Deaths on 30 May
2000s
Étienne-Émile Baulieu
2025
French biochemist and endocrinologist (1926–2025)
Valerie Mahaffey
2025
American actress (1953–2025)
Loretta Swit
2025
American actress (1937–2025)
John Thrasher (Florida politician)
2025
American politician (1943–2025)
Geneviève de Galard
2024
French nurse (1925–2024)
Drew Gordon
2024
American basketball player (1990–2024)
Jason Dupasquier
2021
Swiss motorcycle racer (2001–2021)
Michael Angelis
2020
English actor (1944–2020)
Thad Cochran
2019
American attorney and politician (1937–2019)
Jason Marcano
2019
Trinidad and Tobago footballer (1983–2019)
Tom Lysiak
2016
Canadian ice hockey player (1953–2016)
Rick MacLeish
2016
Canadian ice hockey player (1950–2016)
Beau Biden
2015
American politician and lawyer (1969–2015)
Joël Champetier
2015
French-Canadian science fiction and fantasy author
L. Tom Perry
2015
American religious leader
Hienadz Buraukin
2014
Belarusian poet, journalist, and diplomat (1936–2014)
Henning Carlsen
2014
Danish filmmaker
Joan Lorring
2014
American actress
Leonidas Vasilikopoulos
2014
Greek naval and intelligence officer
Jayalath Jayawardena
2013
Sri Lankan politician and doctor (1953-2013)
Larry Jones (American football coach)
2013
American football player and coach (1933–2013)
John Fox (comedian)
2012
American comedian, born 1953
Andrew Huxley
2012
English physiologist and biophysicist (1917–2012)
Gerhard Pohl
2012
German politician (1937–2012)
Jack Twyman
2012
American basketball player
Isikia Savua
2011
Fijian diplomat (1952–2011)
Saleem Shahzad
2011
Pakistani investigative journalist (1970–2011)
Marek Siemek
2011
Polish academic (1942–2011)
Clarice Taylor
2011
American actress (1917–2011)
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
2011
American medical physicist (1921–2011)
Yuri Chesnokov (volleyball)
2010
Russian volleyball player (1933–2010)
Dufferin Roblin
2010
Premier of Manitoba from 1958 to 1967
Torsten Andersson
2009
Swedish modernist painter (1926–2009)
Susanna Haapoja
2009
Finnish politician (1966–2009)
Ephraim Katzir
2009
President of Israel from 1973 to 1978
Jean-Claude Brialy
2007
French actor and director (1933–2007)
Birgit Dalland
2007
Norwegian politician (1907–2007)
Gunturu Seshendra Sarma
2007
Indian poet (1927–2007)
Shōhei Imamura
2006
Japanese film director (1926–2006)
David Lloyd (botanist)
2006
New Zealand evolutionary biologist and botanist (1937–2006)
Robert Sterling
2006
American actor (1917–2006)
Gérald Leblanc
2005
Acadian poet and writer (1945–2005)
Tomasz Pacyński
2005
Polish fantasy and science fiction author
Alma Ziegler
2005
Baseball player
Denis Whitaker
2001
Canadian athlete, soldier, businessman, and author (1915–2001)
Tex Beneke
2000
American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader
1900s
Kalju Lepik
1999
Estonian poet (1920–1999)
Léon-Étienne Duval
1996
French Catholic cardinal (1903–1996)
Alo Mattiisen
1996
Estonian musician and composer
Ted Drake
1995
English footballer (1912–1995)
Lofty England
1995
British engineer, chief executive of Jaguar Cars
Bobby Stokes
1995
English footballer (1951–1995)
Ezra Taft Benson
1994
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1899–1994)
Marcel Bich
1994
Co-founder of Bic (1914–1994)
Agostino Di Bartolomei
1994
Italian footballer (1955–1994)
Sun Ra
1993
American jazz composer and bandleader (1914–1993)
Perry Ellis
1986
American fashion designer (1940–1986)
Manuel Buendía
1984
Mexican journalist
Albert Norden
1982
German politician (1904–1982)
Don Ashby
1981
Canadian ice hockey player (1955–1981)
Ziaur Rahman
1981
President of Bangladesh from 1977 to 1981
Carl Radle
1980
American bassist (1942–1980)
Jean Deslauriers
1978
Canadian conductor, violinist, and composer
Max Carey
1976
American baseball player and manager (1890–1976)
