Famous Deaths on 30 Dec

Famous Deaths on 30 Dec

1218 - Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1162)
1460 - Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (killed in battle) (b. 1411)
1525 - Jacob Fugger, German banker (b. 1459)
1572 - Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (b. 1512)
1573 - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer (b. 1504)
1591 - Pope Innocent IX (b. 1519)
1621 - Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint (b. 1550)
1640 - John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597)
1644 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (b. 1577)
1662 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria (b. 1628)
1691 - Robert Boyle, Irish scientist (b. 1627)
1769 - Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier (b. 1685)
1803 - Francis Lewis, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (b. 1713)
1896 - José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines (b. 1861) (executed)
1908 - Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator (b. 1844)
1941 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b. 1890)
1944 - Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)
1947 - Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
1947 - Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, portraitist and art forgers (b. 1889)
1954 - Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1863)
1955 - Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (b. 1913)
1967 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1887)
1968 - Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General (b. 1896)
1970 - Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932)
1971 - Melba Rae, American actress (Search for Tomorrow) (b. 1922)
1979 - Richard Rodgers, American composer (b. 1902)
1981 - Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (b. 1959)
1984 - Massa, oldest gorilla on record (b. 1930)
1986 - Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
1988 - Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (b. 1925)
1989 - Lenore Lemmon, wife of George Reeves (b. 1923)
1992 - Ling-Ling, panda given to the USA by China (b. 1969)
1993 - Mack David, American lyricist and songwriter (b. 1912)
1993 - Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American Hollywood talent agent (b. 1907)
1993 - Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (b. 1907)
1994 - Maureen Starkey, wife of Ringo Starr (b. 1946)
1994 - Dmitri Ivanenko, Russian physicist (b. 1904)
1995 - Ralph Flanagan - American band leader (b. 1914)
1995 - Doris Grau, American actress (b. 1924)
1996 - Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)
1996 - Jack Nance, American actor (b. 1943)
1997 - Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist (b. 1926)
1998 - George Webb, English actor (b. 1911)
1998 - Johnny Moore, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1934)
1999 - Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (b. 1909)
1999 - Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world's oldest living person (b. 1880)
2000 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
2002 - Mary Brian, American actress (b. 1906)
2002 - Mary Wesley, English novelist (b. 1912)
2003 - Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (b. 1963)
2003 - John Gregory Dunne, American writer (b. 1932)
2003 - David Bale, South African-born activist (b. 1941)
2004 - Artie Shaw, American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910)
2005 - Rona Jaffe, American author (b. 1932)
2006 - Terry Peck, Falkland Islander (b. 1938) who acted as a scout for 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment in the Falklands War
2006 - Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
2006 - Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi President (b. 1937) (executed)