Notable Deaths on December 29th
December 29th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
721 |
Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661) |
1141 |
Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed |
1170 |
Thomas Becket, English Archbishop of Canterbury, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II at 52 |
1558 |
Hermann Finck, composer, dies at 31 |
1563 |
Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515) |
1619 |
Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies |
1630 |
Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, RC pastor/lyricist, dies at 51 |
1634 |
John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612) |
1661 |
Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594) |
1689 |
Olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried |
1689 |
Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624) |
1731 |
J Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies at 46 |
1737 |
Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659) |
1785 |
Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69 |
1785 |
Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742) |
1785 |
Johan Herman Wessel, Kierlighed uden strømper |
1815 |
Saartjie Baartman, Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris |
1821 |
Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, S Neth general, dies at 61 |
1822 |
Albert Christoph Dies, composer, dies at 67 |
1825 |
Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer, dies |
1825 |
Jacques-Louis David, French painter (Death of Marat), dies at 77 |
1825 |
Jacques Louis David, Jacques Louis David |
1834 |
Thomas Malthus, |
1835 |
Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer, dies at 29 |
1836 |
Johann Baptist Schenk, composer, dies at 83 |
1847 |
William Crotch, composer, dies at 72 |
1871 |
Ferdinand Marcucci, composer, dies at 71 |
1877 |
Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies |
1890 |
Big Foot, Sioux Indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee |
1890 |
Octave Feuillet, A Parisian Romance |
1890 |
Laza Lazarevic, Prvi put s ocem na jutrenje |
1891 |
Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68 |
1894 |
Christina Rossetti, English poet, dies at 64 in London |
1894 |
Christina Georgina Rossetti, The Hunt |
1897 |
William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812) |
1898 |
Georg Goltermann, composer, dies at 74 |
1913 |
Joseph Giampietro, Don Juan heiratet |
1914 |
Robert Henry Hall, Funeral of Major-General Henry W. Lawton |
1915 |
Charles Beach Hawley, composer, dies at 57 |
1916 |
Grigori Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45 |
1918 |
Jode Mullally, The Blood of His Fathers |
1919 |
Pauline Hall, The Governor's Boss |
1924 |
Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) |
1925 |
Félix E Vallotton, Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at 60 |
1925 |
Felix Vallotton, Félix Vallotton |
1926 |
Rainer M Rilke, Austrias songwriter/writer (Wise Queen), dies at 51 |
1926 |
Rainer Maria Rilke, Ana |
1929 |
Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846) |
1932 |
Julius Strobl, Olga Frohgemut |
1932 |
Amalie Sandberg, Vore venners vinter |
1933 |
Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered |
1936 |
Hildur Møller, The Great Dock Disaster |
1937 |
Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878) |
1937 |
Don Marquis, Skippy |
1937 |
Alma Tell, The Silent Command |
1937 |
John T. Dillon, The New Janitor |
1937 |
Frank H. Spearman, Medicine Bend |
1939 |
Bernard Jukes, The Sap from Syracuse |
1941 |
Robert Hood Bowers, A Daughter of the Gods |
1942 |
Frank D Adams, Canadian geologist, dies at 83 |
1943 |
