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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 30th of October 0758 | EVENT | Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates. |
| 30th of October 1137 | EVENT | Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily. |
| 30th of October 1226 | EVENT | Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forces Ly Hue Tong, the last emperor of the Ly dynasty, to commit suicide. |
| 30th of October 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. |
| 30th of October 1340 | EVENT | Battle of Rio Salado. |
| 30th of October 1470 | EVENT | Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats the Yorkists in battle. |
| 30th of October 1485 | EVENT | King Henry VII of England is crowned. |
| 30th of October 1501 | EVENT | Ballet of Chestnuts : a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests. |
| 30th of October 1831 | EVENT | In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history. |
| 30th of October 1863 | EVENT | Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes. |
| 30th of October 1864 | EVENT | Second war of Schleswig ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration. |
| 30th of October 1864 | EVENT | Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch". |
| 30th of October 1894 | EVENT | Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially. |
| 30th of October 1905 | EVENT | Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly. |
| 30th of October 1918 | EVENT | The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East. |
| 30th of October 1920 | EVENT | The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney. |
| 30th of October 1922 | EVENT | Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy. |
| 30th of October 1925 | EVENT | John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter. |
| 30th of October 1929 | EVENT | The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany. |
| 30th of October 1938 | EVENT | Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States. |
| 30th of October 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations. |
| 30th of October 1941 | EVENT | 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp. |
| 30th of October 1942 | EVENT | Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code. |
| 30th of October 1944 | EVENT | Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. |
| 30th of October 1945 | EVENT | Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier. |
| 30th of October 1947 | EVENT | The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded. |
| 30th of October 1950 | EVENT | Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican. |
| 30th of October 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. |
| 30th of October 1960 | EVENT | Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. |
| 30th of October 1961 | EVENT | Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise. |
| 30th of October 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. |
| 30th of October 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 is found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before. |
| 30th of October 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. |
| 30th of October 1972 | EVENT | A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago, Illinois kills 45 and injures 332. |
| 30th of October 1973 | EVENT | The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time. |
| 30th of October 1974 | EVENT | The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire. |
| 30th of October 1975 | EVENT | Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco. |
| 30th of October 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. |
| 30th of October 1983 | EVENT | The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held. |
| 30th of October 1985 | EVENT | Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission. |
| 30th of October 1987 | EVENT | In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine. |
| 30th of October 1991 | EVENT | The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens. |
| 30th of October 1993 | EVENT | Greysteel massacre: The Ulster Freedom Fighters, a loyalist terrorist group, open fire on a crowded bar in Greysteel, Northern Ireland. Eight civilians are killed and thirteen wounded. |
| 30th of October 1995 | EVENT | Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote is 50.6% to 49.4%). |
| 30th of October 2000 | EVENT | The last Multics machine is shut down. |
| 30th of October 2002 | EVENT | British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview begins transmitting in parts of the United Kingdom. |
| 30th of October 2005 | EVENT | The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project. |
| 30th of October 1218 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234) |
| 30th of October 1513 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Amyot, French writer (d. 1593) |
| 30th of October 1624 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693) |
| 30th of October 1668 | BIRTHDAY | Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, queen in Prussia (d. 1705) |
| 30th of October 1735 | BIRTHDAY | John Adams, second President of the United States (d. 1826) |
| 30th of October 1751 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright (d. 1816) |
| 30th of October 1762 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Chenier, French writer (d. 1794) |
| 30th of October 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspe, French Canadian writer (d. 1871) |
| 30th of October 1799 | BIRTHDAY | Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal (d. 1885) |
| 30th of October 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881) |
| 30th of October 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Sisley, Anglo-French artist (d. 1899) |
| 30th of October 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930) |
| 30th of October 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897) |
| 30th of October 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904) |
| 30th of October 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929) |
| 30th of October 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Valery, French poet (d. 1945) |
| 30th of October 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949) |
| 30th of October 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (d. 1913) |
| 30th of October 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941) |
| 30th of October 1882 | BIRTHDAY | William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (d. 1959) |
| 30th of October 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal (d. 1944) |
| 30th of October 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Oldrich Duras Czech Chess Grandmaster |
| 30th of October 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972) |
| 30th of October 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958) |
| 30th of October 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Sukumar Ray, Bengali Writer (d. 1923) |
| 30th of October 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic champion (d. 1913) |
| 30th of October 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (d. 1972) |
| 30th of October 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (d. 1945) |
| 30th of October 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977) |
| 30th of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964) |
| 30th of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973) |
| 30th of October 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985) |
| 30th of October 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928) |
| 30th of October 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Agustin Lara, Mexican composer (d. 1970) |
