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Oct 30 1218

Emperor Chky 85th emperor of Japan (d. 1234)

Oct 30 1391

Edward [Dom Duarte] King of Portugal (1433-38) born in Viseu Kingdom of Portugal (d. 1438)

Oct 30 1620

Michael de Ronghe composer born in Antwerp Belgium (d. 1696)

Oct 30 1624

Paul Pellisson French writer born in Bziers France (d. 1693)

Oct 30 1668

Sophia Charlotte of Hanover 1st Queen consort of Prussia (1701-05) born in Iburg Castle Osnabrck Hanover (d. 1705)

Oct 30 1712

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich German painter born in Weimar Thuringia Germany (d. 1774)

Oct 30 1735

Edward Miller English composer born in Norwich England (d. 1807)

Oct 30 1741

Angelica Kauffmann Swiss Neoclassical painter born in Chur League of Gods House (now Switzerland) (d. 1807)

Oct 30 1762

Andr Chnier French poet killed during French Revolution born in Constantinople Ottoman Empire (d. 1794)

Oct 30 1786

Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gasp French Canadian writer born in Quebec City Quebec (d. 1871)

Oct 30 1787

Karl Guhr German composer born in Militsch (d. 1848)

Oct 30 1790

Karol Joseph Lipinski Polish composer and virtuoso violinist born in Radzy Podlaski Poland (d. 1861)

Oct 30 1790

Rinse Posthumus Frisian writer and poet born in Ternaard Friesland (d. 1859)

Oct 30 1799

Ignace Bourget French-Canadian Bishop of Montreal born in Lvis Province of Lower Canada British Empire (d. 1885)

Oct 30 1817

Hermann Kopp German chemist (Jahresbericht of Chemistry) born in Hanau Hesse-Kassel Germany (d. 1892)

Oct 30 1821

Cenobio Paniagua Mexican composer born in Tlalpujahua Michoacn Mexico (d. 1882)

Oct 30 1829

Roscoe Conkling American politician (U.S. Senator from New York 1867-81) born in Albany New York (d. 1888)

Oct 30 1830

John S. Bowen American Major General (Confederate Army) born in Bowens Creek Georgia (d. 1863)

Oct 30 1839

Alfred Sisley French impressionist painter born in Paris (d. 1899)

Oct 30 1840

Carlotta Patti Italian soprano born in Florence Italy (d. 1889)

Oct 30 1840

William Graham Sumner American sociologist (Folkways) born in Paterson New Jersey (d. 1910)

Oct 30 1843

Henri Regnault French painter born in Paris (d. 1871)

Oct 30 1848

Zinovy Rozhestvensky Russian vice-admiral (d. 1909)

Oct 30 1861

Antoine Bourdelle French sculptor born in Montauban Tarn-et-Garonne France (d. 1929)

Oct 30 1864

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge American pianist and philanthropist born in Chicago Illinois (d. 1953)

Oct 30 1871

Buck Freeman American baseball player born in Catasauqua Pennsylvania (d. 1949)

Oct 30 1873

Francisco I. Madero Mexican revolutionary and 33rd President of Mexico (1911-13) born in Parras de la Fuente Coahuila Mexico (d. 1913)

Oct 30 1881

Elizabeth Madox Roberts American poet and novelist (The Time of Man) born in Perryville Kentucky (d. 1941)

Oct 30 1882

William Halsey Jr. US vice-admiral (WW II Pacific) born in Elizabeth New Jersey (d. 1959)

Oct 30 1884

Rudolf Forster Austrian actor (Threepenny Opera) born in Grbming Austria-Hungary (d. 1868)

Oct 30 1886

Zoe Akins American playwright (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1935) born in Humansville Missouri (d. 1958)

Oct 30 1888

Konstantinos Tsiklitiras Greek athlete (Olympic gold & bronze 1912 2 silver 1908) born in Pylos Peloponnesos Greece (d. 1913)

Oct 30 1893

Charles Atlas [Angelo Siciliano] Italian-American bodybuilder born in Acri Cosenza Italy (d. 1972)

Oct 30 1340 Battle of Rio Salado Battle (or Tarifa) King Afonso IV of Portugal and King Alfonso XI of Castile defeat Sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali of Morocco and Yusuf I of Granada last Marnids invasion of Iberian Peninsula

Oct 30 1864 Treaty of Vienna signed to end the Second Schleswig War Denmark losses control of Schleswig to Prussia and Holstein to Austria

Oct 30 1995 Qubec votes in a referendum to remain part of Canada

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