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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1930 January 6 First diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed. [1] January 7 Rudolf Häpke historian (Entstehung Holländ Wirtschaft), dies at age 45. [1] January 9 Edward W Buck Dutch/US editor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at age 66. [1] January 13 C-E Auguste Rateau French inventor (R-steam turbine), dies at age 66. [1] January 27 Jean Hure composer, dies at age 52. [1] January 28 Clarence Skelton Wimble cricket (score pair in Test for South Africa), dies. [1] February 6 Eva Strittmatter writer, dies at age 17. [1] February 22 Godfried van Daalen Dutch General/governor of Atjeh, dies at age 66. [1] February 23 Horst Wessel German Nazi lyricist (Fahne Hoch), dies at age 22. [1] Mabel Normand actress/director (Extra Girl), dies at age 35. [1] February 24 Jacobus van Looy Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at age 74. [1] February 26 Raffaele Merry del Val Spanish Cardinal, dies at age 64. [1] March 1 Aloïs Walgrave Flemish writer/pastor (Peace on Earth), dies at age 54. [1] March 2 David H Lawrence poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at age 44. [1] March 6 William Milton cricketer (South African Test captain in three Tests 1889-92), dies. [1] March 8 William Howard Taft, 27th US President (1909-13)/Chief Justice, dies at age 72. [1] March 13 Mary E W Freeman US writer (Pembroke), dies at age 77. [1] March 15 Antonio Beltramelli writer, dies at age 51. [1] March 16 Miguel Primo de Riveray Orbaneja Sp dictator (1923-30), dies at age 60. [1] March 19 Arthur J Balfour British theologist/premier (1902-05), dies at age 81. [1] March 20 Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph. [1] March 26 Birth of Gregory Corso beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man). [1] March 29 Anton Bettelheim writer, dies. [1] April 1 Cosima Liszt wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, dies at age 92. [1] Zawditu first reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies. [1] April 4 Vladimir Majakovski Russian poet, dies. [1] Queen Viktoria of Sweden dies, in Rome, Italy. [7] April 14 W Majakowski writer, dies at age 36. [1] April 21 Birth of Silvana Mangano Rome Italy, actress (Death in Venice, Barabbas). [1] Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman Dutch actress (Mother), dies at age 79. [1] Robert S Bridges poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at age 85. [1] April 22 Jeppe Aakjær Danish journalist/author/poet (Rugens sange), dies at age 63. [1] May 8 Lvar Henning Mankell composer, dies at age 61. [1] May 12 Pieter Jelles Troelstra Dutch SDAP leader, dies at age 70. [1] May 13 Fridtjof Nansen diplomat (Nobel Prize 1922), dies. [1] Helena Lange German feminist, dies. [1] May 17 Herbert David Croly US founder (New Republic), dies at age 61. [1] May 18 Joao Marcellino Arroyo composer, dies at age 68. [1] December 9 Jim Slight cricketer (represented Australia at Oval 1880), dies. [1] December 11 Friedrich von Bernhardi German war theorist/historian, dies at age 81. [1] December 17 Peter Warlock composer, dies at age 36. [1] December 19 Johnny Douglas cricketer (soccer int, boxing gold medal), drowns. [1] December 23 Johannes H Been Brielle archivist, dies at age 71. [1] December 24 Eduard David German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at age 67. [1] Oskar Nedbal composer, dies at age 56. [1] December 25 Harvey Worthington Loomis composer, dies at age 65. [1] December 27 William Courtleigh actor (Madame X, Eyes of Youth), dies at age 63. [1] 1931 January 3 Joseph J C Joffre French marshal, dies at age 78. [1] January 4 Art Acord western actor (Set Free, Spurs and Saddles), dies at age 40. [1] January 9 Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer] French writer (La fille perdue), dies. [1] January 11 Oscar Fetras composer, dies at age 76. [1] January 14 William Ernst Johnson British mathematician, dies. [1] January 21 Felix Blumenfeld composer, dies at age 67. [1] January 23 Anna Pavlova Russian ballerina (Diaghilew, Dying Swan), dies. [1] February 2 Theodor Batthynyi Hungarian contra-revolutionary, dies at age 71. [1] February 3 Hans Schardt Swiss geologist, dies at age 72. [1] February 7 Ion Vidu composer, dies at age 67. [1] February 11 Charles Algernon Parsons British inventor (steam turbine), dies at age 76. [1] February 16 Dirk Schäfer Dutch pianist/composer (Klavier), dies at age 57. [1] February 23 Nellie Melba [Helen Mitchell], Australian soprano, dies. [1] February 26 Otto Wallach German chemist (Nobel Prize 1910), dies at age 83. [1] February 28 Ban Johnson, (created baseball's American League), dies after a long illness. [1] March 7 Akseli V Gallen-Kallela Finnish painter/illustrator, dies at age 65. [1] Theo van Doesburg [Christian Kupper], painter/architect, dies at age 47. [1] March 8 Clara Kathleen Rogers composer, dies at age 87. [1] March 9 Ida B Wells-Barnett famous black, dies in Chicago at age 78. [1] March 22 Ban Johnson founder of baseball's American League, dies at age 67. [1] March 27 Arnold Bennett novelist, dies. [1] March 31 Knute Rockne football player/coach, dies in a plane crash at age 43. [1] April 4 Andre Michelin CEO (Michelin Tires), dies. [1] George Whitefield Chadwick composer, dies at age 76. [1] April 6 Giuseppi Radiciotti