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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 30th of May 0070 | EVENT | Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres. |
| 30th of May 1416 | EVENT | The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy. |
| 30th of May 1431 | EVENT | Hundred Years' War: in Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. Because of this the Catholic Church remember this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc. |
| 30th of May 1434 | EVENT | Hussite Wars (Bohemian Wars): Battle of Lipany : effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Divis Borek of Miletinek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great. |
| 30th of May 1536 | EVENT | King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives. |
| 30th of May 1539 | EVENT | In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold. |
| 30th of May 1574 | EVENT | Henry III becomes King of France. |
| 30th of May 1588 | EVENT | The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. |
| 30th of May 1631 | EVENT | Publication of La Gazette, first French newspaper. |
| 30th of May 1635 | EVENT | Thirty Years' War: the Peace of Prague (1635) is signed. |
| 30th of May 1642 | EVENT | From this date all honours granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament. |
| 30th of May 1806 | EVENT | Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy. |
| 30th of May 1814 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition : the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to Elba. |
| 30th of May 1815 | EVENT | The East Indiaman ship Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives. |
| 30th of May 1832 | EVENT | End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. |
| 30th of May 1832 | EVENT | The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened. |
| 30th of May 1834 | EVENT | Joaquim Antonio de Aguiar issue a law extinguishing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders", earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer". |
| 30th of May 1842 | EVENT | John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill, London with Prince Albert. |
| 30th of May 1854 | EVENT | The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas. |
| 30th of May 1859 | EVENT | Westminster's Big Ben rang for the first time in London. |
| 30th of May 1868 | EVENT | Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time (By "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5). |
| 30th of May 1871 | EVENT | The Paris Commune falls. |
| 30th of May 1876 | EVENT | Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V. |
| 30th of May 1879 | EVENT | New York City's Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue. |
| 30th of May 1883 | EVENT | In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people. |
| 30th of May 1899 | EVENT | Female Old West outlaw Pearl Hart robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona. |
| 30th of May 1911 | EVENT | At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race. |
| 30th of May 1913 | EVENT | First Balkan War: the Treaty of London, 1913 is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation. |
| 30th of May 1914 | EVENT | The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City. |
| 30th of May 1917 | EVENT | Alexander I becomes king of Greece. |
| 30th of May 1922 | EVENT | In Washington, D.C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated. |
| 30th of May 1925 | EVENT | May 30 Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shot 13 protesting workers to death. |
| 30th of May 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika. |
| 30th of May 1942 | EVENT | World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany. |
| 30th of May 1948 | EVENT | A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless. |
| 30th of May 1958 | EVENT | Memorial Day: the remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. |
| 30th of May 1959 | EVENT | The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Lord Cobham. |
| 30th of May 1961 | EVENT | Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. |
| 30th of May 1963 | EVENT | A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem. |
| 30th of May 1966 | EVENT | Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu. |
| 30th of May 1966 | EVENT | launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to achieve landing on an extraterrestrial body. |
| 30th of May 1967 | EVENT | The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war. |
| 30th of May 1968 | EVENT | Charles De Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 in France. |
| 30th of May 1971 | EVENT | Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars. |
| 30th of May 1972 | EVENT | The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain. |
| 30th of May 1972 | EVENT | In Tel Aviv members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others. |
| 30th of May 1989 | EVENT | Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: the 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators. |
| 30th of May 1998 | EVENT | A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000. |
| 30th of May 1998 | EVENT | Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt. |
| 30th of May 2002 | EVENT | 272 days after the September 11 attacks, closing ceremonies are held for the clean up/recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site in New York City. The last remaining steel beam is removed and transported to the Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island. |
| 30th of May 2003 | EVENT | Depayin massacre: at least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards. |
| 30th of May 1010 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063) |
| 30th of May 1423 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461) |
| 30th of May 1623 | BIRTHDAY | John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686) |
| 30th of May 1653 | BIRTHDAY | Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676) |
| 30th of May 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1757) |
| 30th of May 1718 | BIRTHDAY | Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d. 1793) |
| 30th of May 1719 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806) |
| 30th of May 1757 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, British statesman (d. 1844) |
| 30th of May 1768 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1873) |
| 30th of May 1768 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, French cavalry commander (d. 1815) |
| 30th of May 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose French archbishop of Rouen and senator (d. 1883) |
| 30th of May 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876) |
| 30th of May 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894) |