| 30th of October 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928) |
| 30th of October 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Terry, baseball player (d. 1989) |
| 30th of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991) |
| 30th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Fegelein, German Nazi official and brother-in-law to Adolf Hitler (d. 1945) |
| 30th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (d. 1966) |
| 30th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970) |
| 30th of October 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995) |
| 30th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, An Indian politician (d. 1963) |
| 30th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Patsy Montana, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1996) |
| 30th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966) |
| 30th of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005) |
| 30th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Richard E Holz, American composer (d. 1986) |
| 30th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Wing, English actress |
| 30th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998) |
| 30th of October 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995) |
| 30th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Bragan, American baseball player (d. 2010) |
| 30th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (d. 1994) |
| 30th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d. 2005) |
| 30th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jane White, American actress and singer |
| 30th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver |
| 30th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Adcock, American baseball player (d. 1999) |
| 30th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999) |
| 30th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956) |
| 30th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992) |
| 30th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Vince Callahan, American politician |
| 30th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Barun De, Indian historian |
| 30th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Malle, French film director (d. 1995) |
| 30th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Frans Bruggen, Dutch musician |
| 30th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer |
| 30th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Perry, American baseball player |
| 30th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Winner, British film director |
| 30th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Caro, American biographer |
| 30th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005) |
| 30th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Vermeil, American football coach |
| 30th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Lelouch, French film director |
| 30th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel laureate |
| 30th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Grace Slick, American singer (Jefferson Airplane) |
| 30th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Holland, Jr., American singer |
| 30th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Lauter, American actor |
| 30th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Theodor W. Hansch, German physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 30th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Otis Williams, American singer |
| 30th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress |
| 30th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Winkler, American actor |
| 30th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Slade, Welsh drummer (Asia) |
| 30th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy B. Schmit, American musician (Eagles) |
| 30th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Rusty Goffe, British actor |
| 30th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Garry McDonald, Australian actor |
| 30th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Hamlin, American actor |
| 30th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Hoekstra, Dutch-American politician |
| 30th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Martin Smith, American actor |
| 30th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Testino, Peruvian-born English fashion photographer |
| 30th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Juliet Stevenson, English actress |
| 30th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Pollak, American actor |
| 30th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Delaney, American football player (d. 1983) |
| 30th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ramona d'Viola, American cyclist |
| 30th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Dennis, Australian actor |
| 30th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Fiedler, German footballer |
| 30th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Maradona, Argentine footballer |
| 30th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Garrelts, American baseball player |
| 30th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician |
| 30th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Courtney Walsh, Jamaican West Indies cricketer |
| 30th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Beach, American actor |
| 30th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Kristina Wagner, American actress |
| 30th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Heineman, Computer game programmer |
| 30th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Lederer, American poker player |
| 30th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Humayun Kabir Dhali, Bangladeshi Writer & Journalist |
| 30th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Gavin Rossdale, English musician |
| 30th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Innes, American voice actor |
| 30th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 30th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Plotnick, American actor |
| 30th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer |
| 30th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tory Belleci, American television personality |
| 30th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer |
| 30th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nia Long, American actress |
| 30th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower |
| 30th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Bailey, American game show host |
| 30th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and singer |
| 30th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Suzan van der Wielen, Dutch hockey-international |
| 30th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Adam "Edge" Copeland, Canadian wrestler |
| 30th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Silvia Corzo, Colombian newscaster |
| 30th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Oakes, English footballer |
| 30th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Scutaro, American Baseball player |
| 30th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ian D'Sa, Canadian musician (Billy Talent) |
| 30th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Thayer, American actress |
| 30th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Stern John, Trinidadian footballer |
| 30th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Umit Ozat, Turkish footballer |
| 30th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Taylor, American Basketball Player |
| 30th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Adelman, American actor |
| 30th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Eefke Mulder, Dutch hockey-international |
