Historical Deaths for Tomorrow

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - October 29, 2026

0490 Petrus Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria, dies

1963 Adolphe Menjou, actor (Front Page, Star is Born), dies at 73

1969 Vic Richardson, cricketer (Aussie capt 1935-36), dies

1846 Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronoom, dies at 90

1973 Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer, dies at 83

1950 Gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92

1822 Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61

1996 Patricia Ticia Anne Ingrams, broadcaster, dies at 50

1965 Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris

1993 Raymond Lockhart, TV director (Huntley Brinkley Report), dies at 65

1901 Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted

1922 George August Lumbye, composer, dies at 79

1946 John S Curry, US painter (Baptism in Kansas), dies

1992 Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (Manon, Judas Tree), dies

1829 Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist, dies

1943 Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered at 55

1853 Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer, dies at 68

1911 Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC

1962 Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77

1790 Pieter van/of Bleiswijk, pension advisor 1771-87, dies at about 66

1991 Donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60

1947 Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83

1920 Johann Ernst Perabo, composer, dies at 74

1993 George Pope, cricketer (one Test for England, 8 runs not out), dies

1892 William M Harnett, US painter (Old Cupboard Door), dies

1994 Pearl Primus, dancer, dies at 44

1885 James Hannington, English missionary, murdered in Uganda

1966 [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Manner Kater), dies at 83

1783 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, philosopher/mathematician, die at 66

1994 Evelyn Anderson, dancer, dies at 87

1990 William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer

1873 Johan N M J, king of Saxon (1854-73), dies

1994 Andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84

1932 Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (B-Reflex), dies

1951 Robert G Aitken, US astronomer (New General Catalogue), dies at 86

1919 Soen Shaku, Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in Kamakura, dies at 60

1987 Woody Herman, bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds), dies at 74

1853 William Richard Bexfield, composer, dies at 29

1981 William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85

1974 Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82

1939 Albrecht MAPJ, duke of WЃrttemberg/general (WW II), dies at 73

1885 George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58

1987 Kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57

1934 Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer, dies at 71

1927 Leonard Nelson, Ger philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45

1991 Maria Monica, silent film actress, dies

1876 Jacques Gregoir, composer, dies at 59

1957 Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71

1856 Carel SW van Hogendorp, colonial director, dies at 68

1991 Mario Scelba, PM of Italia (1954-55), dies

1802 Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer, dies at 95

1991 Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies

1983 Sten Broman, composer, dies at 81

1873 Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52

1933 Paul, [Prudent] Painlev‚, French mathematician/minister/premier, dies

1962 Dewi AngrЉnie, [Martha AP Giese], Flemish/Dutch actress, dies at 85

1971 Duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24

1873 Leonardus Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship, dies at 78

1882 Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer, dies at 64

1996 James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66

1968 Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78

1992 Adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies

1590 Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, theologist/philosopher, dies at about 68

1947 Theodore Samuel Holland, composer, dies at 69

1975 John Scott Trotter, orch leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67

1951 De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered

1883 Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer, dies at 68

1618 Walter Raleigh, English scholar/poet/historian, beheaded for treason

1321 Stefanus VI Uros II Milutin, king of Serbia (1282-1321), dies

1986 Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68

1931 Luciano Gallet, composer, dies at 38

1996 Patrick Johnson, physicist, dies at 92

1985 John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint)/(gov-R-CT), dies at 82

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