May 30 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1159 – Władysław II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
• 1252 – Ferdinand III of Castile (b. 1199)
• 1416 – Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (b. 1379)
• 1431 – Joan of Arc, French military figure and saint (b. 1412)
• 1434 – Prokop the Great, Hussite general
• 1469 – Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop (b. 1382)
• 1574 – Charles IX of France (b. 1550)
• 1576 – Harada Naomasa, Japanese samurai retainer
• 1593 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)
• 1640 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
• 1696 – Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Tewkesbury, English politician (b. 1638)
• 1712 – Andrea Lanzani, Italian painter (b. 1645)
• 1718 – Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, (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 writer, philosopher, and author (b. 1694)
• 1829 – Philibert Jean-Baptiste Curial, French general (b. 1774)
• 1832 – James Mackintosh, Scottish jurist, politician, and historian (b. 1765)
• 1865 – John Catron, American jurist (b. 1786)
• 1868 – Okita Sōji, Japanese Shinsengumi captain (b. 1823)
• 1901 – Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)
• 1911 – Milton Bradley, American businessman, founder of the Milton Bradley Company (b. 1836)
• 1912 – Wilbur Wright, American airplane inventor, manufacturer, and pilot (b. 1867)
• 1918 – Georgi Plekhanov, Russian 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, American race car driver (b. 1904)
• 1941 – Prajadhipok, King of Thailand (b. 1893)
• 1946 – Louis Slotin, Canadian scientist (b. 1910)
• 1947 – Georg Ludwig von Trapp, Austro-Hungarian navy officer (b. 1880)
• 1948 – József Klekl, Slovene politician (b. 1874)
• 1949 – Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French Cardinal (b. 1874)
• 1951 – Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)
• 1953 – Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (b. 1886)
• 1955 – Bill Vukovich, American race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1960 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1961 – Rafael Trujillo, Dominican politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
• 1964 – Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian king (b. 1882)
• 1964 – Leó Szilárd, Hungarian physicist (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Eddie Sachs, American race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1964 – Dave MacDonald, American race car driver (b. 1936)
• 1965 – Louis Hjelmslev, Danish linguist (b. 1899)
• 1967 – Claude Rains, English actor (b. 1889)
• 1967 – Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian director (b.1885)
• 1971 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
• 1975 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951)
• 1975 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (b. 1908)
• 1975 – Michel Simon, French actor (b. 1895)
• 1976 – Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890)
• 1976 – Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain (b. 1902)
• 1978 – Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violinist, conductor, and composer (b. 1909)
• 1980 – Carl Radle, American musician and producer (Delaney & Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos) (b. 1942)
• 1981 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
• 1981 – Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi statesman (b. 1936)
• 1986 – Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940)
• 1993 – Sun Ra, American musician, bandleader, and composer (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Ezra Taft Benson, American religious figure (b. 1899)
• 1994 – Marcel Bich, French businessman and industrialist, co-founder of BIC Corp. (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
• 1995 – Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Lofty England, English automotive engineer (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Bobby Stokes, English footballer (b. 1951)
• 1996 – Léon-Etienne Duval, French cardinal (b. 1903)
• 2000 – Tex Beneke, American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Doris Hare, Welsh actress (b. 1905)
• 2001 – Denis Whitaker, Canadian soldier and author (b. 1915)
• 2003 – Mickie Most, English singer and producer, founded Rak Records (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958)
• 2005 – Alma Ziegler, American baseball player (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese 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)
• 2007 – Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet (b.1927)
• 2008 – Lorenzo Odone, American adrenoleukodystrophy patient (b. 1978)
• 2008 – Noel Moore, English civil servant (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Auguste Legros, French politician (b.1922)
• 2009 – Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician (b. 1916)
• 2010 – Duff Roblin, Canadian politician (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Joan Rhodes, English wrestler, stuntwoman, and strongwoman (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Peter Orlovsky, American poet (b. 1933)
• 2011 – Ricky Bruch, Swedish athlete and actor (b. 1946)
• 2011 – Henri Chammartin, Swiss horse rider (b. 1918)
• 2011 – Paul B. Ferrara, American scientist (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Eddie Morrison, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1948)
• 2011 – Hans Nogler, Austrian skier (b. 1919)
• 2011 – Isikia Savua, Fijian diplomat (b. 1952)
• 2011 – Marek Siemek, Polish philosopher and historian (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Clarice Taylor, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Giorgio Tozzi, American opera singer (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Syed Saleem Shahzad, Pakistani journalist (b. 1970)
• 2011 – Tillmann Uhrmacher, German DJ, producer, and radio host (b. 1967)
• 2011 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Pete Cosey, American guitarist (b. 1943)
• 2012 – John Fox, American comedian (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Charles Lemmond, American politician (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Farideh Mashini, Iranian activist
• 2012 – Gerhard Pohl, German politician (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Jack Twyman, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1934)