What happened on July 30 ?

578 - Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa

579 - Pope Benedict I

1540 - Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)

1540 - Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)

1550 - Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)

1652 - Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)

1680 - Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)

1683 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)

1691 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)

1715 - Nahum Tate, Irish poet (b. 1652)

1718 - William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)

1771 - Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)

1875 - George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)

1898 - Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor (b. 1815)

1900 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)

1912 - Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852)

1918 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)

1947 - Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)

1971 - Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)

1983 - Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)

1983 - Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b. 1887)

1985 - Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)

1989 - Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)

1992 - Joe Shuster, Canadian comic book artist, and co-creator of Superman (b. 1914)

1996 - Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (b. 1903)

1997 - Bao Dai, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)

2003 - Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)

2005 - John Garang, rebel leader and Vice President of Sudan (helicopter crash) (b. 1945)

2005 - Anthony Walker, British student, hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)