August 30
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Art and culture
- 1971 - Leopold and Loeb executed
- 2007 - For the Love of God (artwork), sold for USD 100 million
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Births
- 1748 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
- 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
- 1811 - Théophile Gautier, French writer (d. 1872)
- 1827 - Gisela von Arnim, German writer (d. 1889)
- 1883 - Theo van Doesburg, Dutch artist (d. 1931)
- 1939 - John Peel, English radio disc jockey (d. 2004)
- 1943 - Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
- 1946 - Jacques Tardi, French graphic novel writer and artist
- 1946 - Gábor Bódy, Hungarian film director. (d. 1985)
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Deaths
- 1935 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
- 1971 - Nathan Leopold, American murderer (b. 1904)
- 1991 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
- 1994 - Lindsay Anderson, English film director (b. 1923)
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