Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 30

Births

 * 1814 - Michael Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
 * 1903 - Countee Cullen, Harlem Renaissance poet (d. 1946)
 * 1908 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (Bugs Bunny, Barney Rubble, ...) (d. 1989)
 * 1909 - Benny Goodman, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 1986)
 * 1964 - Tom Morello, American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
 * 1974 - CeeLo Green, African American hip-hop, funk, soul and R&B musician
 * 1980 - Steven Gerrard, English footballer

Deaths

 * 1431 - Joan of Arc, (pictured) French peasant girl that joined the French royal army, heroine and saint (burned at the stake) (b. 1412)
 * 1593 - Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)
 * 1640 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
 * 1744 - Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688)
 * 1778 - Voltaire, French philosopher and author (b. 1694)
 * 1961 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
 * 1964 - Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born nuclear physicist (b. 1898)

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