The 30th day of the year
Born on 30 January
Every 30 January birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aquarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AquariusAir, fixed, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- GarnetThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Carnation, SnowdropUsually taken today to mean devotion and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Monday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Two new years, 38 years apart
Only two new years have fallen on 30 January since 1920: 1930, which began the year of the Metal Horse, and 1968, the Earth Monkey. Thirty-eight years separate them, two Metonic cycles of nineteen years, the span after which the new moons come back to nearly the same dates; the new year in between, in 1949, came a day earlier, on the 29th. The next one on this date is 30 January 2044. It begins the year of the Wood Rat, sixty years after the Wood Rat of 1984.
Of the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 30 January fell before the new year in 74, so a birthday on it that year took the animal of the year before, and on or after it in 33. Take 1968: a baby born on 29 January 1968 belongs to the Fire Goat of 1967, one born on 30 January 1968 to the Earth Monkey.
The sign stays put: 30 January was Aquarius all day, everywhere, from 1920 to 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 30 January in any year.
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 30 January in 74 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 33 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1930 and 1968.
Shaded: 30 January came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 30 January. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 30 January falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 30 January falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Monday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Saturday 15, Thursday 15.
Showing 30 January in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 30 January is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,778 babies were born on 30 January in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 287th 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 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1882–1945 | president of the United States from 1933 to 1945 |
| Felipe VI | 1968– | King of Spain since 2014 |
| Dick Cheney | 1941–2025 | Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 |
| Abdullah II of Jordan | 1962– | King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan |
| Christian Bale | 1974– | English actor |
| Islam Karimov | 1938–2016 | President of Uzbekistan from 1991 to 2016 |
| Phil Collins | 1951– | English drummer, singer, and songwriter |
| Olof Palme | 1927–1986 | Swedish Prime Minister (1969–76, 1982–86) |
| Gene Hackman | 1930–2025 | American actor and novelist |
| Boris Spassky | 1937–2025 | Russian chess player |
| Douglas Engelbart | 1925–2013 | American engineer and inventor |
| Vanessa Redgrave | 1937– | British actress and activist |
| Arda Turan | 1987– | Turkish association football player |
| Adelbert von Chamisso | 1781–1838 | German poet and botanist |
| Olivia Colman | 1974– | British actress |
| Peter Agre | 1949– | American chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Max Theiler | 1899–1972 | South African-American virologist and doctor |
| Dimitar Berbatov | 1981– | Bulgarian footballer |
Died on 30 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Mahatma Gandhi | 1869–1948 | Indian independence activist |
| Charles I of England | 1600–1649 | King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1625 to 1649; died 30 January in the Julian calendar, which is 9 February in the Gregorian |
| John Bardeen | 1908–1991 | American physicist and engineer |
| Peter II of Russia | 1715–1730 | Emperor of Russia |
| Catherine O'Hara | 1954–2026 | Canadian-American actress |
| Sidney Sheldon | 1917–2007 | American writer |
| Ferdinand Porsche | 1875–1951 | Austrian-German automotive engineer, founder of Porsche |
| John Barry | 1933–2011 | British composer and conductor |
| Johannes Fibiger | 1867–1928 | Danish physician |
| Coretta Scott King | 1927–2006 | American author, activist, and civil rights leader; wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Francis Poulenc | 1899–1963 | French composer and pianist |
| Dominique Pire | 1910–1969 | Belgian Dominican friar |
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