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Notable Deaths on July 29
105 people
238 – 2025
July 29 has seen 105 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 238 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1095 — Ladislaus I of Hungary (born 1040)
Ladislaus I of Hungary (born 1040)
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During Géza's reign, Ladislaus was his brother's most influential adviser.
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Ladislaus I, also known as Saint Ladislas, was King of Hungary from 1077 and King of Croatia from 1091
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After Béla's death in 1063, Ladislaus and his elder brother, Géza, acknowledged their cousin Solomon as the lawful king in exchange for receiving their father's former duchy, which included one-third of the kingdom
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The brothers' relationship with Solomon deteriorated in the early 1070s, and they rebelled against him
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238
prince of Northern Wei (born 428)
Tuoba Huang (拓跋晃), Xianbei name Tianzhen (天真), formally Crown Prince Jingmu (景穆太子), later further formally honored as Emperor Jingmu (景穆皇帝) with the temple name Gongzong (恭宗) by his son Emperor Wencheng, was a crown…
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451
Offa was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 757 until his death in 796. The son of Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa, Offa came to the throne after a period of civil war following the assassination…
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796
846
Saint Olaf, also called Olaf the Holy, Olaf II, Olaf Haraldsson, and Olaf the Stout or "Large", was King of Norway from 1015 to 1028. Son of Harald Grenske, a petty king in Vestfold, Norway, he was posthumously given…
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1030
Pope Urban II, otherwise known as Odo of Châtillon or Otho de Lagery, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 March 1088 to his death. He is best known for convening the Council of…
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1099
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. The monarchy began a modest recovery…
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1108
Queen of France (born 1175)
Ingeborg of Denmark was Queen of France by marriage to Philip II of France. She was a daughter of Valdemar I of Denmark and Sofia of Minsk.
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1236
2nd Earl of Ulster (born 1259)
Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster and 3rd Baron of Connaught, called The Red Earl, was one of the most powerful Anglo-Norman nobles in Ireland during the late 13th and early 14th centuries and father of Elizabeth,…
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1326
1st Earl of Derby (born 1435)
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, KG was an English nobleman. He was the stepfather of King Henry VII of England. He was the eldest son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley and Joan Goushill.
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1504
German-Bohemian geographer and astronomer (born 1459)
Martin Behaim, also known as Martin von Behaim and by various forms of Martin of Bohemia, was a German textile merchant and cartographer. He served John II of Portugal as an adviser in matters of navigation and…
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1507
English physician and academic (born 1510)
John Caius, also known as Johannes Caius and Ioannes Caius, was an English physician, and second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Scholar and physician to Edward VI and Mary I of England.
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1573
French scholar and diplomat (born 1554)
Jacques Bongars was a French scholar and diplomat.
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1612
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. As pope, he expanded the papal territory by force of arms and…
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1644
Irish admiral and politician (born 1703)
Sir Peter Warren, KB was a Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the British House of Commons representing the constituency of Westminster from 1747 to 1752. Warren is best known for his career in the British…
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1752
German astronomer and mathematician (born 1713)
Johann Kies was a German astronomer and mathematician. Born in Tübingen, Kies worked in Berlin in 1751 alongside Jérôme Lalande in order to make observations on the lunar parallax in concert with those of Nicolas Louis…
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1781
French lawyer and politician, Chancellor of France (born 1714)
René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, marquis de Morangles was a French lawyer, politician, and chancellor of France, whose attempts at reform signalled the failure of enlightened despotism in France. He is best…
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1792
French general (born 1771)
Jean-Andoche Junot, Duke of Abrantès was a French military officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He is best known for leading the French invasion of Portugal in 1807.
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1813
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. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, and…
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1833
French mathematician and engineer (born 1755)
Baron Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics. He was born at Chamelet, Beaujolais, France and died in Asnières-sur-Seine, France.
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1839
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…
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1844
German composer and critic (born 1810)
Robert Schumann was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber groups, orchestra,…
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1856
Scottish minister, astronomer, and author (born 1774)
Reverend Thomas Dick, was a British church minister, science teacher and writer, known for his works on astronomy and practical philosophy, combining science and Christianity, and arguing for a harmony between the two.
