Deaths April 30 | History by KabAstro

Sigismund III Vasa (1566-1632)

King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1587-1632) and King of Sweden (1592-99), dies at 65

1642 Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (known for his military leadership during the Polish–Muscovite War 1611-12), dies at 63
1655 Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (paintings of religious subjects), dies at 37
1660 Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer and historian, dies at 84
1672 Marie de l’Incarnation [Marie Guyart], French Ursline nun, teacher and saint (established Catholicism in New France), dies at 72 [1]
1696 Robert Plot, English naturalist, dies at 55
1708 Simon de Vries, book seller/writer (Unequal), dies
1712 Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Remonstrants theologist and vicar, dies at 78
1736 Johann Albert Fabricius, German classical scholar and bibliographer, dies at 67
1743 Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas), dies at 79
1758 François d'Agiçncourt, French composer (b. 1684)
1784 Franz K earl von Velbruck, German free mason, dies
1785 Frederick Philipse III, American land owner (Bronx, Westch & Putnam), dies at 65
1792 Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer and lawyer, dies at 36
1792 John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, British statesman who claimed to have invented the sandwich, dies at 73
1793 Lorenzo Fago, Italian composer and teacher, dies at 88
1795 Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (b. 1716)
1800 John H. Midderigh, Dutch Rotterdam patriot, dies at 46
1829 George Washington Adams, son of John Q Adams, dies on City Island, NYC
1841 Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist, dies at 82

Archduke Charles (1771-1847)

Duke of Teschen, Austrian field marshal during the Napoleonic wars, dies at 75

1848 Friedrich Freiherr Gagern, German Dutch army commandant, dies at 53
1855 Henry Bishop, British composer and conductor, dies at 68
1857 Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, dies at 81
1859 Sergey Aksakov, Russian writer (Chronicles of a Russian Family), dies at 67
1865 Robert Fitzroy, English admiral and scientist, dies at 59
1875 Jean Frederic Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)
1879 Emma Smith, Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dies at 74
1879 Sarah Josepha Hale, American writer (Mary Had a Little Lamb), editor, activist, and founder of the Seaman's Aid Society of Boston, dies at 90

Edouard Manet (1832-1883)

French impressionist painter (Olympia, The Luncheon on the Grass), dies of complications from syphilis at 51

1885 J. P. [Jens Peter] Jacobsen, Danish writer (Niels Lyhne), dies of tuberculosis at 38
1887 Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, German composer and musician, dies at 71
1889 Carl Rosa, German-born violinist and composer (founder of the Rosa opera company that toured UK and US), dies at 47
1893 Gyula Beliczay, Hungarian pianist, composer, teacher, and engineer, dies at 57
1895 Gustav Freytag, German writer and playwright (Debt and Credit), dies at 78
1896 Antonio Cagnoni, Italian opera composer, dies at 68
1900 Casey Jones, American railroad engineer, dies at 36 heroically in Cannonball Express train wreck
1903 Emily Stowe, Canadian suffragist and first woman licensed to practise medicine in Canada, dies at 71
1912 František Kmoch, Czech composer and conductor, dies at 63
1919 Henry Wood, English cricket wicket-keeper (4 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 134no; Kent CCC, Surrey CCC), dies at 65

Bessie Coleman (1892-1926)

American aviator and 1st African-American woman and Native American to hold a pilot license, dies in a plane crash at 34 [1]

1931 Sammy Woods, Australian cricket all-rounder (3 Tests Australia, 3 England, 1 x 50, 10 wickets; Somerset CCC) and rugby union flanker (13 caps England, 5 as captain), dies at 64
1933 Luis Sanchez Cerro, President of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza
1934 William H. Welch, American pathologist who founded John Hopkins Hospital, dies at 75
1936 A. E. Housman, English poet (A Shropshire Lad), dies at 77
1941 Edwin S. Porter, American film pioneer and producer (Jack and the Beanstalk), dies at 71
1942 Catherine Murphy Urner, American composer, dies at 51
1942 J. C. Arthur, American botanist (studied parasitic fungi rusts), dies at 92
1942 Jakob van Hoddis [Hans Davidsohn], German Jewish poet, transported to German concentration camp at 54 [actual date of death unknown]
1943 Beatrice Potter Webb, British sociologist, economist (founded London School of Economics) and writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at 85
1943 Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist, dies in Auschwitz
1943 Leo Smit, Dutch composer, dies in Sobibór extermination camp at 42
1943 Otto Jespersen, Danish linguist, dies at 82

Paul Poiret (1879-1944)

French fashion designer and couturier who was the most fashionable dress designer before World War I, dies at 65

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

Austrian-born German dictator and Führer of Nazi Germany (1936-45), commits suicide by shooting himself at 56

