August 12, 1930

1930Harry Babcock, American football player and first overall draft pick (died 1996)^[†]

Harry Lewis Babcock was an American professional football end in the National Football League (NFL). He was the first overall selection in the 1953 NFL draft.

1930George Soros, Hungarian-American businessman and investor, founded the Soros Fund Management^[†]

George Soros is a Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist. As of May 2025, he has a net worth of US$7.2 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune. In 2020, Forbes called Soros the "most generous giver" in terms of percentage of net worth.

1930Kanagaratnam Sriskandan, Sri Lankan engineer and civil servant (died 2010)^[†]

Kanagaratnam Sriskandan was a Sri Lankan born British engineer and civil servant. He was the former Chief Highway Engineer, of Under Secretary Grade at the British Department for Transport

1930Jacques Tits, Belgian-French mathematician and academic (died 2021)^[†]

Jacques Tits was a Belgian-born French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric.