Deaths on 30 November
2000s
Lou Carnesecca
2024
American basketball coach (1925–2024)
Alistair Darling
2023
British politician (1953–2023)
Shane MacGowan
2023
Irish singer-songwriter (1957–2023)
Jiang Zemin
2022
Leader of China from 1989 to 2002
Christine McVie
2022
British musician (1943–2022)
Irina Antonova
2020
Soviet and Russian art historian (1922–2020)
George H. W. Bush
2018
President of the United States from 1989 to 1993
Jim Nabors
2017
American actor and singer (1930–2017)
Surin Pitsuwan
2017
Thai politician (1949–2017)
Marina Popovich
2017
Soviet Air Force colonel, engineer and test pilot
Alfie Curtis
2017
British actor (1930–2017)
Pío Caro Baroja
2015
Spanish film director (1928–2015)
Minas Hatzisavvas
2015
Greek actor
Marcus Klingberg
2015
Israeli scientist and Soviet spy (1918–2015)
Fatema Mernissi
2015
Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist (1940–2015)
Shigeru Mizuki
2015
Japanese manga artist (1922–2015)
Eldar Ryazanov
2015
Soviet and Russian filmmaker (1927–2015)
Nigel Buxton
2015
British travel writer and wine critic
Qayyum Chowdhury
2014
Bangladeshi painter (1932–2014)
Jarbom Gamlin
2014
6th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh
Martin Litton (environmentalist)
2014
American conservationist (1917–2014)
Anthony Dryden Marshall
2014
American diplomat (1924–2014)
Go Seigen
2014
Chinese-Japanese Go player
Kent Haruf
2014
American novelist (1943–2014)
Paul Crouch
2013
American television evangelist (1934–2013)
Jean Kent
2013
English actress (1921–2013)
Tabu Ley Rochereau
2013
Congolese musician and singer
Doriano Romboni
2013
Italian motorcycle racer
Paul Walker
2013
American actor (1973–2013)
Rogelio Álvarez
2012
Cuban baseball player (1938–2012)
Inder Kumar Gujral
2012
Prime Minister of India from 1997 to 1998
Munir Malik
2012
Pakistani cricketer (1934–2012)
Susil Moonesinghe
2012
Sri Lankan politician
Merv Pregulman
2012
American football player (1922–2012)
Homer R. Warner
2012
American cardiologist
Mitchell Cole
2012
English association football player
Rajiv Dixit
2010
Indian activist
Garry Gross
2010
American photographer (1937–2010)
Munetaka Higuchi
2008
Japanese drummer (1958–2008)
Engin Arık
2007
Turkish physicist (1948–2007)
Evel Knievel
2007
American stunt performer (1938–2007)
Elhadi Adam
2006
Sudanese poet and songwriter (1927–2006)
Rafael Buenaventura
2006
Philippine central bank governor from 1999 to 2005
Shirley Walker
2006
American film and television composer (1945–2006)
Jean Parker
2005
American actress (1915–2005)
Pierre Berton
2004
Canadian author (1920–2004)
Seungsahn
2004
Korean Buddhist monk (1927–2004)
Gertrude Ederle
2003
American swimmer (1905–2003)
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
2000
American author
Scott Smith (musician)
2000
Canadian musician (1955–2000)
1900s
Janet Lewis
1998
American novelist, poet
Margaret Walker
1998
American poet and writer
Kathy Acker
1997
American novelist and playwright (1947–1997)
Tiny Tim (musician)
1996
American musician and musical archivist (1932–1996)
Til Kiwe
1995
German actor, voice actor and screenwriter
Guy Debord
1994
French philosopher and Marxist theorist (1931–1994)
Lionel Stander
1994
American actor (1908–1994)
David Houston (singer)
1993
American country singer (1935–1993)
Peter Blume
1992
Belarusian-born American painter and sculptor
Fritz Eichenberg
1990
German-American illustrator and arts educator (1901–1990)
Ahmadou Ahidjo
1989
President of Cameroon from 1960 to 1982
Alfred Herrhausen
1989
German banker (1930–1989)
Pannonica de Koenigswarter
1988
British jazz patron and writer (1913–1988)
Simon Carmiggelt
1987
Dutch writer, journalist, and poet
Laura Gilpin
1979
American fine art photographer (1891–1979)
Zeppo Marx
1979
American entertainer (1901–1979)
Terence Rattigan
1977
British playwright and screenwriter (1911–1977)
Compton Mackenzie
1972
Scottish writer (1883–1972)
Patrick Kavanagh
1967
Poet and writer from Monaghan, Ireland
Salah Suheimat
1966
Jordanian politician
Hubert Wilkins
1958
Australian polar explorer (1888–1958)
Josip Štolcer-Slavenski
1955
Croatian composer
Wilhelm Furtwängler
1954
German conductor and composer (1886–1954)
Francis Picabia
1953
French painter and writer (1879–1953)
Frank Arthur Cooper
1949
Australian politician (1872–1949)
Paul Masson (cyclist)
1944
French cyclist (1876–1944)
Etty Hillesum
1943
Dutch Jewish diarist (1914–1943)
Anthony M. Rud
1942
American novelist
Fernando Pessoa
1935
Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935)
Hélène Boucher
1934
French pilot (1908–1934)
Arthur Currie
1933
Canadian WWI general (1875–1933)
Henry Walters
1931
American art collector (1848-1931)
Ponnambalam Ramanathan
1930
Ceylon lawyer and politician
Mother Jones
1930
American labor organizer (1837–1930)
John Maclean (Scottish socialist)
1923
Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary socialist (1879–1923)
Vladimir May-Mayevsky
1920
Russian military leader (1867–1920)
Nishinoumi Kajirō I
1908
Japanese sumo wrestler
Ludwig Levy
1907
Edward John Eyre
1901
English explorer and colonial administrator (1815–1901)
Oscar Wilde
1900
Irish writer (1854–1900)
1800s
Dimitrios Valvis
1892
Greek politician and judge
Patrick Cleburne
1864
Confederate States Army general
Kamehameha IV
1863
King of Hawaii from 1855 to 1863
Before 1800
George Glas
1765
John Dollond
1761
English optician (1706–1761)
Friederike Caroline Neuber
1760
German playwright and writer (1697–1760)
Charles XII of Sweden
1718
King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718
Nicolas de Grigny
1703
French organist and composer
Marcello Malpighi
1694
Italian biologist and physician
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
1675
English politician and lawyer (1605–1675)
John Selden
1654
English jurist (1584–1654)
Bonaventura Cavalieri
1647
Italian monk and mathematician (1598–1647)
Giovanni Lanfranco
1647
Italian painter (1582–1647)
Thomas Weelkes
1623
English composer
William Gilbert (physicist)
1603
English physician and natural philosopher
Nanda Bayin
1600
King of the Toungoo dynasty of Burma from 1581 to 1599
Richard Farrant
1580
English composer (c. 1525 – 1580)
Giovanni delle Bande Nere
1526
Italian condottiero (1498–1526)
Guillaume Crétin
1525
French poet
Andrew Stratford
1378
John of Vercelli
1283
Kanezawa Sanetoki
1276
Emeric, King of Hungary
1204
King of Hungary and Croatia from 1196 to 1204
Edmund Ironside
1016
King of England in 1016