Famous Deaths In December - 29
Tuesday, 19 March 2024
0721 Death of Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661) on December - 29.
1141 Death of Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed on December - 29.
1170 On this day in history death of thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II
1558 Hermann Finck, composer, dies at 31 on this day in history.
1563 Death of Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515) on this day in history.
1619 Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies on this day in history.
1630 On this day in history jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, RC pastor/lyricist, dies at 51
1634 On December - 29 death of john Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612)
1661 On this day in history death of antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
1689 Death of Olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried on December - 29.
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 this day in history 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 this day in history.
1821 On this day in history jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, S Neth general, dies at 61
1822 Albert Christoph Dies, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.
1825 On this day in history giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer, dies
1835 On December - 29 charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer, dies at 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 December - 29 ferdinand Marcucci, composer, dies at 71
1877 On December - 29 willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies
1890 Big Foot, Sioux indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee on December - 29.
1891 Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68 on this day in history.
1894 On December - 29 chris Rossetti, writer, dies at 64
1897 Death of William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812) on this day in history.
1898 Georg Goltermann, composer, dies at 74 on December - 29.
1915 Charles Beach Hawley, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.
1916 Death of Grigori J Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45 on December - 29.
1924 On this day in history death of carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
1925 Félix E Vallotton, Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at 60 on December - 29.
1926 Rainer M Rilke, Austrias songwriter/writer (Wise Queen), dies at 51 on this day in history.
1929 On this day in history death of wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)
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