Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In October - 29

1934  Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

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

1941  On October - 29 death of harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)   

1943  Death of Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered at 55 on October - 29.   

1946  On October - 29 john S Curry, US painter (Baptism in Kansas), dies   

1947  Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83 on October - 29.   

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

1950  On October - 29 gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92   

1951  On October - 29 death of de Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered   

1953  On October - 29 death of william Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)   

1957  On this day in history louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71   

1958  On this day in history death of zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)   

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

1963  On October - 29 adolphe Menjou, actor (Front Page, Star is Born), dies at 73   

1965  Death of Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris on this day in history.   

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

1968  On October - 29 marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78   

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

1971  On this day in history duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24   

1973  Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

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 October - 29.   

1981  William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85 on this day in history.   

1983  Sten Broman, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

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

1986  On this day in history sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68   

1987  On this day in history kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57   

1990  William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer on this day in history.   

1991  On this day in history donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60   

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

1993  On October - 29 george Pope, cricketer (one Test for England, 8 runs not out), dies   

1994  On this day in history andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84   

1996  On this day in history death of james Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66   

1997  On this day in history death of anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)   

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1463  Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher was born on October - 29.   

1507  On this day in history birth of fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish viceroy of Neth (1566-73)   

1513  Jacques Amyot, French humanist/translator/abbot of Bellozanne was born on this day in history.   

1562  George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury was born on October - 29.   

1656  On this day in history birth of edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet) [NS=Nov 8]   

1682  On this day in history birth of pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761)   

1690  On this day in history birth of martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754)   

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