1930 in Italy

Events from the year 1930 in Italy.

← 1929 1928 1927 1930 in Italy → 1931 1932 1933
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	History of Italy Timeline of Italian history List of years in Italy

Incumbents

• King: Victor Emmanuel III
• Prime Minister: Benito Mussolini

Events

• 21 November: A flying boat airliner I-RONY, operating on a passenger flight for Società Anonima Navigazione Aerea (SANA), disappears over the Mediterranean Sea during a flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Marseille, France; all six people on board are lost.^[1]

Births

• 6 January: Alfonso Brescia, film director (d. 2001)
• 19 January: Pellegrino Tomaso Ronchi, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
• 11 February: Flaminia Jandolo, actress (d. 2019)
• 6 March: Amos Cardarelli, Italian footballer (d. 2018)
• 25 April: Ugo Crescenzi, politician (d. 2017)^[2]
• 31 July: Nino Cristofori, politician (d. 2015)^[3]
• 21 August: Filippo Illuminato, partisan, Gold Medal of Military Valour (d. 1943)
• 6 September: Daniele Barioni, operatic tenor
• 23 September: Edda Bresciani, Egyptologist
• 29 September: Cesare Barbetti, actor (d. 2006)
• 8 October: Cosetta Greco, actress (d. 2002)
• 19 October: Lino Bortolo Belotti, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
• 3 December: Francesco Perrone, long-distance runner (d. 2020)
• 6 December: Carlo Reali, actor, voice actor and film editor
• 14 December: Rosanna Carteri, operatic soprano (d. 2020)

Deaths

• 18 January:Tommaso Dal Molin, aviator (b. 1902)
• 3 February: Michele Bianchi, revolutionary syndicalist leader (b. 1883)^[4]
• 14 February: Salvatore Catalanotte, Sicilian-born US mobster (b. 1893)
• 15 February: Giulio Douhet, general and air power theorist (b. 1869)
• 14 June – Enrico Millo, admiral and politician (b. 1865)^[5]
• 30 June: Francesco Saverio Merlino, lawyer, anarchist activist and theorist of libertarian socialism (b. 1856)
• 1 September: Luigi Cangiullo, Olympic diver (b. 1897)^[6]
• 9 October: Enrico Forlanini, engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer (b. 1848)^[7]
• 30 October: Federico Andreotti, painter (b. 1847)
• 5 November: Luigi Facta, politician, 26th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1861)