| 30th of May 1819 | BIRTHDAY | William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894) |
| 30th of May 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (d. 1890) |
| 30th of May 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Arnaudin, French poet and folklorist (d. 1921) |
| 30th of May 1845 | BIRTHDAY | King Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1890) |
| 30th of May 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Carl Faberge, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920) |
| 30th of May 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941) |
| 30th of May 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Olga Engl, Austrian actress (d. 1946) |
| 30th of May 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Duchesne, French physician (d. 1912) |
| 30th of May 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944) |
| 30th of May 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Donlin, American baseball player (d. 1933) |
| 30th of May 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Blythe, English cricketer (d. 1917) |
| 30th of May 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Georg von Kuchler, German field marshal (d. 1968) |
| 30th of May 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (d. 1915) |
| 30th of May 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918) |
| 30th of May 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian artist (d. 1964) |
| 30th of May 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Salengro, French politician (d. 1936) |
| 30th of May 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972) |
| 30th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Tate, English cricketer (d. 1956) |
| 30th of May 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Hawks, American film director (d. 1977) |
| 30th of May 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d. 1936) |
| 30th of May 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (d. 1979) |
| 30th of May 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Stepin Fetchit, American dancer and actor (d. 1985) |
| 30th of May 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Groning, German mystic (d. 1959) |
| 30th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007) |
| 30th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008) |
| 30th of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Hannes Alfven, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995) |
| 30th of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989) |
| 30th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Benny Goodman, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 1986) |
| 30th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Canetti, French talent-spotter (d. 1997) |
| 30th of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978) |
| 30th of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004) |
| 30th of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Bernstein, British-born American writer |
| 30th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Erich Bagge, German physicist (d. 1996) |
| 30th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004) |
| 30th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980) |
| 30th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Stein, American playwright (d. 2010) |
| 30th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (d. 1979) |
| 30th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Catayee, French politician (d. 1962) |
| 30th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000) |
| 30th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Evans, American restaurateur (d. 2007) |
| 30th of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969) |
| 30th of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Franklin Schaffner, American film director (d. 1989) |
| 30th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003) |
| 30th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Jorgensen, American transsexual activist (d. 1989) |
| 30th of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Clint Walker, American actor |
| 30th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Agnes Varda, French director |
| 30th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006) |
| 30th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Gilson, French Catholic bishop |
| 30th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Birley, British nightclub owner (d. 2007) |
| 30th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Ryman, American painter |
| 30th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Pauline Oliveros, American composer and accordionist |
| 30th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut |
| 30th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach |
| 30th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Gunther, American television producer and editor (d. 1998) |
| 30th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ruta Lee, Canadian actress |
| 30th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Keir Dullea, American actor |
| 30th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Statham, American basketball coach |
| 30th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Michael J. Pollard, American actor |
| 30th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Dieter Quester, Austrian racing driver |
| 30th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Villemure, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 30th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | James Chaney, American civil rights activist (d. 1964) |
| 30th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Gale Sayers, American football player |
| 30th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000) |
| 30th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Stav Prodromou, American technology executive |
| 30th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Eshley, English actor |
| 30th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Chapman, English historian of science |
| 30th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jocelyne Bourassa, French Canadian golfer |
| 30th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Piller, American screenwriter (d. 2005) |
| 30th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | P.J. Carlesimo, American basketball coach |
| 30th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Bertrand Delanoe, French politician |
| 30th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Dann Glenn, American Guitarist and Composer |
| 30th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Paresh Rawal, Indian actor |
| 30th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Zdravko Colic, Yugoslav-Bosnian singer |
| 30th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Lugo, Paraguayan politician |
