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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 30th of April 0311 | EVENT | The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends. |
| 30th of April 0313 | EVENT | Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire. |
| 30th of April 1006 | EVENT | Supernova SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, appears in the constellation Lupus. |
| 30th of April 1315 | EVENT | Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon. |
| 30th of April 1492 | EVENT | Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration. |
| 30th of April 1513 | EVENT | Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII. |
| 30th of April 1671 | EVENT | Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed. |
| 30th of April 1789 | EVENT | On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States. |
| 30th of April 1803 | EVENT | Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation. |
| 30th of April 1812 | EVENT | The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana. |
| 30th of April 1838 | EVENT | Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation. |
| 30th of April 1863 | EVENT | A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camaron, Mexico. |
| 30th of April 1871 | EVENT | The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory. |
| 30th of April 1894 | EVENT | Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893. |
| 30th of April 1900 | EVENT | Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express. |
| 30th of April 1900 | EVENT | Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor. |
| 30th of April 1904 | EVENT | The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri. |
| 30th of April 1907 | EVENT | Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city. |
| 30th of April 1920 | EVENT | Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
| 30th of April 1925 | EVENT | Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity. |
| 30th of April 1927 | EVENT | The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States. |
| 30th of April 1927 | EVENT | Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. |
| 30th of April 1937 | EVENT | The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative. |
| 30th of April 1938 | EVENT | The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End. |
| 30th of April 1938 | EVENT | The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny). |
| 30th of April 1939 | EVENT | NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address. |
| 30th of April 1939 | EVENT | The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opens. |
| 30th of April 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer. |
| 30th of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Fuhrerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building. |
| 30th of April 1947 | EVENT | In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time. |
| 30th of April 1948 | EVENT | In Bogota, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established. |
| 30th of April 1953 | EVENT | In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people. |
| 30th of April 1956 | EVENT | Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming "I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty." |
| 30th of April 1961 | EVENT | K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned. |
| 30th of April 1963 | EVENT | The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom. |
| 30th of April 1966 | EVENT | The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California. |
| 30th of April 1967 | EVENT | The Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting down the CNJ's Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring commuters to Newark Penn Station. |
| 30th of April 1973 | EVENT | Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aids H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and others have resigned. |
| 30th of April 1975 | EVENT | Fall of Saigon (or Liberation of Saigon from the Communist perspective): Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh. |
| 30th of April 1980 | EVENT | Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. |
| 30th of April 1988 | EVENT | Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opens World Expo '88 in Brisbane, Australia. |
| 30th of April 1993 | EVENT | CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free. |
| 30th of April 1993 | EVENT | Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom. |
| 30th of April 1993 | EVENT | Monica Seles is stabbed by Gunter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany |
| 30th of April 1995 | EVENT | U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland. |
| 30th of April 1999 | EVENT | Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the number of members to 10. |
| 30th of April 2004 | EVENT | U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. |
| 30th of April 2008 | EVENT | Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters. |
| 30th of April 2009 | EVENT | Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. |
| 30th of April 2009 | EVENT | Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. |
| 30th of April 2010 | EVENT | Hailed as the largest World's Fair in history, Expo 2010 opens in Shanghai, China. |
| 30th of April 1245 | BIRTHDAY | King Philip III of France (d. 1285) |
| 30th of April 1331 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston Phoebus of Foix (d. 1391) |
| 30th of April 1553 | BIRTHDAY | Louise de Lorraine-Vaudemont, queen of France (d. 1601) |
| 30th of April 1623 | BIRTHDAY | Francois de Laval, first bishop of New France (d. 1708) |
| 30th of April 1651 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer, Catholic saint (d. 1719) |
| 30th of April 1662 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Mary II of England (d. 1694) |
| 30th of April 1664 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709) |
| 30th of April 1710 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosee, Bavarian general (d. 1795) |
| 30th of April 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (d. 1806) |
| 30th of April 1770 | BIRTHDAY | David Thompson, Canadian explorer (d. 1857) |
