Famous Deaths In October - 29

1934  Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer, dies at 71 on October - 29.   

1939  On October - 29 death of dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)   

1941  Death of Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897) on this day in history.   

1943  On October - 29 death of adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered at 55   

1946  John S Curry, US painter (Baptism in Kansas), dies on October - 29.   

1947  Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83 on October - 29.   

1949  Death of G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872) on October - 29.   

1950  On October - 29 gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92   

1951  Death of De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered on this day in history.   

1953  Death of William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922) on this day in history.   

1957  Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71 on October - 29.   

1958  On October - 29 death of zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)   

1962  On this day in history naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77   

1963  On October - 29 adolphe Menjou, actor (Front Page, Star is Born), dies at 73   

1965  Death of Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris on October - 29.   

1966  On this day in history [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Manner Kater), dies at 83   

1968  Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78 on October - 29.   

1969  Vic Richardson, cricketer (Aussie capt 1935-36), dies on this day in history.   

1971  On October - 29 duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24   

1973  On October - 29 heathcote Dicken Statham, composer, dies at 83   

1974  Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82 on October - 29.   

1975  On October - 29 john Scott Trotter, orch leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67   

1981  William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85 on October - 29.   

1983  On this day in history sten Broman, composer, dies at 81   

1985  John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint)/(gov-R-CT), dies at 82 on October - 29.   

1986  Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68 on October - 29.   

1987  On October - 29 kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57   

1990  William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer on October - 29.   

1991  Donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60 on October - 29.   

1992  Adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies on this day in history.   

1993  On this day in history george Pope, cricketer (one Test for England, 8 runs not out), dies   

1994  Andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1996  Death of James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66 on this day in history.   

1997  On this day in history death of anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)   

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1463  Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher was born on October - 29.   

1507  On October - 29 birth of fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish viceroy of Neth (1566-73)   

1513  On this day in history birth of jacques Amyot, French humanist/translator/abbot of Bellozanne   

1562  George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury was born on this day in history.   

1656  Edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet) [NS=Nov 8] was born on October - 29.   

1682  Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761) was born on this day in history.   

1690  Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754) was born on this day in history.   

1704  John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757) was born on this day in history.