Historical DeathsToday: 29 September

Deaths

• 1364 - Charles, Duke of Brittany


• 1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)


• 1637 - Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint


• 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)


• 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)


• 1994 - Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)


• 1996 - Leslie Crowther, British comedian (b. 1933)


• 1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)


• 1998 - Jared High, victim of bullying and suicide (b. 1985)


• 1998 - Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)


• 2001 - Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)


• 2002 - Edmund Trebus, probably best known for his appearance on A Life of Grime (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 posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.


• 2006 - Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)


• 2006 - Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)


• 2006 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)


• 2006 - Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)


• 2007 - Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)