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In 1977, Gossett appeared in the popular miniseries Roots, for which he won Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series at the Emmy Awards.
Notable Deaths on March 29
2024 — Louis Gossett Jr.
American actor (born 1936)
March 29 has 100 recorded notable deaths across history, from 500 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
100 source records
500 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on March 29
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- 1549 The city of Salvador, Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded. Source
- 2017 Prime Minister Theresa May invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union. Source
- 1936 The 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for the recent remilitarization of the Rhineland. Source
- 1962 Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11+1⁄2 day constitutional crisis. Source
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After working as a demonstration singer in the mid 1980s, he signed with Epic Records' Nashville division in 1990.
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Otto Hermann Kahn was a German-born American investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts.
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Eric Eustace Williams was a Trinidad and Tobago politician.
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Nathan Farragut Twining was the first member of the Air Force to serve as Chairman.
More major people who died on March 29
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2020
Joe Diffie
American country music singer (born 1958)
Joe Logan Diffie was an American country music singer and songwriter. After working as a demonstration singer in the mid 1980s, he signed with Epic Records' Nashville division in 1990.
1934
Otto Hermann Kahn
German-American banker and philanthropist (born 1867)
Otto Hermann Kahn was a German-born American investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts.
1981
Eric Williams
Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (born 1911)
Eric Eustace Williams was a Trinidad and Tobago politician. He has been dubbed the "Father of the Nation", having led the then-British Colony of Trinidad and Tobago to majority rule on 28 October 1956, to independence…
1982
Nathan Farragut Twining
American general (born 1897)
Nathan Farragut Twining was a United States Air Force general. He was the chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1953 until 1957, and the third chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1957 to 1960.
2001
Helge Ingstad
Norwegian lawyer, academic, and explorer (born 1899)
Helge Marcus Ingstad was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the…
1903
Gustavus Franklin Swift
American business executive (born 1839)
Gustavus Franklin Swift Sr. was an American business executive. He founded a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19th century, over which he presided until his death.
2013
Reginald Gray
Irish-French painter (born 1930)
Reginald Gray was an Irish portrait artist. He studied at The National College of Art (1953) and then moved to London, becoming part of the School of London led by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach.
1906
Slava Raškaj
Croatian painter (born 1878)
Slava Raškaj was a Croatian painter, considered to be the greatest Croatian watercolorist of the late 19th and early 20th century.
1985
Janet Watson
British geologist (born 1923)
Janet Vida Watson FRS FGS (1923–1985) was a British geologist.
2021
Sarah Onyango Obama
Kenyan educator and philanthropist (born 1921)
Sarah Onyango Obama was a Kenyan educator and philanthropist. She was the third wife of Hussein Onyango Obama, the paternal grandfather of U.S. president Barack Obama and helped raise his father, Barack Obama Sr.
1461
Lionel Welles
6th Baron Welles (c. 1406)
Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles, KG was an English peer who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Joint Deputy of Calais.
500
Gwynllyw
Welsh king and religious figure
Year 500 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Patricius and Hypatius.
2004
Lise de Baissac
Mauritian-born SOE agent (born 1905)
Lise Marie Jeanette de Baissac MBE CdeG, code names Odile and Marguerite, was a Mauritian agent in the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in France during World War II.
2023
John Kerin
Australian politician (born 1937)
John Charles Kerin was an Australian economist and Labor Party politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1972 to 1975 and again from 1978 to 1993.
1848
John Jacob Astor
German-American businessman (born 1763)
John Jacob Astor was a German-born American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul, and investor.
2020
Alan Merrill
American musician (born 1951)
Alan Merrill was an American vocalist, guitarist and songwriter. In the early 1970s, he was one of the few resident foreigners in Japan to achieve pop star status there.
1628
Tobias Matthew
English archbishop and academic (born 1546)
Tobias Matthew, was an Anglican bishop who was President of St John's College, Oxford, from 1572 to 1576, before being appointed Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1579 to 1583, and Matthew would then become Dean…
1788
Charles Wesley
English missionary and poet (born 1707)
Charles Wesley was an English Anglican cleric and a principal leader of the Methodist movement. Wesley was a prolific hymnwriter who wrote over 6,500 hymns during his lifetime.
1830
James Rennell
English geographer, historian and oceanography pioneer (born 1742)
Major James Rennell was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography.