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| January 30th, 2008 (January 30 2008) | Death | Jeremy Beadle, British television host, (born in 1948) | |
| January 30th, 2008 (January 30 2008) | Death | Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (born in 1969) | |
| January 30th, 2008 (January 30 2008) | Death | Marcial Maciel, Mexican religious leader (born in 1920) | |
| January 30th, 2007 (January 30 2007) | Death | Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor and artistic director (born in 1934) | |
| January 30th, 2007 (January 30 2007) | Death | Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (born in 1917) | |
| January 30th, 2006 (January 30 2006) | Death | Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (born in 1927) | Martin Luther Quotes |
| January 30th, 2005 (January 30 2005) | Birth | Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II, of Jordan | |
| January 30th, 2005 (January 30 2005) | Death | Martyn Bennet, Canadian musician (born in 1971) | |
| January 30th, 2005 (January 30 2005) | Death | Wes Wehmiller, American musician (born in 1971) | |
| January 30th, 2003 (January 30 2003) | Event | Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage. | |
| January 30th, 2001 (January 30 2001) | Death | Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (born in 1911) | |
| January 30th, 2001 (January 30 2001) | Death | Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (born in 1915) | |
| January 30th, 2001 (January 30 2001) | Death | Joseph Ransohoff, the father of modern neurosurgery (born in 1915) | |
| January 30th, 2000 (January 30 2000) | Event | Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169. | |
| January 30th, 1999 (January 30 1999) | Death | Huntz Hall, American actor (born in 1919) | |
| January 30th, 1999 (January 30 1999) | Death | Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (born in 1909) | |
| January 30th, 1998 (January 30 1998) | Death | Richard Cassilly, American tenor (born in 1927) | |
| January 30th, 1996 (January 30 1996) | Event | Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit. | Gallagher Quotes |
| January 30th, 1996 (January 30 1996) | Event | Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake. | |
| January 30th, 1995 (January 30 1995) | Event | Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease. | |
| January 30th, 1995 (January 30 1995) | Death | Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (born in 1925) | Gerald Durrell Quotes |
| January 30th, 1994 (January 30 1994) | Event | Peter Leko becomes the youngest chess grand master. | |
| January 30th, 1994 (January 30 1994) | Death | Pierre Boulle, French author (born in 1912) | |
| January 30th, 1991 (January 30 1991) | Birth | Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor | |
| January 30th, 1991 (January 30 1991) | Death | John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1908) | |
| January 30th, 1991 (January 30 1991) | Death | Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (born in 1907) | |
| January 30th, 1991 (January 30 1991) | Death | John McIntire, American actor (born in 1907) | |
| January 30th, 1990 (January 30 1990) | Birth | Jake Thomas, American actor | |
| January 30th, 1990 (January 30 1990) | Birth | Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress/singer | |
| January 30th, 1989 (January 30 1989) | Event | The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes. | |
| January 30th, 1989 (January 30 1989) | Birth | Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper | |
| January 30th, 1988 (January 30 1988) | Birth | Rob Pinkston, American actor | |
| January 30th, 1987 (January 30 1987) | Birth | Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler | |
| January 30th, 1986 (January 30 1986) | Birth | Sam Duckworth, British singer-songwriter | |
| January 30th, 1985 (January 30 1985) | Birth | Aaadietya Pandey, Indian astrologer | |
| January 30th, 1985 (January 30 1985) | Birth | Trae Williams, American football player | |
| January 30th, 1984 (January 30 1984) | Birth | Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player | |
| January 30th, 1984 (January 30 1984) | Birth | Josh Harris, American Videographer/Musician | |
| January 30th, 1982 (January 30 1982) | Event | Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner". | |
| January 30th, 1982 (January 30 1982) | Birth | Jorge Cantu, Mexican baseball player | |
| January 30th, 1982 (January 30 1982) | Death | Lightnin Hopkins, American musician (born in 1912) | |
| January 30th, 1981 (January 30 1981) | Birth | Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer | |
| January 30th, 1981 (January 30 1981) | Birth | Peter Crouch, English footballer | |
| January 30th, 1981 (January 30 1981) | Birth | Josh Kelley, American musician | |
| January 30th, 1981 (January 30 1981) | Birth | Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver | |
| January 30th, 1980 (January 30 1980) | Birth | Leilani Dowding, British glamour model | |
| January 30th, 1980 (January 30 1980) | Birth | Wilmer Valderrama, American actor | |
| January 30th, 1980 (January 30 1980) | Birth | Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor | |
| January 30th, 1980 (January 30 1980) | Birth | Joaozinho, Brazilian footballer | |
| January 30th, 1980 (January 30 1980) | Death | Professor Longhair, American musician (born in 1918) | |
| January 30th, 1979 (January 30 1979) | Event | Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo. | |
| January 30th, 1978 (January 30 1978) | Birth | John Patterson, American baseball player | |
| January 30th, 1977 (January 30 1977) | Birth | Deltha O Neal, American football player | |
| January 30th, 1976 (January 30 1976) | Event | George H. W. Bush becomes the 11th director of the CIA. | George H. W. Bush Quotes |
| January 30th, 1976 (January 30 1976) | Birth | Andy Milonakis, American comedian | |
| January 30th, 1975 (January 30 1975) | Birth | Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer | |
| January 30th, 1975 (January 30 1975) | Birth | Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi) | |
| January 30th, 1974 (January 30 1974) | Birth | Christian Bale, Welsh actor | |
| January 30th, 1974 (January 30 1974) | Birth | Olivia Colman, English actress | |
| January 30th, 1974 (January 30 1974) | Birth | Jemima Khan, British socialite | |
| January 30th, 1973 (January 30 1973) | Birth | Jalen Rose, American basketball player | |
| January 30th, 1972 (January 30 1972) | Event | Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland. | |
| January 30th, 1972 (January 30 1972) | Event | Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations. | |
| January 30th, 1972 (January 30 1972) | Birth | Lupillo Rivera, Mexican singer | |
| January 30th, 1972 (January 30 1972) | Birth | Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| January 30th, 1971 (January 30 1971) | Birth | Darren Boyd, British actor | |
| January 30th, 1971 (January 30 1971) | Birth | Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player | |
| January 30th, 1969 (January 30 1969) | Event | The Beatles last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police. | |
| January 30th, 1969 (January 30 1969) | Birth | Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman and reality TV show star | |
| January 30th, 1969 (January 30 1969) | Death | Georges Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel laureate (born in 1910) | |
| January 30th, 1968 (January 30 1968) | Event | Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks in South Vietnam. | |
| January 30th, 1968 (January 30 1968) | Birth | Trevor Dunn, American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Secret Chiefs 3) | |
| January 30th, 1968 (January 30 1968) | Birth | Prince Felipe of Spain | |
| January 30th, 1966 (January 30 1966) | Birth | Danielle Goyette, Quebec female ice hockey player | |
| January 30th, 1965 (January 30 1965) | Birth | Julie McCullough, American model and actress | |
| January 30th, 1964 (January 30 1964) | Event | Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched. | |
| January 30th, 1963 (January 30 1963) | Death | Francis Poulenc, French composer (born in 1899) | |
| January 30th, 1962 (January 30 1962) | Event | Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan. | |
| January 30th, 1962 (January 30 1962) | Birth | King Abdullah II of Jordan | |
| January 30th, 1962 (January 30 1962) | Birth | Mary Kay Letourneau, American convicted statutory rapist | |
| January 30th, 1962 (January 30 1962) | Death | Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (born in 1894) | |
| January 30th, 1961 (January 30 1961) | Birth | Dexter Scott King, American actor and son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King | Martin Luther Quotes |
| January 30th, 1959 (January 30 1959) | Birth | Mark Eitzel, American singer and musician (American Music Club) | |
| January 30th, 1959 (January 30 1959) | Birth | Jody Watley, American singer | |
| January 30th, 1958 (January 30 1958) | Birth | Brett Butler, American actress and comedian | |
| January 30th, 1958 (January 30 1958) | Death | Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (born in 1878) | |
| January 30th, 1958 (January 30 1958) | Death | Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (born in 1888) | |
| January 30th, 1957 (January 30 1957) | Birth | Payne Stewart, American golfer (died in 1999) | |
| January 30th, 1956 (January 30 1956) | Event | American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. | Martin Luther Quotes |
| January 30th, 1956 (January 30 1956) | Birth | Jeremy Gittins, English actor | |
| January 30th, 1956 (January 30 1956) | Birth | Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver | |
| January 30th, 1955 (January 30 1955) | Birth | Curtis Strange, American golfer | |
| January 30th, 1955 (January 30 1955) | Birth | Judith Tarr, American author | |
| January 30th, 1952 (January 30 1952) | Birth | Doug Falconer, Canadian football player | |
| January 30th, 1951 (January 30 1951) | Birth | Phil Collins, English musician | |
| January 30th, 1951 (January 30 1951) | Birth | Charles S. Dutton, American actor | |
| January 30th, 1951 (January 30 1951) | Birth | Bobby Stokes, English former footballer (died in 1995) | |
| January 30th, 1951 (January 30 1951) | Death | Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (born in 1875) | |
| January 30th, 1950 (January 30 1950) | Birth | Trinidad Silva, American actor (died in 1988) | |
| January 30th, 1949 (January 30 1949) | Birth | Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel laureate | |
| January 30th, 1948 (January 30 1948) | Event | Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. | |
| January 30th, 1948 (January 30 1948) | Birth | Nick Broomfield, English film- and documentary-maker | |
| January 30th, 1948 (January 30 1948) | Birth | Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member | |
| January 30th, 1948 (January 30 1948) | Death | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter (born in 1869) | Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| January 30th, 1948 (January 30 1948) | Death | Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (born in 1871) | |
| January 30th, 1947 (January 30 1947) | Birth | Les Barker, English poet | |
| January 30th, 1947 (January 30 1947) | Birth | Steve Marriott, English musician (The Small Faces) (died in 1991) | |
| January 30th, 1945 (January 30 1945) | Event | The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000 people. | |
| January 30th, 1945 (January 30 1945) | Event | World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp. | |
| January 30th, 1945 (January 30 1945) | Event | World War II: Hitler gives his last ever public address, a radio address on the 12th anniversary of his coming to power. (A subsequent address on February 24 was not read by Hitler.) | |
| January 30th, 1945 (January 30 1945) | Birth | Michael Dorris, American author (died in 1997) | |
| January 30th, 1944 (January 30 1944) | Event | World War II: United States troops land on Majuro. | |
| January 30th, 1943 (January 30 1943) | Event | World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Islandied in TheUSS Chicago (CA-29) is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes. | |
| January 30th, 1943 (January 30 1943) | Event | Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: The Nazi Gestapo commences mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp are ordered to undress and are shot with a machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7,000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv. | |
| January 30th, 1943 (January 30 1943) | Birth | Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager | |
| January 30th, 1942 (January 30 1942) | Birth | Marty Balin, American musician | |
| January 30th, 1941 (January 30 1941) | Birth | Gregory Benford, American author and scientist | |
| January 30th, 1941 (January 30 1941) | Birth | Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States | |
| January 30th, 1941 (January 30 1941) | Birth | Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer | |
| January 30th, 1938 (January 30 1938) | Birth | Islom Karimov, President of Uzbekistan | |
| January 30th, 1937 (January 30 1937) | Birth | Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (died in 2005) | |
| January 30th, 1937 (January 30 1937) | Birth | Vanessa Redgrave, English actress | |
| January 30th, 1937 (January 30 1937) | Birth | Boris Spassky, Russian chess player | |
| January 30th, 1936 (January 30 1936) | Birth | F. Vernon Boozer, American politician | |
| January 30th, 1936 (January 30 1936) | Birth | Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (died in 2005) | |
| January 30th, 1936 (January 30 1936) | Birth | Horst Jankowski, German popular pianist (died in 1998) | |
| January 30th, 1935 (January 30 1935) | Birth | Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (died in 1984) | Richard Brautigan Quotes |
| January 30th, 1934 (January 30 1934) | Death | Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (born in 1862) | |
| January 30th, 1933 (January 30 1933) | Event | Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| January 30th, 1933 (January 30 1933) | Birth | Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (died in 2006) | Louis Rukeyser Quotes |
| January 30th, 1932 (January 30 1932) | Birth | Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician | |
| January 30th, 1931 (January 30 1931) | Birth | John Crosbie, Canadian politician | |
| January 30th, 1931 (January 30 1931) | Birth | Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author | |
