BORN 1930
Turning 95 in 2025

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Adonis
Syrian-born Lebanese poet and literary critic
01/01/1930 |
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Frederick Wiseman
American documentarian, In Jackson Heights
01/01/1930 |
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Mara Corday
American actress, Tarantula!
01/03/1930 |
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Norman Podhoretz
American neoconservative writer and commentator
01/16/1930 |
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Tippi Hedren
American actress, The Birds, Marnie
01/19/1930 |
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Buzz Aldrin
American astronaut, second person to walk on the Moon
01/20/1930 |
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Robert Wagner
American actor, the Austin Powers film series, TV's Hart to Hart
02/10/1930 |
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Sara Jane Moore
American political extremist, attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford
02/15/1930 |
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Peggy King
American pop singer and television personality
02/16/1930 |
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Joanne Woodward
American Oscar-winning actress, The Three Faces of Eve, Rachel, Rachel
02/27/1930 |
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John Cullum
American singer and actor, Broadway's Shenandoah, TV's Northern Exposure
03/02/1930 |
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Ion Iliescu
Romanian president (1989–1996, 2000–2004)
03/03/1930 |
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Taina Elg
Finnish-born American actress, Les Girls, Broadway's Nine, and dancer
03/09/1930 |
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Jerome Isaac Friedman
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
03/28/1930 |
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John Astin
American actor, TV's The Addams Family
03/30/1930 |
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Roddy Maude-Roxby
English comedian and actor, White Hunter Black Heart, TV's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
04/02/1930 |
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Mary Costa
American opera singer, voiced Princess Aurora in Disney's Sleeping Beauty
04/05/1930 |
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Dolores Huerta
American labor leader and activist
04/10/1930 |
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Nicholas Brady
American government official, Secretary of the Treasury (1988–1993)
04/11/1930 |
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Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Icelandic president (1980–1996)
04/15/1930 |
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Alan Oppenheimer
American actor and voice artist, TV's He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
04/23/1930 |
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Cindy Adams
American gossip columnist
04/24/1930 |
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José Sarney
Brazilian president (1985–1990)
04/24/1930 |
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Lynn Hamilton
American actress, TV's Sanford and Son, The Waltons
04/25/1930 |
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James Baker
American government official, Secretary of State (1989–1992)
04/28/1930 |
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Luce Irigaray
Belgian-born French linguist, psychoanalyst, and feminist philosopher
05/03/1930 |
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Will Hutchins
American actor, TV's Sugarfoot
05/05/1930 |
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Gary Snyder
American poet, Turtle Island
05/08/1930 |
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George E. Smith
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
05/10/1930 |
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Jasper Johns
American painter and graphic artist
05/15/1930 |
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Betty DeGeneres
American LGBTQ rights activist
05/20/1930 |
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James McEachin
American actor, Play Misty for Me, TV's Tenafly
05/20/1930 |
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Matthew Meselson
American geneticist and molecular biologist
05/24/1930 |
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Clint Eastwood
American actor and motion picture director, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby
05/31/1930 |
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Robert Aumann
German-born American/Israeli Nobel Prize-winning mathematician
06/08/1930 |
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Marvin Kalb
American journalist
06/09/1930 |
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Charles Rangel
American politician, New York representative (1971–2017)
06/11/1930 |
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William Campbell
Irish-born American Nobel Prize-winning parasitologist
06/28/1930 |
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Thomas Sowell
American economist and social theorist
06/30/1930 |
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Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
Bolivian president (1993–1997, 2002–2003)
07/01/1930 |
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Stephen Smale
American mathematician
07/15/1930 |
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Helen Merrill
American jazz singer
07/21/1930
(Some sources cite 1929) |
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Ali al-Sistani
Iranian-born Shiite cleric and community leader
08/04/1930 |
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Nita Talbot
American actress, Buck and the Preacher, TV's Hogan's Heroes
08/08/1930 |
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George Soros
Hungarian/American investor and philanthropist
08/12/1930 |
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Warren Buffett
American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
08/30/1930 |
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Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist
09/07/1930 |
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Mario Adorf
Swiss-born German actor, The Tin Drum
09/08/1930 |
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Akira Suzuki
Japanese Nobel Prize-winning chemist
09/12/1930 |
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Richard Bonynge
Australian conductor and pianist
09/29/1930 |
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Estela De Carlotto
Argentinian human rights activist
10/22/1930 |
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Frank Lowy
Czech-born Australian businessman, co-founder of Westfield Corporation
10/22/1930 |
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Bernie Ecclestone
English business magnate, former chief executive of the Formula One Group
10/28/1930 |
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Omara Portuondo
Cuban singer and dancer
10/29/1930 |
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Lois Smith
American actress, East of Eden, Twister
11/03/1930 |
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Rudy Boschwitz
German-born American politician, Minnesota senator (1978–1991)
11/07/1930 |
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David Amram
American composer, arranger, and conductor
11/17/1930 |
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Kenneth Frampton
English architectural historian
11/20/1930 |
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Jack McKeon
American baseball manager and front-office executive
11/23/1930 |
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Roberto Capucci
Italian fashion designer
12/02/1930 |
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Fred Gray
American civil rights attorney and politician
12/14/1930 |
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Armin Mueller-Stahl
German actor, Avalon, Shine
12/17/1930 |
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Tu Youyou
Chinese Nobel Prize-winning pharmaceutical chemist
12/30/1930 |
