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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020 October
October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
63 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
539 BC – Cyrus the Great (founder of Persian Empire)
entered the capital of Babylon and allowed
the Jews to return to their land. ·
312 – Constantine the
Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of
the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in
the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded. ·
437 – Valentinian III, Western Roman
Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his
cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman
Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two
branches of the House of Theodosius. ·
969 – Byzantine troops occupy Antioch, Syria. ·
1268 – Conradin is executed along with his
companion Frederick
I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily. ·
1390 –
First trial for witchcraft in
Paris leading to the death of three people. ·
1467 – Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Prince-Bishopric
of Liège. ·
1591 – Pope Innocent IX is elected. ·
1611 – Russian homage to the King of
Poland, Sigismund III Vasa. ·
1618 –
English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for
allegedly conspiring against James I of England. ·
1658 – Second Northern War:
Naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat the Swedes in
the Battle of the Sound. ·
1665 –
Portuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate
King António I of Kongo,
also known as Nvita a Nkanga. ·
1675 – Leibniz makes
the first use of the long s (∫)
as a symbol of the integral in calculus. ·
1787 – Mozart's
opera Don Giovanni receives
its first performance in Prague. ·
1792 – Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel
Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who
sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River. ·
1831 -
Riots in the city of Bristol as part of
the 1831 reform riots against
the second reform Bill of the Reform Act 1832 begin. ·
1863 –
Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to
form the International Red
Cross. ·
1863
– American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie:
Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack
led by General James Longstreet.
Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga,
Tennessee. ·
1888 –
The Convention
of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime
passage through the Suez Canal during
war and peace. ·
1901 –
In Amherst,
Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering
the Davis family of Boston with an
overdose of morphine. ·
1901
– Leon Czolgosz,
the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by
electrocution. ·
1914 – Ottoman
entry into World War I. ·
1918 –
The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when
sailors mutiny on
the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German
Revolution of 1918–19. ·
1921 –
The Link River Dam,
a part of the Klamath
Reclamation Project, is completed. ·
1921
– United States:
Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston,
Massachusetts. ·
1921
– The Harvard University football
team loses to Centre College,
ending a 25-game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets
in college football. ·
1922 –
King Victor
Emmanuel III of Italy appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister. ·
1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the
dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. ·
1929 –
The New York Stock
Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or
"Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and
beginning the Great Depression. ·
1941 – The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto, over
10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the
"Great Action". ·
1942 –
The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures
hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews. ·
1944 –
The Dutch city of Breda is liberated
by 1st Polish
Armoured Division. ·
1944
– World War II: The
Soviet Red Army enters Hungary. ·
1948 – Israeli-Palestinian
conflict: Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture
the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; after, between 52 and 64 villagers
are massacred by the IDF. ·
1953 – BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco. ·
1955 –
The Soviet
battleship Novorossiysk strikes a World War II
mine in the harbor at Sevastopol. ·
1956 – Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal. ·
1957 –
Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his
ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into
Israel's Knesset. ·
1960 –
In Louisville, Kentucky,
Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional
fight. ·
1960
– An airplane carrying the Cal
Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio. ·
1961 – Syria exits from the United Arab Republic. ·
1964 –
The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania. ·
1964
– A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India,
is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the
surf") from the American
Museum of Natural History in New York City. ·
1967 – Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million
visitors. ·
1969 –
The first-ever computer-to-computer
link is established on ARPANET, the precursor
to the Internet. ·
1971 –
In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle
accident. ·
1972 –
The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from
prison in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615. ·
1980 –
Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue
attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's
Duke Field, Florida leading to
cancellation of Operation
Credible Sport. ·
1985 –
Major General Samuel K. Doe is
announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia. ·
1986 –
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens
the last stretch of the M25 motorway. ·
1991 –
The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest
approach to 951 Gaspra,
becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid. ·
1994 – Francisco Martin
Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying
to kill US President Bill Clinton. ·
1998 –
In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents
its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities. ·
1998
– Space
Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the
oldest person to go into space. ·
1998
– ATSC HDTV broadcasting
in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission. ·
1998
– While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of
six and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant
who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara
after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in
the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel. ·
1998
– Hurricane Mitch,
the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras. ·
1998
– The Gothenburg
discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200. ·
1999 –
A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India. ·
2002 – Ho Chi Minh
City ITC fire, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where
1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted
for. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime. ·
2004 –
The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from
a 2004 Osama bin
Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct
responsibility for the September 11,
2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S.
