December 30: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is December 30th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on December 30th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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December 30th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

December 30th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Paul Frederic Bowles, American operatic composer (Denmark Valley, The Wind Remains and Yerma) and author (The Delicate Prey, In the Red Room, The Sheltering Sky, The Time of Friendship, Unwelcome Words and Up Above the World), was born on December 30, 1910.

James Burrows, American television director and producer (Cheers, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi and Will and Grace), was born on December 30, 1940.

Aad de Haas, Dutch painter (Dood en Meisje), was born on December 30, 1920.

Czechoslovakian classical composer Josef Bohuslav Foerster was born on December 30, 1859.

Russian composer Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky (In the Fire) was born on December 30, 1904.

Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, French classical composer and conductor, was born on December 30, 1853.

Bennett Miller, American film director (Capote and The Cruise), was born on December 30, 1966.

Mbimba (Cherie Samba) N'zinga, Zaire painter (Pitie la Prostituee), was born on December 30, 1956.

German Expressionist painter and woodcut artist Max Hermann Pechstein (Our Father Who Art in Heaven) was born on December 30, 1881.

Sir Carol Reed, British film director (The Third Man), was born on December 30, 1906.

American photographer W. Eugene Smith (Saipan and Walk to Paradise Garden) was born on December 30, 1918.

Georg von der Vring, German painter (Soldier Suhren), was born on December 30, 1889.

Moravian orchestral and operatic composer Pavel Wranitsky was born on December 30, 1756.

December 30th Birthdays: Famous Athletes