August 30 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 526 - Theodoric the Great (b. 454)


• 1158 - King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)


• 1428 - Emperor Shōkō (b. 1401)


• 1483 - King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)


• 1580 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)


• 1617 - Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)


• 1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)


• 1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632)


• 1751 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)


• 1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811)


• 1879 - John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (b. 1831)


• 1886 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1836)


• 1896 - Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)


• 1906 - Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)


• 1907 - Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)


• 1928 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)


• 1935 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)


• 1938 - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)


• 1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)


• 1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)


• 1943 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch Catholic priest (b. 1890)


• 1946 - Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed) (b. 1907)


• 1946 - Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)


• 1949 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)


• 1961 - Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)


• 1963 - Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)


• 1968 - William Talman, American actor (b. 1915)


• 1970 - Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916)


• 1971 - Nathan Leopold, American murderer (b. 1904)


• 1981 - Vera-Ellen, American actress (b. 1921)


• 1981 - Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian statesman (b. 1933)


• 1985 - Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900)


• 1989 - Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist, and literary critic (b. 1922)


• 1991 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)


• 1993 - Richard Jordan, American actor, (b. 1938)


• 1994 - Lindsay Anderson, English film director (b. 1923)


• 1995 - Fischer Black, American economist (b. 1938)


• 1995 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)


• 1996 - Christine Pascal, French actress and director (b. 1953)


• 1999 - Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910)


• 2001 - Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1907)


• 2002 - J. Lee Thompson, English film director (b. 1914)


• 2003 - Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)


• 2003 - Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)


• 2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)


• 2004 - Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)


• 2006 - Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1916)


• 2006 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)


• 2006 - Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)


• 2007 - Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author/expert. (b. 1942)


• 2007 - Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)