Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In October - 29

1934  On this day in history gustavo Emilio Campa, composer, dies at 71   

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

1941  Death of Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897) on this day in history.   

1943  On this day in history death of adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered at 55   

1946  John S Curry, US painter (Baptism in Kansas), dies on October - 29.   

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  On October - 29 gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92   

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

1953  Death of William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922) on October - 29.   

1957  Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71 on October - 29.   

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

1962  Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77 on October - 29.   

1963  Adolphe Menjou, actor (Front Page, Star is Born), dies at 73 on October - 29.   

1965  Death of Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris on October - 29.   

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

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

1969  Vic Richardson, cricketer (Aussie capt 1935-36), dies on this day in history.   

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

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

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 this day in history.   

1981  William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85 on October - 29.   

1983  On this day in history sten Broman, composer, dies at 81   

1985  John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint)/(gov-R-CT), dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1986  Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

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

1990  William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer on October - 29.   

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

1992  On October - 29 adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies   

1993  George Pope, cricketer (one Test for England, 8 runs not out), dies on this day in history.   

1994  On October - 29 andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84   

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 October - 29.   

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1463  On October - 29 birth of alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher   

1507  Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish viceroy of Neth (1566-73) was born on October - 29.   

1513  Jacques Amyot, French humanist/translator/abbot of Bellozanne was born on October - 29.   

1562  On October - 29 birth of george Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury   

1656  Edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet) [NS=Nov 8] was born on this day in history.   

1682  Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761) was born on October - 29.   

1690  Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754) was born on this day in history.   

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