Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 30
Births
[edit]- 1662 - Queen Mary II of England (d. 1694)
- 1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician (d. 1855) (pictured)
- 1803 - Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (d. 1879)
- 1902 - Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
- 1909 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
- 1933 - Willie Nelson, American musician
- 1982 - Kirsten Dunst, American actress
- 1991 - Travis Scott, American rapper
Deaths
[edit]- 1792 - John Montagu, supposed inventor of the sandwich (b. 1718)
- 1883 - Édouard Manet, French painter (b. 1832)
- 1900 - Casey Jones, American train engineer (b. 1863)
- 1945 - Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's new wife (suicide) (b. 1912)
- 1945 - Adolf Hitler, Austrian Nazi dictator of Germany (suicide) (b. 1889)
- 1983 - George Balanchine, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)