Deaths on 29 September
2000s
Patrick Murray (actor)
2025
British actor (1956–2025)
Alan McDonald (minister)
2025
Scottish parish minister (1951–2025)
Ozzie Virgil Sr.
2024
Dominican baseball player and coach (1932–2024)
Kathleen Booth
2022
British computer scientist (1922–2022)
Akissi Kouamé
2022
Ivorian army officer (1955–2022)
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
2020
Emir of Kuwait from 2006 to 2020
Helen Reddy
2020
Australian and American singer, actress, TV host, and activist (1941–2020)
Martin Bernheimer
2019
American music critic (1936–2019)
Otis Rush
2018
American blues singer and guitarist (1934–2018)
Tom Alter
2017
American–Indian actor (1950–2017)
Miriam Defensor Santiago
2016
Filipino politician, lawyer, and author
Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
2015
Saudi royal, businessman, and government official (1932–2015)
Hellmuth Karasek
2015
German journalist and literary critic (1934–2015)
Phil Woods
2015
American jazz musician (1931–2015)
Mary Cadogan
2014
English author (1928–2014)
John Ritchie (composer)
2014
New Zealand composer
Harold Agnew
2013
American physicist
S. N. Goenka
2013
Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation (1924–2013)
Marcella Hazan
2013
Italian-born American cookbook author
Neil Smith (geographer)
2012
Scottish geographer and academic (1954–2012)
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
2012
American businessman (1926–2012)
Malcolm Wicks
2012
British politician and academic (1947–2012)
Sylvia Robinson
2011
American singer and record producer (1935–2011)
Tony Curtis
2010
American actor (1925–2010)
Greg Giraldo
2010
American comedian (1965–2010)
Hayden Carruth
2008
American poet and literary critic
Lois Maxwell
2007
Canadian actress (1927–2007)
Katsuko Saruhashi
2007
Japanese geochemist (1920–2007)
Walter Hadlee
2006
New Zealand cricketer (1915–2006)
Michael A. Monsoor
2006
US Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1981–2006)
Louis-Albert Vachon
2006
Catholic cardinal
Patrick Caulfield
2005
English painter
Austin Leslie
2005
Chef from New Orleans, Louisiana, US
Richard Sainct
2004
French motorcycle racer
Patrick Wormald
2004
British historian (1947–2009)
Mabel Fairbanks
2001
American figure skater and coach (1915–2001)
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
2001
President of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975
John Grant (British politician)
2000
British politician
1900s
Edward William O'Rourke
1999
Tom Bradley (mayor)
1998
American politician (1917–1998)
C. David Marsden
1998
British neurologist (1938–1998)
Bruno Munari
1998
Italian artist and designer (1907–1998)
Sven-Eric Johanson
1997
Swedish composer and organist
Roy Lichtenstein
1997
American pop artist (1923–1997)
Edith Ballinger Price
1997
American writer and illustrator (1897–1997)
Shūsaku Endō
1996
Japanese writer (1923–1996)
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
1995
American atheist activist (1919–1995)
Gordon Douglas (director)
1993
American film director (1907–1993)
Jean Aurenche
1992
French screenwriter
William H. Sebrell Jr.
1992
American nutritionist
Don West (educator)
1992
American poet and educator
Grace Zaring Stone
1991
American novelist
Gussie Busch
1989
American businessman (1899–1989)
Georges Ulmer
1989
Danish-born French composer and actor
Charles Addams
1988
American cartoonist (1912–1988)
Henry Ford II
1987
American businessman (1917–1987)
Geater Davis
1984
Musical artist
Hal Porter
1984
Australian writer (1911–1984)
Alan Moorehead
1983
Australian journalist and war correspondent
A. L. Lloyd
1982
English singer and folklorist
Monty Stratton
1982
American baseball player (1912–1982)
Bill Shankly
1981
Scottish footballer and manager (1913–1981)
Frances Yates
1981
English historian of the Renaissance (1899–1981)
Harold Alexander Abramson
1980
American physician and LSD researcher
Francisco Macías Nguema
1979
President of Equatorial Guinea from 1968 to 1979
Ivan Wyschnegradsky
1979
Russian composer
Robert McKimson
1977
American animator (1910–1977)
Alexander Tcherepnin
1977
American composer (1899–1977)
Gladys Skelton
1975
Australian poet, playwright and author
Casey Stengel
1975
American baseball player and manager (1890–1975)
W. H. Auden
1973
British-American poet (1907–1973)
Kathleen Clarke
1972
