What happened on March 30 ?

1486 - Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury

1526 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)

1540 - Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469)

1559 - Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)

1587 - Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507)

1662 - François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)

1707 - Vauban, French architect (b. 1633)

1764 - Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (b. 1695)

1783 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)

1804 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (b. 1718)

1840 - Beau Brummell, English celebrity and dandy (b. 1778)

1842 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b. 1755)

1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815)

1912 - Karl May, German author (b. 1842)

1936 - Conchita Supervia, Spanish oper singer (b. 1895)

1943 - Jan Bytnar, Polish activist

1943 - Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)

1949 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)

1950 - Léon Blum, French prime minister (b. 1872)

1959 - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)

1965 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)

1966 - Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b. 1870)

1968 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)

1970 - Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)

1972 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (b. 1890)

1977 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929).

1981 - DeWitt Wallace, American publisher (b. 1889)

1984 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (b. 1904)

1985 - Harold Peary, American actor and singer (heart attack) (b. 1908)

1986 - James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)

1999 - Gary Morton, American film and television producer (b. 1924)

2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)

2003 - Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)

2003 - Valentin Pavlov, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1937)

2004 - Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (b. 1908)

2004 - Hubert Gregg, British broadcaster (b. 1914)

2004 - Michael King, New Zealand historian (b. 1945)

2004 - Timi Yuro, American singer (b. 1940)

2005 - Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)

2005 - Milton Green, American athlete (b. 1913)

2005 - Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist (b. 1919)

2005 - O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist (b. 1930)

2005 - Derrick Plourde, American drummer (b. 1971)

2006 - Red Hickey, American football coach (b. 1917)