Events & Holidays In October - 30

Chanté - messes (Haiti)

King's Birthday (Cambodia)

1218  On this day in history birth of emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)   

1391  Eduard, [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)/author was born on this day in history.   

1576  On this day in history birth of enrico C Davila, Padua Italy, writer (Storia delguerre civili Francia)   

1620  Michael de Ronghe, composer was born on this day in history.   

1624  Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693) was born on this day in history.   

1632  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright (School for Scandal) (or 1751) was born on this day in history.   

1668  Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, queen in Prussia (d. 1705) was born on this day in history.   

1683  George II [August], King of Great-Britain (1727-60) was born on this day in history.   

1459  Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, chancellor of Florence, dies on this day in history.   

1522  Death of Jean Mouton, French composer on this day in history.   

1553  Death of Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489) on this day in history.   

1583  On this day in history pirro Ligorio, Italian architect/painter/archaeologist, dies at 83   

1602  Death of Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528) on this day in history.   

1611  Karl IX, King of Sweden (1604-11), dies on this day in history.   

1626  On this day in history willebord van Roijen, dutch mathematician, dies at 35   

1632  Death of Henri de Montmorency, French duke/plotter, beheaded on this day in history.