Deaths in History on August 30

J. J. Thomson

1940 J. J. Thomson, English physicist who discovered the electron (Nobel 1906), dies at 83

1941 Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
1943 A[braham] Merritt, American sci-fi author (The Moon Pool, Burn Witch Bun ), dies from a heart attack at 58
1944 Morten Nielsen, Danish resistance fighter, dies
1946 Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
1963 Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy, dies of acute liver failure at 52
1970 Anna Casati, Italian marchesa, murdered at 41
1974 Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Leeuwenhoek), dies at 87
1981 Mohammad-Ali Rajai, President of Iran (1981), assassinated by a bomb at 48

1985 Taylor Caldwell [Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell], Anglo-American novelist (Dynasty of Death, Dear and Glorious Physician), dies at 84
1988 Albert F. Frey-Wyssling, Swiss Botanist, dies at 87
1989 Joe De Santis, dies at 80
1989 Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist, and literary critic (b. 1922)
1989 Dorothy Schiff, American owner and publisher (NY Post), dies at 86
1991 Hans Koetsier, Dutch sculptor artist (KLM-Schiphol), dies at 61
1991 Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (moving objects), dies
1995 Dame Pattie Maie Menzies, Australian, dies at 96
1995 Fischer S Black Jr, American financial Theorist, dies at 57
1996 Jose Toribio Merino, admiral/milt junta of Chile (1973-80), dies at 80
1999 Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910)
2001 Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor, dies at 94
2003 Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
2004 Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
2004 Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)
2006 Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist (Palace Walk, Sugar Street) and first Arabic writer to win a Nobel Prize (1988), dies at 94
2006 Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)
2007 Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author/expert. (b. 1942)
2007 Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)
2007 Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough, dies at 89

Seamus Heaney

2013 Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature 1995), dies at 74

2015 Oliver Sacks, English Neurologist and author (Awakenings), dies at 82
2015 Brad Anderson, American cartoonist (Marmaduke), dies at 91
2016 Joe Sutter, American engineer and head of the Boeing 747 program, dies at 95