About the day » Monday December 8, 1930Calender converter

• Charlotte Banks, Delta, Delta County, Colorado († 1956)
• Abraham Leendert Sol, Leiden († 1997)
• Geert Jacobs Apeldoorn, Vollenhove († 1935)
• ? ? († 2006)
• Frederik Herman Potgieter, Ambt Hardenberg († 1998)
• Arend van de Pol, Putten († 2006)
• Florence Mae Beals, Florence, Marion, Kansas, United States († 2002)
• Albert Hubertus Schaefer, Roermond, Limburg, Nederland († 2004)
• Boris Fausto, Brasil († 2023)
• Betty Lou Heyveld, Mahaska County, Iowa († 2022)

• Adrianus Overdorp (46), Hoek van Holland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Hendrika Maria van der Bruggen (76), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aafke Bult (88), Fulton, Whiteside County, Illinois
• Adriana Hendrika van der Bruggen (76), Vlaardingen, Nederland
• Annetje Poldervaart (78), Brielle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barclay D. Crew (69), Delta, Keokuk County, Iowa
• Berendina Bastiaans (78), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonetta Catharina Postma (64), 's Gravenhage,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Apolonia Bijl (87), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus de Vent (54), Paasloregel (Steenwijkerwold)

• 1925 » Nasir Kazmi, Pakistani Urdu poet († 1972)
• 1925 » Sammy Davis, Jr., American actor, singer, and dancer († 1990)
• 1927 » Niklas Luhmann, German thinker and social theorist († 1998)
• 1927 » Vladimir Shatalov, Kazakhstani general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1928 » Bill Hewitt, Canadian journalist and sportscaster († 1996)
• 1928 » Ulric Neisser, German-American psychologist, neuroscientist, and academic († 2012)
• 1930 » Julian Critchley, English journalist and politician († 2000)
• 1930 » Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2014)
• 1931 » Bob Arum, American boxing promoter, founded Top Rank
• 1933 » Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian († 1998)

• 1914 » Melchior Anderegg, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1828)
• 1917 » Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (b. 1836)
• 1918 » Josip Štadler, Croatian archbishop (b. 1843)
• 1919 » J. Alden Weir, American painter (b. 1852)
• 1929 » José Vicente Concha, Colombian politician and 8th President of Colombia (b. 1867)
• 1932 » Gertrude Jekyll, British horticulturist and writer (b. 1843)
• 1937 » Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist and academic (b. 1856)
• 1938 » Friedrich Glauser, Swiss author (b. 1896)
• 1940 » George Lloyd, English-Canadian bishop and theologian (b. 1861)
• 1942 » Albert Kahn, American architect, Fisher Building, Packard Automotive Plant, Ford River Rouge Complex (b. 1869)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
• February 16 » The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
• April 28 » The Independence Producers hosted the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
• May 1 » "Pluto" is officially proposed for the name of the newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto by Vesto Slipher in the Lowell Observatory Observation Circular. The name quickly catches on.
• August 16 » The first color sound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, is released by Ub Iwerks.
• October 3 » The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded.
• November 3 » Getúlio Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.

The temperature on December 8, 1930 was between 0.3 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.