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Near the end of the decade, he had his first cinematic leading role in Machine-Gun Kelly (1958).
Notable Deaths on August 30
2003 — Charles Bronson
American actor and soldier (born 1921)
August 30 has 102 recorded notable deaths across history, from 526 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
102 source records
526 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on August 30
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- 1800 Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen. Source
- 1983 STS-8: The Space Shuttle Challenger takes off on the first night launch of the shuttle program. Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space on this mission. Source
- 1721 The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad. Source
- 1959 South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Dan was elected to the National Assembly despite soldiers being bussed in to vote for President Ngo Dinh Diem's candidate. Source
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Valerie Harper played Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977) and its spin-off Rhoda (1974–1978).
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Though Theodoric himself only used the title 'king' (rex), some scholars characterize him as a Western Roman emperor in all but name, since he ruled a large part of the former Western Roman Empire.
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Louis XI, called the Prudent, was King of France from 1461 to 1483.
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Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume.
More major people who died on August 30
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2019
Valerie Harper
American actress and writer (born 1939)
Valerie Kathryn Harper was an American actress. She began her career as a dancer on Broadway, making her debut as a replacement in the musical Li'l Abner.
526
Theodoric the Great
Italian ruler (born 454)
Theodoric the Great, also called the Amal, was king of the Ostrogoths (471–526), and ruler of the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy between 493 and 526, regent of the Visigoths (511–526), and a patrician of the Eastern Roman…
1483
Louis XI
King of France (born 1423)
Louis XI, called the Prudent, was King of France from 1461 to 1483. He succeeded his father, Charles VII. Louis entered into open rebellion against his father in a short-lived revolt known as the Praguerie in 1440.
2013
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1939)
Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume.
1970
Abraham Zapruder
American clothing manufacturer, witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy (born 1905)
Abraham Zapruder was a Ukrainian-born American clothing manufacturer based in Dallas, Texas, who filmed the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
1946
Konstantin Rodzaevsky
Russian lawyer (born 1907)
Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky was the leader of the Russian Fascist Party, which he led in exile from Manchuria. Rodzaevsky was also the chief editor of the RFP paper Nash Put'.
2003
Donald Davidson
American philosopher and academic (born 1917)
Donald Herbert Davidson was an American philosopher and the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley (1981–2003), having previously held teaching appointments at Stanford University,…
1935
Henri Barbusse
French journalist and author (born 1873)
Henri Barbusse was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist.
1621
Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī
co-founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (born 1547)
Baha al-Din al-Amili, commonly known as Sheikh Bahāʾī, was a Twelver Shia Muslim scholar and polymath in Safavid Iran, who composed various works in Arabic and Persian.
1131
Hervey le Breton
bishop of Bangor and Ely
Hervey le Breton was a Breton cleric who became Bishop of Bangor in Wales and later Bishop of Ely in England.
2014
Igor Decraene
Belgian cyclist (born 1996)
Igor Decraene was a Belgian cyclist. In 2013, he became the UCI world junior men's time trial champion. The event took place on 24 September in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
1995
Fischer Black
American economist and academic (born 1938)
Fischer Sheffey Black, Jr. was an American economist, best known as one of the co-authors of the Black–Scholes option pricing model.
2015
Marvin Mandel
American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (born 1920)
Marvin Mandel was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 56th governor of Maryland from January 7, 1969, to January 17, 1979, including a one-and-a-half-year period when Lieutenant Governor Blair Lee III…
1940
J. J. Thomson
English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1856)
Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist. He received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by…
1963
Guy Burgess
English-Soviet spy (born 1911)
Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era.
2006
Robin Cooke
Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand lawyer and judge (born 1926)
Robin Brunskill Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, was a New Zealand judge and later a British Law Lord and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
1961
Charles Coburn
American actor (born 1877)
Charles Douville Coburn was an American actor and theatrical producer.
1949
Arthur Fielder
English cricketer (born 1877)
Arthur Fielder was an English cricketer who played as a fast bowler for Kent County Cricket Club and the England cricket team from 1900 to 1914.
1329
Khutughtu Khan Kusala
Chinese emperor (born 1300)
Khutughtu Khan, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Mingzong of Yuan, was a son of Khayishan who seized the throne of the Yuan dynasty of China in 1329, but died in suspicious circumstances six months later.