April 30th, 1873

Born on April 30th, 1873

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 55,000 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?

78

Franz Lehár

Komárom-born Austrian music composer (1870–1948)

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

63

Friedrich Opel

German entrepreneur

*April 30th, 1875, Rüsselsheim am Main †August 30th, 1938, Vienna

37

Elena Prus

Badminton player

*April 30th, 1986, Lysychansk

89

Phil Brown

American actor (1916–2006)

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

60

Orso Mario Corbino

Italian physicist (1876-1937)

*April 30th, 1876, Augusta †January 23rd, 1937, Rome

85

Franz Defregger

Painter from Austria (1835-1921)

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

48

Ha Tae-kwon

South Korean badminton player

*April 30th, 1975, Jeonju

77

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)

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

82

Fips Asmussen

German comedian (1938–2020)

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

73

Pedro Barceló

Spanish historian of classical antiquity

*April 30th, 1950, Vinaròs

96

Tamisuke Watanuki

Japanese politician

*April 30th, 1927, Toyama Prefecture

74

António Guterres

Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2017

*April 30th, 1949, Lisbon

53

Joachim von Ribbentrop

German Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany (1893–1946)

*April 30th, 1893, Wesel †October 16th, 1946, Nuremberg

39

Jaroslav Hašek

Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist (1883-1923)

*April 30th, 1883, Prague †January 3rd, 1923, Lipnice nad Sázavou

41

Kirsten Dunst

American actress and model

*April 30th, 1982, Point Pleasant

64

Stephen Harper

22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015

*April 30th, 1959, Toronto

22

Lil Tjay

American rapper and singer-songwriter

*April 30th, 2001, The Bronx

45

Tadashi Ohtsuka

Badminton player

*April 30th, 1978, Nagasaki

70

Władysław Witwicki

Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator historian (of philosophy and art), and artist

*April 30th, 1878, Lubaczów †December 21st, 1948, Konstancin-Jeziorna

75

Cyriel Verschaeve

Priest, writer

*April 30th, 1874, Ardooie †November 8th, 1949, Hall in Tirol

Same year
Born in 1873

69

Betty Nansen

Danish actor and theatre director

*March 19th, 1873, Copenhagen †March 15th, 1943, Frederiksberg

71

Alexis Carrel

French surgeon and biologist

*June 28th, 1873, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon †November 5th, 1944, Paris

69

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Russian composer, pianist and conductor (1873–1943)

*April 1st, 1873, Starorussky Uyezd †March 28th, 1943, Beverly Hills

39

Alphonse Kirchhoffer

French fencer

*December 19th, 1873, 11th arrondissement of Paris †June 30th, 1913, 5th arrondissement of Paris

66

Robert Leinert

German politician (1873-1940)

*December 16th, 1873, Striesen †February 10th, 1940, Hanover

86

Arturo Labriola

Revolutionary syndicalist politician and journalist

*January 21st, 1873, Naples †June 23rd, 1959, Naples

62

Henri Barbusse

French author (1873-1935)

*May 17th, 1873, Asnières-sur-Seine †August 30th, 1935, Moscow

65

Feodor Chaliapin

Russian opera singer and actor (1873-1938)

*February 1st, 1873, Lisitsyn-Emelin House †April 12th, 1938, Paris

77

Johannes V. Jensen

Danish author (1873-1950)

*January 20th, 1873, Farsø †November 25th, 1950, Copenhagen

88

Otto Loewi

German pharmacologist

*June 3rd, 1873, Frankfurt †December 25th, 1961, New York City

77

Ivanoe Bonomi

Italian prime minister in 1921–22 and 1944–45

*October 18th, 1873, Mantua †April 20th, 1951, Rome

59

Alberto Santos-Dumont

Brazilian aviation pioneer (1873-1932)

*July 20th, 1873, Santos Dumont, Minas Gerais †July 23rd, 1932, Guarujá

67

Kyösti Kallio

Finnish politician and 4th President of Finland (1873-1940)

*April 10th, 1873, Ylivieska †December 19th, 1940, Helsinki Central Railway Station

50

Valery Bryusov

Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian

*December 1st, 1873, Moscow †October 9th, 1924, Moscow

67

Lucien Mérignac

French fencer

*October 5th, 1873, 17th arrondissement of Paris †March 1st, 1941, 10th arrondissement of Paris

83

John Geiger

American rower

*March 28th, 1873, Philadelphia †December 6th, 1956, Philadelphia

81

Colette

French novelist

*January 27th, 1873, Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye †August 3rd, 1954, Paris

89

Otto Harbach

American songwriter

*August 18th, 1873, Salt Lake City †January 24th, 1963, New York City

81

María Goyri

Spanish hispanist

*August 29th, 1873, Bilbao †November 28th, 1954, Madrid

67

Louis Pinck

German priest

*July 11th, 1873, Lemberg †December 8th, 1940, Saarbrücken

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on April 30th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, May Eve, the eve of the first day of summer in the Northern hemisphere) which are celebrated on April 30th.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1873 is a normal year and no leap year.

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