William H Singer, US painter/collector (Singer Museum), dies at 75 |
1943 |
Edward Thomas, An Unexpected Review |
1944 |
Juliusz Gardan, Czy Lucyna to dziewczyna? |
1945 |
Beulah Dark Cloud, The Crimson Challenge |
1947 |
Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/general, dies at 78 |
1947 |
Guy Coombs, The Confederate Ironclad |
1950 |
Orrie Perry, The Story of the Kelly Gang |
1952 |
Beryl Rubinstein, composer, dies at 54 |
1952 |
Fletcher Henderson, The Aviator |
1953 |
Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress(b. 1887) |
1953 |
Francesco Pastonchi, Gli emigranti |
1953 |
Violet MacMillan, The New Wizard of Oz |
1955 |
Christy Walsh, Carry On |
1956 |
Martin Albertz, German theologist (Jesus Christ's Church), dies at 73 |
1956 |
Betty Helsengreen, The Story of a Mother |
1957 |
Tom Richmond, cricketer (Notts leg-spinner took 2-86 in Eng Test), die |
1958 |
Doris Humphrey, US dancer/choreographer (Dances of Women), dies at 63 |
1958 |
Edward Peil Sr., Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl |
1959 |
Robin Humphrey Milford, composer, dies at 56 |
1959 |
Richard Kean, The Ten Commandments |
1960 |
Eden Phillpotts, British writer (b. 1862) |
1960 |
Philippe Panneton, Quebec physician, diplomat and writer (b. 1895) |
1960 |
Eden Phillpotts, The Farmer's Wife |
1962 |
Hans Rosbaud, Slumdog Millionaire |
1962 |
Hugh Sinclair, The Saint Meets the Tiger |
1963 |
John Hollingsworth, Horror of Dracula |
1964 |
Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats), dies at 63 |
1964 |
Miroslav Krejci, composer, dies at 73 |
1964 |
Guy Hedlund, The Modern Prodigal |
1965 |
Kusaku Yamada, composer, dies at 79 |
1967 |
Paul Whiteman, US orchestra leader (Fabulous Dorseys), dies at 77 |
1968 |
Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904) |
1970 |
John de Mol, Dutch accordionist, dies at 58 |
1970 |
Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (b. 1909) |
1970 |
William King Gregory, American palaeontologist (mammalian teeth, evolutionary theory), dies at 94 |
1971 |
Stuart Holmes, dies of stomach ailment at 87 |
1972 |
Fritz Behrend, composer, dies at 83 |
1975 |
Euell Gibbons, American outdoorsman and proponent of natural diets (b. 1911). |
1975 |
Marie Blazková, U pokladny stál |
1976 |
Ivo van Damme, Belgian 800/1500 m sprinter (Oly-silver-76), dies at 22 |
1978 |
Margarita Villegas, The Illiterate One |
1979 |
Valborg Voss-Christensen, Det store ansvar |
1979 |
E.J. Schuster, House of Max: Part 1 |
1979 |
Ester Toivonen, The Scapegoat |
1979 |
Yonewaka Suzuki, Shin Echigo jôwa |
1980 |
Roy Engle, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian), dies at 67 |
1980 |
Tim Hardin, American singer (Bird on a Wire), dies of a drug overdose at 39 |
1980 |
Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (b. 1899) |
1980 |
Tim Hardin, Meet the Fockers |
1980 |
Helen Dodge, The Bard of Broadway |
1980 |
Jack Stamberger, Love of Life |
1980 |
Roy Engel, Kingdom of the Spiders |
1980 |
Johannes Wulff, Johannes Wulff |
1980 |
Larry Dunn, The Stunt Man |
1980 |
Håkan Bergström, Kulla-Gulla |
1981 |
Guido Provoost, Belgian historian, dies at 41 |
1981 |
Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (b. 1893) |
1981 |
Miroslav Krleza, Glembajevi |
1982 |
Sol C Siegel, US film producer (High Society), dies at 79 |
1982 |
Sol C. Siegel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
1982 |
Walter Tappe, In Sachen Erzberger gegen Helfferich |
1982 |
Ermer Robinson, The Harlem Globetrotters |
1982 |
Pierre Gérin, The Night Is My Kingdom |
1982 |
Gene Moskowitz, The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner |
1983 |
Lloyd Ahern, Miracle on 34th Street |
1983 |
Saima Korhonen, Varaventtiili |
1983 |
Galina Venevitinova, Beregite zhenshchin! |
