(-) Composer Ercole Porta dies at the age of 44 in Italy.
221 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 April 1792
(-) 4th Earl of Sandwich and inventor of the sandwich John Montagu dies at the age of 73 in Chiswick, United Kingdom.
201 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 April 1812
(+) Kaspar Casparus Hauser aka The Wild Child, is born in Germany.
169 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 April 1844
(x) 26-year-old Writer and pacifist Henry David Thoreau accidently set a fire that burned over a hundred acres in Fair Haven Pond, Massachusetts, United States.
143 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 April 1870
(+) Composer Franz Ferenc Lehár is born in Komárno, Slovakia.
139 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 April 1874
(+) Clergyman and Nazi-collaborator Cyriel Verschaeve is born in Ardooie, Belgium.
(-) Artist Edouard Manet dies of untreated syphilis and rheumatism at the age of 51 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
120 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 April 1893
(+) Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm von Ribbentrop is born in Wesel, Prussia, Germany.
115 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 April 1898
(+) Assassin of SA-Leader Horst Wessel, Albrecht Höhler is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
101 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 April 1912
(-) Murderer J. J. Morris is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 44 in Utah, United States.
83 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 April 1930
(-) Charlotte Ulrich is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, Grafenberger Wald, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.
83 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 April 1930
(+) Psychotherapist and philosopher Pierre-Félix Guattari is born in Villeneuve-les-Sablons, Oise, France.
68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 April 1945
(-) Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler commits suicide by poison and a shot through the head at the age of 56 in Berlin, FührerBunker, Berlin, Germany.
His 35-year-old lover Eva Braun follows him in death.
68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 April 1945
(x) The concentration camp of Ravensbruck is liberated by Russian Armed Forces in Germany.
67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 April 1946
(x) 17-year-old Serial Killer William George Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More, is arrested for carrying a gun, but is released in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
57 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 April 1956
(+) Filmmaker and founder of Dogme 95 Lars von Trier is born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 April 1966
(x) 36-year-old Founder of the Satanic Church Anton Szandor LaVey originally Howard Stanton Levey, announces the establishment of the one and only Church of Satan in San Francisco, California, United States.
35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 April 1978
(x) 41-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, goes hungerstriking to secure medical treatment in Huntingdon State Correctional Institute, Pennsylvania, United States.
34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 April 1979
(-) Ellen Abel is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 16 in Schriesheim, Germany.
30 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 April 1983
(-) Musician and Father of Chicago Blues Muddy Waters dies of natural causes at the age of 68 in Westmond, Illinois,
30 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 April 1983
(-) Marie Malvar is strangled by The Green River Killer at the age of 18 in Seattle, Washington, United States.
26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 April 1987
(x) 41-year-old Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, is paroled and released from Stormville Prison after serving 14 of a 25-year sentence for child-murder in New York, New York, United States.
14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 April 1999
(x) 17-year-old Mass Murderer Christopher Churchill is sentenced to life imprisonment in Olney, Illinois, United States.
In February 1998 he killed his half-brother, Jonathan Lloyd, along with Lloyd's 35-year-old girlfriend and her three young children at their rural Richland County home, only using a hammer.
11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 April 2002
(-) Murderer Rodolpho Baiza Hernandez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
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