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1857
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…
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1887
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. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around…
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1890
Brazilian general and politician, 2nd President of Brazil (born 1839)
Floriano Vieira Peixoto was a Brazilian military officer and politician. A veteran of the Paraguayan War and several other conflicts in Brazil, he served as the president of Brazil from 1891 to 1894, and previously as…
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1895
Umberto I was King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his assassination in 1900. His reign saw the creation of the Italian Empire, as well as the creation of the Triple Alliance among Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary.
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1900
Swiss women's rights activist and unionist (born 1838)
Marie Adam-Doerrer was a Swiss women's rights activist and unionist.
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1908
Dutch lawyer and jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born 1838)
Tobias Michael Carel Asser was a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar.
In 1911, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the establishment of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the First Hague Peace Conference in 1899…
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1913
Australian-American painter (born 1863)
Ernest William Christmas was an Australian painter, known primarily for his landscapes. Much of his later, most familiar work was done outside of Australia: in Europe, South America and, finally, Hawaii.
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1918
Greek educator and politician, 110th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1852)
Sotirios G. Krokidas was an interim Prime Minister of Greece in 1922. He was a law professor in Athens.
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1924
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1883)
Joseph George Didier "Cannonball" Pitre was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Nicknamed "Cannonball," he was renowned for having one of the hardest shots during his playing career. One of the first players to…
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1934
Russian lawyer, jurist, and politician, Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR (born 1885)
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko was an Old Bolshevik and Soviet politician, military commander, and jurist. Krylenko served in a variety of posts in the Soviet legal system, rising to become People's Commissar for Justice…
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1938
1950
Turkish footballer and manager, founded Galatasaray S.K. (born 1886)
Ali Sami Yen, born Ali Sami Frashëri was a Turkish Albanian sports official best known as the founder of the Galatasaray Sports Club.
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1951
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. He finished second in 500…
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1954
Turkish politician, 7th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1885)
Hasan Hüsnü Saka was a Turkish politician, minister of foreign affairs, and prime minister of Turkey.
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1960
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. He has been described as "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations…
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1962
Italian-American flute player and educator (born 1875)
Leonardo De Lorenzo was an Italian virtuoso flautist and music educator.
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1962
American baseball player (born 1885)
Sylveanus Augustus "Vean" Gregg was an American professional baseball player. A pitcher, Gregg played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Naps, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Athletics, and Washington…
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1964
Nigerian general and politician, 2nd Head of State of Nigeria (born 1924)
Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi was a Nigerian military officer who served as the first military dictator and head of state of Nigeria. He seized power during the ensuing chaos after the 15 January 1966 military…
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1966
Nigerian colonel (born 1926)
Francis Adekunle Fajuyi was a Nigerian soldier of Yoruba origin and the first military governor of the former Western Region, Nigeria.
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1966
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…
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1970
Australian footballer and coach (born 1915)
Norman Walter Smith was an Australian rules football player and coach in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After more than 200 games as a player with Melbourne and Fitzroy, Smith began a twenty-year coaching career,…
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1973
English race car driver (born 1948)
Roger Williamson was a British racing driver and a two time British Formula 3 champion, who died during his second Formula One race, the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort Circuit in the Netherlands.
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1973
American singer (born 1941)
Ellen Naomi Cohen, known professionally by the stage name Cass Elliot, was an American singer-songwriter, actress, comedian, and television personality. A member of the singing group The Mamas & the Papas (1965–68), she…
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1974
German author and poet (born 1899)
Emil Erich Kästner was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and Lisa and Lottie. He…
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1974
American gangster (born 1913)
Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen was an American mobster based in Los Angeles and boss of the Cohen crime family during the mid-20th century.
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1976
Polish actor, operetta singer, and songwriter (born 1904)
Andrzej Bogucki was a Polish television, stage and film actor, as well as operetta singer and songwriter, sometimes referred to as "The Polish Chevalier".