| 30th of April 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician (d. 1855) |
| 30th of April 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (d. 1879) |
| 30th of April 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Kaspar Hauser, German mystery boy (d. 1833) |
| 30th of April 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (d. 1884) |
| 30th of April 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1940) |
| 30th of April 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet (d. 1913) |
| 30th of April 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Max Nettlau, German anarchist (d. 1944) |
| 30th of April 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Poelzig, German architect (d. 1936) |
| 30th of April 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Lehar, Austrian composer (d. 1948) |
| 30th of April 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Cyriel Verschaeve, Flemish clergyman (d. 1949) |
| 30th of April 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (d. 1937) |
| 30th of April 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Alice B. Toklas, American companion of Gertrude Stein (d. 1967) |
| 30th of April 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist (d. 1923) |
| 30th of April 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister (d. 1946) |
| 30th of April 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (d. 1960) |
| 30th of April 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Hans List, Austrian inventor (d. 1996) |
| 30th of April 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter (d. 1983) |
| 30th of April 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985) |
| 30th of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998) |
| 30th of April 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician |
| 30th of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Eve Arden, American actress (d. 1990) |
| 30th of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic Foreign and later Prime Minister (d. 1970) |
| 30th of April 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004) |
| 30th of April 1909 | BIRTHDAY | F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (d. 1992) |
| 30th of April 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu poet and lyricist |
| 30th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Shaw, American conductor (d. 1999) |
| 30th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Claude E. Shannon, American engineer and mathematician (d. 2001) |
| 30th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Duncan Hamilton, British racing driver (d. 1994) |
| 30th of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Tove Maes, Danish actress (d. 2011) |
| 30th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Percy Heath, American jazz musician (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 2005) |
| 30th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Al Lewis, American actor (d. 2006) |
| 30th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Tucker, South African rally driver (d. 2008) |
| 30th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna (d. 2004) |
| 30th of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Corinne Calvet, French actress (d. 2001) |
| 30th of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Horton, American musician (d. 1960) |
| 30th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Cloris Leachman, American actress |
| 30th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Hood, Canadian author (d. 2000) |
| 30th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Guattari, French philosopher and social theorist (d. 1992) |
| 30th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Dickie Davies, British television presenter |
| 30th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Nelson, American musician |
| 30th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Lordan, British composer and singer (d. 1995) |
| 30th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Don McKenney, Canadian hockey player |
| 30th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak film director |
| 30th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Collins, American actor |
| 30th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Niven, American author |
| 30th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Burt Young, American actor |
| 30th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Stavros Dimas, Greek politician |
| 30th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Farina, American musician and composer (Santo & Johnny) |
| 30th of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Vee, American singer |
| 30th of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Chiluba, former Zambian president (1991 : 2001) |
| 30th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Clayburgh, American actress (d. 2010) |
| 30th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Smith, American astronaut (d. 1986) |
| 30th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Annie Dillard, American writer |
| 30th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Don Schollander, American swimmer |
| 30th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Bollinger, American lawyer, educator and president of Columbia University |
| 30th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden |
| 30th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Plympton, American animator |
| 30th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Finn Kalvik, Norwegian singer |
| 30th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tom K?hlert, Danish footballer |
| 30th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Grantham, British actor |
| 30th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Manousos Manousakis, Greek director and producer |
| 30th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mats Odell, Swedish politician |
| 30th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Perry King, American actor |
| 30th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Onassis, son of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis (d. 1973) |
| 30th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Guterres, Prime Minister of Portugal |
