What happened on June 30 ?

350 - Nepotianus, Roman usurper

1181 - Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)

1364 - Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)

1538 - Charles of Egmond, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)

1579 - Mehmed Pasha Sokolovi?, Turkish Janissary

1597 - Willem Barents, Dutch explorer

1607 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)

1660 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)

1666 - Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620)

1670 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)

1709 - Edward Llwyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)

1785 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)

1796 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)

1857 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)

1882 - Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of President James A. Garfield (b. 1841)

1890 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819)

1919 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842)

1934 - Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)

1953 - Charles William Miller, father of football in Brazil (b. 1874)

1959 - José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)

1961 - Lee DeForest, American inventor (b. 1873)

1966 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (b. 1906)

1971 - Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)

1971 - Crew of Soyuz 11 Viktor Patsayev (b. 1933)

Georgi Dobrovolski (b. 1928)

Vladislav Volkov (b. 1935)

1974 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)

1976 - Firpo Marberry, baseball player (b. 1898)

1984 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)

1993 - George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)

1993 - Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer (b. 1962)

1995 - Gale Gordon, American actor (b. 1906)

1995 - Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1921)

1995 - Phyllis Hyman, American jazz vocalist (b. 1949)

2001 - Chet Atkins, American guitarist (b. 1924)

2003 - Buddy Hackett, American comic (b. 1924)

2003 - Robert McCloskey, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1915)

2006 - Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)