August 29 - Deaths

Deaths

• 886 – Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)
• 1093 – Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
• 1123 – King Eystein I of Norway (b. c. 1088)
• 1395 – Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
• 1442 – John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
• 1526 – King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle) (b. 1506)
• 1542 – Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (b. c. 1516)
• 1657 – John Lilburne, English dissenter (b. 1614)
• 1712 – Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)
• 1769 – Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)
• 1780 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
• 1799 – Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
• 1844 – Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
• 1856 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)
• 1866 – Tokugawa Iemochi, 14th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (b. 1846)
• 1877 – Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)
• 1889 – Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)
• 1891 – Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843)
• 1904 – Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)
• 1930 – William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
• 1931 – David T. Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1867)
• 1935 – Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)
• 1946 – Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
• 1946 – Adolphus Busch III, American brewing magnate and President and CEO of the Anheuser-Busch Company (b. 1891)
• 1951 – Sydney Chapman, British economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
• 1966 – Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)
• 1968 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)
• 1971 – Nathan Leopold, American convicted murderer (Leopold and Loeb) (b. 1904)
• 1972 – Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)
• 1975 – Eamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (b. 1882)
• 1976 – Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (b. 1925)
• 1976 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1899)
• 1977 – Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1977 – Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (b. 1945)
• 1981 – Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)
• 1982 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
• 1983 – Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1984 – Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)
• 1985 – Evelyn Ankers, English actress (b. 1918)
• 1987 – Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (b. 1914)
• 1987 – Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
• 1991 – Libero Grassi, Italian businessman killed by the Mafia (b. 1924)
• 1992 – Félix Guattari, French philosopher and social theorist (b. 1930)
• 1992 – Teddy Turner, comedian (b. 1917)
• 1995 – Frank Perry, American film director (b. 1930)
• 2000 – Willie Maddren, English footballer (b. 1951)
• 2001 – Graeme "Shirley" Strachan, Australian singer (Skyhooks), TV and radio star (b. 1952)
• 2001 – Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b. 1939)
• 2003 – Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
• 2003 – Michel Constantin, French film actor (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1916)
• 2007 – Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
• 2007 – James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Michael Schoenberg, Geophysicist (b. 1939)