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, nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935.
Famous Birthdays on August 30
1893 — Huey Long
American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (died 1935)
August 30 has 229 recorded notable births across history, from 1334 to 2002. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on August 30
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- 1800 Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen. Source
- 1983 STS-8: The Space Shuttle Challenger takes off on the first night launch of the shuttle program. Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space on this mission. Source
- 1721 The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad. Source
- 1959 South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Dan was elected to the National Assembly despite soldiers being bussed in to vote for President Ngo Dinh Diem's candidate. Source
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was an African American revolutionary and political activist who served as deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party, a Marxist-Leninist and black power organization from 1966 until his assassination in 1969.
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Elizabeth Ashley has been nominated for three Tony Awards, winning once in 1962 for Take Her, She's Mine.
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Kingsfield, in the film adaptation The Paper Chase (1973).
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Kildare (1961–66), John Brown in Santa Fe Trail (1940) and Seven Angry Men (1955), Abraham Farlan in A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and Jonathan Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
More major people born on August 30
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1948
Fred Hampton
American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (died 1969)
Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. was an African American revolutionary and political activist who served as deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party, a Marxist-Leninist and black power organization from 1966 until his…
1939
Elizabeth Ashley
American actress
Elizabeth Ann Cole, known professionally as Elizabeth Ashley, is an American actress of theatre, film, and television. She has been nominated for three Tony Awards, winning once in 1962 for Take Her, She's Mine.
1951
Timothy Bottoms
American actor
Timothy James Bottoms is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for playing the lead in Johnny Got His Gun (1971); Sonny Crawford in The Last Picture Show (1971), where he and his fellow co-stars, Cybill…
1896
Raymond Massey
Canadian-American actor and playwright (died 1983)
Raymond Hart Massey was a Canadian and American actor. Known for his commanding stage-trained voice, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the title role in Abe Lincoln in Illinois…
1954
Ravi Shankar Prasad
Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Communications and IT
Ravi Shankar Prasad is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as 1st Minister of Electronics and Information Technology from 2016 to 2019 and 2019 to 2021.
1919
Kitty Wells
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2012)
Ellen Muriel Deason, known professionally as Kitty Wells, was an American pioneering country music singer.
1958
Muriel Gray
Scottish journalist and author
Muriel Janet Gray is a Scottish author, broadcaster and journalist. She came to public notice as an interviewer on Channel 4's alternative pop-show The Tube, and then appeared as a regular presenter on BBC radio.
1855
Evelyn De Morgan
English painter (died 1919)
Evelyn De Morgan was an English painter associated early in her career with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, and working in a range of styles including Aestheticism and Symbolism.
1852
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1911)
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. was a Dutch physical chemist.
1953
Ron George
American businessman and politician
Ronald Alan George is an American politician who was a Republican member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 2007 to 2015.
1768
Joseph Dennie
American author and journalist (died 1812)
Joseph Dennie was an American author and journalist who was one of the foremost men of letters of the Federalist Era.
1884
Theodor Svedberg
Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
Theodor Svedberg was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate for his research on colloids and proteins using the ultracentrifuge. Svedberg was active at Uppsala University from the mid-1900s to late 1940s.
1908
Fred MacMurray
American actor (died 1991)
Frederick Martin MacMurray was an American actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films and a successful television series in a career that spanned nearly a half-century.
1919
Wolfgang Wagner
German director and manager (died 2010)
Wolfgang Wagner was a German opera director. He is best known as the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival, a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951 until the latter's death in…
1903
Bhagwati Charan Verma
Indian author (died 1981)
Bhagwati Charan Verma was a Hindi author. He wrote many novels, his best work was Chitralekha (1934), which was made into two successful Hindi films in 1941 and 1964 respectively.
1931
Jack Swigert
American pilot and astronaut (died 1982)
John Leonard Swigert Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, test pilot, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, United States Air Force pilot, and politician.
1935
John Phillips
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2001)
John Edmund Andrew Phillips was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the leader of the vocal group the Mamas & the Papas and remains frequently referred to as Papa John Phillips.
1918
Ted Williams
American baseball player and manager (died 2002)
Theodore Samuel Williams was an American professional baseball player and manager.
1919
Maurice Hilleman
American microbiologist and vaccinologist (died 2005)
Maurice Ralph Hilleman was a leading American microbiologist who specialized in vaccinology and developed over 40 vaccines, an unparalleled record of productivity.