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July 30

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1932 Summer Olympics

94 years ago

Born this day

1863

Henry Ford

Died aged 83

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607th

Hussite Wars

event anniversary

Famous births30

1511 · 515 yrs

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of Western art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern…

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ArtDied aged 62

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1818 · 208 yrs

Emily Brontë

Emily Jane Brontë (commonly; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

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LiteratureDied aged 30

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1857 · 169 yrs

Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Bunde Veblen ( THOR-styn VEH-blən; July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism.

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ScienceDied aged 72

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1863 · 163 yrs

Henry Ford

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism.

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BusinessDied aged 83

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1898 · 128 yrs

Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English visual artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art.

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1939 · 87 yrs

Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich (July 30, 1939 – January 6, 2022) was an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian.

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1941 · 85 yrs

Paul Anka

Paul Albert Anka (born July 30, 1941) is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter and actor. His songs include "Diana", "You Are My Destiny", "Lonely Boy", "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" and "(You're) Having My Baby".

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MusicAge 85

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1944 · 82 yrs

Jimmy Cliff

James Ezekiel Chambers (30 July 1944 – 24 November 2025), known professionally as Jimmy Cliff, was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul musician. He was considered to be one of Jamaica's most celebrated musicians and was credited with helping to popularise reggae music internationally.

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1945 · 81 yrs

Patrick Modiano

Jean Patrick Modiano (French:; born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a noted writer of autofiction, the blend of autobiography and historical fiction.

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LiteratureAge 81

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1947 · 79 yrs

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, film producer, politician, and former professional bodybuilder who served as the 38th governor of California from 2003 to 2011. Schwarzenegger began lifting weights at the age of 15 and won the Mr.

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FilmAge 79

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1947 · 79 yrs

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (French:; born 30 July 1947) is a French virologist and Director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division (French: Unité de Régulation des Infections Rétrovirales) and Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.

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ScienceAge 79

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1948 · 78 yrs

Jean Reno

Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez (born 30 July 1948), commonly known as Jean Reno (French:), is a French and Spanish actor. He established himself as a leading man of French cinema through his collaborations with director Luc Besson, and has worked in numerous international productions.

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Famous deaths15

1683 · 343 yrs

Maria Theresa of Spain

Maria Theresa of Spain (Spanish: María Teresa de España; French: Marie-Thérèse d'Espagne; 10 September 1638 – 30 July 1683) was Queen of France from 1660 to 1683 as the wife of King Louis XIV.

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RoyaltyDied aged 44

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1718 · 308 yrs

William Penn

William Penn (24 October 1644 – 10 August 1718) was an English writer, theologian, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania.

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BusinessDied aged 73

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1771 · 255 yrs

Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751.

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LiteratureDied aged 54

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1784 · 242 yrs

Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot (French:; 5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment.

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LiteratureDied aged 70

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1811 · 215 yrs

Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla

Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mandarte y Villaseñor (8 May 1753 – 30 July 1811), commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or simply Miguel Hidalgo (Spanish:), was a Mexican Catholic priest and prominent leader of the Mexican War of Independence, who is recognized as the Father of…

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ReligionDied aged 58

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1886 · 140 yrs

Lydia Koidula

Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen (24 December 1843 – 11 August 1886), known by her pen name and sobriquet Lydia Koidula (Lydia of the Dawn), was an Estonian poet. She is also frequently referred to as Koidulaulik ('Singer of the Dawn').

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LiteratureDied aged 42

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1898 · 128 yrs

Otto von Bismarck

Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), was a German statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany and served as its first chancellor from 1871 to 1890.

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PoliticsDied aged 83

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1978 · 48 yrs

Umberto Nobile

Umberto Nobile (Italian pronunciation:; 21 January 1885 – 30 July 1978) was an Italian aviator, aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer. Nobile was a developer and promoter of semi-rigid airships in the years between the two World Wars.

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1996 · 30 yrs

Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert (koʊlˈbɛər kohl-BAIR, September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996), also known as Lily Claudette Chauchoin (ʃoʃwɛ̃ show-shwan), was a French-American stage and film actress. She began her career in earnest on Broadway during the late 1920s and progressed to films with the advent of talking pictures.

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1997 · 29 yrs

Bảo Đại

Bảo Đại (Vietnamese:, chữ Hán: 保大, lit. "keeper of greatness", 22 October 1913 – 31 July 1997), born Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy (chữ Hán: 阮福永瑞), was the 13th and final emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of Vietnam.

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2006 · 20 yrs

Murray Bookchin

Murray Bookchin (January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006) was an American social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher. Influenced by the works of G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and Peter Kropotkin, he was a pioneer in the environmental movement.

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2007 · 19 yrs

Ingmar Bergman

Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish filmmaker and theatre director. He is considered one of the greatest and most important filmmakers in the history of cinema, most notably as a prominent figure of both European film industry and Swedish cinema.

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Events5

1419 · 607 yrs

Hussite Wars

The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars or the Hussite Revolution, were a series of civil wars fought between the Hussites and the combined Catholic forces of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, the Papacy, and European monarchs loyal to the Roman Catholic Church, as well as various Hussite factions.

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War

1930 · 96 yrs

1930 FIFA World Cup Final

The final match of the 1930 FIFA World Cup, the inaugural edition of FIFA's competition for national football teams, was played at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 30 July 1930, and was contested by Uruguay and Argentina.

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Sports

1932 · 94 yrs

1932 Summer Olympics

The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1932) were an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932, in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Sports

2024 · 2 yrs

2024 Wayanad landslide

A series of landslides occurred in Punjirimattom, Mundakkai, Chooralmala, and Vellarimala villages in Meppadi panchayat, Vythiri taluk in Wayanad district, Kerala, India in the early hours of 30 July 2024. The landslides were caused by heavy rains that caused hillsides to collapse onto the areas below.

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Disaster

2026 · 0 yrs

2026 Ceuta migrant crisis

In late July 2026, an estimated 80,000 people, mainly young men originating from Morocco, illegally breached and crossed the border from Morocco into the Spanish autonomous city of Ceuta in North Africa, with smaller numbers attempting to cross to Melilla, another Spanish autonomous city about 400 kilometres (250 mi)…

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