1930 in television

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

Global television events

• 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.
• 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.

Births

Date	Name	Notability
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)
	Rosemary Prinz	U.S. actress (As the World Turns)
January 6	Vic Tayback	U.S. actor (Alice) (died 1990)
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)
March 30	John Astin	U.S. actor (The Addams Family)
April 7	Andrew Sachs	German-born British actor (died 2016)
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 31	Clint Eastwood	U.S. director and actor (Rawhide)
June 12	Jim Nabors	U.S. actor, singer (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) (died 2017)
June 28	Horacio Gómez Bolaños	Mexican actor (died 1999)
July 14	Polly Bergen	U.S. actress (died 2014)
July 17	Ray Galton	British writer (died 2018)
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)
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 11	Cathryn Damon	U.S. actress (died 1987)
September 16	Anne Francis	U.S. actress (Honey West) (died 2011)
November 3	Larry Gelman	U.S. actor (The Bob Newhart Show)
November 15	Whitman Mayo	U.S. actor (Sanford and Son) (died 2001)
December 4	Ronnie Corbett	British comedian (died 2016)
December 9	Buck Henry	U.S. writer, actor, director (died 2020)
December 21	Phil Roman	U.S. animator

Deaths

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