Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 30

Births

 * 1377 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
 * 1720 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)
 * 1748 - Jacques-Louis David, (pictured) French painter (d. 1825)
 * 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
 * 1821 - Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters) (d. 1849)
 * 1871 - Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1937)
 * 1893 - Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
 * 1930 - Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur
 * 1943 - Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
 * 1954 - Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
 * 1972 - Cameron Diaz, American actress
 * 1982 - Andy Roddick, American tennis player

Deaths

 * 526 - Theodoric the Great (b. 454)
 * 1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
 * 1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632)
 * 1938 - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
 * 1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
 * 1963 - Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
 * 2003 - Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
 * 2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
 * 2006 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)