Died on Thursday, 30th October – Famous Deaths

30/10/2024

Matt Peacock, Australian journalist and author (born 1952)

Matthew James Peacock was an Australian television and radio journalist, correspondent and author who worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in their News and Current Affairs Department specialising in politics, environment and science. He later also served as a director on the ABC Board. He authored Killer Company, a critically lauded 2009 book on the asbestos industry during that time.

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30/10/2017

Kim Joo-hyuk, South Korean actor (born 1972)

Kim Joo-hyuk was a South Korean actor. He was known for his leading roles in the films My Wife Got Married (2008), The Servant (2010), and Yourself and Yours (2016), his supporting roles in Confidential Assignment (2017) and Believer (2018), as well as the television series Lovers in Prague (2005), God of War (2012), Hur Jun, The Original Story (2013) and Argon (2017). He was also an original regular cast member on the third season of the KBS2's reality-variety show 2 Days & 1 Night.

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30/10/2015

Mel Daniels, American basketball player and coach (born 1944)

Melvin Joe Daniels was an American professional basketball player. He played in the American Basketball Association (ABA) for the Minnesota Muskies, Indiana Pacers, and Memphis Sounds, and in the National Basketball Association for the New York Nets. One of the greatest players in ABA history, Daniels was a two-time ABA Most Valuable Player, three-time ABA Champion and a seven-time ABA All-Star. Daniels was the All-time ABA rebounding leader, and in 1997, he was named a unanimous selection to the ABA All-Time Team. Daniels was enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012.

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Al Molinaro, American actor (born 1919)

Albert Francis Molinaro was an American actor. He played Al Delvecchio on Happy Days and Officer Murray Greshler on The Odd Couple. He also appeared in many television commercials, including On-Cor frozen dinners.

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Sinan Şamil Sam, Turkish boxer (born 1974)

Sinan Şamil Sam was a Turkish heavyweight professional boxer As a professional boxer, Sam won the EBU, WBC international and WBC Mediterranean titles in the heavyweight division. According to his former managers, Sam died after battling liver and kidney failure.

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Norm Siebern, American baseball player and scout (born 1933)

Norman Leroy Siebern was an American professional baseball player and scout. He appeared in 1,406 games over a 12-year career in Major League Baseball as a first baseman and left fielder for the New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, San Francisco Giants and Boston Red Sox between 1956 and 1968. A two-time World Series champion and four-time American League All-Star, his best season came in 1962 with the Athletics when he hit 25 home runs, with 117 runs batted in and a .308 batting average. He might be most remembered, however, as being one of the players the Yankees traded for Roger Maris on December 11, 1959.

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30/10/2014

Elijah Malok Aleng, Sudanese general and politician (born 1937)

Elijah Malok Aleng was a South Sudanese public servant, general, and politician, from [Twic Dinka/Twi East county] in Jonglei State. He was born on 28 November 1937 at Thianwong village when his family was living among the Pen people in Angakuei in Baidit, about 20 miles northeast of Bor town. His family, which is originally from Awulian in Wangulei, Twic East County, migrated back to be with fellow Awulian kinfolks. He attended Malek Primary School (1950–1953), and then Juba Intermediate School and Juba Commercial Senior Secondary School, graduating He then attended Free University of the Congo, in the present Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and later got a scholarship to study in Fribourg Catholic University, Switzerland, from which he obtained a master's degree in economics in 1972. In 1975 he obtained another Masters in Development Studies and Economic Planning from Wolfson College, Cambridge in the United Kingdom. In his memoirs: the Southern Sudan: Struggle for Liberty, named Chief Deng Biar Abit, leader of the Awulian clan, Paul Logali, former finance minister of Southern Sudan regional government and Akec Kwai Biar, former Bor District Commissioner and his cousin as the people who positively influenced him.

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Renée Asherson, English actress (born 1915)

Dorothy Renée Ascherson, known professionally as Renée Asherson, was a British actress. Much of her theatrical career was spent in Shakespearean plays, appearing at such venues as the Old Vic, the Liverpool Playhouse, and the Westminster Theatre. Her first stage appearance was on 17 October 1935, aged 20 and her first major film appearance was in The Way Ahead (1944). Her last film appearance was in The Others (2001).

