Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 30
Births
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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)