Notable people who died on May 29 include: Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona, Renauld I, Christopher I of Denmark (born 1219), James II of Majorca (born 1243), Pope John VIII of Alexandria.

Notable Deaths on May 29

Q: What is Romy Schneider known for?

Romy Schneider, German-French actress (born 1938)

1982 — Romy Schneider

German-French actress (born 1938)

May 29 has seen 112 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 931 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Notable Deaths 112 people 931 – 2025

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She is regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time and became a cult figure due to her role as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the Sissi trilogy in the mid-1950s

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Schneider moved to France, where she made successful and critically acclaimed films with some of the most notable film directors of that era

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She later reprised the role in a more mature version in Luchino Visconti's Ludwig (1973)

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She began her career in the German Heimatfilm genre in the early 1950s when she was 15

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Rosemarie Magdalena Albach, known professionally as Romy Schneider, was a German and French actress

Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona

Jimeno Garcés, sometimes Jimeno II, was the King of Pamplona from 925 until his death. He was the brother of King Sancho I Garcés and son of García Jiménez by his second wife, Dadildis of Pallars. When his brother…

931

Renauld I

Count of Nevers

Renauld I was a French nobleman. He was the Count of Nevers and Count of Auxerre from 1028 until his death at the battle of Seignelay against Robert I, Duke of Burgundy.

1040

Christopher I of Denmark (born 1219)

Christopher I was King of Denmark between 1252 and 1259. He was the son of Valdemar II of Denmark by his second wife, Berengaria of Portugal. He succeeded his brothers Eric IV Plovpenning and Abel of Denmark on the…

1259

James II of Majorca (born 1243)

James II was King of Majorca and Lord of Montpellier from 1276 until his death. He was the second son of James I of Aragon and his wife, Violant, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary. In 1279, by the Treaty of Perpignan, he…

1311

Pope John VIII of Alexandria

Coptic pope

John VIII ibn Qiddis was the 80th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church from 14 February 1300 until his death.

1320

Jens Grand

Danish archbishop (born c. 1260)

Jens Grand, the Firebug was a Danish archbishop of Lund (1289–1302), titular Archbishop of Riga and Terra Mariana (1304–1310), and Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, known as the central figure of the second ecclesiastical…

1327

Henry II of Castile (born 1334)

Henry II, called Henry of Trastámara or the Fratricidal, was the first King of Castile and León from the House of Trastámara. He became king in 1369 by defeating his half-brother King Peter the Cruel, after numerous…

1379

Philippe de Mézières

French soldier and author (born 1327)

Philippe de Mézières, a French soldier and author, was born at the chateau of Mézières in Picardy.

1405

Hongxi Emperor of China (born 1378)

The Hongxi Emperor, personal name Zhu Gaochi, was the fourth emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1424 to 1425. He was the eldest son of the Yongle Emperor and ascended the throne after the death of his father,…

1425

Ulubatlı Hasan

Ottoman commander (born 1428)

Ulubatlı Hasan, also known as Baba Hasan Ağa the Standard Bearer or Baba Hasan-ı ‘Alemî, was the sekbanbaşı who erected the first standard on the Byzantine walls during the Conquest of Constantinople.

1453

Constantine XI Palaiologos

Byzantine emperor (born 1404)

Constantine XI Dragases Palaiologos or Dragaš Palaeologus was the last reigning Byzantine emperor from 23 January 1449 until his death in battle at the fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453. Constantine's death marked…

1453

Bartolomeu Dias

Portuguese explorer and navigator (born 1451)

Bartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese mariner and explorer. In February 1488, he became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa and to demonstrate that the most effective southward route for ships is…

1500

Thomas Rotherham

English cleric and minister (born 1423)

Thomas Rotherham, also known as Thomas (Scot) de Rotherham, was an English cleric and statesman. He served as bishop of several dioceses, most notably as Archbishop of York and, on two occasions as Lord Chancellor. He…

1500

David Beaton

Scottish cardinal and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (born 1494)

David Beaton was Archbishop of St Andrews and the last Scottish cardinal prior to the Reformation.

1546

John Penry

Welsh martyr (born 1559)

John Penry was executed for high treason during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He is Wales' most famous Protestant Separatist martyr.

1593

Frans van Schooten

Dutch mathematician and academic (born 1615)

Frans van Schooten Jr., also rendered as Franciscus van Schooten, was a Dutch mathematician who is most known for popularizing the analytic geometry of René Descartes. He translated La Géométrie in Latin and wrote…

1660

Cornelis Tromp

Dutch admiral (born 1629)

Cornelis Maartenszoon Tromp, Count of Sølvesborg was a Dutch naval officer who served as lieutenant-admiral general in the Dutch Navy, and briefly as a general admiral in the Royal Danish-Norwegian Navy. Tromp is one of…

1691

Israel Putnam

American general (born 1718)

Israel Putnam, popularly known as "Old Put", was an American military officer and landowner who served in the French and Indian War and American Revolutionary War. He was an officer in Rogers' Rangers during the French…

1790

Carl Fredrik Pechlin

Swedish general and politician (born 1720)

Baron Carl Fredrik Pechlin was a Swedish politician and demagogue.

1796

Joséphine de Beauharnais

French empress, first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte (born 1763)

Joséphine Bonaparte was the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I and as such Empress of the French from 18 May 1804 until their marriage was annulled on 10 January 1810. As Napoleon's consort, she was also Queen of Italy…

1814

Humphry Davy

English-Swiss chemist and academic (born 1778)

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and an early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, by using electricity, several elements for the first time:…

1829

Emmanuel de Grouchy

Marquis de Grouchy, French general (born 1766)

Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy was a French military leader who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was the last Marshal of the Empire to be created by Napoleon, and is best…

1847

Franz Mirecki

Polish composer, music conductor, and music teacher (born 1791)

Franciszek (also spelled Franz) Wincenty Mirecki (1791–1862) was a Polish composer, music conductor, and music teacher.

1862

Winfield Scott

American general, lawyer, and politician (born 1786)

Winfield Scott was an American military commander and a presidential candidate. He served as Commanding General of the United States Army from 1841 to 1861, and was a veteran of the War of 1812, American Indian Wars,…

1866

Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (born 1870)

Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine was a son of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, and was the grandson of Queen Victoria. He was the maternal great-uncle of Prince Philip, Duke…

1873

Bahá'u'lláh

Persian religious leader, founded the Baháʼí Faith (born 1817)

Baháʼu'lláh was an Iranian religious leader who founded the Baháʼí Faith. He was born to an aristocratic family in Iran and was exiled due to his adherence to the messianic Bábism. In 1863, in Ottoman Iraq, he first…

1892

Gabriel Auguste Daubrée

French geologist and academic (born 1814)

Gabriel Auguste Daubrée MIF FRS FRSE was a French geologist, best known for applying experimental methods to structural geology. He served as the director of the École des Mines as well as the president of the French…

1896

Bruce Price

American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (born 1845)

Bruce Price was an American architect and an innovator in the Shingle Style. The stark geometry and compact massing of his cottages in Tuxedo Park, New York, influenced Modernist architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright…

1903

Mily Balakirev

Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1837)

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian composers, notably Pyotr Ilyich…

1910

W. S. Gilbert

English playwright and poet (born 1836)

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas. The most famous of these…

1911

Robert Bacon

American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (born 1860)

Robert Bacon was an American athlete, banker, businessman, statesman, diplomat and Republican Party politician who served as the 39th United States Secretary of State in the Theodore Roosevelt administration from…

1919

Abbott Handerson Thayer

American painter and educator (born 1849)

Abbott Handerson Thayer was an American painter, naturalist, and teacher. As a painter of portraits, figures, animals, and landscapes, he enjoyed a certain prominence during his lifetime, and his paintings are…

1921

Josef Suk

Czech violinist and composer (born 1874)

Josef Suk was a Czech composer, violinist, and Olympic silver medalist. He studied under Antonín Dvořák, whose daughter he married.

1935

Ursula Ledóchowska

Austrian-Polish nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (born 1865)

Julia Ledóchowska, USAHJ, in religion Maria Ursula of Jesus, was a Polish Catholic religious sister who founded the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus.