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Juan Flavier, Filipino physician and politician (born 1935)

Juan Martin Flavier was a Filipino physician and politician. He served as the secretary of health under President Fidel V. Ramos from 1992 to 1995, and was later elected to the Senate, serving from 1995 to 2007.

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Ida Elizabeth Osbourne, Australian actress and radio host (born 1916)

Ida Elizabeth Lea MBE, professionally known as "Elizabeth" Osbourne and Ida Elizabeth Jenkins, was an Australian actor and broadcaster, best known as the co-founder of the Australian Broadcasting Commission's long-running children's radio program the Argonauts Club.

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Bob Geigel, American wrestler and promoter (born 1924)

Robert Frederick Geigel was an American professional wrestling promoter and professional wrestler. He operated the Kansas City, Missouri-based Heart of America Sports Attractions promotion from 1963 to 1986, and served three terms as the president of the National Wrestling Alliance from 1978 to 1980, from 1982 to 1985, and finally from 1986 to 1987.

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Thomas Menino, American businessman and politician, 53rd Mayor of Boston (born 1942)

Thomas Michael Menino was an American politician who served as the mayor of Boston, from 1993 to 2014. He was the city's longest-serving mayor. He was elected mayor in 1993 after first serving three months as acting mayor following the resignation of his predecessor Raymond Flynn. Before serving as mayor, Menino was a member of the Boston City Council and had been elected president of the City Council in 1993.

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30/10/2013

Bill Currie, American baseball player (born 1928)

William Cleveland Currie was an American professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher whose ten-year minor league career was punctuated by a three-game stint in Major League Baseball with the 1955 Washington Senators.

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Pete Haycock, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1951)

Peter John Haycock was an English musician and film score composer. He began his career as lead guitarist, vocalist, and founding member of the Climax Blues Band.

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Michael Palmer, American physician and author (born 1942)

Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D., was an American physician and author. His novels are often referred to as medical thrillers. Some of his novels have made The New York Times Best Seller list and have been translated into 35 languages. One, Extreme Measures (1991), was adapted into a 1996 film of the same name starring Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Gene Hackman.

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Frank Wess, American saxophonist and flute player (born 1922)

Frank Wellington Wess was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist. He was renowned for his extensive solo work; however, he was also remembered for his time playing with Count Basie's band during the early 1950s into the early 1960s. Critic Scott Yanow described him as one of the premier proteges of Lester Young, and a leading jazz flutist of his era—using the latter instrument to bring new colors to Basie's music.

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30/10/2012

Franck Biancheri, French politician (born 1961)

Franck Biancheri was the founder of the Newropeans European political party and the leader from June 2006. The party planned to run for campaigns in the 2009 elections to the European Parliament with representatives in all member states simultaneously.

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Samina Raja, Pakistani poet and educator (born 1961)

Samina Raja was a Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, editor, translator, educationist and broadcaster. She lived in Islamabad, Pakistan, and worked in the National Language Authority and National Book Foundation as a subject specialist.

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Dan Tieman, American basketball player and coach (born 1940)

Daniel Theodore Tieman was an American basketball player, coach, and teacher.

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30/10/2010

Harry Mulisch, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (born 1927)

Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into 38 languages so far.

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30/10/2009

Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and ethnologist (born 1908)

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world.

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30/10/2008

Pedro Pompilio, Argentinian businessman (born 1950)

Pedro Pompilio was a football businessman and chairman of Boca Juniors. He began his mandate at the club on 4 December 2007 and it lasted until his death on 30 October 2008 due to heart problems. He was also the second Vice President of the Argentinian Football Association.

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30/10/2007

Washoe, American chimpanzee (born 1965)

Washoe was a female common chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using signs adapted from American Sign Language (ASL) as part of an animal research experiment on animal language acquisition.

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Robert Goulet, American actor and singer (born 1933)

Robert Gérard Goulet was an American-Canadian singer and actor. His parents and ancestry were French Canadians. Goulet was born and raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts, until age 13 and then spent his formative years in Canada.

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Linda S. Stein, American businesswoman and manager (born 1945)

Linda Stein was an American rock music manager and real estate broker.