composer, dies at age 73. [1] April 8 Eric Axel Karlfeldt poet, dies. [1] April 9 Paul Antonin Vidal composer, dies at age 67. [1] April 25 A J Y [Bert] Hopkins cricketer (20 Tests for Australia, 509 runs), dies. [1] April 30 Sammy Woods cricketer (3 Tests for Australia, three for England), dies. [1] May 3 Frank Hoyt Losey composer, dies at age 59. [1] Otto Winter-Hjelm composer, dies at age 93. [1] May 9 A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson US physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at age 78. [1] May 12 Eugene-Auguste Ysaye composer, dies at age 72. [1] May 13 Josif Marinkovic composer, dies at age 79. [1] May 17 Johan [Eliza J] de Master art critic/writer, dies. [1] Timothy Cole wood engraver, dies. [1] August 28 Birth of John Shirley-Quirk Liverpool England, baritone (Death in Venice). [1] October 18 Thomas Alva Edison inventor, dies in West Orange, New Jersey, at age 84. [1] December 2 Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent D'indy French count/composer, dies at age 80. [1] December 10 Max Elskamp Belgian author/poet (Six Chansons), dies at age 69. [1] December 16 Gustave J Waffelaert Flemish theologist/bishop of Bruges, dies at age 82. [1] December 18 John T "Legs" Diamond US gangster, murdered at age 35. [1] December 20 Birth of Mala [Mary Ellen] Powers San Francisco California, actress (Cyrano de Bergerac, Death in Small Doses). [1] December 21 John-French Cantré Flemish wood carver/painter/cartoonist, dies at age 45. [1] December 27 Peter Christian Lutkin composer, dies at age 73. [1] Walter Courvoisier composer, dies at age 56. [1] December 30 Tyrone Power Sr actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at age 62. [1] 1932 January 7 Henri Stroethoff Dutch actor (Bright Paradise), dies at age 60. [1] January 15 Georg Kerschensteiner German educationalist, dies at age 77. [1] January 21 [Giles] Lytton Strachey British biographer/critic, dies at age 51. [1] January 26 William K Wrigley owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), dies. [1] January 28 Franz Xavier Arens composer, dies at age 75. [1] February 8 Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll mobster, killed by Dutch Schultz gang. [1] February 9 Junnosuke Inouye Japanese minister of Finance, murdered. [1] February 10 R H Edgar Wallace British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies at age 76. [1] February 15 Minnie Maddern Fiske actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays), dies at age 66. [1] February 17 Frans Gailliard Belgian painter/graphic artist (Egina), dies at age 70. [1] February 18 Frederik Augustus III King of Saxon (1904-18), dies at age 66. [1] February 29 "Big Ed" Morris pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies. [1] March 1 Dino Campana Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at age 46. [1] March 3 Eugene Francis Charles D'albert composer, dies at age 67. [1] March 5 Takuma Dan Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered. [1] March 6 John Philip Sousa US composer (Stars and Stripes Forever), dies at age 77. [1] March 7 Aristide Briand 11 x premier of France (Nobel Prize 1926), dies at age 69. [1] March 8 Jan de Louter Dutch lawyer/tutor of Queen Wilhelmina, dies at age 84. [1] March 12 Ivar Kreuger, Swedish financier, is found shot dead in his Paris apartment, presumably a suicide. He is estimated to have spent US$400 million of investor money in 15 years. [1] [7] [80.56] [135.115] March 14 George Eastman, US industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at age 77. [1] [5] March 24 George Robert Canning cricketer (the 4th Lord Harris), dies. [1] March 26 Jean Cartan composer, dies at age 25. [1] April 2 Hugo Kaun composer, dies at age 69. [1] April 4 Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz Austrian minister, dies at age 59. [1] Wilhelm Ostwald physical chemist (Nobel Prize 1909), dies. [1] April 10 André Baillon Belgian/French author (and sabots), dies at age 56. [1] April 13 Johannes T de Visser first Dutch minister of Education, dies at age 75 [or 14th]. [1] April 19 Wladyslaw Rzepko composer, dies at age 77. [1] April 20 Giuseppe Peano mathematician, dies. [1] April 26 Bill Lockwood cricketer (43 wickets in 12 Tests for England), dies. [1] April 27 Harold "Heart" Crane US poet (Bridge), commits suicide by jumping from a steamer while sailing from México to New York at age 32. [1] May 1 Paul Doumer President of France (1931-32), assassinated by Russia's Paul Gargalov. [1] May 3 Anton Wildgans Austrian writer (Dies Irae)/director Burgtheater, dies at age 51. [1] May 7 Albert Thomas French social minister of Weapon production, dies. [1] May 15 Ki Inukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered. [1] May 16 William Pember Reeves politician/poet, dies. [1] May 22 Lady Augusta [Isabella Gregory] playwright (Gold Apple), dies at age 80. [1] August 10 Popular pooch Rin Tin Tin dies. [5] October 22 Anna Dickinson dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday. [1] December 1 Amadeo Vives composer, dies at age 61. [1] December 4 Gustav Meyrink writer, dies at age 64. [1] December 12 Egon Richter writer, dies. [1] December 18 Eduard "Ede" Bernstein German marxist/revisionist, dies at age 82. [1] December 24 Eyvind Alnaes composer, dies at age 60. [1] December 28 John Blackham cricketer (35 Tests as Australia WK, caught 37), dies. [1]