1930 in television

The year 1930 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1930.

• May 22 – An audience at Proctor's Theatre in Schenectady, New York becomes the first to see a closed-circuit television signal projected onto a big screen.
• July 14 – For the first time in the United Kingdom, a television drama is broadcast. The drama is a production of Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth; it is broadcast by the BBC from Baird's studios at 133 Long Acre, London.^[1]
• November 5 – Baird television transmissions at Hairdressing Fair of Fashion include the world's first television commercial for the Eugène Method of permanent hair waving.
• December 7 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts the first television commercial in the United States, of I.J Fox Furriers during The Fox Trappers.

• January 1 - Ty Hardin, U.S. actor (Bronco) (died 2017)
• January 3 - Robert Loggia, U.S. actor (died 2015)
• January 4 - Sorrell Booke, U.S. actor (The Dukes of Hazzard) (died 1994)
• January 6 - Vic Tayback, U.S. actor (Alice) (died 1990)
• January 15 - Edwin Sherin, U.S. director (died 2017)
• January 19 - Tippi Hedren, U.S. actress
• January 30 - Don Brockett, U.S. actor (died 1995)
• February 8 - Alejandro Rey, Argentinian-born actor (The Flying Nun) (died 1987)
• February 10 - Robert Wagner, U.S. actor (It Takes a Thief, Switch, Hart to Hart)
• February 27 - Joanne Woodward, U.S. actress
• March 22
  • Pat Robertson, televangelist (died 2023)
  • Stephen Sondheim, U.S. composer (died 2021)
• March 30 - John Astin, U.S. actor (The Addams Family)
• April 5 - Mary Costa, actress
• April 7 - Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (Fawlty Towers) (died 2016)
• April 18 - Clive Revill, actor
• April 19 - Dick Sargent, U.S. actor (Bewitched) (died 1994)
• April 23 - Alan Oppenheimer, U.S. actor
• April 25 - Lynn Hamilton, U.S. actress (Sanford and Son)
• April 28 - Carolyn Jones, U.S. actress (The Addams Family) (died 1983)
• May 10 - Pat Summerall, American football player and sportscaster (died 2013)
• 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 (Rawhide)
• June 12 - Jim Nabors, U.S. actor, singer (The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) (died 2017)
• June 19 - Gena Rowlands, U.S. actress (died 2024)
• June 25 - George Murdock, actor (died 2012)
• June 27 - Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (died 2019)
• June 29 - Robert Evans, Actor (died 2019)
• July 14 - Polly Bergen, U.S. actress (died 2014)
• July 17 - Ray Galton, British writer (died 2018)
• July 28 - Horacio Gómez Bolaños, Mexican actor (died 1999)
• July 30 - Tony Lip, actor (died 2013)
• August 11 - Paul Soles, actor (died 2021)
• August 16
  • Frank Gifford, American football player and sportscaster (died 2015)
  • Robert Culp, U.S. actor (I Spy) (died 2010)
• August 25
  • Graham Jarvis, U.S. actor (died 2003)
  • Sean Connery, Actor (died 2020)
• August 28 -
  • Windsor Davies, British comedy actor (It Ain't Half Hot Mum) (died 2019)
  • Ben Gazzara, U.S. actor (Run for Your Life) (died 2012)
• September 7 - Sonny Rollins, Saxophonist
• September 11 - Cathryn Damon, U.S. actress (died 1987)
• September 16 - Anne Francis, U.S. actress (Honey West) (died 2011)
• September 23 - Ray Charles, U.S. singer, songwriter, pianist and composer (died 2004)
• September 27 - Bill Carruthers, U.S. television executive (died 2003)
• October 1 - Richard Harris, actor (died 2002)
• October 6 - Lou Cutell, U.S. actor (died 2021)
• October 19 - Fred Facey, U.S. radio and television announcer (died 2003)
• November 3
  • Larry Gelman, U.S. actor (The Bob Newhart Show)
  • Lois Smith, U.S. actress
• November 5 - Richard Davalos, U.S. actor (died 2016)
• November 15 - Whitman Mayo, U.S. actor (Sanford and Son) (died 2001)
• November 2 - Peter Hall, English director (died 2017)
• December 4 - Ronnie Corbett, British comedian (died 2016)
• December 9 - Buck Henry, U.S. writer, actor, director (died 2020)
• December 12 - Bill Beutel, American television journalist (died 2006)
• December 17 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, actor
• December 21 - Phil Roman, U.S. animator
• December 24 - Julian Barry, U.S. screenwriter (died 2023)
• December 31 - Renate Hoy, U.S. actress (died 2024)

• February 19 - Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, Scottish electrical engineer who provided the theoretical basis for the electronic television, 66^[2]