Did you know
Bill Withers largely stopped performing and recording in the mid-1980s, citing burnout and conflicts with record company executives.
Notable Deaths on March 30
2020 — Bill Withers
American singer-songwriter (born 1938)
March 30 has 134 recorded notable deaths across history, from 116 to 2026. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
134 source records
116 – 2026
Today in history
Major events on March 30
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1855 Origins of the American Civil War: "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature. Source
- 2017 SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket. Source
- 1900 Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover the first clay tablet with hieroglyphic writing in a script later called Linear B. Source
- 1856 The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War. Source
Did you know
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian New Age guru, philosopher, occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant.
Did you know
Chance Perdomo gained further prominence through his roles as Ambrose Spellman in the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–2020) and Andre Anderson in the first season of the Amazon Prime Video series Gen V (2023).
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Bill Maynard began working in television in the 1950s, notably starring alongside Terry Scott in Great Scott – It's Maynard!
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Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and America: A Personal History of the United States, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theatre from 1971 to 1992.
More major people who died on March 30
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1925
Rudolf Steiner
Austrian philosopher and author (born 1861)
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian New Age guru, philosopher, occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant.
2024
Chance Perdomo
British-American actor (born 1996)
Chance Perdomo was an American and British actor. He earned a British Academy Television Award nomination for his performance in the BBC Three film Killed by My Debt (2018).
2018
Bill Maynard
English actor (born 1928)
Walter Frederick George Williams, better known by his stage name Bill Maynard, was an English comedian and actor.
2004
Alistair Cooke
English-American journalist and author (born 1908)
Alistair Cooke, KBE was a British-American writer whose work as a journalist, television personality and radio broadcaster was done primarily in the United States.
1587
Ralph Sadler
English politician, Secretary of State for England (born 1507)
Sir Ralph Sadler or Sadleir was an English statesman, who served Henry VIII as Privy Councillor, Secretary of State and ambassador to Scotland. Sadler went on to serve Edward VI.
2003
Valentin Pavlov
Russian banker and politician, 11th Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (born 1937)
Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov was a Soviet official who became a Russian banker following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
1967
Jean Toomer
American poet and novelist (born 1894)
Jean Toomer was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the latter association.
1202
Joachim of Fiore
Italian mystic and theologian (born 1135)
Joachim of Fiore, also known as Joachim of Flora, was an Italian Christian theologian, Catholic abbot, and the founder of the monastic order of San Giovanni in Fiore.
1993
S. M. Pandit
Indian painter (born 1916)
Sambanand Monappa Pandit was an Indian painter from Karnataka, popular in the school of Realism in contrast to the contemporaneous net-traditionalist Bengal Renaissance and other Indian modern art movements of his time.
2020
Manolis Glezos
Greek left-wing politician, journalist, author, and folk hero (born 1922)
Manolis Glezos was a Greek left-wing politician, journalist, author, and guerrilla fighter most famous for his role in the Greek Resistance during World War II.
2010
Martin Sandberger
German SS officer and convicted war criminal (born 1911)
Karl Martin Sandberger was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era and a convicted Holocaust perpetrator.
1988
Edgar Faure
French historian and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1908)
Edgar Jean Faure was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956.
2002
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Queen Consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom
Empress Consort of India (born 1900)
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI.
1912
Karl May
German author (born 1842)
Karl Friedrich May was a German author known for writing often in first-person narrative about travels and adventures, mostly set in the American Old West or the Orient and Middle East, but also in Latin America, China…
1965
Philip Showalter Hench
American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)
Philip Showalter Hench was an American physician. Hench, along with his Mayo Clinic co-worker Edward Calvin Kendall and Swiss chemist Tadeus Reichstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for…
2005
Fred Korematsu
American political activist (born 1919)
Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu was an American civil rights activist who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
1949
Friedrich Bergius
German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)
Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of…
2014
Kate O'Mara
English actress (born 1939)
Kate O'Mara was an English film, stage and television actress, and writer. O'Mara made her stage debut in a 1963 production of The Merchant of Venice.
1952
Jigme Wangchuck
Bhutanese king (born 1905)
Jigme Wangchuck was King of Bhutan from 26 August 1926 until his death in 1952. He pursued legal and infrastructural reform during his reign.