October 30 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1522 – Jean Mouton, French composer
• 1553 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
• 1602 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
• 1611 – King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
• 1626 – Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580)
• 1632 – Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc (b. 1595)
• 1654 – Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
• 1680 – Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
• 1685 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603)
• 1757 – Edward Vernon, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1684)
• 1809 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
• 1816 – Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
• 1842 – Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784)
• 1853 – Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786)
• 1883 – Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
• 1893 – John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
• 1894 – Honoré Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
• 1899 – William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)
• 1910 – Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
• 1912 – Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean military, participated on Battle of Huamachuco (b. 1840)
• 1912 – James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
• 1915 – Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
• 1917 – Talbot Mercer Papineau, Canadian lawyer and soldier (b. 1883)
• 1923 – Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
• 1957 – Fred Beebe, baseball player (b. 1880)
• 1961 – Luigi Einaudi, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1874)
• 1963 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (b. 1908)
• 1966 – Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (b. 1906)
• 1968 – Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)
• 1968 – Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (b. 1899)
• 1968 – Conrad Richter, American writer (b. 1890)
• 1969 – Pops Foster, American musician (b. 1892)
• 1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1979 – Sir Barnes Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (b. 1887)
• 1979 – Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
• 1985 – Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1988 – T. Hee, American animator (b. 1911)
• 1993 – Paul Grégoire, Archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911)
• 1997 – Samuel Fuller, American film director (b. 1912)
• 2000 – Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
• 2002 – Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (b. 1965)
• 2002 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2004 – Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (b. 1908)
• 2005 – Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942)
• 2006 – Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Linda Stein, Ramones manager and real estate broker (b. 1945)
• 2007 – Washoe, chimpanzee trained in American Sign Language (b. 1965)
• 2007 – John Woodruff, American athlete (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Pedro Pompilio, Argentinian businessman (b. 1950)
• 2009 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (b. 1908)
• 2010 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (b. 1927)