Irish politician (1878–1972)
Edward Everett Horton
1970
American character actor (1886–1970)
Gilbert Seldes
1970
American dramatist
Carson McCullers
1967
American writer (1917–1967)
Bernard Gimbel
1966
American businessman (1885–1966)
John Baillie (theologian)
1960
Scottish theologian (1886–1960)
Vladimir Dimitrov
1960
Bulgarian painter and teacher
John Goodwin (British Army officer)
1960
Bruce Bairnsfather
1959
British artist (1887–1959)
Aarre Merikanto
1958
Finnish composer
Anastasio Somoza García
1956
Dictator of Nicaragua from 1936 to 1956
Louis Leon Thurstone
1955
American psychologist and scholar (1887–1955)
Hubert Maitland Turnbull
1955
British pathologist (1875–1955)
Ernst Reuter
1953
German mayor of West Berlin (1889–1953)
John Cobb (racing driver)
1952
British racing driver (1899–1952)
C. H. Douglas
1952
British engineer and economic theorist (1879–1952)
Thomas Cahill (soccer)
1951
American soccer administrator and coach
Rosa Olitzka
1949
German opera singer (1873–1949)
Douglas Crawford McMurtrie
1944
American typeface designer (1888–1944)
Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková
1937
Czech botanist and zoologist (1877-1937)
Ray Ewry
1937
American track and field athlete
Winifred Holtby
1935
English novelist and journalist (1898–1935)
Jean-François Delmas (bass-baritone)
1933
French opera singer
William Orpen
1931
Irish artist (1878–1931)
Ilya Repin
1930
Russian realist painter (1844–1930)
John Devoy
1928
Irish rebel
Ernst Steinitz
1928
German mathematician (1871–1928)
Arthur Achleitner
1927
German writer
Willem Einthoven
1927
Dutch physiologist (1860–1927)
Léon Bourgeois
1925
French statesman (1851–1925)
Runar Schildt
1925
Swedish-speaking Finnish author (1888–1925)
Walther Penck
1923
German geologist (1888–1923)
Edward Pulsford
1919
Australian politician (1844–1919)
Lawrence Weathers
1918
New Zealand and Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
Luther Orlando Emerson
1915
American musician and composer
Rudi Stephan
1915
German composer (1887–1915)
Rudolf Diesel
1913
German inventor and engineer (1858–1913)
John F. Lacey
1913
American politician (1841–1913)
Rebecca Harding Davis
1910
American author and journalist
Winslow Homer
1910
American landscape painter (1836–1910)
Machado de Assis
1908
Brazilian writer (1839–1908)
Alexander Hay Japp
1905
Scottish author, journalist and publisher (1837–1905)
Alfred Nehring
1904
German zoologist and paleontologist (1845–1904)
William McGonagall
1902
Scottish-Irish poet (1825–1902)
Émile Zola
1902
French writer (1840–1902)
Samuel Fenton Cary
1900
American politician (1814–1900)
1800s
Thomas F. Bayard
1898
American lawyer, politician and diplomat (1828–1898)
Louis Faidherbe
1889
French general and colonial administrator (1818–1889)
Bernhard von Langenbeck
1887
German surgeon (1810–1887)
Sterling Price
1867
American politician and Confederate Army general (1809–1867)
William "Bull" Nelson
1862
19th-century American naval officer and Army general
Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska
1861
Polish composer
David Keith Ballow
1850
Australian Government Medical Officer (1804–1850)
Ferdinand VII
1833
King of Spain (1808, 1813–1833)
Michael Hillegas
1804
American politician (1729–1804)
Michael Denis
1800
Austrian Catholic priest, Jesuit, poet, bibliographer and lepidopterist (1729–1800)
Before 1800
George Haliburton (bishop of Aberdeen)
1715
Scottish cleric and Jacobite
René Goupil
1642
French Jesuit lay brother, missionary and martyr (1608–1642)
William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby
1642
English nobleman and politician
Lorenzo Ruiz
1637
First Filipino saint and Martyr
Gustav Vasa
1560
King of Sweden from 1523 to 1560
Andrew Stewart (bishop of Moray)
1501
Scottish prelate and administrator
Izz al-Din ibn Rukn al-Din Mahmud
1382
14th century Mihrabanid malik
Charles, Duke of Brittany
1364
Duke of Brittany from 1341 to 1364; Catholic saint
John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey
1304
13th-century English nobleman and military commander
Guido I da Montefeltro
1298
Italian military strategist
Arnaud Amalric
1225
Cistercian abbot (d. 1225)
William of Tyre
1186
12th-century clergyman, writer, and Archbishop of Tyre
Lothair I
855
Carolingian Emperor from 817 to 855
Leudwinus
722
Archbishop of Treves and Archbishop of Laon