| 30th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor |
| 30th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Colm Meaney, Irish actor |
| 30th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Topper Headon, British musician (The Clash) |
| 30th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jake "The Snake" Roberts, American wrestler |
| 30th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (Roxette) |
| 30th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Israel, American politician |
| 30th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ted McGinley, American actor |
| 30th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Lopez-Alegria, Spanish American astronaut |
| 30th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician |
| 30th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Brown, English football manager (Hull City) |
| 30th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Enfield, British comedian |
| 30th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Yari, Iranian-born American film producer |
| 30th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Carter, American actor |
| 30th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Eastman, American comic book creator (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) |
| 30th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Tonya Pinkins, American actress |
| 30th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Sharman, British chemist, the first Briton in space |
| 30th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Elise Lucet, French journalist and television host |
| 30th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Wynonna Judd, American country singer |
| 30th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Montermini, Italian racing driver |
| 30th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine) |
| 30th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Donovan, American college basketball coach |
| 30th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Malkmus, American musician (Pavement) |
| 30th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Burgess, English singer (The Charlatans) |
| 30th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Zacarias Moussaoui, French convicted terrorist |
| 30th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kelley Armstrong, Canadian author |
| 30th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Naomi Kawase, Japanese film director |
| 30th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ryuhei Kitamura, Japanese filmmaker |
| 30th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Flora Chan, Hong Kong television actress |
| 30th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ness Wadia, Indian industrialist |
| 30th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Idina Menzel, American actress and singer |
| 30th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Soichiro Hoshi, Japanese seiyuu |
| 30th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Manny Ramirez, Dominican Republic baseball player |
| 30th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Leigh Francis, British comedian |
| 30th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Cee-Lo Green, American musician |
| 30th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Big L, American rapper (d. 1999) |
| 30th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | David Wilkie, American ice hockey player |
| 30th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantinos Chalkias, Greek footballer |
| 30th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Shin Ha-kyun, South Korean actor |
| 30th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Fair, American singer |
| 30th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Eschmeyer, American basketball player |
| 30th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Farrell, English rugby league and union footballer |
| 30th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Rasho Nesterovic, Slovenian basketball player |
| 30th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Magnus Norman, Swedish tennis player |
| 30th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Okayo, Kenyan athlete |
| 30th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Akwa, Angolan footballer |
| 30th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Rachael Stirling, British actress |
| 30th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Searle American Musician |
| 30th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Lyoto Machida, Brazilian mixed martial artist |
| 30th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 30th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kugimiya Rie, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress) |
| 30th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Clint Bowyer, American NASCAR driver |
| 30th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Gerrard, English footballer |
| 30th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter |
| 30th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmad Elrich, Australian footballer |
| 30th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Blake Bashoff, American actor |
| 30th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Gianmaria Bruni, Italian racing driver |
| 30th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lars M?ller Madsen, Danish handball player |
| 30th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Remy Ma, American rapper |
| 30th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Hisanori Takada, Japanese footballer |
| 30th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007) |
| 30th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | James Simpson-Daniel, English rugby player |
| 30th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Ellison, English actress, model, singer |
| 30th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jordan Palmer, American football player |
| 30th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Maguire, Australian rules footballer |
| 30th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sham Kwok Fai, Hong Kong footballer |
| 30th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Joyce Cheng, Hong Kong musician, writer, actress and performer |
| 30th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Winterstein, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 30th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Covais, American singer |
| 30th of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Collins, American actor |
| 30th of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Yoona (Im Yoon-a), South Korean singer (Girls' Generation) |
| 30th of May 1159 | DEATH | Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (Born 1105) |
| 30th of May 1252 | DEATH | King Ferdinand III of Castile (Born 1199) |
