Discover what happened on April 30 in history! This day marks a series of notable events, famous births, and significant deaths. Explore the details below to learn more about the historical happenings of this day. On this day, history comes alive!
Births
- 1800: Friedrich Meinhof (German pastor)
- 1800: Charles Rogers (U.S. Representative from New York)
- 1800: Piotr Stanisław Moszyński
- 1800: Nicolaas Willem van Nifterick (Dutch publisher and printer (1800-1884))
- 1800: Richard Leigh Trafford ((1800-1864))
- 1800: James Smith ((1800-1811))
- 1800: Ana Antonia Quilandegui Landaburu (1800-04-30)
- 1800: David I. Cohen (banker, 1800-1847)
- 1800: John William Husted (30 Apr 1800 – 15 Mar 1876)
- 1800: Comte Auguste Louis de Ludre (30 Apr 1800 Port-sur-Seille – 20 Jan 1864 Paris)
- 1800: Mauritz Klingspor
- 1800: Daniël Schoonejans
- 1800: Petrus Lippens
- 1800: Sherman Hall (Hall, Sherman, 1800-1879)
- 1801: Johann Suttner (public servant and naturalist (1801-1875))
- 1801: Per Olof Forselius
- 1801: Viktor Brunner
- 1801: Nils Jacob Wallén
- 1801: August Hübner (judge)
- 1801: Vitalis Brems
- 1801: Gottlieb Heinrich Kirchhoff
- 1803: Albrecht von Roon (Prussian general (1803-1879))
- 1803: Louis-Henri Baratte (French physician)
- 1803: Marie Charles Adelbert Lebarbier de Tinan (1803-1876, French admiral)
- 1803: Jefferson Bancroft (American mayor (1803-1890))
- 1803: Jeremiah E. Cary (American politician (1803–1888))
- 1803: James R. Whiting (American judge and politician)
- 1804: Edith May Southey (daughter of poet Robert Southey)
- 1804: Jannetje van Blijenburgh (30 Apr 1804 Amsterdam – 10 Aug 1876 Rheden)
- 1807: Rebecca Stafford ((1807-1868) Sarah F. Critchlow’s mother)
- 1811: Thomas Lobb (British botanist (1811-1894))
- 1811: Edmund O’Reilly (Irish Catholic theologian)
- 1811: Enoch B. Talcott (American politician (1811-1868))
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- 1811: Vince Szent-Iványi ((1811–1868))
- 1811: Johann Schöpf ((1811-1895))
- 1811: Christian Adolph Palme ((1811-1889))
- 1811: Evert Hendrik Hartman ((30 April 1811-12 March 1873))
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- 1819: Hermann Settegast (German agronomist (1819-1908))
- 1819: Auguste-Joseph Dumon (Belgian politician (1819-1892))
- 1819: David Gruzinsky ((1819-1888))
- 1819: Anna Robena Laidlaw (English pianist (1819-1901))
- 1819: Charles John Biddle (Union Army officer (1819-1873))
- 1819: Pere Caimó i Bascós (Spanish politician)
- 1819: Fritz Thomsen (Danish painter (1819-1891))
- 1819: Luis Bramsen (Danish diplomat (1819-1886))
- 1819: Lars Gustaf Sellstedt (Swedish-American artist (1819–1911))
- 1819: Luis Molina Bedoya
- 1819: Susan Sunderland ([née Sykes] (1819–1905), British singer)
- 1819: Ferdinand Weber von Ebenhof
- 1819: Nikolay Vasilievich Nemirov-Kolodkin (Russian businessman)
- 1821: Camillo Caracciolo di Bella (Italian politician (1821-1888))
- 1822: Ernst Eichhorn (German violinist (1822–1844))
- 1822: Moritz Lämmel (German copperplate engraver (1822–1866))
- 1824: Michael Arnold (German sculptor and painter (1824-1877))
- 1824: Jean Joxé (French politician (1824-1916))
- 1824: Eli Todd Tappan (President of Kenyon College)
- 1824: Pierre Benoit (Canadian politician (1824-1870))
- 1824: Rinaldo Fulin (Italian historian and priest)
- 1824: Eugène Louis Pirodon (French painter and lithographer (1824-1917))
- 1824: Charles Pepys, 2nd Earl of Cottenham (April 30, 1824 – February 18, 1863 (Mr))
- 1824: George Patterson (Canadian journalist, Presbyterian minister, and antiquarian)
- 1824: Jane M. Hemingway ((1824-1890))
- 1824: Friedrich Christian Ludwig Kessler (German chemist and professor (1824-1896))
- 1824: Stanisław Jakub Jasiński
- 1824: Filip Šedivý
- 1824: Albert August Robert Hertel
- 1824: Albert Westöö
- 1824: Martial Bernard (French politician (1824-1896))
- 1824: William Romanis (Anglican clergy and hymn writer)
- 1824: Michael Arnold (German sculptor and painter (1824-1877))
- 1824: Jean Joxé (French politician (1824-1916))
- 1824: Eli Todd Tappan (President of Kenyon College)
- 1824: Pierre Benoit (Canadian politician (1824-1870))
- 1824: Rinaldo Fulin (Italian historian and priest)
- 1824: Eugène Louis Pirodon (French painter and lithographer (1824-1917))
- 1824: Charles Pepys, 2nd Earl of Cottenham (April 30, 1824 – February 18, 1863 (Mr))
- 1824: George Patterson (Canadian journalist, Presbyterian minister, and antiquarian)
- 1824: Jane M. Hemingway ((1824-1890))
- 1824: Friedrich Christian Ludwig Kessler (German chemist and professor (1824-1896))
