May 30

May 30 is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 215 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres.
• 1416 – The Council of Constance, called by Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
• 1431 – Hundred Years' War: in Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. The Catholic Church remembers this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.
• 1434 – Hussite Wars: Battle of Lipany – effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
• 1510 – During the reign of the Zhengde Emperor, Ming Dynasty rebel leader Zhu Zhifan is defeated by commander Qiu Yue, ending the Prince of Anhua rebellion.
• 1536 – King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
• 1539 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
• 1574 – Henry III becomes King of France.
• 1588 – The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
• 1631 – Publication of La Gazette, the first French newspaper.
• 1635 – Thirty Years' War: the Peace of Prague is signed.
• 1642 – From this date all honors granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.
• 1806 – Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
• 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition – the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon I is exiled to Elba.
• 1815 – The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
• 1832 – End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
• 1832 – The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
• 1834 – Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law extinguishing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders", earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
• 1842 – John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London with Prince Albert.
• 1854 – The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
• 1868 – Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time (by "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5).
• 1876 – Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
• 1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
• 1899 – Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
• 1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
• 1913 – First Balkan War: the Treaty of London (1913), is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
• 1914 – The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York, New York.
• 1917 – Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
• 1922 – The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
• 1925 – May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.
• 1937 – Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill 10 labor demonstrators.
• 1941 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the Nazi swastika.
• 1942 – World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
• 1948 – A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon, within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
• 1958 – Memorial Day: the remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1959 – The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham.
• 1961 – The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
• 1963 – A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
• 1966 – The former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
• 1966 – Launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to land on an extraterrestrial body.
• 1967 – The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
• 1968 – Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
• 1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
• 1972 – The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
• 1972 – In Tel Aviv, Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
• 1974 – The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
• 1989 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: the 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
• 1998 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
• 1998 – Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt.
• 2003 – Depayin massacre: at least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
• 2012 – The former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.

