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| October 30th, 2007 (October 30 2007) | Death | Robert Goulet, American entertainer (born in 1933) | |
| October 30th, 2007 (October 30 2007) | Death | Linda Stein, Ramones manager and real estate broker (born in 1945) | |
| October 30th, 2007 (October 30 2007) | Death | Washoe, chimpanzee trained in American Sign Language (born in 1965) | |
| October 30th, 2007 (October 30 2007) | Death | John Woodruff, American athlete (born in 1915) | |
| October 30th, 2006 (October 30 2006) | Death | Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (born in 1914) | |
| October 30th, 2006 (October 30 2006) | Death | Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (born in 1926) | |
| October 30th, 2005 (October 30 2005) | Event | The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project. | |
| October 30th, 2005 (October 30 2005) | Death | Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (born in 1908) | |
| October 30th, 2005 (October 30 2005) | Death | Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (born in 1942) | |
| October 30th, 2004 (October 30 2004) | Death | Peggy Ryan, American actress (born in 1924) | |
| October 30th, 2002 (October 30 2002) | Event | British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview begins transmitting in parts of the United Kingdom. | |
| October 30th, 2002 (October 30 2002) | Death | Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (born in 1965) | |
| October 30th, 2002 (October 30 2002) | Death | Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (born in 1922) | |
| October 30th, 2000 (October 30 2000) | Death | Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (born in 1921) | Steve Allen Quotes |
| October 30th, 1997 (October 30 1997) | Death | Samuel Fuller, American film director (born in 1912) | |
| October 30th, 1995 (October 30 1995) | Event | Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote was 50.6% to 49.4%). | |
| October 30th, 1993 (October 30 1993) | Death | Paul Gregoire, Archbishop of Montreal (born in 1911) | |
| October 30th, 1991 (October 30 1991) | Event | The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens. | |
| October 30th, 1989 (October 30 1989) | Birth | Nastia Liukin, American gymnast | |
| October 30th, 1989 (October 30 1989) | Birth | Seth Adkins, American actor | |
| October 30th, 1988 (October 30 1988) | Event | Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for U.S. $13.1 billion. | |
| October 30th, 1988 (October 30 1988) | Birth | Janel Parrish, American actress | |
| October 30th, 1988 (October 30 1988) | Death | T. Hee, American animator (born in 1911) | |
| October 30th, 1987 (October 30 1987) | Event | In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine. | |
| October 30th, 1987 (October 30 1987) | Birth | Junaid Siddique, Bangladeshi cricketer | |
| October 30th, 1986 (October 30 1986) | Birth | Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper | |
| October 30th, 1985 (October 30 1985) | Event | Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission. | |
| October 30th, 1985 (October 30 1985) | Death | Kirby Grant, American actor (born in 1911) | |
| October 30th, 1984 (October 30 1984) | Birth | Eva Pigford, American model | |
| October 30th, 1983 (October 30 1983) | Event | The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held. | |
| October 30th, 1983 (October 30 1983) | Birth | Iain Hume, Canadian footballer | |
| October 30th, 1983 (October 30 1983) | Birth | Trent Edwards, American Football Player | |
| October 30th, 1982 (October 30 1982) | Birth | Andy Greene, American ice hockey player | |
| October 30th, 1982 (October 30 1982) | Birth | Manny Parra, American baseball player | |
| October 30th, 1981 (October 30 1981) | Birth | Ivanka Trump, American model | |
| October 30th, 1981 (October 30 1981) | Birth | Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress | |
| October 30th, 1981 (October 30 1981) | Birth | Ian Snell, American baseball player | |
| October 30th, 1980 (October 30 1980) | Event | El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969 s Football War before the International Court of Justice. | |
| October 30th, 1980 (October 30 1980) | Birth | Sarah Carter, Canadian actress | |
| October 30th, 1980 (October 30 1980) | Birth | Choi Hong-man, South Korean kickboxer | |
| October 30th, 1979 (October 30 1979) | Birth | Jason Bartlett, American baseball player | |
| October 30th, 1979 (October 30 1979) | Birth | Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress | |
| October 30th, 1979 (October 30 1979) | Death | Sir Barnes Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (born in 1887) | |
| October 30th, 1979 (October 30 1979) | Death | Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (born in 1890) | Benito Mussolini Quotes |