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John Woodruff, American runner and colonel (born 1915)

John Youie "Long John" Woodruff was an American middle-distance runner, winner of the 800 meter event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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30/10/2006

Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist and author (born 1926)

Clifford James Geertz was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology and who was considered "for three decades ... the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." He served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

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Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright and scholar (born 1914)

Junji Kinoshita was a Japanese playwright. He was the foremost playwright of modern drama in postwar Japan. He was also a translator and scholar of Shakespeare's plays. Kinoshita’s achievements were not limited to Japan. He helped to promote theatrical exchanges between Japan and the People’s Republic of China, and he traveled broadly in Europe and Asia. In addition to his international work, Kinoshita joined various societies that focused on the study of folktales and the Japanese language.

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30/10/2005

Al López, American baseball player and manager (born 1908)

Alfonso Ramón López was a Spanish-American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Brooklyn Robins / Dodgers, Boston Bees, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Cleveland Indians between 1928 and 1947, and was the manager for the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox from 1951 to 1965 and during portions of the 1968 and 1969 seasons. Due to his Spanish ancestry and "gentlemanly" nature, he was nicknamed "El Señor".

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Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian politician (born 1942)

Shamsher Singh Sheri, commonly known by his nom de guerre, Karam Singh, was a communist leader and a Politburo member of the CPI (Maoist) in India.

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30/10/2004

Phyllis Frost, Australian philanthropist, founded Keep Australia Beautiful (born 1917)

Dame Phyllis Irene Frost was an Australian welfare worker and philanthropist, known for her commitment to causes, such as helping prisoners. She chaired the Victorian Women's Prisons Council for many years, established the Keep Australia Beautiful movement, worked for Freedom from Hunger and raised millions of dollars for charity.

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Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (born 1924)

Margaret O'Rene Ryan was an American dancer and actress, best known for starring in a series of movie musicals at Universal Pictures with Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean.

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30/10/2003

Steve O'Rourke, English race car driver and manager (born 1940)

Steve O'Rourke was an English music manager and racing driver. He was the manager of Pink Floyd, a position he held from 1968 until his death. Among his accomplishments was negotiating Pink Floyd's split with bass player and main songwriter Roger Waters.

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30/10/2002

Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1922)

Juan Antonio Bardem Muñoz was a Spanish film director and screenwriter, born in Madrid. Bardem was best known for Muerte de un ciclista (1955) which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, and El puente (1977) which won the Golden Prize at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1979 film Seven Days in January won the Golden Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.

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Jam Master Jay, American rapper and producer (born 1965)

Jason William Mizell, better known by his stage name Jam Master Jay, was an American musician, record producer and DJ. He was the DJ of the influential hip hop group Run-DMC. During the 1980s, Run-DMC became one of the biggest hip hop groups, credited with breaking hip hop into mainstream music. Mizell was murdered in his Queens recording studio in 2002 and his case was left unsolved until February 2024, when two men named Ronald Washington and his godson Karl Jordan Jr., were convicted for the 2002 drug-related murder, with a third man, Jay Bryant, facing a separate trial in 2026.

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30/10/2000

Steve Allen, American actor, television personality, game show panelist, and talk show host (born 1921)

Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen was an American television and radio personality, comedian, musician, composer, writer, and actor. Though he got his start in radio, he is best known for his extensive network television career.

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30/10/1999

Maigonis Valdmanis, Latvian basketball player (born 1933)

Maigonis Valdmanis was a Soviet and Latvian basketball player and coach. He was born in Riga.

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30/10/1997

Samuel Fuller, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1912)

Samuel Michael Fuller was an American film director, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, and actor. He was known for directing low-budget genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system.

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30/10/1996

John Young, Scottish actor (born 1916)

John Young was a British actor from Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the father of the actor Paul Young.

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30/10/1993

Paul Grégoire, Canadian cardinal (born 1911)

Paul Grégoire, was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Montreal from 1968 to 1990, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1988.

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Peter Kemp, English soldier, mercenary, and writer (born 1915)

Peter Mant MacIntyre Kemp was an English soldier and writer. He became notable for his participation in the Spanish Civil War on the side of Franco's forces and, during World War II, as a member of the Special Operations Executive (SOE).