Births

• 1010 – Emperor Renzong of Song (d. 1063)
• 1220 – Alexander Nevsky (d.1263)
• 1423 – Georg von Peuerbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)
• 1623 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)
• 1653 – Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676)
• 1713 – Princess Caroline of Great Britain (d. 1757)
• 1718 – Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d. 1793)
• 1719 – Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)
• 1757 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, English statesman (d. 1844)
• 1768 – Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, French commander (d. 1815)
• 1768 – Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1873)
• 1800 – Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose French bishop and senator (d. 1883)
• 1814 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary, and philosopher, and theorist (d. 1876)
• 1814 – Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894)
• 1819 – William McMurdo, English army officer (d. 1894)
• 1820 – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French-Canadian politician, 1st Premier of Quebec (d. 1890)
• 1835 – Alfred Austin, English poet (d. 1913)
• 1844 – Félix Arnaudin, French poet and photographer (d. 1921)
• 1845 – Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1890)
• 1846 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
• 1858 – Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941)
• 1871 – Olga Engl, Austrian actress (d. 1946)
• 1874 – Ernest Duchesne, French physician (d. 1912)
• 1875 – Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944)
• 1878 – Mike Donlin, American baseball player (d. 1933)
• 1879 – Colin Blythe, English cricketer (d. 1917)
• 1881 – Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)
• 1882 – Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (d. 1915)
• 1886 – Laurent Barré, Canadian author and politician (d. 1964)
• 1886 – Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918)
• 1887 – Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian artist (d. 1964)
• 1887 – Paulette Noizeux, French actress (d. 1971)
• 1890 – Roger Salengro, French politician (d. 1936)
• 1892 – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)
• 1894 – Hubertus van Mook, Dutch administrator and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1965)
• 1895 – Maurice Tate, English cricketer (d. 1956)
• 1896 – Howard Hawks, American director (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d. 1936)
• 1901 – Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (d. 1979)
• 1902 – Stepin Fetchit, American dancer and actor (d. 1985)
• 1903 – Countee Cullen, American poet (d. 1946)
• 1906 – Bruno Gröning, German mystic (d. 1959)
• 1907 – Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
• 1907 – Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)
• 1908 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• 1908 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989)
• 1909 – Benny Goodman, American clarinetist, songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1986)
• 1909 – Jacques Canetti, French music executive and talent agent (d. 1997)
• 1910 – Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete and politician (d. 1978)
• 1910 – Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
• 1910 – Harry Bernstein, English-American writer (d. 2011)
• 1912 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Erich Bagge, German physicist (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980)
• 1912 – Millicent Selsam, American children's author (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Joseph Stein, American playwright (d. 2010)
• 1914 – Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (d. 1979)
• 1916 – Justin Catayée, French politician (d. 1962)
• 1916 – Mort Meskin, American comics artist (d. 1995)
• 1918 – Pita Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
• 1918 – Bob Evans, American restaurateur and businessman, founder of Bob Evans Restaurants (d. 2007)
• 1919 – René Barrientos, Bolivian politician, 55th President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
• 1920 – Franklin J. Schaffner, American director (d. 1989)
• 1922 – Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Anna Proclemer, Italian actress (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Marv Diemer, American businessman and politician (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Christine Jorgensen, American transgender (d. 1989)
• 1927 – Clint Walker, American actor
• 1928 – Agnès Varda, French director
• 1928 – Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Georges Gilson, French bishop
• 1930 – Mark Birley, English nightclub owner, founded Annabel's (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Robert Ryman, American painter
• 1931 – Larry Silverstein, American businessman and real estate investor
• 1932 – Pauline Oliveros, American accordionist, composer, and author (Deep Listening Band)
• 1934 – Alexey Leonov, Russian astronaut
• 1934 – Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach
• 1935 – Lee Gunther, American producer and editor (d. 1998)
• 1935 – Guy Tardif, Canadian politician (d. 2005)
• 1936 – Keir Dullea, American actor
• 1936 – Stanislav Hurenko, Ukrainian politician (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Ruta Lee, Canadian actress
• 1937 – Rick Mather, American-English architect (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Harry Statham, American basketball coach
• 1938 – David Early, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Michael J. Pollard, American actor
• 1939 – Dieter Quester, Austrian race car driver
• 1940 – Gilles Villemure, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1943 – James Chaney, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
• 1943 – Gale Sayers, American football player
• 1944 – Peter E. Berger, American film editor (d. 2011)
• 1944 – Lenny Davidson, English guitarist (The Dave Clark Five)
• 1944 – Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1944 – Stav Prodromou, Greek-American businessman
• 1945 – Norman Eshley, English actor
