Deaths on 29 October
2000s
Teri Garr
2024
American actress (1944–2024)
Heath (musician)
2023
Japanese musician (1968–2023)
Ashley Mallett
2021
Australian cricketer (1945–2021)
Angelika Amon
2020
Austrian American academic molecular and cell biologist (1967–2020)
John Witherspoon (actor)
2019
American actor (1942–2019)
Luther Burden
2015
American basketball player (1953–2015)
Ernesto Herrera (politician)
2015
Filipino politician (1942–2015)
Boris Kristančič
2015
Ranko Žeravica
2015
Serbian basketball coach
Roger Freeman (American politician)
2014
American politician
Klas Ingesson
2014
Swedish footballer and manager (1968-2014)
H. Gary Morse
2014
American businessman (1936–2014)
Jean Rénald Clérismé
2013
Haitian politician, diplomat and Catholic priest
Sherman Halsey
2013
John Spence (frogman)
2013
American diver for the United States Navy
Graham Stark
2013
English comedian and actor (1922–2013)
Letitia Baldrige
2012
American public relations executive, etiquette expert, and Kennedy staffer (1926–2012)
J. Bernlef
2012
Dutch writer and translator (1937–2012)
Kenneth G. Ryder
2012
Wallace L. W. Sargent
2012
American astronomer
Jack H. Vaughn
2012
American diplomat (1920–2012)
Jimmy Savile
2011
English media personality and sex offender (1926–2011)
Mike Baker (singer)
2008
Musical artist
Lloyd Bochner
2005
Canadian actor (1924–2005)
Ion Irimescu
2005
Romanian sculptor (1903–2005)
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
2004
Member of the British royal family (1901–2004)
Ordal Demokan
2004
Turkish physicist
Edward Oliver LeBlanc
2004
Dominican politician (1923–2004)
Peter Twinn
2004
English mathematician and entomologist (1916–2004)
Hal Clement
2003
American author and artist (1922–2003)
Franco Corelli
2003
Italian opera singer (1921–2003)
Glenn McQueen
2002
Canadian animator (1960–2002)
Carlos Guastavino
2000
Argentine composer
1900s
Greg (cartoonist)
1999
Belgian comic artist (1931–1999)
Paul Misraki
1998
French composer (1908–1998)
Anton LaVey
1997
American writer and Satanist (1930–1997)
Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos
1997
Greek-American astrophysicist
Eugen Kapp
1996
Estonian composer (1908–1996)
Terry Southern
1995
American writer (1924–1995)
Shlomo Goren
1994
Polish-born Israeli rabbi (1917–1994)
Lipman Bers
1993
Latvian-American mathematician (1914–1993)
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
1988
Indian freedom fighter (1903–1988)
Woody Herman
1987
American jazz musician and bandleader (1913–1987)
Mimis Fotopoulos
1986
Greek actor, writer, poet and academic
Evgeny Lifshitz
1985
Soviet physicist (1915–1985)
Georges Brassens
1981
French singer-songwriter and poet (1921–1981)
George Borg Olivier
1980
Prime Minister of Malta from 1950–55 and 1962–71
Chiyonoyama Masanobu
1977
Japanese sumo wrestler
Edmund Hirst
1975
British chemist
Duane Allman
1971
American guitarist (1946–1971)
Arne Tiselius
1971
Swedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (1902–1971)
Adolphe Menjou
1963
American actor (1890–1963)
Astrid Holm
1961
Danish actress (1893–1961)
Zoe Akins
1958
American playwright, poet, and author (1886–1958)
Louis B. Mayer
1957
Canadian-American film producer (1884–1957)
Louis Rosier
1956
French racing driver (1905–1956)
William Kapell
1953
American classical pianist (1922–1953)
Robert Grant Aitken
1951
American astronomer
Gustaf V
1950
King of Sweden from 1907 to 1950
George Gurdjieff
1949
Russian Empire mystic and writer (c. 1866–1877 – 1949)
Thomas Slater Price
1949
British chemist
Edward S. Anthoine
1942
American politician and lawyer
Harvey Hendrick
1941
American baseball player (1897–1941)
Dwight B. Waldo
1939
President of Western Michigan University
Ramiro de Maeztu
1936
Spanish essayist, journalist and publicist
Albert Calmette
1933
French physician and immunologist (1863–1933)
George Luks
1933
American cartoonist and painter (1867–1933)
Paul Painlevé
1933
French mathematician and statesman (1863–1933)
Joseph Babinski
1932
French-Polish neurologist
Frances Hodgson Burnett
1924
British-American novelist (1849–1924)
Albert Benjamin Simpson
1919
Canadian theologian (1843–1919)
Rudolf Tobias
1918
Estonian composer
John S. Little
1916
American politician (1851-1916)
Joseph Pulitzer
1911
Hungarian-American newspaper publisher (1847–1911)
Étienne Desmarteau
1905
Canadian athlete (1873–1905)
Leon Czolgosz
1901
Assassin of William McKinley (1873–1901)
Fatima Cates
1900
British Muslim convert and activist (1865–1900)
1800s
Henry George
1897
American political economist (1839–1897)
William Harnett
1892
American painter
Nathan Bedford Forrest
1877
Confederate States Army general, farmer and Ku Klux Klan leader (1821–1877)
Andrea Debono
1871
Maltese trader and explorer
Maria Anna Mozart
1829
Austrian musician (1751–1829)
Sarah Crosby
1804
English Methodist preacher (1729–1804)
Before 1800
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
1783
French mathematician (1717–1783)
Edmund Calamy the Elder
1666
English Presbyterian leader (1600–1666)
James Shirley
1666
English poet and playwright (1596–1666)
David Calderwood
1650
Scottish minister of religion and historian (1575–1650)
Walter Raleigh
1618
English statesman and explorer (1552–1618)
Dirck Coornhert
1590
Dutch writer, philosopher, translator, politician, and theologian (1522–1590)
Aleksandr of Tver
1339
Prince of Tver (r. 1326–1327; 1338–1339)
Stefan Milutin
1321
King of Serbia from 1282 to 1321
Conradin
1268
Duke of Swabia, King of Jerusalem and Sicily (1252–1268)
Frederick I, Margrave of Baden
1268
Margrave of Baden and of Verona from 1250 to 1268
Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia
1266
Queen of Germany (1225–1235) and Bohemia (1253–1260)
Eadsige
1050
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1038 to 1050