Anniversaries 30 April
Birth
![Hosea Ballou photo]()
American Universalist minister (1771–1852)
1771–1852
![Carl Friedrich Gauss photo]()
German mathematician and physical scientist
1777–1855
![John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury photo]()
British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scienti…
1834–1913
![Dadasaheb Phalke photo]()
Indian producer-director-screenwriter
1870–1944
![Alice B. Toklas photo]()
American writer
1877–1967
![Jaroslav Hašek photo]()
Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist
1883–1923
![Luigi Russolo photo]()
Electronic music pioneer and Futurist painter
1885–1947
![David Manners photo]()
Canadian-born American actor
1900–1998
![Theodore Schultz photo]()
American economist
1902–1998
![Ferdinand Lundberg photo]()
American journalist
1905–1995
![Claude Elwood Shannon photo]()
American mathematician and information theorist
1916–2001
![Gerda Lerner photo]()
Austrian-American women's history scholar
1920–2013
![Ed Yourdon photo]()
American software engineer and pioneer in the software engi…
1944–2016
![António Guterres photo]()
Secretary-General of the United Nations
1949
![Lars von Trier photo]()
Danish film director and screenwriter
1956
![Stephen Harper photo]()
22nd Prime Minister of Canada
1959
![David Miscavige photo]()
leader of the Church of Scientology
1960
![Michelle J. Howard photo]()
United States Navy vice admiral
1960
![John Boyne photo]()
Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction
1971
![Amanda Palmer photo]()
American punk-cabaret musician
1976
Death
![Mahmud of Ghazni photo]()
Sultan of Ghazni
971–1030
![James Montgomery photo]()
British editor, hymn writer, and poet
1771–1854
![John Ross Macduff photo]()
Scottish religious writer
1818–1895
![John Pentland Mahaffy photo]()
Irish classicist and polymathic scholar
1839–1919
![A.E. Housman photo]()
English classical scholar and poet
1859–1936
![Adolf Hitler photo]()
Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi …
1889–1945
![Luis Muñoz Marín photo]()
American politician
1898–1980
![George Balanchine photo]()
Georgian choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904-1983)
1904–1983
![Ernesto Sábato photo]()
Argentine writer, painter and physicist
1911–2011
![Taisen Deshimaru photo]()
Japanese Buddhist monk
1914–1982
![Richard Scarry photo]()
author and illustrator from the United States
1919–1994
![Daniel Berrigan photo]()
American Catholic priest, peace activist, and poet
1921–2016
![Edwin Thompson Jaynes photo]()
American physicist
1922–1998
![Jean-François Revel photo]()
French writer and philosopher
1924–2006
![Pramoedya Ananta Toer photo]()
Indonesian writer
1925–2006
![William Pfaff photo]()
American journalist
1928–2015
![Sergio Leone photo]()
Italian film director, screenwriter and producer
1929–1989
![Harold Kroto photo]()
British chemist
1939–2016
![Ted C. Lewellen photo]()
American writer
1940–2006
![Lester Bangs photo]()
American music critic and journalist
1948–1982
