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Jul 30 1511

Giorgio Vasari Italian painter and art historian (Vasaris Lives) born in Arezzo Republic of Florence (d. 1574)

Jul 30 1549

Ferdinando I de Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany born in Florence (d. 1609)

Jul 30 1641

Regnier de Graaf Dutch physician and anatomist born in Schoonhoven Netherlands (d. 1673)

Jul 30 1747

Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini Italian composer born in Lucca Italy (d. 1832)

Jul 30 1751

Maria Anna Mozart Austrian pianist and Wolfgangs sister born in Salzburg Austria (d. 1829)

Jul 30 1763

Samuel Rogers English poet (Italy a poem) born in Newington Cross Islington England (d. 1855)

Jul 30 1793

Joseph-Franois Snel Belgian composer born in Brussels Belgium (d. 1861)

Jul 30 1809

Charles Chiniquy Canadian Catholic priest who left the Roman Catholic Church and became a Presbyterian minister born in Kamouraska Quebec (d. 1899)

Jul 30 1815

Thomas Jackson Rodman American Brevet Brigadier General (Union Army) inventor of the rodman gun and perforated-cake gunpowder born in Salem Indiana (d. 1871)

Jul 30 1818

John Heemskerk Dutch politician (Minister of the Interior 1866-88) born in Amsterdam Netherlands (d. 1897)

Jul 30 1824

Eugenio Terziani Italian composer born in Rome (d. 1889)

Jul 30 1825

Chaim Aronson Lithuanian inventor and academic born in Seredius Lithuania (d. 1893)

Jul 30 1831

Helena Blavatsky Russian occultist philosopher and author (co-founded Theosophical Society) born in Yekaterinoslav Ukraine (d. 1891)

Jul 30 1837

Elon John Farnsworth American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Green Oak Michigan (d. 1863)

Jul 30 1838

Eugen Richter German politician (Liberal) born in Dsseldorf Germany (d. 1906)

Jul 30 1855

James E. Kelly American sculptor Sculptor of American History born in NYC New York (d. 1933)

Jul 30 1856

Richard Haldane British viscount and lord-chancellor (Life of A Smith) born in Edinburgh Scotland (d. 1928)

Jul 30 1857

Thorstein Veblen American economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899) born in Cato Wisconsin (d. 1929)

Jul 30 1859

Henry Lunn English humanitarian and religious leader born in Horncastle Lincolnshire (d. 1939)

Jul 30 1859

Henry Louis Smith American physicist who made the first X-ray photograph born in Greensboro North Carolina (d. 1951)

Jul 30 1868

Alfred Weber German economist and sociologist born in Erfurt Prussian Saxony (d. 1958)

Jul 30 1872

Clmentine Princess of Belgium wife of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte V born in Royal Castle of Laeken Brussels (d. 1955)

Jul 30 1875

James W. Tate English composer born in Wolverhampton Staffordshire (d. 1922)

Jul 30 1877

Charles Radoux-Rogier Belgian composer born in Lige Belgium (d. 1952)

Jul 30 1880

Robert R. McCormick American editor and publisher (Chicago Tribune) born in Chicago (d. 1955)

Jul 30 1881

Smedley Butler American Marine general born in West Chester Pennsylvania (d. 1940)

Jul 30 1882

Holmes Herbert British actor (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Kiss) born in Mansfield Nottinghamshire England (d. 1956)

Jul 30 1882

Leo van Puyfielde Flemish art historian and museum curator

Jul 30 1886

Algot Haquinius Swedish composer born in Sveg Sweden (d. 1966)

Jul 30 1887

Felix Andries Vening Meinesz Dutch geophysicist (gravity) born in The Hague Netherlands (d. 1966)

Jul 30 1888

Raden Soetomo Indonesian freedom fighter born in Ngepeh Nganjuk Indonesia (d. 1938)

Jul 30 1890

Casey Stengel American Baseball Hall of Fame manager (Yankees (1949-60) NY Mets 1st) born in Kansas City Missouri (d. 1975)

Jul 30 1892

Roy Park Australian cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1920 out 1st ball) born in Charlton Victoria (d. 1947)

Jul 30 1419 First defenestration of Prague anti-Catholic Hussites followers of executed reformer Jan Hus storm Prague town hall and throw the judge mayor and several city council members out the windows. They die in the fall or killed by crowd outside.

Jul 30 1601 Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius

Jul 30 1619 House of Burgesses Virginia forms 1st elective American governing body

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