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Deaths on May 30

1035 : Boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies
1252 : Ferdinand III the holy, King of Castili‰/Le¢n, dies
1416 : Jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church
1431 : Joan of Arc, burned as a witch by English at Rouen at 19
1434 : Prokopius, [Bohemia?], leader of taboriets, dies in battle
1574 : Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies
1593 : Christopher Marlowe, Brit dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered
1640 : Andr‚ Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies
1640 : Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, dies at 62
1718 : Arnold J van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48
1718 : Bernard Nieuwentyt, physician/theologist, dies at 63
1744 : Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56
1746 : Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69
1778 : Voltaire, [Fran‡ois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies at 42
1791 : Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56
1797 : Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48
1809 : Johan B Scheffer, portrait painter, dies at about 43
1833 : Josef Slavik, composer, dies at 27
1840 : Dominique J de Eerens, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 59
1864 : James Barbour Terrill, US attorney/Confederate brig-gen, dies at 26
1865 : William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27
1870 : Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89
1906 : William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30
1912 : Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies
1918 : Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies
1919 : Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies
1922 : David Mendes Chumaceiro, Cura‡aos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45
1923 : Camille Chevillard, composer, dies at 63
1923 : Charles Fichardt, cricketer (S Afr batsman in 2 Tests 1892-96), dies
1935 : Lothar Windsperger, composer, dies at 49
1938 : Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49
1940 : Y de Smit-Rog, eldest Dutchman, dies at 104
1944 : Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at 79
1945 : Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed
1947 : Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72
1951 : Hermann Broch, writer, dies at 64
1953 : George Barnes, cinematographer, dies at 60
1954 : Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67
1957 : Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies
1959 : Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 85
1960 : Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70
1961 : Rafael L Trujillo Molina, dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered at 69
1964 : Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66
1966 : W„in” V Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor, dies at 72
1967 : Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77
1969 : Gaston Brenta, composer, dies at 66
1969 : John Cipollini, guitarist, dies of ephysema at 45
1971 : Audie Murphy, WW II hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash at 46
1971 : Marcel Dupr‚, French composer, dies at 85
1971 : Rodd Redwing, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies at 66
1972 : Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer, dies at 104
1973 : Hal Hastings, orch leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66
1975 : Michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80
1977 : Claire Goll, writer, dies at 86
1977 : Paul Desmond, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 52
1979 : Jack Raine, actor (Quartet), dies at 82
1980 : Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment
1980 : Timmy Caldwell, rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies
1981 : Ziaur Rahmen, pres of Bangladesh, is assassinated
1983 : Alfred M Gruenther, US general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84
1986 : Hank Mobley, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 55
1987 : Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks), dies at 94
1987 : Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist, dies at 71
1988 : Ella Raines, actress (Uncle Harry, Runaround, Impact), dies at 66
1989 : Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83
1991 : Manolo Gomez Bur, Spanish comedian dies at 74
1992 : Daniel Addes, actor (Victor-Sunst Grill), dies at 59
1992 : Karl Carstens, president German FR (1979-84), dies at 77
1992 : Leen 't Hart, organist/composer, dies at 72
1993 : Herman S Blount, Sun Ra, US jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies at 79
1993 : Sun Ra, blues pianist/orchestra leader, dies of strokes at 79
1994 : Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79
1994 : Ezra Taft Benson, 13th head of Mormon Church, dies at 94
1994 : Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar, dies at 58
1994 : Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (La vida breve), dies at 85
1994 : Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79
1995 : Bobby Stokes, soccer star, dies at 44
1995 : Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72
1995 : Ted Drake, soccer star, dies at 82
1995 : Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, Brit national park warden, dies at 87
1996 : Bob Stroup, trombonist, dies at 57
1996 : John Cameron, judge, dies at 96
1996 : John Kahn, bassist, dies at 47
1996 : Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/cardinal, dies at 92

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