August 1930 in History

Events in History

Aug 7 Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King loses the election to Richard Bedford Bennett of the Conservative Party

Aug 12 Clarence Birdseye is granted a patent for method for quick freezing food (patent US 1773079 A)

Aug 16 I British Empire Games open in Hamilton, Canada
Aug 18 Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
Aug 21 Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished
Aug 23 1st British Empire Games close in Hamilton, Canada
Aug 29 The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.

Aug 1 Jerry Frankel, American Broadway producer, born in Queens, New York (d. 2018)
Aug 1 Károly Grósz, Hungarian communist politician, born in Miskolc, Hungary (d. 1996)
Aug 1 Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist and anthropologist, born in Denguin, France (d. 2002)
Aug 2 Ron de Lugo, American politician (Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the U.S. Virgin Islands' at-large district 1981-95), born in Englewood, New Jersey
Aug 2 Vali Myers, Australian painter, born in Canterbury, Sydney (d. 2003)
Aug 4 David M G Curry, South African Labour Party parliament leader
Aug 4 Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iranian shia cleric, born in Mashhad, Iran
Aug 4 John Gorman, printer and socialist historian, born in Stratford, East London (d. 1996)
Aug 5 Michal Kováč, 1st President of Slovakia (1993-98), born in Ľubiša, Czechoslovakia (d. 2016)

Aug 5 American X-15 pilot and astronaut - 1st man on the Moon (Gemini 8, Apollo 11), born in Wapakoneta Ohio,

Aug 8 Joan Mondale (née Adams;), American artist, author, and wife of US vice-president Walter Mondale, born in Eugene, Oregon (d. 2014)
Aug 10 Barry Unsworth, novelist (Pascali's Island), (d. 2012)
Aug 11 Michael Quinlan, civil servant
Aug 11 William A O'Neal, (Gov-D-Ct)

Aug 12 Hungarian-American investor and political activist (Open Society Foundation), born in Budapest, Hungary

Aug 12 Jacques Tits, Belgian mathematician
Aug 12 Ronald James Herron, architect
Aug 14 Gerald Solomon, American businessman and politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), born in Okeechobee, Florida (d. 2001)
Aug 14 Lord Chorley, mountaineering enthusiast
Aug 15 Ageeda Paavel, Estonian freedom fighter
Aug 17 James Gerald Gulliver, Scottish businessman (Argyll Foods), born in Campbeltown, Scotland (d. 1996)

Aug 17 English Poet and translator (British Poet Laureate 1984-98), born in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire

Aug 18 Liviu Librescu, Israeli professor, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre
Aug 19 David G. Compton, British sci-fi author (Synthajoy, Radio Plays), born in London, England
Aug 19 Frank McCourt, Irish-American Pulitzer Prize winning author (Angela's Ashes), and teacher, born in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 2009)
Aug 21 Margaret Rose, Countess of Snowdon, Sister of Queen Elizabeth II, born in Glamis Castle, Scotland (d. 2002)
Aug 23 Andy Ireland, American politician (U.S. House of Representatives from Florida), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
Aug 23 John Fairclough, British scientific adviser and computer designer, born in Yorkshire (d. 2003)
Aug 23 Michel Rocard, French politician, Prime Minister of France (1988-91), born in Courbevoie, Paris (d. 2016)
Aug 24 Raj Bagri, Indian-British merchant in metal, born in Kolkata, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 2017)
Aug 27 John Daly, British trade union leader
Aug 27 John Watts, British army and Chief of Defense (Omani Armed Forces), born in Portsmouth, England (d. 2003)
Aug 28 Patriarch Irinej [Miroslav Gavrilović], Head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, born in Vidova, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (d. 2020) [1]
Aug 29 Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive, born in Montreal, Québec, Canada (d. 2006)
Aug 29 Marius van Amelsvoort, Dutch politician (CDA), born in Kaatsheuvel, the Netherlands (d. 2006)

Aug 30 American business magnate (world's wealthiest person in 2008), born in Omaha, Nebraska

Aug 30 Warren Burger, American author (The Midas Touch)
Aug 31 Owen B. Pickett, American politician (Rep-D-Virginia 1987-2001), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2010)