Famous Deaths In May - 30

0727  Hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72 on May - 30.   

1035  Boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies on this day in history.   

1159  Death of Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105) on this day in history.   

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 May - 30.   

1431  Death of Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (b. 1412) on this day in history.   

1434  Death of Prokop the Great, Hussite general on May - 30.   

1469  Death of Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop on this day in history.   

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.   

1593  Death of Christopher Marlowe, Brit dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered on this day in history.   

1640  Andre Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies on May - 30.   

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

1718  On this day in history arnold J van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48   

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  On this day in history giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69   

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

1797  Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48 on this day in history.   

1809  On this day in history johan B Scheffer, portrait painter, dies at about 43   

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

1840  Dominique J de Eerens, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 59 on May - 30.   

1864  On this day in history 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  Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89 on this day in history.   

1901  On this day in history death of victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)   

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

1912  Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies on this day in history.   

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

1919  On this day in history lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies   

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

1923  Camille Chevillard, composer, dies at 63 on May - 30.   

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1010  Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063) was born on this day in history.   

1220  On May - 30 birth of alexander Nevski, [Aleksandr], Russian great ruler (1252-63)   

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 May - 30.   

1623  John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686) was born on May - 30.   

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