30 September
Notable Births
Levi Miller
b. 2002
Australian actor and model
Maddie Ziegler
b. 2002
American actress and dancer (born 2002)
Landon Dickerson
b. 1998
American football player (born 1998)
Yui Imaizumi
b. 1998
Japanese actress, singer, model, and television personality
Trevi Moran
b. 1998
American musician and YouTuber
Yana Kudryavtseva
b. 1997
Russian rhythmic gymnast, World Champion, Olympic silver medalist
Max Verstappen
b. 1997
Dutch and Belgian racing driver (born 1997)
Aaron Holiday
b. 1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
Aliya Mustafina
b. 1994
Russian artistic gymnast (born 1994)
Bria Hartley
b. 1992
French-American basketball player (born 1992)
Ezra Miller
b. 1992
American actor (born 1992)
David Bakhtiari
b. 1991
American football player (born 1991)
Joffrey Lauvergne
b. 1991
French basketball player (born 1991)
Thomas Röhler
b. 1991
German javelin thrower
Jasmine Thomas (basketball)
b. 1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
Natalie Eggermont
b. 1988
Belgian politician (born 1988)
Aida Garifullina
b. 1987
Russian lyric soprano (born 1987)
Kenley Jansen
b. 1987
Curaçaoan baseball player (born 1987)
Olivier Giroud
b. 1986
French footballer (born 1986)
Martin Guptill
b. 1986
New Zealand cricketer (born 1986)
Notable Deaths
Gavin Creel
d. 2024
American actor, singer and songwriter (1976–2024)
Dikembe Mutombo
d. 2024
Congolese-American basketball player (1966–2024)
Humberto Ortega
d. 2024
Nicaraguan military leader (1947–2024)
Ken Page
d. 2024
American actor and singer (1954–2024)
Pete Rose
d. 2024
American baseball player (1941–2024)
Koichi Sugiyama
d. 2021
Japanese composer and conductor (1931–2021)
Victoria Braithwaite
d. 2019
British scientist (1967–2019)
Kim Larsen
d. 2018
Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist
Geoffrey Hayes
d. 2018
English television presenter and actor (1942–2018)
Sonia Orbuch
d. 2018
American educator and resistance fighter
Monty Hall
d. 2017
Canadian-American game show host (1921–2017)
Vladimir Voevodsky
d. 2017
Russian mathematician (1966–2017)
Guido Altarelli
d. 2015
Italian theoretical physicist
Claude Dauphin (businessman)
d. 2015
French billionaire (1951–2015)
Göran Hägg
d. 2015
Swedish writer
Martin Lewis Perl
d. 2014
American scientist
Janet Powell
d. 2013
Australian politician
Turhan Bey
d. 2012
Austrian actor (1922–2012)
Barry Commoner
d. 2012
American ecologist (1917–2012)
Bobby Jaggers
d. 2012
American professional wrestler
On This Day in History
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2016
Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.
Hurricane Matthew
2016
Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.
Van Gogh Museum
2009
The 7.6 Mw Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.
2009 Sumatra earthquakes
2005
Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper.
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
2000
Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
1999
The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
Tokaimura nuclear accidents
1994
Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-68.
Space Shuttle Endeavour
1993
The 6.2 Mw Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.
1993 Latur earthquake
1980
Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Ethernet
1978
Finnair Flight 405 is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland.
Finnair Flight 405
1975
Malév Flight 240 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while on approach to Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 60.
Malév Flight 240
1970
Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
Dawson's Field hijackings
1968
The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
Boeing 747
1966
Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
Botswana
1960
The Flintstones animated sitcom premieres on ABC television.
The Flintstones
1954
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
USS Nautilus (SSN-571)
1949
The Berlin Airlift ends.
Berlin Blockade
1947
The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
1947 World Series
1947
Pakistan joins the United Nations.
Pakistan
1945
The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43.
Bourne End rail crash