Federal government edit

• President: Herbert Hoover (R-California)
• Vice President: Charles Curtis (R-Kansas)
• Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (Ohio) (until February 3), Charles Evans Hughes (New York) (starting February 13)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Nicholas Longworth (R-Ohio)
• Senate Majority Leader: James Eli Watson (R-Indiana)
• Congress: 71st

January–March edit

• January 6
  • The first diesel engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
  • The first literary character licensing agreement is signed by English author A. A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works.
• January 13 – The Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.^[1]
• January 19–23 – Watsonville riots: violent assaults on Filipino American farm workers by white residents in California.^[2]
• February 18
  • Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in an airplane, and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane.
  • While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of Pluto, a heavenly body considered a planet until 2006, when officially redefined as a dwarf planet.
• March 6 – The first frozen foods of Clarence Birdseye go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• March 17 – The Empire State Building begins construction in New York City.
• March 20 – Colonel Sanders opens the first Kentucky Fried Chicken in North Corbin, Kentucky.
• March 31 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next 40 years.

April–June edit

• April 3 – The 2nd Academy Awards, hosted by William C. DeMille, are presented at the Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles), with Harry Beaumont's The Broadway Melody winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh's In Old Arizona and Ernst Lubitsch's The Patriot jointly receive the most nominations with five.
• April 6 – Jimmy Dewar invents Hostess Twinkies (snack cakes).^[3]
• April 19 – Warner Bros. in the United States release their first cartoon series, called Looney Tunes, which runs until 1969.
• April 21 – A fire in the Ohio Penitentiary near Columbus kills 320 people.^[4]
• April 22 – The United States, United Kingdom and Japan sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
• April 28 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
• May 10 – The National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded in Washington, D.C.
• May 14 – Carlsbad Caverns National Park is established in New Mexico.
• May 15 – Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess, aboard a Boeing tri-motor flying from Oakland, California, to Chicago, Illinois.
• May 20 – The Chrysler Building is completed in New York City, becoming the world's first man-made structure taller than 1,000 feet (305 m).
• May 30
  • Film director Sergei Eisenstein arrives in Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures; they part ways by October.
  • Shedd Aquarium, one of the first inland aquariums in the world, opens in Chicago.
• June 9 – Chicago Tribune journalist Jake Lingle is shot in Chicago. Newspapers promise $55,000 reward for information. Lingle is later found to have had contacts with organized crime.
• June 14 – An act of Congress establishes the Federal Bureau of Narcotics as a replacement for the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit.
• June 17 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.

July–September edit

• July 4 – Nation of Islam founded by Wallace Fard Muhammad in Detroit.
• July 21 – The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established.
• July 26 – Charles Creighton and James Hargis leave New York City for Los Angeles on a roundtrip journey, driving 11,555 km using only a reverse gear; the trip lasts the next 42 days.
• July 30 – New York City television station W2XBS is put in charge of NBC broadcast engineers.
• July 31 – The radio drama The Shadow airs for the first time.
• August 6 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York City and disappears.
• August 7 – Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana. They are hanged; James Cameron survives. This will be the last recorded lynching of African Americans in the Northern United States.
• August 9 – Cartoon character Betty Boop premieres in the animated film Dizzy Dishes.
• September 8 – 3M introduces Scotch Tape.

October–December edit

• October 8 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 2, to win their 5th World Series Title.
• November 4 – W9XAP in Chicago, Illinois, broadcasts the U.S. senatorial election returns, the first time a senatorial race, with non-stop vote tallies, is televised.
• November 5 – The 3rd Academy Awards, hosted by Conrad Nagel, are presented at the Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles). Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front wins the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Milestone winning Best Director. The film and George Hill's The Big House both receive the most awards with two, while Ernst Lubitsch's The Love Parade receives the most nominations with six.
• November 15 – Jean Harlow has her first major film role, in Howard Hughes' epic war film Hell's Angels. Her platinum hair and sensual persona cause an immediate sensation, turning her into one of the decade's most iconic and discussed film stars.
• December 2 – Great Depression: U.S. President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
• December 7 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts, broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I. J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.