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30/10/1992

Joan Mitchell, American painter (born 1925)

Joan Mitchell was an American artist who worked primarily in painting and printmaking, and also used pastel and made other works on paper. She was an active participant in the New York School of artists in the 1950s. A native of Chicago, she is associated with the American abstract expressionist movement, even though she lived in France for much of her career.

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30/10/1990

V. Shantaram, Indian actor, director, and producer (born 1901)

Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre, also known as V. Shantaram or Shantaram Bapu, was an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and editor known for his work in Hindi and Marathi films. He is best known for films such as Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani (1946), Amar Bhoopali (1951), Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (1955), Do Aankhen Barah Haath (1957), Navrang (1959), Duniya Na Mane (1937), Pinjara (1972), Chani, Iye Marathiche Nagari and Zunj.

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30/10/1988

T. Hee, American animator and screenwriter (born 1911)

Thornton Hee, commonly known as T. Hee, was an American animator, director, and teacher. He taught character design and caricature.

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Florence Nagle, English trainer and breeder of racehorses (born 1894)

Florence Nagle was a British trainer and breeder of racehorses, a breeder of pedigree dogs, and an active feminist. Nagle purchased her first Irish Wolfhound in 1913, and went on to own or breed twenty-one United Kingdom Champions. Best in Show at Crufts in 1960 was awarded to Sulhamstead Merman, who was bred, owned and exhibited by Nagle. She also competed successfully in field trials with Irish Setters, from the 1920s until the mid-1960s resulting in eighteen Field Trial Champions. The male dog who was a linchpin in the 1970s revival of the Irish Red and White Setter breed was descended from one of Nagle's Irish Setters.

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30/10/1987

Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, scholar, and author (born 1904)

Joseph John Campbell was an American writer and the husband of Jean Erdman. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.

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30/10/1982

Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian author and educator (born 1907)

Daryna Polotniuk, better known by her pen name Iryna Vilde, was a Ukrainian and Soviet writer and correspondent. Vilde's works are now considered classics of Ukrainian literature.

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30/10/1979

Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, inventor of the "bouncing bomb" (born 1887)

Sir Barnes Neville Wallis was an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II.

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30/10/1975

Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)

Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German experimental physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Franck "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom."

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30/10/1973

Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and director (born 1894)

Ants Lauter was an Estonian actor, theatre director and pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1948). He was born in the parish of Velise within Veski, Wiek County, and died, aged 79, in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union.

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30/10/1968

Ramon Novarro, Mexican-American actor, singer, and director (born 1899)

Ramón Gil Samaniego, known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican actor. He began his career in American silent films in 1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box-office attractions of the 1920s and early '30s. Novarro was promoted by MGM as a "Latin lover" and became known as a sex symbol after the death of Rudolph Valentino. He is recognized as the first Latin American actor to succeed in Hollywood.

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Conrad Richter, American journalist and novelist (born 1890)

Conrad Michael Richter was an American novelist whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods. His novel The Town (1950), the last story of his trilogy The Awakening Land about the Ohio frontier, won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His novel The Waters of Kronos won the 1961 National Book Award for Fiction. Two collections of short stories were published posthumously during the 20th century, and several of his novels have been reissued during the 21st century by academic presses.

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Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (born 1886)

Rose Wilder Lane was an American writer and daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Along with two other female writers, Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson, Lane was one of the more influential advocates of the American libertarian movement.

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30/10/1966

Yiorgos Theotokas, Greek author and playwright (born 1906)

Yiorgos Theotokas, formally Georgios Theotokas, was a Greek novelist.

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30/10/1965

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., American historian and author (born 1888)

Arthur Meier Schlesinger was an American historian who taught at Harvard University, pioneering social history and urban history. He was a Progressive Era intellectual who stressed material causes and downplayed ideology and values as motivations for historical actors. He was highly influential as a director of PhD dissertations at Harvard for three decades, especially in the fields of social, women's, and immigration history. His son, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007), also taught at Harvard and was a noted historian.

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30/10/1963

U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1908)

Ukkirapandi Muthuramalinga Thevar ,also known as Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar, was a politician and a patriarch of India from Tamil Nadu. He was elected three times to the national Parliamentary Constituency.

