| 98491 | August 30 | Birth | 1334 – Peter of Castile (d. 1369) |
| 98492 | August 30 | Birth | 1569 – Jahangir, Mughal emperor (d. 1627) |
| 98493 | August 30 | Birth | 1720 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded Whitbread (d. 1796) |
| 98494 | August 30 | Birth | 1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator (d. 1825) |
| 98495 | August 30 | Birth | 1768 – Joseph Dennie, American author and journalist (d. 1812) |
| 98496 | August 30 | Birth | 1797 – Mary Shelley, English author and playwright (d. 1851) |
| 98497 | August 30 | Birth | 1808 – Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892) |
| 98498 | August 30 | Birth | 1812 – Agoston Haraszthy, Hungarian-American businessman, founded Buena Vista Winery (d. 1869) |
| 98499 | August 30 | Birth | 1813 – Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (d. 1862) |
| 98500 | August 30 | Birth | 1818 – Alexander H. Rice, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895) |
| 98501 | August 30 | Birth | 1821 – Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi (d. 1849) |
| 98502 | August 30 | Birth | 1839 – Gulstan Ropert, French-American bishop and missionary (d. 1903) |
| 98503 | August 30 | Birth | 1842 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849) |
| 98504 | August 30 | Birth | 1848 – Andrew Onderdonk, American surveyor and contractor (d. 1905) |
| 98505 | August 30 | Birth | 1850 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino journalist and lawyer (d. 1896) |
| 98506 | August 30 | Birth | 1852 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911) |
| 98507 | August 30 | Birth | 1852 – J. Alden Weir, American painter and academic (d. 1919) |
| 98508 | August 30 | Birth | 1856 – Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist (d. 1927) |
| 98509 | August 30 | Birth | 1860 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1900) |
| 98510 | August 30 | Birth | 1870 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891) |
| 98511 | August 30 | Birth | 1871 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937) |
| 98512 | August 30 | Birth | 1884 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) |
| 98513 | August 30 | Birth | 1890 – Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English captain and pilot (d. 1918) |
| 98514 | August 30 | Birth | 1893 – Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (d. 1935) |
| 98515 | August 30 | Birth | 1896 – Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor and playwright (d. 1983) |
| 98516 | August 30 | Birth | 1898 – Shirley Booth, American actress and singer (d. 1992) |
| 98517 | August 30 | Birth | 1901 – John Gunther, American journalist and author (d. 1970) |
| 98518 | August 30 | Birth | 1901 – Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (d. 1981) |
| 98519 | August 30 | Birth | 1903 – Bhagwati Charan Verma, Indian author (d. 1981) |
| 98520 | August 30 | Birth | 1906 – Joan Blondell, American actress and singer (d. 1979) |