Undated edit

• A Jamaican ginger ("Jake") paralysis outbreak occurs across the South and Midwest.
• 1930–1931 – Crazy Horse’s lifelong friend, He Dog, is interviewed by journalist Eleanor Hinman and Nebraska writer Mari Sandoz.
• A record drought in the eastern part of the nation^[5] sees Upper Tract, West Virginia record only 9.50 inches (241.3 mm) of precipitation for the year – the record lowest for a calendar year in the US east of the Mississippi.^[6] Averaged over the contiguous US the twelve months from July 1930 to June 1931 remains the driest such period on record.^[7]

Ongoing edit

• Lochner era (c. 1897 – c. 1937)
• U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)^[8]
• Prohibition (1920–1933)^[9]
• Great Depression (1929–1933)
• Dust Bowl (1930–1936)

January edit

• January 1 – Ty Hardin, actor (d. 2017)
• January 2
  • Julius La Rosa, pop singer (d. 2016)
  • Don Rondo, singer (d. 2011)
• January 3
  • Robert Loggia, actor (d. 2015)
  • Barbara Stuart, actress (d. 2011)
• January 4
  • Sorrell Booke, actor (d. 1994)
  • Don Shula, American football player and coach (d. 2020)^[10]
• January 5
  • Dorothy Cotton, civil rights activist (d. 2018)
  • Edward Givens, United States Air Force officer, test pilot and NASA astronaut (d. 1967)^[11]
• January 6
  • W. Wallace Cleland, biochemist and educator (d. 2013)
  • Charles Kalani, Jr., wrestler and actor (d. 2000)
  • Vic Tayback, actor (Alice) (d. 1990)
• January 7
  • Jack Greene, country music singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
  • Eddie LeBaron, American football player, manager and sportscaster (d. 2015)
• January 8
  • Bill James (politician), politician
  • Doreen Wilber, archer (d. 2008)
• January 10 – Roy E. Disney, film and television executive (d. 2009)
• January 12 – Glenn Yarbrough, singer (d. 2016)
• January 13 – Frances Sternhagen, actress
• January 14 – C. Arlen Beam, judge
• January 15
  • James Millstone, journalist and editor (d. 1992)
  • Margaret Mary Vojtko, linguist (d. 2013)
• January 17
  • Dick Contino, American accordionist (d. 2017)
  • Lucille Miller, American murderer (d. 1986)
• January 18 – James M. Bobbitt, chemist and professor
• January 19 – Tippi Hedren, actress
• January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, astronaut, Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11 and second person to walk on the Moon
• January 22 – David Rosen, businessman
• January 23
  • William R. Pogue, astronaut (d. 2014)
  • Benjamin Tatar, actor (d. 2012)
• January 24
  • Edward Diego Reyes, politician (d. 2018)
  • Rita Lakin, screenwriter
  • John Romita Sr., comic book artist (d. 2023)^[12]
• January 25 – Ruth Kligman, artist (d. 2010)^[13]
• January 26 – Thomas Gumbleton, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2024)^[14]
• January 27 – Bobby Bland, African-American singer (d. 2013)
• January 28
  • Ruth Cohen (actress), actress (d. 2008)
  • Ralph Engelstad, businessman (d. 2002)
• January 30
  • Gene Hackman, actor and novelist
  • Frank O'Bannon, politician, 47th governor of Indiana (d. 2003)
• January 31 – Al De Lory, record producer, arranger, musician (d. 2012)

