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August 30

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Treaty of Nystad

305 years ago

Born this day

1871

Ernest Rutherford

Died aged 66

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Louis XI of France

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Famous births28

1489 · 537 yrs

Antonio da Correggio

Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (also UK:, US:, Italian:), was an Italian Renaissance painter who was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Renaissance, and was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the sixteenth…

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ArtDied aged 44

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1569 · 457 yrs

Jahangir I

Nur ud-din Muhammad Salim (Persian: نورالدین محمد سلیم /sə.liːm]; 31 August 1569 – 28 October 1627), known by his royal name Jahangir (Persian: جهانگیر, Persian pronunciation:), was the fourth Mughal emperor of the Mughal Empire, reigning from 1605 until his death in 1627.

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RoyaltyDied aged 58

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1748 · 278 yrs

Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David (French:; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.

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ArtDied aged 77

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1797 · 229 yrs

Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.

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LiteratureDied aged 53

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1811 · 215 yrs

Théophile Gautier

Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (US: goh-TYAY; French:; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.

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LiteratureDied aged 61

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1844 · 182 yrs

Friedrich Ratzel

Friedrich Ratzel (German pronunciation:; 30 August 1844 – 9 August 1904) was a German geographer and ethnographer, notable for first using the term Lebensraum (lit. 'living space') in the sense that the Nazis later would.

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ScienceDied aged 59

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1852 · 174 yrs

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. (Dutch:; 30 August 1852 – 1 March 1911) was a Dutch physical chemist.

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ScienceDied aged 58

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1871 · 155 yrs

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937), was a New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as "the father of nuclear physics" and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday".

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ScienceDied aged 66

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1877 · 149 yrs

Felix Dzerzhinsky

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (11 September 1877 – 20 July 1926), nicknamed Iron Felix (Russian: Железный Феликс), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician of Polish origin.

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1883 · 143 yrs

Theo van Doesburg

Theo van Doesburg (Dutch:; born Christian Emil Marie Küpper; 30 August 1883 – 7 March 1931) was a Dutch painter, writer, poet, and architect. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl.

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1884 · 142 yrs

Theodor Svedberg

Theodor Svedberg (30 August 1884 – 25 February 1971) was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate for his research on colloids and proteins using the ultracentrifuge. Svedberg was active at Uppsala University from the mid-1900s to late 1940s.

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1898 · 128 yrs

Shirley Booth

Shirley Booth (born Marjory Ford; August 30, 1898 – October 16, 1992) was an American actress. One of 24 performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, Booth was the recipient of an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Tony Awards.

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Famous deaths15

1483 · 543 yrs

Louis XI of France

Louis XI (3 July 1423 – 30 August 1483), called the Prudent (French: le Prudent), was King of France from 1461 to 1483. He succeeded his father, Charles VII. Louis entered into open rebellion against his father in a short-lived revolt known as the Praguerie in 1440.

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RoyaltyDied aged 60

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1795 · 231 yrs

François-André Danican Philidor

François-André Danican Philidor (7 September 1726 – 31 August 1795), born François-André Danican and often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess master. He contributed to the early development of the opéra comique.

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SportsDied aged 68

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1867 · 159 yrs

Charles Baudelaire

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (UK:; US:; French:; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, and are based on observations of real life.

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LiteratureDied aged 46

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1907 · 119 yrs

Ilia Chavchavadze

Tavadi (Prince) Ilia Chavchavadze (Georgian: ილია ჭავჭავაძე; 8 November 1837 – 12 September 1907) was a Georgian journalist, publisher, writer and poet who spearheaded the revival of Georgian nationalism during the second half of the 19th century in the period of Tsarist rule.

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LiteratureDied aged 69

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1928 · 98 yrs

Wilhelm Wien

Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (German:; 13 January 1864 – 30 August 1928) was a German physicist who used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature.

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ScienceDied aged 64

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1935 · 91 yrs

Henri Barbusse

Henri Barbusse (French:; 17 May 1873 – 30 August 1935) was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist.

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LiteratureDied aged 62

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1940 · 86 yrs

Joseph John Thomson

Sir Joseph John Thomson (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist.

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ScienceDied aged 83

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1981 · 45 yrs

Mohammad-Ali Rajai

Mohammad-Ali Rajai (Persian: محمدعلی رجایی; 15 June 1933 – 30 August 1981) was an Iranian politician who served as the president of Iran from 2 August 1981 until his assassination four weeks later.

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2003 · 23 yrs

Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor. He was known for his roles in action films and his "granite features and brawny physique".

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2006 · 20 yrs

Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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2006 · 20 yrs

Glenn Ford

Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006), known as Glenn Ford, was a Canadian-born American actor. He was most prominent during Hollywood's Golden Age as one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and had a career that lasted more than 50 years.

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2013 · 13 yrs

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Events5

1721 · 305 yrs

Treaty of Nystad

The Treaty of Nystad, or the Treaty of Uusikaupunki, was the last peace treaty of the Great Northern War of 1700–1721. It was concluded between the Tsardom of Russia and the Swedish Empire on 10 September 1721 in the then Swedish town of Nystad (Uusikaupunki, in the south-west of present-day Finland).

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Politics

1995 · 31 yrs

Operation Deliberate Force

Operation Deliberate Force was a sustained air campaign conducted by NATO, in concert with the UNPROFOR ground operations, to undermine the military capability of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), which had threatened and attacked UN-designated "safe areas" in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War, with the…

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War

2017 · 9 yrs

Hurricane Irma

Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful and devastating tropical cyclone that caused extensive damage and multiple deaths across the Antilles and Eastern United States in September 2017.

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Disaster

2023 · 3 yrs

2023 Gabon coup d'état

On 30 August 2023, a coup d'état occurred in Gabon shortly after the announcement that incumbent president Ali Bongo had won the general election held on 26 August. It was the eighth successful coup to occur in West and Central Africa since 2020.

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War

2025 · 1 yrs

Global Sumud Flotilla

The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF; Arabic: أسطول الصمود العالمي, romanized: Usṭūl aṣ-Ṣumūd al-ʿĀlamī), sometimes referred to as the Global Freedom Flotilla (أسطول الحرية العالمي, Usṭūl al-Ḥurriyya al-ʿĀlamī), was an international, civil society-led maritime initiative launched in mid-2025, which attempted to break the…

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