1930 in Italy

Events from the year 1930 in Italy.

Incumbents

 * King: Victor Emmanuel III
 * Prime Minister: Benito Mussolini

Events

 * 21 November: A flying boat airliner I-RONY, operating on a passenger flight for Società Anonima Navigazione Aerea (SANA), disappears over the Mediterranean Sea during a flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Marseilles, France; all six people on board are lost.

Births

 * 6 January: Alfonso Brescia, film director (d. 2001)
 * 19 January: Pellegrino Tomaso Ronchi, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
 * 11 February: Flaminia Jandolo, actress (d. 2019)
 * 6 March: Amos Cardarelli, Italian footballer (d. 2018)
 * 25 April: Ugo Crescenzi, politician (d. 2017)
 * 31 July: Nino Cristofori, politician (d. 2015)
 * 21 August: Filippo Illuminato, partisan, Gold Medal of Military Valour (d. 1943)
 * 6 September: Daniele Barioni, operatic tenor
 * 23 September: Edda Bresciani, Egyptologist
 * 29 September: Cesare Barbetti, actor (d. 2006)
 * 8 October: Cosetta Greco, actress (d. 2002)
 * 19 October: Lino Bortolo Belotti, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
 * 3 December: Francesco Perrone, long-distance runner (d. 2020)
 * 6 December: Carlo Reali, actor, voice actor and film editor
 * 14 December: Rosanna Carteri, operatic soprano (d. 2020)

Deaths

 * 3 February: Michele Bianchi, revolutionary syndicalist leader (b. 1883)
 * 14 February: Salvatore Catalanotte, Sicilian-born US mobster (b. 1893)
 * 15 February: Giulio Douhet, general and air power theorist (b. 1869)
 * 30 June: Francesco Saverio Merlino, lawyer, anarchist activist and theorist of libertarian socialism (b. 1856)
 * 1 September: Luigi Cangiullo, Olympic diver (b. 1897)
 * 9 October: Enrico Forlanini, engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer (b. 1848)
 * 30 October: Federico Andreotti, painter (b. 1847)
 * 5 November: Luigi Facta, politician, 26th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1861)