January 30 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1030 – William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
• 1181 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
• 1384 – Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
• 1574 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
• 1606 – Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
• 1649 – King Charles I of England (b. 1600)
• 1730 – Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
• 1836 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
• 1849 – Jonathan Alder, American settler (b. 1773)
• 1858 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)
• 1867 – Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
• 1869 – William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
• 1889 – Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (b. 1858)
• 1926 – Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
• 1928 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
• 1929 – La Goulue, French dancer (b. 1866)
• 1934 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
• 1937 – Alfred Grütter, Swiss sports shooter (b. 1860)
• 1948 – Arthur Coningham, New Zealand air commander (b. 1895)
• 1948 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Father of Nation, India (b. 1869)
• 1948 – Orville Wright, American aviator (b. 1871)
• 1951 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (b. 1875)
• 1958 – Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
• 1958 – Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (b. 1888)
• 1962 – Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
• 1963 – Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
• 1969 – Dominique Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
• 1980 – Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
• 1982 – Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
• 1984 – Luke Kelly, Irish singer (The Dubliners) (b. 1940)
• 1984 – Lee McCall, South African bank robber (b. 1950)
• 1987 – Harold Loeffelmacher, Polka musician (Six Fat Dutchmen) (b. 1905)
• 1989 – Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, Spanish pretender to the French throne (b. 1936)
• 1991 – John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)
• 1991 – John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1994 – Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist and television presenter (b. 1925)
• 1998 – Richard Cassilly, American tenor (b. 1927)
• 1999 – Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1999 – Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
• 2001 – Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Martyn Bennett, Canadian musician (b. 1971)
• 2005 – Wes Wehmiller, American musician (Missing Persons) (b. 1971)
• 2006 – Coretta Scott King, American activist; widow of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Jeremy Beadle, British television host (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Marcial Maciel, Mexican religious figure (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (b. 1969)
• 2009 – John Gordy, American football player (b. 1935)
• 2009 – H. Guy Hunt, American politician (b. 1933)
• 2009 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (b. 1932)
• 2009 – Neiliezhü Üsou, Indian Baptist preacher (b. 1941)
• 2010 – Bernard Arcand, French-Canadian anthropologist (b. 1945)
• 2010 – Aaron Ruben, American television director (b. 1914)
• 2011 – John Barry, English film score composer (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Doeschka Meijsing, Dutch novelist (b. 1947)