 2017) March 28 Robert Ashley, American composer (d. 2014)Neil Butterworth Dictionary of American Classical Composers https://books.google.com/books?id=WR8jAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA15 October 2, 2013 Routledge 978-1-136-79024-9 15 Jerome Isaac Friedman, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate Joe Fortunato, American football player (d. 2017) March 30 – John Astin, actor March 31 – Susan Weil, artistJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Reports of the President and the Treasurer - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation https://books.google.com/books?id=2zgkAQAAIAAJ 1977 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 117 April 120px|thumb|Dick Sargent 120px|thumb|Carolyn Jones April 1 Betsy Jones-Moreland, actress (d. 2006) Grace Lee Whitney, actress (Star Trek) (d. 2015)Grace Lee Whitney https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/13212557.grace-lee-whitney/ HeraldScotland May 6, 2015 October 22, 2022 en April 3 – Lawton Chiles, politician (d. 1998) April 5 – Mary Costa, American opera singer and actressMarion Elizabeth Cullen Memorable days in music https://books.google.com/books?id=2cs4AQAAIAAJ May 1970 Scarecrow Press 67 9780810802933 April 9 – Jim Fowler, zoologist (d. 2019) April 10 Dolores Huerta, labor leader and activist Frank Lary, baseball player (d. 2017)Robert W. Cohen The 50 Greatest Players in Detroit Tigers History https://books.google.com/books?id=kf-ICgAAQBAJ&pg=PA209 October 1, 2015 Taylor Trade Publishing 978-1-63076-100-4 209 April 11 Nicholas F. Brady, politician Anton LaVey, Satanist (d. 1997)Anton LaVey Biography, Books, & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anton-LaVey Encyclopedia Britannica January 16, 2021 en April 14 Bradford Dillman, actor and author (d. 2018) Arnold Burns, lawyer (d. 2013) Jay Robinson, actor (d. 2013) William vanden Heuvel, lawyer and diplomat (b. 2021)https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/obituaries/william-vanden-heuvel-diplomat-and-a-kennedy-confidant-dies-at-91.html William vanden Heuvel, Diplomat and a Kennedy Confidant, Dies at 91 Zach Montague June 15, 2021 May 2, 2023 The New York Times April 19 Curtis Roosevelt, writer (d. 2016) Dick Sargent, actor and gay activist (d. 1994) April 21 – Donald J. Tyson, businessman (d. 2011) April 23 – Alan Oppenheimer, actor April 24 Richard Donner, film director and producer (d. 2021) Conn Findlay, rower, Olympic champion (d. 2021) April 28 James Baker, United States Secretary of State Carolyn Jones, actress (d. 1983) Richard C. Sarafian, film-television director, writer and actor (d. 2013) April 29 – Irv Weinstein, broadcaster, television news anchor (d. 2017)http://blogs.buffalonews.com/talkintv/ Happy 80th Birthday, Irv Pergament Alan April 29, 2010 The Buffalo News July 29, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100605132146/http://blogs.buffalonews.com/talkintv/ June 5, 2010 dead May thumb|120px|Mike Gravel thumb|120px|Clint Eastwood May 1 Ethel Ayler, American actress (d. 2018)Barnes Mike Ethel Ayler, Actress in 'Eve's Bayou' and 'The Cosby Show,' Dies at 88 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ethel-ayler-dead-cosby-show-eves-bayou-actress-was-88-1171489 August 6, 2019 The Hollywood Reporter December 21, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20190806202755/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ethel-ayler-dead-cosby-show-eves-bayou-actress-was-88-1171489 August 6, 2019 Ollie Matson, American sprinter (d. 2011) Richard Riordan, American politician, 39th Mayor of Los Angeles (d. 2023) Little Walter, African-American blues singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1968) May 3 Bob Havens, American musician Edward Nixon, American entrepreneur (d. 2019) May 4 Lois de Banzie, UK-born American actress (d. 2021) Katherine Jackson, Jackson Family matriarch Roberta Peters, American soprano (d. 2017) May 5 Michael J. Adams, aviator, aeronautical engineer and astronaut (d. 1967) Douglas Turner Ward, playwright, actor and director (d. 2021) May 6 George Tarasovic, American football player (d. 2019) David Carpenter, serial killer May 7 – Babe Parilli, American football player (d. 2017) May 8 – Gary Snyder, poet, essayist and translatorPaul Varner Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement https://books.google.com/books?id=S26J6-wY9LoC&pg=PA266 2012 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7189-2 266 May 10 Adam Darius, dancer and choreographer (d. 2017) George