Famous Deaths on 30 Sep

Famous Deaths on 30 Sep

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 - ÅŒuchi 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 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)
1770 - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
1772 - James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)
1865 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800)
1888 - Catherine Eddowes, widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842)
1888 - Elizabeth Stride, widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
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 - Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)
1990 - Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
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)
420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
653 - Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury