Famous Deaths In December - 29
Friday, 26 July 2024
0721 On this day in history 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 On December - 29 hermann Finck, composer, dies at 31
1563 On December - 29 death of sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515)
1619 On this day in history antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies
1630 Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, RC pastor/lyricist, dies at 51 on this day in history.
1634 On December - 29 death of john Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612)
1661 Death of Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594) on December - 29.
1689 On this day in history death of olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried
1703 Mustapha II, sultan (Turkey), dies at 39 on December - 29.
1731 J Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies at 46 on this day in history.
1737 Death of Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659) on December - 29.
1785 Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.
1815 Saartjie Baartman, Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris on December - 29.
1821 Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, S Neth general, dies at 61 on December - 29.
1822 On December - 29 albert Christoph Dies, composer, dies at 67
1825 Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer, dies on December - 29.
1835 On this day in history charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer, dies at 29
1836 Johann Baptist Schenk, composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.
1847 On December - 29 william Crotch, composer, dies at 72
1871 On December - 29 ferdinand Marcucci, composer, dies at 71
1877 Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies on this day in history.
1890 Big Foot, Sioux indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee on December - 29.
1891 Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68 on this day in history.
1894 Chris Rossetti, writer, dies at 64 on December - 29.
1897 Death of William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812) on December - 29.
1898 On this day in history georg Goltermann, composer, dies at 74
1915 On this day in history charles Beach Hawley, composer, dies at 57
1916 On this day in history death of grigori J Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45
1924 On this day in history death of carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
1925 Félix E Vallotton, Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at 60 on this day in history.
1926 Rainer M Rilke, Austrias songwriter/writer (Wise Queen), dies at 51 on December - 29.
1929 Death of Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846) on this day in history.
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