April 30
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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
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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
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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)
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