| 98701 | August 30 | Birth | 1991 – Seriki Audu, Nigerian footballer (d. 2014) |
| 98702 | August 30 | Birth | 1991 – Jacqueline Cako, American tennis player |
| 98703 | August 30 | Birth | 1991 – Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer |
| 98704 | August 30 | Birth | 1991 – Farid Mammadov, Azerbaijani singer |
| 98705 | August 30 | Birth | 1992 – Jessica Henwick, English actress |
| 98706 | August 30 | Birth | 1994 – Monika Povilaitytė, Lithuanian volleyball player |
| 98707 | August 30 | Birth | 1994 – Kwon So-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress (4Minute) |
| 98708 | August 30 | Birth | 1994 – Heo Young-ji, South Korean singer and dancer (Kara) |
| 98709 | August 30 | Birth | 1996 – Trevor Jackson, American actor, singer, and dancer |
| 98710 | August 30 | Birth | 2001 – Emily Bear, American pianist and composer |
| 98711 | August 30 | Death | 526 – Theoderic the Great, Italian ruler (b. 454) |
| 98712 | August 30 | Death | 832 – Cui Qun, Chinese chancellor (b. 772) |
| 98713 | August 30 | Death | 1329 – Khutughtu Khan Kusala, Chinese emperor (b. 1300) |
| 98714 | August 30 | Death | 1428 – Emperor Shōkō of Japan (b. 1401) |
| 98715 | August 30 | Death | 1483 – Louis XI of France (b. 1423) |
| 98716 | August 30 | Death | 1580 – Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528) |
| 98717 | August 30 | Death | 1619 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535) |
| 98718 | August 30 | Death | 1751 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and engineer (b. 1661) |
| 98719 | August 30 | Death | 1856 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and author (b. 1811) |
| 98720 | August 30 | Death | 1879 – John Bell Hood, American general (b. 1831) |
| 98721 | August 30 | Death | 1886 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1836) |
| 98722 | August 30 | Death | 1896 – Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1824) |
| 98723 | August 30 | Death | 1906 – Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847) |
| 98724 | August 30 | Death | 1907 – Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857) |
| 98725 | August 30 | Death | 1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) |
| 98726 | August 30 | Death | 1935 – Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873) |
| 98727 | August 30 | Death | 1935 – Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890) |
| 98728 | August 30 | Death | 1936 – Ronald Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn, English peer (b. 1886) |
| 98729 | August 30 | Death | 1938 – Max Factor, Sr., Polish-American make-up artist and businessman, founded the Max Factor Company (b. 1877) |
| 98730 | August 30 | Death | 1940 – J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856) |