Famous Deaths on 29 Jan

Famous Deaths on 29 Jan

1119 - Pope Gelasius II
1240 - Pelagio Galvani, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (b. va. 1165)
1342 - Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
1597 - Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)
1608 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)
1647 - Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)
1676 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
1678 - Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
1696 - Ivan V, Russian tsar (b. 1666)
1706 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
1737 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)
1743 - André-Hercule de Fleury, chief minister under Louis XV of France (b. 1653)
1763 - Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
1829 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755)
1870 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
1871 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786)
1899 - Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter (b. 1839)
1901 - Milan I, King of Serbia (b. 1855)
1906 - King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
1918 - Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian-counter revolutionary (b. 1861)
1928 - Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
1933 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
1934 - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1868)
1941 - Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (b. 1871)
1946 - Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890)
1948 - Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1900)
1950 - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885)
1951 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
1956 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)
1962 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875)
1963 - Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
1964 - Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)
1966 - Pierre Mercure, French Canadian composer (b. 1927)
1969 - Allen Dulles, American CIA director (b. 1893)
1970 - Basil Liddell Hart, British historian (b. 1895)
1977 - Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)
1977 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)
1980 - Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893)
1986 - Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)
1989 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (b. 1900)
1991 - Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
1992 - Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)
1993 - Ron Kostelnik, American football player (b. 1940)
1994 - Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (b. 1967)
1998 - Joseph Alioto, mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916)
1999 - Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b. 1918)
2002 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928)
2002 - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (b. 1914)
2003 - Frank Moss, American politician (b. 1911)
2004 - Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (b. 1924)
2004 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (b. 1908)
2005 - Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940)
2005 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirst (b. 1924)
2007 - Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 2003)
2007 - Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi extremist leader (b. 1970)
2008 - Raymond Jacobs, American soldier (b. 1925)
2008 - Philippe Khorsand, French actor (b. 1948)