Famous Deaths Happened In December - 29
Monday, 19 May 2025
0721 Death of Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661) on December - 29.
1141 Death of Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed on December - 29.
1170 Death of Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II on December - 29.
1558 Hermann Finck, composer, dies at 31 on December - 29.
1563 Death of Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515) on December - 29.
1619 On this day in history antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies
1630 On December - 29 jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, RC pastor/lyricist, dies at 51
1634 Death of John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612) on December - 29.
1661 On December - 29 death of antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
1689 On this day in history death of olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried
1703 On December - 29 mustapha II, sultan (Turkey), dies at 39
1731 On this day in history j Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies at 46
1737 Death of Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659) on this day in history.
1785 Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.
1815 On this day in history saartjie Baartman, Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris
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 December - 29.
1825 Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer, dies on December - 29.
1835 On this day in history charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer, dies at 29
1836 Johann Baptist Schenk, composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.
1847 On this day in history william Crotch, composer, dies at 72
1871 On December - 29 ferdinand Marcucci, composer, dies at 71
1877 Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies on this day in history.
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 Chris Rossetti, writer, dies at 64 on December - 29.
1897 On this day in history death of william James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812)
1898 Georg Goltermann, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.
1915 Charles Beach Hawley, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.
1916 On December - 29 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 December - 29.
1925 On this day in history félix E Vallotton, Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at 60
1926 Rainer M Rilke, Austrias songwriter/writer (Wise Queen), dies at 51 on December - 29.
1929 Death of Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846) on this day in history.
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