| October 30th, 1978 (October 30 1978) | Birth | Martin Dossett, American football player | |
| October 30th, 1978 (October 30 1978) | Birth | Amanda Swafford, American model | |
| October 30th, 1977 (October 30 1977) | Birth | Jason Adelman, American actor | |
| October 30th, 1977 (October 30 1977) | Birth | Charmian Faulkner, Australian crime victim | |
| October 30th, 1976 (October 30 1976) | Birth | Stern John, Trinidadian footballer | |
| October 30th, 1976 (October 30 1976) | Birth | Maurice Taylor, American Basketball Player | |
| October 30th, 1975 (October 30 1975) | Event | Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain s acting head of state, taking over for the country s ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco. | |
| October 30th, 1975 (October 30 1975) | Birth | Ian D Sa, Guitarist/Vocalist for Canadian rock band Billy Talent | |
| October 30th, 1975 (October 30 1975) | Birth | Maria Thayer, American actress | |
| October 30th, 1975 (October 30 1975) | Death | Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1887) | |
| October 30th, 1974 (October 30 1974) | Event | The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire. | Muhammad Ali Quotes |
| October 30th, 1973 (October 30 1973) | Event | The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time. | |
| October 30th, 1973 (October 30 1973) | Birth | Adam "Edge" Copeland, Canadian wrestler | |
| October 30th, 1973 (October 30 1973) | Birth | Silvia Corzo, Colombian newscaster | |
| October 30th, 1973 (October 30 1973) | Birth | Michael Oakes, English footballer | |
| October 30th, 1972 (October 30 1972) | Event | A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago, Illinois kills 45 and injures 332. | |
| October 30th, 1971 (October 30 1971) | Birth | Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and singer | |
| October 30th, 1970 (October 30 1970) | Event | In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War. | |
| October 30th, 1970 (October 30 1970) | Birth | Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer | |
| October 30th, 1970 (October 30 1970) | Birth | Tory Belleci, American TV Mythbuster | |
| October 30th, 1970 (October 30 1970) | Birth | Nia Long, American actress | |
| October 30th, 1970 (October 30 1970) | Birth | Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower | |
| October 30th, 1969 (October 30 1969) | Birth | Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer | |
| October 30th, 1969 (October 30 1969) | Death | Pops Foster, American musician (born in 1892) | |
| October 30th, 1968 (October 30 1968) | Birth | Jack Plotnick, American actor | |
| October 30th, 1968 (October 30 1968) | Death | Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (born in 1886) | |
| October 30th, 1968 (October 30 1968) | Death | Ramon Novarro, Mexican actor (born in 1899) | |
| October 30th, 1968 (October 30 1968) | Death | Conrad Richter, American writer (born in 1890) | |
| October 30th, 1967 (October 30 1967) | Birth | Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| October 30th, 1967 (October 30 1967) | Birth | Gavin Rossdale, English musician | |
| October 30th, 1966 (October 30 1966) | Birth | Scott Innes, American voice actor | |
| October 30th, 1966 (October 30 1966) | Death | Yorgos Theotokas, Greek novelist (born in 1906) | |
| October 30th, 1965 (October 30 1965) | Event | Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before. | |
| October 30th, 1964 (October 30 1964) | Birth | Howard Lederer, American poker player | |
| October 30th, 1963 (October 30 1963) | Birth | Michael Beach, American actor | |
| October 30th, 1963 (October 30 1963) | Birth | Kristina Wagner, American actress | |
| October 30th, 1962 (October 30 1962) | Birth | Courtney Walsh, West Indian cricketer | |
| October 30th, 1961 (October 30 1961) | Event | Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or not. Nikita Kruschev announces that the scientists had planned to make it 100 megatons, but had reduced the yield to reduce fallout over the Soviet Union. | |
| October 30th, 1961 (October 30 1961) | Event | Because of "violations of Lenin s precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin s body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin s tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead. | Joseph Stalin Quotes |
| October 30th, 1961 (October 30 1961) | Birth | Scott Garrelts, American baseball player | |
| October 30th, 1960 (October 30 1960) | Event | Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. | |
| October 30th, 1960 (October 30 1960) | Birth | Diego Armando Maradona, Argentine footballer | |
| October 30th, 1958 (October 30 1958) | Birth | Joe Delaney, American football player (died in 1983) | |
