What happened on May 30 ?

1159 - Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)

1252 - King Ferdinand III of Castile

1416 - Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (executed) (b. 1379)

1431 - Joan of Arc, French peasant girl that joined the French royal army, heroine and saint (burned at the stake) (b. 1412)

1434 - Prokop the Great, Hussite general

1469 - Lope de Barrientos ?a powerful bishop in Castile

1574 - King Charles IX of France (b. 1550)

1576 - Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai

1593 - Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)

1640 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)

1696 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)

1718 - Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch favorite of William III of England (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 philosopher and author (b. 1694)

1865 - John Catron, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

1868 - Souji Okita, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1823

1901 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)

1912 - Wilbur Wright, Aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) (b. 1867)

1925 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)

1926 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)

1934 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)

1941 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)

1951 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)

1953 - Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)

1955 - Bill Vukovich, Auto racer, killed during 1955 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1918)

1960 - Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b. 1890)

1961 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)

1964 - Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born nuclear physicist (b. 1898)

1964 - Eddie Sachs, American auto racer, killed during 1964 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1927)

1967 - Claude Rains, English actor (b. 1889)

1971 - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)

1975 - Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951)

1975 - Michel Simon, French actor (b. 1895)

1980 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (b. 1942)

1986 - Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940)

1993 - Sun Ra, American musician (b. 1914)

2000 - Tex Beneke, American bandleader, singer, and saxophone player (b. 1914)

2003 - Mickie Most, English musician (b. 1938)

2005 - Tomasz Pacy?ski, Polish writer (b. 1958)

2006 - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)