1939

Léo-Pol Morin

Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (born 1892)

Léo-Pol Morin was a Canadian pianist, music critic, composer, and music educator. He composed under the name James Callihou, with his most well known works being Suite canadienne (1945) and Three Eskimos for piano. He…

1941

John Barrymore

American actor (born 1882)

John Barrymore was an American actor on stage, screen, and radio. A member of the Drew and Barrymore theatrical families, he initially tried to avoid the stage and briefly attempted a career as a visual artist, but…

1942

Martin Gottfried Weiss

German SS officer, commandant of the Dachau concentration camp, executed war criminal (born 1905)

Martin Gottfried Weiss, alternatively spelled Weiß, but best known as The Demon of Dachau was the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 at the time of his arrest. He also served from April 1940 until…

1946

May Whitty

English actress (born 1865)

Dame Mary Louise Webster, known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress. She was one of the first two women entertainers to become a Dame. The…

1948

Fanny Brice

American singer and comedian (born 1891)

Fania Borach, known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie Brice, was an American comedian, illustrated song model, singer, and actress who made many stage, radio, and film appearances. She is known as the creator and…

1951

Dimitrios Levidis

Greek-French soldier and composer (born 1885)

Dimitrios Levidis was a Greek composer, later naturalized French (1929).

1951

James Whale

English director (born 1889)

James Whale was an English film director, theatre director and actor, who spent the greater part of his career in Hollywood. He is best remembered for several horror films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House…

1957

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)

Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistic…

1958

Arnold Susi

Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (born 1896)

Arnold Susi was a lawyer and the Minister of Education in the Estonian government of Otto Tief established on 18 September 1944 during WWII. In 1945, Susi befriended Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in a Soviet prison. In the…

1968

John Gunther

American journalist and author (born 1901)

John Gunther was an American journalist and writer.

1970

Eva Hesse

American artist (born 1936)

Eva Hesse was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 1960s.

1970

Moe Berg

American baseball player, coach, and spy (born 1902)

Morris Berg was an American professional baseball catcher and coach in Major League Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. He played 15 seasons in the major leagues,…

1972

Stephen Timoshenko

Ukrainian-American engineer and academic (born 1878)

Stepan Prokopovich Timoshenko, later known as Stephen Timoshenko, was a Ukrainian and later an American engineer and academician.

1972

George Harriman

English businessman (born 1908)

Sir George William Harriman CBE was a leading figure in the British motor industry in the 1960s.

1973

Ba Maw

Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (born 1893)

Ba Maw, known honorifically as Dr. Ba Maw, was a Burmese lawyer and politician, active during the interwar period and Second World War. He was the first Burma Premier (1937–1939) and head of State of Burma from 1943 to…

1977

Mary Pickford

Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founder of United Artists (born 1892)

Gladys Louise Smith, baptised as Gladys Marie Smith, known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian American film actress and producer. A pioneer in the American film industry with a Hollywood career spanning…

1979

Nina Negri

Argentine-French painter and engraver (born 1901)

Nina Negri was an Argentine-French surrealist painter and engraver who was a part of the art studio Atelier 17.

1981

Arvīds Pelše

Latvian-Russian historian and politician (born 1899)

Arvīds Pelše was a Latvian Soviet politician, functionary, and historian.

1983

Charan Singh

Indian politician, 5th Prime Minister of India (born 1902)

Chaudhary Charan Singh was an Indian politician, peasant leader, author and an independence activist who briefly served as the prime minister of India from July 1979 to January 1980. Singh was principally known for his…

1987

Salem bin Laden

Saudi Arabian businessman (born 1946)

Salem bin Laden was a Saudi Arabian investor and billionaire businessman.

1988

George C. Homans

American sociologist and academic (born 1910)

George Caspar Homans was an American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, the 54th president of the American Sociological Association, and one of the architects of social exchange theory. Homans is best known…

1989

Margaret Barr (choreographer)

Australian choreographer and teacher of dance-drama (born 1904)

Margaret Barr was an Australian choreographer and teacher of dance-drama who worked in the United States, England, New Zealand and Australia. During a career of more than sixty years, she created over eighty works.

1991

Rogério Lemgruber

Brazilian criminal, founder of Comando Vermelho (born 1952)

Rogério Lemgruber also known as Bagulhão, was a Brazilian bank robber, murderer, kidnapper, and drug trafficker. He founded the criminal organization Falange Vermelha, the predecessor of the group now known as Comando…

1992

Billy Conn

American boxer (born 1917)

William David Conn was an American professional boxer and Light Heavyweight Champion famed for his fights with Joe Louis. He had a professional boxing record of 63 wins, 11 losses and 1 draw, with 14 wins by knockout.…

1993

Erich Honecker

German lawyer and politician, leader of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) (born 1912)

Erich Ernst Paul Honecker was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. He held the posts of General Secretary of…

1994

Lady May Abel Smith

member of the British Royal Family (born 1906)

Lady May Helen Emma Abel Smith was a member of the British royal family. On her mother's side, she was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and on her father's side, a great-great-granddaughter of King George III…

1994

Tamara Toumanova

American ballerina and actress (born 1919)

Tamara Toumanova was a Russian-born Georgian-American prima ballerina and actress. A child of exiles in Paris after the Russian Revolution of 1917, she made her debut at the age of 10 at the children's ballet of the…

1996

Jeff Buckley

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1966)

Jeffrey Scott Buckley was an American musician. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, he attracted a following in the early 1990s performing at venues in the East Village, Manhattan. He signed with…

1997

Barry Goldwater

American general, activist, and politician (born 1909)

Barry Morris Goldwater was an American politician and major general in the Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the Republican Party's nominee for president…

1998

David Jefferies

English motorcycle racer (born 1972)

Allan David Jefferies was an English professional motorcycle racer. He died after crashing during practice for the 2003 Isle of Man TT races.

2003

Archibald Cox

American lawyer and politician, 31st United States Solicitor General (born 1912)

Archibald Cox Jr. was an American legal scholar who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy and as a special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal. During his career, he was a pioneering…

2004

Samuel Dash

American academic and politician (born 1925)

Samuel Joseph Dash was an American lawyer. He was chief counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee during the Watergate scandal. Dash became famous for his televised interrogations during the hearings held by the United…

2004

John D'Amico

Canadian ice hockey player and referee (born 1937)

John David D'Amico was a Canadian National Hockey League (NHL) linesman and later supervisor of officials.

2005

Hamilton Naki

South African surgeon (born 1926)

Hamilton Naki was a South African laboratory assistant known for his contributions to surgical research and medical training despite having no formal medical training. He worked with cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard…

2005

George Rochberg

American soldier and composer (born 1918)

George Rochberg was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Long a serial composer, Rochberg abandoned the technique after his teenage son died in 1964, saying it had proved inadequate to express his grief…

2005

Jacques Bouchard

Canadian businessman (born 1930)

Jacques Bouchard, was a Canadian advertising executive and author. He was one of the founders of Quebec's first French creative advertising agency, BCP, and a pioneer in French-language advertising.

2006

Katarína Kolníková

Slovak actress (born 1921)

Katarína Kolníková was a Slovak stage actress.

2006

Dave Balon

Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1938)

David Alexander Balon was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Balon played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League between 1959 and 1973 along with nine games in the World Hockey Association (WHA)…

2007

Lois Browne-Evans

Bermudian lawyer and politician (born 1927)

Dame Lois Marie Browne-Evans DBE JP was a lawyer and political figure in Bermuda. She led the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) in opposition before being appointed Bermuda's first female Attorney-General. She first gained…

2007

Paula Gunn Allen

American writer (born 1939)

Paula Gunn Allen was an American poet, literary critic, activist, professor, and novelist. Of mixed-race European-American, Arab-American, and Native American descent, she identified with her mother's people, the Laguna…

2008

Luc Bourdon

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1987)

Luc Bourdon was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was a defenceman for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 2006 until 2008. After overcoming childhood arthritis, he was selected…

