Deaths on December 30
1525 : Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66
1572 : Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (Palazza Marino, Milan), dies at 60
1591 : Innocent IX, [Giovanni Facchinetti], Pope, (1591 62 days), dies at 72
1635 : Jan Baptista Van Helmont, physician/alchemist, dies
1777 : Maximilian III Jozef, elector of Bayern (1745-77), dies at 50
1788 : Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher, dies at 86
1796 : Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, composer, dies at 45
1821 : Angelo Maria Benincori, composer, dies at 42
1825 : Peter Gronland, composer, dies at 64
1828 : Waldemar Thrane, composer, dies at 38
1832 : Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies
1870 : ... Prim, Spanish general, murdered
1893 : Samuel White Baker, English explorer, dies at 72
1894 : Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76
1895 : LP Hartley, British writer, dies
1896 : Jos‚ Mercado Rizal, anti-Spanish rule of Philippines proponent, dies
1899 : James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget), dies at 85
1912 : Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister, dies at 60
1931 : Tyrone Power Sr, actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62
1940 : Fritz Volbach, composer, dies at 79
1943 : Hobart Bosworth, actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), dies at 76
1944 : Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78
1946 : Charles Wakefield Cadman, composer, dies at 65
1947 : Han [Henricus A] van Meegeren, Dutch painter/art forger, dies at 58
1951 : Jozef E Stokvis, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies at 76
1952 : Ivan Olbracht, writer, dies
1959 : Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator, dies at 76
1961 : Jacobus "Ko" van den Bosch, Dutch actor (Amsterdamned)/dir, dies at 53
1966 : Christian A Herter, US Min of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71
1966 : Trygve Halvdan Lie, 1st UN sect-general (1946-53), dies at 72
1967 : Bert Berns, US songwriter/producer (Twist & Shout), dies at about 38
1971 : Dorothy Comingore, actress (Citizen Kane), dies after illness at 58
1971 : Jan Mul, composer, dies at 60
1973 : Henri-Paul Busser, composer, dies at 101
1979 : Richard Rodgers, composer (Rogers & Hammerstein), dies at 77
1986 : Jiri Jaroch, composer, dies at 66
1989 : Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies
1992 : C‚sar [Caesar] Domela, painter/son of Ferdinand D Nieuwenhuis, dies
1992 : Ling-Ling, 1st panda China gave US, dies at 23
1993 : Mack David, US songwriter (Bachelor in Paradise), dies at 81
1993 : [Irving Paul] "Swifty" Lazar, superagent, dies of kidney failure at 86
1994 : Lloyd James Austin, french Scholar, dies at 79
1995 : Heiner Muller, dramatist, dies at 66
1995 : Roger W Suddards, solicitor, dies at 65
1996 : Jack Nance, actor (Meatballs 4, Whore, Voodoo), murdered at 53
1996 : Lew Ayres, screen actor (Salem's Lot, State Fair), dies at 88
1996 : Robert Grant-Ferris, politician, dies at 89