Famous Deaths for Year 1930

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Jan 9th - Edward W Buck, Dutch/US editor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 66
Jan 13th - C-E Auguste Rateau, French inventor (R-steam turbine), dies at 66
Jan 27th - Jean Hure, composer, dies at 52
Jan 28th - Clarence Skelton Wimble, cricket (score pair in Test for S Af), dies
Feb 6th - Eva Strittmatter, writer, dies at 17
Feb 22nd - Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh, dies at 66
Feb 23rd - Horst Wessel, German nazi lyricist (Fahne Hoch), dies at 22
Feb 23rd - Mabel Normand, actress/director (Extra Girl), dies at 35
Feb 24th - Jacobus van Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at 74
Feb 26th - Raffaele Merry del Val, Spanish Cardinal, dies at 64
Mar 2nd - David H Lawrence, poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44
Mar 6th - William Milton, cricketer (S Afr Test capt in 3 Tests 1889-92), dies
Mar 8th - William Howard Taft, 27th US pres (1909-13)/Chief Justice, dies at 72
Mar 8th - Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1865)
Mar 12th - Alois Jirásek, Czech writer (b. 1851)
Mar 12th - William George Barker, Canadian fighter ace (b. 1894)
Mar 13th - Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Pembroke), dies at 77
Mar 15th - Antonio Beltramelli, writer, dies at 51
Mar 16th - Miguel Primo de Riveray Orbaneja, Sp dictator (1923-30), dies at 60
Mar 19th - Arthur J Balfour, British theologist/premier (1902-05), dies at 81
Mar 29th - Anton Bettelheim, writer, dies
Apr 1st - Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, dies at 92
Apr 1st - Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies
Apr 2nd - Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
Apr 3rd - Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (b. 1847)
Apr 4th - Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet, dies
Apr 14th - W Majakowski, writer, dies at 36
Apr 16th - José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
Apr 17th - Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (b. 1863)
Apr 19th - Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
Apr 21st - Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79
Apr 21st - Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85
Apr 22nd - Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish poet (b. 1866)
May 8th - Lvar Henning Mankell, composer, dies at 61
May 12th - Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch SDAP leader, dies at 70
May 13th - Fridtjof Nansen, diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies
May 13th - Helena Lange, German feminist, dies
May 17th - Herbert David Croly, US founder (New Republic), dies at 61
May 18th - Joao Marcellino Arroyo, composer, dies at 68
May 25th - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
Jun 5th - Jules Pascin, [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist, dies
Jun 10th - Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
Jun 11th - George Alexander, cricketer (two early Tests for Australia), dies
Jun 11th - Henry Clay Folger Jr, CEO (Folger Shakespeare Library), dies at 72
Jun 12th - Dyce Willcocks, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of Canadian cricket), dies
Jun 13th - Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record (b. 1896)
Jun 16th - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, US inventor (gyroscope compass), dies
Jun 16th - Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1866)
Jun 22nd - Karl von Amira, German historian, dies at 82
Jul 2nd - Anders Randolf, actor (Love of Sunya, Dangerous Curves), dies at 59
Jul 7th - Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71
Jul 14th - W H Ashley, cricketer (Test S Africa, 7 wkts), dies
Jul 15th - Leopold von Auer, Hungarian/US violinist, dies
Jul 19th - Robert Stout, NZ prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85
Jul 23rd - Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer/airplane builder, dies at 52
Jul 29th - Alexander von Fielitz, composer, dies at 69
Jul 30th - Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
Aug 4th - Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer, dies at 61
Aug 10th - William H Taft, US president (1909-13), dies
Aug 20th - Charles Bannerman, cricketer (1st three Tests for Australia), dies
Aug 25th - Siegfried Wagner, composer, dies at 61
Aug 26th - Lon Chaney, actor (Thunder, Big City, Unholy 3), dies at 47
Aug 27th - Didericus G van Epen, genealogist/Dutch Patriarch, dies at 62
Aug 28th - Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish optician (Nobel 1911), dies
Aug 29th - William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
Aug 30th - William H Taft, 27th US President (1909-13), dies
Sep 5th - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
Sep 10th - G A Faulkner, cricketer (S Afr googly all-rounder), commits suicide
Sep 15th - Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
Sep 23rd - Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62
Sep 24th - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
Sep 29th - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
Oct 1st - Ricardo Drigo, composer, dies at 84
Oct 3rd - Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/etcher/author (Bauer), dies at 73
Oct 5th - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
Oct 10th - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
Oct 14th - Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws), dies
Oct 15th - Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (b. 1866)
Oct 24th - Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor/director (Dr Faustus), dies at 26
Oct 26th - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
Nov 5th - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)
Nov 11th - W W Whysall, cricketer (4 Tests for England 1924-30), dies
Nov 27th - J T Tyldesley, cricket (1661 runs in 31 Tests for Eng 1898-1909), dies
Dec 9th - Jim Slight, cricketer (represented Australia at Oval 1880), dies
Dec 11th - Friedrich von Bernhardi, German war theorist/historian, dies at 81
Dec 13th - Fritz Pregl, Slovenian/Austrian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
Dec 17th - Peter Warlock, composer, dies at 36
Dec 19th - Johnny Douglas, cricketer (soccer int, boxing gold medal), drowns
Dec 23rd - Johannes H Been, Brielle archivist, dies at 71
Dec 24th - Eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67
Dec 24th - Oskar Nedbal, composer, dies at 56
Dec 25th - Harvey Worthington Loomis, composer, dies at 65
Dec 27th - William Courtleigh, actor (Madame X, Eyes of Youth), dies at 63


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