Deaths on November 30

1016 : Edmund II, Ironsides, King of Saxons (1016), dies at 27
1519 : Michael Wolgemut, German painter (Weltchronik), dies at about 85
1528 : Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded
1631 : Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels, dies
1646 : John C Lichthart, admiral (Cape Augustine), dies at about 45
1678 : Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71), dies at 67
1679 : Pieter van Schooten, Dutch mathematician/fort architect, dies at 45
1694 : Marcello Malpighi, father of microscopic anatomy, dies
1700 : Artus II Quellinus [Quellien/"the Young], Flemish sculptor, dies at 75
1703 : Nicolas de Grigny, composer, dies at 31
1718 : Charles XII, king of Sweden (1697-1718), killed in battle at 36
1760 : Friederike C Neuber, German actress/author (Sch„ferfest), dies at 63
1764 : Dieudonne Raick, composer, dies at 61
1777 : Jean-Marie Leclair, composer, dies at 74
1792 : Ernst William Wolf, composer, dies at 57
1798 : Friedrich Fleischmann, composer, dies at 32
1813 : Friedrich August Baumbach, composer, dies at 60
1824 : Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, composer, dies at 87
1830 : Pius VIII, [Francesco S Castiglioni], Ital Pope (1829-30), dies at 69
1841 : Charles Louis W J van Keverberg, Dutch govt official, dies at 73
1864 : Hiram Bronson Granbury, Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 33
1864 : John Adams, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at about 39
1864 : Otto French Strahl, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 33
1864 : Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 33
1893 : Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian, dies at 68
1897 : Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP (Lib), dies at 64
1900 : Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46
1901 : Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica), dies at 86
1904 : Aldine Sillman Kieffer, composer, dies at 64
1909 : Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/translator, dies at 53 [NS=Dec 13]
1931 : John Hyatt Brewer, composer, dies at 75
1931 : Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer, dies at 46
1935 : Fernando A N Pessoa, Portuguese poet (Book of Disquiet), dies at 47
1938 : Corneliu Codreanu, Romania fascist/putschist (Iron Guard), dies
1939 : B‚la Kun, [Bal zs Kolozsv ry], Hungarian revolutionary, dies at 53
1940 : Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer, dies at 78
1944 : Max Halbe, writer, dies at 79
1947 : Earnest Lubitsch, actor/director (Anna Boleyn, Ninotchka), dies
1948 : Franco Vittadini, composer, dies at 64
1954 : Wilhelm Frtw„ngler, German conductor/composer, dies at 68
1955 : Josip Slavenski, composer, dies at 59
1961 : Stanislaw Kazuro, composer, dies at 80
1964 : Don Redman, orch leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64
1967 : Patrick Kavanagh, Irish screenwriterr (Great Hunger), dies
1972 : Hans-Erich Apostel, Austrian composer (Kubiniana, Requiem), dies at 71
1972 : Neil H McElroy, soap manufacturer/minister of Defense (1957-59), dies
1972 : Valentin Ruiz Azner, composer, dies at 70
1973 : Bruce Yarnell, LA Calif, actor (Outlaws), dies at 35
1976 : Fritz Rasp, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl), dies at 85
1979 : Joyce Grenfell (Adventure for Two), actress, dies at 69
1979 : Zeppo Marx, [Herbert], US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 78
1981 : Robert H Harris, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 72
1983 : George Headley, cricket (10 tons in 22 Tests, 1st black WI capt), dies
1986 : Cary Grant, Brit/US actor (Awful Truth, Charade, Father Goose), dies
1987 : Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR, dies at 89
1987 : James Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies at 63
1987 : Simon Carmiggelt, journalist/literary (Kronkel), dies at 74
1989 : Alfred Herrhausen, German CEO (Deutsche Bank), murdered at 59
1990 : Hilde Spiel, writer, dies at 78
1990 : Horst Bienek, German author, dies
1990 : Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75
1991 : P G Z (Zin) Harris, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ 1962-65), dies
1992 : Jorge Donn, dancer, dies after long illness at 45
1993 : Bob Wolf, agent (New Kids on the Block, Larry Bird), dies
1994 : Connie Conrad Henry Kirnon Kay, jazz Drummer, dies at 67
1994 : Guy Debord, situationist, dies at 63
1994 : Irwin Kostal, US arranger/conductor (Sound of Music), dies at 83
1994 : Lionel Stander, US blacklisted actor (Hart to Hart), dies at 86
1995 : Hopper Levett, Kent cricket wicketkeeper (1930-47, Test 1934), dies
1995 : June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist, dies at 66
1995 : William Roerick, actor (Guiding Light), dies in car crash at 83
1996 : Dan Flavin, minimalist sculptor, dies at 63
1996 : Koji Kobayashi, industrialist, dies at 89
1996 : Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist, dies at 80
1996 : Tiny Tim, [Herbert Khaury], entertainer (Tip Toe), dies at 71
1997 : Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian, dies at 37
1997 : Kathy Acker, writer, dead Cancer Died, dies at 54
1997 : Ron Gulliford, educationalist, dies at 76




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