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A member of the singing group The Mamas & the Papas (1965–1968), she was also known as "Mama Cass", a name she stated she disliked.
Notable Deaths on July 29
1974 — Cass Elliot
American singer (born 1941)
July 29 has 105 recorded notable deaths across history, from 238 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
105 source records
238 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on July 29
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- 1973 Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi. Source
- 2015 The first piece of suspected debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is discovered on Réunion Island. Source
- 1965 Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. Source
- 1948 Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London. Source
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In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life.
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Ronald Fisher has been described as "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science" and "the single most important figure in 20th century statistics".
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In the 780s he extended Mercian Supremacy over most of southern England, allying with Beorhtric of Wessex, who married Offa's daughter Eadburh, and regained complete control of the southeast.
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Herbert Marcuse was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research, which later became known as the Frankfurt School.
More major people who died on July 29
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1890
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1853)
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.
1962
Ronald Fisher
English biologist and statistician (born 1890)
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic.
796
Offa of Mercia (born 730)
Offa was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 757 until his death in 796.
1979
Herbert Marcuse
German sociologist and philosopher (born 1898)
Herbert Marcuse was a German and American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
1030
Olaf II of Norway (born 995)
Olaf Haraldsson, also called Saint Olaf, Olaf the Holy, Olaf II, and Olaf the Stout or "Large", was King of Norway from 1015 to 1028.
1983
Raymond Massey
Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (born 1896)
Raymond Hart Massey was a Canadian and American actor. Known for his commanding stage-trained voice, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the title role in Abe Lincoln in Illinois…
1095
Ladislaus I of Hungary (born 1040)
Ladislaus I, also known as Saint Ladislas, was King of Hungary from 1077 and King of Croatia from 1091. He was the second son of King Béla I of Hungary and Richeza of Poland.
1970
John Barbirolli
English cellist and conductor (born 1899)
Sir John Barbirolli was a British conductor and cellist. He is remembered above all as conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, which he helped save from dissolution in 1943 and conducted for the rest of his…
2013
Munir Hussain
Indian cricketer and sportscaster (born 1929)
Munir Hussain was a cricket commentator, administrator, and journalist from Pakistan who also played a first-class cricket match for Kalat in the 1969–70 season.
1954
Coen de Koning
Dutch speed skater (born 1879)
Coen de Koning was a speed skater and cyclist. He started his sports career as a cyclist, but switched to speed skating and became the second Dutch speed skater to win a world title, in 1905.
1887
Agostino Depretis
Italian politician, 9th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1813)
Agostino Depretis was an Italian statesman and politician. He served as Prime Minister of Italy for several stretches between 1876 and 1887, and was leader of the Historical Left parliamentary group for more than a…
1981
Robert Moses
American urban planner, designed the Northern State Parkway and Southern State Parkway (born 1888)
Robert Moses was an American urban planner and public official who worked in the New York metropolitan area during the early to mid-20th century.
2008
Bruce Edward Ivins
American scientist and bio-defense researcher (born 1946)
Bruce Edwards Ivins was an American microbiologist, vaccinologist, senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, and the…
1996
Marcel-Paul Schützenberger
French mathematician and theorist (born 1920)
Marcel-Paul "Marco" Schützenberger was a French mathematician and Doctor of Medicine. He worked in the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.
2015
Franklin H. Westervelt
American computer scientist, engineer, and academic (born 1930)
Franklin Herbert Westervelt was an American engineer, computer scientist, and educator at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University.
1844
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart
Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1791)
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, also known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jr., was the youngest child of six born to composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constanze and the younger of his parents' two surviving…
1644
Pope Urban VIII (born 1568)
Pope Urban VIII, born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death, in July 1644.
1833
William Wilberforce
English philanthropist and politician (born 1759)
William Wilberforce was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the Atlantic slave trade.
1108
Philip I of France (born 1052)
Philip I, called the Amorous, was King of the Franks from 1060 to 1108. His reign of nearly 48 years, like that of most of the early Capetians, was extraordinarily long for the time.