The following famous folks, for better or worse, died on May 30.
1431 – Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint (b. 1412)
1778 – Voltaire, French philosopher and author (b. 1694)
1947 – Georg von Trapp, Austrian captain (b. 1880)
1964 – Eddie Sachs, American race car driver (b. 1927)
1967 – Claude Rains, English-American actor (b. 1889)
1986 – Perry Ellis, American fashion designer, founded his own eponymous fashion brand (b. 1940)
2005 – Alma Ziegler, American baseball player and stenographer (b. 1918)
2012 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
2015 – Beau Biden, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 44th Attorney General of Delaware (b. 1969)