What happened on August 30 ?

1158 - King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)

1428 - Emperor Shoko of Japan (b. 1401)

1483 - King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)

1580 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)

1617 - Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)

1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)

1751 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)

1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811)

1879 - John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (b. 1831)

1896 - Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)

1907 - Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)

1928 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)

1935 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)

1938 - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)

1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)

1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)

1943 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch Catholic priest (b. 1890)

1946 - Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed) (b. 1907)

1946 - Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)

1949 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)

1961 - Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)

1963 - Guy Burgess, English born Soviet spy (b. 1911)

1981 - Vera-Ellen, American actress (b. 1921)

1985 - Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900)

1991 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)

1994 - Lindsay Anderson, English film director (b. 1923)

1995 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)

1999 - Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist, creator of Les Pionniers de l'Espérance (b. 1910)

2003 - Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)

2003 - Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)

2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906), Indian Larry, Legendary American Motorcycle Builder and Stuntman (b. 1949)