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30/10/1961

Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (born 1874)

Luigi Numa Lorenzo Einaudi was an Italian politician, economist and banker who served as the president of Italy from 1948 to 1955 and is considered one of the founding fathers of the Italian Republic.

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30/10/1957

Fred Beebe, American baseball player and coach (born 1880)

Frederick Leonard Beebe was an American professional baseball player. He played for the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies and Cleveland Indians.

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30/10/1943

Max Reinhardt, Austrian-born American actor and director (born 1873)

Max Reinhardt was an Austrian-born theatre and film director, intendant, and theatrical producer. With his radically innovative and avant-garde stage productions, Reinhardt is regarded as one of the most prominent stage directors of the early 20th century.

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30/10/1942

Walter Buckmaster, English polo player and stockbroker, co-founder of Buckmaster & Moore (born 1872)

Walter Selby Buckmaster was a British polo player in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

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30/10/1933

Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (born 1869)

Svend Kornbeck was a Danish stage and film actor.

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30/10/1929

Norman Pritchard, Indian-English hurdler and actor (born 1877)

Norman Gilbert Pritchard, also known by his stage name Norman Trevor, was a British-Indian athlete and actor who became the first Asian-born athlete to win an Olympic medal when he won two silver medals in athletics at the 1900 Paris Olympics representing India. He won India's first medal at the Olympics in the 200 metres and the 200 metres hurdles.

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30/10/1923

Bonar Law, Canadian-English banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1858)

Andrew Bonar Law was a British statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1922 to May 1923.

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30/10/1919

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (born 1850)

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her works include the collection Poems of Passion and the poem "Solitude", which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death.

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30/10/1917

Talbot Mercer Papineau, Canadian lawyer and soldier (born 1883)

Major Talbot Mercer Papineau MC was a Canadian lawyer and military officer from Quebec.

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30/10/1915

Charles Tupper, Canadian physician, lawyer, and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1821)

Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet, was a Canadian Father of Confederation who served as the sixth prime minister of Canada from May 1 to July 8, 1896. As the premier of Nova Scotia from 1864 to 1867, he led Nova Scotia into Confederation. He briefly served as the Canadian prime minister, from seven days after parliament had been dissolved, until he was dismissed by the Governor General on July 8, 1896, following his party's loss in the 1896 Canadian federal election. He is the only medical doctor to have ever held the office of prime minister of Canada, and his 69-day tenure as prime minister is the shortest in Canadian history.

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30/10/1912

Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean colonel (born 1840)

Alejandro Gorostiaga Orrego, was a Chilean military officer born in La Serena. He joined the Escuela Militar de Chile in 1857 until his retirement in 1878. Alejandro Gorostiaga was of Basque descent.

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James S. Sherman, American lawyer and politician, 27th Vice President of the United States (born 1855)

James Schoolcraft Sherman was the 27th vice president of the United States, serving from 1909 until his death in 1912, under President William Howard Taft. A member of the Republican Party, Sherman was previously a United States representative from New York from 1887 to 1891 and 1893 to 1909. He was a member of the interrelated Baldwin, Hoar, and Sherman families, prominent lawyers and politicians of New England and New York.

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30/10/1910

Henry Dunant, Swiss activist, founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1828)

Henry Dunant, also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, social activist, and co-founder of the Red Cross. His humanitarian efforts won him the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.

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30/10/1905

Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Australian politician, 10th Premier of Queensland (born 1843)

Boyd Dunlop Morehead was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was Premier of Queensland from November 1888 to June 1890.

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30/10/1899

William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (born 1816)

William Henry Webb was a 19th-century New York City shipbuilder and philanthropist, who has been called America's first true naval architect.

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30/10/1896

Carol Benesch, Czech architect, designed Peleș Castle (born 1822)

Carol Benesch was a Silesian architect of Historicism and Eclecticism orientation established in the Kingdom of Romania.

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30/10/1895

James Patterson, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Victoria (born 1833)

Sir James Brown Patterson, was an Australian politician who served as premier of Victoria from 1893 to 1894.

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30/10/1894

Honoré Mercier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (born 1840)

Honoré Mercier was a Canadian lawyer, journalist and politician in Quebec. He was the ninth premier of Quebec from January 27, 1887, to December 21, 1891, as leader of the Parti National or Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ). He rose to power by mobilizing the Francophone opposition to the execution of Louis Riel, denouncing it as a betrayal by John A. Macdonald's Conservative government.

