30 August: today's birthdays

• Geoffrey Beene - American fashion designer, born Samuel Albert Bozeman
• Delio Cantimori - Italian historian and politician
• Michael Chiklis - American actor
• Jacques-Louis David - French painter
• Cameron Diaz - American actress. She starred in There's Something About Mary, The Mask and Bad Teacher
• Théophile Gautier - French writer, poet, and literary critic. He wrote Le capitaine Fracasse and the poetry collection Émaux et Camées
• Antony Gormley - English sculptor
• Aleksandr Litvinenko (Alexander Litvinenko) - Former Russian intelligence officer and later dissident
• George McEachran - English professional footballer, born ​George James McEachran
• Pavel Nedvěd - Czech soccer player
• Anna Politkovskaja (Politkovskaya) - Russian journalist and human rights activist killed for her investigations and reports, born Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaja
• Friedrich Ratzel - German ethnologist and geographer
• Ernest Rutherford - New Zealand chemist and physicist
• Mary Shelley - English writer, born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. She wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
• Nenad Tomović - Serbian soccer player
• Theo van Doesburg - Dutch painter