Famous Deaths on 29 Feb

Famous Deaths on 29 Feb

1528 - Patrick Hamilton, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b. 1504)
1592 - Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer (b. 1540)
1604 - John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1530)
1740 - Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (b. 1667)
1744 - John Theophilus Desaguliers, French philosopher (b. 1683)
1820 - Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German literary critic (b. 1743)
1868 - Ludwig I of Bavaria (b. 1786)
1880 - Sir James Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1812, also on 29 February)
1908 - Pat Garrett, U.S. gunslinger
1908 - John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, first Governor-General of Australia (as Lord Hopetoun)
1928 - Ina Coolbrith, first poet laureate of California (b. 1841)
1940 - Edward Frederic Benson, English writer (b. 1867)
1944 - Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, President of Finland (b. 1861)
1956 - Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines (b. 1890)
1964 - Frank Albertson, American actor (b. 1909)
1968 - Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (b. 1886)
1980 - Gil Elvgren, American artist (b. 1914)
1992 - Ruth Pitter, English poet (b. 1897)
1992 - Earl Scheib, American car repainter (b. 1908)
2000 - Dennis Danell, American artist (b. 1961)
2004 - Jerome Lawrence, American playwright (b. 1915)

Famous Deaths on 28 Feb

Famous Deaths on 28 Feb

1261 - Henry III, Duke of Brabant (b. c. 1230)
1326 - Duke Leopold I of Austria (b. 1290)
1453 - Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)
1485 - Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441)
1510 - Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer
1525 - Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler
1572 - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505)
1621 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
1648 - King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (b. 1577)
1746 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660)
1786 - John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)
1788 - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (b. 1725)
1857 - André Dumont, Belgian geologist (b. 1809)
1869 - Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer and poet (b. 1790)
1916 - Henry James, American writer (b. 1843)
1925 - Friedrich Ebert, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1871)
1929 - Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician (b. 1874)
1932 - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851)
1935 - Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (b. 1847).
1936 - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866)
1941 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
1942 - Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (b. 1889)
1956 - Emile Buisson, French murderer executed (b. 1902)
1959 - Maxwell Anderson, American playwright and film writer (b. 1888)
1963 - Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (b. 1884)
1966 - Jonathan Hale, Canadian-born actor (b. 1891)
1967 - Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)
1974 - Bobby Bloom, American singer/songwriter (b. 1946)
1977 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, American actor (b. 1905)
1978 - Eric Frank Russell, English author (b. 1905)
1978 - Zara Cully, American actress (b. 1892)
1978 - Philip Ahn, American actor (b. 1905)
1979 - Paul Alverdes, German writer (b. 1897)
1985 - David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947)
1985 - Ray Ellington, English singer (b. 1916)
1986 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)
1986 - Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (b. 1900)
1991 - Wassily Hoeffding, American statistician (b. 1914)
1991 - Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (b. 1916)
1993 - Ishiro Honda, Japanese film director (b. 1911)
1993 - Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress and dancer (b. 1910)
1998 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)
1998 - Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet diplomat (b. 1930)
1999 - Christine Glanville, British Puppeteer (. 1924)
2002 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (b. 1920)
2002 - Mary Stuart, American actress (b. 1926)
2003 - Chris Brasher, English athlete (b. 1928)
2003 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, President of El Salvador (b. 1917)
2003 - Roger Michael Needham, British cryptographer (b. 1935)
2003 - Rudolf Kingslake, Lens designer, and Engineer (b. 1903)
2004 - Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (b. 1982)
2004 - Carmen Laforet, famed Spanish novelist
2004 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914)
2006 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
2007 - Baron Charles Forte, Italian-born hotelier (b. 1908)
2007 - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American historian and political commentator (b.1917)
2007 - Billy Thorpe, Australian musician (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) (b. 1946)
2008 - Mike Smith, English musician (The Dave Clark Five) (b. 1943)