Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In October - 29

1934  On October - 29 gustavo Emilio Campa, composer, dies at 71   

1939  Death of Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864) on October - 29.   

1941  On this day in history death of harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)   

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  On October - 29 frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83   

1949  On October - 29 death of g. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)   

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

1951  Death of De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered on October - 29.   

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

1957  On October - 29 louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71   

1958  Death of Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886) on October - 29.   

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  On this day in history death of mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris   

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

1968  On this day in history marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78   

1969  Vic Richardson, cricketer (Aussie capt 1935-36), dies on October - 29.   

1971  On October - 29 duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24   

1973  Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer, dies at 83 on October - 29.   

1974  On this day in history 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 October - 29.   

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

1986  On this day in history sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68   

1987  On this day in history kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57   

1990  On October - 29 william French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer   

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

1992  Adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies on October - 29.   

1993  George Pope, cricketer (one Test for England, 8 runs not out), dies on October - 29.   

1994  Andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84 on October - 29.   

1996  On this day in history death of james Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66   

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 this day in history.   

1507  On October - 29 birth of fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish viceroy of Neth (1566-73)   

1513  On this day in history 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 this day in history birth of pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761)   

1690  Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754) was born on October - 29.   

1704  On October - 29 birth of john Byng, British admiral (d. 1757)