presidential election. ·
2005 – Bombings in Delhi,
India kill more than 60. ·
2008 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines,
creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy
carriers to five. ·
2012 – Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of
the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly, while leaving
nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages. ·
2015 – China announces the end of One-child policy after 35 years. ·
2018 – Lion Air Flight 610 of
a Boeing 737 MAX crashes
after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia killing 189 people on board.[1] Births[edit] ·
1463 – Alessandro Achillini,
Italian physician and philosopher (d. 1512)[2] ·
1497 – Benedetto
Accolti the Younger, Italian cardinal (d. 1549)[3] ·
1504 – Shin Saimdang, South Korean painter and poet
(d. 1551)[4] ·
1507 – Fernando Alvarez
de Toledo, Spanish general (d. 1582)[5] ·
1562 – George Abbot,
English archbishop and academic (d. 1633)[6] ·
1682 – Pierre
François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian, explorer, and
author (d. 1761)[7] ·
1690 – Martin Folkes, English mathematician and
astronomer (d. 1754)[8] ·
1704 – John Byng, English admiral and politician,
11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (d.
1757)[9] ·
1740 – James Boswell, Scottish lawyer and author
(d. 1795) ·
1807 – Anđeo
Kraljević, Herzegovinian Catholic bishop (d. 1879) ·
1808 – Caterina Scarpellini,
Italian astronomer and meteorologist (d. 1873) ·
1812 – Louise Granberg, Swedish playwright (d.
1907)[10] ·
1815 – Dan Emmett, American composer (d. 1904) ·
1822 – Mieczysław
Halka-Ledóchowski, Russian-Polish cardinal (d. 1902) ·
1831 – James Boucaut, English-Australian
politician, 11th Premier of
South Australia (d. 1916) ·
1832 – Narcisa de Jesús,
Ecuadorian saint (d. 1869) ·
1837 – Harriet Powers, American folk artist and
quilter (d. 1910)[11] ·
1855 – Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (d. 1939) ·
1856 – Jacques Curie, French physicist and academic
(d. 1941) ·
1861 – Andrei Ryabushkin,
Russian painter (d. 1904) ·
1866 – Antonio Luna, Filipino general and
politician (d. 1899) ·
1875 – Marie of Romania (d. 1938) ·
1877 – Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film producer (d.
1966) ·
1877
– Wilfred Rhodes,
English cricketer and coach (d. 1973) ·
1879 – Alva B. Adams, American lawyer and
politician (d. 1941) ·
1879
– Franz von Papen,
German soldier and politician, Chancellor
of Germany (d. 1969) ·
1880 – Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic
(d. 1960) ·
1881 – John DeWitt,
American football player and hammer thrower (d. 1930) ·
1882 – Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright
(d. 1944) ·
1883 – Victor Hochepied, French swimmer and water
polo player (d. 1966) ·
1891 – Fanny Brice, American actress and singer (d.
1951) ·
1897 – Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and
politician, Chancellor
of Nazi Germany (d. 1945) ·
1897
– Billy
Walker, English footballer (d. 1964) ·
1898 – Alan Barker, English soldier (d. 1984) ·
1899 – Akim Tamiroff, Georgian-American actor (d.
