Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Tex Beneke |
Musician |
12-Feb-1914 |
30-May-2000 |
Saxophonist, The Glenn Miller Orchestra |
Gwendolyn Bennett |
Author |
8-Jul-1902 |
30-May-1981 |
Harlem Renaissance writer |
Ezra Taft Benson |
Religion |
4-Aug-1899 |
30-May-1994 |
President of the Mormon Church, 1985-94 |
Milton Bradley |
Business |
8-Nov-1836 |
30-May-1911 |
Board games |
Jean-Claude Brialy |
Actor |
30-Mar-1933 |
30-May-2007 |
Une femme est une femme |
Max Carey |
Baseball |
11-Jan-1890 |
30-May-1976 |
MLB Hall of Famer |
Frank Carlson |
Politician |
23-Jan-1893 |
30-May-1987 |
Governor and Senator from Kansas |
Karl Carstens |
Head of State |
14-Dec-1914 |
30-May-1992 |
President of Germany, 1979-84 |
Robert P. Casey |
Politician |
9-Jan-1932 |
30-May-2000 |
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1987-95 |
John Catron |
Judge |
7-Jan-1786 |
30-May-1865 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1837-65 |
Thomas Chalmers |
Religion |
17-Mar-1780 |
30-May-1847 |
Free Church of Scotland |
Charles IX |
Royalty |
27-Jun-1550 |
30-May-1574 |
King of France 1561-74 |
Harlan Cleveland |
Government |
19-Jan-1918 |
30-May-2008 |
Futurist, diplomat |
Paul Desmond |
Jazz Musician |
25-Nov-1924 |
30-May-1977 |
Jazz alto saxophonist, Dave Brubeck Quartet |
Marcel Dupré |
Organist |
3-May-1886 |
30-May-1971 |
French organist and composer |
Perry Ellis |
Fashion Designer |
3-Mar-1940 |
30-May-1986 |
Founder, Perry Ellis International |
Vic Ghezzi |
Golf |
19-Oct-1910 |
30-May-1976 |
Winner, 1941 PGA Championship |
Mark Harris |
Novelist |
19-Nov-1922 |
30-May-2007 |
Bang the Drum Slowly |
Natalee Holloway |
Victim |
21-Oct-1986 |
30-May-2005 |
Disappeared in Aruba |
Andrew F. Huxley |
Scientist |
22-Nov-1917 |
30-May-2012 |
Electrical impulses in nerves |
Joan of Arc |
Religion |
6-Jan-1412 |
30-May-1431 |
Maid of Orleans, burned at the stake |
Ephraim Katzir |
Head of State |
16-May-1916 |
30-May-2009 |
President of Israel, 1973-78 |
Albert Lasker |
Business |
1-May-1880 |
30-May-1952 |
Advertising executive and medical research patron |
William Lemke |
Politician |
13-Aug-1878 |
30-May-1950 |
Congressman from North Dakota, 1933-50 |
Frank Licht |
Politician |
13-Mar-1916 |
30-May-1987 |
Governor of Rhode Island, 1969-73 |
Christopher Marlowe |
Playwright |
6-Feb-1564 |
30-May-1593 |
Doctor Faustus |
William Meredith |
Poet |
9-Jan-1919 |
30-May-2007 |
Partial Accounts |
William Odom |
Military |
23-Jun-1932 |
30-May-2008 |
NSA Director 1985-88 |
Peter Orlovsky |
Poet |
8-Jul-1933 |
30-May-2010 |
Beat poet, lover of Allen Ginsberg |
Boris Pasternak |
Author |
10-Feb-1890 |
30-May-1960 |
Doctor Zhivago |
Claude Pepper |
Politician |
8-Sep-1900 |
30-May-1989 |
Congressman from Florida, 1963-89 |
Alexander Pope |
Poet |
21-May-1688 |
30-May-1744 |
The Dunciad |
Steve Prefontaine |
Track and Field |
25-Jan-1951 |
30-May-1975 |
Long distance runner |
Sun Ra |
Jazz Musician |
22-May-1914 |
30-May-1993 |
Jazz musician from Saturn |
Ziaur Rahman |
Head of State |
19-Jan-1936 |
30-May-1981 |
President of Bangladesh, 1977-81 |
Ella Raines |
Actor |
6-Aug-1920 |
30-May-1988 |
Hail the Conquering Hero |
Claude Rains |
Actor |
10-Nov-1889 |
30-May-1967 |
The Invisible Man |
Jessie Ralph |
Actor |
5-Nov-1864 |
30-May-1944 |
San Francisco |
William Barton Rogers |
Educator |
7-Dec-1804 |
30-May-1882 |
Founder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Peter Paul Rubens |
Painter |
28-Jun-1577 |
30-May-1640 |
Flemish baroque painter |
Michel Simon |
Actor |
9-Apr-1895 |
30-May-1975 |
L'Atalante |
Louis Slotin |
Physicist |
1-Dec-1910 |
30-May-1946 |
Died tickling the dragon's tail |
Robert Sterling |
Actor |
13-Nov-1917 |
30-May-2006 |
George Kerby on Topper |
Leo Szilard |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1898 |
30-May-1964 |
Nuclear chain reaction |
Clarice Taylor |
Actor |
20-Sep-1917 |
30-May-2011 |
Anna Huxtable on The Cosby Show |
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo |
Head of State |
24-Oct-1891 |
30-May-1961 |
Dictator of the Dominican Republic |
Jack Twyman |
Basketball |
11-May-1934 |
30-May-2012 |
Cincinnati Royals forward, NBA Hall-of-Famer |
Voltaire |
Author |
21-Nov-1694 |
30-May-1778 |
Candide |
Bill Vukovich |
Auto Racing |
13-Dec-1918 |
30-May-1955 |
Winner, 1953 and 1954 Indianapolis 500 |
Dooley Wilson |
Actor |
3-Apr-1886 |
30-May-1953 |
Sam in Casablanca |
Wilbur Wright |
Aviator |
16-Apr-1867 |
30-May-1912 |
Co-Inventor of the airplane |
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow |
Physicist |
19-Jul-1921 |
30-May-2011 |
Developed radioimmunoassay technique |