1945 Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Hitler, commits suicide by cyanide tablet at 33
1947 Almroth Wright, English bacteriologist (developed one of 1st vaccines for typhoid), dies at 85
1952 Charles Radoux-Rogier, Belgian composer, dies at 74
1955 Rudolf Klein-Rogge, German actor and prototype for silent films master criminal (Metropolis, Spies), dies at 69
1956 Alben W. Barkley, American politician (US Representative, Senator and 35th VP-D-1949-53), dies at 78
1957 Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven), dies at 80
1959 Armand Marsick, Belgian composer, dies at 81
1963 Bryant Washburn, American actor (Exposure, Millionaire Kid, Nabonga), dies at 74
1965 Helen Chandler, American actress (Dracula, Salute, Last Flight), dies at 59
1966 Richard Fariña, American folk singer-songwriter ("Birmingham Sunday"), and novelist ("Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me"), dies in a motorcycle crash on his 29th birthday
1970 Hall Johnson, American composer (Hall Johnson Choir), dies at 82
1970 Inger Stevens, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), commits suicide at 35
1970 Jacob Presser, Dutch historian and writer (Ashes in the Wind), dies at 71
1971 Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll), dies at 70
1972 Gia Scala [Josephine Scoglio], British-American actress (Garment Jungle; I Aim at the Stars; Angry Hills), dies of acute ethanol and barbiturate intoxication at 38
1973 Josie Sedgwick, American actress (The Best Man, Queen of the Round-Up), dies of stroke at 75
1973 Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator, dies at 61

Agnes Moorehead (1900-1974)

American actress (Endora in Bewitched), dies of uterine cancer at 73

1976 Edvard Fliflet Braein, Norwegian composer (Ut mot havet (Out To Sea); Anne Pedersdotter), dies at 51
1977 Clive Douglas, Australian composer (Kaditcha; Carwoola), conductor (Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1938-68, and educator, dies at 73
1980 Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1898)
1980 Mary McCarty, American singer, dancer, stage and screen actress (Babes in Toyland; All That Jazz;, Trapper John, M.D.), dies of a heart attack at 56
1981 Peter Huchel, German poet, dies at 78
1982 Albert TLCA Bird, lecture artist, dies
1982 Herman Tholen, Dutch cabaret performer (Juveniles), dies
1982 Lester Bangs, American music journalist (Creem; Rolling Stone), and musician (Birdland), dies of accidental cold medicine overdose at 33
1982 Taisen Deshimaru, Japanese founder of several Zen centers in France, dies at 67

George Balanchine (1904-1983)

Russian-American ballet composer and choreographer who founded the New York City Ballet, dies from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease at 79

1983 Jerry Hatsuo Fujikawa, actor (Uncle Matsu-Mr T & Tina), dies at 71
1983 Joel H. Hildebrand, American chemist and educator (research led to new treatments for divers with the 'bends' through the use of helium and oxygen breathing mixtures), dies at 101

Muddy Waters (1913-1983)

American blues singer and guitarist ("Mannish Boy"; "Got My Mojo Working"), dies of heart failure, while fighting cancer, at 70