1972) ·
1905 – Henry Green, English author (d. 1973) ·
1906 – Fredric Brown, American author (d. 1972) ·
1907 – Edwige Feuillère,
French actress (d. 1998) ·
1910 – A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and author
(d. 1989) ·
1913 – Al Suomi, American ice hockey player and
referee (d. 2014) ·
1914 – Maxim of Bulgaria,
Bulgarian patriarch (d. 2012) ·
1915 – William Berenberg,
American physician and academic (d. 2005) ·
1918 – Bernard Gordon,
American screenwriter and producer (d. 2007) ·
1918
– Diana Serra Cary,
American actress and author (d. 2020) ·
1920 – Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-American
physician and immunologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2011) ·
1921 – Baselios Thoma
Didymos I, Indian metropolitan (d. 2014) ·
1921
– Baku Mahadeva,
Sri Lankan civil servant and academic (d. 2013) ·
1921
– Bill Mauldin,
American soldier and cartoonist (d. 2003) ·
1922 – Neal Hefti, American trumpet player and
composer (d. 2008) ·
1923 – Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist,
author, and playwright (d. 2015) ·
1923
– Gerda van der
Kade-Koudijs, Dutch runner, hurdler, and long jumper (d. 2015) ·
1925 – Dominick Dunne, American journalist and
author (d. 2009) ·
1925
– Robert Hardy,
English actor (d. 2017) ·
1925
– Haim Hefer, Polish-Israeli songwriter and
poet (d. 2012) ·
1925
– Zoot Sims, American saxophonist and composer
(d. 1985) ·
1925
– Klaus Roth, British mathematician (d. 2015) ·
1926 – Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor and actor (d.
2015) ·
1926
– Necmettin Erbakan,
Turkish engineer and politician, 23rd Prime
Minister of Turkey (d. 2011) ·
1927 – Frank Sedgman, Australian tennis player ·
1929 – Yevgeny Primakov, Ukrainian-Russian
journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister
of Russia (d. 2015) ·
1930 – Bertha Brouwer, Dutch sprinter (d. 2006) ·
1930
– Niki de Saint Phalle,
French sculptor and painter (d. 2002) ·
1930
– Omara Portuondo,
Cuban singer and dancer ·
1930
– Natalie Sleeth,
American pianist and composer (d. 1992) ·
1932 – Joyce
Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton, English pharmacist and
politician ·
1933 – William Harrison,
American author and screenwriter (d. 2013) ·
1935 – David Allen,
English cricketer (d. 2014) ·
1935
– Eddie Hopkinson,
English footballer (d. 2004) ·
1935
– Michael Jayston,
English actor[12] ·
1937 – Sonny Osborne, American bluegrass singer and
banjo player ·
1938 – Ralph Bakshi, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1938
– Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf, Liberian politician, 24th President of Liberia, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1938
– Peter Stampfel,
American fiddle player, violinist, and singer-songwriter ·
1940 – Connie Mack III, American lawyer and
politician ·
1940
– Jack Shepherd,
English actor, director, and playwright ·
1940
– Galen Weston,
English-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded George Weston
Limited ·
1941 – George Davies,
English fashion designer ·
1941
– Paul Tyler, Baron
Tyler, English politician ·
1942 – Lee Clayton, American rock/country musician
and songwriter ·
1942
– Bob Ross, American painter and television
host (d. 1995) ·
1943 – Don Simpson, American actor, producer, and
screenwriter (d. 1996) ·
1944 – Claude Brochu, Canadian businessman ·
1944
– Mehmet Haberal,
Turkish surgeon and academic ·
1944
– Denny Laine, English singer-songwriter and
musician ·
1944
– Robbie van Leeuwen,
Dutch musician and songwriter ·
1945 – Mick Gallagher, English keyboard player and
songwriter ·
1945
– Ron Maag, American businessman and
politician ·
1945
– Melba Moore, American singer-songwriter and
actress ·
1945
– Gerrit Ybema,
Dutch civil servant and politician (d. 2012) ·
1946 – Peter Green,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1947 – Helen Coonan, Australian lawyer and
politician, 52nd Australian
Minister for Communications ·
1947
– Richard Dreyfuss,
American actor and activist ·
1948 – Frans de Waal, Dutch-American ethologist,
author, and academic ·
1948
– Kate Jackson,
American actress, director, and producer ·
1949 – Kieron Baker, English footballer ·
1949
– Paul Orndorff,
American football player and wrestler ·
1949