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30/10/1893

John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (born 1821)

Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott was the third prime minister of Canada, serving from 1891 to 1892. He held office as the leader of the Conservative Party.

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30/10/1883

Dayananda Saraswati, Indian philosopher and scholar (born 1824)

Dayanand Saraswati born Mool Shankar Tiwari, was a Hindu philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of Hinduism. His book Satyarth Prakash has remained one of the influential texts on the philosophy of the Vedas and clarifications of various ideas and duties of human beings. He was the first to give the call for Swaraj as "India for Indians" in 1876, a call later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak. Denouncing the idolatry and ritualistic worship, he worked towards reviving Vedic religion. Subsequently, the philosopher and President of India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, called him one of the "makers of Modern India", as did Sri Aurobindo.

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Robert Volkmann, German pianist and composer (born 1815)

Friedrich Robert Volkmann was a German composer.

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30/10/1882

William Forster, Indian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of New South Wales (born 1818)

William Forster was a pastoral squatter, colonial British politician, Premier of New South Wales from 27 October 1859 to 9 March 1860, and poet.

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30/10/1853

Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (born 1786)

Pietro Raimondi was an Italian composer, transitional between the Classical and Romantic eras. While he was famous at the time as a composer of operas and sacred music, he was also as an innovator in contrapuntal technique as well as in creation of gigantic musical simultaneities. He was the director of the Palermo Conservatory from 1833-1852.

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30/10/1842

Allan Cunningham, Scottish author and poet (born 1784)

Allan Cunningham was a Scottish poet and author.

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30/10/1816

Frederick I of Württemberg (born 1754)

Frederick I was the ruler of Württemberg from 1797 to his death. He was the last duke of Württemberg from 1797 to 1803 and then the only elector of Württemberg from 1803 to 1806. With the approval of Napoleon, he became the first king of Württemberg in 1806.

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30/10/1809

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1738)

William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland was a British Whig and then a Tory politician during the late Georgian era. He served as chancellor of the University of Oxford (1792–1809) and as Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783) and then of the United Kingdom (1807–1809). The gap of 26 years between his two terms as prime minister is the longest of any British prime minister. He is also an ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II, and therefore King Charles III through his great-granddaughter Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

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30/10/1757

Osman III, Ottoman sultan (born 1699)

Osman III was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1754 to 1757. He was succeeded by his cousin Mustafa III.

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Edward Vernon, English admiral and politician (born 1684)

Admiral Edward Vernon was a Royal Navy officer and politician. He had a long and distinguished career, rising to the rank of admiral after 46 years service. As a vice admiral during the War of Jenkins' Ear, in 1739 he was responsible for the capture of Portobelo, Panama, seen as expunging the failure of Admiral Hosier there in a previous conflict. However, his amphibious operation against the Spanish port of Cartagena de Indias was a disastrous defeat. Vernon also served as a Member of Parliament (MP) on three occasions and was outspoken on naval matters in Parliament, making him a controversial figure.

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30/10/1730

Nedîm, Turkish poet (born 1681)

Ahmed Effendi, better known by his mahlas Nedîm, was an Ottoman lyric poet of the Tulip Period. He achieved his greatest fame during the reign of Ahmed III. He was known for his slightly decadent, even licentious poetry often couched in the most staid of classical formats, but also for bringing the folk poetic forms of türkü and şarkı into the court.

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30/10/1690

Hieronymus van Beverningh, Dutch diplomat and politician (born 1614)

Hieronymus van Beverningh was a prominent Dutch regent, diplomat, amateur botanist, and patron of the arts, who lived during the Dutch Golden Age.

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30/10/1685

Michel Le Tellier, French lawyer and politician, French Secretary of State for War (born 1603)

Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Barbezieux, seigneur de Chaville et de Viroflay was a French statesman.

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30/10/1680

Antoinette Bourignon, French-Flemish mystic (born 1616)

Antoinette Bourignon de la Porte was a French-Flemish mystic and adventurer. She taught that the end times would come soon and that the Last Judgment would then fall. Her belief was that she was chosen by God to restore true Christianity on earth and became the central figure of a spiritual network that extended beyond the borders of the Dutch Republic, including Holstein and Scotland. Bourignon's sect belonged to the spiritualist movements that have been characterized as the "third power".

