May 30 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1159 – Władysław II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
  • 1252 – Ferdinand III of Castile (b. 1199)
  • 1416 – Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (b. 1379)
  • 1431 – Joan of Arc, French military figure and saint (b. 1412)
  • 1434 – Prokop the Great, Hussite general
  • 1469 – Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop (b. 1382)
  • 1574 – Charles IX of France (b. 1550)
  • 1576 – Harada Naomasa, Japanese samurai retainer
  • 1593 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)
  • 1640 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
  • 1696 – Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Tewkesbury, English politician (b. 1638)
  • 1712 – Andrea Lanzani, Italian painter (b. 1645)
  • 1718 – Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, (b. 1670)
  • 1730 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
  • 1744 – Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688)
  • 1770 – François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
  • 1778 – Voltaire, French writer, philosopher, and author (b. 1694)
  • 1829 – Philibert Jean-Baptiste Curial, French general (b. 1774)
  • 1832 – James Mackintosh, Scottish jurist, politician, and historian (b. 1765)
  • 1865 – John Catron, American jurist (b. 1786)
  • 1868 – Okita Sōji, Japanese Shinsengumi captain (b. 1823)
  • 1901 – Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)
  • 1911 – Milton Bradley, American businessman, founder of the Milton Bradley Company (b. 1836)
  • 1912 – Wilbur Wright, American airplane inventor, manufacturer, and pilot (b. 1867)
  • 1918 – Georgi Plekhanov, Russian theoretician (b. 1856)
  • 1925 – Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)
  • 1926 – Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
  • 1934 – Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
  • 1939 – Floyd Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1904)
  • 1941 – Prajadhipok, King of Thailand (b. 1893)
  • 1946 – Louis Slotin, Canadian scientist (b. 1910)
  • 1947 – Georg Ludwig von Trapp, Austro-Hungarian navy officer (b. 1880)
  • 1948 – József Klekl, Slovene politician (b. 1874)
  • 1949 – Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French Cardinal (b. 1874)
  • 1951 – Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)
  • 1953 – Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (b. 1886)
  • 1955 – Bill Vukovich, American race car driver (b. 1918)
  • 1960 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
  • 1961 – Rafael Trujillo, Dominican politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
  • 1964 – Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian king (b. 1882)
  • 1964 – Leó Szilárd, Hungarian physicist (b. 1898)
  • 1964 – Eddie Sachs, American race car driver (b. 1927)
  • 1964 – Dave MacDonald, American race car driver (b. 1936)
  • 1965 – Louis Hjelmslev, Danish linguist (b. 1899)
  • 1967 – Claude Rains, English actor (b. 1889)
  • 1967 – Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian director (b.1885)
  • 1971 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
  • 1975 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951)
  • 1975 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (b. 1908)
  • 1975 – Michel Simon, French actor (b. 1895)
  • 1976 – Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890)
  • 1976 – Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain (b. 1902)
  • 1978 – Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violinist, conductor, and composer (b. 1909)
  • 1980 – Carl Radle, American musician and producer (Delaney & Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos) (b. 1942)
  • 1981 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
  • 1981 – Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi statesman (b. 1936)
  • 1986 – Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940)
  • 1993 – Sun Ra, American musician, bandleader, and composer (b. 1914)
  • 1994 – Ezra Taft Benson, American religious figure (b. 1899)
  • 1994 – Marcel Bich, French businessman and industrialist, co-founder of BIC Corp. (b. 1914)
  • 1994 – Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
  • 1995 – Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912)
  • 1995 – Lofty England, English automotive engineer (b. 1911)
  • 1995 – Bobby Stokes, English footballer (b. 1951)
  • 1996 – Léon-Etienne Duval, French cardinal (b. 1903)
  • 2000 – Tex Beneke, American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1914)
  • 2000 – Doris Hare, Welsh actress (b. 1905)
  • 2001 – Denis Whitaker, Canadian soldier and author (b. 1915)
  • 2003 – Mickie Most, English singer and producer, founded Rak Records (b. 1938)
  • 2005 – Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1927)
  • 2005 – Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958)
  • 2005 – Alma Ziegler, American baseball player (b. 1918)
  • 2006 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese director (b. 1926)
  • 2006 – Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
  • 2006 – David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
  • 2007 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and author (b. 1933)
  • 2007 – Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet (b.1927)
  • 2008 – Lorenzo Odone, American adrenoleukodystrophy patient (b. 1978)
  • 2008 – Noel Moore, English civil servant (b. 1928)
  • 2008 – Auguste Legros, French politician (b.1922)
  • 2009 – Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (b. 1926)
  • 2009 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician (b. 1916)
  • 2010 – Duff Roblin, Canadian politician (b. 1917)
  • 2010 – Joan Rhodes, English wrestler, stuntwoman, and strongwoman (b. 1921)
  • 2010 – Peter Orlovsky, American poet (b. 1933)
  • 2011 – Ricky Bruch, Swedish athlete and actor (b. 1946)
  • 2011 – Henri Chammartin, Swiss horse rider (b. 1918)
  • 2011 – Paul B. Ferrara, American scientist (b. 1942)
  • 2011 – Eddie Morrison, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1948)
  • 2011 – Hans Nogler, Austrian skier (b. 1919)
  • 2011 – Isikia Savua, Fijian diplomat (b. 1952)
  • 2011 – Marek Siemek, Polish philosopher and historian (b. 1942)
  • 2011 – Clarice Taylor, American actress (b. 1917)
  • 2011 – Giorgio Tozzi, American opera singer (b. 1923)
  • 2011 – Syed Saleem Shahzad, Pakistani journalist (b. 1970)
  • 2011 – Tillmann Uhrmacher, German DJ, producer, and radio host (b. 1967)
  • 2011 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
  • 2012 – Pete Cosey, American guitarist (b. 1943)
  • 2012 – John Fox, American comedian (b. 1957)
  • 2012 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
  • 2012 – Charles Lemmond, American politician (b. 1929)
  • 2012 – Farideh Mashini, Iranian activist
  • 2012 – Gerhard Pohl, German politician (b. 1937)
  • 2012 – Jack Twyman, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1934)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)