Famous Deaths on 29 Sep

Famous Deaths on 29 Sep

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 - Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
1902 - William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825)
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 - Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
1998 - Jared High, victim of bullying and suicide (b. 1985)
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 - Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
2006 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
2006 - Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
2006 - Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
2006 - Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
2007 - Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)