February edit

• February 2 – C. M. Newton, American basketball player, coach and administrator (d. 2018)
• February 3 – David Edward Foley, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
• February 4 – Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (d. 2015)
• February 5 – Don Goldie, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1995)
• February 7 – Jack Biddle, politician d. 2022)^[15]
• February 8
  • Jim Dooley, American football player and coach (d. 2008)
  • Arlan Stangeland, American farmer and politician (d. 2013)
• February 10
  • Anne Wexler, American political consultant and public policy advisor (d. 2009)
  • Robert Wagner, American actor
• February 11 – James Polshek, American architect (d. 2022)^[16]
• February 12
  • Bert Clark, American football player and coach (d. 2004)
  • Arlen Specter, American politician (d. 2012)
• February 13 – Frank Buxton, American actor, television writer, director and author (d. 2018)
• February 14 – Bernie Papy Jr., American politician (d. 1995)
• February 15
  • Sara Jane Moore, attempted assassin of President Gerald Ford
  • Robert Edward Mulvee, Roman Catholic Prelate (d. 2018)
• February 16
  • Ricou Browning, stuntman and film director (d. 2023)
  • Noah Weinberg, American-born Israeli rabbi, founder of Aish HaTorah (d. 2009 in Israel)
• February 17 – Roger Craig, American baseball player, coach and manager (d. 2023)
• February 18 – Pauline Bart, American sociologist (d. 2021)^[17]
• February 19 – John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002)
• February 22
  • James McGarrell, American painter
  • Marni Nixon, American vocalist (d. 2016)
• February 24
  • Joan Diener, American theater actress and singer (d. 2006)
  • Barbara Jo Lawrence, American actress and model (d. 2013)
  • Anita Steckel, American feminist artist (d. 2012)
• February 25
  • Roger A. Madigan, American politician (d. 2018)
  • Delford M. Smith, American aviator (d. 2014)
• February 26 – Robert Francis, American actor (d. 1955)
• February 27
  • Barney Glaser, American sociologist
  • Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
  • Joanne Woodward, American actress^[18]
• February 28 – Leon Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

March edit

• March 2
  • John Cullum, American actor and singer
  • Tom Wolfe, American author, journalist (d. 2018)^[19]
• March 5 – Del Crandall, American baseball player and manager (d. 2021)
• March 6 – Allison Hayes, American actress (d. 1977)
• March 9 – Ornette Coleman, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2015)
• March 16
  • Olen Lovell Burrage, American native businessman (d. 2013)
  • Hobie Landrith, American baseball player (d. 2023)^[20]
• March 17 – James Irwin, American astronaut (d. 1991)
• March 18 – Adam Maida, American Roman Catholic prelate
• March 19
  • Wayne Fitzgerald, American film title designer (d. 2019)
  • Richard Wald, American television executive (d. 2022)^[21]
• March 21 – James Coco, American actor (d. 1987)
• March 22
  • Derek Bok, American lawyer and academic
  • Pat Robertson, American televangelist, motivational speaker, author and television host
  • Stephen Sondheim, American composer, lyricist (d. 2021)
  • Willie Thrower, American football player (d. 2002)
• March 24 – Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
• March 25
  • John Keel, American journalist, urologist (d. 2009)
  • Russell Sherman, American pianist (d. 2023)^[22]
• March 26 – Sandra Day O'Connor, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States(d. 2023)^[23]
• March 27 – James Tayoun, American politician (d. 2017)
• March 28
  • Robert Ashley, American composer (d. 2014)
  • Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Joe Fortunato, American football player (d. 2017)
• March 30 – John Astin, American actor

