Famous Deaths on 30th May

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727 - Hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72
1035 - Boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies
1159 - Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
1252 - Ferdinand III the holy, King of Castile/Leon, dies
1416 - Jerome of Prague, Czech radical Christian teacher burned at the stake for heresy by church Council of Constance
1431 - Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (b. 1412)
1434 - Prokop the Great, Hussite general
1469 - Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop
1574 - Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies
1576 - Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai
1593 - Christopher Marlowe, Brit dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered
1640 - Andre Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies
1640 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, dies at 62
1696 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)
1718 - Arnold J van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48
1718 - Bernard Nieuwentyt, physician/theologist, dies at 63
1730 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
1744 - Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56
1746 - Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69
Poet Alexander Pope (1744) 1770 - François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
1778 - Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies at 42
1791 - Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56
1797 - Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48
1809 - Johan B Scheffer, portrait painter, dies at about 43
1833 - Josef Slavik, composer, dies at 27
1840 - Dominique J de Eerens, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 59
1864 - James Barbour Terrill, US attorney/Confederate brig-gen, dies at 26
1865 - William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27
1870 - Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89
1901 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)
1906 - William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30
1912 - Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies
1916 - John Singleton Mosby, American Confederate officer, dies at 82
1918 - Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies
The Gray Ghost John Singleton Mosby (1916) 1919 - Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies
1922 - David Mendes Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45
1923 - Camille Chevillard, composer, dies at 63
1923 - Charles Fichardt, cricketer (S Afr batsman in 2 Tests 1892-96), dies
1925 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)
1926 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
1934 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
1935 - Lothar Windsperger, composer, dies at 49
1938 - Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49
1939 - Floyd Roberts, Auto racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1904)
1940 - Y de Smit-Rog, eldest Dutchman, dies at 104
1941 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)
1944 - Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at 79
1945 - Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed
1946 - Louis Slotin, Canadian Scientist at Los Alamos (b. 1910)
1947 - Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72
1947 - Georg Ritter von Trapp, World War I Austrian submarine commander (b. 1880)
1951 - Hermann Broch, writer, dies at 64
1953 - George Barnes, cinematographer, dies at 60
1953 - Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)
1954 - Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67
1957 - Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies
1959 - Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 85
Novelist & Poet Boris Pasternak (1960) 1960 - Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70
1961 - Rafael L Trujillo Molina, dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered at 69
1964 - Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66
1964 - Eddie Sachs, American auto racer (b. 1927)
1964 - Dave MacDonald, American auto racer (b. 1936)
1967 - Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77
1969 - Gaston Brenta, composer, dies at 66
1969 - John Cipollini, guitarist, dies of ephysema at 45
1971 - Audie Murphy, most decorated American WW II hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash at 46
1971 - Rodd Redwing, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies at 66
1971 - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
1972 - Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer, dies at 104
1973 - Hal Hastings, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66
1975 - Michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80
1975 - Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (b. 1908)
1976 - Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890)
1977 - Claire Goll, writer, dies at 86
1977 - Paul Desmond, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 52
1979 - Jack Raine, actor (Quartet), dies at 82
1980 - Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment
1981 - Ziaur Rahmen, pres of Bangladesh, is assassinated
1981 - Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
1983 - Alfred M Gruenther, US general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84
1986 - Hank Mobley, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 55
1987 - Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks), dies at 94
1987 - Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist, dies at 71
1988 - Ella Raines, actress (Uncle Harry, Runaround, Impact), dies at 66
1989 - Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83
1991 - Manolo Gomez Bur, Spanish comedian dies at 74
1992 - Daniel Addes, actor (Victor-Sunst Grill), dies at 59
1992 - Karl Carstens, president German FR (1979-84), dies at 77
1992 - Leen 't Hart, organist/composer, dies at 72
1993 - Herman S Blount, Sun Ra, US jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies at 79
1993 - Sun Ra, blues pianist/orchestra leader, dies of strokes at 79
1994 - Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, 13th head of Mormon Church, dies at 94
1994 - Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar, dies at 58
1994 - Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (La vida breve), dies at 85
1994 - Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79
1994 - Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
1995 - Bobby Stokes, soccer star, dies at 44
1995 - Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72
1995 - Ted Drake, soccer star, dies at 82
1995 - Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, Brit national park warden, dies at 87
1995 - Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (b.1911)
1996 - Bob Stroup, trombonist, dies at 57
1996 - John Cameron, judge, dies at 96
1996 - John Kahn, bassist, dies at 47
1996 - Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/cardinal, dies at 92
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 - Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1927)
2005 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958)
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)
2009 - Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (b. 1926)
2010 - Duff Roblin, Canadian politician (b. 1917).
2011 - Clarice Taylor, American actress (b. 1917)
2012 - Andrew Huxley, British physiologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 94
2012 - Jack Twyman, American Hall of Fame basketball player, dies from complications from blood cancer at 78