July 30 - Deaths

Deaths

• 578 – Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa (birth date unknown)
• 579 – Pope Benedict I (birth date unknown)
• 1540 – Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred) (b. c. 1497)
• 1540 – Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
• 1550 – Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
• 1652 – Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
• 1680 – Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
• 1683 – Maria Theresa of Spain, Spanish-born Queen consort of France, wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
• 1691 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
• 1718 – William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
• 1771 – Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)
• 1789 – Giovanna Bonanno, Italian poisoner and alleged witch (b. c. 1713)
• 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
• 1875 – George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
• 1889 – Charlie Absolom, England cricketer (b. 1846)
• 1898 – Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1815)
• 1900 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
• 1912 – Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852)
• 1918 – Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
• 1920 – Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner, the last to carry out capital punishment in Sweden (b. 1848)
• 1930 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-born Spanish football pioneer, businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
• 1947 – Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
• 1965 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese novelist (b. 1886)
• 1970 – George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)
• 1982 – Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (b. 1954)
• 1983 – Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
• 1983 – Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b. 1887)
• 1985 – Julia Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
• 1989 – Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)
• 1992 – Joe Shuster, Canadian comic book artist (b. 1914)
• 1992 – Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)
• 1994 – Ryszard Riedel, Polish singer (b.1956)
• 1996 – Claudette Colbert, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1997 – Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)
• 1998 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (Howdy Doody) (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Jorge Russek, Mexican actor (b. 1932)
• 2001 – Anton Schwarzkopf, German amusement ride engineer (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)
• 2005 – Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
• 2005 – John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)
• 2005 – Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
• 2006 – Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
• 2006 – Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
• 2007 – Teoctist, Romanian-born Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Anne Armstrong U.S. ambassador to Britain (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Peter Zadek, German theatre director (b. 1926)