Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In October - 29

1934  On this day in history gustavo Emilio Campa, composer, dies at 71   

1939  On this day in history death of dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)   

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 this day in history.   

1946  John S Curry, US painter (Baptism in Kansas), dies on this day in history.   

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

1949  Death of G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872) on this day in history.   

1950  On this day in history gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92   

1951  Death of De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered on this day in history.   

1953  On this day in history death of william Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)   

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

1958  On October - 29 death of zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)   

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

1963  Adolphe Menjou, actor (Front Page, Star is Born), dies at 73 on this day in history.   

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

1969  On October - 29 vic Richardson, cricketer (Aussie capt 1935-36), dies   

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

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

1974  On October - 29 victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82   

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 October - 29 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  Kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57 on October - 29.   

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

1991  Donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60 on this day in history.   

1992  On this day in history adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies   

1993  George Pope, cricketer (one Test for England, 8 runs not out), dies on this day in history.   

1994  Andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1996  Death of James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66 on this day in history.   

1997  Death of Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930) on October - 29.   

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1463  Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher was born on this day in history.   

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 October - 29.   

1562  On this day in history birth of george Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury   

1656  Edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet) [NS=Nov 8] was born on this day in history.   

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.