March 30
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Art and culture
- 1842 - Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long.
- 1872 - La vie parisienne is first performed in Great Britain
Births
- 1746 - Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (d. 1828)
- 1844 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)
- 1853 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
- 1892 - Fortunato Depero, Italian artist (d. 1960)
- 1904 - Akarova, Belgian dancer, choreographer, and artist (d. 1999)
- 1933 - Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director
- 1937 - Warren Beatty, American actor and director
- 1945 - Eric Clapton, British guitarist/singer
Deaths
- 1840 - Beau Brummell, English celebrity and dandy (b. 1778)
- 1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815)
- 1912 - Karl May, German author (b. 1842)
- 1950 - Léon Blum, French prime minister (b. 1872)
- 1986 - James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)
- 2005 - Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)
Notes
- 1904 - Edgar P. Jacobs, Belgian comic book creator (b. 1987)
- 1873 - Bénédict Morel, Austrian-French physician and proto-psychiatrist (d. 1809)
- 1662 - François Le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)
- 1868 - Koloman Moser, Austrian artist (d. 1918)
- 1949 - Lene Lovich, American singer of Bosnian and British parentage
- 1821 - François-Léon Benouville (Paris, March 30 1821 - February 16 1859) was a French painter. (b. 1926)
- 1892 - Erwin Panofsky (30 March 1892 - 14 March 1968) was a German Jewish art historian who emigrated to America and remains highly influential in the modern academic study of iconography. (b. 1926)
- 1909 - Ernst Gombrich h, OM, CBE (30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian, who spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom. (b. 1926)
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