30 March: today's birthdays

• Warren Beatty - American actor, film director and screenwriter, born Henry Warren Beaty. He won an Oscar for Best Director, in 1982, for his film Reds and an Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2000. Shirley MacLaine is his sister and he is married to Annette Bening
• Tracy Chapman - American singer-songwriter
• Eric Clapton - English guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time
• Robbie Coltrane - Scottish actor
• Céline Dion - Canadian singer
• Jean Giono - French author
• Ernst Gombrich - Austrian-born English art historian
• Francisco Goya - Spanish painter and printmaker, born Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
• Ingvar Kamprad - Swedish entrepreneur, founder of IKEA
• Melanie Klein - Austrian-born English psychoanalyst
• Philippe Mexès - French soccer player
• Mikio Oda - Former Japanese athlete
• Valerio Onida - Italian jurist, judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy and President of the Court.
• Sergio Ramos García - Spanish footballer 
• Tom Sharpe - English author, born Thomas Ridley Sharpe. He wrote Wilt, a comedic novel
• Léon Charles Thévenin - French engineer
• Vincent van Gogh - Dutch painter, born Vincent Willem van Gogh. Bedroom in Arles, Starry night over the Rhone, Irises in vase are among his most popular paintings 
• Paul Verlaine - French poet, one of the cursed poets, with Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Valéry