Famous Deaths on 29 Oct

Famous Deaths on 29 Oct

1038 - Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
1138 - Bolesław III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (b. 1086)
1268 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252)
1268 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (beheaded) (b. 1249)
1590 - Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician (b. 1522)
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed) (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)
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)
1919 - A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
1932 - Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (b. 1857)
1933 - Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician (b. 1853)
1933 - Albert Calmette, French physician (b. 1863)
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 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1971 - Duane Allman, American musician (b. 1946)
1981 - Georges Brassens, French singer (b. 1921)
1986 - Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1987 - Woody Herman, American musician (b. 1913)
1995 - Terry Southern, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
1997 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
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 - Franco Corelli, tenor (b. 1921)
2003 - Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
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)