1984 |
Leo Robin, lyricist, dies of heart failure at 84 |
1984 |
Indus Arthur, General Hospital |
1984 |
Leo Robin, Fight Club |
1985 |
Otto Mächtlinger, Der schwarze Tanner |
1985 |
Marian Jastrzebski, Maz pod lózkiem |
1986 |
Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Stalker), dies at 54 |
1986 |
John Antill, composer, dies at 82 |
1986 |
[Maurice] Harold MacMillan, PM of Great-Britain (1957-63), dies at 92 |
1986 |
Leslie Dwyer, The Way Ahead |
1986 |
Don Conte, The Monster: Part 1 |
1986 |
Hylda Tyson, Berkeley Square |
1986 |
Harold Macmillan, The First World War |
1986 |
Alfred Rebane, Tagahoovis |
1986 |
Grete Mosheim, Car of Dreams |
1986 |
Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris |
1987 |
Yanina Zhejmo, Cinderella |
1987 |
Suria Magito, Great Expectations |
1987 |
M.G. Ramachandran, Kavalkaran |
1987 |
Stanislaw Igar, The Saragossa Manuscript |
1987 |
Jan Rybkowski, Dzis w nocy umrze miasto |
1987 |
György Száraz, A fekete kolostor |
1988 |
Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (b. 1940) |
1988 |
Bob Edgecomb, Francis Goes to West Point |
1989 |
Hermann Oberth, Woman in the Moon |
1989 |
Marion Keisker, Elvis: His Life and Times |
1989 |
Hap Glaudi, Aunt Thede |
1989 |
Fukuko Sayo, Akitsu Springs |
1990 |
Mona Dol, The Fire Within |
1990 |
Miroslav Petrovic, Koncert |
1990 |
Paulo Tapajós, Estudantes |
1990 |
Virginio Puecher, L'istruttoria |
1990 |
Michael Scott, |
1990 |
Russ Coughlan, Apes of Rath |
1990 |
Aulikki Rautawaara, The Last Station |
1991 |
Julia McCarthy, dies of cancer at 64 |
1991 |
Gabriela Gili, Historia de un trepador |
1991 |
Susan Wright, Crazy as a Soup Sandwich |
1991 |
Julia McCarthy, Erik the Viking |
1992 |
LH Ruitenberg, vicar/editor in chief (Reform Netherlands), dies at 87 |
1992 |
Vivienne Segal, US actress (Broadway, Pal Joey), dies at 95 |
1992 |
Vivienne Segal, Viennese Nights |
1992 |
Fred Shellac, Blind Man's Bluff |
1992 |
Jan Hawrylkiewicz, Pharaoh |
1993 |
Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor (b. 1930) |
1993 |
Aliman Zhankorozova, Potomok belogo barsa |
1993 |
Robert Lankesheer, Communication Problems |
1993 |
Marie Kean, Barry Lyndon |
1993 |
Nicolas Economou, Marianne & Juliane |
1993 |
Fredbjørn Bjørnsson, Vagabonden |
1993 |
Czeslaw Bilski, A Bachelor's Life Abroad |
1993 |
Benvenuto Lobina, L'ultimo pugno di terra |
1993 |
June Wurster, Take a Little, Leave a Little |
1993 |
Axel Corti, The King's Whore |
1993 |
Mher Mkrtchyan, Mimino |
1994 |
Eugene Tanner Jr, singer, dies at 58 |
1994 |
Frank Thring, Australian actor (El Cid, Ben-Hur), dies at 68 |
1994 |
Joseph W. Spiezio, This Is Cinerama |
1994 |
Gloria Grafton, Oh, What a Business! |
1994 |
Frank Thring, Ben-Hur |
1995 |
Hope Clara Chenhalls, food inspector, dies at 85 |
1995 |
Lita Grey, second wife of Charlie Chaplin, dies of cancer at 87 |
1995 |
Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine, dies at 86 |
1995 |
Nello Celio, president of Switz (1972), dies at 81 |
1995 |
Yuri Yakovlev, Ploshchad Vosstaniya |
1995 |
Toni Kaye, Pennies from Heaven |
1995 |
Tonio Riedl, Der Zerrissene |
1995 |
Lita Grey, Seasoned Greetings |
1995 |
Aaron Heyman, Flour Child |
1995 |
Peter Hill, Day of the Daleks: Episode Three |
1996 |
Alma Birk, journalist/politician, dies at 77 |
1996 |
Daniel Raphaeautl Mayer, journalist/resistance leader, dies at 86 |
1996 |
Mireille Hartuch, singer/songwriter, dies at 90 |
1996 |
Oswald Szemerenyi, philologist, dies at 83 |
1996 |
Peggy (Margaret McCrorie) Herbison, politician, dies at 89 |
1996 |
Robert Morris, lawyer, dies at 81 |
1996 |
Willaim Brown, British TV executive, dies at 67 |
1996 |
William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85 |
1996 |
