Famous people born on 30 September

• RumiIranian poet · 1207–1273
  66 yrs
• Kublai KhanFounding emperor of the Yuan dynasty, grandson of Genghis Khan · 1215–1294
  78 yrs
• Elie WieselRomanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor · 1928–2016
  87 yrs
• Truman CapoteAmerican writer · 1924–1984
  59 yrs
• Jean-Baptiste PerrinFrench physicist · 1870–1942
  71 yrs
• Girolamo SavonarolaItalian Dominican friar and preacher · 1452–1498
  45 yrs
• Deborah KerrBritish actress · 1921–2007
  86 yrs
• Nevill Francis Mott ↗English physicist, Nobel prize winner · 1905–1996
  90 yrs
• Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor ↗Holy Roman Emperor and Austrian archduke and duke · 1415–1493
  77 yrs
• Aleksandr Vasilevsky ↗Marshal of the Soviet Union · 1895–1977
  82 yrs
• Hans Geiger ↗German physicist · 1882–1945
  62 yrs
• Jacques Necker ↗Genevan minister resident in France, French statesman, and finance minister of Louis XVI · 1732–1804
  71 yrs
• Étienne Bonnot de Condillac ↗French academic · 1714–1780
  65 yrs
• Udo Jürgens ↗Austrian singer and composer · 1934–2014
  80 yrs
• David Oistrakh ↗Soviet violinist · 1908–1974
  66 yrs
• Lewis Milestone ↗Russian-American film director · 1895–1980
  84 yrs
• Otto Schmidt ↗Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin · 1891–1956
  64 yrs
• Takeshi Inoue ↗Japanese association football player · 1928–1992
  63 yrs
• Savitri Devi ↗Greek-French writer · 1905–1982
  77 yrs
• Shyama Charan Lahiri ↗Indian yogi and guru · 1828–1895
  66 yrs
• Buddy Rich ↗American jazz drummer and bandleader · 1917–1987
  69 yrs
• Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ↗German empress · 1811–1890
  78 yrs
• Reinhard Scheer ↗German admiral · 1863–1928
  65 yrs
• Antoine-Jérôme Balard ↗French chemist · 1802–1876
  73 yrs
• Marc Bolan ↗English guitarist and singer · 1947–1977
  29 yrs
• Jingtai Emperor ↗Emperor of the Ming Dynasty · 1428–1457
  28 yrs
• Michael Powell ↗English film director · 1905–1990
  84 yrs
• Shintarō Ishihara ↗Japanese politician and author, Governor of Tokyo · 1932–2022
  89 yrs
• Virgil Abloh ↗American fashion designer · 1980–2021
  41 yrs
• George Bancroft ↗American actor · 1882–1956
  74 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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