Famous Deaths In December - 29
Saturday, 07 September 2024
0721 On December - 29 death of empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661)
1141 Death of Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed on this day in history.
1170 On this day in history death of thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II
1558 Hermann Finck, composer, dies at 31 on this day in history.
1563 Death of Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515) on this day in history.
1619 Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies on this day in history.
1630 Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, RC pastor/lyricist, dies at 51 on this day in history.
1634 Death of John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612) on December - 29.
1661 Death of Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594) on this day in history.
1689 Death of Olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried on December - 29.
1703 Mustapha II, sultan (Turkey), dies at 39 on this day in history.
1731 On December - 29 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 Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, S Neth general, dies at 61 on December - 29.
1822 On this day in history albert Christoph Dies, composer, dies at 67
1825 Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer, dies on December - 29.
1835 Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer, dies at 29 on this day in history.
1836 On this day in history johann Baptist Schenk, composer, dies at 83
1847 On this day in history william Crotch, composer, dies at 72
1871 Ferdinand Marcucci, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.
1877 On December - 29 willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies
1890 On this day in history big Foot, Sioux indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee
1891 Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68 on December - 29.
1894 Chris Rossetti, writer, dies at 64 on this day in history.
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 December - 29.
1915 Charles Beach Hawley, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.
1916 Death of Grigori J Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45 on this day in history.
1924 Death of Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) on this day in history.
1925 Félix E Vallotton, Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at 60 on December - 29.
1926 On December - 29 rainer M Rilke, Austrias songwriter/writer (Wise Queen), dies at 51
1929 On this day in history death of wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)
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