Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 30

Births

 * 1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945) (pictured)
 * 1930 - Gene Hackman, American actor
 * 1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
 * 1941 - Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
 * 1951 - Phil Collins, English musician

Deaths

 * 1649 - King Charles I of England (executed) (b. 1600)
 * 1836 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
 * 1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1869)
 * 1948  - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)
 * 2006 - Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr. (b. 1927)