Famous Deaths on 30 Jul

Famous Deaths on 30 Jul

1540 - Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
1540 - Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
1550 - Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
1652 - Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
1680 - Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
1683 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1691 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
1718 - William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
1771 - Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)
1811 - Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
1875 - George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
1889 - Charlie Absolom, Former England cricketer (b. 1846)
1898 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1815)
1900 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
1912 - Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852)
1918 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
1930 - Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
1947 - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
1965 - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author (b. 1886)
1970 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)
1971 - Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
1982 - Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (b. 1954)
1983 - Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1983 - Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b. 1887)
1985 - Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
1989 - Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)
1992 - Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)
1992 - Joe Shuster, Canadian comic book artist (b. 1914)
1996 - Claudette Colbert, American actress (b. 1903)
1997 - Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)
1998 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (Howdy Doody) (b. 1917)
2003 - Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
2004 - Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)
2005 - Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
2005 - John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)
2005 - Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
2006 - Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
2006 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
2006 - Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
2007 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
2007 - Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)
2007 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)
2007 - Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)
2008 - Anne Armstrong U.S. ambassador to Britain (b. 1927)
578 - Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa
579 - Pope Benedict I