Famous Deaths In May - 30

0727  On this day in history 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  Ferdinand III the holy, King of Castile/Leon, dies on May - 30.  

1416  Death of Jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church on this day in history.  

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

1434  On this day in history 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 this day in history death of christopher Marlowe, Brit dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered  

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

1696  Death of Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638) on May - 30.  

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

1730  On May - 30 death of arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)  

1744  Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56 on May - 30.  

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  On May - 30 voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies at 42  

1791  On May - 30 ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56  

1797  On this day in history carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48  

1809  On May - 30 johan B Scheffer, portrait painter, dies at about 43  

1833  Josef Slavik, composer, dies at 27 on May - 30.  

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

1864  On May - 30 james Barbour Terrill, US attorney/Confederate brig-gen, dies at 26  

1865  On this day in history william Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27  

1870  On this day in history gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89  

1901  Death of Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841) on May - 30.  

1906  William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30 on this day in history.  

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

1918  Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies on May - 30.  

1919  Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies on May - 30.  

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  On this day in history birth of emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)  

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

1423  Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461) was born on May - 30.  

1524  On May - 30 birth of selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74)  

1578  On this day in history birth of valentin Dretzel, composer  

1623  Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver, baptized was born on this day in history.  

1623  On May - 30 birth of john Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)  

1653  Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676) was born on this day in history.