Mitsuo Fuchida
1976
Japanese Naval officer
Steve Prefontaine
1975
American long-distance runner (1951–1975)
Tatsuo Shimabuku
1975
Okinawan karateka and the founder of Isshin-ryū
Michel Simon
1975
Swiss actor (1895-1975)
Marcel Dupré
1971
French organist, composer and pedagogue (1886–1971)
Claude Rains
1967
British actor (1889–1967)
Louis Hjelmslev
1965
Danish linguist (1899–1965)
Isaac Babalola Akinyele
1964
Ruler of Ibadan, Nigeria (1882–1964)
Eddie Sachs
1964
American racing driver (1927–1964)
Leo Szilard
1964
Hungarian-American physicist and inventor (1898–1964)
Rafael Trujillo
1961
Dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961
Boris Pasternak
1960
Russian and Soviet writer (1890–1960)
Piero Carini
1957
Italian racing driver (1921–1957)
Bill Vukovich
1955
American racing driver (1918–1955)
Dooley Wilson
1953
American actor, musician (1886–1953)
Hermann Broch
1951
Austrian writer (1886–1951)
Emmanuel Célestin Suhard
1949
20th-century French Catholic cardinal
József Klekl (politician)
1948
Slovene Roman Catholic priest and politician
Georg von Trapp
1947
Trapp family patriarch (1880–1947)
Louis Slotin
1946
Canadian physicist and chemist
Prajadhipok
1941
King of Siam from 1925 to 1935
Floyd Roberts
1939
American racing driver (1900–1939)
Tōgō Heihachirō
1934
Japanese Marshal Admiral
Vladimir Steklov (mathematician)
1926
Russian mathematician (1864–1926)
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
1925
German historian (1876–1925)
Mirza Muhammad Yusuf Ali
1920
Georgi Plekhanov
1918
Russian Marxist theorist and philosopher (1856–1918)
Wright brothers
1912
American aviation pioneers, inventors of the airplane
Milton Bradley
1911
American publisher and game designer
Victor D'Hondt
1901
Belgian lawyer and jurist (1841–1901)
1800s
Mary H. Gray Clarke
1892
American journalist
Rosa May Billinghurst
1875
British suffragette (1875–1953)
Karamat Ali Jaunpuri
1873
Indian Islamic scholar
Ramón Castilla
1867
President of Peru variously in the 1800s
John Catron
1865
US Supreme Court justice from 1837 to 1865
Mary Reibey
1855
Australian businesswoman
James Mackintosh
1832
Scottish jurist, Whig politician and Whig historian
Philibert Jean-Baptiste Curial
1829
Before 1800
Voltaire
1778
French writer, historian, and philosopher (1694–1778)
José de la Borda
1778
François Boucher
1770
French painter (1703–1770)
Alexander Pope
1744
English poet (1688–1744)
Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle
1718
Dutch States Army officer
Andrea Lanzani
1712
Italian painter
Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Tewkesbury
1696
English politician (1638–1696)
John Davenport (minister)
1670
Early English colonist in North America
Peter Paul Rubens
1640
Flemish artist and diplomat (1577–1640)
Guru Arjan
1606
Fifth Sikh guru from 1581 to 1606
Christopher Marlowe
1593
English playwright and poet (1564–1593)
Charles IX of France
1574
King of France from 1560 to 1574
Jacquetta of Luxembourg
1472
15th-century noble
Lope de Barrientos
1469
Castilian statesman
Prokop the Great
1434
14/15th-century Hussite general
Joan of Arc
1431
French folk heroine and saint (1412–1431)
Jerome of Prague
1416
14/15th-century Czech reformist theologian and scholastic philosopher
Joan of Ponthieu, Dame of Epernon
1376
French countess (before 1336–1376)
John Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Knayth
1347
English peer
Ferdinand III of Castile
1252
King of Castile (1217–1252) and León (1230–1252)
Władysław II the Exile
1159
High Duke of Poland
Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders
1035
Count of Flanders from 987 to 1035
Ma Xifan
947
Prince of Chu from 934 to 947
AD 727
727
Calendar year
Xiao Tong
531
Crown Prince of Liang Dynasty (501–531)