March 30: Day of the year

March 30 is the 89th day of the year (90th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 276 days remaining until the end of the year.

Up to 1900

• 598 - Balkan campaign: The Avars lift the siege of the Byzantine Empire stronghold of Tomis.
• 1282 - The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin King, Charles I of Naples, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
• 1296 – Edward I storms Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking the then-Scottish border town, slaughtering almost everyone, even those fleeing to the churches.
• 1492 – Ferdinand and Isabella sign a decree aimed at expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.
• 1533 – Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.
• 1814 - Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire the unification of Italy into being one country.
• 1822 – Florida Territory created in the United States.
• 1841 - The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.
• 1842 – Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long.
• 1844 – One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
• 1855 – Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas – "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
• 1856 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
• 1858 – Hyman Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.
• 1863 – Prince Wilhelm Georg of Sleeswÿk-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg is chosen as King George I of Greece.
• 1867 – Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this Seward's Folly.
• 1870 – Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
• 1899 - British passenger steamship Stella hits a rock off Guernsey in the English Channel, in thick fog, sinking within eight minutes.

1901 – 2000

• 1909 – In New York City the Queensboro Bridge connecting Manhattan and Queens is opened to traffic.
• 1912 – Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
• 1939 - The Henkel He 100 fighter aircraft sets a record airspeed of 745 kilometers per hour (463 miles per hour).
• 1940 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking to be the capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei.
• 1944 - World War II: Allied bombing raid on Nuremberg.
• 1944 - World War II: The Allies conduct their most severe bombing raid on Sofia, Bulgaria.
• 1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna; Alger Hiss congratulated in Moscow for his part in bringing about the Western betrayal at the Yalta Conference.
• 1949 - Riots occur in Reykjavik after the decision of Iceland's government for the country to join NATO.
• 1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
• 1954 – The first subway in Canada opens after five years of construction, in Toronto.
• 1961 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
• 1962 – Jack Paar hosts his last episode of The Tonight Show.
• 1964 – The game show Jeopardy! debuts on television.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: The Eastertide Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
• 1974 – The Ramones play their first ever gig as a trio at CBGB's in New York City.
• 1976 - First Land Day protests in Israel and Palestine.
• 1981 – President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr., family friend of the Vice President.
• 1982 - Space Shuttle program: The STS-3 mission ends, with the landing of the Space Shuttle Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, United States.
• 1987 – One of Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" paintings is bought by Japanese insurance magnate Yasuo Goto for $39.85 million.

From 2001

• 2001 - The result of the People's Republic of China's census is announced. The population at this time is estimated at 1,285,830,000.
• 2002 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother, dies at Windsor Castle, aged 101, just seven weeks after her daughter, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.
• 2006 – The United Kingdom Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.
• 2006 – Marcos Pontes becomes the first Brazilian in space on board the Soyuz TMA-8 aircraft, to the International Space Station.
• 2008 – The controversial 2008 Zimbabwean Presidential election is held.
• 2017 - SpaceX conducts the world's first re-flight of an orbital-class rocket.

Up to 1900

• 1135 – Maimonides, Jewish philosopher (d. 1204)
• 1326 – Ivan II of Russia (d. 1359)
• 1432 – Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1481)
• 1510 - Antonio de Cabezon, Spanish composer and organist (d. 1566)
• 1566 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian nobleman, composer and murderer (d. 1613)
• 1633 - Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1708)
• 1727 - Tommaso Traetta, Italian composer (d. 1779)
• 1746 – Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (d. 1828)
• 1750 - John Stafford Smith, English organist and composer (d. 1836)
• 1757 - Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier, French physicist and aviation pioneer (d. 1785)
• 1785 - Henry Hardinge, Governor-General of India (d. 1856)
• 1793 – Juan Manuel de Rosas, Argentine military leader (d. 1877)
• 1805 - Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, German-Swedish linguist (d. 1887)
• 1811 - Robert Bunsen, German chemist (d. 1899)
• 1818 - Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, German social reformer (d. 1888)
• 1820 – Anna Sewell, British writer (d. 1878)
• 1844 – Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)
• 1853 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
• 1857 – Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)
• 1863 - Joseph Caillaux, Prime Minister of France (d. 1944)
• 1863 - Mary Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (d. 1930)
• 1864 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (d. 1943)
• 1874 - Charles Lightoller, English 2nd Officer of the RMS Titanic (d. 1952)
• 1874 - Nicolae Radescu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1953)
• 1879 - Coen de Koning, Dutch ice skater (d. 1954)
• 1879 - Bernhard Schmidt, German optician (d. 1935)
• 1880 – Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist (d. 1964)
• 1882 - Melanie Klein, Austrian-British psychoanalyst (d. 1960)
• 1892 - Stefan Banack, Polish mathematician (d. 1945)
• 1892 - Fortunato Depero, Italian painter, writer, sculptor and graphic designer (d. 1960)
• 1892 - Sanzo Nozaka, Japanese politician (d. 1993)
• 1892 - Sidney Soyers, CIA director (d. 1973)
• 1894 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer (d. 1977)
• 1894 - Tommy Green, English race walker (d. 1975)
• 1895 - Jean Giono, French writer (d. 1970)
• 1899 - Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali writer (d. 1970)
• 1900 – Santos Urdinaran, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1979)

1901 – 1950

• 1902 - Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (d. 2007)
• 1902 - Victor E. Anderson, Governor of Nebraska (d. 1962)
• 1902 - Frieda Szwillus, German supercentenarian (d. 2014)
• 1905 – Albert Pierrepoint, British executioner (d. 1992)
• 1908 - Leo A. Hoegh, Territorial Governor of Hawaii (d. 2000)
• 1909 - John A. Burns, Governor of Hawaii (d. 1975)
• 1910 – Jozef Marcinkiewicz, Polish mathematician (d. 1940)
• 1913 – Frankie Laine, American singer (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Censu Tabone, former President of Malta (d. 2012)
• 1913 – Richard Helms, American CIA director (d. 2002)
• 1913 – Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (d. 1948)
• 1915 - Arsenio Erico, Paraguayan footballer (d. 1977)
• 1915 - Pietro Ingrao, Italian politician (d. 2015)
• 1917 - Els Aarne, Estonian composer (d. 1995)
• 1919 - McGeorge Bundy, American diplomat (d. 1996)
• 1922 – Virgilio Noè, Italian cardinal (d. 2011)
• 1923 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d. 1986)
• 1924 - Milko Kelemen, Croatian composer (d. 2018)
• 1926 – Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman (IKEA) (d. 2018)
• 1926 - Peter Marshall, American actor, singer and game show host
• 1926 - Larissa Volpert, Russian chess player (d. 2017)
• 1928 - Tom Sharpe, British writer (d. 2013)
• 1929 - Richard Dysart, American actor (d. 2015)
• 1930 - John Astin, American actor
• 1930 – Rolf Harris, Australian artist, singer and entertainer
• 1933 - Anna-Lisa, Norwegian-American actress (d. 2018)
• 1933 - Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (d. 2007)
• 1934 - Mahmut Atalay, Turkish wrestler (d. 2004)
• 1934 - Hans Hollein, Austrian architect and designer (d. 2014)
• 1937 – Warren Beatty, American actor
• 1938 - Klaus Schwab, German economist and engineer
• 1940 - Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer
• 1940 - Jerry Lucas, American basketball player
• 1940 - Uwe Timm, German actor
• 1941 – Wasim Sajjad, former President of Pakistan
• 1942 – Ruben Kun, former President of Nauru
• 1943 - Jay Traynor, American singer (d. 2014)
• 1943 - Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa, Malagasy sprinter (d. 2016)
• 1945 – Eric Clapton, British guitarist and singer
• 1945 - Johnnie Walker, British DJ and broadcaster
• 1945 - Bob Miller, former Governor of Nevada
• 1947 - Ryszard Kotla, Polish writer and activist
• 1947 - Dick Roche, Irish politician
• 1948 – Eddie Jordan, Irish racing driver and team owner
• 1948 – Mervyn King, British economist
• 1948 - Naomi Sims, model
• 1950 – Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor
• 1950 - Beverley Hughes, English politician
• 1950 - Frans Bolweg, Dutch sailor (d. 2015)