April edit

• April 1
  • Betsy Jones-Moreland, American actress (d. 2006)
  • Grace Lee Whitney, American actress (Star Trek) (d. 2015)^[24]
• April 3 – Lawton Chiles, American politician (d. 1998)
• April 9 – Jim Fowler, American zoologist (d. 2019)
• April 10 – Dolores Huerta, American labor leader and activist
• April 11
  • Nicholas F. Brady, American politician
  • Anton LaVey, Satanist (d. 1997)^[25]
• April 14
  • Bradford Dillman, American actor, author (d. 2018)
  • Arnold Burns, American lawyer (d. 2013)
  • Jay Robinson, American actor (d. 2013)
  • William vanden Heuvel, lawyer and diplomat (b. 2021)^[26]
• April 19
  • Curtis Roosevelt, American writer (d. 2016)
  • Dick Sargent, American actor, gay activist (d. 1994)
• April 21 – Donald J. Tyson, American businessman (d. 2011)
• April 23 – Alan Oppenheimer, American actor
• April 24
  • Richard Donner, American film director and producer (d. 2021)
  • Conn Findlay, rower, Olympic champion (d. 2021)
• April 28
  • James Baker, United States Secretary of State
  • Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
  • Richard C. Sarafian, American film-television director, writer and actor (d. 2013)

May edit

• May 1
  • Ethel Ayler, American actress (d. 2018)^[27]
  • Ollie Matson, American sprinter (d. 2011)
  • Richard Riordan, American politician, 39th Mayor of Los Angeles (d. 2023)
  • Little Walter, African-American blues singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1968)
• May 3
  • Bob Havens, American musician
  • Edward Nixon, American entrepreneur (d. 2019)
• May 4
  • Lois de Banzie, UK-born American actress (d. 2021)
  • Katherine Jackson, Jackson Family matriarch
  • Roberta Peters, American soprano (d. 2017)
• May 5
  • Michael J. Adams, American aviator, aeronautical engineer and astronaut (d. 1967)
  • Douglas Turner Ward, American playwright, actor and director (d. 2021)
• May 6
  • George Tarasovic, American football player (d. 2019)
  • David Carpenter, American serial killer
• May 7 – Babe Parilli, American football player (d. 2017)
• May 10
  • Adam Darius, American dancer, choreographer (d. 2017)
  • George E. Smith, American physicist, engineer and Nobel Prize laureate
  • Pat Summerall, American football player, broadcaster (d. 2013)
• May 11
  • Bud Ekins, American stuntman (d. 2007)
  • William Honan, American journalist and author (d. 2014)
• May 12 – Tom Umphlett, American baseball player and manager (d. 2012)
• May 13 – Mike Gravel, American politician (d. 2021)
• May 15
  • Cotton Ivy, American author and politician (d. 2021)
  • Jasper Johns, American painter
• May 16 – Carolyn Conwell, American actress (d. 2012)
• May 18 – Don L. Lind, American naval aviator, astronaut and scientist (d. 2022)^[28]
• May 19 – Lorraine Hansberry, African-American playwright (d. 1965)^[29]
• May 22
  • Harvey Milk, American politician, San Francisco gay rights activist (d. 1978)
  • Tiny Topsy, African-American rhythm and blues singer (d. 1964)
• May 23 – Charles Kelman, ophthalmologist (d. 2004)
• May 27
  • John Barth, American fiction writer (d. 2024)^[30]
  • Bruce Halle, American businessman (d. 2018)
  • William S. Sessions, American civil servant and judge (d. 2020)
• May 28 – Frank Drake, American radio astronomer, pioneer in SETI (d. 2022)
• May 29 – Gerry Lenfest, American lawyer, media executive and philanthropist (d. 2018)
• May 30
  • Clint Eastwood, American actor, filmmaker, musician and political figure
  • Morton L. Janklow, American literary agent (d. 2022)^[31]