2008

Harvey Korman

American actor and comedian (born 1927)

Harvey Herschel Korman was an American actor and comedian who performed in television and film productions. He is best remembered as a main cast member alongside Carol Burnett, Tim Conway and Vicki Lawrence on the CBS…

2008

Dennis Hopper

American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1936)

Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. He is considered one of the key figures of the New Hollywood era. He earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival and Venice…

2010

Sergei Bagapsh

Abkhazian politician, 2nd President of Abkhazia (born 1949)

Sergei Uasyl-ipa Bagapsh was an Abkhaz politician who served as the second president of Abkhazia from 12 February 2005 until his death on 29 May 2011. He previously served as Prime Minister of Abkhazia from 1997 to…

2011

Bill Clements

American soldier and politician, 42nd Governor of Texas (born 1917)

William Perry Clements Jr. was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who served two nonconsecutive terms as the governor of Texas between 1979 and 1991. His terms bookended the sole term served by Mark…

2011

Ferenc Mádl

Hungarian academic and politician, 14th President of Hungary (born 1931)

Ferenc Mádl was a Hungarian legal scholar, professor, and politician who served as President of Hungary from 2000 until 2005. Prior to that he had been minister without portfolio from 1990 to 1993 then Minister of…

2011

Mark Minkov

Russian composer (born 1944)

Mark Anatolievich Minkov was a Soviet and Russian music composer. His music is featured in a number of operas, ballets, stage performances, and films.

2012

Kaneto Shindo

Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1912)

Kaneto Shindō was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island,…

2012

Doc Watson

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1923)

Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel music. He won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. His…

2012

Richard Ballantine

American-English journalist and author (born 1940)

Richard Ballantine was a cycling writer, journalist and cycling advocate. Born in America, the son of Ian and Betty Ballantine of Ballantine Books, and educated at the Browning School in New York and Columbia…

2013

Françoise Blanchard

French actress (born 1954)

Françoise Denise Aline Blanchard was a French actress. Her most notable work is that of her role in the 1982 French film La morte vivante, directed by Jean Rollin. Blanchard had collaborated with Rollin on several…

2013

Andrew Greeley

American priest, sociologist, and author (born 1928)

Andrew Moran Greeley was an American Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and novelist. He was a professor of sociology at the University of Arizona and the University of Chicago, and a research associate with the…

2013

Mulgrew Miller

American pianist and composer (born 1955)

Mulgrew Miller was an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. As a child he played in churches and was influenced on piano by Ramsey Lewis and then Oscar Peterson. Aspects of their styles remained in his playing,…

2013

Henry Morgentaler

Polish-Canadian physician and activist (born 1923)

Henekh "Henry" Morgentaler was a Polish-born Canadian physician and abortion rights advocate who fought numerous legal battles aimed at expanding abortion rights in Canada. As a Jewish youth during World War II,…

2013

Franca Rame

Italian actress and playwright (born 1928)

Franca Rame was an Italian theatre actress, playwright and political activist. She was married to Nobel laureate playwright Dario Fo and is the mother of writer Jacopo Fo. Fo dedicated his Nobel Prize to her.

2013

Ludwig G. Strauss

German physician and academic (born 1949)

Ludwig Georg Strauss was a German nuclear medicine physician and professor of radiology at the University of Heidelberg.

2013

Wali-ur-Rehman

Pakistani commander (born 1970)

Wali-ur-Rehman was a senior Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander based in South Waziristan. Wali-ur-Rehman was formerly a spokesman for Baitullah Mehsud, the late leader of the TTP.

2013

Christine Charbonneau

Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1943)

Christine Charbonneau was a French Canadian singer and songwriter.

2014

Walter Jakob Gehring

Swiss biologist and academic (born 1939)

Walter Jakob Gehring was a Swiss developmental biologist who was a professor at the Biozentrum Basel of the University of Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his PhD at the University of Zurich in 1965 and after two years…

2014

Peter Glaser

Czech-American scientist and engineer (born 1923)

Peter Edward Glaser was a Czechoslovak-born American scientist and aerospace engineer. He served as Vice President, Advanced Technology (1985–94), was employed at Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA (1955–94);…

2014

Miljenko Prohaska

Croatian composer and conductor (born 1925)

Miljenko Prohaska was a Croatian composer, music arranger and orchestra conductor.