1987 Hugh Dempster, actor (Anna Karenina, Candles at Nine), dies
1988 James McCracken, American operatic tenor (Otello), dies at 61
1989 Guy Williams [Armando Joseph Catalano], American actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), dies of a brain aneurysm at 65
1989 Sergio Leone, Italian director who invented spaghetti westerns (The Man with No Name trilogy), dies of a heart attack at 60
1989 Yi Bangja, Crown Prince Euimin of Korea (1926-70), dies at 87
1991 George Sperti, American inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91
1992 Daan van Driel, Dutch cartoonist/WWII resist fighter (Trouw), dies
1993 Eric Rowan, South African cricket batsman (26 Tests, 3 x 100, HS 236; Transvaal, Eastern Province), dies at 83
1993 Tommy Caton, English footballer (b. 1962)
1994 Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Italian set designer (Last Emperor), dies at 53
1994 Geoffrey Roberts, English wine merchant (championed Australian and Californian wines), dies at 46
1994 Richard Scarry, American children's book writer and illustrator (What Do People Do All Day?), dies at 74
1994 Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver, dies in crash at 31
1995 Reinaldo de Carvalho, carnival king, dies at 34
1996 David Michael Ifshin, British political campaign organiser, dies at 46
1996 David Opatoshu [Opatovsky], American actor and writer (Star Trek, Bonino, Secret Empire, Masada), dies at 78
1996 Frank Henry Copplestone, TV executive, dies at 71
1996 Hélène Cordet, French actress (The Limping Man), dies at 78
1996 Jeanne Bal, American actress (Pat-Love & Marriage, Star Trek- The Man Trap), dies at 67
1996 Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, President of Guatemala (1966-70), dies
1997 Henry Picard, American golfer (Masters 1938, PGA 1939), dies at 90
1998 Francis Avery Jones, Welsh gastroenterologist, dies at 87
1998 Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet (b. 1926)
1999 Darrell Sweet, British hard rock drummer (Nazareth - "Love Hurts"), dies of a heart attack at a concert soundcheck at 51
2000 Bernhard Heiden [Levi], German-American composer (Dreamers on a Slack Wire; Euphorion), and music teacher (University of Indiana, 1945-74), dies at 89
2002 Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf. (b. 1928)
2002 Leslie Melville, Australian economist and public servant who helped develop the country's central banking system, dies at 100
2003 Mark Berger, University of Kentucky professor (b. 1955)
2003 Peter "Possum" Bourne, New Zealand race car driver, dies at 47
2005 Ron Todd, British trade unionist (TGWU General Secretary, 1985-92), dies at 78
2006 Jean Francois Revel, French philosopher and author (Ni Marx ni Jesus), dies at 82
2006 Lawrence Patrick, Biomechanics Professor, crash test subject
2006 Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Javanese author (Anak semua bangsa), dies of complications from diabetes and heart disease at 81
2007 Gordon Scott [Werschkul], American actor (Tarzan series), dies at 80
2007 Grégory Lemarchal, French pop singer ("De temps en temps"), dies of complications from cystic fibrosis while waiting for a lung transplant at 23
2007 Jara Ribnikar, Serbian writer, dies at 94
2007 Kevin Mitchell, American football player (b. 1971)
2007 Tom Poston, American actor (Newhart - "George Utley"; Mork & Mindy - "Franklin Bickley"; The Bob Newhart Show; The Steve Allen Show), dies from respiratory failure at 85
2007 Zoletta "Zola" Taylor, American pop singer (The Platters, 1954-62 - "The Great Pretender"; "Only You"; "Twilight Time"), dies at 69
2008 John Cargher, Australian radio broadcaster (b. 1919)
2008 Juancho Evertsz, Dutch Antillean politician Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles (1973-77), dies at 85
2009 Ron Richards, British record producer (Gerry and The Pacemakers; The Hollies), dies at 80
2009 Venetia Burney [Phair], British woman credited with naming Clyde Tombaugh's discovered planet "Pluto" (1930), dies at 90
2010 Gerry Ryan, Irish radio broadcaster (b. 1956)
2011 Dorjee Khandu, Indian, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (b. 1955)
2011 Emilio Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player, dies at 105
2011 Ernesto Sábato, Argentinian writer (Sábato Report), dies at 99
2012 George Murdock, American actor, dies at 81
2014 Leo Kraft, American composer, dies at 91
2015 Ben E. King [Nelson], American soul singer (Stand By Me), dies at 76
2015 Ronald Senator, British composer (Holocaust Requiem), and educator (Musicolor), dies in a house fire at 89
2016 Daniel Berrigan, American Jesuit priest and peace activist (Vietnam War), dies at 94
2016 Marisol (Maria Sol) Escobar, Venezuelan sculptor, dies at 85
2016 Phil Ryan, Welsh keyboardist and composer (Man; Pete Brown), dies at 69
2017 Ueli Steck, Swiss mountain climber, dies in a climbing accident in Nepal at 40
2018 Naresh Sohal, Indian-British composer (Gautama Buddha; The Cosmic Dance; The Divine Song), dies at 78
2019 (Rowland) "Boon" Gould, British rock guitarist (Level 42, 1979-87 - "Hot Water"), takes his own life at 64
2019 Mike Doyle, American surfer (World C'ship 1964 runner-up; World Tandem Champion 1965, 67), dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 78
2019 Peter Mayhew, British American actor (Chewbacca in Star Wars), dies at 74
2020 Chuni Goswami, Indian soccer striker and captain (30 caps; Mohun Bagan) and cricket all-rounder (captain Bengal), dies from cardiac arrest at 82
2020 Rishi Kapoor, Indian Bollywood actor and director (Bobby, Do Dooni Chaar), dies at 67
2020 Tony Allen, Nigerian drummer who pioneered Afrobeat sound, dies of an aortic aneurysm at 79
2021 Anthony Payne, British composer (Phoenix Mass; Visions and Journeys), critic, and musicologist, dies at 84
2022 (Diana) "Naomi" Judd, American Grammy Award-winning country singer (The Judds - "Why Not Me"), dies of a self-inflicted gunshot at 76
2022 Mino Raiola, Italian soccer agent (Pavel Nedvěd, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Paul Pogba), dies at 54
2022 Ron Galella, American celebrity photographer and a pioneer paparazzo (sued by Jackie Onassis; punched by Marlon Brando), dies of heart failure at 91
2023 Jock Zonfrillo, Scottish chef (Masterchef Australia judge), dies at 46 [1]