Friday, June 29, 2012

Famous Deaths on 30 Jun

Famous Deaths on 30 Jun

1181 - Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
1224 - Adolf of Osnabrück, Saint Adolf (b. 1185)
1364 - Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
1538 - Charles of Egmond, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)
1579 - Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, Turkish Janissary
1607 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
1660 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
1666 - Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620)
1670 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)
1704 - John Quelch, a pirate was hanged (b. 1665)
1709 - Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
1785 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
1796 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1857 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
1882 - Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of President James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
1882 - Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
1890 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819)
1919 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842)
1934 - Night of the Long Knives murders
350 - Nepotianus, Roman usurper

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