What happened on September 30 ?

420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible

653 - Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury

1246 - Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)

1440 - Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician

1487 - John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)

1551 - Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)

1560 - Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)

1572 - St. Francis Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510)

1581 - Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)

1626 - Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (b. 1559)

1628 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (b. 1554)

1770 - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat

1770 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)

1772 - James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)

1865 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800)

1891 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)

1913 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b. 1858)

1943 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)

1955 - James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931)

1977 - Mary Ford, American singer (b. 1925)

1985 - Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)

1990 - Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)

1994 - Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1902)

1998 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (b. 1953)

2002 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913)

2003 - Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935)

2004 - Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor, director, and politician (b. 1936)