1930 in television
The year 1930 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television-related events during 1930.
Births
- January 1 - Ty Hardin, U.S. actor
- January 3 - Robert Loggia, U.S. actor
- January 4 - Sorrell Booke, U.S. actor
- January 6 - Vic Tayback, U.S. actor
- January 15 - Edwin Sherin, U.S. director
- January 19 - Tippi Hedren, U.S. actress
- January 30 - Don Brockett, U.S. actor
- February 8 - Alejandro Rey, Argentinian-born actor
- February 10 - Robert Wagner, U.S. actor
- February 27 - Joanne Woodward, U.S. actress
- March 22
- * Pat Robertson, televangelist
- * Stephen Sondheim, U.S. composer
- March 30 - John Astin, U.S. actor
- April 5 - Mary Costa, actress
- April 7 - Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor
- April 18 - Clive Revill, actor
- April 19 - Dick Sargent, U.S. actor
- April 23 - Alan Oppenheimer, U.S. actor
- April 25 - Lynn Hamilton, U.S. actress
- April 28 - Carolyn Jones, U.S. actress
- May 10 - Pat Summerall, American football player and sportscaster
- May 17 - Frank Price, U.S. TV and film executive
- May 20 - Betty DeGeneres, American LGBT rights activist
- May 31 - Clint Eastwood, U.S. director and actor
- June 12 - Jim Nabors, U.S. actor, singer
- June 19 - Gena Rowlands, U.S. actress
- June 25 - George Murdock, actor
- June 27 - Ross Perot, American businessman and politician
- June 29 - Robert Evans, Actor
- July 14 - Polly Bergen, U.S. actress
- July 17 - Ray Galton, British writer
- July 28 - Horacio Gómez Bolaños, Mexican actor
- July 30 - Tony Lip, actor
- August 11 - Paul Soles, actor
- August 16
- *Frank Gifford, American football player and sportscaster
- *Robert Culp, U.S. actor
- August 25
- * Graham Jarvis, U.S. actor
- * Sean Connery, Actor
- August 28 -
- * Windsor Davies, British comedy actor
- * Ben Gazzara, U.S. actor
- September 7 - Sonny Rollins, Saxophonist
- September 11 - Cathryn Damon, U.S. actress
- September 16 - Anne Francis, U.S. actress
- September 23 - Ray Charles, U.S. singer, songwriter, pianist and composer
- September 27 - Bill Carruthers, U.S. television executive
- October 1 - Richard Harris, actor
- October 6 - Lou Cutell, U.S. actor
- October 19 - Fred Facey, U.S. radio and television announcer
- November 3
- * Larry Gelman, U.S. actor
- * Lois Smith, U.S. actress
- November 5 - Richard Davalos, U.S. actor
- November 15 - Whitman Mayo, U.S. actor
- November 24 - Nina Russell, U.S. writer, actress
- November 2 - Peter Hall, English director
- December 4 - Ronnie Corbett, British comedian
- December 9 - Buck Henry, U.S. writer, actor, director
- December 12 - Bill Beutel, American television journalist
- December 17 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, actor
- December 21 - Phil Roman, U.S. animator
- December 24 - Julian Barry, U.S. screenwriter
- December 31 - Renate Hoy, U.S. actress
Deaths
- February 19 - Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, Scottish electrical engineer who provided the theoretical basis for the electronic television, 66