- 1824: Stanisław Jakub Jasiński
- 1824: Filip Šedivý
- 1824: Albert August Robert Hertel
- 1824: Albert Westöö
- 1824: Martial Bernard (French politician (1824-1896))
- 1824: William Romanis (Anglican clergy and hymn writer)
- 1824: Michael Arnold (German sculptor and painter (1824-1877))
- 1824: Jean Joxé (French politician (1824-1916))
- 1824: Eli Todd Tappan (President of Kenyon College)
- 1824: Pierre Benoit (Canadian politician (1824-1870))
- 1824: Rinaldo Fulin (Italian historian and priest)
- 1824: Eugène Louis Pirodon (French painter and lithographer (1824-1917))
- 1824: Charles Pepys, 2nd Earl of Cottenham (April 30, 1824 – February 18, 1863 (Mr))
- 1824: George Patterson (Canadian journalist, Presbyterian minister, and antiquarian)
- 1824: Jane M. Hemingway ((1824-1890))
- 1824: Friedrich Christian Ludwig Kessler (German chemist and professor (1824-1896))
- 1824: Stanisław Jakub Jasiński
- 1824: Filip Šedivý
- 1824: Albert August Robert Hertel
- 1824: Albert Westöö
- 1824: Martial Bernard (French politician (1824-1896))
- 1824: William Romanis (Anglican clergy and hymn writer)
- 1825: Frances Hooker (artist, wife of Joseph Dalton Hooker (1825-1874))
- 1825: Johannes Evangelist Haller (Austrian archbishop (1825-1900))
- 1825: Charles Monselet (French journalist, novelist, poet and playwright (1825–1888))
- 1825: Benjamin Wilson (American politician (1825-1901))
- 1825: Richard Caton Woodville, Sr. (American painter, father of Richard Caton Woodville, Jr. (posthumous) (1825-1855))
- 1825: Alfred von Rosen
- 1825: Vincenzo Stefano Breda (Italian engineer, entrepreneur and politician)
- 1825: William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter (British politician (1825-1895))
- 1825: Samuel Bodorovský
- 1825: Edward Cederlund
- 1825: Johannes Beschnitt
- 1825: Joseph Meredith Toner (American physician (1825–1896))
- 1825: Thomas Townley (English soldier, an amateur jockey and a cricketer (1825-1895))
- 1825: Peter Harum ((1825-1875))
- 1825: Riulf Erlandsen (Norwegian politician)
- 1825: Julius Urban (30 April 1825 — 19 November 1879)
- 1825: John Stouppe Charley ((1825-1878))
- 1825: William Wakefield ((1825-1893))
- 1825: Carolus Grymonprez (teacher)
- 1825: Joannes Canoniers
- 1826: Julius von Ficker (German historian (1826–1902))
- 1826: Jonathan Ross (American senator for Vermont (1826-1905))
- 1829: Fedor Pavlovich Elenev
- 1829: Isak Sven Landtmanson
- 1829: Samuel H. Kauffmann (American newspaper publisher (1829–1906))
- 1829: Moritz von Harten (1829-1894)
- 1829: Andreas Melchior Glückstad (Norwegian author (1829-1865))
- 1829: Alfonso Buonomo (Italian composer)
- 1829: Sir Thomas Sebastian Bazley, 2nd Bt. ((1829-1919))
- 1829: Lucy Lefroy ((1829-1912))
- 1829: Francis Kendall ((born 1829))
- 1829: Friedrich Koenen (German composer and church musician)
- 1829: Edwin J. Hulbert (American politician (1829–1910))
- 1829: Ferdinand von Hochstetter (German geologist (1829–1884))
- 1832: Johann Baptist Hofner (German painter (1832-1913))
- 1832: Wilfrid Prévost (Canadian politician (1832-1898))
- 1832: Hippolyte Prudhon (French politician)
- 1832: Károly Rauchmaul
- 1832: Pieter Boekel (school teacher and author)
- 1832: Franz Emerich von Lamberg ((1832-1901))
- 1832: Julien Récipon
- 1832: George Cecil Gooch ((1832-1898))
- 1832: Etienne Guillemin ((1832-1907))
- 1833: Alfred De Champeaux
- 1833: Hortense Schneider (singer (1833–1920))
- 1833: August Schaeffer von Wienwald (Austrian painter (1833-1916))
- 1833: Nils Pedersen Igland (Norwegian politician)
- 1833: Ivan Barvinskyi (Ukrainian priest and intellectual (1833-1900))
- 1833: Heinrich Kihn ((1833-1912))
- 1833: Prosper Auguste Dusserre (roman-catholic archbishop (1833-1897))
- 1833: Maria Jane Molyneux ((1833-1916))
- 1833: Pablo Gómez Moure
- 1833: Carl Fuchs
- 1833: Eerikki Eerikinpoika of Penttilä, of Neuvottoma, master of moiety of Penttilä (30 Apr 1833 Penttilä, Neuvottoma, Vehkalahti – 5 Apr 1883 Penttilä, Neuvottoma, Vehkalahti)
- 1848: Ivan Yakovlev (Chuvash enlightener, educator, and writer (1848–1930))
- 1848: Marie Hanfstängl (German soprano (1848–1917))
- 1848: Eugène Simon (French naturalist and arachnologist (1848–1924))
- 1848: Béla Nádaskay (veterinarian)
- 1848: Leonhard Weber (German physicist (1848–1919))
- 1848: Benjamin Pickman Mann (American naturalist (1848-1926))
- 1848: Aleksandra Efimenko (Ukrainian historian (1848–1918))
- 1848: Alfred Pearson (British bishop)
- 1848: Fritz Hoenig (German military historian (c.