April 30  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

The Trylon and Perisphere, two modernistic structures at the New York World's Fair of 1939-1940
Photo: Trylon, Perisphere and Helicline (Samuel H. Gottscho)

Related e

Wikipedia Wiktionary Shop Featured: Rhombicuboctahedron by Leonardo da Vinci

Events

• Walpurgis Night
• 1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
• 1939 – The 1939 New York World's Fair opens.
• 1970 - Student strike in the United States

Births

• 1812 – Kaspar Hauser, German mystery boy (d. 1833)
• 1857 – Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1940)
• 1877 – Alice B. Toklas, American companion of Gertrude Stein (d. 1967)
• 1883 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (d. 1923)
• 1885 - Luigi Russolo, Italian Futurist painter and composer, author of the manifestoes The Art of Noises manifesto (d. 1947)
• 1888 - Antonio Sant'Elia, Italian futurist architect (d. 1916)
• 1926 – Cloris Leachman, American actress (d. 2021)
• 1930 – Felix Guattari, French philosopher and social theorist (d. 1992)
• 1933 – Willie Nelson, American musician
• 1938 – Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak film director (d. 2023)
• 1941 – Johnny Farina, American musician and composer (Santo & Johnny)
• 1945 – Annie Dillard, American writer
• 1946 – Bill Plympton, American animator
• 1948 – Perry King, American actor
• 1954 – Jane Campion, New Zealand film director
• 1956 – Lars von Trier, Danish film director
• 1958 – Charles Berling, French actor, director and screenwriter

Deaths

• 1792 – John Montagu, supposed inventor of the *1883 – Édouard Manet, French painter (b. 1832)
• 1910 - Jean Moréas, Greek poet who wrote in the French language
• 1936 – Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (b. 1859)
• 1944 - Paul Poiret French couturier
• 1945 – Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's new wife (b. 1912)
• 1945 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian dictator of Nazi Germany (suicide) (b. 1889)
• 1982 – Lester Bangs, American music journalist, author, and musician (b. 1949)
• 1983 – George Balanchine, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
• 1983 – Muddy Waters, American musician (b. 1915)
• 1989 – Sergio Leone, Italian filmmaker (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian novelist
• 2007 – Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2020 - Tony Allen, Nigerian musician (b. 1940)