Historical Deaths for Yesterday

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - Apr 29

0852 Amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon, bishop, dies at 76

1499 John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies

1535 John Houghton, English, executed

1676 Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear-admiral, (Newport), killed at 69

1699 Samuel Apostool, vicar/theologist (Zonisten), dies at 50

1712 Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer, dies at 67

1813 Christian Danner, composer, dies at 55

1841 A Bertrand, writer, dies

1864 Charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80

1871 John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author, dies at 75

1905 Ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57

1918 Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22

1921 Arthur Mold, Brit cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies

1928 Henrich Federer, Switz, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61

1935 Leroy Carr, rocker, dies=

1936 Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76

1943 Joseph Achron, Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite), dies at 56

1943 Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer, dies at 68

1943 Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20

1947 Irving Fisher, US economist, dies at 80

1951 Jules Verstraete, [Julien G de Graef], actor (Boefje), dies at 67

1951 Ludwig J J Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher, dies at 62

1953 Mo‹se Kisling, Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse), dies at 62

1954 Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier, dies at 82

1956 Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer, dies at 75

1957 Otallo Morales, composer, dies at 82

1964 Albert Saverys, Flemish painter, dies at 77

1966 Eugene O'Brien, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85

1967 Anthony Mann, US director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies at 60

1968 Frankie Lymon, rocker (& Teenagers), dies of a drug overdose at 25

1972 Ntare V, deposed King of Burundi, killed in an abortive coup

1973 Manfred Gurlitt, composer, dies at 82

1975 Charles McMahon Jr, US USMC lance corporal, killed in Vietnam

1975 Darwin Judge, USMC-corporal, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet

1975 Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam

1975 William Craig Nystul, USMC capt, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet

1976 Wilhelm Maler, composer, dies at 73

1979 Julia A Perry, US composer/conductor (Soul Symphony), dies at 55

1980 Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80

1984 Marvin Gaye, rocker (Sexual Healing), shot dead by his father at 45

1986 Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist, killed at 25

1988 Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies

1988 Jan Kapr, composer, dies at 74

1991 Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies

1992 Mae Clarke, actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84

1993 Cy Howard, director (Lovers & Other Strangers), dies at 77

1993 Michael Gordon, actor/director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83

1993 Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 46

1994 Bill Quinn, US actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 81

1994 Erik Erikson, anthropologist, dies at 53

1994 Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74

1995 Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator, dies at 57

1996 David William Eric Davis, broadcaster, dies at 87

1996 Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71

1996 Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of Pres Suharto of Indonesia, dies at 72

1996 Tony Hymphris, political activist, dies at 45

1997 Keith Ferguson, blues (Fabulous Thunderbirds), dies of overdose at 50

1997 Mike Royko, columnist, dies of stroke at 64

1997 Peter Tali Coleman, gov of Americ Samoa (1956-61, 78-85, 89-93), dies

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