April 30th, 1720

Born on April 30th, 1720

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 111,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 968 days, exactly on December 22nd, 2026, people who were born on April 30th, 1720 will be 112,000 days old!

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What happened on April 30th?

April 30th, 2021

A crowd crush killed 45 people during the annual pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Israel.

April 30th, 2009

A Dutch man drove his car at high speed into a parade in an attempt to kill the Dutch royal family.

April 30th, 2004

The New Yorker published an online article and photographs detailing accounts of torture and abuse by American military personnel of Iraqi prisoners held at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.

April 30th, 2000

Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun whose apparitions of Jesus inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, was canonized by Pope John Paul II.

April 30th, 1982

Sixteen monks and a nun of the Hindu organisation Ananda Marga were beaten to death and set on fire in Calcutta, India.

April 30th, 1975

American forces completed a helicopter evacuation (aircraft and evacuees pictured) of U.S. citizens, South Vietnamese civilians and others from Saigon, just before North Vietnamese troops captured the city, ending the Vietnam War.

April 30th, 1963

A refusal by the Bristol Omnibus Company and the Transport and General Workers' Union to permit the employment of black bus crews led to a bus boycott in Bristol, England.

April 30th, 1945

World War II: As Allied forces closed in on Berlin, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler committed suicide in the Führerbunker with Eva Braun one day after their marriage.

April 30th, 1943

Second World War: The Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph began Operation Mincemeat to deceive Germany about the upcoming invasion of Sicily.

April 30th, 1927

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first two celebrities to make imprints of their hands and feet in cement (Pickford's pictured) at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.

April 30th, 1897

British physicist J. J. Thomson and his team announce the discovery of the electron.

April 30th, 1894

A crowd of workers, unemployed due to the Panic of 1893, concluded the first significant popular protest march on Washington D.C.

April 30th, 1883

New York governor Grover Cleveland signed legislation that led to the creation of Niagara Falls State Park, the United States' first state park.

April 30th, 1789

George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City.

April 30th, 1006

SN 1006 (remnant pictured), the brightest supernova in recorded history, first appeared in the constellation Lupus.

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

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

77

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)

*April 30th, 1777, Brunswick †February 23rd, 1855, Göttingen

37

Elena Prus

Badminton player

*April 30th, 1986, Lysychansk

66

Gustav Ludwig von der Marwitz

German officer (1730-1797)

*April 30th, 1730, Friedersdorf †February 23rd, 1797, Kyritz

89

Phil Brown

American actor (1916–2006)

*April 30th, 1916, Cambridge †February 9th, 2006, Woodland Hills

48

Ha Tae-kwon

South Korean badminton player

*April 30th, 1975, Jeonju

85

Franz Defregger

Painter from Austria (1835-1921)

*April 30th, 1835, Iselsberg-Stronach †January 2nd, 1921, Munich

73

Pedro Barceló

Spanish historian of classical antiquity

*April 30th, 1950, Vinaròs

82

Fips Asmussen

German comedian (1938–2020)

*April 30th, 1938, Hamburg †August 9th, 2020, Carl-von-Basedow-Klinikum

74

António Guterres

Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2017

*April 30th, 1949, Lisbon

41

Kirsten Dunst

American actress and model

*April 30th, 1982, Point Pleasant

96

Tamisuke Watanuki

Japanese politician

*April 30th, 1927, Toyama Prefecture

22

Lil Tjay

American rapper and singer-songwriter

*April 30th, 2001, The Bronx

64

Stephen Harper

22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015

*April 30th, 1959, Toronto

45

Tadashi Ohtsuka

Badminton player

*April 30th, 1978, Nagasaki

26

Yantoni Edy Saputra

Badminton player

*April 30th, 1997, Samarinda

32

Travis Scott

American rapper, singer and record producer (born 1991)

*April 30th, 1991, Houston

78

Franz Lehár

Komárom-born Austrian music composer (1870–1948)

*April 30th, 1870, Komárom †October 24th, 1948, Bad Ischl

30

Amine Gülşe-Özil

Swedish-born Turkish actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder

*April 30th, 1993, Gothenburg

29

André Göransson

Swedish tennis player

*April 30th, 1994, Höllviken

48

Johnny Galecki

American actor

*April 30th, 1975, Bree

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Born in 1720

85

Carlo Gozzi

Italian playwright (1720-1806)

*December 13th, 1720, Venice †April 4th, 1806, Venice

67

Carlo Antonio Campioni

French-Italian composer

*November 16th, 1720, Lunéville †April 12th, 1788, Florence

57

Anna Maria Mozart

Mother of Maria Anna ("Nannerl") and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

*December 25th, 1720, Sankt Gilgen †July 3rd, 1778, Paris

74

Honoré III, Prince of Monaco

Monegasque prince (1720-1795)

*November 10th, 1720, Paris †March 21st, 1795, Paris

72

Henriette Amalie of Anhalt-Dessau

Princess of Anhalt-Dessau (1720-1793)

*December 7th, 1720, Dessau †December 5th, 1793, Dessau

70

Richard Price

British philosopher, preacher and mathematician (1723–1791)

*November 30th, 1720, Glamorgan †April 19th, 1791, London

71

Maximilian Hell

Slovak-Hungarian Jesuit, astronomer, mathematician, and physicist (1720–1792)

*May 15th, 1720, Banská Štiavnica †April 14th, 1792, Vienna

80

Samuel Werenfels

Swiss architect

*August 4th, 1720, Basel †September 11th, 1800, Basel

63

Anton Tischbein

German painter (1720-1784)

*August 28th, 1720, Haina †July 26th, 1784, Hamburg

58

Charles De Geer

Swedish industrialist and entomologist (1720-1778)

*February 10th, 1720, Finspång †March 7th, 1778, Stockholm

73

Charles Bonnet

Swiss philosopher and naturalist (1720 – 1793)

*March 13th, 1720, Geneva †May 20th, 1793, Genthod

83

Henrik Adam Brockenhuus

Danish courtier, local administrator in Zealand

*May 30th, 1720, Hamar Municipality †June 11th, 1803, Jungshovedgaard

68

Georg Michael Frank von La Roche

1720 - 1788

*January 1st, 1720, Tauberbischofsheim †January 1st, 1788

44

William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

*May 8th, 1720, London †October 2nd, 1764, Spa

76

Baron Munchausen

German nobleman

*May 11th, 1720, Bodenwerder †February 22nd, 1797, Bodenwerder

67

Charles Edward Stuart

Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland, Ireland, and France; (1720-1788)

*December 31st, 1720, Palazzo Muti †January 31st, 1788, Palazzo Muti

58

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Italian painter (1720-1778)

*October 4th, 1720, Mogliano Veneto †November 9th, 1778, Rome

77

Vilna Gaon

Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and Talmudist (1720–1797)

*April 23rd, 1720, Sialiec †October 9th, 1797, Vilnius

45

Filippo I, Duke of Parma

Monarch of Parma, Piacenza

*March 15th, 1720, Madrid †July 18th, 1765, Alessandria

30

Sakuramachi

Emperor of Japan (1720-1750)

*February 8th, 1720, Kyoto †May 28th, 1750, Kyoto

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Leap year

Yes: 1720 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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