History Deaths on December 30

Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910)

#Artie_Shaw

Erica Garner, American civil rights activist (b. 1990)

#Erica_Garner

Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor and landscaper (b. 1904)

#Isamu_Noguchi

Josephine Butler, English feminist and social reformer (b. 1828)

#Josephine_Butler

Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852)

#Hans_Niels_Andersen

Romain Rolland, French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)

#Romain_Rolland

Francis Lewis, Welsh-American merchant and politician (b. 1713)

#Francis_Lewis

Louis III, Elector Palatine (b. 1378)

#Louis_III,_Elector_Palatine

Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (b. 1869)

#Grigori_Rasputin

Paul Sally, American mathematician and academic (b. 1933)

#Paul_Sally

Kinnaird R. McKee, American admiral (b. 1929)

#Kinnaird_R._McKee

Raghuvir Sahay, Indian author, poet, and critic (b. 1929)

#Raghuvir_Sahay

Archduke Eugen of Austria (b. 1863)

#Archduke_Eugen_of_Austria

Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter (b. 1889)

#Han_van_Meegeren

Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1844)

#Thomas-Alfred_Bernier

Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer (b. 1902)

#Richard_Rodgers

Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1919)

#Vikram_Sarabhai

Job of Manyava, Ukrainian monk and saint (b. 1550)

#Job_of_Manyava

Jakob Fugger, German banker and businessman (b. 1459)

#Jakob_Fugger

Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1909)

#Julius_J._Epstein

Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian author and poet (b. 1504)

#Giovanni_Battista_Giraldi

Doug Atkins, American football player (b. 1930)

#Doug_Atkins

Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art (b. 1566)

#Giovanni_Baglione

Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian journalist and politician, 4th President of Indonesia (b. 1940)

#Abdurrahman_Wahid

José Rizal, Filipino ophthalmologist, journalist, and author (b. 1861)

#José_Rizal

Bobby Farrell, Dutch dancer and performer from Aruba (b. 1949)

#Bobby_Farrell

Mangesh Padgaonkar, Indian poet, playwright, and translator (b. 1929)

#Mangesh_Padgaonkar

Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (b. 1928)

#Carl_Woese

Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1926)

#Shinichi_Hoshi

Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician (b. 1577)

#Jan_Baptist_van_Helmont

Eleanor J. Gibson, American psychologist and academic (b. 1910)

#Eleanor_J._Gibson

Jo Cals, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1914)

#Jo_Cals

Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli (b. 1512)

#Galeazzo_Alessi

Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (b. 1411)

#Richard_of_York,_3rd_Duke_of_York

Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)

#Era_Bell_Thompson

Johnny Orr, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)

#Johnny_Orr_(basketball,_born_1927)

Ralph Flanagan, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1914)

#Ralph_Flanagan

Egwin of Evesham, bishop of Worcester

#Egwin_of_Evesham

Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria (b. 1628)

#Ferdinand_Charles,_Archduke_of_Austria

Bonne of Berry, Regent of Savoy (b. 1362)

#Bonne_of_Berry

John Francis Regis, French priest and saint (b. 1597)

#John_Francis_Regis

Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo, Brazilian poet and painter (b. 1806)

#Manuel_de_Araújo_Porto-Alegre,_Baron_of_Santo_Ângelo

Jim Galloway, Scottish-Canadian clarinet player and saxophonist (b. 1936)

#Jim_Galloway

Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-American director and producer (b. 1923)

#Beate_Sirota_Gordon

Rex Ingamells, Australian poet and author (b. 1913)

#Rex_Ingamells

Mary Brian, American actress (b. 1906)

#Mary_Brian

Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada (b. 1887)

#Vincent_Massey

Bernard Gui, inquisitor (b. 1261 or 1262)

#Bernard_Gui

Luise Rainer, German-born American-British actress (b. 1910)

#Luise_Rainer

Alberto Vargas, Peruvian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1896)

#Alberto_Vargas

Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948)

#Michel_Plasse

El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (b. 1890)

#El_Lissitzky

Trygve Lie, Norwegian journalist and politician, 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1896)

#Trygve_Lie

Saddam Hussein, Iraqi general and politician, 5th President of Iraq (b. 1937)

#Saddam_Hussein

Wang Shenzhi, founder of Min (b. 862)

#Wang_Shenzhi

Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian-French physicist and academic (b. 1907)

#Giuseppe_Occhialini

Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)

#Lew_Ayres

Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian painter and academic (b. 1702)

#Francesco_Zuccarelli

Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1727)

#Maximilian_III_Joseph,_Elector_of_Bavaria

Song Jin-woo, South Korean journalist and politician (b. 1889)

#Song_Jin-woo_(journalist)

Violette Cordery, English race car driver (b. 1900)

#Violette_Cordery

Pope Innocent IX (b. 1519)

#Pope_Innocent_IX

Terry Becker, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1921)

#Terry_Becker

Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine

#Theodoric_II,_Duke_of_Lorraine

?hsan Sabri Ça?layangil, Turkish lawyer and politician, 20th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1908)

#?hsan_Sabri_Ça?layangil

Howard Pawley, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1934)

Howard Davis, Jr., American boxer and trainer (b. 1956)

Eiichi Ohtaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1948)

José María Maguregui, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1934)

Dennis Ferguson, Australian sex offender (b. 1948)

Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)

Philip Coppens, Belgian-American journalist and author (b. 1971)

Ronald Searle, English-French cartoonist (b. 1920)

Rowland S. Howard, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1959)

Terry Peck, Falkland Islander police officer and spy (b. 1938)

Rona Jaffe, American novelist (b. 1932)

Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer and coach (b. 1940)

John Gregory Dunne, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1932)

Mary Wesley, English author (b. 1912)

Sarah Knauss, American supercentenarian (b. 1880)

Des Renford, Australian swimmer (b. 1927)

Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, co-designed the Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge and Fernsehturm Stuttgart (b. 1909)

Joff Ellen, Australian comedian and actor (b. 1915)

Sam Muchnick, American wrestling promoter, co-founded the National Wrestling Alliance (b. 1905)

Doris Grau, American voice actor and script supervisor (b. 1924)

Dmitri Ivanenko, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (b. 1904)

Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (b. 1907)

Romeo Muller, American actor, screenwriter, for screenplays like the 1964, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special) (b. 1928)

Yuli Daniel, Russian author and poet (b. 1925)

Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932)

Alfred North Whitehead, English-American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)

Childe Wills, American engineer (b. 1878)

Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1874)

Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Irish-Austrian soldier and courtier (b. 1685)

Edmund, Earl of Rutland, Irish politician, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b. 1443)

Tian Jun, Chinese warlord (b. 858)

Pope Felix I