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30/10/1654

Emperor Go-Kōmyō of Japan (born 1633)

Tsuguhito , posthumously honored as Emperor Go-Kōmyō , was the 110th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

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30/10/1632

Henri II de Montmorency, French admiral and politician (born 1595)

Henri de Montmorency, 4th Duke of Montmorency was a French nobleman and military commander. Made Grand admiral in 1612, governor of Languedoc in 1614, and by 1620 was viceroy of New France. Despite defeating a Protestant fleet and seizing islands of Ré and Oléron, Cardinal Richelieu kept him from taking advantage of these victories. Henri defeated the Duke of Rohan in Languedoc during 1628-1629. He gained notoriety as a military commander in Piedmont during the War of the Mantuan Succession in 1630. Joining the forces of Gaston, Duke of Orleans, Henri raised an army and was severely wounded at Battle of Castelnaudary. Captured, he was executed on 30 October 1632, by a guillotine-like device.

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30/10/1626

Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (born 1580)

Willebrord Snellius (born Willebrord Snel van Royen, also Willebrord van Roijen Snell, commonly known simply as Snellius and Snell, was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician.

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30/10/1611

Charles IX of Sweden (born 1550)

Charles IX, also Carl, reigned as King of Sweden from 1604 until 1611. He was the youngest son of King Gustav I and his second wife, Margaret Leijonhufvud, the brother of King John III and half-brother of King Eric XIV, and the uncle of Sigismund, who became king both of Sweden and of Poland. By his father's will, Charles received, by way of appanage, the Duchy of Södermanland, which included the provinces of Närke and Värmland; but he did not come into actual possession of them till after the fall of Eric and the succession to the throne of John in 1569.

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30/10/1602

Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet and illustrator (born 1528)

Jean-Jacques Boissard was an antiquary and Neo-Latin poet.

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30/10/1553

Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German politician (born 1489)

Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck was a German statesman, one of the preeminent promoters of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.

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30/10/1522

Jean Mouton, French composer and educator (born 1459)

Jean Mouton was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was famous both for his motets, which are among the most refined of the time, and for being the teacher of Adrian Willaert, one of the founders of the Venetian School.

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30/10/1466

Johann Fust, German printer (born c. 1400)

Johann Fust or Faust was an early German printer.

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30/10/1459

Poggio Bracciolini, Italian scholar and translator (born 1380)

Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, usually referred to simply as Poggio Bracciolini, was an Italian scholar and an early Renaissance humanist. He is noted for rediscovering and recovering many classical Latin manuscripts, mostly decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and French monastic libraries. His most celebrated finds are De rerum natura, the only surviving work by Lucretius, De architectura by Vitruvius, lost orations by Cicero such as Pro Sexto Roscio, Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria, Statius' Silvae, Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae, and Silius Italicus's Punica, as well as works by several minor authors such as Frontinus' De aquaeductu, Nonius Marcellus, Probus, Flavius Caper, and Eutyches.

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30/10/1282

Ibn Khallikan, Iraqi scholar and judge (born 1211)

Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Abū Bakr ibn Khallikān, better known as Ibn Khallikān, was a renowned Islamic historian who compiled the celebrated biographical encyclopedia of Muslim scholars and important men in Muslim history, Deaths of Eminent Men and the Sons of the Epoch. Due to this achievement, he is regarded as the most eminent writer of biographies in Islamic history.

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30/10/1137

Sergius VII, Duke of Naples

Sergius VII was the thirty-ninth and last duke of Naples. He succeeded his father John VI on the Neapolitan throne in 1122 at a time when Roger II of Sicily was rising rapidly in power. When Roger succeeded as duke of Apulia in 1127 and was crowned king in 1130, the fate of Naples hinged on Sergius' relations with the Sicilian court.

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30/10/0526

Paul of Edessa, Syriac Orthodox bishop of Edessa

Paul of Edessa was the Syriac Orthodox bishop of Edessa from 510 until his death with the exception of two periods of exile in 519 and 522–526.

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