October 30 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1459 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian scholar (b. 1380)
  • 1522 – Jean Mouton, French composer (b. 1459)
  • 1553 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German politician (b. 1489)
  • 1602 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
  • 1611 – Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
  • 1626 – Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580)
  • 1632 – Henri II de Montmorency, French navy officer and politician (b. 1595)
  • 1654 – Emperor Go-Kōmyō of Japan (b. 1633)
  • 1680 – Antoinette Bourignon, French-Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
  • 1685 – Michel Le Tellier, French politician (b. 1603)
  • 1757 – Edward Vernon, English navy officer (b. 1684)
  • 1809 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English politician, 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 – Dayananda Saraswati, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1824)
  • 1883 – Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
  • 1893 – John Abbott, Canadian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
  • 1894 – Honoré Mercier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
  • 1896 – Carol Benesch, Czech architect, designed Peleș Castle (b. 1822)
  • 1899 – William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (b. 1816)
  • 1910 – Henry Dunant, Swiss activist, founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
  • 1912 – Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean military officer (b. 1840)
  • 1912 – James S. Sherman, American politician, 27th Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
  • 1915 – Charles Tupper, Canadian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
  • 1917 – Talbot Mercer Papineau, Canadian lawyer and soldier (b. 1883)
  • 1919 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (b. 1850)
  • 1923 – Andrew Bonar Law, Canadian-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
  • 1933 – Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (b. 1869)
  • 1942 – Walter Buckmaster, English polo player (b. 1872)
  • 1957 – Fred Beebe, American baseball player (b. 1880)
  • 1961 – Luigi Einaudi, Italian politician and economist, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1874)
  • 1963 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (b. 1908)
  • 1966 – Yórgos Theotokás, Greek author (b. 1906)
  • 1968 – Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)
  • 1968 – Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (b. 1899)
  • 1968 – Conrad Richter, American author (b. 1890)
  • 1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
  • 1979 – Rachele Mussolini, Italian wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
  • 1979 – Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb (b. 1887)
  • 1985 – Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911)
  • 1987 – Joseph Campbell, American author and scholar (b. 1904)
  • 1988 – T. Hee, American animator and director (b. 1911)
  • 1993 – Paul Grégoire, Canadian archbishop (b. 1911)
  • 1997 – Samuel Fuller, American director (b. 1912)
  • 2000 – Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
  • 2002 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
  • 2002 – Aliki Diplarakou, Greek model and actress (b. 1912)
  • 2002 – Jam Master Jay, American rapper and producer (Run–D.M.C.) (b. 1965)
  • 2004 – Phyllis Frost, Australian philanthropist (b. 1917)
  • 2004 – Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924)
  • 2005 – Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (b. 1908)
  • 2005 – Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian politician (b. 1942)
  • 2006 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
  • 2006 – Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
  • 2007 – Washoe, American chimpanzee (b. 1965)
  • 2007 – Robert Goulet, American actor and singer (b. 1933)
  • 2007 – Linda S. Stein, American businesswoman and manager (b. 1945)
  • 2007 – John Woodruff, American runner (b. 1915)
  • 2008 – Pedro Pompilio, Argentinian businessman (b. 1950)
  • 2009 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and ethnologist (b. 1908)
  • 2010 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch author (b. 1927)
  • 2012 – Franck Biancheri, French politician (b. 1961)
  • 2012 – Samina Raja, Pakistani poet (b. 1961)
  • 2012 – Dan Tieman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940)
  • 2012 – Trevor West, Irish academic and politician (b. 1938)
  • 2012 – Lebbeus Woods, American architect (b. 1940)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)

    “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)

    “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)