Deaths in History on August 30

Louis XI (1423-1483)

King of France (1461-83), dies at 60

1580 Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherlands, dies
1619 Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord, dies at 84
1666 Benedictus Carpzovius [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer, dies at 71
1751 Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
1809 Ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies
1844 Francis Baily, English astronomer and describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse, dies at 70
1855 Feargus O'Connor, Leader of English Chartists, dies at 61
1856 Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811)
1856 John Ross, British naval officer and explorer, dies at 79
1862 Charles Bernard Desormes, French Physicist and Chemist (carbon monoxide and carbon disulphide compositions), dies at 91
1877 Raphael Semmes, American Rear Admiral (Confederate Navy), dies at 67
1879 John Bell Hood, American Confederate general during the American Civil War (Army of Tennessee), dies of yellow fever at 48
1886 Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American military officer and politician (US Representative from New York 1881-83), dies at 50
1896 Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
1903 Vicente Fidel López, Argentine historian (Historia the Chile), dies at 87
1906 Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect, dies at 59
1908 Alexander P. Stewart, American Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), dies at 86
1910 Albert Vandal, French earl and historian (Napoleon), dies at 57
1914 Adrian H. Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26
1914 Alexander Samsonov, Russian general, commits suicide after Russian defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg at 54
1914 Lucy Lloyd, English-born creator (with Wilhelm Bleek) of archive of Bushman ǀxam and !kun texts, dies at 79 [1]
1917 Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies
1919 Jóhann Sigurjónsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung), dies at 39
1928 Wilhelm Wien, German physicist (laws of motion, Nobel Prize for Physics 1911), dies at 64
1932 Willem Marinus van Rossum, Dutch cardinal and prefect of Propaganda Fide, dies at 77
1934 Earnest L. Wolzogen, German writer (That tolle Komtess), dies at 79
1935 Henri Barbusse, French novelist (Le feu), dies at 62
1938 Max Factor, Polish-American make-up artist, inventor and founder of cosmetics manufacturer Max Factor & Company, dies at 60

J. J. Thomson (1856-1940)

English physicist who discovered the electron (Nobel 1906), dies at 83

1941 Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist, dies at 67
1943 Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest and missionary in Brazil, dies at 52
1944 Morten Nielsen, Danish resistance fighter, dies
1946 Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
1950 Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center), dies at 57
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 and pioneer of submicroscopic morphology and the discipline of molecular biology, dies at 87
1989 Dorothy Schiff, American owner and publisher (NY Post), dies at 86
1989 Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist, and literary critic (b. 1922)
1990 Edmund G. Love, American historian and author (A Small Bequest, Subways Are for Sleeping), dies at 78
1991 Hans Koetsier, Dutch sculptor artist (KLM-Schiphol), dies at 61
1991 Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (moving objects), dies at 66
1995 Fischer S. Black Jr, American financial Theorist, dies at 57
1995 Pattie Menzies, Australian wife of PM Robert Menzies, dies at 96
1996 José Toribio Merino, Chilean admiral (one of the principal leaders of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état), 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 (dirty-snowball theory), dies at 97
2004 Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)
2005 James H. Scheuer, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1965-73, 75- 93), dies of heart and kidney failure at 85
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 Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough, dies at 89
2007 Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)
2007 Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author/expert. (b. 1942)

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

Irish poet and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature 1995), dies at 74 [1] [2]

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