| October 30th, 1958 (October 30 1958) | Birth | Stefan Dennis, Australian actor | |
| October 30th, 1958 (October 30 1958) | Birth | Ramona d Viola, American cyclist | |
| October 30th, 1957 (October 30 1957) | Birth | Kevin Pollak, American actor | |
| October 30th, 1957 (October 30 1957) | Birth | Andy Archer, Scottish dramatist | |
| October 30th, 1957 (October 30 1957) | Death | Fred Beebe, baseball player (born in 1880) | |
| October 30th, 1956 (October 30 1956) | Birth | Juliet Stevenson, English actress | |
| October 30th, 1954 (October 30 1954) | Birth | Mario Testino, Peruvian-born English fashion photographer | |
| October 30th, 1953 (October 30 1953) | Event | Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat. | Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
| October 30th, 1953 (October 30 1953) | Birth | Charles Martin Smith, American actor | |
| October 30th, 1951 (October 30 1951) | Birth | Harry Hamlin, American actor | |
| October 30th, 1950 (October 30 1950) | Event | Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican. | |
| October 30th, 1948 (October 30 1948) | Birth | Rusty Goffe, British actor | |
| October 30th, 1947 (October 30 1947) | Event | The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded. | |
| October 30th, 1947 (October 30 1947) | Birth | Timothy B. Schmit, American musician (Eagles) | |
| October 30th, 1945 (October 30 1945) | Event | Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier. | |
| October 30th, 1945 (October 30 1945) | Birth | Henry Winkler, American actor | |
| October 30th, 1944 (October 30 1944) | Event | Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. | Anne Frank Quotes |
| October 30th, 1943 (October 30 1943) | Birth | Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress | |
| October 30th, 1941 (October 30 1941) | Event | World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes |
| October 30th, 1941 (October 30 1941) | Event | 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp. | |
| October 30th, 1941 (October 30 1941) | Birth | Theodor W. Hansch, German physicist, Nobel laureate | |
| October 30th, 1941 (October 30 1941) | Birth | Otis Williams, American singer | |
| October 30th, 1940 (October 30 1940) | Birth | Ed Lauter, American actor | |
| October 30th, 1939 (October 30 1939) | Birth | Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel laureate | |
| October 30th, 1939 (October 30 1939) | Birth | Grace Slick, American singer (Jefferson Airplane) | Grace Slick Quotes |
| October 30th, 1939 (October 30 1939) | Birth | Edward Holland, Jr., American singer | |
| October 30th, 1938 (October 30 1938) | Event | Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells s The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic in the United States. | Orson Welles Quotes |
| October 30th, 1937 (October 30 1937) | Birth | Claude Lelouch, French film director | |
| October 30th, 1936 (October 30 1936) | Birth | Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (died in 2005) | |
| October 30th, 1935 (October 30 1935) | Birth | Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer | |
| October 30th, 1935 (October 30 1935) | Birth | Michael Winner, British film director | Michael Winner Quotes |
| October 30th, 1935 (October 30 1935) | Birth | Jim Perry, American baseball player | |
| October 30th, 1935 (October 30 1935) | Birth | Robert Caro, American biographer | |
| October 30th, 1934 (October 30 1934) | Birth | Frans Bruggen, Dutch musician | |
| October 30th, 1932 (October 30 1932) | Birth | Louis Malle, French film director (died in 1995) | |
| October 30th, 1932 (October 30 1932) | Birth | Barun De, Indian historian | |
| October 30th, 1931 (October 30 1931) | Birth | Vince Callahan, American politician | |
| October 30th, 1930 (October 30 1930) | Birth | Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (died in 1992) | |
| October 30th, 1930 (October 30 1930) | Birth | Clifford Brown, American musician (died in 1956) | |
| October 30th, 1929 (October 30 1929) | Event | The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany. | |
| October 30th, 1928 (October 30 1928) | Birth | Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (died in 1999) | |
| October 30th, 1927 (October 30 1927) | Birth | Joe Adcock, American baseball player (died in 1999) | |
| October 30th, 1926 (October 30 1926) | Birth | Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver | |
| October 30th, 1925 (October 30 1925) | Event | John Logie Baird creates Britain s first television transmitter. | |
| October 30th, 1923 (October 30 1923) | Death | Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in 1858) | |
| October 30th, 1922 (October 30 1922) | Event | Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy. | Benito Mussolini Quotes |
