Famous Deaths for 30th December 2025

1460 – Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne killed in Battle of Wakefield at 49 (b. 1411)
1591 – Pope Innocent IX [Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti], 230th Catholic pope (1591), dies at 72
1621 – Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint (b. 1550)
1895 – LP Hartley, British writer, dies
1982 – Alberto Vargas, Peruvian-American painter, primarily of “pin-up girls”, dies at 86
1995 – Clarence Satchell, American funk saxophonist (Ohio Players – “Fire”;”Love Rollercoaster”), dies of a brain aneurysm at 55
2010 – Roger Milliken, American millionaire (CEO of Milliken and Company), dies at 95
2012 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist (defining the Archaea) and academic, dies of pancreatic cancer at 84
2015 – Donald Barron, Scottish accountant and CEO (Midland Bank), dies at 94
2018 – Larry Austin, American classical and electronic composer and educator, dies at 88

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