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August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days
remaining.
Events
Births
- 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, writer (d. 1851)
- 1871 - Ernest
Rutherford, physicist (d. 1937)
- 1893 - Huey Long, American politician
(d. 1935)
- 1896 - Raymond Massey, actor
(d. 1983)
- 1898 - Shirley Booth, actress
(d. 1992)
- 1901 - Roy Wilkins, civil rights leader ( 1981)
- 1906 - Joan Blondell, actress
(d. 1979)
- 1908 - Fred MacMurray, actor
(d. 1991)
- 1918 - Ted Williams, baseball
player (d. 2002)
- 1919 - Kitty Wells, country music singer
- 1927 - Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer
- 1930 - Warren Buffett,
entrepreneur
- 1930 - Jerry Tarkanian,
college basketball
coach
- 1935 - John Phillips, singer, The Mamas
and the Papas. (d. 2001)
- 1939 - John Peel, Radio 1 DJ
- 1943 - Jean-Claude
Killy, French alpine
skier
- 1943 - R. Crumb, cartoonist
- 1944 - Molly Ivins, political
humorist
- 1947 - Peggy Lipton, actress
- 1948 - Lewis Black, stand-up comedian
- 1951 - Timothy Bottoms, actor
- 1972 - Cameron Diaz, actress
(There's Something About Mary,
Any Given Sunday, Shrek)
- 1972 - Pavel Nedved, Czech football star
- 1980 - Aaron Barrett, Reel Big Fish guitarist, singer
- 1982 - Andy Roddick, tennis
player
Deaths
Holidays and observances
August 29 - August 31 -
July 30 - September 30 --
listing of all days
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