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1978
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. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm University…
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1979
American screenwriter and producer (born 1916)
William Selden Todman was an American television producer and personality born in New York City. He produced many of television's longest-running shows with business partner Mark Goodson, with whom he created…
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1979
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. Moses is regarded as one of the most powerful and influential people in…
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1981
British bandleader (born 1896)
Sydney Bernard Kyte was a British dance band leader and violinist who became known in the 1930s, when he led the resident band at The Piccadilly Hotel in London's West End. Kyte made numerous recordings, and remained…
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1981
American wrestler and actor (born 1920)
Toshiyuki Sakata , known as Harold Sakata, was an American Olympic weightlifter, professional wrestler, and film actor. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London in weightlifting, and later became a…
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1982
Russian-American engineer, invented the Iconoscope (born 1889)
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode-ray tubes. He played a role in…
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1982
Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1900)
Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish and Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and most…
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1983
Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (born 1896)
Raymond Hart Massey was a Canadian actor known for his commanding stage-trained voice. For his lead role in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), Massey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised his role…
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1983
English military officer and actor (born 1910)
James David Graham Niven was an English actor, soldier, raconteur, memoirist and novelist. Niven was known as a handsome and debonair leading man in Classic Hollywood films. His accolades include an Academy Award and…
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1983
American television host and bandleader (born 1900)
Fredrick Malcolm Waring Sr. was an American musician, bandleader, choral director, and radio and television personality, sometimes referred to as "America's Singing Master" and "The Man Who Taught America How to Sing".…
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1984
Indian author, poet, and playwright (born 1894)
Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay was an Indian Bengali language author.
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1987
Austrian academic and politician, 22nd Chancellor of Austria (born 1911)
Bruno Kreisky was an Austrian social democratic politician who served as foreign minister from 1959 to 1966 and as chancellor from 1970 to 1983. Aged 72, he was the oldest chancellor after World War II.
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1990
French general (born 1902)
Christian Marie Ferdinand de la Croix de Castries was a French general and the commander of forces at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
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1991
Canadian ice hockey player and manager (born 1952)
Michel Raymond "Bunny" Larocque was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Philadelphia Flyers and St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League. He was…
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1992
American physician (born 1925)
John Bayard Britton was an American physician. He was assassinated in Pensacola, Florida, by anti-abortion extremist Paul Jennings Hill. Britton's death was the second assassination of a Pensacola abortion provider in…
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1994
Egyptian-English biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was an English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology. She received the 1964…
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1994
American trumpet player and bandleader (born 1917)
Lester Elliott Elgart was an American swing jazz bandleader and trumpeter.
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1995
Canadian businessman and politician (born 1919)
Rurik (Ric) Nordman was a businessman and politician in Manitoba, Canada.
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1996
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. In addition to his formal results in mathematics,…
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1996
American singer and bass player (born 1967)
Jason Matthew Thirsk was an American musician who was the bass player of the California punk rock band Pennywise from 1988 through his death in 1996. He grew up in Hermosa Beach, California.
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1996
American director, producer, and choreographer (born 1918)
Jerome Robbins was an American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television.
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1998
Polish soldier and politician (born 1913)
Edward Gierek was a Polish communist politician who served as the de facto leader of the Polish People's Republic between 1970 and 1980. Gierek replaced Władysław Gomułka as the First Secretary of the ruling Polish…
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2001
German computer scientist, co-founded Chaos Computer Club (born 1951)
Herwart Holland-Moritz, known as Wau Holland, was a German computer security activist and journalist who in 1981 cofounded the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), one of the world's oldest hacking clubs.
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2001
Sierra Leonean soldier, founded the Revolutionary United Front (born 1937)
Foday Saybana Sankoh was a Sierra Leonean rebel leader who was the founder and commander of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group, which was supported by the Charles Taylor-led NPFL in the 11-year-long Sierra…
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2003
Greek actress and singer (born 1923)
Irene "Rena" Vlahopoulou was a Greek Actor and singer. She starred in theatre, musical and Greek cinema productions, including The Gambler and The Countess of Corfu.
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2004
2007
French actor (born 1928)
Michel Serrault was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films.
