Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 30

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[edit] Births

• 1814 - Michael Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
• 1903 - Countee Cullen, Harlem Renaissance poet (d. 1946)
• 1908 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (Bugs Bunny, Barney Rubble, ...) (d. 1989)
• 1909 - Benny Goodman, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 1986)
• 1964 - Tom Morello, American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
• 1974 - Cee-Lo, African-American hip-hop, funk, soul and R&B musician
• 1980 - Steven Gerrard, English footballer

[edit] Deaths

• 1431 - Joan of Arc, (pictured) French peasant girl that joined the French royal army, heroine and saint (burned at the stake) (b. 1412)
• 1593 - Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)
• 1640 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
• 1744 - Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688)
• 1778 - Voltaire, French philosopher and author (b. 1694)
• 1961 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
• 1964 - Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born nuclear physicist (b. 1898)

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