June edit

• June 1
  • Pat Corley, American actor (d. 2006)
  • Richard Levins, American ecologist and geneticist (d. 2016)
• June 2
  • Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
  • Bob Lillis, American baseball player, coach and manager
  • Stewart and Cyril Marcus, American gynecologists (d. 1975)
• June 3 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (d. 1999)^[32]
• June 4 – Morgana King, American jazz singer and actress (d. 2018)
• June 8 – Richard Paul Matsch, federal judge (d. 2019)
• June 10 – Grace Mirabella, American editor of Vogue (d. 2021)^[33]
• June 11 – Charles B. Rangel, African-American politician
• June 12
  • Jim Nabors, American actor, musician and comedian (d. 2017)
  • Dutch Rennert, baseball umpire (d. 2018)
• June 14 – Charles McCarry, American novelist (d. 2019)^[34]
• June 16 – Thyrsa Frazier Svager, African American mathematician and academic (d. 1999)
• June 17 – Shatzi Weisberger, American activist (d. 2022)^[35]
• June 19
  • James O. Mason, American medical doctor and public health administrator (d. 2019)
  • Gena Rowlands, American actress
  • Diana Sowle, American actress (d. 2018)
• June 21 – John E. McCarthy, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2018)
• June 22
  • Fred Benners, American football player
  • Roy Drusky, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
• June 23 – Ben Speer, American singer, musician, music publisher and record company executive (d. 2017)
• June 24
  • Herb Klein, American businessman, attorney and politician (d. 2023)^[36]
  • Peter Mazzaferro, American football coach
• June 25 – James Sedin, American ice hockey player
• June 26 – Jackie Fargo, American wrestler, trainer (d. 2013)
• June 27 – Ross Perot, American computer billionaire, politician (d. 2019)
• June 28 – Maureen Howard, American writer, editor and lecturer (d. 2022)
• June 29
  • Robert Evans, American producer
  • Edward Johnson III, American investor, businessman
  • Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress and politician
• June 30
  • Ben Atchley, American politician (d. 2018)
  • W. C. Gorden, American football player, coach
  • Isaac Levi, American philosopher
  • Thomas Sowell, American economist, author

July edit

• July 1
  • Jerome A. Cohen, professor of law
  • Frank Joranko, American football and baseball player and coach (d. 2019)
• July 2
  • Pete Burnside, baseball player (d.2022)
  • Ahmad Jamal, jazz pianist (d. 2023)
  • Jane Moffet, utility baseball player(d.2018)
  • Magdalen Redman, baseball player (d.2020)
  • Randy Starr, singer-songwriter and dentist
  • Joe Scudero, American football safety (d . 2019)
• July 3 – Ronnell Bright, jazz pianist(d. 2021)
• July 4
  • George Steinbrenner, businessman, baseball team owner (d. 2010)
  • Jack Van Mark, politician (d.2020)
• July 5
  • Tommy Cook, actor
  • Billy Howton, American football player
  • Donald Wilhelms, United States Geological Survey geologist
• July 7
  • Sherwin Carlquist, botanist, photographer
  • Theodore Edgar McCarrick, American Roman Catholic Cardinal
• July 8
  • Chris Adams, author and retired United States Air Force officer
  • Jim Mooney, basketball player
  • Frank Slay, songwriter, record producer (d. 2017)
  • Jerry Vale, singer and actor (d. 2014)
• July 9 – Buddy Bregman, musical arranger (d. 2017)
• July 10 – Pete Carril, basketball coach
• July 11
  • Dick Beyer, professional wrestler (d. 2019)
  • Harold Bloom, literary critic (d. 2019)^[37]
  • Ezra Vogel, professor (d. 2020)
• July 13 – Dick Bunt, basketball player
• July 14 – Polly Bergen, American actress (d. 2014)
• July 15 – Betty Wagoner, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• July 16
  • Michael Bilirakis, politician
  • Bert Rechichar, American football defensive back, kicker (d. 2019)
• July 18 – Sammy Masters, singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
• July 20 – Ronnie MacGilvray, American basketball player (d. 2007)
• July 23 – Moon Landrieu, lawyer and politician, Mayor of New Orleans (d. 2022)^[38]
• July 29 – Paul Taylor, choreographer (d. 2018)
• July 30
  • A. D. King, civil rights activist and minister (d. 1969)
  • Gus Triandos, baseball player (Baltimore Orioles) (d. 2013)

