Anniversaries 30 October

Birth

George II of Great Britain6

British monarch 1683–1760

John Adams202

2nd President of the United States 1735–1826

Richard Brinsley Sheridan58

Irish-British politician, playwright and writer 1751–1816

Alfred Stillé2

American physician, educator, and writer 1813–1900

Adelaide Anne Procter24

English poet and songwriter 1825–1864

William Graham Sumner9

American academic 1840–1910

Nicolae Paulescu3

Romanian academic 1869–1931

Paul Valéry89

French poet, essayist, and philosopher 1871–1945

William Frederick Halsey, Jr.7

United States admiral 1882–1959

Günther von Kluge2

German general 1882–1944

Ezra Pound68

American Imagist poet and critic 1885–1972

Jean Rostand3

French writer 1894–1977

Forrest Sherman2

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal 1896–1951

Ruth Gordon1

American playwright and actress 1896–1985

Mohammad Mujeeb2

1902–1985

Harold Davenport1

English Mathematician 1907–1969

Homi J. Bhabha7

1909-1966, Indian nuclear physicist 1909–1966

Robert Monroe12

American founder of The Monroe Institute 1915–1995

Fred W. Friendly7

President of CBS News 1915–1998

Myron Tribus4

American academic 1921–2016

Lois Wyse3

American advertising executive 1926–2007

Timothy Findley4

Canadian writer 1930–2002

Michael Winner3

English film director, film producer, film editor and scree… 1935–2013

Ágota Kristóf2

Hungarian Swiss writer 1935–2011

Rudolfo Anaya8

Novelist, poet 1937

Grace Slick17

American musician, writer and painter 1939

Louis Chamniern Santisukniram1

Archbishop of Thailand 1942

Ahmed Chalabi1

Iraqi politician 1944–2015

Henry Winkler2

American actor, director and writer 1945

Andrew H. Van de Ven2

American business theorist 1945

Stephen R. L. Clark2

British philosopher 1945

William Thurston4

mathematician 1946–2012

Paul Tschang In-Nam1

korean prelate of the Catholic Church (born 1949) 1949

Simon Doonan1

British businessman 1952

Jeremy Black (historian)1

British military historian 1955

Ruperto Santos1

21st-century Catholic Bishop of Balanga 1957

Kay Hooper3

American writer 1957

Diego Maradona4

Argentine association football player 1960

Dmitry Muratov4

Russian journalist and television presenter 1961

Andrew Solomon33

American journalist 1963

Abu Musab Zarqawi14

Jordanian jihadist 1966–2006

Zoran Milanović5

Croatian politician 1966

Larry Brantley2

American stand-up comedian 1966

Mark Polish1

American film actor, screenwriter and producer 1970

John Quinlan1

American professional wrestler and bodybuilder 1974

Ivanka Trump6

American businesswoman, socialite, fashion model and daught… 1981

Édouard Louis3

French writer 1992

MC Daleste3

Brazilian funk and rap musician 1992–2013

Parth Siddhpura1

Indian singer and author 2005

Death

Charles Maturin4

Irish writer 1782–1824

Henry Jacob Bigelow7

American surgeon 1818–1890

Dayanand Saraswati2

founder of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement 1824–1883

Henry Dunant4

Swiss businessman and founder of the Red Cross 1828–1910

Louis Jacolliot1

French writer and lawyer 1837–1890

Honoré Mercier3

Canadian politician 1840–1894

Ella Wheeler Wilcox46

American author and poet 1850–1919

Элла Уилер Уилкокс2

1850–1919

Bonar Law7

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1858–1923

Harry Graham7

British writer 1874–1936

Rose Macaulay6

English novelist and writer 1881–1958

Rose Wilder Lane43

American journalist 1886–1968

Joseph Campbell140

American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904–1987

Claude Lévi-Strauss35

French anthropologist and ethnologist 1908–2009

Begum Akhtar7

Indian musician 1914–1974

Richard Taylor (philosopher)2

American philosopher, born 1919 1919–2003

Steve Allen16

American comedian, actor, musician and writer 1921–2000

Joan Mitchell17

American painter 1925–1992

Clifford Geertz16

American anthropologist 1926–2006

Harry Mulisch4

Dutch author 1927–2010

María Irene Fornés4

American writer 1930–2018

Jean Ferris8

American children's writer 1939–2015

Mike Yaconelli2

American theologian 1942–2003

Basílio do Nascimento1

Roman Catholic bishop of Baucau, East Timor 1950–2021