Famous Deaths on 30 May

Famous Deaths on 30 May

1159 - Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
1252 - King Ferdinand III of Castile
1416 - Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (b. 1379)
1431 - Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (b. 1412)
1434 - Prokop the Great, Hussite general
1469 - Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop
1574 - King Charles IX of France (b. 1550)
1576 - Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai
1593 - Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)
1640 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
1696 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)
1718 - Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch favorite of William III of England (b. 1670)
1730 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
1744 - Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688)
1770 - François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
1778 - Voltaire, French philosopher and author (b. 1694)
1865 - John Catron, United States Supreme Court Justice
1868 - Souji Okita, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1823
1901 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)
1912 - Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) (b. 1867)
1918 - Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician (b. 1856)
1925 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)
1926 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
1934 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
1939 - Floyd Roberts, Auto racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1904)
1941 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)
1946 - Louis Slotin, Canadian Scientist at Los Alamos (b. 1910)
1947 - Georg Ritter von Trapp, World War I Austrian submarine commander (b. 1880)
1951 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)
1953 - Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)
1955 - Bill Vukovich, Auto racer, killed during 1955 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1918)
1960 - Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b. 1890)
1961 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
1964 - Leó Szilárd, Hungarian nuclear physicist (b. 1898)
1964 - Eddie Sachs, American auto racer (b. 1927)
1964 - Dave MacDonald, American auto racer (b. 1936)
1967 - Claude Rains, English actor (b. 1889)
1971 - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
1975 - Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951)
1975 - Michel Simon, French actor (b. 1895)
1975 - Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (b. 1908)
1976 - Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890)
1980 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (b. 1942)
1981 - Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
1981 - Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)
1986 - Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940)
1993 - Sun Ra, American musician (b. 1914)
1994 - Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
1994 - Marcel Bich, French industrialist (b. 1914)
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader
1995 - Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912)
1995 - Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (b.1911)
1995 - Bobby Stokes, former English footballer (b. 1951)
2000 - Tex Beneke, American bandleader and musician (b. 1914)
2000 - Doris Hare, Welsh actress (b. 1905)
2003 - Mickie Most, English record producer (b. 1938)
2005 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958)
2005 - Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1927)
2006 - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)
2006 - Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
2006 - David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
2007 - Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and author (b. 1933)
2008 - Lorenzo Odone, American medical figure (b. 1978)