Famous Deaths In December - 29

0721  Death of Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661) on December - 29.  

1141  Death of Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed on this day in history.  

1170  Death of Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II on December - 29.  

1558  On December - 29 hermann Finck, composer, dies at 31  

1563  Death of Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515) on this day in history.  

1619  On December - 29 antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies  

1630  On December - 29 jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, RC pastor/lyricist, dies at 51  

1634  On this day in history death of john Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612)  

1661  Death of Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594) on this day in history.  

1689  On December - 29 death of olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried  

1703  On December - 29 mustapha II, sultan (Turkey), dies at 39  

1731  J Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies at 46 on this day in history.  

1737  On December - 29 death of joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659)  

1785  Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69 on December - 29.  

1815  Saartjie Baartman, Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris on December - 29.  

1821  Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, S Neth general, dies at 61 on this day in history.  

1822  On December - 29 albert Christoph Dies, composer, dies at 67  

1825  Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer, dies on December - 29.  

1835  Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer, dies at 29 on December - 29.  

1836  Johann Baptist Schenk, composer, dies at 83 on December - 29.  

1847  William Crotch, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

1871  On this day in history ferdinand Marcucci, composer, dies at 71  

1877  Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies on this day in history.  

1890  On December - 29 big Foot, Sioux indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee  

1891  On this day in history leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68  

1894  Chris Rossetti, writer, dies at 64 on December - 29.  

1897  Death of William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812) on December - 29.  

1898  Georg Goltermann, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.  

1915  On December - 29 charles Beach Hawley, composer, dies at 57  

1916  On this day in history death of grigori J Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45  

1924  Death of Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) on this day in history.  

1925  On December - 29 félix E Vallotton, Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at 60  

1926  Rainer M Rilke, Austrias songwriter/writer (Wise Queen), dies at 51 on this day in history.  

1929  Death of Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846) on this day in history.  

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1563  On this day in history birth of francesco Maria Guaitoli, composer  

1586  Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna/marquis of Aytona was born on this day in history.  

1678  On this day in history birth of gotthard Wagner, composer  

1709  On December - 29 birth of elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia/daughter of Peter the Great  

1721  On this day in history birth of madame De Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th  

1743  On December - 29 birth of alexander van Bylandt, Dutch military officer  

1767  Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer was born on December - 29.  

1776  Charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric was born on this day in history.