October 29 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1038 – Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1138 – Bolesław III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (b. 1086)
• 1268 – Conradin, Duke of Swabia (b. 1252)
• 1268 – Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (b. 1249)
• 1590 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician (b. 1522)
• 1618 – Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (b. 1554)
• 1650 – David Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575)
• 1666 – Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600)
• 1666 – James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596)
• 1783 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
• 1829 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (b. 1751)
• 1877 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
• 1897 – Henry George, American writer, politician and political economist (b. 1839)
• 1901 – Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (b. 1873)
• 1905 – Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
• 1911 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher (b. 1847)
• 1916 – John Sebastian Little, American politician and congressman (b. 1851)
• 1919 – A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
• 1932 – Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (b. 1857)
• 1933 – Albert Calmette, French physician (b. 1863)
• 1933 – Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician (b. 1853)
• 1936 – Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish writer and political theorist (b. 1874)
• 1939 – Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)
• 1941 – Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
• 1949 – G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
• 1950 – King Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858)
• 1953 – William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
• 1957 – Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (b. 1885)
• 1957 – Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)
• 1958 – Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)
• 1963 – Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1971 – Duane Allman, American musician (b. 1946)
• 1971 – Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
• 1977 – Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41^st Yokozuna (b. 1926)
• 1981 – Georges Brassens, French singer (b. 1921)
• 1986 – Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
• 1987 – Woody Herman, American musician (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Shlomo Goren, Israeli Chief Rabbi (b. 1918)
• 1995 – Terry Southern, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
• 1997 – Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and NASA astrophysicist (b. 1947)
• 1998 – Paul Misraki, French songwriter (b. 1908)
• 1999 – Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (b. 1931)
• 2002 – Glenn McQueen, American animator (b. 1960)
• 2003 – Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Vaughn Meader, American comedian (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Peter Twinn, English mathematician (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Mike Baker, American singer Shadow Gallery (b. 1963)