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2007
American journalist and talk show host (born 1936)
Thomas James Snyder was an American television personality, news anchor, and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows Tomorrow, on NBC in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on CBS in the…
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2007
American journalist (born 1921)
Marvin Harold Zindler was a news reporter for television station KTRK-TV in Houston, Texas, United States. His investigative journalism, through which he mostly represented the city's elderly and working class, made him…
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2007
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…
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2008
American chemist and academic (born 1925)
Charles Edward Wicks was an American chemical engineer. He was a professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at Oregon State University. His focus was mass transfer, which was the subject of the textbook he…
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2010
Russian footballer and manager (born 1970)
Tatiana Egorova was a Russian footballer and manager. She played for CSK VVS Samara and Rossiyanka in the Russian Championship, and Turbine Potsdam in the German Bundesliga, and she was a member of the Russian national…
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2012
Polish actor and director (born 1921)
August Marian Kowalczyk was a Polish actor, theatre, television and film director who was the last survivor of a breakout of prisoners from Auschwitz Concentration Camp on 10 June 1942.
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2012
French photographer and journalist (born 1921)
Chris Marker was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983). Marker is…
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2012
English archaeologist and author (born 1925)
James Mellaart FBA was a British and Dutch archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. He was expelled from Turkey when he was suspected of involvement…
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2012
Danish footballer and coach (born 1957)
John Stampe Møller was a Danish football player and coach.
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2012
Ecuadorian footballer (born 1986)
Christian Rogelio Benítez Betancourt was an Ecuadorian professional footballer who played as a striker.
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2013
American banker and civil servant (born 1923)
Peter Magnus Flanigan was an American investment banker who later became an influential aide and fundraiser for President Richard M. Nixon.
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2013
2013
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. He was the first to introduce Urdu commentary to cricket,…
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2013
American soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1925)
Manley Caldwell Butler was an American lawyer and politician widely admired for his integrity, bipartisanship and courage. A native of Roanoke, Butler served his hometown and wider community first as a member of the…
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2014
English-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1943)
Jonathan Robert Cavaiani was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Vietnam War.
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2014
Italian pianist and composer (born 1929)
Giorgio Gaslini was an Italian jazz pianist, composer and conductor.
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2014
Spanish journalist and author (born 1945)
María Antonia Iglesias González was a Spanish writer and journalist.
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2014
Hungarian engineer and politician (born 1959)
Péter Kiss was a Hungarian Socialist politician. In Bajnai's government, he was a minister without portfolio. He was one of the candidates to succeed Péter Medgyessy as prime minister in 2004 but lost to Ferenc…
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2014
American drummer and composer (born 1939)
Idris Muhammad was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He had an extensive career performing jazz, funk, R&B, and soul music and recorded with musicians such as Ahmad Jamal, Lou Donaldson, Pharoah Sanders, Bob…
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2014
American soldier and author (born 1919)
Thomas R. St. George was an American author, World War II veteran, reporter, editor, columnist and screenwriter. He was born in Simpson, Minnesota.
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2014
English-Canadian actor, director, and playwright (born 1920)
Antony Holland was an English actor, playwright and theatre director who until his death in 2015 lived on Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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2015
Anglo-Irish sportscaster (born 1918)
Sir Peter O'Sullevan was an Irish-British horse racing commentator for the BBC, and a correspondent for the Press Association, the Daily Express, and Today. He was the BBC's leading horse racing commentator from 1947 to…
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2015
2015
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. Westervelt received degrees in Mathematics, Mechanical and Electrical…
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2015
Croatian recording artist (born 1947)
Oliver Dragojević was a Croatian singer and composer, who was considered one of the most enduring musical stars and cultural icons in Croatia with a discography that spanned nearly five decades. His style blended…
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2018
Yugoslav-born American professional wrestler (born 1947)
Josip Hrvoje Peruzović, better known by his ring name Nikolai Volkoff, was a Croatian-American professional wrestler, best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).
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2018
Israeli film, television and theater actor (born 1965)
Alon Moni Abutbul was an Israeli actor. He won the IFFI Best Actor Award (Male) at the 44th International Film Festival of India.
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2025
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Who died on July 29?
Ladislaus I of Hungary (born 1040) — King of Hungary from 1077 to 1095
Death year1095
Known forHe was the second son of King Béla I of Hungary and Richeza of Poland
Deaths on this date105 (238 – 2025)
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