2014

William M. Roth

American businessman (born 1916)

William Matson Roth was an American shipping executive, special ambassador for trade, member of the ACLU executive committee, and Regent for the University of California. He is credited with the preservation of…

2014

Henry Carr

American football player and sprinter (born 1942)

Henry Carr was an American track and field athlete who won two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

2015

Doris Hart

American tennis player (born 1925)

Doris Hart was an American tennis player who was active in the 1940s and first half of the 1950s. She was ranked world No. 1 in 1951. She was the fourth player, and second woman, to win a Career Grand Slam in singles.…

2015

Betsy Palmer

American actress (born 1926)

Betsy Palmer was an American actress known for her many film and Broadway roles, television guest-starring appearances, as a panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret, and later for playing Pamela Voorhees, the…

2015

Manuel Noriega

Panamanian general and politician, Military Leader of Panama (born 1934)

Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno was a Panamanian military officer and politician who was the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. He never officially served as president of Panama, instead ruling as an unelected…

2017

Mordechai Tzipori

Israeli Lieutenant General and minister (born 1924)

Mordechai Tzipori was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Communications from 1981 until 1984.

2017

Konstantinos Mitsotakis

Greek politician and prime minister (born 1918)

Konstantinos Mitsotakis was a Greek liberal politician and statesman. He served as prime minister of Greece from 1990 to 1993.

2017

Maikanti Baru

Nigerian engineer, former chief of state oil firm. (born 1959)

Maikanti Kachalla Baru was a Nigerian engineer, crude oil marketer and the 18th Group Managing Director of the Nigeria's state oil firm, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). He served in the position from…

2020

Gavin MacLeod

American actor, Christian activist, and author (born 1931)

Gavin MacLeod was an American actor best known for his roles as news writer Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and ship's captain Merrill Stubing on ABC's The Love Boat. After growing up Catholic, MacLeod…

2021

Mark Eaton

American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1957)

Mark Edward Eaton was an American professional basketball player who spent his entire career (1982–1993) with the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Named an NBA All-Star in 1989, he was twice voted…

2021

B. J. Thomas

American singer (born 1942)

Billy Joe Thomas was an American singer widely known for his country, contemporary Christian, and pop hits of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

2021

Cornelius Sim

Bruneian cardinal (born 1951)

Cornelius Sim DD was a Bruneian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Vicar Apostolic of Brunei from 2004 until his death. He had previously served as the apostolic prefect of Brunei from 1997 to 2004.

2021

Ronnie Hawkins

American rockabilly singer-songwriter and guitarist. (born 1935)

Ronald Cornett Hawkins was an American rock and roll singer, long based in Canada, whose career spanned 66 years. His career began in Arkansas, United States, where he was born and raised. He found success in Ontario,…

2022

Sidhu Moosewala

Indian singer, rapper, actor and politician. (born 1993)

Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, known professionally as Sidhu Moose Wala, was an Indian singer and rapper. He worked predominantly in Punjabi-language music and cinema. Moose Wala is considered to be one of the most influential…

2022

Bob Rogers

Australian radio and television host (born 1926)

Robert Barton Rogers OAM was an Australian disc jockey and radio broadcaster. He was noted for introducing Top 40 radio programming to Australia in 1958, on 2UE.

2024

Bernie Kerik

American police officer, 40th Police Commissioner of New York City and interior minister of the Iraqi Coalition Provisional Authority (born 1955)

Bernard Bailey Kerik was an American consultant, police officer and convicted felon who was the 40th Commissioner of the New York Police Department from 2000 to 2001.

2025

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Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga Assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand — May 29, 1903

29 assassins overthrew King Alexander I in 1903 Belgrade, ending his rule in Serbia completely

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Romy Schneider — German and French actress (1938–1982)

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Death year1982

Known forShe is regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time and became a cult figure due to her role as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the Sissi trilogy in the mid-1950s

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