Famous Deaths In December - 29

0721  On December - 29 death of empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661)  

1141  Death of Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed on December - 29.  

1170  On December - 29 death of thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II  

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

1563  Death of Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515) on December - 29.  

1619  Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies on December - 29.  

1630  Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, RC pastor/lyricist, dies at 51 on this day in history.  

1634  On this day in history 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.  

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1703  Mustapha II, sultan (Turkey), dies at 39 on this day in history.  

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

1737  Death of Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659) on December - 29.  

1785  Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.  

1815  Saartjie Baartman, Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris on this day in history.  

1821  On December - 29 jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, S Neth general, dies at 61  

1822  On this day in history albert Christoph Dies, composer, dies at 67  

1825  On this day in history giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer, dies  

1835  On this day in history charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer, dies at 29  

1836  On December - 29 johann Baptist Schenk, composer, dies at 83  

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

1871  Ferdinand Marcucci, composer, dies at 71 on December - 29.  

1877  Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies on December - 29.  

1890  Big Foot, Sioux indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee on December - 29.  

1891  On December - 29 leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68  

1894  Chris Rossetti, writer, dies at 64 on this day in history.  

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

1898  On this day in history georg Goltermann, composer, dies at 74  

1915  Charles Beach Hawley, composer, dies at 57 on December - 29.  

1916  Death of Grigori J Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45 on December - 29.  

1924  Death of Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) on December - 29.  

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

1926  On this day in history rainer M Rilke, Austrias songwriter/writer (Wise Queen), dies at 51  

1929  On December - 29 death of wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)  

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1563  Francesco Maria Guaitoli, composer was born on this day in history.  

1586  On December - 29 birth of francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna/marquis of Aytona  

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

1709  On this day in history birth of elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia/daughter of Peter the Great  

1721  Madame De Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th was born on this day in history.  

1743  On this day in history birth of alexander van Bylandt, Dutch military officer  

1767  Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer was born on this day in history.  

1776  On this day in history birth of charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric