January 30: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is January 30th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on January 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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January 30th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

January 30th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Italian landscape painter Bernardo Bellotto (Capriccio of the Capitol, Capriccio with the Colosseum, The Piazza della Signoria in Florence, The Scuola of San Marco and View of the Grand Canal at San Stae) was born on January 30, 1720.

Walter Johannes Damrosch, Prussian operatic composer (Cyrano de Bergerac, Danny Deever, The Man Without a Country and The Scarlet Letter) and symphonic conductor, was born on January 30, 1862. Walter Damrosch was the son of conductor Leopold Damrosch.

Patrick Heron, British Abstract painter (January 1973, June Horizon, Red Still Life and Ultramarine with Lime), was born on January 30, 1920.

American theatrical producer Harold Smith Prince was born on January 30, 1928. Harold Smith Prince directed many popular Broadway musicals, including Cabaret, Candide, Evita, Fiddler on the Roof, Follies, A Little Night Music, The Phantom of the Opera, Showboat and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

American portrait painter Joseph Whiting Stock (Baby in Wicker Basket, Girl with Reticule and Rose, John and Louisa Stock and Mary and Francis Wilcox) was born on January 30, 1815.

January 30th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Canadian professional hockey player Larry Carriere (Atlanta Flames, Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings, Toronto Maple Leafs and Vancouver Canucks) as born on January 30, 1952.

American professional baseball player Walter (Walt) Dropo (Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Redlegs and Detroit Tigers) was born on January 30, 1923.