August 30 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 526 – Theodoric the Great, Italian ruler (b. 454)
  • 1329 – Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong of Yuan (b. 1300)
  • 1428 – Emperor Shōkō of Japan (b. 1401)
  • 1483 – Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
  • 1580 – Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
  • 1619 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
  • 1751 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
  • 1856 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and writer (b. 1811)
  • 1879 – John Bell Hood, American general (b. 1831)
  • 1886 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1836)
  • 1896 – Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
  • 1906 – Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847)
  • 1907 – Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
  • 1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
  • 1935 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
  • 1938 – Max Factor, Sr., Polish-American make-up artist and businessman, founded the Max Factor Company (b. 1877)
  • 1938 – Oscar De Somville, Belgian rower (b. 1876)
  • 1940 – J. J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
  • 1941 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
  • 1943 – Eddy de Neve, Dutch footballer (b. 1885)
  • 1943 – Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch missionary and priest (b. 1890)
  • 1945 – Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer (b. 1893)
  • 1946 – Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian lawyer, leader of the Russian Fascist Party (b. 1907)
  • 1947 – Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director (b. 1890)
  • 1949 – Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
  • 1951 – Konstantin Märska, Estonian cinematographer and film director (b. 1896)
  • 1961 – Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
  • 1963 – Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy (b. 1911)
  • 1968 – William Talman, American actor (b. 1915)
  • 1970 – Del Moore, American comedian and actor (b. 1916)
  • 1979 – Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
  • 1981 – Vera-Ellen, American actress (b. 1921)
  • 1981 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian politician, 2nd President of Iran (b. 1933)
  • 1985 – Taylor Caldwell, English-American novelist (b. 1900)
  • 1989 – Seymour Krim, American journalist and critic (b. 1922)
  • 1990 – Bernard D. H. Tellegen, Dutch engineer, inventor of the pentode and the gyrator (b. 1900)
  • 1991 – Vladimír Padrůněk, Czech bass player (Energit and Etc...) (b. 1952)
  • 1991 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
  • 1993 – Richard Jordan, American actor (b. 1938)
  • 1994 – Lindsay Anderson, English director (b. 1923)
  • 1995 – Fischer Black, American economist (b. 1938)
  • 1995 – Sterling Morrison, American guitarist and singer (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)
  • 1996 – Christine Pascal, French actress and director (b. 1953)
  • 1999 – Jan Brasser, Dutch athlete (b. 1912)
  • 1999 – Raymond Poïvet, French illustrator (b. 1910)
  • 2000 – David Haskell, American actor (b. 1948)
  • 2001 – Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer and inventor (b. 1907)
  • 2002 – J. Lee Thompson, English director (b. 1914)
  • 2003 – Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
  • 2003 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
  • 2004 – Bart Huges, Dutch librarian and writer (b. 1934)
  • 2004 – Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)
  • 2004 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
  • 2005 – Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch super-centenarian (b. 1890)
  • 2006 – Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand judge (b. 1926)
  • 2006 – Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor (b. 1916)
  • 2006 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
  • 2007 – Michael Jackson, English author and journalist (b. 1942)
  • 2007 – Roef Ragas, Dutch actor (b. 1965)
  • 2007 – Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)
  • 2008 – Killer Kowalski, Canadian wrestler (b. 1926)
  • 2009 – Klaus-Peter Hanisch, German footballer (b. 1952)
  • 2010 – Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
  • 2010 – Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (b. 1910)
  • 2010 – J. C. Bailey, American wrestler (b. 1983)
  • 2011 – Cactus Pryor, American broadcaster (b. 1923)
  • 2012 – Bernardo Bonezzi, Spanish composer (b. 1964)
  • 2012 – Daire Brehan, Irish journalist and actress (b. 1957)
  • 2012 – Igor Kvasha, Russian actor (b. 1933)
  • 2012 – Carlos Larrañaga, Spanish actor (b. 1937)
  • 2012 – Chris Lighty, American talent manager, co-founded Violator Entertainment (b. 1968)
  • 2012 – Jacek Sempoliński, Polish painter (b. 1927)
  • 2012 – Vidar Theisen, Norwegian meteorologist (b. 1933)
  • 2012 – Harold Landon, Cathedral School of St. John the Divine's headmaster (b. 1912)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “I sang of death but had I known
    The many deaths one must have died
    Before he came to meet his own!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “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)