Deaths in History on June 30

Moctezuma II

1520 Moctezuma II, Aztec emperor (1502-20), killed either by the Spanish or stoned to death by his own people

1538 Charles of Egmond, Duke of Guelder and Earl of Zutphen, dies at 70
1579 Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, Turkish Janissary
1607 Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian, dies at 68
1649 Simon Vouet, French painter
1655 Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman and lawyer, dies at 81
1660 William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
1662 Johannes C Verspronck, portrait painter, buried at about 64
1666 Alexander Brome, English poet
1670 Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)

1685 Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55
1704 John Quelch, a pirate was hanged (b. 1665)
1709 Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
1785 James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
1796 Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman, dies at 71
1817 Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist
1839 Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies
1857 Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist, dies at 54
1862 Richard Griffith, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 48

Charles J. Guiteau

1882 Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of US President James A. Garfield, hanged at 40

1882 Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
1899 Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri), dies
1905 John Hay, US politician, dies
1914 Bai Long, [White Wolf], Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies

John William Strutt

1919 John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and discoverer of argon (Nobel Prize 1904), dies at 76

1920 Lena Christ, German writer (The Rumplhanni), commits suicide at 38
1924 Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42
1934 Ernst Rohm, German staff member, executed at 46
1934 Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-leader, murdered at 42
1934 Karl Ernst, German SA-leader, murdered
1934 Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (1932-33), murdered at 52
1934 Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1862)
1934 Erich Klausener, Catholic politician killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1885)
1938 Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at 61
1942 Arnoldus J H Aerts, Dutch bishop of New-Guinea, executed at 62

1948 Karl Wolfskehl, writer, dies at 78
1953 Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children's book), dies at 79
1953 Charles William Miller, father of football in Brazil (b. 1874)
1959 José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
1961 Lee de Forest, American inventor (Electron Tube), dies at 87
1962 Caspar Neher, Austrian-German set designer and librettist, dies at 65
1971 Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies at 38
1971 Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-land accident), dies at 43
1971 Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11), dies at 35
1973 Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died
1973 Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (b. 1903)
1973 Nancy Mitford, English author (Love in a Cold Climate), one of the Mitford sisters, dies of cancer at 68
1974 Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in church
1974 Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
1979 Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72
1983 Mary Livingstone, [Sadye Marks] Comedienne, (Jack Benny), dies at 77
1984 Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), dies at 79
1985 James Dewar, inventor (Twinkie), dies
1992 Doug Delauder, entertainer, dies
1992 Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies
1994 Nicholas Warner, test Pilot, dies at 51
1995 Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74
1995 Sicco Mansholt, pres Commission of Europe (1972-1973), dies
1996 Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet, dies at 76
1996 Michael Parkin, journalist, dies at 74
1996 Norman Aldridge, biochemical toxicologist, dies at 76
1997 Albus Dumbledore [Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore], fictional character, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, dies at 115
1999 Édouard Boubat, French photographer, dies at 75
2002 Chico Xavier, popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement (b. 1910)
2003 Buddy Hackett, American comic (b. 1924)
2003 Robert McCloskey, American children's book writer and illustrator (Make Way For Ducklings), dies at 88
2004 Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer, dies at 80
2005 Christopher Fry, English playwright (The Lady's Not for Burning), dies at 97
2006 Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
2007 Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
2011 David Loram, British vice-admiral (Supreme Allied Commander), dies at 86
2012 Yitzḥak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister (1983–84, 1986–1992), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 96
2014 Bob Hastings, American actor, dies from prostate cancer at 89
2016 Geoffrey Hill, English poet, dies at 84