August 30 - Deaths

Deaths

• 526 – Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy (b. 454)
• 1158 – King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
• 1329 – Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong of Yuan, emperor of the Yuan Dynasty and the Mongol Empire (b. 1300)
• 1428 – Emperor Shōkō of Japan (b. 1401)
• 1483 – King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
• 1580 – Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
• 1619 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
• 1723 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632)
• 1751 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
• 1856 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811)
• 1879 – John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (b. 1831)
• 1886 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 – Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
• 1906 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)
• 1907 – Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
• 1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1864)
• 1935 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
• 1938 – Max Factor, Sr., Polish-born American make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
• 1940 – J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1856)
• 1941 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
• 1943 – Father Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch Catholic priest (b. 1890)
• 1946 – Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed) (b. 1907)
• 1949 – Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1961 – Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
• 1963 – Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
• 1968 – William Talman, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1970 – Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916)
• 1981 – Vera-Ellen, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1981 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian statesman (b. 1933)
• 1985 – Taylor Caldwell, English-born American novelist (b. 1900)
• 1989 – Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist and literary critic (b. 1922)
• 1991 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
• 1993 – Richard Jordan, American actor (b. 1938)
• 1994 – Lindsay Anderson, English film director (b. 1923)
• 1995 – Fischer Black, American economist (b. 1938)
• 1995 – Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)
• 1996 – Christine Pascal, French actress and director (b. 1953)
• 1999 – Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910)
• 2000 – David Haskell, American actor (b. 1948)
• 2001 – Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1907)
• 2002 – J. Lee Thompson, English film director (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2003 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
• 2004 – Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)
• 2006 – Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author and expert (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Killer Kowalski, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Klaus-Peter Hanisch, German footballer (b. 1952)
• 2010 – Alain Corneau, French filmmaker (b. 1943)