1951 – 1975

• 1951 - Yves Séguin, Quebec politician and actor
• 1956 - Juanito Oiarzabal, Basque mountaineer
• 1957 - Michael Lehmann, American director
• 1957 - Paul Reiser, American actor and screenwriter
• 1958 - Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor
• 1959 - Sabine Meyer, German classical clarinettist
• 1959 - Martina Cole, English writer
• 1960 - Bill Johnson, American skier
• 1962 – M.C. Hammer, American rapper and musician
• 1962 – Bil Dwyer, American actor
• 1962 - Mark Begich, American politician
• 1963 - Eli-Eri Moura, Brazilian composer and conductor
• 1963 - Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko, Ukrainian footballer and coach
• 1963 - Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, 4th President of Mongolia
• 1964 – Tracy Chapman, American singer
• 1964 - Abu Anas al-Libi, Libyan terrorist (d. 2015)
• 1965 – Piers Morgan, British journalist and television personality
• 1966 - Joey Castillo, American drummer
• 1967 - Megumi Hayashibara, Japanese voice actor and singer
• 1968 – Céline Dion, Canadian singer
• 1968 - Donna D'Errico, American actress and model
• 1971 - Mark Consuelos, Spanish-American motorcycle racer
• 1972 - Karel Poborsky, Czech footballer
• 1973 – Jan Koller, Czech footballer
• 1973 - Adam Goldstein, American keyboardist, DJ and producer (d. 2009)
• 1975 - Paul Griffen, New Zealand-Italian rugby player

From 1976

• 1976 - Ty Conklin, American ice hockey player
• 1976 - Ayako Kawasumi, Japanese voice actress
• 1976 - Mark McClelland, Irish musician
• 1976 - Troels Lund Poulsen, Danish politician
• 1978 – Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player
• 1978 - Simon Webbe, English singer (Blue)
• 1978 - Teemu Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1979 – Anatoliy Tymoschuk, Ukrainian footballer
• 1979 – Norah Jones, American singer and musician
• 1980 – Ricardo Osorio, Mexican footballer
• 1981 – Andrea Masi, Italian rugby player
• 1981 - Jammal Brown, American football player
• 1981 - Katy Mixon, American actress
• 1982 - A-Trak, Canadian DJ and record producer
• 1982 - Jason Dohring, American actor
• 1982 - Philippe Mexès, French footballer
• 1983 - Sarah Stevenson, British taekwondoka
• 1984 – Mario Ancic, Croatian tennis player
• 1984 – Samantha Stosur, Australian tennis player
• 1986 – Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer
• 1986 - Beni, Japanese singer
• 1987 - Juan Pablo Pino, Colombian footballer
• 1987 - Calum Elliot, Scottish footballer
• 1987 - Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 - Richard Sherman, American football player
• 1990 - Lee Gi-kwang, South Korean singer, dancer and actor
• 1990 - Cassie Scerbo, American singer, dancer and actress
• 1992 - Stuart Armstrong, Scottish footballer
• 1993 - Anitta, Brazilian singer, songwriter, actress and dancer
• 1993 - Song Min-ho, South Korean rapper, composer and songwriter
• 1994 - Haruka Shimazaki, Japanese singer (AKB48)
• 1994 - Sarah Solovay, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1994 - Jetro Willems, Dutch footballer

Up to 1900

• 116 - Quirinus of Neuss, Roman martyr and saint
• 365 – Jin Aidi, Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (b. 341)
• 987 - Arnulf II of Flanders
• 1202 - Joachim Fiore, Italian mystic and theologian (b. 1135)
• 1472 - Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (b. 1435)
• 1486 - Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1526 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)
• 1559 – Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)
• 1587 - Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507)
• 1764 – Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (b. 1695)
• 1783 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
• 1804 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, French aristocrat and soldier (b. 1718)
• 1830 – Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (b. 1763)
• 1864 - Louis Schindelmeisser, German clarinetist, composer and conductor (b. 1811)
• 1873 - Benedict Morel, French physicist (b. 1809)
• 1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815)
• 1886 - Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, 6th Premier of Quebec (b. 1838)
• 1896 – Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek Prime Minister (b. 1832)

