Famous Deaths 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  Death of Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897) on October - 29.   

1943  On this day in history death of adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered at 55   

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

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  Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77 on October - 29.   

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 October - 29.   

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

1968  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1973  On October - 29 heathcote Dicken Statham, composer, dies at 83   

1974  Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1975  On October - 29 john Scott Trotter, orch leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67   

1981  William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85 on October - 29.   

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

1985  John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint)/(gov-R-CT), dies at 82 on October - 29.   

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 October - 29.   

1991  On October - 29 donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60   

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

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

1994  On October - 29 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 October - 29 death of anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)   

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1463  On October - 29 birth of alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher   

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

1513  On October - 29 birth of jacques Amyot, French humanist/translator/abbot of Bellozanne   

1562  George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury was born on this day in history.   

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

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 October - 29.