| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for | 
|---|
| William Taylor Adams | Author | 30-Jul-1822 | 27-Mar-1897 | Oliver Optic's Magazine | 
| Paul Anka | Singer/Songwriter | 30-Jul-1941 |  | Put Your Head on My Shoulder | 
| William Atherton | Actor | 30-Jul-1947 |  | Ghostbusters | 
| Wendell Bailey | Politician | 30-Jul-1940 |  | Missouri State Treasurer, 1985-93 | 
| Simon Baker | Actor | 30-Jul-1969 |  | The Mentalist | 
| Françoise Barré-Sinoussi | Scientist | 30-Jul-1947 |  | Co-Discoverer of HIV | 
| Henry Bloch | Business | 30-Jul-1922 |  | Co-Founder of H&R Bloch | 
| Peter Bogdanovich | Film Director | 30-Jul-1939 |  | The Last Picture Show | 
| Don Bolles | Musician | 30-Jul-1956 |  | The Germs | 
| April Bowlby | Actor | 30-Jul-1980 |  | Stacy Barrett on Drop Dead Diva | 
| Emily Brontë | Novelist | 30-Jul-1818 | 19-Dec-1848 | Wuthering Heights | 
| Alton Brown | TV Personality | 30-Jul-1962 |  | Good Eats host | 
| Richard Burgi | Actor | 30-Jul-1958 |  | Det. Ellison on The Sentinel | 
| Delta Burke | Actor | 30-Jul-1956 |  | Designing Women | 
| James H. Burnley IV | Government | 30-Jul-1948 |  | US Secretary of Transportation, 1987-89 | 
| Kate Bush | Musician | 30-Jul-1958 |  | The Hounds of Love | 
| Smedley Butler | Military | 30-Jul-1881 | 21-Jun-1940 | Exposed the 1933 coup plot | 
| Edd Byrnes | Actor | 30-Jul-1933 |  | Kookie on 77 Sunset Strip | 
| Francisco Canseco | Politician | 30-Jul-1949 |  | Congressman, Texas 23rd | 
| John Albert Carroll | Politician | 30-Jul-1901 | 30-Aug-1983 | US Senator from Colorado, 1957-63 | 
| Dale R. Cathell | Judge | 30-Jul-1937 |  | Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals, 1998-2007 | 
| Gabrielle Christian | Actor | 30-Jul-1984 |  | Spencer Carlin on South of Nowhere | 
| William Cochran | Physicist | 30-Jul-1922 | 28-Aug-2003 | Crystallography | 
| Terry Crews | Actor | 30-Jul-1968 |  | Everybody Hates Chris | 
| Ken Cuccinelli | Politician | 30-Jul-1968 |  | Virginia Attorney General | 
| William G. Davis | Politician | 30-Jul-1929 |  | Premier of Ontario, 1971-85 | 
| Laurence Fishburne | Actor | 30-Jul-1961 |  | The Matrix | 
| Henry Ford | Business | 30-Jul-1863 | 7-Apr-1947 | Founder of Ford Motors | 
| Kerry Fox | Actor | 30-Jul-1966 |  | An Angel at My Table | 
| Vivica Fox | Actor | 30-Jul-1964 |  | Booty Call | 
| Monique Gabrielle | Actor | 30-Jul-1963 |  | Deathstalker II | 
| Hugh J. Gallen | Politician | 30-Jul-1924 | 29-Dec-1982 | Governor of New Hampshire, 1979-82 | 
| William H. Gass | Novelist | 30-Jul-1924 |  | The Tunnel | 
| Tom Green | Actor | 30-Jul-1971 |  | Ex-husband of Drew Barrymore | 
| Buddy Guy | Musician | 30-Jul-1936 |  | Damn Right, I've Got the Blues | 
| Richard Burdon Haldane | Government | 30-Jul-1856 | 19-Aug-1928 | Lord Chancellor, 1912-15 and 1924 | 
| Harriet Harman | Politician | 30-Jul-1950 |  | Leader, House of Commons | 
| Anita Hill | Victim | 30-Jul-1956 |  | Former colleague of Clarence Thomas | 
| Lloyd Carr | Football | 30-Jul-1945 |  | UMich Football Coach, 1995-2007 | 
| Clint Hurdle | Baseball | 30-Jul-1957 |  | Manager, Pittsburgh Pirates | 
| Richard Johnson | Actor | 30-Jul-1927 |  | Treasure Island | 
| Barbara Kopple | Film Director | 30-Jul-1946 |  | Harlan County U.S.A. | 
| Sid Krofft | Film/TV Producer | 30-Jul-1929 |  | Co-Creator: H.R. Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost | 
| Lisa Kudrow | Actor | 30-Jul-1963 |  | Friends | 
| Richard Linklater | Film Director | 30-Jul-1960 |  | Slacker | 
| William H. Mann | Politician | 30-Jul-1843 | 12-Dec-1927 | Governor of Virginia, 1910-14 | 
| Matisyahu | Rapper | 30-Jul-1979 |  | Hasidic toaster | 
| Misty May-Treanor | Sports Figure | 30-Jul-1977 |  | Top beach volleyball player | 
| Robert McCormick | Business | 30-Jul-1880 | 1-Apr-1955 | Xenophobe in the Tribune Tower | 
| Graeme McDowell | Golf | 30-Jul-1979 |  | Winner, 2010 US Open | 
| Henry Moore | Sculptor | 30-Jul-1898 | 31-Aug-1986 | 20th c. English humanist sculptor | 
| Christopher Nolan | Film Director | 30-Jul-1970 |  | Memento | 
| Ken Olin | Actor | 30-Jul-1954 |  | Michael Steadman on thirtysomething | 
| Jaime Pressly | Actor | 30-Jul-1977 |  | Not Another Teen Movie | 
| Jean Reno | Actor | 30-Jul-1948 |  | Léon the Professional | 
| Dave Riley | Bassist | 30-Jul-1960 |  | Big Black bassist | 
| Gabriele Salvatores | Film Director | 30-Jul-1950 |  | I'm Not Scared | 
| David Sanborn | Musician | 30-Jul-1945 |  | Saxophone player | 
| Pat Schroeder | Politician | 30-Jul-1940 |  | Congresswoman from Colorado, 1973-97 | 
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | Actor | 30-Jul-1947 |  | Governor of California, 2003-11 | 
| Bud Selig | Baseball | 30-Jul-1934 |  | Commissioner of Baseball | 
| Faisal Shahzad | Terrorist | 30-Jul-1979 |  | Attempted Times Square bombing | 
| Clive Sinclair | Business | 30-Jul-1940 |  | Sinclair ZX80 | 
| Eleanor Smeal | Activist | 30-Jul-1939 |  | Founder, Feminist Majority Foundation | 
| James LeVoy Sorenson | Business | 30-Jul-1921 | 20-Jan-2008 | Utah billionaire | 
| Thomas Sowell | Economist | 30-Jul-1930 |  | Conservative economist, Hoover fellow | 
| Frank Stallone | Actor | 30-Jul-1950 |  | Staying Alive | 
| Joel Stebbins | Astronomer | 30-Jul-1878 | 16-Mar-1966 | Photoelectric photometry | 
| Casey Stengel | Baseball | 30-Jul-1890 | 29-Sep-1975 | The Old Perfesser | 
| Yvonne Strahovski | Actor | 30-Jul-1982 |  | Sarah Walker on Chuck | 
| Johan Sverdrup | Head of State | 30-Jul-1816 | 17-Feb-1892 | Norwegian Prime Minister, 1884-89 | 
| Hilary Swank | Actor | 30-Jul-1974 |  | Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry | 
| Christine Taylor | Actor | 30-Jul-1971 |  | Marcia in the Brady Bunch movies | 
| Daley Thompson | Track and Field | 30-Jul-1958 |  | Olympic decathlete | 
| Giorgio Vasari | Artist | 30-Jul-1511 | 27-Jun-1574 | Lives of the Artists | 
| Thorstein Veblen | Economist | 30-Jul-1857 | 3-Aug-1929 | The Theory of the Leisure Class | 
| Ian Watkins | Singer | 30-Jul-1979 |  | Lead singer of Lostprophets | 
| John Sharp Williams | Politician | 30-Jul-1854 | 27-Sep-1932 | US Senator, Representative from Mississippi | 
| Roy Williams | Talk Show Host | 30-Jul-1907 | 7-Nov-1976 | Portly Mickey Mouse Club host | 
| Dick Wilson | Actor | 30-Jul-1916 | 19-Nov-2007 | Mr. Whipple | 
| Diva Muffin Zappa | Relative | 30-Jul-1979 |  | Daughter of Frank Zappa | 
| Vladimir Zworykin | Inventor | 30-Jul-1889 | 29-Jul-1982 | Patented color televison |