Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened 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  On this day in history death of harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)   

1943  On October - 29 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 this day in history.   

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

1950  Gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92 on this day in history.   

1951  On this day in history death of de Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered   

1953  On this day in history death of william Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)   

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

1958  On October - 29 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  On October - 29 death of mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris   

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

1968  Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1969  On October - 29 vic Richardson, cricketer (Aussie capt 1935-36), dies   

1971  On this day in history duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24   

1973  On this day in history heathcote Dicken Statham, composer, dies at 83   

1974  Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82 on October - 29.   

1975  John Scott Trotter, orch leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67 on October - 29.   

1981  On October - 29 william O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85   

1983  Sten Broman, composer, dies at 81 on October - 29.   

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

1986  On October - 29 sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68   

1987  Kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57 on October - 29.   

1990  On this day in history william French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer   

1991  Donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60 on October - 29.   

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 this day in history.   

1994  Andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1996  On October - 29 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  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  Jacques Amyot, French humanist/translator/abbot of Bellozanne was born on October - 29.   

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

1656  Edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet) [NS=Nov 8] was born on October - 29.   

1682  Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761) was born on this day in history.   

1690  On this day in history birth of martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754)   

1704  John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757) was born on October - 29.