• 1946 – Allan Chapman, English historian
• 1947 – Jocelyne Bourassa, French-Canadian golfer
• 1948 – Michael Piller, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
• 1949 – P. J. Carlesimo, American basketball coach
• 1949 – Klaus Flouride, American musician, songwriter, and producer (Dead Kennedys)
• 1949 – Bob Willis, English cricketer
• 1950 – Bertrand Delanoë, French politician
• 1950 – Dann Glenn, American bassist, composer, and author
• 1950 – Paresh Rawal, Indian actor
• 1951 – Zdravko Čolić, Yugoslavian singer-songwriter (Ambasadori and Korni Grupa)
• 1951 – Fernando Lugo, Paraguayan politician
• 1951 – Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor
• 1952 – Kerry Fraser, Canadian ice hockey referee
• 1952 – Scott Holmes, American actor
• 1953 – Colm Meaney, Irish actor
• 1955 – Jake Roberts, American wrestler
• 1955 – Topper Headon, English musician and songwriter (The Clash and Mirkwood)
• 1958 – Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician (Roxette)
• 1958 – Steve Israel, American politician
• 1958 – Ted McGinley, American actor
• 1958 – Michael López-Alegría, Spanish-American astronaut
• 1959 – Phil Brown, English footballer and manager
• 1959 – Randy Ferbey, Canadian curler
• 1959 – Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician
• 1961 – Harry Enfield, English comedian, actor, writer, and director
• 1961 – Ralph Carter, American actor
• 1961 – Glen Newey, British political philosopher and writer
• 1961 – Bob Yari, Iranian-American film producer
• 1962 – Kevin Eastman, American comic book artist, writer, and publisher
• 1962 – Tonya Pinkins, American actress
• 1963 – Michel Langevin, Canadian drummer and songwriter (Voivod)
• 1963 – Élise Lucet, French journalist and television host
• 1963 – Helen Sharman, English chemist and astronaut
• 1964 – Wynonna Judd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Judds)
• 1964 – Tom Morello, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and activist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine, The Nightwatchman, and Axis of Justice)
• 1964 – Andrea Montermini, Italian race car driver
• 1965 – Billy Donovan, American basketball player and coach
• 1965 – Abderraouf Jdey, Tunisian terrorist
• 1965 – Iginio Straffi, Italian businessman, founder of Rainbow S.r.l.
• 1966 – Stephen Malkmus, American singer and musician (Pavement and Silver Jews)
• 1967 – Tim Burgess, English singer-songwriter (The Charlatans and The Chavs)
• 1968 – Jason Kenney, Canadian politician
• 1968 – Zacarias Moussaoui, French terrorist
• 1969 – Ryuhei Kitamura, Japanese director and screenwriter
• 1969 – Naomi Kawase, Japanese director
• 1970 – Flora Chan, Hong Kong actress
• 1970 – Ness Wadia, Indian businessman
• 1971 – Duncan Jones, English director
• 1971 – Idina Menzel, American actress and singer
• 1971 – Jiří Šlégr, Czech ice hockey player
• 1972 – Manny Ramirez, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1972 – Sōichirō Hoshi, Japanese voice actor
• 1973 – Leigh Francis, English comedian and actor
• 1974 – Cee Lo Green, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (Goodie Mob and Gnarls Barkley)
• 1974 – Big L, American rapper (Children of the Corn and Diggin' in the Crates Crew) (d. 1999)
• 1974 – Kostas Chalkias, Greek footballer
• 1974 – Shin Ha-kyun, South Korean actor
• 1974 – David Wilkie, American ice hockey player
• 1975 – Evan Eschmeyer, American basketball player
• 1975 – Brian Fair, American singer and musician (Shadows Fall and Overcast)
• 1975 – Andy Farrell, English rugby player
• 1976 – Radoslav Nesterović, Slovenian basketball player
• 1976 – Magnus Norman, Swedish tennis player
• 1976 – Margaret Okayo, Kenyan runner
• 1976 – Leonel Grave de Peralta, Cuban activist
• 1977 – Akwá, Angolan footballer
• 1977 – Marc Dos Santos, Canadian soccer manager and coach
• 1977 – Rachael Stirling, English actress
• 1977 – Federico Vilar, Argentine footballer
• 1978 – Cyrus King, American actor
• 1978 – Lyoto Machida, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1978 – Kevin Hart, American comedian
• 1979 – Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 – Rie Kugimiya, Japanese voice actress
• 1979 – Clint Bowyer, American race car driver
• 1979 – Fabian Ernst, German footballer
• 1979 – Francis Lessard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Steven Gerrard, English footballer
• 1981 – Devendra Banhart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Megapuss)
• 1981 – Blake Bashoff, American actor
• 1981 – Gianmaria Bruni, Italian race car driver
• 1981 – Ahmad Elrich, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Remy Ma, American rapper and songwriter (Terror Squad)
• 1981 – Lars Møller Madsen, Danish handball player
• 1981 – Hisanori Takada, Japanese footballer
• 1982 – Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007)
• 1982 – James Simpson-Daniel, English rugby player
• 1983 – Jennifer Ellison, English actress, model, singer, and dancer
• 1984 – Matt Maguire, Australian rules footballer
• 1984 – Jordan Palmer, American football player
• 1984 – Sham Kwok Fai, Hong Kong footballer
• 1984 – Alexander Sulzer, German ice hockey player
• 1985 – Aaron Volpatti, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Jennifer Winget, Indian Actress
• 1987 – Joyce Cheng, Hong Kong singer, writer, actress, and model
• 1988 – Antonio Winterstein, Australian rugby player
• 1988 – Kelvin Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
• 1989 – Ailee, American-Korean singer and actress
• 1989 – Hyomin, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (T-ara)
• 1989 – Kevin Covais, American singer and actor
• 1989 – Lesia Tsurenko, Ukrainian tennis player
• 1990 – Dean Collins, American actor
• 1990 – Andrei Loktionov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Im Yoona, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation)
• 1991 – Jonathan Fox, English swimmer
• 1992 – Liam Mower, English actor and dancer
• 1994 – Madeon, French music producer
• 1996 – Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazilian tennis player
• 1997 – Jake Short, American actor
• 2000 – Jared S. Gilmore, American actor

Deaths

• 1159 – Władysław II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
• 1252 – Ferdinand III of Castile (b. 1199)
• 1416 – Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (b. 1379)
• 1431 – Joan of Arc, French military figure (b. 1412)
• 1434 – Prokop the Great, Hussite general
• 1469 – Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop (b. 1382)
• 1574 – Charles IX of France (b. 1550)
• 1576 – Harada Naomasa, Japanese samurai retainer
• 1593 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)
• 1640 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
• 1696 – Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Tewkesbury, English politician (b. 1638)
• 1712 – Andrea Lanzani, Italian painter (b. 1645)
• 1718 – Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, (b. 1670)
• 1730 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
• 1744 – Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688)
• 1770 – François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
• 1778 – Voltaire, French writer, philosopher, and author (b. 1694)
• 1826 – Germanos III of Old Patras, Greek Metropolitan (b. 1771)
• 1829 – Philibert Jean-Baptiste Curial, French general (b. 1774)
• 1832 – James Mackintosh, Scottish jurist, politician, and historian (b. 1765)
• 1865 – John Catron, American jurist (b. 1786)
• 1868 – Okita Sōji, Japanese Shinsengumi captain (b. 1823)
• 1901 – Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)
• 1911 – Milton Bradley, American businessman, founder of the Milton Bradley Company (b. 1836)
• 1912 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1867)
• 1918 – Georgi Plekhanov, Russian theoretician (b. 1856)
• 1925 – Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)
• 1926 – Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
• 1934 – Tōgō Heihachirō, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
• 1939 – Floyd Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1904)
• 1941 – Prajadhipok, King of Thailand (b. 1893)
• 1946 – Louis Slotin, Canadian scientist (b. 1910)
• 1947 – Georg Johannes von Trapp, Austro-Hungarian navy officer (b. 1880)
• 1948 – József Klekl, Slovene politician (b. 1874)
• 1949 – Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French Cardinal (b. 1874)
• 1951 – Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)
• 1953 – Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (b. 1886)
• 1955 – Bill Vukovich, American race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1960 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1961 – Rafael Trujillo, Dominican politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
• 1964 – Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian king (b. 1882)
• 1964 – Leó Szilárd, Hungarian physicist (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Eddie Sachs, American race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1964 – Dave MacDonald, American race car driver (b. 1936)
• 1965 – Louis Hjelmslev, Danish linguist (b. 1899)
• 1967 – Claude Rains, English actor (b. 1889)
• 1967 – Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian director (b. 1885)
• 1971 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
• 1975 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951)
• 1975 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (b. 1908)
• 1975 – Michel Simon, French actor (b. 1895)
• 1976 – Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890)
• 1976 – Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain (b. 1902)
• 1978 – Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violinist, conductor, and composer (b. 1909)
• 1980 – Carl Radle, American musician and producer (Delaney & Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos) (b. 1942)
• 1981 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
• 1981 – Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi statesman (b. 1936)
• 1986 – Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940)
• 1993 – Sun Ra, American musician, bandleader, and composer (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Ezra Taft Benson, American religious figure (b. 1899)
• 1994 – Marcel Bich, French businessman and industrialist, co-founder of Société Bic (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
• 1995 – Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Lofty England, English automotive engineer (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Bobby Stokes, English footballer (b. 1951)
• 1996 – Léon-Étienne Duval, French cardinal (b. 1903)
• 1996 – Alo Mattiisen, Estonian composer (b. 1961)
• 2000 – Tex Beneke, American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Doris Hare, Welsh actress (b. 1905)
• 2001 – Denis Whitaker, Canadian soldier and author (b. 1915)
• 2003 – Mickie Most, English singer and producer, founded Rak Records (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958)
• 2005 – Alma Ziegler, American baseball player (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese director (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2006 – David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and author (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Lorenzo Odone, American adrenoleukodystrophy patient (b. 1978)
• 2008 – Noel Moore, English civil servant (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Auguste Legros, French politician (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician (b. 1916)
• 2010 – Dufferin Roblin, Canadian politician (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Joan Rhodes, English wrestler, stuntwoman, and strongwoman (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Peter Orlovsky, American poet (b. 1933)
• 2011 – Ricky Bruch, Swedish athlete and actor (b. 1946)
• 2011 – Henri Chammartin, Swiss horse rider (b. 1918)
• 2011 – Paul B. Ferrara, American scientist (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Eddie Morrison, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1948)
• 2011 – Hans Nogler, Austrian skier (b. 1919)
• 2011 – Isikia Savua, Fijian diplomat (b. 1952)
• 2011 – Marek Siemek, Polish philosopher and historian (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Clarice Taylor, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Giorgio Tozzi, American opera singer (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Saleem Shahzad, Pakistani journalist (b. 1970)
• 2011 – Tillmann Uhrmacher, German DJ, producer, and radio host (b. 1967)
• 2011 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Pete Cosey, American guitarist (b. 1943)
• 2012 – John Fox, American comedian (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Charles Lemmond, American politician (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Farideh Mashini, Iranian activist
• 2012 – Gerhard Pohl, German politician (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Jack Twyman, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Rituparno Ghosh, Indian filmmaker (b. 1963)

Holidays and observances

• Anguilla Day, commemorates the beginning of the Anguillian Revolution in 1967. (Anguilla)
• Canary Islands Day (Canary Islands)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Earliest day on which Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary can fall, while July 3 is the latest; celebrated 20 days after Pentecost. (Catholic Church)
  • Ferdinand III of Castile
  • Isaac of Dalmatia
  • Joan of Arc (celebrated in France)
  • May 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Indian Arrival Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Lod Massacre Remembrance Day (Puerto Rico)
• Mother's Day (Nicaragua)
• Parliament Day (Croatia)
• The first day of the Kaamatan harvest festival (Labuan, Sabah)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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