December 30 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1218 – Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1162)
• 1460 – Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (killed in battle) (b. 1411)
• 1460 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland, second son of Richard, Duke of York (murdered after battle) (b. 1443)
• 1525 – Jacob Fugger, German banker (b. 1459)
• 1572 – Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (b. 1512)
• 1573 – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer (b. 1504)
• 1591 – Pope Innocent IX (b. 1519)
• 1621 – Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint (b. 1550)
• 1640 – John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597)
• 1644 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (b. 1577)
• 1662 – Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria (b. 1628)
• 1691 – Robert Boyle, English scientist (b. 1627)
• 1769 – Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier (b. 1685)
• 1803 – Francis Lewis, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (b. 1713)
• 1879 – Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre, Brazilian Romantic poet, painter and caricaturist (b. 1806)
• 1896 – José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines, (executed) (b. 1861)
• 1908 – Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator (b. 1844)
• 1937 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852)
• 1940 – Childe Wills, early associate of Henry Ford, one of the first employees of the Ford Motor Company, and a contributor to the design of the Model T (b. 1878)
• 1941 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b. 1890)
• 1944 – Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)
• 1947 – Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
• 1947 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, portraitist and art forger (b. 1889)
• 1954 – Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1863)
• 1955 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (b. 1913)
• 1967 – Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1887)
• 1968 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General (b. 1896)
• 1970 – Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932)
• 1971 – Melba Rae, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1979 – Richard Rodgers, American composer (b. 1902)
• 1981 – Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (b. 1959)
• 1984 – Massa, oldest gorilla on record (b. 1930)
• 1986 – Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
• 1988 – Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (b. 1925)
• 1989 – Lenore Lemmon, wife of George Reeves (b. 1923)
• 1992 – Ling-Ling, panda given to the USA by China (b. 1969)
• 1993 – Mack David, American lyricist and songwriter (b. 1912)
• 1993 – Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American Hollywood talent agent (b. 1907)
• 1993 – Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (b. 1907)
• 1994 – Dmitri Ivanenko, Russian physicist (b. 1904)
• 1994 – Maureen Starkey, wife of Ringo Starr (b. 1946)
• 1995 – Ralph Flanagan – American band leader (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Doris Grau, American actress (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Jack Nance, American actor (b. 1943)
• 1997 – Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist (b. 1926)
• 1998 – Johnny Moore, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1934)
• 1998 – Sam Muchnick, American professional wrestling promoter (b. 1905)
• 1998 – George Webb, English actor (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (b. 1909)
• 1999 – Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world's oldest living person (b. 1880)
• 2000 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 2002 – Mary Brian, American actress (b. 1906)
• 2002 – Mary Wesley, English novelist (b. 1912)
• 2003 – David Bale, South African–born activist (b. 1941)
• 2003 – John Gregory Dunne, American writer (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (b. 1963)
• 2004 – Artie Shaw, American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910)
• 2005 – Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Rona Jaffe, American author (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Terry Peck, Falkland Islander who acted as a scout for 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment in the Falklands War (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
• 2006 – Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi Dictator, (executed for war crimes) (b. 1937)
• 2009 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarist (The Birthday Party) (b. 1959)
• 2009 – Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Bobby Farrell, Aruban singer (Boney M) (b. 1949)