Famous people born on 30 October

• John AdamsFounding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801 · 1735–1826
  90 yrs
• Diego MaradonaArgentine football player and manager · 1960–2020
  60 yrs
• Ezra PoundAmerican poet and critic · 1885–1972
  87 yrs
• Paul ValéryFrench poet, essayist, and philosopher · 1871–1945
  73 yrs
• Christopher WrenEnglish architect · 1632–1723
  90 yrs
• Alfred SisleyFrench, British painter · 1839–1899
  59 yrs
• Gerhard DomagkGerman bacteriologist · 1895–1964
  68 yrs
• André ChénierFrench poet · 1762–1794
  31 yrs
• Francisco I. Madero ↗Mexican revolutionary leader and president · 1873–1913
  39 yrs
• Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ↗Jordanian jihadist · 1966–2006
  39 yrs
• Giuseppe Farina ↗Italian racecar driver · 1906–1966
  59 yrs
• Ragnar Granit ↗Finnish scientist · 1900–1991
  90 yrs
• Angelica Kauffmann ↗Swiss artist · 1741–1807
  66 yrs
• Louis Malle ↗French film director, screenwriter, and producer · 1932–1995
  63 yrs
• Daniel Nathans ↗American microbiologist · 1928–1999
  71 yrs
• Dmitriy Ustinov ↗Soviet military commander and politician · 1908–1984
  76 yrs
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan ↗Irish-British politician, playwright and writer · 1751–1816
  64 yrs
• Ruth Gordon ↗American actress and writer · 1896–1985
  88 yrs
• Homi Jehangir Bhabha ↗Indian nuclear physicist · 1909–1966
  56 yrs
• Dickinson W. Richards ↗American physician, Nobel Prize recipient · 1895–1973
  77 yrs
• Günther von Kluge ↗German general · 1882–1944
  61 yrs
• Roland Freisler ↗German jurist and politician · 1893–1945
  51 yrs
• Nadezhda Mandelstam ↗Russian writer and educator · 1899–1980
  81 yrs
• Miguel Hernández ↗Spanish poet · 1910–1942
  31 yrs
• William Thurston ↗American mathematician · 1946–2012
  65 yrs
• Georg Heym ↗German writer · 1887–1912
  24 yrs
• Jean Rostand ↗French writer · 1894–1977
  82 yrs
• Avetik Isahakyan ↗Soviet Armenian poet · 1875–1957
  81 yrs
• Hermann Fegelein ↗German lieutenant general in the Waffen-SS · 1906–1945
  38 yrs
• Sophia Charlotte of Hanover ↗Prussian royal consort · 1668–1705
  36 yrs
• Ed Lauter ↗American film and television actor · 1938–2013
  74 yrs
• Louise Abbéma ↗French painter, sculptor, and designer of the Belle Époque · 1853–1927
  73 yrs

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