August 30th, 1288

Born on August 30th, 1288

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 268,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 242 days, exactly on February 28th, 2025, people who were born on August 30th, 1288 will be 269,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on August 30th?

August 30th, 2007

A heavy bomber plane that had been unintentionally loaded with nuclear missiles transported them from North Dakota to Louisiana before they were recognized.

August 30th, 1992

German racing driver Michael Schumacher won the Belgian Grand Prix, the first of his 91 Formula One Grand Prix wins.

August 30th, 1990

Gulf War: US General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. issued General Order No. 1 prohibiting US troops from consuming alcohol or possessing pornographic material.

August 30th, 1984

Discovery, the third orbiter of NASA's Space Shuttle program, lifted off on its maiden voyage from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

August 30th, 1974

An express train carrying foreign workers from Yugoslavia to West Germany derailed in Zagreb, killing 153 people.

August 30th, 1959

South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Đán was elected to the National Assembly, despite soldiers being bussed in to vote multiple times for President Ngô Đình Diệm's candidate.

August 30th, 1942

Second World War: German field marshal Erwin Rommel launched the last major Axis offensive of the Western Desert campaign, attacking British positions near El Alamein, Egypt.

August 30th, 1914

World War I: The Battle of Tannenberg resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army by the German 8th Army.

August 30th, 1594

James VI of Scotland held a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry, his first child.

August 30th, 1574

Guru Ram Das (pictured) became the fourth of the Sikh gurus, the spiritual masters of Sikhism.

August 30th, 2023

Gabonese coup d'état: After Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection, a military coup ousted him, ending 56 years of Bongo family rule in Gabon.

August 30th, 2021

The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war.

August 30th, 2014

Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.

August 30th, 2002

Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, killing 23 of the 31 people on board.

August 30th, 1998

Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 30th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 30th?

47

Nikolai Astrup

Norwegian painter (1880-1928)

*August 30th, 1880, Bremanger Municipality †January 21st, 1928, Førde

39

Jinjin Harder

German singer

*August 30th, 1984, Wuhan

52

Martin Gerster

German politician

*August 30th, 1971, Biberach an der Riss

66

Ernest Rutherford

British physicist of New Zealand origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908) (1871–1937)

*August 30th, 1871, Nelson †October 19th, 1937, Cambridge

69

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus since 1994

*August 30th, 1954, Kopyś

77

Jacques-Louis David

French painter (1748–1825)

*August 30th, 1748, Paris †December 29th, 1825, City of Brussels

89

Rolf Henniger

German actor (1925-2015)

*August 30th, 1925, Erfurt †August 15th, 2015, Berlin

40

Simone Pepe

Italian association football player

*August 30th, 1983, Albano Laziale

93

Warren Buffett

American investor, entrepreneur and businessman

*August 30th, 1930, Omaha

94

Shirley Booth

American actress (1898–1992)

*August 30th, 1898, Brooklyn †October 16th, 1992, Chatham

53

Mary Shelley

British writer (1797–1851)

*August 30th, 1797, Somers Town †February 1st, 1851, Chester Square

51

Cameron Diaz

American actress and model

*August 30th, 1972, San Diego

58

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Dutch physical and organic chemist (1852-1911)

*August 30th, 1852, Rotterdam †March 1st, 1911, Steglitz

56

Barbara Kendall

New Zealand windsurfer

*August 30th, 1967, Papakura District

65

John Phillips

American musician (1935–2001)

*August 30th, 1935, Parris Island †March 18th, 2001, Los Angeles

81

John Kani

South African actor and author (born 1942)

*August 30th, 1942, New Brighton

40

Mehdi Mostefa

Algerian and French footballer

*August 30th, 1983, Dijon

63

Gustave Le Gray

French photographer

*August 30th, 1820, Villiers-le-Bel †July 29th, 1884, Cairo

35

Tim Ohlbrecht

German basketball player

*August 30th, 1988, Wuppertal

80

Eduardo Ciannelli

Italian actor (1889-1969)

*August 30th, 1889, Ischia †October 8th, 1969, Rome

48

Anna Politkovskaya

Russian journalist

*August 30th, 1958, New York City †October 7th, 2006, Moscow

80

Jean-Claude Killy

French alpine skier

*August 30th, 1943, Saint-Cloud

51

Pavel Nedvěd

Czech association football player

*August 30th, 1972, Cheb

44

Marin Ireland

American actress

*August 30th, 1979, Camarillo

32

Gaia Weiss

French model and actress

*August 30th, 1991, Paris

92

Alain Rey

French lexicographer (1928–2020)

*August 30th, 1928, Pont-du-Château †October 28th, 2020, 9th arrondissement of Paris

41

Andy Roddick

American tennis player

*August 30th, 1982, Omaha

61

Théophile Gautier

French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic

*August 30th, 1811, Tarbes †October 23rd, 1872, Neuilly-sur-Seine

54

Sara Ahmed

British-Australian scholar (b. 1969)

*August 30th, 1969, Salford

84

Edward Mills Purcell

American physicist (1912-1997)

*August 30th, 1912, Taylorville †March 7th, 1997, Cambridge

53

Patrick Roy

French politician

*August 30th, 1957, Denain †May 3rd, 2011, Valenciennes

34

Bebe Rexha

American singer and songwriter

*August 30th, 1989, Brooklyn

32

Bruce McLaren

New Zealand racecar driver, designer and team owner (1937-1970)

*August 30th, 1937, Auckland †June 2nd, 1970, Goodwood Circuit

84

Elizabeth Ashley

American actress

*August 30th, 1939, Ocala

45

Sinead Kerr

Scottish-British ice dancer

*August 30th, 1978, Dundee

39

Michael Grant Terry

American actor

*August 30th, 1984, Philadelphia

60

Michael Chiklis

American actor (born 1963)

*August 30th, 1963, Lowell

46

Félix Sánchez

Dominican track and field athlete

*August 30th, 1977, Manhattan

30

Paco Alcácer

Spanish association football player

*August 30th, 1993, Torrent

86

Roger Pierre

French comedic actor (1923-2010)

*August 30th, 1923, Paris †January 23rd, 2010, Paris

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Public holidays on August 30th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on August 30th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

Yes: 1288 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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