August edit

• August 2
  • Eddie Locke, American jazz drummer (d. 2009)
  • Carolyn Warner, American politician (d. 2018)
• August 5
  • Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, mission commander on Apollo 11 and the first person to walk on the Moon (d. 2012)
  • Damita Jo DeBlanc, American actress, comedian, singer (d. 1998)
• August 6 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer (d. 2010)
• August 8 – Joan Mondale, American socialite, Second Lady of the United States (d. 2014)
• August 10 – Fakir Musafar, American performance artist, body modification pioneer (d. 2018)
• August 13
  • Don Ho, American singer, musician (d. 2007)
  • Bob Wiesler, American pitcher (d. 2014)
  • Jack Daugherty, American musician (d. 1991)
  • Wilmer Mizell, American left-handed pitcher (d. 1999)
• August 14
  • W. Brantley Harvey Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 2018)
  • Earl Weaver, American professional baseball player, manager (d. 2013)
• August 15 – Selma James, American-born feminist writer
• August 16
  • Robert Culp, American actor (d. 2010)
  • Frank Gifford, American football player (d. 2015)
• August 21 – Frank Perry, American stage director and filmmaker (d. 1995)
• August 23 – Mickey McMahan, big band musician (d. 2008)
• August 28 – Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
• August 30 – Warren Buffett, American billionaire entrepreneur
• August 31 – Raymond J. Donovan, American businessman and politician, Secretary of Labor (d. 2021)

September edit

• September 2 – Rita Riggs, American costume designer (d. 2017)
• September 4 – Norman Dorsen, American civil rights activist (d. 2017)
• September 7 – Sonny Rollins, African-American jazz saxophonist
• September 9 – Frank Lucas, African-American drug trafficker (d. 2019)
• September 11 – Cathryn Damon, American actress (d. 1987)
• September 13 – Mary Baumgartner, American female professional baseball player (d. 2018)
• September 16 – Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011)
• September 17
  • David Huddleston, American actor (The Big Lebowski) (d. 2016)
  • Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (d. 2016)
  • Thomas P. Stafford, American astronaut (d. 2024)
• September 23 – Ray Charles, African-American singer, musician and actor (d. 2004)
• September 24 – John Young, American astronaut (d. 2018)
• September 25 – Shel Silverstein, American poet, singer-songwriter, cartoonist, screenwriter and children's book author (d. 1999)^[39]
• September 26 – Philip Bosco, American actor (d. 2018)
• September 28
  • Tommy Collins, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
  • Johnny "Country" Mathis, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
• September 29 – Billy Strange, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)^[40]

October edit

• October 1 – George F. Regas, Episcopal priest and activist (d. 2021)
• October 8 – Faith Ringgold, artist and author d. 2024)^[41]
• October 10
  • Doris Payne, jewel thief
  • Adlai Stevenson III, politician (d. 2021)
• October 11
  • Bill Fischer, baseball player (d. 2018)
  • Sam Johnson, politician (d. 2020)
• October 17
  • Robert Atkins, nutritionist (d. 2003)
  • Nick Chickillo, American football player (d. 2000)
• October 18 – Frank Carlucci, politician (d. 2018)
• October 19 – Jody Lawrance, actress (d. 1986)^[42]
• October 20 – Leila Seth, Indian judge (d. 2017)^[43]
• October 24
  • Big Bopper, disc jockey and singer-songwriter (d. 1959)
  • Jack Angel, voice actor
• October 29 – Natalie Sleeth, composer (d. 1992)
• October 30 – Clifford Brown, jazz trumpeter (d. 1956)
• October 31 – Michael Collins, astronaut (d. 2021)

