Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 30

Births

 * 1865 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936) (pictured)
 * 1873 - Al Smith, American lawyer, politician, and Governor of New York (d. 1944)
 * 1942 - Michael Nesmith, American singer and musician (The Monkees)
 * 1945 - Davy Jones, English singer (The Monkees) (d. 2012)
 * 1946 - Patti Smith, American singer-songwriter and poet
 * 1959 - Tracey Ullman, English actress and singer
 * 1975 - Tiger Woods, American golfer

Deaths

 * 1691 - Robert Boyle, Irish scientist (b. 1627)
 * 1970 - Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932)
 * 1996 - Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)
 * 2004 - Artie Shaw, American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910)