– David Paton, Scottish guitarist ·
1949
– James
Williamson, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer ·
1949
– Raphael Carl Lee,
American surgeon and academic ·
1950 – Abdullah Gül, Turkish academic and
politician, 11th President of Turkey ·
1951 – Dirk Kempthorne, American businessman and
politician, 49th United
States Secretary of the Interior ·
1951
– Tiff Needell,
English race car driver and television host ·
1952 – Marcia Fudge, American lawyer and politician ·
1953 – Denis Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player and
sportscaster ·
1955 – Kevin DuBrow, American heavy metal
singer-songwriter (d. 2007) ·
1956 – Wilfredo Gómez,
Puerto Rican-American boxer ·
1957 – Dan Castellaneta, American actor, voice
artist, comedian, singer and producer ·
1958 – Blažej Baláž,
Slovak painter, sculptor, and illustrator ·
1958
– Stefan Dennis,
Australian actor ·
1958
– David Remnick,
American journalist and author ·
1959 – Mike Gartner, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1959
– John Magufuli,
Tanzanian politician, 5th President of
Tanzania[13] ·
1960 – Fabiola Gianotti, Italian physicist and
academic ·
1960
– Thorsten
Schlumberger, German footballer ·
1961 – Randy
Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer ·
1961
– Joel Otto, American ice hockey player and
coach ·
1962 – Einar Örn
Benediktsson, Icelandic singer, trumpet player, and politician ·
1963 – Gerald Morris, American author ·
1964 – Yasmin Le Bon, English model ·
1964
– Eddie McGuire,
Australian businessman and television host ·
1965 – Tyler Collins,
American singer-songwriter and actress ·
1965
– Andrew Ettingshausen,
Australian rugby league player and television host ·
1965
– Michael Passons,
American singer-songwriter ·
1966 – Mary Bucholtz, American linguist and
academic ·
1967 – Thorsten Fink, German footballer and manager ·
1967
– Joely Fisher,
American actress and director ·
1967
– Rufus Sewell,
English actor ·
1968 – Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater and
physician ·
1969 – David Farr,
English director and playwright ·
1969
– Chris Verene,
American photographer ·
1970 – Phillip Cocu, Dutch footballer and manager ·
1970
– Kaido Reivelt,
Estonian physicist and academic ·
1970
– Toby Smith, English keyboardist and
songwriter (d. 2017) ·
1970
– Edwin van der Sar,
Dutch footballer and sportscaster ·
1971 – Daniel J. Bernstein,
American mathematician, cryptologist, and academic ·
1971
– Greg Blewett,
Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster ·
1971
– Matthew Hayden,
Australian cricketer ·
1971
– Winona Ryder,
American actress and producer ·
1972 – Takafumi Horie, Japanese businessman,
founded Livedoor ·
1972
– Tracee Ellis Ross,
American actress and producer ·
1972
– Gabrielle Union,
American actress and producer ·
1973 – Adam Bacher, South African cricketer ·
1973
– Vonetta Flowers,
American bobsledder, sprinter, and long jumper ·
1973
– Éric Messier,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1973
– Robert Pires,
French footballer ·
1974 – Michael Vaughan, English cricketer and
sportscaster ·
1974
– Yenny Wahid, Indonesian activist and politician ·
1975 – Kelly Lin, Chinese model and actress ·
1975
– Baba Ali, Iranian-born American comedian,
games developer, businessman, and actor ·
1976 – Stephen Craigan, Irish footballer and
manager ·
1976
– Milena Govich,
American actress, singer, and dancer ·
1976
– Raghava Lawrence,
Indian actor, director, and choreographer ·
1977 – Jon Abrahams, American actor ·
1977
– Brendan Fehr,
Canadian actor ·
1977
– Vaggelis Kaounos,
Greek footballer ·
1978 – Travis Henry, American football player ·
1978
– Kelly Smith, English footballer ·
1979 – Andrew-Lee Potts, English actor, director,
and producer ·
1979
– Ignasi Giménez Renom,
Catalan lawyer and politician ·
1980 – Ben Foster, American actor ·
1980
– Nadejda Ostrovskaya,
Belarusian tennis player ·
1980
– Kaine Robertson,
New Zealand-Italian rugby player ·
1981 – Amanda Beard, American swimmer ·
1981
– Jonathan
Brown, Australian footballer ·
1981
– Angelika dela Cruz,
Filipino actress and singer ·
1981
– Georgios Fotakis,
Greek footballer ·
1982 – Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer ·
1982
– Chelan Simmons,
Canadian model and actress ·
1983 – Richard Brancatisano,