1901 – 2000

• 1912 – Karl May, German writer (b. 1842)
• 1914 – John Henry Poynting, English physicist (b. 1852)
• 1925 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (b. 1861)
• 1935 - Romanos Melikian, Armenian composer (b. 1873)
• 1939 - Richard Steiff, German businessman and teddy bear creator (b. 1877)
• 1943 - Jan Bytnar, Polish activist (b. 1921)
• 1943 - Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)
• 1949 – Friedrich Bergius, German chemist (b. 1884)
• 1950 – Léon Blum, Prime Minister of France (b. 1872)
• 1952 – Jigme Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1905)
• 1954 - Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director (b. 1881)
• 1955 - Harl McDonald, American pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1959 - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)
• 1959 - Riccardo Zandla, Italian-Slovenian poet (b. 1875)
• 1961 - Philibert Jacques Melotte, British astronomer (b. 1880)
• 1963 - Alexander Gauk, Russian conductor and composer (b. 1893)
• 1964 - Nella Larsen, American writer (b. 1891)
• 1965 – Philip Showalter Hench, American physician (b. 1896)
• 1966 - Erwin Piscator, German director and producer (b. 1893)
• 1967 - Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
• 1968 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)
• 1970 – Heinrich Bruening, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)
• 1973 - Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish aristocrat and aviator (b. 1903)
• 1977 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)
• 1979 - Airey Neave, English soldier and politician (b. 1916)
• 1984 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (b. 1904)
• 1985 - Harold Peary, American actor and singer (b. 1908)
• 1986 – James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1988 - Edgar Faure, Prime Minister of France (b. 1908)
• 1990 - Harry Peary, Australian-American union leader (b. 1901)
• 2000 – Rudolf Kirchschlaeger, President of Austria (b. 1915)

From 2001

• 2002 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)
• 2003 – Valentin Pavlov, Soviet politician (b. 1937)
• 2003 - Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)
• 2005 – Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)
• 2008 – Dith Pran, Cambodian photojournalist (b. 1942)
• 2010 – Martin Sandberger, German military officer (b. 1911)
• 2011 – Lyudmila Gurchenko, Russian actress and singer (b. 1935)
• 2013 - Phil Ramone, South African-American record producer (b. 1934)
• 2013 - Valeri Zolotuchin, Russian actor (b. 1941)
• 2014 - Phuntsok Wangyal, Tibetan-Chinese politician (b. 1922)
• 2014 - Kate O'Mara, British actress (b. 1939)
• 2014 - Jan de Graaff, Dutch television journalist (b. 1943)
• 2015 - Helmut Dietl, German movie director (b. 1944)
• 2015 - Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer (b. 1921)
• 2015 - Philip A. Potter, Dominican Methodist church leader (b. 1921)
• 2016 - Anne Aasheim, Norwegian newspaper editor (b. 1962)
• 2016 - Bernard Lamarre, Canadian engineer and businessman (b. 1931)
• 2016 - Bill Rosendahl, American politician (b. 1945)
• 2016 - Gianmaria Testa, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1958)
• 2016 - Shirley Hufstedler, American lawyer and judge (b. 1925)
• 2016 - Khuzaima Qutbuddin, Indian Islamic leader (b. 1940)
• 2017 - Richard Bustillo, American martial arts instructor (b. 1942)
• 2017 - Donald Harvey, American serial killer (b. 1952)
• 2018 - André Bo-Boliko Lokonga, 9th Prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1934)
• 2018 - Bill Maynard, English actor (b. 1928)
• 2020 - Bill Withers, American musician (b. 1938)

• Land Day (Palestine)
• National Doctors' Day (United States)