Anniversaries 30 May
Birth
![Peter I of Russia photo]()
Tsar and 1st Emperor, founder of the Russian Empire
1672–1725
![Alfred Austin photo]()
British writer and poet
1835–1913
![Hermann Adler photo]()
Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891 to 1911
1839–1911
![Katrina Trask photo]()
American writer
1853–1922
![Randolph Bourne photo]()
American writer
1886–1918
![Norman Cota photo]()
U.S. Army Major General
1893–1971
![Irving Thalberg photo]()
American film producer
1899–1936
![Giorgio De Santillana photo]()
American historian and philosopher
1902–1974
![Hannes Alfvén photo]()
Swedish electrical engineer and plasma physicist
1908–1995
![Joseph Stein photo]()
American playwright
1912–2010
![Jamie Uys photo]()
South African film director
1921–1996
![Hal Clement photo]()
American author
1922–2003
![Armando Valladares photo]()
American diplomat and former Cuban prisoner
1937
![Billie Letts photo]()
American novelist and educator
1938–2014
![James Rachels photo]()
American philosopher
1941–2003
![Gene Youngblood photo]()
Theorist of media arts and politics, scholar
1942
![Scott L. Montgomery photo]()
American geologist and writer
1951
![Colm Tóibín photo]()
Irish novelist and writer
1955
![Claudia Alexander photo]()
American geophysicist and planetary scientist
1959–2015
![Phil Brown (footballer) photo]()
English association football player and manager
1959
![Helen Sharman photo]()
British chemist who became the first Briton in space
1963
![Tom Morello photo]()
American guitarist and singer-songwriter
1964
![Jason Kenney photo]()
Canadian politician and 18th Premier of Alberta
1968
![Manny Ramirez photo]()
Dominican-American baseball player
1972
![Big L (rapper) photo]()
American rapper
1974–1999
![Young Jean Lee photo]()
American theatre director and playwright
1974
![Marissa Mayer photo]()
American business executive and engineer, former ceo of Yah…
1975
![A. Breeze Harper photo]()
African-American critical race feminist and writer
1976
![Devendra Banhart photo]()
American folk singer
1981
Death
![Joan of Arc photo]()
French folk heroine and Roman Catholic saint
1412–1431
![Guru Arjan photo]()
The fifth Guru of Sikhism
1563–1606
![Christopher Marlowe photo]()
English dramatist, poet and translator
1564–1593
![Peter Paul Rubens photo]()
Flemish painter
1577–1640
![Ome Shushiki photo]()
Japanese waka poet in the middle of the Edo period
1669–1725
![Alexander Pope photo]()
eighteenth century English poet
1688–1744
![Voltaire photo]()
French writer, historian, and philosopher
1694–1778
![James Mackintosh photo]()
British politician
1765–1832
![Hiram Price photo]()
American politician
1814–1901
![John S. Mosby photo]()
Confederate Army officer
1833–1916
![Georgi Plekhanov photo]()
Russian revolutionary
1856–1918
![Madison Grant photo]()
American lawyer, eugenicist, and conservationist
1865–1937
![Wilbur Wright photo]()
American aviation pioneer
1867–1912
![Hermann Broch photo]()
austrian writer
1886–1951
![Lala Sukuna photo]()
Chief of Lau and civil servant in Fiji
1888–1958
![Claude Rains photo]()
English-born actor
1889–1967
![Leó Szilárd photo]()
Physicist and biologist
1898–1964
![Ezra Taft Benson photo]()
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1899–1994
![Watchman Nee photo]()
Chinese church leader
1903–1972
![Juan Carlos Onetti photo]()
Uruguayan novelist
1909–1994
![Sun Ra photo]()
American jazz composer and bandleader
1914–1993
![Andrew Huxley photo]()
English physiologist and biophysicist
1917–2012
![Rosalyn Sussman Yalow photo]()
American medical physicist
1921–2011
![Donald Hill photo]()
British historian and engineer
1922–1994
![Paul Desmond photo]()
American jazz musician
1924–1977
![Adrian Hastings photo]()
Roman Catholic priest, historian and author
1929–2001
![Bob Casey Sr. photo]()
American politician (1932-2000)
1932–2000
![Ziaur Rahman photo]()
President of Bangladesh
1936–1981
![Rudi Vis photo]()
British politician
1941–2010
![Steve Prefontaine photo]()
United States long-distance runner
1951–1975
![Joceline Clemencia photo]()
Curaçaoan writer
1952–2011
