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December 30

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History of the Soviet Union

103 years ago

Born this day

1865

Rudyard Kipling

Died aged 70

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1986th

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AD 39 · 1986 yrs

Titus

Titus Flavius Vespasianus (30 December AD 39 – 13 September 81) was Roman emperor from AD 79 to 81. A member of the Flavian dynasty, Titus succeeded his father, Vespasian, upon his death, becoming the first Roman emperor to succeed his biological father.

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RoyaltyDied aged 41

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1673 · 352 yrs

Ahmed III

Ahmed III (Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثالث, Aḥmed-i sālis; Turkish: III. Ahmed; 30 December 1673 – 1 July 1736) was sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of sultan Mehmed IV (r. 1648–1687).

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PoliticsDied aged 62

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1819 · 206 yrs

Theodor Fontane

Theodor Fontane (German pronunciation:; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet.

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LiteratureDied aged 78

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1865 · 160 yrs

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.

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LiteratureDied aged 70

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1879 · 146 yrs

Ramana Maharshi

Ramana Maharshi (pronounced; 30 December 1879 – 14 April 1950) was an Indian Hindu sage widely regarded by his followers and by "most advocates of Advaita" as a jivanmukta (liberated being). He was born Venkataraman Iyer, but is mostly known by the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.

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1884 · 141 yrs

Hideki Tojo

Hideki Tojo (30 December 1884 – 23 December 1948) was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1941 to 1944 during World War II. His leadership was marked by widespread state violence and mass killings perpetrated in the name of Japanese nationalism.

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1902 · 123 yrs

Igor Kurchatov

Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (Russian: Игорь Васильевич Курчатов; 12 January 1903 – 7 February 1960) was a Soviet physicist who played a central role directing Laboratory No. 2, the research institute of the Soviet nuclear weapons program.

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1905 · 120 yrs

Emmanuel Levinas

Emmanuel Levinas (born Emanuelis Levinas; French:; 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to metaphysics and ontology.

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PhilosophyWould be 120

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1906 · 119 yrs

Sergei Korolev

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (12 January 1907 – 14 January 1966) was a Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer who led the development of the Soviet space program during the early years of the Space Race.

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TechnologyWould be 119

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1930 · 95 yrs

Tu Youyou

Tu Youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; pinyin: Tú Yōuyōu; born 30 December 1930) is a Nobel Prize-winning Chinese pharmaceutical chemist.

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ScienceAge 95

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1935 · 90 yrs

Omar Bongo

Omar Bongo Ondimba (born Albert-Bernard Bongo; 30 December 1935 – 8 June 2009) was the second president of Gabon, serving from 1967 until his death in 2009.

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1937 · 88 yrs

Gordon Banks

Gordon Banks (30 December 1937 – 12 February 2019) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Famous deaths15

1591 · 434 yrs

Innocent IX

Pope Innocent IX (Latin: Innocentius IX; Italian: Innocenzo IX; 20 July 1519 – 30 December 1591), born Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 October to 30 December 1591.

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ReligionDied aged 72

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1870 · 155 yrs

Juan Prim, 1st Marquis of los Castillejos

Juan Prim y Prats, 1st Count of Reus, 1st Marquis of los Castillejos, 1st Viscount of Bruch (Spanish pronunciation:; Catalan: Joan Prim i Prats; 6 December 1814 – 30 December 1870) was a Spanish general and statesman who was briefly Prime Minister of Spain until his assassination.

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MilitaryDied aged 56

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1896 · 129 yrs

José Rizal

José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (Spanish:, Tagalog:; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist, writer, and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is popularly considered to be a national hero of the Philippines.

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LiteratureDied aged 35

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1916 · 109 yrs

Grigori Rasputin

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (21 January 1869 – 30 December 1916) was a Russian mystic and faith healer. He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, through whom he gained considerable influence in the final years of the Russian Empire.

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PoliticsDied aged 47

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1944 · 81 yrs

Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland (French:; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described…

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LiteratureDied aged 78

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1947 · 78 yrs

Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology.

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ScienceDied aged 86

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1968 · 57 yrs

Trygve Lie

Trygve Halvdan Lie ( LEE, Norwegian:; 16 July 1896 – 30 December 1968) was a Norwegian politician, labour leader, government official and author. He served as Norwegian foreign minister during the critical years of the Norwegian government in exile in London from 1940 to 1945.

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MilitaryWould be 130

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2006 · 19 yrs

Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003. He also served as prime minister of Iraq from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003.

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PoliticsWould be 89

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2009 · 16 yrs

Abdurrahman Wahid

Abdurrahman Wahid ( AHB-doo-RAHKH-mahn wah-HEED; Indonesian:; né ad-Dakhil, 7 September 1940 – 30 December 2009), more colloquially known as Gus Dur (Indonesian: ), was an Indonesian politician and Islamic religious leader who served as the fourth president of Indonesia, from his election in 1999 until he was removed…

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PoliticsWould be 86

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2012 · 13 yrs100 Club

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini (born Rita Levi; 22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian neurobiologist. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).

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ScienceWould be 117

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2014 · 11 yrs100 Club

Luise Rainer

Luise Rainer ( RY-nər, German:; 12 January 1910 – 30 December 2014) was a German-born film actress.

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FilmWould be 116

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2022 · 3 yrs

Barbara Walters

Barbara Jill Walters (September 25, 1929 – December 30, 2022) was an American broadcast journalist and television personality. Known for her interviewing ability and popularity with viewers, she appeared as a host of numerous television programs, including Today, the ABC Evening News, 20/20, and The View.

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Events5

1460 · 565 yrs

Battle of Wakefield

The 'Battle' of Wakefield has traditionally been said to have taken place in Sandal Magna near Wakefield in northern England, on 30 December 1460.

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War

1922 · 103 yrs

History of the Soviet Union

The history of the Soviet Union (USSR) (1922–1991) began with the ideals of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and ended in dissolution amidst economic collapse and political disintegration. Established in 1922 following the Russian Civil War, the Soviet Union quickly became a one-party state under the Communist Party.

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History

1980 · 45 yrs

1980 World Champions' Gold Cup

The 1980–81 World Champions' Gold Cup (Spanish for "Copa de Oro de Campeones Mundiales"), also known as Mundialito ("Little World Cup") or FIFA 1980 Gold Cup, was an international football tournament organized by the Uruguayan Football Association and granted official status by FIFA and recognized before its inception…

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Sports

2006 · 19 yrs

Execution of Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, was executed on 30 December 2006.

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History

2025 · 0 yrs

2026 Iran massacres

The 2025–2026 Iran massacres were a series of mass killings of civilians by the Iranian government during the 2025–2026 Iranian protests, deploying both its own security forces and importing foreign militias to suppress public dissent nationwide.

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