Famous Deaths In October - 29

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

1939  Death of Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864) on October - 29.  

1941  Death of Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897) on October - 29.  

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  On this day in history frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83  

1949  On this day in history death of g. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)  

1950  Gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92 on October - 29.  

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 October - 29.  

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1957  Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

1958  Death of Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886) on October - 29.  

1962  On October - 29 naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77  

1963  Adolphe Menjou, actor (Front Page, Star is Born), dies at 73 on October - 29.  

1965  On this day in history death of mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris  

1966  [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Manner Kater), dies at 83 on October - 29.  

1968  On this day in history marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78  

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

1971  Duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24 on October - 29.  

1973  On this day in history heathcote Dicken Statham, composer, dies at 83  

1974  Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82 on this day in history.  

1975  John Scott Trotter, orch leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1981  On October - 29 william O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85  

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

1985  On this day in history john Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint)/(gov-R-CT), dies at 82  

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

1987  Kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57 on this day in history.  

1990  On October - 29 william French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer  

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

1992  Adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies on October - 29.  

1993  George Pope, cricketer (one Test for England, 8 runs not out), dies on October - 29.  

1994  On October - 29 andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84  

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  On this day in history birth of alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher  

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  On this day in history birth of edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet) [NS=Nov 8]  

1682  On October - 29 birth of pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761)  

1690  On October - 29 birth of martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754)  

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