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 this day in history.   

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  Death of G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872) on October - 29.   

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

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

1953  Death of William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922) on this day in history.   

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

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

1962  Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

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

1965  On October - 29 death of mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris   

1966  [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Manner Kater), dies at 83 on this day in history.   

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

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 October - 29.   

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

1981  On this day in history william O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85   

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

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

1992  Adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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

1507  Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish viceroy of Neth (1566-73) was born on October - 29.   

1513  On this day in history birth of jacques Amyot, French humanist/translator/abbot of Bellozanne   

1562  On October - 29 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  On this day in history birth of john Byng, British admiral (d. 1757)