Australian actor ·
1983
– Maurice Clarett,
American football player ·
1983
– Freddy Eastwood,
Welsh footballer ·
1983
– Dana Eveland,
American baseball player ·
1983
– Jérémy Mathieu,
French footballer ·
1983
– Nurcan Taylan,
Turkish weightlifter ·
1984 – Chris Baio, American bass player ·
1984
– Les Davies, Welsh footballer ·
1984
– Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1984
– Lee Chung-ah,
South Korean actress ·
1985 – Cal Crutchlow, English motorcycle racer ·
1985
– Janet Montgomery,
English actress and dancer ·
1985
– Jefferson Severino,
Brazilian footballer ·
1985
– Vijender Singh,
Indian boxer ·
1986 – Sarita Pérez de
Tagle, Filipino actress ·
1986
– Nataly Dawn, American singer ·
1987 – Andy Dalton, American football player ·
1987
– Jessica Dubé,
Canadian figure skater ·
1987
– Tove Lo, Swedish singer ·
1987
– Makoto Ogawa,
Japanese singer and actress ·
1988 – Florin Gardoș, Romanian footballer ·
1988
– Sam Hutsby, English golfer ·
1988
– Janoris Jenkins,
American football player ·
1988
– Roman Van Uden,
New Zealand cyclist ·
1989 – Primož Roglič,
Slovenian ski jumper and cyclist ·
1990 – Amarna Miller, former Spanish porn actress ·
1990
– Eric Saade, Swedish singer ·
1991 – Grant Hall,
English footballer ·
1991
– Toby Tarrant,
English radio broadcaster ·
1992 – Jacqueline Jossa, English actress ·
1993 – Ágnes Bukta, Hungarian tennis player ·
1993
– India Eisley,
American actress ·
1998 – Lance Stroll, Canadian race car driver Deaths[edit] ·
632 – Saint Colman mac Duagh, Irish abbot and bishop ·
1050 – Eadsige, archbishop of Canterbury ·
1266 – Margaret
of Austria, Queen of Bohemia (b. c. 1204) ·
1268 – Conradin, king of Sicily (b.
1252) ·
1268
– Frederick
I, Margrave of Baden (b. 1249) ·
1321 – Stefan Milutin, King of Serbia (b. 1253) ·
1339 –
Grand Prince Aleksandr
Mikhailovich of Tver (b. 1301) ·
1590 – Dirck Coornhert, Dutch philosopher,
theologian, and politician (b. 1522) ·
1618 – Walter Raleigh, English admiral, explorer, and
politician, Lieutenant
Governor of Jersey (b. 1554) ·
1650 – David Calderwood, Scottish historian and
theologian (b. 1575) ·
1666 – Edmund Calamy the
Elder, English minister and activist (b. 1600) ·
1666
– James Shirley,
English dramatist (b. 1596) ·
1783 – Jean le Rond
d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b.
1717) ·
1804 – Sarah Crosby, the first female Methodist preacher (b. 1729) ·
1829 – Maria Anna Mozart,
Austrian pianist (b. 1751) ·
1871 – Andrea Debono, Maltese trader and explorer
(b. 1821)[14] ·
1877 – Nathan Bedford
Forrest, American general and KKK leader
(b. 1821) ·
1885 – George B. McClellan,
American general and politician, 24th Governor of New
Jersey (b. 1826) ·
1892 – William Harnett, American painter (b. 1848) ·
1897 – Henry George, American journalist,
philosopher, and economist (b. 1839) ·
1901 – Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (b. 1873) ·
1905 – Étienne Desmarteau,
Canadian weight thrower and shot putter (b. 1873) ·
1911 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American
publisher, lawyer, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (b. 1847) ·
1916 – John Sebastian
Little, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Arkansas (b.
1851) ·
1918 – Rudolf Tobias, Estonian-German organist and
composer (b. 1873) ·
1919 – Albert Benjamin
Simpson, Canadian preacher, theologian, and author, founded
the Christian
and Missionary Alliance (b. 1843) ·
1924 – Frances Hodgson
Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright (b. 1849) ·
1932 – Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and
academic (b. 1857) ·
1933 – Albert Calmette, French physician,
bacteriologist, and immunologist (b. 1863) ·
1933
– George Luks, American painter and
illustrator (b. 1867) ·
1933
– Paul Painlevé,
French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister
of France (b. 1853) ·
1936 – Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish journalist and
theorist (b. 1874) ·
1939 – Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and
academic (b. 1864) ·
1941 – Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player
(b. 1897) ·
1949 – George Gurdjieff, Armenian-French monk,
psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1872) ·
1950 – Gustaf V of Sweden (b.
