Anniversaries 30 April

Birth

Hosea Ballou10

American Universalist minister (1771–1852) 1771–1852

Carl Friedrich Gauss50

German mathematician and physical scientist 1777–1855

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury7

British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scienti… 1834–1913

Dadasaheb Phalke7

Indian producer-director-screenwriter 1870–1944

Alice B. Toklas1

American writer 1877–1967

Jaroslav Hašek2

Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist 1883–1923

Luigi Russolo11

Electronic music pioneer and Futurist painter 1885–1947

Джон Кроу Ренс1

1888–1974

John Crowe Ransom5

American poet 1888–1974

Joachim von Ribbentrop13

German general 1893–1946

Sri Anandamoyi Ma5

Hindu saint 1896–1982

David Manners2

Canadian-born American actor 1900–1998

Simon Kuznets11

economist 1901–1985

Theodore Schultz15

American economist 1902–1998

Ferdinand Lundberg4

American journalist 1905–1995

Elio Toaff1

Italian rabbi 1915–2015

Claude Elwood Shannon4

American mathematician and information theorist 1916–2001

Gerda Lerner3

Austrian-American women's history scholar 1920–2013

Edmund Cooper52

British writer 1926–1982

Cloris Leachman3

American actress 1926

Tony Harrison4

British writer 1937

Larry Niven138

American writer 1938

Ed Yourdon7

American software engineer and pioneer in the software engi… 1944–2016

Annie Dillard63

American writer 1945

Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden7

King of Sweden 1946

Kit Pearson1

Canadian writer 1947

António Guterres4

Secretary-General of the United Nations 1949

Jacqueline Winspear4

English writer 1955

Josip Novakovich1

Canadian writer 1956

Lars von Trier1

Danish film director and screenwriter 1956

Stephen Harper70

22nd Prime Minister of Canada 1959

P. C. Cast136

American writer 1960

David Miscavige20

leader of the Church of Scientology 1960

Michelle J. Howard1

United States Navy vice admiral 1960

Thomas Anthony Daly1

Catholic bishop 1960

James Surowiecki1

American journalist 1967

Justine Greening2

British politician 1969

John Boyne24

Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction 1971

Leo Babauta2

1973

Naomi Novik39

American writer 1973

Amanda Palmer13

American punk-cabaret musician 1976

Kirsten Dunst3

American actress 1982

Rohit Sharma9

Indian cricketer 1987

Death

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus58

Roman poet 39–65

Mahmud of Ghazni39

Sultan of Ghazni 971–1030

James Montgomery25

British editor, hymn writer, and poet 1771–1854

John Ross Macduff6

Scottish religious writer 1818–1895

Edouard Manet29

French painter 1832–1883

John Pentland Mahaffy2

Irish classicist and polymathic scholar 1839–1919

Gu Hongming6

Chinese writer 1857–1928

A.E. Housman69

English classical scholar and poet 1859–1936

Adolf Hitler265

Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi … 1889–1945

Richard Huelsenbeck10

German poet 1892–1974

Luis Muñoz Marín2

American politician 1898–1980

George Balanchine8

Georgian choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904-1983) 1904–1983

Ernesto Sábato2

Argentine writer, painter and physicist 1911–2011

Taisen Deshimaru18

Japanese Buddhist monk 1914–1982

Richard Scarry2

author and illustrator from the United States 1919–1994

Daniel Berrigan4

American Catholic priest, peace activist, and poet 1921–2016

Edwin Thompson Jaynes2

American physicist 1922–1998

Jean-François Revel23

French writer and philosopher 1924–2006

Pramoedya Ananta Toer7

Indonesian writer 1925–2006

William Pfaff18

American journalist 1928–2015

Sergio Leone3

Italian film director, screenwriter and producer 1929–1989

Harold Kroto1

British chemist 1939–2016

Ted C. Lewellen1

American writer 1940–2006

Peter Mayhew2

British actor 1944–2019

Lester Bangs20

American music critic and journalist 1948–1982