The 150th day of the year, the 151st in a leap year
Born on 30 May
Every 30 May birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Gemini, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- GeminiAir, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- EmeraldThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Lily of the valley, HawthornUsually taken today to mean returning happiness and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Saturday16 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 May in any year.
Which weekday 30 May falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 30 May falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
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How common a birthday 30 May is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,808 babies were born on 30 May in each year of the twenty, making it the 187th 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 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Mikhail Bakunin | 1814–1876 | Russian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher |
| Steven Gerrard | 1980– | English association football player and manager |
| Alexei Leonov | 1934–2019 | Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk |
| Hannes Alfvén | 1908–1995 | Swedish electrical engineer and plasma physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics |
| Benny Goodman | 1909–1986 | American jazz clarinetist and bandleader |
| Agnès Varda | 1928–2019 | French artist, film director, screenwriter and photographer |
| Amadeo I of Spain | 1845–1890 | King of Spain from 1870 to 1873 |
| Fernando Lugo | 1951– | President of Paraguay from 2008 to 2012 |
| Peter Carl Fabergé | 1846–1920 | Russian jeweller |
| CeeLo Green | 1975– | American singer, songwriter, rapper, actor and record producer |
| Howard Hawks | 1896–1977 | American film director, producer and screenwriter |
| Julius Axelrod | 1912–2004 | American biochemist |
| Idina Menzel | 1971– | American actress and singer |
| Alexander Archipenko | 1887–1964 | American sculptor and artist of Ukrainian origin |
| Marissa Mayer | 1975– | American business executive and engineer, former CEO of Yahoo! |
| Marie Fredriksson | 1958–2019 | Swedish singer, songwriter, pianist, and lead vocalist of pop-rock duo Roxette |
| Aleksandr Golovin | 1996– | Russian association football player |
| Henry Addington | 1757–1844 | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1801 to 1804 |
Died on 30 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Voltaire | 1694–1778 | French writer, historian and philosopher |
| Joan of Arc | 1412–1431 | French military leader in the Hundred Years' War and Catholic saint |
| Peter Paul Rubens | 1577–1640 | Flemish painter |
| Boris Pasternak | 1890–1960 | Russian writer |
| Alexander Pope | 1688–1744 | English poet |
| Christopher Marlowe | 1564–1593 | English dramatist, poet and translator |
| Rosalyn Sussman Yalow | 1921–2011 | American medical physicist |
| Charles IX of France | 1550–1574 | King of France |
| Georgi Plekhanov | 1856–1918 | Russian philosopher |
| Leo Szilard | 1898–1964 | Hungarian-American Jewish physicist and inventor |
| Andrew Huxley | 1917–2012 | English physiologist and biophysicist |
| Rafael Trujillo | 1891–1961 | President of the Dominican Republic |
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