| January 30th, 1931 (January 30 1931) | Birth | Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author | |
| January 30th, 1930 (January 30 1930) | Event | The world s first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR. | |
| January 30th, 1930 (January 30 1930) | Birth | Sandy Amoros, Cuban baseball player (died in 1992) | |
| January 30th, 1930 (January 30 1930) | Birth | Samuel J. Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (died in 1974) | |
| January 30th, 1930 (January 30 1930) | Birth | Gene Hackman, American actor | |
| January 30th, 1930 (January 30 1930) | Birth | Magnus Malan, South African politician | |
| January 30th, 1929 (January 30 1929) | Birth | Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and international aid worker (died in 1996) | |
| January 30th, 1929 (January 30 1929) | Death | La Goulue, French Cancan dancer (born in 1866) | |
| January 30th, 1928 (January 30 1928) | Birth | Hal Prince, American stage producer and director | |
| January 30th, 1928 (January 30 1928) | Death | Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel laureate (born in 1867) | |
| January 30th, 1927 (January 30 1927) | Birth | Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (died in 1986) | Olof Palme Quotes |
| January 30th, 1926 (January 30 1926) | Death | Barbara La Marr, American actress (born in 1896) | |
| January 30th, 1925 (January 30 1925) | Event | The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul. | |
| January 30th, 1925 (January 30 1925) | Birth | Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist | |
| January 30th, 1925 (January 30 1925) | Birth | Dorothy Malone, American actress | |
| January 30th, 1924 (January 30 1924) | Birth | Lloyd Alexander, American writer (died in 2007) | |
| January 30th, 1922 (January 30 1922) | Birth | Dick Martin, American comedian | |
| January 30th, 1920 (January 30 1920) | Birth | Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (died in 2001) | |
| January 30th, 1920 (January 30 1920) | Birth | Delbert Mann, American film director | |
| January 30th, 1919 (January 30 1919) | Birth | Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (died in 1979) | |
| January 30th, 1918 (January 30 1918) | Birth | David Opatoshu, American television actor (died in 1996) | |
| January 30th, 1917 (January 30 1917) | Birth | Paul Frere, Belgian racing driver and motorsport journalist died in 2008) | |
| January 30th, 1915 (January 30 1915) | Birth | Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (died in 1976, by assassination) | |
| January 30th, 1915 (January 30 1915) | Birth | John Profumo, British cabinet minister (died in 2006) | |
| January 30th, 1914 (January 30 1914) | Birth | John Ireland, Canadian actor (died in 1992) | |
| January 30th, 1914 (January 30 1914) | Birth | David Wayne, American actor (died in 1995) | |
| January 30th, 1913 (January 30 1913) | Event | The United Kingdom s House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill. | |
| January 30th, 1913 (January 30 1913) | Birth | Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener (died in 1988) | |
| January 30th, 1912 (January 30 1912) | Birth | Werner Hartmann, German physicist (died in 1988) | |
| January 30th, 1912 (January 30 1912) | Birth | Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian and pastor (died in 1984) | |
| January 30th, 1912 (January 30 1912) | Birth | Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (died in 1989) | |
| January 30th, 1911 (January 30 1911) | Event | The destroyer USS Terry (DD-25) makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba. | |
| January 30th, 1911 (January 30 1911) | Event | The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy. | |
| January 30th, 1911 (January 30 1911) | Birth | Roy Eldridge, American musician (died in 1989) | |
| January 30th, 1910 (January 30 1910) | Birth | C Subramaniam, Indian politician (died in 2000) | |
| January 30th, 1902 (January 30 1902) | Birth | Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (died in 1983) | |
| January 30th, 1901 (January 30 1901) | Birth | Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (died in 1959) | |
| January 30th, 1899 (January 30 1899) | Birth | Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (died in 1972) | |
| January 30th, 1894 (January 30 1894) | Birth | Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (died in 1943) | |
| January 30th, 1889 (January 30 1889) | Event | Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling. | |
| January 30th, 1889 (January 30 1889) | Birth | Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (died in 1937) | |
| January 30th, 1889 (January 30 1889) | Death | Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria (born in 1858) | |
| January 30th, 1882 (January 30 1882) | Birth | Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (died in 1945) | |
