August 29 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)


• 1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)


• 1123 - King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)


• 1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)


• 1442 - John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)


• 1526 - King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle) (b. 1526)


• 1542 - Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)


• 1657 - John Lilburne, English dissenter


• 1712 - Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)


• 1769 - Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)


• 1780 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)


• 1799 - Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)


• 1844 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)


• 1856 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)


• 1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)


• 1889 - Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)


• 1891 - Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)


• 1904 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)


• 1930 - William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)


• 1931 - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder


• 1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)


• 1966 - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)


• 1968 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)


• 1972 - Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)


• 1975 - Eamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (b. 1882)


• 1976 - Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (b. 1925)


• 1976 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1899)


• 1977 - Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (b. 1945)


• 1981 - Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)


• 1982 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)


• 1984 - Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)


• 1987 - Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (b. 1914)


• 1987 - Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)


• 1989 - Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)


• 1992 - Teddy Turner, comedian (b. 1917)


• 1995 - Frank Perry, American film director (b. 1930)


• 2000 - Willie Maddren, English former footballer (b. 1951)


• 2001 - Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)


• 2002 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)


• 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)


• 2003 - Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)


• 2003 - Michel Constantin, French film actor (b. 1924)


• 2004 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)


• 2007 - Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (b. 1962)


• 2007 - Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1916)


• 2007 - Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)


• 2007 - James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)