E. Smith, physicist, engineer and Nobel Prize laureate Pat Summerall, American football player, broadcaster (d. 2013) May 11 Bud Ekins, stuntman (d. 2007) William Honan, journalist and author (d. 2014) May 12 – Tom Umphlett, baseball player and manager (d. 2012) May 13 – Mike Gravel, politician (d. 2021) May 15 Cotton Ivy, author and politician (d. 2021) Jasper Johns, painter May 16 – Carolyn Conwell, actress (d. 2012) May 17 – Frank Price, film studio head and television writer (d. 2025) May 18 – Don L. Lind, naval aviator, astronaut and scientist (d. 2022)https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2022/9/2/23332941/don-lind-latter-day-saint-astronaut-scientist-dies-at-age-92 Don Lind, Latter-day Saint astronaut, scientist, pilot, dies at age 92 September 2, 2022 Church News May 2, 2023 May 19 – Lorraine Hansberry, African-American playwright (d. 1965)Henry Louis Gates Jr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham African American Lives https://books.google.com/books?id=3dXw6gR2GgkC&pg=PA373 April 29, 2004 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-988286-1 373 May 22 Harvey Milk, politician, San Francisco gay rights activist (d. 1978)Chuck Stewart Gay and Lesbian Issues: A Reference Handbook https://books.google.com/books?id=sdKvt-GoidYC&pg=PA154 2003 ABC-CLIO 978-1-85109-372-4 154 Tiny Topsy, African-American rhythm and blues singer (d. 1964) May 23 – Charles Kelman, ophthalmologist (d. 2004) May 27 John Barth, fiction writer (d. 2024)Jay Parini The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA135 2004 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-515653-9 135 Bruce Halle, American businessman (d. 2018) William S. Sessions, American civil servant and judge (d. 2020) May 28 – Frank Drake, radio astronomer, pioneer in SETI (d. 2022) May 29 – Gerry Lenfest, lawyer, media executive and philanthropist (d. 2018) May 30 Clint Eastwood, actor, filmmaker, musician and political figureCharles Leinberger Ennio Morricone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Film Score Guide https://books.google.com/books?id=RUeSAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA48 September 1, 2004 Scarecrow Press 978-1-4616-5841-2 48 Morton L. Janklow, literary agent (d. 2022)https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/archive/memoriam-morton-l-janklow-53-preeminent-literary-agent In Memoriam: Morton L. 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C. Gorden, American football player, coach (d. 2020) Isaac Levi, philosopher (d. 2018) Thomas Sowell, economist, authorEvelyn Brooks Higginbotham Henry Louis Gates The African American National Biography: Roman-Tzomes Oxford University Press 2008 366 July thumb|120px|Theodore McCarrick thumb|120px|Jerry Vale thumb|120px|Polly Bergen thumb|120px|Paul Taylor July 1 Jerome A. 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Brantley Harvey Jr., lawyer and politician (d. 2018) Earl Weaver, baseball player and manager (d. 2013)Ted Patterson Day by Day in Orioles History https://books.google.com/books?id=RZqIymchVKwC&pg=PA111 1999 Sports Publishing LLC 978-1-58261-017-7 111 August 15 – Selma James, American-born feminist writer August 16 Robert Culp, actor (d. 2010) Frank Gifford, American football player (d. 2015) Tony Trabert, tennis player and commentator (d. 2021)Steve Gietschier Chase's 2000 Sports Calendar of Events: The Day by Day Directory to Local, Regional and National Sporting Events and Recreational Activities of All Kinds https://books.google.com/books?id=PtsIZ66FgWQC November 1999 McGraw-Hill 978-0-8092-2600-9 186 August 19 Jesse L. Douglas, civil rights activist (d. 2025) Frank McCourt, writer (d. 2009) August 21 – Frank Perry, stage director and filmmaker (d. 1995) August 23 – Mickey McMahan, big band musician (d. 2008) August 28 – Ben Gazzara, actor (d. 2012)Daniel Blum's Theatre World https://books.google.com/books?id=sVErAQAAIAAJ 1964 Crown Publishers 243 August 30 Warren Buffett, billionaire entrepreneur Xernona Clayton, civil rights activist and broadcasting executiveJessie Carney Smith Notable Black American Women https://books.google.com/books?id=ssMBzqrUpjwC&pg=PA96 1992 VNR AG 978-0-8103-9177-2 96 August 31 – Raymond J. Donovan, businessman and politician, Secretary of Labor (d. 2021) September thumb|120px|Ray Charles thumb|120px|John Young September 2 – Rita Riggs, costume designer (d. 2017) September 4 – Norman Dorsen, civil rights activist (d. 2017)Norman Dorsen, Tenacious Civil Rights Advocate, Dies at 86, nytimes.com; accessed July 2, 2017. 