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July 28, 1930

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Notable Births

Firoza Begum (singer)

1930Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer (died 2014)[โ€ ]

Firoza Begum was a Bangladeshi Nazrul Geeti singer. She was awarded the Independence Day Award in 1979 by the government of Bangladesh.

Junior Kimbrough

1930Junior Kimbrough, American singer and guitarist (died 1998)[โ€ ]

David "Junior" Kimbrough was an American blues musician. His best-known works are "Keep Your Hands off Her" and "All Night Long". In 2023, he was inducted in the Blues Hall of Fame.

Jean Roba

1930Jean Roba, Belgian author and illustrator (died 2006)[โ€ ]

Jean Roba was a Belgian comics author from the Marcinelle school. His best-known work is Boule et Bill.

1930Ramsey Muir Withers, Canadian general (died 2014)[โ€ ]

General Ramsey Muir Withers, CMM, CD was a Canadian Army Officer and Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest ranking position in the Canadian Forces, from 1980 to 1983. He died of a heart attack in 2014.

Notable Deaths

John DeWitt (athlete)

1930John DeWitt, American hammer thrower (born 1881)[โ€ ]

John Riegel DeWitt was an American athlete. He played college football for Princeton from 1901 to 1903 and was selected as an All-American in 1902 and 1903. He also competed in the hammer throw, setting the world record in 1903 and winning the silver medal at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

Allvar Gullstrand

1930Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)[โ€ ]

Allvar Gullstrand was a Swedish ophthalmologist and optician.