September 29 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1364 – Charles, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319)
• 1560 – King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
• 1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (b. 1600)
• 1642 – René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608)
• 1703 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b. 1610)
• 1800 – Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b. 1729)
• 1804 – Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
• 1833 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)
• 1887 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810)
• 1889 – Louis Faidherbe, French general (b. 1818)
• 1900 – Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist (b. 1814)
• 1902 – William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825)
• 1902 – Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
• 1913 – Rudolph Diesel, Inventor of Diesel Engine (b. 1858)
• 1908 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (b. 1839)
• 1925 – Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1851)
• 1927 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1860)
• 1927 – Arthur Achleitner, German writer (b. 1858)
• 1930 – Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
• 1937 – Ray Ewry, American athlete (b. 1873)
• 1951 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (b. 1864)
• 1952 – John Cobb, British racing driver (b. 1899)
• 1967 – Carson McCullers, American author (b. 1917)
• 1970 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
• 1973 – W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
• 1975 – Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
• 1976 – Wadi Ayoub, Greco-Roman professional wrestler, (b. 1927)
• 1981 – Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (b. 1913)
• 1982 – Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)
• 1987 – Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Company (b. 1917)
• 1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Gussie Busch, American brewing magnate (b. 1899)
• 1989 – Georges Ulmer, French composer, lyricist and singer (b. 1919)
• 1992 – Jean Aurenche, French film screenwriter (b. 1903)
• 1994 – Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)
• 1996 – Leslie Crowther, British comedian (b. 1933)
• 1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
• 1998 – Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Jean-Louis Millette, Canadian actor and writer (b. 1935)
• 2001 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Edmund Trebus, English compulsive hoarder (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Richard Sainct, French motorcycle rally rider (b. 1970)
• 2005 – Austin Leslie, American chef, the "Godfather of Fried Chicken" (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumouslyawarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1981)
• 2006 – Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
• 2006 – Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Louis-Albert Vachon, French Canadian cardinal archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Sperantza Vrana, Greek actress (b. 1926 or 1932)
• 2009 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Tony Curtis, American Actor (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Greg Giraldo, American comedian (Comedy Central Roast) (b.1965)