1858) ·
1953 – William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922) ·
1956 – Louis Rosier, French race car driver (b.
1905) ·
1957 – Louis B. Mayer, Belarusian-American
production manager and producer (b. 1885) ·
1958 – Zoë Akins, American author, poet, and
playwright (b. 1886) ·
1961 – Astrid Holm, Danish actress (b. 1893) ·
1963 – Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890) ·
1969 – Pops Foster, American bassist and trumpet
player (b. 1892) ·
1971 – Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1946) ·
1971
– Arne Tiselius,
Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1902) ·
1977 – Chiyonoyama Masanobu,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (b. 1926) ·
1980 – Giorgio Borġ
Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of
Malta (b. 1911) ·
1981 – Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1921) ·
1986 – Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor, singer, and
academic (b. 1913) ·
1987 – Woody Herman, American singer, clarinet
player, saxophonist, and bandleader (b. 1913) ·
1988 – Kamaladevi
Chattopadhyay, Indian author and activist (b. 1903) ·
1993 – Lipman Bers, Latvian-American mathematician
and academic (b. 1914) ·
1994 – Shlomo Goren, Israeli rabbi, general, and
scholar (b. 1918) ·
1995 – Terry Southern, American novelist, essayist,
screenwriter, (b. 1924) ·
1996 – Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer and educator
(b. 1908) ·
1997 – Anton LaVey, American occultist, founded
the Church of Satan (b.
1930) ·
1997
– Andreas
Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and
astrophysicist (b. 1947) ·
1998 – Paul Misraki, Turkish-French pianist and
composer (b. 1908) ·
1999 – Greg,
Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1931) ·
2000 – Carlos Guastavino,
Argentinian pianist and composer (b. 1912) ·
2002 – Glenn McQueen, Canadian-American animator
(b. 1960) ·
2003 – Hal Clement, American pilot, author, and
educator (b. 1922) ·
2003
– Franco Corelli,
Italian tenor and actor (b. 1921) ·
2004 – Ordal Demokan, Turkish physicist and
academic (b. 1946) ·
2004
– Edward Oliver
LeBlanc, Dominican lawyer and politician, Premier
of Dominica (b. 1923) ·
2004
– Peter Twinn, English mathematician and entomologist
(b. 1916) ·
2005 – Lloyd Bochner, Canadian-American actor (b.
1924) ·
2005
– Ion Irimescu,
Romanian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1903) ·
2008 – Mike Baker,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1963) ·
2011 – Jimmy Savile, English radio and television
host (b. 1926) ·
2012 – Letitia Baldrige, American etiquette expert
and author (b. 1926) ·
2012
– J. Bernlef, Dutch author, poet, and
songwriter (b. 1937) ·
2012
– Kenneth G. Ryder,
American academic (b. 1924) ·
2012
– Wallace L. W.
Sargent, English-American astronomer and academic (b. 1935) ·
2012
– Jack Vaughn, American boxer and diplomat (b.
1920) ·
2013 – Jean Rénald Clérismé,
Haitian priest and politician, Foreign
Ministers of Haiti (b. 1937) ·
2013
– Sherman Halsey,
American director and producer (b. 1957) ·
2013
– John Spence,
American soldier and engineer (b. 1918) ·
2013
– Graham Stark,
English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922) ·
2014 – Roger Freeman,
American lawyer and politician (b. 1965) ·
2014
– Klas Ingesson,
Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1968) ·
2014
– H. Gary Morse,
American businessman (b. 1936) ·
2015 – Luther Burden, American basketball player
and coach (b. 1953) ·
2015
– Ernesto
Herrera, Filipino businessman and politician (b. 1942) ·
2015
– Boris
Kristančič, Slovene basketball player and coach (b.
1931) ·
2015
– Ranko Žeravica,
Serbian basketball player and coach (b. 1929) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o James Hannington (Anglicanism) o Narcissus of
Jerusalem (Roman Catholic
Church) o October
29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Republic Day
(Turkey) or Cumhuriyet Bayramı |
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