| October 30th, 1922 (October 30 1922) | Birth | Jane White, American actress and singer | |
| October 30th, 1920 (October 30 1920) | Event | The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney. | |
| October 30th, 1918 (October 30 1918) | Event | The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East. | |
| October 30th, 1917 (October 30 1917) | Birth | Bobby Bragan, American baseball player | |
| October 30th, 1917 (October 30 1917) | Birth | Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (died in 1994) | |
| October 30th, 1917 (October 30 1917) | Birth | Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (died in 2005) | |
| October 30th, 1916 (October 30 1916) | Birth | Leon Day, American baseball player (died in 1995) | |
| October 30th, 1915 (October 30 1915) | Birth | Fred Friendly, American journalist (died in 1998) | |
| October 30th, 1915 (October 30 1915) | Death | Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (born in 1821) | |
| October 30th, 1914 (October 30 1914) | Birth | Richard E Holz, American composer | |
| October 30th, 1914 (October 30 1914) | Birth | Anna Wing, English actress | |
| October 30th, 1912 (October 30 1912) | Death | James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (born in 1855) | |
| October 30th, 1911 (October 30 1911) | Birth | Ruth Hussey, American actress (died in 2005) | |
| October 30th, 1910 (October 30 1910) | Death | Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born in 1828) | |
| October 30th, 1909 (October 30 1909) | Birth | Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (died in 1966) | |
| October 30th, 1908 (October 30 1908) | Birth | Patsy Montana, American country music singer and songwriter (died in 1996) | |
| October 30th, 1907 (October 30 1907) | Birth | Sol Tax, American anthropologist (died in 1995) | |
| October 30th, 1906 (October 30 1906) | Birth | Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (died in 1970) | |
| October 30th, 1906 (October 30 1906) | Birth | Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (died in 1966) | |
| October 30th, 1905 (October 30 1905) | Event | Tsar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia s first constitution, creating a legislative assembly. | |
| October 30th, 1900 (October 30 1900) | Birth | Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (died in 1991) | |
| October 30th, 1899 (October 30 1899) | Death | William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (born in 1816) | |
| October 30th, 1898 (October 30 1898) | Birth | Bill Terry, baseball player (died in 1989) | |
| October 30th, 1897 (October 30 1897) | Birth | Rex Cherryman, American actor (died in 1928) | |
| October 30th, 1896 (October 30 1896) | Birth | Ruth Gordon, American actress (died in 1985) | |
| October 30th, 1896 (October 30 1896) | Birth | Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (died in 1928) | |
| October 30th, 1895 (October 30 1895) | Birth | Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (died in 1964) | |
| October 30th, 1895 (October 30 1895) | Birth | Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (died in 1973) | |
| October 30th, 1894 (October 30 1894) | Event | Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially. | |
| October 30th, 1894 (October 30 1894) | Birth | Jean Rostand, French biologist (died in 1977) | |
| October 30th, 1894 (October 30 1894) | Death | Honore Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec (born in 1840) | |
| October 30th, 1893 (October 30 1893) | Birth | Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (died in 1972) | |
| October 30th, 1893 (October 30 1893) | Birth | Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician (died in 1945) | |
| October 30th, 1893 (October 30 1893) | Death | John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (born in 1821) | |
| October 30th, 1888 (October 30 1888) | Birth | Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic champion (died in 1913) | |
| October 30th, 1886 (October 30 1886) | Birth | Zoe Akins, American playwright (died in 1958) | |
| October 30th, 1885 (October 30 1885) | Birth | Ezra Pound, American poet (died in 1972) | Ezra Pound Quotes |
| October 30th, 1883 (October 30 1883) | Death | Robert Volkmann, German composer (born in 1815) | |
| October 30th, 1882 (October 30 1882) | Birth | William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (died in 1959) | |
| October 30th, 1882 (October 30 1882) | Birth | Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal (died in 1944) | Gunther von Kluge Quotes |
| October 30th, 1881 (October 30 1881) | Birth | Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (died in 1941) | |
| October 30th, 1871 (October 30 1871) | Birth | Paul Valery, French poet (died in 1945) | Paul Valery Quotes |
