The 242nd day of the year, the 243rd in a leap year
Born on 30 August
Every 30 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Virgo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- VirgoEarth, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Tuesday and Sunday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 30 August in any year.
Which weekday 30 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 30 August falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Sunday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Friday 15.
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How common a birthday 30 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,783 babies were born on 30 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 269th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 30 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Ernest Rutherford | 1871–1937 | New Zealand physicist |
| Alexander Lukashenko | 1954– | President of the Republic of Belarus |
| Warren Buffett | 1930– | American investor, entrepreneur and businessman |
| Mary Shelley | 1797–1851 | English writer |
| Cameron Diaz | 1972– | American actress and model |
| Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff | 1852–1911 | Dutch physical and organic chemist |
| Anna Politkovskaya | 1958–2006 | Russian journalist |
| Jacques-Louis David | 1748–1825 | French painter |
| Edward Mills Purcell | 1912–1997 | American physicist |
| Andy Roddick | 1982– | American tennis player |
| Theodor Svedberg | 1884–1971 | Swedish chemist |
| Pavel Nedvěd | 1972– | Czech association football player |
| Shirley Booth | 1898–1992 | American actress |
| Theo van Doesburg | 1883–1931 | Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer |
| Bebe Rexha | 1989– | American singer |
| Lavr Kornilov | 1870–1918 | Imperial Russian Army general; born 30 August in the Gregorian calendar, 18 August in the Julian |
| Isaac Levitan | 1860–1900 | Russian artist |
| Richard Stone | 1913–1991 | British economist, Nobel Memorial Prize winner |
Died on 30 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Mikhail Gorbachev | 1931–2022 | leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 |
| Naguib Mahfouz | 1911–2006 | Egyptian writer |
| J. J. Thomson | 1856–1940 | British physicist |
| Seamus Heaney | 1939–2013 | Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer |
| Charles Bronson | 1921–2003 | American actor |
| Wilhelm Wien | 1864–1928 | German physicist |
| Henri Barbusse | 1873–1935 | French author |
| Pope Alexander III | 1100–1181 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1159 to 1181 |
| Theodoric the Great | 454–526 | king of the Germanic Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy (493–526) |
| Louis XI | 1423–1483 | king of France from 1461 to 1483 |
| Wes Craven | 1939–2015 | American filmmaker |
| Mohammad-Ali Rajai | 1933–1981 | Iranian Prime Minister and President of Iran |
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