Famous Deaths on 29 Dec

Famous Deaths on 29 Dec

1170 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (b. 1118)
1563 - Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515)
1634 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612)
1661 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
1689 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624)
1731 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685)
1737 - Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659)
1785 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742)
1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748)
1891 - Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (b. 1823)
1894 - Christina Rossetti, English poet (b. 1830)
1897 - William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812)
1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)
1924 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
1926 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer (b. 1875)
1929 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)
1937 - Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878)
1953 - Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress(b. 1887)
1960 - Eden Phillpotts, British writer (b. 1862)
1960 - Philippe Panneton, Quebec physician, diplomat and writer (b. 1895)
1967 - Paul Whiteman, American musician and conductor (b. 1890)
1968 - Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)
1970 - Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (b. 1909)
1975 - Euell Gibbons, American outdoorsman and proponent of natural diets (b. 1911).
1976 - Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete (b. 1954)
1980 - Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
1980 - Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (b. 1899)
1981 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (b. 1893)
1986 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
1988 - Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (b. 1940)
1993 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor (b. 1930)
1995 - Lita Grey, American actress (b. 1908)
1996 - Mireille Hartuch, French singer and actress (b. 1906)
1998 - Jean-Claude Forest, writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella) (b. 1930)
1999 - Leon Radzinowicz, British criminologist (b. 1906)
2001 - Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (b. 1908)
2003 - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (b. 1928)
2003 - Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942)
2003 - Dinsdale Landen, English actor (b. 1932)
2004 - Ken Burkhart, American baseball player (b. 1915)
2004 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
2004 - Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1947)
2005 - Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (b. 1922)
2007 - Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
2007 - Kevin Greening, British radio presenter (b. 1962)
721 - Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661)