General Events and Observations of July 30

578: Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa
579: Pope Benedict I
1540: Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
1540: Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
1550: Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
1652: Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
1680: Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
1683: Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1691: Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
1718: William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
1771: Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)
1811: Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
1875: George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
1898: Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1815)
1900: Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
1912: Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852)
1918: Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
1930: Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
1947: Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
1965: Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese author (b. 1886)
1970: George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)
1971: Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
1982: Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (b. 1954)
1983: Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1983: Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b. 1887)
1985: Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
1989: Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)
1992: Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)
1992: Joe Shuster, Canadian comic book artist (b. 1914)
1996: Claudette Colbert, American actress (b. 1903)
1997: B?o Ð?i, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)
1998: Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (Howdy Doody) (b. 1917)
2004: Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)
2005: Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
2005: John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)
2005: Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
2006: Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
2006: Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
2006: Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
2007: Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)
2007: Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)
2007: Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
2007: Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)

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