Famous Deaths Happened In December - 29
Sunday, 14 December 2025
0721 Death of Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661) on this day in history. 

1141 On December - 29 death of yue Fei, Chinese general, executed 

1170 Death of Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II on this day in history. 

1558 On December - 29 hermann Finck, composer, dies at 31 

1563 Death of Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515) on December - 29. 

1619 Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies on December - 29. 

1630 Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, RC pastor/lyricist, dies at 51 on December - 29. 

1634 On December - 29 death of john Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612) 

1661 On December - 29 death of antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594) 

1689 Death of Olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried on December - 29. 

1703 Mustapha II, sultan (Turkey), dies at 39 on this day in history. 

1731 On this day in history j Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies at 46 

1737 On this day in history death of joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659) 

1785 Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69 on December - 29. 

1815 Saartjie Baartman, Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris on this day in history. 

1821 On December - 29 jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, S Neth general, dies at 61 

1822 On December - 29 albert Christoph Dies, composer, dies at 67 

1825 Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer, dies on December - 29. 

1835 On December - 29 charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer, dies at 29 

1836 On December - 29 johann Baptist Schenk, composer, dies at 83 

1847 William Crotch, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history. 

1871 On December - 29 ferdinand Marcucci, composer, dies at 71 

1877 On this day in history willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies 

1890 Big Foot, Sioux indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee on this day in history. 

1891 Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68 on December - 29. 

1894 On December - 29 chris Rossetti, writer, dies at 64 

1897 On December - 29 death of william James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812) 

1898 Georg Goltermann, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history. 

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 December - 29 death of carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) 

1925 Félix E Vallotton, Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at 60 on December - 29. 

1926 Rainer M Rilke, Austrias songwriter/writer (Wise Queen), dies at 51 on this day in history. 

1929 Death of Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846) on December - 29. 

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