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 this day in history.  

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

1431  On May - 30 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 this day in history.  

1574  On May - 30 charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies  

1576  Death of Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai on May - 30.  

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1593  Death of Christopher Marlowe, Brit dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered on May - 30.  

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

1696  Death of Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638) on this day in history.  

1718  On May - 30 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 May - 30.  

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 May - 30.  

1778  Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies at 42 on May - 30.  

1791  On this day in history ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56  

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

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

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

1840  On this day in history 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 May - 30.  

1865  On May - 30 william Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27  

1870  On May - 30 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  Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies on May - 30.  

1918  On May - 30 georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies  

1919  On May - 30 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 this day in history.  

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1010  On May - 30 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  On May - 30 birth of georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)  

1524  On this day in history birth of selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74)  

1578  Valentin Dretzel, composer was born on May - 30.  

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 May - 30.