December 29 - Deaths

Deaths

• 721 – Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661)
• 1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (b. 1118)
• 1563 – Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515)
• 1634 – John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612)
• 1661 – Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
• 1689 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624)
• 1731 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685)
• 1737 – Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659)
• 1785 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742)
• 1825 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748)
• 1891 – Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (b. 1823)
• 1894 – Christina Rossetti, English poet (b. 1830)
• 1897 – William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812)
• 1916 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)
• 1924 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1926 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer (b. 1875)
• 1929 – Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)
• 1934 – Alma Tell, American stage and film actress (b. 1898)
• 1937 – Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878)
• 1941 – Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (b. 1873)
• 1953 – Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress(b. 1887)
• 1959 – Robin Milford, British composer (b. 1903)
• 1960 – Eden Phillpotts, British writer (b. 1862)
• 1960 – Philippe Panneton, Quebec physician, diplomat and writer (b. 1895)
• 1967 – Paul Whiteman, American musician and conductor (b. 1890)
• 1968 – Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)
• 1970 – Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (b. 1909)
• 1976 – Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete (b. 1954)
• 1980 – Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
• 1980 – Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (b. 1899)
• 1981 – Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (b. 1893)
• 1986 – Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
• 1986 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director (b. 1932)
• 1988 – Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (b. 1940)
• 1993 – Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor (b. 1930)
• 1995 – Lita Grey, American actress (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Mireille Hartuch, French singer and actress (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Jean-Claude Forest, writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella) (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Leon Radzinowicz, British criminologist (b. 1906)
• 2001 – Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (b. 1908)
• 2001 – Cássia Eller, Brazilian musician (b. 1962)
• 2003 – Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942)
• 2003 – Dinsdale Landen, English actor (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1947)
• 2004 – Ken Burkhart, American baseball player (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
• 2007 – Kevin Greening, British radio presenter (b. 1962)
• 2008 – Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1938)
• 2009 – "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, American former professional wrestler and football player (b. 1960)
• 2009 – Akmal Shaikh, British drug trafficker, executed by lethal injection in the People's Republic of China (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Bill Erwin, American actor (b. 1914)