| October 30th, 1871 (October 30 1871) | Birth | Buck Freeman, American baseball player (died in 1949) | |
| October 30th, 1864 (October 30 1864) | Event | Second war of Schleswig ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration. | |
| October 30th, 1864 (October 30 1864) | Event | Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch." | |
| October 30th, 1863 (October 30 1863) | Event | Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes. | |
| October 30th, 1861 (October 30 1861) | Birth | Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (died in 1929) | |
| October 30th, 1857 (October 30 1857) | Birth | Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (died in 1904) | |
| October 30th, 1853 (October 30 1853) | Death | Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (born in 1786) | |
| October 30th, 1847 (October 30 1847) | Birth | Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (died in 1897) | |
| October 30th, 1844 (October 30 1844) | Birth | Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (died in 1930) | |
| October 30th, 1842 (October 30 1842) | Death | Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (born in 1784) | Allan Cunningham Quotes |
| October 30th, 1839 (October 30 1839) | Birth | Alfred Sisley, French artist (died in 1899) | |
| October 30th, 1831 (October 30 1831) | Event | In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history. | Ted Turner Quotes |
| October 30th, 1821 (October 30 1821) | Birth | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (died in 1881) | Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes |
| October 30th, 1816 (October 30 1816) | Death | Frederick I of Wurttemberg (born in 1754) | |
| October 30th, 1809 (October 30 1809) | Death | William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in 1738) | William King Quotes |
| October 30th, 1799 (October 30 1799) | Birth | Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal (died in 1885) | |
| October 30th, 1786 (October 30 1786) | Birth | Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspe, French Canadian writer (died in 1871) | |
| October 30th, 1762 (October 30 1762) | Birth | Andre Chenier, French writer (died in 1794) | |
| October 30th, 1751 (October 30 1751) | Birth | Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright (died in 1816) | |
| October 30th, 1735 (October 30 1735) | Birth | John Adams, President of the United States (died in 1826) | John Adams Quotes |
| October 30th, 1685 (October 30 1685) | Death | Michel le Tellier, French statesman (born in 1603) | |
| October 30th, 1680 (October 30 1680) | Death | Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (born in 1616) | |
| October 30th, 1668 (October 30 1668) | Birth | Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, queen in Prussia (died in 1705) | |
| October 30th, 1654 (October 30 1654) | Death | Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (born in 1633) | |
| October 30th, 1632 (October 30 1632) | Death | Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc (born in 1595) | |
| October 30th, 1626 (October 30 1626) | Death | Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (born in 1580) | |
| October 30th, 1624 (October 30 1624) | Birth | Paul Pellisson, French writer (died in 1693) | |
| October 30th, 1611 (October 30 1611) | Death | King Charles IX of Sweden (born in 1550) | |
| October 30th, 1602 (October 30 1602) | Death | Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (born in 1528) | |
| October 30th, 1553 (October 30 1553) | Death | Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (born in 1489) | |
| October 30th, 1522 (October 30 1522) | Death | Jean Mouton, French composer | |
| October 30th, 1513 (October 30 1513) | Birth | Jacques Amyot, French writer (died in 1593) | |
| October 30th, 1502 (October 30 1502) | Event | Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut for the second time. | |
| October 30th, 1485 (October 30 1485) | Event | Henry VII of England crowned. | |
| October 30th, 1470 (October 30 1470) | Event | Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle. | |
| October 30th, 1459 (October 30 1459) | Death | Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (born in 1380) | |
| October 30th, 1340 (October 30 1340) | Event | Battle of Rio Salado. | |
| October 30th, 1270 (October 30 1270) | Event | The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis. | Louis IX of France Quotes |
| October 30th, 1218 (October 30 1218) | Birth | Emperor Chukyo of Japan (died in 1234) | |
| October 30th, 1137 (October 30 1137) | Event | Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily. | |
| October 30th, 0637 (October 30 0637) | Event | Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge. | |
