July 29 - Deaths

Deaths

• 238 – Pupienus, Roman Emperor (b. c. 164 or c. 178)
• 238 – Balbinus, Roman Emperor (b. c. 165)
• 1030 – Olaf II of Norway (b. 995)
• 1095 – King Ladislaus I of Hungary (b. c. 1040)
• 1099 – Pope Urban II (b. 1042)
• 1108 – King Philip I of France (b. 1052)
• 1507 – Martin Behaim, German- or Bohemian-born navigator and geographer at the service of the King of Portugal (b. 1459)
• 1573 – John Caius, English physician and second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (b. 1510)
• 1612 – Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
• 1644 – Pope Urban VIII (b. 1568)
• 1752 – Peter Warren, British admiral (b. 1703)
• 1781 – Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
• 1792 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
• 1813 – Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
• 1833 – William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (b. 1759)
• 1839 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
• 1844 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
• 1856 – Robert Schumann, German composer (b. 1810)
• 1857 – Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (b. 1774)
• 1887 – Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
• 1890 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
• 1900 – King Umberto I of Italy (b. 1844)
• 1913 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (b. 1838)
• 1918 – Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (b. 1863)
• 1934 – Didier Pitre, French-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
• 1938 – Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
• 1950 – Joe Fry, British racing driver (b. 1915)
• 1954 – Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
• 1964 – Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1970 – John Barbirolli, English conductor (b. 1899)
• 1973 – Norm Smith, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
• 1973 – Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948)
• 1974 – Cass Elliot ("Mama Cass"), American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1941)
• 1974 – Erich Kästner, German poet and children's writer (b. 1899)
• 1976 – Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
• 1979 – Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher (b. 1898)
• 1979 – Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916)
• 1981 – Robert Moses, American urban planner (b. 1888)
• 1982 – Harold Sakata, American professional wrestler ("Tosh Togo") and actor (b. 1920)
• 1982 – Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-born American physicist and inventor (b. 1889)
• 1983 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish director and writer (b. 1900)
• 1983 – Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
• 1983 – David Niven, English actor (b. 1910)
• 1984 – Fred Waring, American bandleader and inventor (b. 1900)
• 1987 – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian-born Bengali writer (b. 1894)
• 1990 – Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
• 1992 – Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
• 1994 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
• 1995 – Les Elgart, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1917)
• 1996 – Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
• 1996 – Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967)
• 1996 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (b. 1918)
• 2001 – Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
• 2001 – Wau Holland, German hacker (b. 1951)
• 2003 – Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Mike Reid, English comedian and actor (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Michel Serrault, French actor (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Tom Snyder, American television personality (b. 1936)
• 2007 – Marvin Zindler, American television reporter (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian playback singer (b. 1989)
• 2009 – Gayatri Devi, England-born Indian Maharani of Jaipur (b. 1919)