Died on
Who died on October 29
96 figures who shaped history died on October 29.
- 96deaths
- 55events
Best known
Best known
Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia
Queen of Germany (1225–1235) and Bohemia
Conradin
Duke of Swabia, King of Jerusalem and Sicily
Frederick I, Margrave of Baden
Margrave of Baden and of Verona from 1250 to 1268
Stefan Milutin
King of Serbia from 1282 to 1321
Aleksandr of Tver
Prince of Tver (r. 1326–1327; 1338–1339)
Dirck Coornhert
Dutch writer, philosopher, translator, politician, and theologian
Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia — Queen of Germany (1225–1235) and Bohemia, who died on October 29 1266.
Conradin — Duke of Swabia, King of Jerusalem and Sicily, who died on October 29 1268.
Frederick I, Margrave of Baden — Margrave of Baden and of Verona from 1250 to 1268, who died on October 29 1268.
Stefan Milutin — King of Serbia from 1282 to 1321, who died on October 29 1321.
Aleksandr of Tver — Prince of Tver (r. 1326–1327; 1338–1339), who died on October 29 1339.
Dirck Coornhert — Dutch writer, philosopher, translator, politician, and theologian, who died on October 29 1590.
All entries
- 1050EEadsigeArchbishop of Canterbury from 1038 to 1050
- 1618
Walter RaleighEnglish statesman and explorer - 1650
David CalderwoodScottish minister of religion and historian - 1666
Edmund Calamy the ElderEnglish Presbyterian leader - 1666
James ShirleyEnglish poet and playwright - 1783
Jean Le Rond d'AlembertFrench mathematician - 1804SSarah CrosbyEnglish Methodist preacher
- 1829
Maria Anna MozartSister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - 1871
Andrea DebonoMaltese trader and explorer - 1877
Nathan Bedford ForrestConfederate States Army general, planter, and slave trader - 1892
William HarnettAmerican painter - 1897
Henry GeorgeAmerican political economist - 1900
Fatima CatesBritish Muslim convert and activist - 1901
Leon CzolgoszAssassin of William McKinley - 1905
Étienne DesmarteauCanadian athlete - 1911
Joseph PulitzerHungarian-American newspaper publisher - 1916
John S. LittleAmerican politician - 1918
Rudolf TobiasEstonian composer - 1919
Albert Benjamin SimpsonCanadian theologian - 1924
Frances Hodgson BurnettBritish-American novelist - 1932
Joseph BabinskiFrench-Polish neurologist - 1933
Albert CalmetteFrench physician and immunologist - 1933
George LuksAmerican cartoonist and painter - 1933
Paul PainlevéFrench mathematician and statesman - 1936
Ramiro de MaeztuSpanish essayist, journalist and publicist - 1939
Dwight B. WaldoPresident of Western Michigan University - 1941
Harvey HendrickAmerican baseball player - 1942EEdward S. AnthoineAmerican politician and lawyer
- 1949
George GurdjieffRussian Empire mystic and writer (c. 1866–1877 – 1949)
- 1949TThomas Slater PriceBritish chemist
- 1950
Gustaf VKing of Sweden from 1907 to 1950 - 1951
Robert Grant AitkenAmerican astronomer - 1953
William KapellAmerican classical pianist
- 1956
Louis RosierFrench racing driver - 1957
Louis B. MayerCanadian-American film producer - 1958
Zoe AkinsAmerican playwright, poet, and author - 1961
Astrid HolmDanish actress - 1963
Adolphe MenjouAmerican actor - 1971
Duane AllmanAmerican guitarist - 1971
Arne TiseliusSwedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate - 1975
Edmund HirstBritish chemist - 1977
Chiyonoyama MasanobuJapanese sumo wrestler
- 1980
George Borg OlivierPrime Minister of Malta (1950–1955; 1962–1971) - 1981
Georges BrassensFrench singer-songwriter and poet - 1985EEvgeny LifshitzSoviet physicist
- 1986MMimis FotopoulosGreek actor, writer, poet and academic
- 1987
Woody HermanAmerican jazz musician and bandleader - 1988
Kamaladevi ChattopadhyayIndian freedom fighter - 1993LLipman BersLatvian-American mathematician
- 1994
Shlomo GorenPolish-born Israeli rabbi - 1995
Terry SouthernAmerican writer - 1996EEugen KappEstonian composer
- 1997
Anton LaVeyAmerican writer and Satanist - 1997AAndreas Gerasimos MichalitsianosGreek-American astrophysicist
- 1998
Paul MisrakiFrench composer - 1999
Greg (cartoonist)Belgian comic artist - 2000
Carlos GuastavinoArgentine composer - 2002
Glenn McQueenCanadian animator - 2003
Hal ClementAmerican author and artist - 2003
Franco CorelliItalian opera singer - 2004
Princess Alice, Duchess of GloucesterMember of the British royal family - 2004
Admire VegaJapanese-bred Thoroughbred racehorse - 2004OOrdal DemokanTurkish physicist
- 2004
Edward Oliver LeBlancDominican politician - 2004PPeter TwinnEnglish mathematician and entomologist
- 2005
Lloyd BochnerCanadian actor
- 2005
Ion IrimescuRomanian sculptor - 2008MMike Baker (singer)Musical artist
- 2011
Jimmy SavileEnglish media personality and sex offender - 2012
Letitia BaldrigeAmerican public relations executive, etiquette expert, and Kennedy staffer - 2012
J. BernlefDutch writer and translator - 2012KKenneth G. Ryder
- 2012
Wallace L. W. SargentAmerican astronomer - 2012
Jack H. VaughnAmerican diplomat - 2013JJean Rénald ClérisméHaitian politician, diplomat and Catholic priest
- 2013SSherman Halsey
- 2013JJohn Spence (frogman)American diver for the United States Navy
- 2013
Graham StarkEnglish comedian and actor - 2014RRoger Freeman (American politician)American politician
- 2014
Klas IngessonSwedish footballer and manager - 2014
H. Gary MorseAmerican businessman - 2015
Luther BurdenAmerican basketball player - 2015
Ernesto Herrera (politician)Filipino politician - 2015
Boris Kristančič - 2015
Ranko ŽeravicaSerbian basketball coach - 2019
John Witherspoon (actor)American actor - 2020
Angelika AmonAustrian American academic molecular and cell biologist - 2021
Ashley MallettAustralian cricketer - 2023
Heath (musician)Japanese musician - 2024
Teri GarrAmerican actress
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Who died on October 29?
96 people with a Wikipedia article died on October 29, including Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia, Conradin, Frederick I, Margrave of Baden. The list is in chronological order by year of death and spans all of documented history, from antiquity to the present day. For each person you find their occupation, the year and a link to the Wikipedia biography, where the full story and its sources can be read.
What happened on October 29?
55 documented historical events happened on October 29, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: William Robert Broughton, a member of George Vancouver's expedition, observed a peak in the present-day U.S. state of Oregon and named it Mount Hood after British admiral Samuel Hood. On the same day, in another year: Rioting broke out in Bristol, England, after the Second Reform Bill failed to pass parliament, causing 250 casualties and £300,000 of damage (pictured). On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
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