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Ward Meet Shel Silverstein https://books.google.com/books?id=qUITFQ7PvIEC&pg=PA6 2001 The Rosen Publishing Group 978-0-8239-5709-5 6 September 26 – Philip Bosco, American actor (d. 2018) September 28 Tommy Collins, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2000) Johnny "Country" Mathis, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2011) September 29 – Billy Strange, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)Lewis Randy http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-billy-strange-20120224,0,767015.story Billy Strange dies at 81; guitarist, arranger for Presley, Nancy Sinatra Los Angeles Times February 24, 2012 October thumb|120px|The Big Bopper thumb|120px|Michael Collins October 1 – George F. 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R. 2005 John Nathan Cobb (1868-1930): Founding director of the College of Fisheries, University of Washington, Seattle Mar. Fish. Rev 1–24 65 3 January 24 – Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator from Georgia (b. 1835) February 7 – Jennie Anderson Froiseth, women's rights campaigner (b. 1849) February 14 – Fred Dubois, U.S. Senator from Idaho (b. 1851) February 27 – George Haven Putnam, author and publisher (b. 1844) March 2 – Marta Sandal, Norwegian-born singer (b. 1878 in Norway)Marta Sandal https://snl.no/Marta_Sandal Store Norske Leksikon no August 16, 2024 March 8 – William Howard Taft, 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and 10th chief justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930 (b. 1857) March 11 – Alma Webster Hall Powell, opera singer, suffragist and inventor (b. 1869) March 13 – Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, author (b. 1852)Fishinger, Sondra. "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, 1852–1930", in Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997: 139. 0-8156-0418-1 March 31 – James Marshall Head, politician and businessman (b. 1855) April 7 – Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo, politician (b. 1859) April 14 – John B. Sheridan, sports journalist (b. 1870 in Ireland)George Seldes Witch Hunt: The Technique and Profits of Redbaiting https://books.google.com/books?id=LNQUAAAAMAAJ 1940 Modern age books 88 April 16 – Linda Richards, nurse (b. 1841)David Shavit The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary https://books.google.com/books?id=IWdZTaJdc6UC&pg=PA420 1990 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-26788-8 420 May 2 – Daniel V. Asay, iceboat racer (b. 1847) May 18 – Gottfried Blocklinger, admiral (b. 1847) May – Anna Margaret Urbas, criminal associate (murdered; b. 1905/06) June 16 – Ezra Fitch, businessman, co-founder of Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1865) July 2 – Anders Randolf, silent film actor (b. 1870 in Denmark) August 6 – Luigi Fugazy, banker, businessman and philanthropist (b. 1839 in Italy) September 5 Carl Panzram, serial killer and rapist (executed; b. 1891) Robert Means Thompson, naval officer and president of the American Olympic Association (b. 1849) September 21 – John T. Dorrance, chemist (b. 1873) September 24 – William A. MacCorkle, lawyer, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857) September 28 – Daniel Guggenheim, mining magnate and philanthropist (b. 1856) September 30 – Albert W. Grant, admiral (b. 1856) October 2 – Gordon Stewart Northcott, serial killer (executed; b. 1906) October 15 – Herbert Henry Dow, industrial chemist (b. 1866 in Canada) November 20 – William B. Hanna, sportswriter (b. 1866)https://www.nytimes.com/1930/11/21/archives/william-b-hanna-new-york-sports-writer-who-had-a-long-career-dies.html William B. Hanna, New York Sports Writer, Who Had a Long Career, Dies 21 November 1930 May 2, 2023 The New York Times November 29 – Anna DeCosta Banks, American nurse (b. 1869)Schafer Elizabeth D. May 17, 2016 Banks, Anna DeCosta http://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/banks-anna-de-costa/ January 26, 2017 South Carolina Encyclopedia University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies December 9 – Rube Foster, Negro league baseball player (b. 1879) December 14 – F. Richard Jones, director (b. 1893) December 16 – Herman Lamm, bank robber (suicide; b. 1890 in Germany) See also List of American films of 1930 Timeline of United States history (1930–1949) References External links 1930 Category:1930s in the United States United States United States Category:Years of the 20th century in the United States