| 30th of May 1416 | DEATH | Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (Born 1379) |
| 30th of May 1431 | DEATH | Joan of Arc, French military figure and Catholic saint (Born 1412) |
| 30th of May 1434 | DEATH | Prokop the Great, Hussite general |
| 30th of May 1469 | DEATH | Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop (Born 1382) |
| 30th of May 1574 | DEATH | King Charles IX of France (Born 1550) |
| 30th of May 1576 | DEATH | Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai |
| 30th of May 1593 | DEATH | Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (Born 1564) |
| 30th of May 1640 | DEATH | Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (Born 1577) |
| 30th of May 1696 | DEATH | Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (Born 1638) |
| 30th of May 1712 | DEATH | Andrea Lanzani, Italian painter of the Baroque period (Born c. 1645) |
| 30th of May 1718 | DEATH | Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch noble (Born 1670) |
| 30th of May 1730 | DEATH | Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (Born 1648) |
| 30th of May 1744 | DEATH | Alexander Pope, English writer (Born 1688) |
| 30th of May 1770 | DEATH | Francois Boucher, French painter (Born 1703) |
| 30th of May 1778 | DEATH | Voltaire, French philosopher and author (Born 1694) |
| 30th of May 1829 | DEATH | Philibert Jean-Baptiste Curial, French military figure (Born 1774) |
| 30th of May 1832 | DEATH | James Mackintosh, Scottish jurist, politician and historian (Born 1765) |
| 30th of May 1865 | DEATH | John Catron, American jurist (Born 1786) |
| 30th of May 1868 | DEATH | Okita Soji, Japanese law enforcement figure (Born 1823) |
| 30th of May 1901 | DEATH | Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (Born 1841) |
| 30th of May 1911 | DEATH | Milton Bradley, American game pioneer (Born 1836) |
| 30th of May 1912 | DEATH | Wilbur Wright, American aviatior (Born 1867) |
| 30th of May 1918 | DEATH | Georgi Plekhanov, Russian Marxist theoretician (Born 1856) |
| 30th of May 1925 | DEATH | Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (Born 1876) |
| 30th of May 1926 | DEATH | Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (Born 1864) |
| 30th of May 1934 | DEATH | Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (Born 1848) |
| 30th of May 1939 | DEATH | Floyd Roberts, American race care driver (Born 1904) |
| 30th of May 1941 | DEATH | King Prajadhipok of Thailand (Born 1893) |
| 30th of May 1946 | DEATH | Louis Slotin, Canadian scientist (Born 1910) |
| 30th of May 1947 | DEATH | Georg Ludwig von Trapp, Austrian submarine commander (Born 1880) |
| 30th of May 1948 | DEATH | Jozsef Klekl, Slovene politician (Born 1874) |
| 30th of May 1949 | DEATH | Emmanuel Celestin Suhard, French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (Born 1874) |
| 30th of May 1951 | DEATH | Hermann Broch, Austrian author (Born 1886) |
| 30th of May 1953 | DEATH | Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (Born 1886) |
| 30th of May 1955 | DEATH | Bill Vukovich, American race care driver (Born 1918) |
| 30th of May 1960 | DEATH | Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1890) |
| 30th of May 1961 | DEATH | Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Dominican Republic dictator (Born 1891) |
| 30th of May 1964 | DEATH | Dave MacDonald, American auto racer (Born 1936) |
| 30th of May 1964 | DEATH | Eddie Sachs, American auto racer (Born 1927) |
| 30th of May 1964 | DEATH | Leo Szilard, Hungarian nuclear physicist (Born 1898) |
| 30th of May 1965 | DEATH | Louis Hjelmslev, Danish linguist (Born 1899) |
| 30th of May 1967 | DEATH | Claude Rains, English actor (Born 1889) |
| 30th of May 1967 | DEATH | Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian film director (Born1885) |
| 30th of May 1971 | DEATH | Marcel Dupre, French organist and composer (Born 1886) |
| 30th of May 1975 | DEATH | Steve Prefontaine, American distance runner (Born 1951) |
| 30th of May 1975 | DEATH | Michel Simon, French actor (Born 1895) |
| 30th of May 1975 | DEATH | Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (Born 1908) |
| 30th of May 1976 | DEATH | Max Carey, American baseball player (Born 1890) |
| 30th of May 1980 | DEATH | Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (Born 1942) |
| 30th of May 1981 | DEATH | Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1955) |
| 30th of May 1981 | DEATH | Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi statesman (Born 1936) |
| 30th of May 1986 | DEATH | Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (Born 1940) |
| 30th of May 1988 | DEATH | Robert O'Reilly, Australian singer (Born 1940) |
| 30th of May 1993 | DEATH | Sun Ra, American musician (Born 1914) |
| 30th of May 1994 | DEATH | Ezra Taft Benson, American religious figure (Born 1899) |
| 30th of May 1994 | DEATH | Marcel Bich, French industrialist (Born 1914) |
| 30th of May 1994 | DEATH | Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (Born 1955) |
| 30th of May 1995 | DEATH | Lofty England, English automotive engineer (Born 1911) |
| 30th of May 1995 | DEATH | Ted Drake, English footballer (Born 1912) |
| 30th of May 1995 | DEATH | Bobby Stokes, English footballer (Born 1951) |
| 30th of May 1996 | DEATH | Leon-Etienne Duval, French Roman Catholic Cardinal (Born 1903) |
| 30th of May 2000 | DEATH | Tex Beneke, American bandleader and musician (Born 1914) |
| 30th of May 2000 | DEATH | Doris Hare, Welsh actress (Born 1905) |
| 30th of May 2003 | DEATH | Mickie Most, English record producer (Born 1938) |
| 30th of May 2005 | DEATH | Tomasz Pacynski, Polish writer (Born 1958) |
| 30th of May 2005 | DEATH | Alma Ziegler, American baseball player [AAGPBL] (Born 1918) |
| 30th of May 2005 | DEATH | Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (Born 1927) |
| 30th of May 2006 | DEATH | Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (Born 1926) |
| 30th of May 2006 | DEATH | David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (Born 1938) |
| 30th of May 2006 | DEATH | Robert Sterling, American actor (Born 1917) |
| 30th of May 2007 | DEATH | Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet (Born1927) |
| 30th of May 2007 | DEATH | Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and author (Born 1933) |
| 30th of May 2008 | DEATH | Noel Moore, British civil servant (Born 1928) |
| 30th of May 2008 | DEATH | Lorenzo Odone, American medical figure (Born 1978) |
| 30th of May 2008 | DEATH | Auguste Legros, French politician (Born1922) |
| 30th of May 2009 | DEATH | Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (Born 1926) |
| 30th of May 2010 | DEATH | Duff Roblin, Canadian politician (Born 1917) |
| 30th of May 2010 | DEATH | Joan Rhodes, British performer and stuntwoman (Born 1921) |
| 30th of May 2010 | DEATH | Peter Orlovsky, American poet (Born 1933) |