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October 29 Deaths in History - October 29 Birthdays - October 29 Events
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October 29, 2004 Vaughn Meader, comic/musician, The First Family, dies at 62 October 29, 2003 Franco Corelli, opera singer, dies at 81 October 29, 2003 Hal Clement, science fiction writer/educator, Mission of Gravity, dies at 81 October 29, 1996 James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66 October 29, 1996 Patricia Ticia Anne Ingrams, broadcaster, dies at 50 October 29, 1996 Patrick Johnson, physicist, dies at 92 October 29, 1994 Andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84 October 29, 1994 Evelyn Anderson, dancer, dies at 87 October 29, 1994 Pearl Primus, dancer, dies at 44 October 29, 1993 Raymond Lockhart, TV director (Huntley Brinkley Report), dies at 65 October 29, 1992 Adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies October 29, 1992 Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (Manon, Judas Tree), dies October 29, 1991 Donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60 October 29, 1991 Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies October 29, 1991 Maria Monica, silent film actress, dies October 29, 1991 Mario Scelba, PM of Italia (1954-55), dies October 29, 1990 William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer October 29, 1987 Kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57 October 29, 1987 Woody Herman, bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds), dies at 74 October 29, 1986 Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68 October 29, 1985 John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint)/(gov-R-CT), dies at 82 October 29, 1983 Sten Broman, composer, dies at 81 October 29, 1981 William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85 October 29, 1975 John Scott Trotter, orch leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67 October 29, 1974 Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82 October 29, 1973 Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer, dies at 83 October 29, 1971 Duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24 October 29, 1968 Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78 October 29, 1966 [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Manner Kater), dies at 83 October 29, 1965 Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris October 29, 1963 Adolphe Menjou, actor (Front Page, Star is Born), dies at 73 October 29, 1962 Dewi Angrenie, [Martha AP Giese], Flemish/Dutch actress, dies at 85 October 29, 1962 Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77 October 29, 1957 Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71 October 29, 1951 De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered October 29, 1951 Robert G Aitken, U.S. astronomer (New General Catalogue), dies at 86 October 29, 1950 Gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92 October 29, 1947 Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83 October 29, 1947 Theodore Samuel Holland, composer, dies at 69 October 29, 1946 John S Curry, U.S. painter (Baptism in Kansas), dies October 29, 1943 Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered at 55 October 29, 1939 Albrecht MAPJ, duke of Wurttemberg/general (WW II), dies at 73 October 29, 1934 Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer, dies at 71 October 29, 1933 Paul, [Prudent] Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier, dies October 29, 1932 Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (B-Reflex), dies October 29, 1931 Luciano Gallet, composer, dies at 38 October 29, 1927 Leonard Nelson, Ger philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45 October 29, 1922 George August Lumbye, composer, dies at 79 October 29, 1920 Johann Ernst Perabo, composer, dies at 74 October 29, 1919 Soen Shaku, Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in Kamakura, dies at 60 October 29, 1911 Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC October 29, 1901 Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted October 29, 1892 William M Harnett, U.S. painter (Old Cupboard Door), dies October 29, 1885 George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58 October 29, 1885 James Hannington, English missionary, murdered in Uganda October 29, 1883 Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer, dies at 68 October 29, 1882 Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer, dies at 64 October 29, 1876 Jacques Gregoir, composer, dies at 59 October 29, 1873 Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52 October 29, 1873 Johan N M J, king of Saxon (1854-73), dies October 29, 1873 Leonardus Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship, dies at 78 October 29, 1856 Carel SW van Hogendorp, colonial director, dies at 68 October 29, 1853 Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer, dies at 68 October 29, 1853 William Richard Bexfield, composer, dies at 29 October 29, 1846 Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronoom, dies at 90 October 29, 1829 Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist, dies October 29, 1822 Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61 October 29, 1802 Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer, dies at 95 October 29, 1790 Pieter van/of Bleiswijk, pension advisor 1771-87, dies at about 66 October 29, 1783 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, philosopher/mathematician, die at 66 October 29, 1618 Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet and historian, beheaded for treason October 29, 1590 Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, theologist/philosopher, dies at about 68 October 29, 1321 Stefanus VI Uros II Milutin, king of Serbia (1282-1321), dies October 29, 490 Petrus Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria, dies |