August 30th, 1955

Born on August 30th, 1955

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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

Born on August 30th, 1955

68

Julian Richings

English Canadian actor

*August 30th, 1955, Oxford

68

Dietlind Tiemann

German politician

*August 30th, 1955, Genthin

68

Jamie Moses

English singer and guitarist

*August 30th, 1955, Ipswich

68

Uwe Fellensiek

German actor

*August 30th, 1955, Osnabrück

68

Helge Schneider

German entertainer

*August 30th, 1955, Mülheim an der Ruhr

68

Martin Jackson

British musician

*August 30th, 1955, Manchester

68

Butch Johnson

Archer

*August 30th, 1955, Worcester

68

Manja Göring

German actress

*August 30th, 1955, Babelsberg

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

69

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus since 1994

*August 30th, 1954, Kopyś

52

Martin Gerster

German politician

*August 30th, 1971, Biberach an der Riss

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

48

Anna Politkovskaya

Russian journalist

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

53

Patrick Roy

French politician

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

89

Rolf Henniger

German actor (1925-2015)

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

56

Barbara Kendall

New Zealand windsurfer

*August 30th, 1967, Papakura District

51

Cameron Diaz

American actress and model

*August 30th, 1972, San Diego

40

Simone Pepe

Italian association football player

*August 30th, 1983, Albano Laziale

81

John Kani

South African actor and author (born 1942)

*August 30th, 1942, New Brighton

80

Jean-Claude Killy

French alpine skier

*August 30th, 1943, Saint-Cloud

93

Warren Buffett

American investor, entrepreneur and businessman

*August 30th, 1930, Omaha

65

John Phillips

American musician (1935–2001)

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

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

70

Robert Parish

American former basketball player (born 1953)

*August 30th, 1953, Shreveport

40

Mehdi Mostefa

Algerian and French footballer

*August 30th, 1983, Dijon

69

Norbert Turini

French archbishop

*August 30th, 1954, Cannes

51

Pavel Nedvěd

Czech association football player

*August 30th, 1972, Cheb

54

Sara Ahmed

British-Australian scholar (b. 1969)

*August 30th, 1969, Salford

Same year
Born in 1955

63

Pete Shelley

British singer-songwriter (1955–2018)

*April 17th, 1955, Leigh †December 6th, 2018, Tallinn

68

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

*October 28th, 1955, Seattle

68

Guillermo Lasso

47 president of Ecuador

*November 16th, 1955, Guayaquil

68

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)

*June 8th, 1955, London

69

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

56

Steve Jobs

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)

*February 24th, 1955, San Francisco †October 5th, 2011, Palo Alto

68

Steve Jones

English guitarist

*September 3rd, 1955, Shepherd's Bush

69

Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

61

Bill Paxton

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

*May 17th, 1955, Fort Worth †February 25th, 2017, Los Angeles

68

Caroline Loeb

French actress and singer

*October 5th, 1955, Neuilly-sur-Seine

68

Saw Swee Leong

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1955, Penang

69

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

61

Jimmy LaFave

American musician

*July 12th, 1955, Wills Point †May 21st, 2017, Austin

69

Steve Mann

British chemist

*April 1st, 1955, Leeds

69

Jair Bolsonaro

President of Brazil from 2019 to 2022

*March 21st, 1955, Glicério

68

Adolf Sauerland

German politician

*June 4th, 1955, Duisburg

43

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

69

Martin Jehne

German historian of classical antiquity

*January 27th, 1955, Hamburg

68

Isabelle Adjani

French actress

*June 27th, 1955, 17th arrondissement of Paris

68

Whoopi Goldberg

American actress, comedian, author and television personality

*November 13th, 1955, New York City

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No: With 365 days 1955 is a normal year and no leap year.

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