Mireille, Chourinette |
1996 |
Gino Sinimberghi, Il trovatore |
1996 |
Ming Yu, Star of Hong Kong |
1996 |
Tom Pedi, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three |
1996 |
Gábor Csíkos, The Josephine Baker Story |
1997 |
(Hanlon) Pat Clarke, cyclist, dies at 82 |
1997 |
Robert Steel, academic, dies at 82 |
1997 |
Czeslaw Byszewski, Smierc prezydenta |
1997 |
Poul Ørum, One Man's Loss |
1997 |
Sunni Walton, Whose Mid-Life Crisis Is It Anyway? |
1997 |
Rolf Rønne, Going for Broke |
1998 |
Jean-Claude Forest, writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella) (b. 1930) |
1998 |
Phyllis Kennedy, Stage Door |
1998 |
Jack D. Moore, Airport |
1998 |
Don Taylor, Damien: Omen II |
1998 |
Hubert Deschamps, The Fire Within |
1999 |
Leon Radzinowicz, British criminologist (b. 1906) |
1999 |
Rolf Tourd, Adalen 31 |
1999 |
Emile Buyse, Haunted Honeymoon |
1999 |
James Smalley, Abar, the First Black Superman |
1999 |
Barbara Cowles, College Holiday |
1999 |
Mae Turner, Spirit of Youth |
1999 |
Jerzy Waldorff, Stanislaw Moniuszko |
2000 |
Lembit Veevo, Hullumeelsus |
2000 |
Herb Willis, 1941 |
2000 |
Bert Willis, Mighty Joe Young |
2000 |
Cécil Saint-Laurent, Lola Montès |
2001 |
Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (b. 1908) |
2001 |
Florian Fricke, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky |
2001 |
Brian Bansgrove, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring |
2001 |
Robert Patten, Twelve O'Clock High |
2001 |
Cássia Eller, Cássia Eller: MTV Unplugged |
2001 |
Gyorgy Kepes, Bauhaus in America |
2001 |
Anatoli Kubatsky, Frosty |
2002 |
Július Satinský, S tebou me baví svet |
2002 |
Vivian Neves, Whirlpool |
2002 |
Mustapho Gregrario, Serviced |
2002 |
Ralph Clanton, Another World |
2003 |
Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942) |
2003 |
Dinsdale Landen, English actor (b. 1932) |
2003 |
Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (b. 1928) |
2003 |
Dorothy Konrad, Sweet Bird of Youth |
2003 |
Earl Hindman, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three |
2003 |
Zhuo Pan, Mong ngai ting Seung zap |
2003 |
I.M. Hobson, Dracula |
2003 |
Miko Sotto, Fantastic Man |
2003 |
Dinsdale Landen, Morons from Outer Space |
2003 |
Gerald Gutierrez, Kiss-Kiss, Dahlings! |
2003 |
Bob Monkhouse, Family Fortunes |
2004 |
Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1947) |
2004 |
Ken Burkhart, American baseball player (b. 1915) |
2004 |
Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912) |
2004 |
Liddy Holloway, Without a Paddle |
2004 |
Doug Krueger, |
2004 |
Charles Bradstreet, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein |
2004 |
Ken Burkhart, 1967 MLB All-Star Game |
2004 |
Lucy Freeman, Howards End |
2004 |
William Boyett, General Hospital |
2005 |
Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (b. 1922) |
2005 |
Teresa E. Victor, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan |
2005 |
Thomas Barbour, Arthur |
2005 |
Noël Audet, L'ombre de l'épervier |
2005 |
George Harris II, Superman |
2005 |
Alan Rolfe, The Green Bicycle Case - 1919 |
2006 |
Zofia Jamry, Zakazane piosenki |
2006 |
Josh Peine, Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation |
2006 |
Marios Ploritis, Vathia galazia thalassa |
2006 |
Anne-Marie Carrière, Un ménage en or |
2006 |
Charles Tyra, Basketball Headliners |
2006 |
Curt Ericson, The Chasers |
2006 |
Jack Winter, Love, American Style |
2007 |
Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972) |
2007 |
Kevin Greening, British radio presenter (b. 1962) |
2007 |
Phil Dusenberry, The Natural |
2007 |
Antonio Summerton, Starship Troopers 3: Marauder |
2007 |
Lu Guarnier, Rodney |
2007 |
Shu Uemura, My Geisha |
2007 |
Katherine De Hetre, Being There |
2007 |
Olair Coan, Ritual of Death |
2008 |
Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1938) |
2008 |
Horst Giese, The Great Battle |
2008 |
James Horne Jr., Back Trail |
2008 |
Jacques Commandeur, The Northerners |
2008 |
Ted Lapidus, Bob le Flambeur |
2008 |
Daniel Nagrin, All Woman |
2008 |
Clelle Mahon, The Beast That Killed Women |
2008 |
Vaironis Jakans, Akmenainais cels |
2008 |
Hermann Regner, |
2008 |
Marvin Jones, Venus Flytrap |
2008 |
Michel Vianey, The More It Goes, the Less It Goes |
2008 |
Otto Pammer, Dornwittchen und Schneeröschen |
2008 |
Freddie Hubbard, Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz |
2008 |
Rudi Michel, Episode #2.4 |
2008 |
Ada Neretniece, Gadanie na baraney lopatke |
2008 |
Vladislav Lalicki, Kralj Ibi |
2009 |
"Dr. Death" Steve Williams, American former professional wrestler and football player (b. 1960) |
2009 |
Akmal Shaikh, British drug trafficker, executed by lethal injection in the People's Republic of China (b. 1956) |
2009 |
Dale Rickards, The Outsider |
2009 |
Gábor Lehotka, Trainspotting |
2009 |
David Levine, Dan in Real Life |
2009 |
Janina Bauman, Christmas Under Fire |
2009 |
Sal Sodano, The Taming of Rebecca |
2009 |
Juan Oncina, The Barber of Seville |
2009 |
Steve Williams, Starrcade |
2010 |
Bill Erwin, American actor (b. 1914) |
2010 |
Piet van der Meulen, Het mes |
2010 |
Kazimiera Tiche, Zolnierz królowej Madagaskaru |
2010 |
Karin Falencki, Wspomnienia o Janie Lechoniu |
2010 |
Brigitte Burdine, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King |
2010 |
Barbara Challis, Cynthia |
2010 |
Bill Erwin, The Land Before Time |
2010 |
Omar Shapli, Hawk's Eyes |
2011 |
Julie Allred, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
2011 |
Tyron Perez, Twilight Dancers |
2011 |
Constance Hieatt, Clarissa & the King's Cookbook |
2011 |
Leopold Hawelka, Königin Josefine. Die Hawelkas und ihr Café |
2011 |
Flemming Dyjak, Ang.: Lone |
2011 |
Ivan Andonov, Yesterday |
2012 |
Jean Topart, French actor, dies at 90 |
2012 |
Tony Greig, English cricket captain, dies from a heart attack at 66 |
2012 |
Lucienne Hill, Becket |
2012 |
Antonio D. Olano, From Pink to Yellow |
2012 |
Jeanne Vertefeuille, My Name Is Aldrich Ames |
2012 |
Paulo Rocha, A Ilha dos Amores |
2012 |
Chava Reyes, Las chivas rayadas |
2012 |
Bruce Stark, The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians |
2012 |
William Rees-Mogg, Episode #1.1 |
2012 |
Jean Topart, Fantastic Planet |
2012 |
Tony Greig, Victory |
2013 |
Wojciech Kilar, Polish composer, dies from cancer at 81 |
2013 |
John Buell, The Pyx |
2013 |
Paul J. Sally Jr., Proof |
2013 |
Kay Mander, From Russia with Love |
2013 |
Benjamin Curtis, Across the Universe |
2013 |
Catherine Bégin, Martyrs |
2013 |
Andy Granatelli, Episode dated 16 June 1970 |
2013 |
Wojciech Kilar, The Pianist |
2013 |
Eugenia Avendaño, Lejos de casa |
2013 |
Connie Dierking, Trade Robberies |
2013 |
Angel Rain, E.A. 2 |
2014 |
Irwin Steinberg, Why Me? |
2014 |
Hermann Weber, The Burning Wall |
2014 |
Abe Kogan, Choosing One's Way: Resistance in Auschwitz/Birkenau |
2014 |
Yrjö Tapper, Illallinen viidelle |
2014 |
Dorrit Dekk, Utopia London |
2014 |
John Bowsher, Levitated Mass |
2014 |
Allan Garraway, Small Is Beautiful |
2014 |
András Erkel, Birthday Bear/The Mole |
2014 |
Paul Sprenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier |
2014 |
Simone Iff, Les années Marie Claire |
2015 |
The Specials Drummer John Bradbury Dies at 62 |
2015 |
Pavel Srnicek dead: Former Newcastle goalkeeper dies aged 47 |
2016 |
Debbie Reynolds, mother of Carrie Fisher, dies aged 84 |
2017 |
Rose Marie, star of The Dick Van Dyke Show, dies aged 94 |
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