Thursday 30th of July 1818

Poet and writer Emily Jane Brontë aka Ellis Bell known for her novel Wuthering Heights is born in Thornton, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Saturday 30th of July 1853

Mass murderer Frederick Bailey Deeming aka Albert Williams aka Baron Swanston is born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

Friday 30th of July 1858

Murderer James Kelly is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Raymond Street Jail, New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Thursday 30th of July 1863

Automobile manufacturing pioneer Henry Ford is born in Greenfield Township, Michigan, United States.

Saturday 30th of July 1898

1st Reichskanzler of Germany Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck dies of gangrene at the age of 83 in Friedrichsruh, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Saturday 30th of July 1898

Sculptor Henry Spencer Moore is born in Castleford, West Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Friday 30th of July 1915

Lieutenant in the New York City Police Department, racketeer and murderer Charles Becker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 45 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States.

Becker's electrocution took nine minutes, causing him intense agony, and was described for years afterward as "the clumsiest execution in the history of Sing Sing."

Friday 30th of July 1920

Executioner Albert Gustaf Anders Dahlman dies of complications from an accident at the age of 72 in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.

After being run over by a tram Dahlman never regained health.

Friday 30th of July 1926

Psychic Nina Sergeyevna Kulagina is born as Ninel Mikhaylova in Leningrad, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

Friday 30th of July 1937

Entertainer, priest and womanizer Harold Francis Davidson aka The Prostitutes’ Padre dies of a broken neck at the age of 62 in Skegness, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.

Two days earlier he was attacked by a lion during a stage act 'Daniel in a Modern Lion's Den'. Davidson gave his usual speech before entering the cage in which two lions, Freddie and Toto, were sitting quietly. Freddie became agitated and knocked Davidson over before seizing him by the neck and running with him around the cage. 16-year-old tamer Irene Somner struggled to pacify the snarling Freddie who eventually dropped the unconscious Davidson, enabling her to drag him to safety; he was badly gashed and had suffered a broken bone in his neck.

Sunday 30th of July 1939

Film director Peter Bogdanovich is born in Kingston, New York, United States.

Wednesday 30th of July 1941

Singer-songwriter Paul Albert Anka is born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Friday 30th of July 1943

Abortionist Marie-Louise Giraud is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 40 in Prisons de la Roquette, Paris, XIe, Île-de-France, France.

Giraud was convicted of performing 26 illegal abortions and the last woman axecuted in France.

Wednesday 30th of July 1947

Actor, producer, businessman, politician and former professional bodybuilder Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger known for his role as The Terminator is born in Thal, Steiermark, Austria.

Tuesday 30th of July 1957

Victim of Dean Corll aka The Candyman David William Hilligiest is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

Saturday 30th of July 1960

35-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey assaults an unidentified 8-year-old boy in Saint Helier, La Blinerie, Jersey, United Kingdom.

Thursday 30th of July 1964

Multiple murderer Matthias Kindlinger aka Der Blaubart von Schrems dies of heart failure at the age of 70 in Krems an der Donau, Niederösterreich, Austria.

Sunday 30th of July 1967

Industrialist Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach dies of lung cancer at the age of 60 in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Wednesday 30th of July 1969

Unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer writes a 3-part cipher and letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and Vallejo Times-Herald newspapers in San Francisco, California, United States.

Wednesday 30th of July 1969

22-year-old Serial killer John Norman Collins aka The Ypsilanti Killer is arrested in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

Friday 30th of July 1971

162 die in All Nippon Airways (ANA) Flight 58 Boeing 727-281 and Mitsubishi F-86F Sabre jet mid-air collision in Shizukuishi, Shimonagane, Iwate, Japan.

Sabre jet pilot Technical Sergeant Yoshimi Ichikawa ejected before the collision and survived. Ichikawa was later tried and acquitted on a charge of involuntary manslaughter.

Wednesday 30th of July 1975

62-year-old Labour union leader Jimmy James Riddle Hoffa is abducted from a parking lot and never seen again in Machus Red Fox Restaurant, 6676 Telegraph Road, Detroit, Bloomfield Township, Michigan, United States.

Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1982, on the seventh anniversary of his disappearance when he would have been aged 69.

Saturday 30th of July 1977

54-year-old Jürgen Ponto is shot dead by die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe in Oberhöchstadter Straße 69, Oberursel, Hessen, Germany.

RAF members Susanne Albrecht, Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar attempted to kidnap Ponto but shot him when he resisted.

Sunday 30th of July 1978

29-year-old Serial killer Randy Greenawalt escapes with prison mate Gary Tison with the help of Tison's three sons in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Greenawalt and Tison went on a killing spree that claimed six lives. They ran into a police roadblock on 11 August where Greenawalt and Tison's sons were arrested. Tison fled into the desert and died of exposure.

Wednesday 30th of July 1980

21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV starts his performance 'Illegal' in ICC, Meir 50, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

On 30 July 1980 I mailed out invitations to friends and acquaintances to search me in the International Cultural Centre. Then I went in hiding inside the building, without food, drink and with sleeping-tablets at hand. On 2 August 1980 I was found by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK.

Thursday 30th of July 1981

17-year-old Louise Marie Chartrand is abducted, raped and beaten to death by serial killer Clifford Olson aka The Vancouver Butcher in Mission, British Columbia, Canada.

Tuesday 30th of July 1985

Chief executioner André Albert Obrecht dies of unknown causes at the age of 86 in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Thursday 30th of July 1992

Triple murderer William Andrews aka The Hi-Fi Murderer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Utah State Prison, Draper, Utah, United States.

Friday 30th of July 1993

Murderer Danny Ray Harris is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Monday 30th of July 2001

34-year-old Suicide bomber Muriel Degauque aka Maryam marries 28-year-old Issam Goris in Mosquée Al Hidaya, Rue Jules Destrée 71, Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium.

Wednesday 30th of July 2003

A giant Buddha statue in a temple in Sakya Muni Buddha Gaya Temple, Race Course Road, Singapore, Singapore.

Monday 30th of July 2007

Film director Michelangelo Antonioni dies of unknown causes at the age of 95 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Monday 30th of July 2007

Film director Ingmar Ernst Bergman dies of natural causes at the age of 89 in Fårö, Gotland, Sweden.

Tuesday 30th of July 2019

Victor Vasarely's 'Hexa Grace' artwork on the rooftop in Auditorium Rainier III, Boulevard Louis II, L'Hermitage, Monaco.

Saturday 30th of July 2022

Al-Qaeda leader and Emir of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri is killed in a US drone attack with two Hellfire missiles at the age of 71 in Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan.