What happened on April 30 ?

65 - Lucan, Roman poet (b. 39)

1063 - Emperor Renzong of China (b. 1010)

1341 - John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1285)

1439 - Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English military leader (b. 1382)

1524 - Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473)

1544 - Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England

1555 - Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501)

1632 - Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly, Bavarian general (b. 1559)

1642 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (b. 1578)

1660 - Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (b. 1576)

1655 - Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (b. 1617)

1696 - Robert Plot, British naturalist (b. 1640)

1712 - Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Protestant theologian (b. 1633)

1736 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German classical scholar and bibliographer (b. 1668)

1758 - François d'Agincourt, French composer (b. 1684)

1792 - John Montagu, Supposed inventor of the sandwich (b. 1718)

1795 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (b. 1716)

1847 - Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (b. 1771)

1865 - Robert Fitzroy, English admiral and meteorologist (b. 1805)

1875 - Jean Frederic Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)

1883 - ÿdouard Manet, French painter (b. 1832)

1900 - Casey Jones, American train engineer (b. 1863)

1903 - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (b.1831)

1936 - Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (b. 1859)

1943 - Otto Jespersen, Danish philologist (b. 1860)

1945 - Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's new wife (suicide) (b. 1912)

1945 - Adolf Hitler, Austrian Nazi dictator of Germany (suicide) (b. 1889)

1956 - Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (b. 1877)

1970 - Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (b. 1934)

1974 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)

1980 - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1898)

1982 - Lester Bangs, American music journalist, author, and musician (b. 1949)

1983 - George Balanchine, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)

1983 - Muddy Waters, American musician (b. 1915)

1985 - Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist

1989 - Yi, Bang-ja, Crown Princess of Korea (b. 1901)

1989 - Sergio Leone, Italian filmmaker (b. 1929)

1994 - Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (b. 1960)

1994 - Richard Scarry, American author (b. 1919)

1998 - Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet (b. 1926)

2002 - Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf. (b. 1928)

2003 - Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1956)

2003 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (b. 1923)

2003 - Mark Berger, University of Kentucky Professor

2005 - Ron Todd, TGWU General Secretary (1985 - 1992) (b. 1927)

2006 - Paul Spiegel (b. 1937)