Famous birthdays, deaths and events of May 30
Birthdays 1653 - Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676) 1718 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire 1814 - Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876) 1846 - Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920) 1858 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941) 1871 - Olga Engl, Austrian actress (d. 1946) 1878 - Mike Donlin, American baseball player (d. 1933) 1879 - Colin Blythe, English cricketer (d. 1917) 1882 - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (d. 1915) 1886 - Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918) 1895 - Maurice Tate, English cricketer (d. 1956) 1896 - Howard Hawks, American film director (d. 1977) 1899 - Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d. 1936) 1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (d. 1979) 1902 - Stepin Fetchit, American dancer and actor (d. 1985) 1903 - Countee Cullen, American writer (d. 1946) 1906 - Bruno Gröning, German mystic (d. 1959) 1907 - Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007) 1908 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989) 1910 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978) 1910 - Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004) 1912 - Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980) 1918 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000) 1918 - Bob Evans, American restaurateur (d. 2007) 1920 - Franklin Schaffner, American film director (d. 1989) 1922 - Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003) 1927 - Clint Walker, American actor 1928 - Agnès Varda, French director 1930 - Mark Birley, British nightclub owner (d. 2007) 1932 - Pauline Oliveros, American composer and accordionist 1936 - Keir Dullea, American actor 1936 - Ruta Lee, Canadian actress 1939 - Michael J. Pollard, American actor 1939 - Dieter Quester, Austrian racing driver 1940 - Gilles Villemure, Canadian ice hockey player 1943 - Gale Sayers, American football player 1944 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000) 1945 - Norman Eshley, English actor 1947 - Jocelyne Bourassa, French Canadian golfer 1948 - Michael Piller, American screenwriter (d. 2005) 1950 - Paresh Rawal, Indian actor 1951 - Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor 1951 - Zdravko Čolić, Yugoslav-Bosnian singer 1953 - Colm Meaney , Irish actor 1955 - Jake "The Snake" Roberts, American wrestler 1955 - Topper Headon, British musician (The Clash) 1958 - Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (Roxette) 1958 - Ted McGinley , American actor 1958 - Ted McGinley , American actor 1961 - Harry Enfield, British comedian 1961 - Bob Yari, Iranian-born American film producer 1962 - Kevin Eastman, American comic book creator 1962 - Tonya Pinkins, American actress 1964 - Wynonna Judd , American country singer 1964 - Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave 1964 - Andrea Montermini, Italian racing driver 1966 - Stephen Malkmus, American musician (Pavement) 1967 - Tim Burgess, English singer (The Charlatans) 1968 - Zacarias Moussaoui, French convicted terrorist 1968 - Kelley Armstrong, Canadian author 1970 - Flora Chan, Hong Kong television actress 1971 - Idina Menzel , American actress and singer 1972 - Manny Ramírez, Dominican Republic baseball player 1972 - Soichiro Hoshi, Japanese seiyuu 1973 - Leigh Francis, British comedian 1974 - Cee-Lo, American musician 1974 - Big L, American rapper (d. 1999) 1974 - Konstantinos Chalkias, Greek footballer 1974 - Shin Ha-kyun, South Korean actor 1974 - David Wilkie, American ice hockey player 1975 - Brian Fair, American singer 1975 - Andrew Farrell, English rugby league and union footballer 1976 - Radoslav Nesterovič, Slovenian basketball player 1976 - Magnus Norman , Swedish tennis player 1977 - Akwá, Angolan footballer 1977 - Rachael Stirling , British actress 1978 - Eric Searle American Musician, 1979 - Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player 1979 - Kugimiya Rie, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress) 1980 - Steven Gerrard , English footballer 1981 - Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter 1981 - Andrey Arshavin, Russian Footballer 1981 - Blake Bashoff, American actor 1981 - Gianmaria Bruni, Italian racing driver 1981 - Ahmad Elrich, Australian footballer 1982 - Eddie Griffin , American basketball player (d. 2007) 1984 - Matt Maguire, Australian rules footballer 1984 - Jordan Palmer, American football player 1989 - Kevin Covais, American singer 1990 - Dean Collins, American actor
Deaths 1159 - Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland, (b. 1105) 1576 - Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai 1593 - Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564) 1696 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell 1730 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648) 1744 - Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688) 1865 - John Catron, United States Supreme Court Justice 1868 - Souji Okita, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1823) 1939 - Floyd Roberts, Auto racer 1941 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII 1951 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886) 1953 - Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886) 1955 - Bill Vukovich, Auto racer 1960 - Boris Pasternak, Russian writer 1961 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891) 1964 - Eddie Sachs, American auto racer (b. 1927) 1964 - Dave MacDonald, American auto racer (b. 1936) 1967 - Claude Rains, English actor (b. 1889) 1971 - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886) 1975 - Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951) 1975 - Michel Simon, French actor (b. 1895) 1976 - Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890) 1980 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (b. 1942) 1981 - Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955) 1993 - Sun Ra, American musician (b. 1914) 1994 - Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955) 1995 - Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912) 1995 - Bobby Stokes, former English footballer (b. 1951) 2000 - Doris Hare, Welsh actress (b. 1905) 2003 - Mickie Most, English record producer (b. 1938) 2005 - Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1927) 2005 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958) 2006 - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926) 2006 - Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917) 2006 - David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938) 2007 - Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and author (b. 1933) 2008 - Lorenzo Odone, American medical figure (b. 1978) 2012 - Andrew Huxley, British Nobel physiologist (b. 1917)
Events 1431 - Hundred Years' War: in Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. 1434 - Hussite Wars (Bohemian Wars): Battle of Lipany 1539 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold. 1574 - Henry III becomes King of France. 1588 - The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. 1635 - Thirty Years' War: the Peace of Prague (1635) is signed. 1642 - From this date all honours granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament 1806 - Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy. 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition 1832 - The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened. 1842 - John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill, London with Prince Albert. 1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas. 1871 - The Paris Commune falls. 1876 - Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V. 1879 - New York City's Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue. 1879 - An F4 tornado strikes Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60. 1883 - In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people. 1911 - At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race. 1913 - First Balkan War: the Treaty of London, 1913 is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation. 1914 - The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City. 1917 - Alexander I becomes king of Greece. 1922 - In Washington, D.C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated. 1925 - In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty. 1941 - World War II: Germany captures Crete. 1941 - World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika and replace it with the Greek flag. 1942 - World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany. 1948 - A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless. 1959 - The Auckland Harbour Bridge is officially opened today in Auckland, New Zealand. 1958 - Memorial Day: the remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. 1966 - Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu. 1967 - At the Ascot Park in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined up in a row. 1967 - The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war. 1969 - Riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao 1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars. 1972 - The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain. 1972 - In Tel Aviv members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others. 1982 - Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955. 1989 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: the 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators. 1998 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