| January 30th, 1878 (January 30 1878) | Birth | Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (died in 1940) | |
| January 30th, 1873 (January 30 1873) | Birth | Georges Ricard-Cordingley, painter (died in 1939) | |
| January 30th, 1869 (January 30 1869) | Death | William Carleton, Irish novelist (born in 1794) | Will Carleton Quotes |
| January 30th, 1867 (January 30 1867) | Death | Emperor Komei of Japan (born in 1831) | |
| January 30th, 1862 (January 30 1862) | Event | The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched. | |
| January 30th, 1861 (January 30 1861) | Birth | Charles Martin Loeffler, German-born composer (died in 1935) | |
| January 30th, 1859 (January 30 1859) | Birth | Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (died in 1944) | |
| January 30th, 1858 (January 30 1858) | Event | The first Halle concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Halle Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra. | |
| January 30th, 1858 (January 30 1858) | Death | Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (born in 1778) | |
| January 30th, 1847 (January 30 1847) | Event | Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco. | |
| January 30th, 1841 (January 30 1841) | Event | A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. | |
| January 30th, 1841 (January 30 1841) | Birth | Felix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (died in 1899) | |
| January 30th, 1836 (January 30 1836) | Death | Betsy Ross, American seamstress (born in 1752) | |
| January 30th, 1835 (January 30 1835) | Event | In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson. | Andrew Jackson Quotes |
| January 30th, 1832 (January 30 1832) | Birth | Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (died in 1897) | |
| January 30th, 1826 (January 30 1826) | Event | The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world s first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened. | |
| January 30th, 1822 (January 30 1822) | Birth | Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (died in 1899) | |
| January 30th, 1820 (January 30 1820) | Event | Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica. | |
| January 30th, 1816 (January 30 1816) | Birth | Nathaniel Prentice Banks, 24th Governor of Massachusetts (died in 1894) | |
| January 30th, 1806 (January 30 1806) | Event | The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened. | |
| January 30th, 1790 (January 30 1790) | Event | The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne. | |
| January 30th, 1781 (January 30 1781) | Birth | Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (died in 1838) | |
| January 30th, 1754 (January 30 1754) | Birth | John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (died in 1829) | |
| January 30th, 1730 (January 30 1730) | Death | Tsar Peter II of Russia (born in 1715) | |
| January 30th, 1720 (January 30 1720) | Birth | Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (died in 1778) | |
| January 30th, 1697 (January 30 1697) | Birth | Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (died in 1773) | |
| January 30th, 1687 (January 30 1687) | Birth | Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (died in 1753) | |
| January 30th, 1661 (January 30 1661) | Event | Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years. | Oliver Cromwell Quotes |
| January 30th, 1661 (January 30 1661) | Birth | Charles Rollin, French historian (died in 1741) | |
| January 30th, 1649 (January 30 1649) | Event | King Charles I of England is beheaded. | |
| January 30th, 1649 (January 30 1649) | Death | King Charles I of England (executed) (born in 1600) | |
| January 30th, 1648 (January 30 1648) | Event | Eighty Years War: The Treaty of Munster is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain. | |
| January 30th, 1615 (January 30 1615) | Birth | Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler and only child of Pocahontas and John Rolfe (died in 1675) | |
| January 30th, 1606 (January 30 1606) | Death | Everard Digby, English conspirator (born in 1578) | |
| January 30th, 1574 (January 30 1574) | Death | Damiao de Gois, Portuguese philosopher (born in 1502) | Philo Quotes |
| January 30th, 1563 (January 30 1563) | Birth | Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (died in 1641) | |
| January 30th, 1505 (January 30 1505) | Birth | Thomas Tallis, English composer (died in 1585) | |
| January 30th, 1384 (January 30 1384) | Death | Louis II of Flanders (born in 1330) | |
| January 30th, 1181 (January 30 1181) | Death | Emperor Takakura of Japan (born in 1161) | |
| January 30th, 1030 (January 30 1030) | Death | William V, Duke of Aquitaine (born in 969) | |
| January 30th, 0133 (January 30 0133) | Birth | Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (died in 193) | Julian Quotes |
