29 September Deaths

Published : 29 Sep 2018, 10:24

Sahos Desk

September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

Deaths

722 – Leudwinus, Frankish archbishop and saint (b. 660)
855 – Lothair I, Roman emperor (b. 795)
1186 – William of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre (b. c. 1130)
1225 – Arnaud Amalric, Papal legate who allegedly promoted mass murder
1298 – Guido I da Montefeltro, Italian military strategist (b. 1223)
1304 – John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, English general (b. 1231)
1360 – Joanna I of Auvergne, queen consort of France (b. 1326)
1364 – Charles I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319)
1382 – 'Izz al-Din ibn Rukn al-Din Mahmud, malik of Sistan
1501 – Andrew Stewart, Scottish bishop (b. 1442)
1560 – Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
1622 – Conrad Vorstius, German-Dutch Remonstrant theologian (b. 1569)
1634 – Henry Hyde, English politician and lawyer (b.c. 1563)
1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino martyr and saint (b. 1600)
1642 – René Goupil, French missionary and saint (b. 1608)
1642 – William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire (b. 1561)
1703 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French-English soldier, author, and critic (b. 1610)
1800 – Michael Denis, Austrian poet and author (b. 1729)
1804 – Michael Hillegas, American politician, 1st Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
1833 – Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)
1862 – William "Bull" Nelson, American general (b. 1824)
1887 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon and academic (b. 1810)
1889 – Louis Faidherbe, French general and politician (b. 1818)
1900 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician (b. 1814)
1902 – William McGonagall, Scottish poet and actor (b. 1825)
1902 – Émile Zola, French journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1840)
1908 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1839)
1910 – Winslow Homer, American painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1836)
1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the diesel engine (b. 1858)
1925 – Léon Bourgeois, French police officer and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1851)
1927 – Arthur Achleitner, German journalist and author (b. 1858)
1927 – Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
1928 – John Devoy, Irish-American Fenian rebel leader (b. 1842)
1930 – Ilya Repin, Ukrainian-Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1844)
1937 – Ray Ewry, American triple jumper (b. 1873)
1937 – Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)
1951 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer player and coach (b. 1864)
1952 – John Cobb, English race car driver and pilot (b. 1899)
1967 – Carson McCullers, American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet (b. 1917)
1970 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
1973 – W. H. Auden, English-American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1907)
1975 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
1981 – Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1913)
1982 – Monty Stratton, American baseball player and coach (b. 1912)
1986 – Prince George Valdemar of Denmark (b. 1920)
1987 – Henry Ford II, American businessman (b. 1917)
1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
1989 – Gussie Busch, American businessman (b. 1899)
1989 – Georges Ulmer, Danish-French singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1919)
1993 – Gordon Douglas, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1907)
1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
1998 – Tom Bradley, American lieutenant and politician, 38th Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
1999 – Jean-Louis Millette, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
2000 – John Grant, English journalist and politician (b. 1932)
2001 – Mabel Fairbanks, American figure skater and coach (b. 1915)
2001 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Vietnamese general and politician, 5th President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
2004 – Richard Sainct, French motorcycle racer (b. 1970)
2004 – Patrick Wormald, English historian (b. 1947)
2005 – Patrick Caulfield, English painter and academic (b. 1936)
2005 – Austin Leslie, American chef and author (b. 1934)
2006 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer and manager (b. 1915)
2006 – Michael A. Monsoor, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1981)
2006 – Louis-Albert Vachon, Canadian cardinal (b. 1912)
2007 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
2007 – Yıldırım Aktuna, Turkish psychiatrist and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1930)
2008 – Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic (b. 1921)
2009 – Pavel Popovich, Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
2010 – Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925)
2010 – Greg Giraldo, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1965)
2011 – Sylvia Robinson, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1936)
2012 – Hathloul bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1942)
2012 – Neil Smith, Scottish geographer and academic (b. 1954)
2012 – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1926)
2012 – Malcolm Wicks, English academic and politician (b. 1947)
2013 – Harold Agnew, American physicist and engineer (b. 1921)
2013 – Anton Benning, German lieutenant (b. 1918)
2013 – Pete T. Cenarrusa, American soldier, pilot, and politician, Secretary of State of Idaho (b. 1917)
2013 – Carl Joachim Classen, German scholar and academic (b. 1928)
2013 – L. C. Greenwood, American football player (b. 1946)
2013 – Bob Kurland, American basketball player and politician (b. 1924)
2014 – Miguel Boyer, Spanish economist and politician (b. 1939)
2014 – Andreas Fransson, Swedish skier (b. 1983)
2014 – Stan Monteith, American surgeon and author (b. 1929)
2014 – Luis Nishizawa, Mexican painter and educator (b. 1918)
2014 – John Ritchie, New Zealand composer and educator (b. 1921)
2014 – George Shuba, American baseball player (b. 1924)
2015 – Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1932)
2015 – Hellmuth Karasek, Czech-German journalist, author, and critic (b. 1934)
2015 – William Kerslake, American wrestler and engineer (b. 1929)
2015 – Jean Ter-Merguerian, French-Armenian violinist (b. 1935)
2015 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1931)
2016 – Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipina politician (b. 1945)
2017 – Tom Alter, Indian actor (b. 1950)

Source: wikipedia

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