Deaths on 30 October
2000s
Matt Peacock
2024
Australian journalist and author (1952–2024)
Kim Joo-hyuk
2017
South Korean actor (1972–2017)
Mel Daniels
2015
American basketball player and coach (1944–2015)
Al Molinaro
2015
American actor (1919–2015)
Sinan Şamil Sam
2015
Turkish boxer
Norm Siebern
2015
American baseball player (1933–2015)
Elijah Malok Aleng
2014
Former Central Bank Governor of South Sudan
Renée Asherson
2014
British actress (1915–2014)
Juan Flavier
2014
Filipino physician and politician (1935–2014)
Ida Elizabeth Osbourne
2014
Australian actress and radio broadcaster
Bob Geigel
2014
American professional wrestler and promoter (1924–2014)
Thomas Menino
2014
American politician and mayor (1942–2014)
Bill Currie (baseball)
2013
American baseball player (1926-2013)
Pete Haycock
2013
Musical artist
Michael Palmer (novelist)
2013
American novelist (1943–2013)
Frank Wess
2013
American jazz saxophonist (1922–2013)
Franck Biancheri
2012
Samina Raja
2012
Pakistani poet
Dan Tieman
2012
American basketball player, coach, and teacher
Harry Mulisch
2010
Dutch writer
Claude Lévi-Strauss
2009
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)
Pedro Pompilio
2008
Football businessman and chairman of Boca Juniors
Washoe (chimpanzee)
2007
Chimpanzee language research subject
Robert Goulet
2007
Canadian and American singer and actor (1933–2007)
Linda S. Stein
2007
American music manager and real estate agent (1945–2007)
John Woodruff (runner)
2007
American middle-distance runner
Clifford Geertz
2006
American anthropologist (1926–2006)
Junji Kinoshita
2006
Japanese writer (1914–2006)
Al López
2005
American baseball player and manager (1908–2005)
Shamsher Singh Sheri
2005
Phyllis Frost
2004
Australian welfare worker and philanthropist
Peggy Ryan
2004
American actress and dancer (1924–2004)
Steve O'Rourke
2003
English band manager (1940–2003)
Juan Antonio Bardem
2002
Spanish film director and screenwriter (1922–2002)
Jam Master Jay
2002
American hip hop musician (1965–2002)
Steve Allen
2000
American TV personality (1921–2000)
1900s
Maigonis Valdmanis
1999
Latvian basketball player
Samuel Fuller
1997
American filmmaker, writer, and actor (1912–1997)
John Young (actor)
1996
Scottish actor (1916–1996)
Paul Grégoire
1993
Canadian Cardinal
Peter Kemp (writer)
1993
English soldier and writer (1915–1993)
Joan Mitchell
1992
American artist (1925–1992)
V. Shantaram
1990
Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (1901–1990)
T. Hee
1988
American film director
Florence Nagle
1988
Breeder and trainer of race horses
Joseph Campbell
1987
American mythologist, writer, and lecturer (1904–1987)
Iryna Vilde
1982
Ukrainian writer (1907–1982)
Barnes Wallis
1979
English engineer and inventor (1887–1979)
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
1975
German experimental physicist (1887–1975)
Ants Lauter
1973
Estonian actor, theatre director, and pedagogue
Ramon Novarro
1968
Mexican actor (1899–1968)
Conrad Richter
1968
American novelist
Rose Wilder Lane
1968
American journalist, writer, and political theorist (1886–1968)
Yiorgos Theotokas
1966
Greek novelist
Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.
1965
American historian (1888–1965)
Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar
1963
Indian politician (1908- 1963)
Luigi Einaudi
1961
President of Italy from 1948 to 1955
Fred Beebe
1957
American baseball player (1879–1957)
Max Reinhardt
1943
Austrian-born theatre and film director (1873–1943)
Walter Buckmaster
1942
British polo player
Svend Kornbeck
1933
Danish actor (1869-1933)
Norman Pritchard
1929
British-Indian athlete (1875–1929)
Bonar Law
1923
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1919
American author and poet (1850–1919)
Talbot Mercer Papineau
1917
Canadian Army officer
Charles Tupper
1915
Father of Confederation, Prime Minister of Canada in 1896
Alejandro Gorostiaga
1912
19th-century Chilean military officer
James S. Sherman
1912
Vice President of the United States from 1909 to 1912
Henry Dunant
1910
Swiss co-founder of the Red Cross (1828–1910)
Boyd Dunlop Morehead
1905
Australian politician (1843–1905)
1800s
William H. Webb
1899
American shipbuilder (1816–1899)
Carol Benesch
1896
Silesian architect
James Patterson (Australian politician)
1895
Australian colonial politician (1833–1895)
Honoré Mercier
1894
9th Premier of Quebec (1887–1891)
John Abbott
1893
Prime Minister of Canada from 1891 to 1892
Dayananda Saraswati
1883
Indian philosopher and socio-religious reformer (1824–1883)
Robert Volkmann
1883
German composer (1815–1883)
William Forster (Australian politician)
1882
Australian politician
Pietro Raimondi
1853
Italian composer
Allan Cunningham (author)
1842
Scottish poet and author (1784–1842)
Frederick I of Württemberg
1816
Ruler of Württemberg from 1797 to 1816
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
1809
Prime Minister of the of Great Britain in 1783 and United Kingdom from 1807 to 1809
Before 1800
Osman III
1757
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1754 to 1757
Edward Vernon
1757
British naval officer (1684–1757)
Nedîm
1730
Ottoman poet
Hieronymus van Beverningh
1690
Dutch regent, diplomat, amateur botanist and patron of the arts
Michel Le Tellier
1685
French statesman (1603-1685)
Antoinette Bourignon
1680
17th-century French-Flemish mystic
Emperor Go-Kōmyō
1654
Emperor of Japan from 1643 to 1654
Henri de Montmorency, 4th Duke of Montmorency
1632
French nobleman and military commander
Willebrord Snellius
1626
Dutch astronomer and mathematician (1580-1626)
Charles IX of Sweden
1611
King of Sweden from 1604 to 1611
Jean-Jacques Boissard
1602
French antiquary and Neo-Latin poet (1528–1602)
Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck
1553
German statesman (1489–1553)
Jean Mouton
1522
French composer
Johann Fust
1466
Inventor/Investor of the first press (died 1466)
Poggio Bracciolini
1459
Italian scholar, writer and humanist (1380–1459)
Ibn Khallikan
1282
Muslim historian (1211–1282)
Sergius VII of Naples
1137
Duke of Naples (died 1137)
Paul of Edessa
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