Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 30

Births

 * 1735 - John Adams, American revolutionary leader and President of the United States (d. 1826) (pictured)
 * 1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
 * 1885 - Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
 * 1945 - Henry Winkler, American actor
 * 1951 - Harry Hamlin, American actor

Deaths

 * 1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
 * 1893 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
 * 1968 - Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)
 * 1978 - Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (b. 1903)