Historical DeathsToday: 30 September

Deaths

• 420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible


• 653 - Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury


• 1101 - Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan


• 1246 - Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)


• 1440 - Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician


• 1487 - John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)


• 1551 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)


• 1560 - Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)


• 1572 - St. Francis Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510)


• 1581 - Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)


• 1626 - Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (b. 1559)


• 1628 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (b. 1554)


• 1770 - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat


• 1770 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)


• 1772 - James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)


• 1865 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800)


• 1888 - Elizabeth Stride, widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)


• 1888 - Catherine Eddowes, widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842)


• 1891 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)


• 1897 - St Therese of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873)


• 1910 - Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)


• 1913 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b. 1858)


• 1942 - Hans-Joachim Marseille, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)


• 1943 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)


• 1955 - James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931)


• 1961 - Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Québec (b. 1888)


• 1973 - Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)


• 1974 - Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor


• 1977 - Mary Ford, American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) (b. 1924)


• 1978 - Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)


• 1985 - Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)


• 1985 - Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)


• 1988 - Al Holbert, American race car driver and team owner (b. 1946)


• 1989 - Virgil Thompson, American composer (b. 1896)


• 1990 - Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)


• 1990 - Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)


• 1994 - Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)


• 1998 - Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (b. 1953)


• 2002 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913)


• 2003 - Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer (b. 1944)


• 2003 - Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935)


• 2004 - Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1936)


• 2004 - Michael Relph, British film producer and director (b. 1915)