| 30th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Garner, baseball manager |
| 30th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Audiard, French film director |
| 30th of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Merrill Osmond, American musician (The Osmonds) |
| 30th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Campion, New Zealand film director |
| 30th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Frank-Michael Marczewski, German footballer |
| 30th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Hulot, French journalist |
| 30th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitra Liani, widow of the former Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou |
| 30th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Lars von Trier, Danish film director |
| 30th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Aviva Chomsky, American historian, daughter of Noam Chomsky |
| 30th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Berling, French actor, director and screenwriter |
| 30th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada |
| 30th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist |
| 30th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Gross, Canadian actor, director, and writer |
| 30th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kerry Healey, American politician |
| 30th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | David Miscavige, American cult leader |
| 30th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Isiah Thomas, American basketball player |
| 30th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Waltrip, American race car driver |
| 30th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Fernandes, Malaysian entrepreneur |
| 30th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Kent James, American musician |
| 30th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Barrington Levy, Jamaican musician |
| 30th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Healy, Australian cricketer |
| 30th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Pasdar, American actor |
| 30th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Brown, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 30th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Meggett, former NFL player and convicted sex offender |
| 30th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Mackintosh, British actor |
| 30th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Paulo Jr., Brazilian musician (Sepultura) |
| 30th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Defever, American musician, composer |
| 30th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | John Boyne, Irish novelist |
| 30th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Emerson, British DJ (Underworld) |
| 30th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | JR Richards, American musician, composer, actor (Dishwalla) |
| 30th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Timmons, American singer (98 Degrees) |
| 30th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Elliott Sadler, American race car driver |
| 30th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Chat, American actor |
| 30th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Galecki, American actor |
| 30th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Palmer, American musician (The Dresden Dolls) |
| 30th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jeannie Haddaway, American politician |
| 30th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Pell James, American actress |
| 30th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Fulp, animator and founder of Newgrounds |
| 30th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Gerardo Torrado, Mexican footballer |
| 30th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Scola, Argentinean basketball player |
| 30th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jeroen Verhoeven, Dutch footballer |
| 30th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | John O'Shea, Irish footballer |
| 30th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Pierson, British actress |
| 30th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kunal Nayyar, Indian/British actor |
| 30th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Banks, American rapper |
| 30th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kirsten Dunst, American actress |
| 30th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Cleo Higgins, British singer and actress |
| 30th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Seeley, Canadian actor and singer |
| 30th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Williamson, American football player |
| 30th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Tatjana Hufner, German luger |
| 30th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Daivari, American wrestler and manager |
| 30th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Roache, British footballer |
| 30th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Alexandra Dupre, American singer and call girl |
| 30th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Dianna Agron, American actress |
| 30th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Alipate Carlile, Australian rules footballer |
| 30th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Nikki Webster, Australian entertainer |
| 30th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Rohit Sharma, Indian cricketer |
| 30th of April 2002 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Urdangarin y de Borbon, Spanish prince |
| 30th of April 0065 | DEATH | Lucan, Roman poet (Born 39) |
| 30th of April 1030 | DEATH | Mahmud of Ghazni, ruler of the Ghaznavid Dynasty of India (Born 971) |
| 30th of April 1063 | DEATH | Emperor Renzong of China (Born 1010) |
| 30th of April 1131 | DEATH | Adjutor, Roman Catholic Saint |
| 30th of April 1341 | DEATH | John III, Duke of Brittany (Born 1285) |
| 30th of April 1439 | DEATH | Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, British military leader (Born 1382) |
| 30th of April 1513 | DEATH | Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, Yorkist pretender to the English throne (Born 1471 or 1472) |