November edit

• November 3
  • Mable John, American blues singer (d. 2022)^[44]
  • D. James Kennedy, American evangelist (d. 2007)
• November 4 – Dick MacPherson, American football coach (d. 2017)
• November 6
  • Derrick Bell, American law professor (d. 2011)
  • Wilma Briggs, American female baseball player
• November 7 – Rudy Boschwitz, American politician
• November 11 – Mildred Dresselhaus, American scientist, educator (d. 2017)
• November 12 – Bob Crewe, American singer-songwriter, manager and producer (d. 2014)
• November 13
  • Richard A. Falk, American international professor
  • Fred R. Harris, American politician
• November 14 – Ed White, American astronaut (d. 1967)^[45]
• November 16 – Paul Foytack, American baseball player (d. 2021)
• November 17 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (d. 2006)
• November 20 – Curly Putman, American songwriter (d. 2016)
• November 21 – Anthony Downs, American economist (d. 2021)^[46]
• November 22 – Owen Garriott, American astronaut (d. 2019)
• November 23
  • Bill Brock, American politician (d. 2021)
  • Robert Easton, American actor (d. 2011)
  • Jack McKeon, American baseball player and manager^[47]
• November 24 – Bob Friend, American baseball player (d. 2019)
• November 25 – Clarke Scholes, American freestyle swimmer (d. 2010)
• November 30 – G. Gordon Liddy, American organizer of the Watergate burglaries (d. 2021)

December edit

• December 2 – Gary Becker, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
• December 4
  • Sheila Benson, American journalist and film critic (d. 2022)^[48]
  • Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist (d. 2013)
• December 5 – Warren Spannaus, American politician (d. 2017)
• December 11 – Jim Williams, American antique dealer, preservationist (d. 1990)
• December 19 – Peter Buck, American restaurateur (d. 2021)^[49]
• December 31
  • Odetta, African-American singer and civil rights activist (d. 2008)
  • Jaime Escalante, American high school math teacher (d. 2010)

• January 9 – Edward Bok, editor (b. 1863 in the Netherlands)^[50]
• January 13 – John Nathan Cobb, author, naturalist, conservationist, fisheries researcher, and educator (b. 1868)^[51]
• January 24 – Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator from Georgia (b. 1835)
• February 7 – Jennie Anderson Froiseth, women's rights campaigner (b. 1849)
• February 14 – Fred Dubois, U.S. Senator from Idaho (b. 1851)
• February 27 – George Haven Putnam, author and publisher (b. 1844)
• March 8 – William Howard Taft, 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and 10th chief justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930 (b. 1857)
• March 11 – Alma Webster Hall Powell, opera singer, suffragist and inventor (b. 1869)
• March 13 – Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, author (b. 1852)^[52]
• March 31 – James Marshall Head, politician and businessman (b. 1855)
• April 7 – Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo, politician (b. 1859)
• April 14 – John B. Sheridan, sports journalist (b. 1870 in Ireland)^[53]
• May 2 – Daniel V. Asay, iceboat racer (b. 1847)
• May 18 – Gottfried Blocklinger, admiral (b. 1847)
• May – Anna Margaret Urbas, criminal associate (murdered; b. 1905/06)
• June 16 – Ezra Fitch, businessman, co-founder of Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1865)
• July 2 – Anders Randolf, silent film actor (b. 1870 in Denmark)
• August 6 – Luigi Fugazy, banker, businessman and philanthropist (b. 1839 in Italy)
• September 5
  • Carl Panzram, serial killer and rapist (executed; b. 1891)
  • Robert Means Thompson, naval officer and president of the American Olympic Association (b. 1849)
• September 21 – John T. Dorrance, chemist (b. 1873)
• September 24 – William A. MacCorkle, lawyer, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
• September 28 – Daniel Guggenheim, mining magnate and philanthropist (b. 1856)
• October 2 – Gordon Stewart Northcott, serial killer (executed; b. 1906)
• October 15 – Herbert Henry Dow, industrial chemist (b. 1866 in Canada)
• November 20 – William B. Hanna, sportswriter (b. 1866)^[54]
• December 9 – Rube Foster, Negro league baseball player (b. 1879)
• December 14 – F. Richard Jones, director (b. 1893)
• December 16 – Herman Lamm, bank robber (suicide; b. 1890 in Germany)

• List of American films of 1930
• Timeline of United States history (1930–1949)

•   Media related to 1930 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons