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May 29, 2004 Archibald Cox, Watergate prosecutor, fired by Nixon during the Watergate hearings, dies at 92 May 29, 2004 Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, formerly world's oldest person in 2004, dies at 114 May 29, 2004 Sam Dash, lawyer, Senate counsel during Watergate, dies at 79 May 29, 2004 Samuel Dash, American Lawyer May 29, 1998 Barry Goldwater, politician, Arizona senator, dies at 89 May 29, 1997 Jeff Buckley, musician, drowns at 30 May 29, 1997 John Sengstacke, publisher (Defender), dies at 84 May 29, 1997 George Fenneman, announcer, You Bet Your Life, dies at 77 May 29, 1996 James George "Jimmy" Rowles, jazz pianist, dies at 77 May 29, 1996 Jeremy Sinden, actor (Chariots of Fire, Ascendancy, Harem), dies at 45 May 29, 1996 Tamara Toumanova, dancer, dies at 77 May 29, 1995 Margaret Chase Smith, 1st woman Rep and Sen (R-Me), dies at 97 May 29, 1994 Erich Honecker, president of German DR (1971-89), dies in Chile at 81 May 29, 1994 Ezra Taft Benson, min of Agr/leader of mormon (1985-94), dies at 94 May 29, 1994 Harry Levin, literary Scholar, dies at 81 May 29, 1994 Jose Bohr, actor (El Traidor, Sueno de Amor), dies at 92 May 29, 1994 Joseph Janni, producer, dies at 78 May 29, 1994 Oliver "Bops Junior" Jackson, drummer, dies at 61 May 29, 1993 Billy Conn, boxer (fought Joe Louis 1951), dies of pneumonia at 75 May 29, 1993 Tiny Hofman, Amsterdam activist (Nieuwmarkt), dies at 68 May 29, 1992 Bill Beyers, actor (Wally-Capitol), dies of AIDS at 37 May 29, 1992 Karl Carstens, president of RFA (1979-84), dies May 29, 1992 Peter John "Ollie" Halsall, guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 43 May 29, 1992 Pippa Steele, actress (Vampire Lovers), dies of cancer at 44 May 29, 1991 Coral Browne, Australian actor (Ruling Class), dies of cancer at 77 May 29, 1987 Alain Vincx, Belgian stuntman, dies in an accident at 40 May 29, 1985 39, die at Heysel Stadium in Liverpool in a riot prior to soccor match May 29, 1985 Madge West, actress (Grandma-McLean Stevenson Show), dies at 93 May 29, 1982 Romy Schneider, actress (Cardinal), dies of cardiac arrest at 43 May 29, 1979 Mary Pickford, actress (Coquette, Suds, Secrets), dies at 86 May 29, 1978 Bob Crane, actor (Donna Reed Show, Hogan-Hogan's Heroes), dies at 49 May 29, 1977 Goddard Lieberson, composer, dies at 66 May 29, 1973 Eric Applewhite, entertainer, dies May 29, 1971 Max Trapp, composer, dies at 83 May 29, 1970 John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68 May 29, 1967 Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer, dies at 69 May 29, 1961 Uuno Kalervo Klami, composer, dies at 60 May 29, 1958 Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), dies at 76 May 29, 1957 George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer (Plumb), dies at 75 May 29, 1956 Albert H Edelkoort, theologist (Christusverwachting), dies at 65 May 29, 1956 Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (Gewandhausorkest), dies at 73 May 29, 1955 Daniel G van Beuningen, art collector, dies at 78 May 29, 1951 Dimitrios Levidis, composer, dies at 66 May 29, 1951 Fanny Brice, Zeigfield Girl (Baby Snooks Show), dies at 59 May 29, 1951 Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer, dies at 91 May 29, 1951 Robert Kahn, composer, dies at 85 May 29, 1948 May Whitty, actress (Gaslight, Mrs. Miniver, Suspicion), dies at 82 May 29, 1943 Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer, dies at 72 May 29, 1942 John Barrymore, U.S. actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8), dies at 60 May 29, 1935 Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer, dies at 61 May 29, 1934 Eugenie Besserer, actress (Anna Christie, Madame X), dies at 65 May 29, 1934 Heihatjiro Tojo, Japanese Admiral (Russian-Japanese War), dies May 29, 1924 Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid/London), dies May 29, 1923 Adolf Oberlander, German painter, dies May 29, 1922 Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor and director, dies at 39 May 29, 1916 James J. Hill, American Businessman May 29, 1911 William Schwenck Gilbert, Engl writer (Gilbert and Sullivan), dies at 74 May 29, 1911 William Gilbert, British Composer May 29, 1910 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Russian composer (Islamej), dies at 73 May 29, 1905 Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer, dies at 55 May 29, 1899 Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer, dies at 60 May 29, 1892 Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies at 74 May 29, 1885 Alfred von Meissner, Austria physician/writer (Ziska), dies at 63 May 29, 1883 Albrecht of Prussia, mistress of John van Rossum, dies at 73 May 29, 1883 WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies May 29, 1877 John Lothrop Motley, (History of United Netherlands), dies at 63 May 29, 1869 Philippe Vandermaelen, Flemish cartographer/publisher, dies at 73 May 29, 1862 Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer, dies at 71 May 29, 1833 William Marshall, composer, dies at 84 May 29, 1829 Humphry Davy, scientist/inventor (Miner's safety lamp), dies at 84 May 29, 1816 Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'O, dies May 29, 1815 Cornelis de Gijselaar, politician/patriot, dies at 64 May 29, 1814 Josephine, empress of France (1804-14), dies May 29, 1788 Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver, dies at 61 May 29, 1750 Giuseppe Porsile, composer, dies at 70 May 29, 1691 Cornelis Tromp, admiral-general/son of Maarten T, dies at 61 May 29, 1680 Abraham Megerle, composer, dies at 73 May 29, 1660 Gyorgy Rakoczi II, prince of Transsylvania, dies in battle May 29, 1660 Peter Scriverius, lawyer/historian, dies at 44 May 29, 1629 Arnold Baert, Flemish lawyer/member of Great Council, dies at about 74 May 29, 1593 John Penry, English congressionalist, executed May 29, 1546 Cardinal Beaton, English archbishop of St. Andrews, murdered May 29, 1544 Jacobus Latomus [Jasques Masson], Belgian inquisitor, dies at about 68 May 29, 1500 Bartholomeu Diaz de Narvaez (Novaez), Portuguese sea explorer, drowns May 29, 1453 Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor, dies at 49 |