| 30th of April 1524 | DEATH | Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (Born 1473) |
| 30th of April 1544 | DEATH | Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England |
| 30th of April 1555 | DEATH | Pope Marcellus II (Born 1501) |
| 30th of April 1632 | DEATH | King Sigismund I of Sweden (Born 1561) |
| 30th of April 1632 | DEATH | Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly, Bavarian general (Born 1559) |
| 30th of April 1642 | DEATH | Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (Born 1578) |
| 30th of April 1655 | DEATH | Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (Born 1617) |
| 30th of April 1660 | DEATH | Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (Born 1576) |
| 30th of April 1696 | DEATH | Robert Plot, British naturalist (Born 1640) |
| 30th of April 1712 | DEATH | Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Protestant theologian (Born 1633) |
| 30th of April 1736 | DEATH | Johann Albert Fabricius, German classical scholar and bibliographer (Born 1668) |
| 30th of April 1758 | DEATH | Francois d'Agincourt, French composer (Born 1684) |
| 30th of April 1792 | DEATH | John Montagu, supposed inventor of the sandwich (Born 1718) |
| 30th of April 1795 | DEATH | Jean-Jacques Barthelemy, French writer and numismatist (Born 1716) |
| 30th of April 1806 | DEATH | Onogawa Kisaburo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 5th Yokozuna (Born 1758) |
| 30th of April 1841 | DEATH | Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (Born 1758) |
| 30th of April 1847 | DEATH | Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (Born 1771) |
| 30th of April 1863 | DEATH | Jean Danjou, French foreign legion captain (Born 1828) |
| 30th of April 1865 | DEATH | Robert Fitzroy, British admiral and meteorologist (Born 1805) |
| 30th of April 1875 | DEATH | Jean Frederic Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (Born 1766) |
| 30th of April 1879 | DEATH | Emma Hale Smith Bidamon, wife of Joseph Smith, and mother of Joseph Smith III (Born1804) |
| 30th of April 1883 | DEATH | Edouard Manet, French painter (Born 1832) |
| 30th of April 1900 | DEATH | Casey Jones, American train engineer (Born 1863) |
| 30th of April 1903 | DEATH | Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (Born 1831) |
| 30th of April 1936 | DEATH | Alfred Edward Housman, Briti poet (Born 1859) |
| 30th of April 1943 | DEATH | Otto Jespersen, Danish philologist (Born 1860) |
| 30th of April 1943 | DEATH | Beatrice Webb, British economist (Born 1858) |
| 30th of April 1945 | DEATH | Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's wife (Born 1912) |
| 30th of April 1945 | DEATH | Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German dictator of Nazi Germany (Born 1889) |
| 30th of April 1956 | DEATH | Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (Born 1877) |
| 30th of April 1966 | DEATH | Richard Farina, American folk singer and author (Born 1937) |
| 30th of April 1970 | DEATH | Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (Born 1934) |
| 30th of April 1972 | DEATH | Gia Scala, British-American actress (Born 1934) |
| 30th of April 1973 | DEATH | Vaclav Renc, Czech poet, dramatist and translator (Born 1911) |
| 30th of April 1974 | DEATH | Agnes Moorehead, American actress (Born 1900) |
| 30th of April 1980 | DEATH | Luis Munoz Marin, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (Born 1898) |
| 30th of April 1982 | DEATH | Lester Bangs, American music journalist, author, and musician (Born 1949) |
| 30th of April 1983 | DEATH | George Balanchine, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (Born 1904) |
| 30th of April 1983 | DEATH | Muddy Waters, American musician (Born 1915) |
| 30th of April 1989 | DEATH | Sergio Leone, Italian filmmaker (Born 1929) |
| 30th of April 1989 | DEATH | Yi, Bang-ja, Crown Princess of Korea (Born 1901) |
| 30th of April 1993 | DEATH | Tommy Caton, British footballer (Born 1962) |
| 30th of April 1994 | DEATH | Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (Born 1960) |
| 30th of April 1995 | DEATH | Maung Maung Kha, Prime minister of Burma (Born 1920) |
| 30th of April 1996 | DEATH | David Opatoshu, American actor (Born 1918) |
| 30th of April 1998 | DEATH | Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet (Born 1926) |
| 30th of April 2000 | DEATH | Poul Hartling, Danish diplomat and politician (Born 1914) |
| 30th of April 2002 | DEATH | Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, founder of the Grunderzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf (Born 1928) |
| 30th of April 2002 | DEATH | Nitsa Tsaganea, Greek actress (Born 1899) |
| 30th of April 2003 | DEATH | Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (Born 1923) |
| 30th of April 2003 | DEATH | Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (Born 1956) |
| 30th of April 2003 | DEATH | Mark Berger, University of Kentucky professor (Born 1955) |
| 30th of April 2005 | DEATH | Ron Todd, TGWU General Secretary (1985 : 1992) (Born 1927) |
| 30th of April 2006 | DEATH | Lawrence Patrick, Biomechanics Professor, crash test subject (Born 1920) |
| 30th of April 2006 | DEATH | Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (Born 1934) |
| 30th of April 2006 | DEATH | Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian novelist (Born 1925) |
| 30th of April 2007 | DEATH | Kevin Mitchell, American football player (Born 1971) |
| 30th of April 2007 | DEATH | Gregory Lemarchal, French singer (Born 1983) |
| 30th of April 2007 | DEATH | Gordon Scott, American actor (Born 1927) |
| 30th of April 2007 | DEATH | Tom Poston, American actor (Born 1921) |
| 30th of April 2007 | DEATH | Zola Taylor, American singer (Born 1938) |
| 30th of April 2008 | DEATH | John Cargher, Australian radio broadcaster (Born 1919) |
| 30th of April 2009 | DEATH | Henk Nijdam, Dutch professional road bicycle rider (Born 1935) |
| 30th of April 2009 | DEATH | Venetia Burney, Person who suggested Pluto's name for the planet (Born 1918) |
| 30th of April 2010 | DEATH | Gerry Ryan, Irish radio broadcaster (Born 1956) |
| 30th of April 2011 | DEATH | Dorjee Khandu, Indian, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (Born 1955) |