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Acts of Union 1707

319 years ago

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1777

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Died aged 77

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1310 · 716 yrs

Casimir III the Great

Casimir III the Great (Polish: Kazimierz III Wielki; 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370) reigned as the King of Poland from 1333 to 1370. He also later became King of Ruthenia in 1340, retaining the title throughout the Galicia–Volhynia Wars.

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RoyaltyDied aged 60

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1662 · 364 yrs

Mary II of England

Mary II (30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694) was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland with her husband, King William III and II, from 1689 until her death in 1694. She was also Princess of Orange following her marriage on 4 November 1677.

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RoyaltyDied aged 32

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1777 · 249 yrs

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (German: Gauß; 30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist, who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science.

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ScienceDied aged 77

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1857 · 169 yrs

Eugen Bleuler

Paul Eugen Bleuler ( BLOY-lər; Swiss Standard German:; 30 April 1857 – 15 July 1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist most notable for his influence on modern concepts of mental illness.

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ScienceDied aged 82

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1870 · 156 yrs

Franz Lehár

Franz Lehár ( LAY-har; Hungarian: Lehár Ferenc; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe).

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MusicDied aged 78

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1883 · 143 yrs

Jaroslav Hašek

Jaroslav Hašek (Czech:; 30 April 1883 – 3 January 1923) was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian, first anarchist and then communist, and commissar of the Red Army against the Czechoslovak Legion.

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1893 · 133 yrs

Joachim von Ribbentrop

Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (German:; 30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician, diplomat, and war criminal who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945.

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1901 · 125 yrs

Simon Kuznets

Simon Smith Kuznets ( KUZ-nets; Russian: Семён Абра́мович Кузне́ц, romanized: Semyon Abramovich Kuznets, IPA:; April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was a Russian-born American economist and statistician.

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1902 · 124 yrs

Theodore Schultz

Theodore William Schultz ( SHUULTS; 30 April 1902 – 26 February 1998) was an American agricultural economist and chairman of the University of Chicago Department of Economics. Schultz rose to national prominence after winning the 1979 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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1909 · 117 yrs

Juliana of the Netherlands

Juliana (Dutch pronunciation:; Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina; 30 April 1909 – 20 March 2004) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until her abdication in 1980. Juliana was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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RoyaltyWould be 117

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1916 · 110 yrs

Claude Shannon

Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American polymath who was a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor known as the "father of information theory", and the man who laid the foundations of the Information Age.

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ScienceWould be 110

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1926 · 100 yrs

Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 27, 2021) was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned nine decades. She received many accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, nine Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.

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AD 65 · 1961 yrs

Lucan

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (3 November AD 39 – 30 April AD 65), better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, born in Corduba, Hispania Baetica (present-day Córdoba, Spain). He is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period, known in particular for his epic Pharsalia.

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LiteratureDied aged 25

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1030 · 996 yrs

Mahmud of Ghazni

Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Sabuktigin (Persian: ابوالقاسم محمود بن سبکتگین, romanized: Abu al-Qāṣim Maḥmūd ibn Sabuktigīn; 2 October 971 – 30 April 1030), commonly known as Mahmud of Ghazni or Mahmud Ghaznavi (محمود غزنوی), was the Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire, ruling from 998 to 1030.

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RoyaltyDied aged 58

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1883 · 143 yrs

Édouard Manet

Édouard Manet (UK:, US:; French:; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.

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ArtDied aged 51

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1885 · 141 yrs

Jens Peter Jacobsen

Jens Peter Jacobsen (7 April 1847 – 30 April 1885) was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen". He began the naturalist movement in Danish literature and was a part of the Modern Breakthrough.

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LiteratureDied aged 38

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1943 · 83 yrs

Otto Jespersen

Jens Otto Harry Jespersen (Danish:; 16 July 1860 – 30 April 1943) was a Danish linguist who worked in foreign-language pedagogy, historical phonetics, and other areas, but is best known for his description of the grammar of the English language.

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ScholarshipDied aged 82

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1945 · 81 yrs

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany in the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.

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1945 · 81 yrs

Eva Braun

Eva Anna Paula Hitler (née Braun; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun met Hitler in Munich in 1929 (aged 17) when she was an assistant and model for his personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann.

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1956 · 70 yrs

Alben W. Barkley

Alben William Barkley (November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under President Harry S. Truman. In 1905, he was elected to local offices and in 1912 as a U.S. representative.

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1983 · 43 yrs

Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".

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1989 · 37 yrs

Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone ( lee-OH-nee; Italian:; 3 January 1929 – 30 April 1989) was an Italian filmmaker, credited as the pioneer of the spaghetti Western genre. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema.

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2011 · 15 yrs

Ernesto Sabato

Ernesto Sabato (Spanish:; June 24, 1911 – April 30, 2011) was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America".

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2013 · 13 yrs

Masao Uchino

Masao Uchino (内野正雄, Uchino Masao; April 21, 1934 – April 2013) was a Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team.

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Events5

1707 · 319 yrs

Acts of Union 1707

The Acts of Union refer to two acts of Parliament, one by the Parliament of Scotland in March 1707, followed shortly thereafter by an equivalent act of the Parliament of England.

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Politics

1803 · 223 yrs

Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river.

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History

1945 · 81 yrs

Death of Adolf Hitler

On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot in the Führerbunker when it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which resulted in Germany's surrender to the Allies and the end of World War II in Europe.

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History

1977 · 49 yrs

Cambodian–Vietnamese War

The Cambodian–Vietnamese War was an armed conflict from 1978 to 1989 between Democratic Kampuchea and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and their respective allies.

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War

2010 · 16 yrs

Expo 2010 Shanghai China

Expo 2010, officially the Expo 2010 Shanghai China, was held on both banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, from 1 May to 31 October 2010. It was a major World Expo registered by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), in the tradition of international fairs and expositions, the first since 2005.

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