April 30 - Deaths

Deaths

• 65 – Lucan, Roman poet (b. 39)
• 1063 – Emperor Renzong of China (b. 1010)
• 1131 – Adjutor, Roman Catholic Saint
• 1341 – John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1285)
• 1439 – Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, British military leader (b. 1382)
• 1513 – Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, Yorkist pretender to the English throne (b. 1471 or 1472)
• 1524 – Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473)
• 1544 – Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England
• 1555 – Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501)
• 1632 – King Sigismund I of Sweden (b. 1561)
• 1632 – Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly, Bavarian general (b. 1559)
• 1642 – Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (b. 1578)
• 1660 – Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (b. 1576)
• 1655 – Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (b. 1617)
• 1696 – Robert Plot, British naturalist (b. 1640)
• 1712 – Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Protestant theologian (b. 1633)
• 1736 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German classical scholar and bibliographer (b. 1668)
• 1758 – François d'Agincourt, French composer (b. 1684)
• 1792 – John Montagu, supposed inventor of the sandwich (b. 1718)
• 1795 – Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (b. 1716)
• 1806 – Onogawa Kisaburō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 5^th Yokozuna (b. 1758)
• 1841 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (b. 1758)
• 1847 – Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (b. 1771)
• 1863 – Jean Danjou, French foreign legion captain (b. 1828)
• 1865 – Robert Fitzroy, British admiral and meteorologist (b. 1805)
• 1875 – Jean Frederic Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)
• 1879 – Emma Hale Smith Bidamon, wife of Joseph Smith, and mother of Joseph Smith III (b.1804)
• 1883 – Édouard Manet, French painter (b. 1832)
• 1900 – Casey Jones, American train engineer (b. 1863)
• 1903 – Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (b. 1831)
• 1936 – Alfred Edward Housman, Briti poet (b. 1859)
• 1943 – Otto Jespersen, Danish philologist (b. 1860)
• 1943 – Beatrice Webb, British economist (b. 1858)
• 1945 – Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's wife (b. 1912)
• 1945 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German dictator of Nazi Germany (b. 1889)
• 1956 – Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (b. 1877)
• 1966 – Richard Farina, American folk singer and author (b. 1937)
• 1970 – Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (b. 1934)
• 1972 – Gia Scala, British-American actress (b. 1934)
• 1973 – Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator (b. 1911)
• 1974 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1980 – Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1898)
• 1982 – Lester Bangs, American music journalist, author, and musician (b. 1949)
• 1983 – George Balanchine, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
• 1983 – Muddy Waters, American musician (b. 1915)
• 1989 – Yi, Bang-ja, Crown Princess of Korea (b. 1901)
• 1989 – Sergio Leone, Italian filmmaker (b. 1929)
• 1993 – Tommy Caton, British footballer (b. 1962)
• 1993 – George Balanchine, Georgian Russian choreographer (b. 1983)
• 1994 – Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (b. 1960)
• 1995 – Maung Maung Kha, Prime minister of Burma (b. 1920)
• 1996 – David Opatoshu, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1998 – Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet (b. 1926)
• 2000 – Poul Hartling, Danish diplomat and politician (b. 1914)
• 2002 – Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Nitsa Tsaganea, Greek actress (b. 1899)
• 2003 – Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1956)
• 2003 – Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Mark Berger, University of Kentucky professor (b. 1955)
• 2005 – Ron Todd, TGWU General Secretary (1985 – 1992) (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Lawrence Patrick, Biomechanics Professor, crash test subject (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian novelist (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (b. 1983)
• 2007 – Kevin Mitchell, American football player (b. 1971)
• 2007 – Tom Poston, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Zola Taylor, American singer (b. 1938)
• 2008 – John Cargher, Australian radio broadcaster (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Venetia Burney, Person who suggested Pluto's name for the planet (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Henk Nijdam, Dutch professional road bicycle rider (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Gerry Ryan, Irish radio broadcaster (b. 1956)