Famous people born on 30 December

• Hideki TojoJapanese general and politician · 1884–1948
  63 yrs
• Omar BongoGabonese politician · 1935–2009
  73 yrs
• Theodor FontaneGerman novelist and poet · 1819–1898
  78 yrs
• Ramana MaharshiIndian spiritual teacher · 1879–1950
  70 yrs
• Ahmed III23th Sultan of Ottoman Empire · 1673–1736
  62 yrs
• Gordon Banks ↗English association football player · 1937–2019
  81 yrs
• Daniil Kharms ↗Russian writer · 1905–1942
  36 yrs
• Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky ↗Composer, conductor (music), pianist, music teacher · 1904–1987
  82 yrs
• Jo Van Fleet ↗American actress · 1914–1996
  81 yrs
• Carol Reed ↗English film director · 1906–1976
  69 yrs
• Bo Diddley ↗American guitarist · 1928–2008
  79 yrs
• Vladimir Bukovsky ↗Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union · 1942–2019
  76 yrs
• Robert Hossein ↗French film actor, director, and writer of Azerbaijani origin · 1927–2020
  93 yrs
• Stephen Leacock ↗Canadian writer and economist · 1869–1944
  74 yrs
• Fred Ward ↗American actor · 1942–2022
  79 yrs
• Paolo Villaggio ↗Italian actor, writer and comedian · 1932–2017
  84 yrs
• Adolfo Ruiz Cortines ↗54th President of Mexico · 1890–1973
  82 yrs
• Paul Bowles ↗American composer and writer · 1910–1999
  88 yrs
• Al Smith ↗American statesman and governor · 1873–1944
  70 yrs
• Victor Serge ↗Russian revolutionary and writer · 1890–1947
  56 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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