Famous Deaths In May - 30

0727  On May - 30 hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72  

1035  Boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies on May - 30.  

1159  Death of Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105) on May - 30.  

1252  On May - 30 ferdinand III the holy, King of Castile/Leon, dies  

1416  On this day in history death of jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church  

1431  On this day in history death of joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (b. 1412)  

1434  On May - 30 death of prokop the Great, Hussite general  

1469  Death of Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop on May - 30.  

1574  Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies on May - 30.  

1576  Death of Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai on this day in history.  

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1593  On May - 30 death of christopher Marlowe, Brit dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered  

1640  On this day in history andre Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies  

1696  On May - 30 death of henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)  

1718  Arnold J van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48 on this day in history.  

1730  Death of Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648) on this day in history.  

1744  Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56 on this day in history.  

1746  Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69 on May - 30.  

1770  Death of François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703) on this day in history.  

1778  Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies at 42 on this day in history.  

1791  Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56 on May - 30.  

1797  Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48 on May - 30.  

1809  Johan B Scheffer, portrait painter, dies at about 43 on this day in history.  

1833  On this day in history josef Slavik, composer, dies at 27  

1840  On May - 30 dominique J de Eerens, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 59  

1864  James Barbour Terrill, US attorney/Confederate brig-gen, dies at 26 on this day in history.  

1865  William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27 on May - 30.  

1870  Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89 on May - 30.  

1901  On May - 30 death of victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)  

1906  William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30 on May - 30.  

1912  On this day in history wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies  

1918  Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies on this day in history.  

1919  Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies on this day in history.  

1922  On this day in history david Mendes Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45  

1923  On May - 30 camille Chevillard, composer, dies at 63  

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1010  Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063) was born on May - 30.  

1220  Alexander Nevski, [Aleksandr], Russian great ruler (1252-63) was born on this day in history.  

1423  On this day in history birth of georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)  

1524  Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74) was born on May - 30.  

1578  Valentin Dretzel, composer was born on this day in history.  

1623  On May - 30 birth of wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver, baptized  

1623  On this day in history birth of john Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)  

1653  On May - 30 birth of claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676)