10/30 - Birthday stats

How many people died on the day I was born?

131,862 People

Unusual Deaths in 1971 
* Jerome Irving Rodale, an american pioneer of organic farming, died of a heart attack while being interviewed on the dick cavett show. according to urban legend, when he appeared to fall asleep, cavett quipped "are we boring you, mr. rodale?" , which cavett has recently stated in a may 2007 new york times article was incorrect - the initial reaction to rodale was fellow guest pete hamill noticing something was wrong, and saying in a low voice to cavett, "this looks bad." the show was never broadcast.

Natural disasters in 1971 
* 1971 San Fernando earthquake
* 1971 Canberra flood
* 1971 Kuala Lumpur floods

People who died on October 30 (various years) 
* 2006 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist
* 2006 - Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright
* 2005 - Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader
* 2005 - Al Lopez, baseball player and manager
* 2004 - Peggy Ryan, American actress
* 2002 - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter
* 2002 - Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (murdered)
* 2000 - Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer
* 1997 - Samuel Fuller, American film director
* 1993 - Paul Grégoire, Archbishop of Montreal
* 1989 - Adam Mitchell Australian Drummer
* 1988 - T. Hee, American animator
* 1985 - Kirby Grant, American actor
* 1979 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini
* 1979 - Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer
* 1978 - Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist
* 1975 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1969 - Pops Foster, American musician
* 1968 - Conrad Richter, American writer
* 1968 - Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor
* 1968 - Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author
* 1966 - Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist
* 1957 - Fred Beebe, baseball player
* 1923 - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* 1915 - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada
* 1912 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States
* 1910 - Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* 1899 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist
* 1894 - Honoré Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec
* 1893 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada
* 1883 - Robert Volkmann, German composer
* 1853 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer
* 1842 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author
* 1816 - Frederick I of Württemberg
* 1809 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* 1685 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman
* 1680 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic
* 1654 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan
* 1632 - Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc
* 1626 - Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician
* 1611 - King Charles IX of Sweden
* 1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet
* 1553 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer
* 1522 - Jean Mouton, French composer
* 1459 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist