Anniversaries 30 October
Birth
![George II of Great Britain photo]()
British monarch
1683–1760
![John Adams photo]()
2nd President of the United States
1735–1826
![Richard Brinsley Sheridan photo]()
Irish-British politician, playwright and writer
1751–1816
![Alfred Stillé photo]()
American physician, educator, and writer
1813–1900
![Adelaide Anne Procter photo]()
English poet and songwriter
1825–1864
![William Graham Sumner photo]()
American academic
1840–1910
![Nicolae Paulescu photo]()
Romanian academic
1869–1931
![Paul Valéry photo]()
French poet, essayist, and philosopher
1871–1945
![William Frederick Halsey, Jr. photo]()
United States admiral
1882–1959
![Ezra Pound photo]()
American Imagist poet and critic
1885–1972
![Forrest Sherman photo]()
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
1896–1951
![Ruth Gordon photo]()
American playwright and actress
1896–1985
![Harold Davenport photo]()
English Mathematician
1907–1969
![Homi J. Bhabha photo]()
1909-1966, Indian nuclear physicist
1909–1966
![Robert Monroe photo]()
American founder of The Monroe Institute
1915–1995
![Fred W. Friendly photo]()
President of CBS News
1915–1998
![Myron Tribus photo]()
American academic
1921–2016
![Lois Wyse photo]()
American advertising executive
1926–2007
![Timothy Findley photo]()
Canadian writer
1930–2002
![Michael Winner photo]()
English film director, film producer, film editor and scree…
1935–2013
![Ágota Kristóf photo]()
Hungarian Swiss writer
1935–2011
![Grace Slick photo]()
American musician, writer and painter
1939
![Louis Chamniern Santisukniram photo]()
Archbishop of Thailand
1942
![Ahmed Chalabi photo]()
Iraqi politician
1944–2015
![Henry Winkler photo]()
American actor, director and writer
1945
![Andrew H. Van de Ven photo]()
American business theorist
1945
![Paul Tschang In-Nam photo]()
korean prelate of the Catholic Church (born 1949)
1949
![Jeremy Black (historian) photo]()
British military historian
1955
![Ruperto Santos photo]()
21st-century Catholic Bishop of Balanga
1957
![Diego Maradona photo]()
Argentine association football player
1960
![Dmitry Muratov photo]()
Russian journalist and television presenter
1961
![Abu Musab Zarqawi photo]()
Jordanian jihadist
1966–2006
![Larry Brantley photo]()
American stand-up comedian
1966
![Mark Polish photo]()
American film actor, screenwriter and producer
1970
![John Quinlan photo]()
American professional wrestler and bodybuilder
1974
![Ivanka Trump photo]()
American businesswoman, socialite, fashion model and daught…
1981
![MC Daleste photo]()
Brazilian funk and rap musician
1992–2013
![Parth Siddhpura photo]()
Indian singer and author
2005
Death
![Henry Jacob Bigelow photo]()
American surgeon
1818–1890
![Dayanand Saraswati photo]()
founder of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement
1824–1883
![Henry Dunant photo]()
Swiss businessman and founder of the Red Cross
1828–1910
![Louis Jacolliot photo]()
French writer and lawyer
1837–1890
![Honoré Mercier photo]()
Canadian politician
1840–1894
![Ella Wheeler Wilcox photo]()
American author and poet
1850–1919
![Bonar Law photo]()
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1858–1923
![Rose Macaulay photo]()
English novelist and writer
1881–1958
![Rose Wilder Lane photo]()
American journalist
1886–1968
![Joseph Campbell photo]()
American mythologist, writer and lecturer
1904–1987
![Claude Lévi-Strauss photo]()
French anthropologist and ethnologist
1908–2009
![Begum Akhtar photo]()
Indian musician
1914–1974
![Richard Taylor (philosopher) photo]()
American philosopher, born 1919
1919–2003
![Steve Allen photo]()
American comedian, actor, musician and writer
1921–2000
![Joan Mitchell photo]()
American painter
1925–1992
![Clifford Geertz photo]()
American anthropologist
1926–2006
![María Irene Fornés photo]()
American writer
1930–2018
![Jean Ferris photo]()
American children's writer
1939–2015
![Mike Yaconelli photo]()
American theologian
1942–2003
![Basílio do Nascimento photo]()
Roman Catholic bishop of Baucau, East Timor
1950–2021