| 30th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Morrison, American actor |
| 30th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Dossett, American football player |
| 30th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Swafford, American model |
| 30th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Derren Witcombe, New Zealand rugby player |
| 30th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Bartlett, American baseball player |
| 30th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress |
| 30th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kareem Rush, American basketball player |
| 30th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Carter, Canadian actress |
| 30th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Choi Hong-man, South Korean kickboxer |
| 30th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | John Foo, Irish martial artist and actor |
| 30th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ivanka Trump, American model |
| 30th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Snell, American baseball player |
| 30th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ayaka Kimura, Japanese actress |
| 30th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress |
| 30th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Jay, American magician |
| 30th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Greene, American ice hockey player |
| 30th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Manny Parra, American baseball player |
| 30th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Iain Hume, Canadian footballer |
| 30th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Trent Edwards, American football player |
| 30th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Marcille, American model and actress |
| 30th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Ross, New Zealand rugby player |
| 30th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Tyson Strachan, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 30th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper |
| 30th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Janel Parrish, American actress |
| 30th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Seth Adkins, American actor |
| 30th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Nastia Liukin, Russian/American gymnast |
| 30th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa White, British singer (The Saturdays) |
| 30th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Asforis, American singer |
| 30th of October 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Tequan Richmond, American actor |
| 30th of October 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Mizuki Fukumura, member of Morning Musume |
| 30th of October 1522 | DEATH | Jean Mouton, French composer |
| 30th of October 1553 | DEATH | Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (Born 1489) |
| 30th of October 1602 | DEATH | Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (Born 1528) |
| 30th of October 1611 | DEATH | King Charles IX of Sweden (Born 1550) |
| 30th of October 1626 | DEATH | Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (Born 1580) |
| 30th of October 1632 | DEATH | Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc (Born 1595) |
| 30th of October 1654 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (Born 1633) |
| 30th of October 1680 | DEATH | Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (Born 1616) |
| 30th of October 1685 | DEATH | Michel le Tellier, French statesman (Born 1603) |
| 30th of October 1757 | DEATH | Edward Vernon, Royal Navy admiral (Born 1684) |
| 30th of October 1809 | DEATH | William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1738) |
| 30th of October 1816 | DEATH | Frederick I of Wurttemberg (Born 1754) |
| 30th of October 1842 | DEATH | Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (Born 1784) |
| 30th of October 1853 | DEATH | Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (Born 1786) |
| 30th of October 1883 | DEATH | Robert Volkmann, German composer (Born 1815) |
| 30th of October 1893 | DEATH | John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (Born 1821) |
| 30th of October 1894 | DEATH | Honore Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec (Born 1840) |
| 30th of October 1899 | DEATH | William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (Born 1816) |
| 30th of October 1910 | DEATH | Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1828) |
| 30th of October 1912 | DEATH | James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (Born 1855) |
| 30th of October 1912 | DEATH | Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean military, participated on Battle of Huamachuco (Born 1840) |
| 30th of October 1915 | DEATH | Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (Born 1821) |
| 30th of October 1917 | DEATH | Talbot Mercer Papineau, Canadian lawyer and soldier (Born 1883) |
| 30th of October 1923 | DEATH | Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1858) |
| 30th of October 1957 | DEATH | Fred Beebe, baseball player (Born 1880) |
| 30th of October 1961 | DEATH | Luigi Einaudi, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (Born 1874) |
| 30th of October 1963 | DEATH | U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (Born 1908) |
| 30th of October 1966 | DEATH | Yorgos Theotokas, Greek novelist (Born 1906) |
| 30th of October 1968 | DEATH | Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (Born 1886) |
| 30th of October 1968 | DEATH | Ramon Novarro, Mexican actor (Born 1899) |
| 30th of October 1968 | DEATH | Conrad Richter, American writer (Born 1890) |
| 30th of October 1969 | DEATH | Pops Foster, American musician (Born 1892) |
| 30th of October 1975 | DEATH | Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1887) |
| 30th of October 1979 | DEATH | Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (Born 1890) |
| 30th of October 1979 | DEATH | Sir Barnes Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (Born 1887) |
| 30th of October 1985 | DEATH | Kirby Grant, American actor (Born 1911) |
| 30th of October 1988 | DEATH | T. Hee, American animator (Born 1911) |
| 30th of October 1993 | DEATH | Paul Gregoire, Archbishop of Montreal (Born 1911) |
| 30th of October 1997 | DEATH | Samuel Fuller, American film director (Born 1912) |
| 30th of October 2000 | DEATH | Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (Born 1921) |
| 30th of October 2002 | DEATH | Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (Born 1922) |
| 30th of October 2002 | DEATH | Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (Born 1965) |
| 30th of October 2004 | DEATH | Peggy Ryan, American actress (Born 1924) |
| 30th of October 2005 | DEATH | Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (Born 1942) |
| 30th of October 2005 | DEATH | Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (Born 1908) |
| 30th of October 2006 | DEATH | Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (Born 1914) |
| 30th of October 2006 | DEATH | Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (Born 1926) |
| 30th of October 2007 | DEATH | Robert Goulet, American entertainer (Born 1933) |
| 30th of October 2007 | DEATH | Linda Stein, Ramones manager and real estate broker (Born 1945) |
| 30th of October 2007 | DEATH | Washoe, chimpanzee trained in American Sign Language (Born 1965) |
| 30th of October 2007 | DEATH | John Woodruff, American athlete (Born 1915) |
| 30th of October 2008 | DEATH | Pedro Pompilio, Argentinian businessman (Born 1950) |
| 30th of October 2009 | DEATH | Claude Levi-Strauss, French anthropologist (Born 1908) |
| 30th of October 2010 | DEATH | Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (Born 1927) |