Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 30
Births
[edit]- 1814 - Michael Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
- 1903 - Countee Cullen, Harlem Renaissance poet (d. 1946)
- 1908 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (Bugs Bunny, Barney Rubble, ...) (d. 1989)
- 1909 - Benny Goodman, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 1986)
- 1964 - Tom Morello, American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
- 1974 - CeeLo Green, African American hip-hop, funk, soul and R&B musician
- 1980 - Steven Gerrard, English footballer
Deaths
[edit]- 1431 - Joan of Arc, (pictured) French peasant girl that joined the French royal army, heroine and saint (burned at the stake) (b. 1412)
- 1593 - Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)
- 1640 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
- 1744 - Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688)
- 1778 - Voltaire, French philosopher and author (b. 1694)
- 1961 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
- 1964 - Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born nuclear physicist (b. 1898)