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Notable Deaths on October 29
95 people
1050 – 2024
October 29 has seen 95 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 1050 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2000 — Carlos Guastavino
Argentinian pianist and composer (born 1912)
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Some of his songs, for example Pueblito, mi pueblo, La rosa y el sauce and Se equivocó la paloma, became national favorites
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Unlike most other composers, at any time or place, Guastavino earned enough from his royalties and performing rights that he had little need for other income.
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Carlos Guastavino was an Argentine composer, considered one of the foremost composers of his country
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His compositions were clearly influenced by Argentine folk music
1050
Queen of Bohemia (born 1204)
Margaret of Austria, a member of the House of Babenberg, was German queen from 1225 until 1235, by her first marriage with King Henry (VII), and Queen of Bohemia from 1253 to 1260, by her second marriage with King…
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1266
1268
Margrave of Baden (born 1249)
Frederick I of Baden, a member of the House of Zähringen, was Margrave of Baden and of Verona, as well as claimant Duke of Austria from 1250 until his death. As a fellow campaigner of the Hohenstaufen king Conradin, he…
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1268
King of Serbia (born 1253)
Stefan Uroš II Milutin, known posthumously as "the Holy King", was the King of Serbia between 1282–1321, a member of the Nemanjić dynasty. He was one of the most powerful rulers of Serbia in the Middle Ages and one of…
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1321
Grand Prince of Vladimir (born 1301)
Aleksandr Mikhailovich was Prince of Tver and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1326 to 1327 and Grand Prince of Tver from 1338 until his death in 1339.
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1339
Dutch philosopher, theologian, and politician (born 1522)
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, also known as Theodore Cornhert, was a Dutch writer, philosopher, translator, politician, theologian, and artist. Coornhert is often considered the Father of Dutch Renaissance scholarship.
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1590
English admiral, explorer, and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (born 1554)
Sir Walter Raleigh was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. One of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era, he played a leading part in English colonisation of North America, suppressed rebellion…
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1618
Scottish historian and theologian (born 1575)
David Calderwood was a Scottish minister of religion and historian. Calderwood was banished for his nonconformity. He found a home in the Low Countries, where he wrote his great work, the Altare Damascenum which was an…
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1650
English minister and activist (born 1600)
Edmund Calamy was an English Presbyterian church leader and divine. Known as "the elder", he was the first of four generations of nonconformist ministers bearing the same name.
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1666
English dramatist (born 1596)
James Shirley was an English poet and playwright. In Charles Lamb's view, Shirley "claims a place among the worthies of this period, not so much for any transcendent genius in himself, as that he was the last of a great…
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1666
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (born 1717)
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie. D'Alembert's formula for…
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1783
English Methodist preacher (born 1729)
Sarah Crosby was an English Methodist preacher, and is considered to be the first woman to hold this title. Crosby, along with Mary Bosanquet, is one of the most popular women preachers of Methodism. Scholars such as…
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1804
Austrian pianist (born 1751)
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia "Marianne" Mozart, nicknamed Nannerl, was a distinguished musician from Salzburg. In her childhood, she developed into an outstanding keyboard player under the tutelage of her father Leopold.…
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1829
Maltese trader and explorer (born 1821)
Andrea Debono, also known as Latif Effendi, was a Maltese trader and explorer who was one of the first Europeans to explore the area around the White Nile in the mid-19th century.
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1871
American general and KKK leader (born 1821)
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, noted for his aggressive cavalry tactics and rapid rise from private to general, and later served briefly as the first Grand Wizard of the…
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1877
American painter (born 1848)
William Michael Harnett was an American painter known for his trompe-l'œil still lifes of ordinary objects.
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1892
American journalist, philosopher, and economist (born 1839)
Henry George was an American political economist, social philosopher and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. He inspired the…
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1897
British Muslim convert and activist (born 1865)
Fatima Elizabeth Cates was a British Muslim convert and activist, who co-founded the Liverpool Muslim Institute. She was one of the first women in Britain to convert to Islam.
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1900
American assassin of William McKinley (born 1873)
Leon Frank Czolgosz was an American wireworker and anarchist who assassinated United States president William McKinley in 1901. Czolgosz had lost his job during the economic Panic of 1893 and turned to anarchism—a…
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1901
Canadian weight thrower and shot putter (born 1873)
Joseph-Étienne Desmarteau was a Canadian athlete, winner of the weight throwing event at the 1904 Summer Olympics.
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1905
Hungarian-American publisher, lawyer, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (born 1847)
Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American politician and a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the U.S. Democratic Party and served one term…
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1911
American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Arkansas (born 1851)
John Sebastian Little was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and briefly as the 21st governor of Arkansas, before having a nervous breakdown and resigning.
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1916
Estonian-German organist and composer (born 1873)
Rudolf Tobias was the first Estonian professional composer, as well as a professional organist. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. His compositions include among others piano works, string quartets and an…
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1918
Canadian preacher, theologian, and author, founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance (born 1843)
Albert Benjamin Simpson, also known as A. B. Simpson, was a Canadian preacher, theologian, author, and founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), an evangelical denomination with an emphasis on global…
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1919
English-American novelist and playwright (born 1849)
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
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1924
French neurologist and academic (born 1857)
Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski was a French-Polish professor of neurology. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological plantar reflex indicative of corticospinal tract damage.
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1932
French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (born 1863)
Léon Charles Albert Calmette ForMemRS was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He co-discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated form of…
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1933
American painter and illustrator (born 1867)
George Benjamin Luks was an American artist, identified with the aggressively realistic Ashcan School of American painting.
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1933
French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France (born 1853)
Paul Painlevé was a French mathematician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of the French Third Republic in 1917 and 1925. After working as a professor at the Sorbonne University, he entered politics in 1906.
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1933
Spanish journalist and theorist (born 1874)
Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney, 1st Count of Maeztu was a Spanish essayist, journalist and publicist.
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1936
American historian and academic (born 1864)
Dr. Dwight Bryant Waldo was the first President of Western Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Waldo was born in Arcade, N.Y. but spent his childhood in Plainwell, Michigan. Waldo was elected principal of…
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1939
American baseball player (born 1897)
Harvey "Gink" Hendrick was an American Major League Baseball player who played for several different teams during an eleven-year career.
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1941
American politician and lawyer (born 1882)
Edward S. Anthoine was an American politician and lawyer from Maine. Anthoine, a Republican from Portland, served one term (1925–26) in the Maine Senate representing Cumberland County. In December 1927, Governor Owen…
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1942
Armenian-French monk, psychologist, and philosopher (born 1872)
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was a philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, composer, and movements teacher.
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1949
1949
Gustaf V was King of Sweden from 8 December 1907 until his death in 1950. He was the eldest son of King Oscar II of Sweden and Sophia of Nassau, a half-sister of Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. Reigning from the…
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1950
1951
American pianist (born 1922)
Oscar William Kapell was an American classical pianist. The Washington Post described him as "America's first great pianist", while The New York Times described him as "one of the last century's great geniuses of the…
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1953
French race car driver (born 1905)
Louis Claude Rosier was a French racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956. In endurance racing, Rosier won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1950 in a privateer Talbot-Lago T26C-GS.
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1956
Belarusian-American production manager and producer (born 1885)
Louis Burt Mayer was a Canadian-American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, accumulating…
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1957
1958
Danish actress (born 1893)
Astrid Holm was a Danish theater and film actress whose career began on the stage and in the early silent film era.
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1961
American actor (born 1890)
Adolphe Jean Menjou [/'ædɒlf 'mɒnʒuː/] was an American actor whose career spanned both silent films and talkies. He became a leading man during the 1920s, known for his debonair and sophisticated screen presence. He was…
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1963
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946)
Howard Duane Allman was an American rock and blues guitarist and the founder and original leader of the Allman Brothers Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
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1971
Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius was a Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948 "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex…
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1971
1975
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (born 1926)
Chiyonoyama Masanobu was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Fukushima, Hokkaidō. He was the sport's 41st yokozuna, between 1951 until 1959. He is regarded as the first "modern" yokozuna in that he was promoted…
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1977
Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1911)
Giorgio Borg Olivier was a Maltese politician. He twice served as Prime Minister of Malta and as the Leader of the Nationalist Party. He was also Leader of the Opposition between 1955–1958, and again between 1971–1977.
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1980
French singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1921)
Georges Charles Brassens was a French singer-songwriter and poet.
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1981
Soviet physicist (born 1915)
Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz was a leading Soviet physicist and brother of the physicist Ilya Lifshitz.
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1985
Greek actor, singer, and academic (born 1913)
Dimitris "Mimis" Fotopoulos was a Greek actor, writer, poet, and artist.
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1986
American singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader (born 1913)
Woodrow Charles Herman was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading groups called "The Herd", Herman came to prominence in the late 1930s and was active until his death in 1987.…
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1987
Indian author and activist (born 1903)
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was an Indian social reformer. She worked for the promotion of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre in independent India to uplift the socio-economic standard of Indian women. She was the…
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1988
Latvian-American mathematician and academic (born 1914)
Lipman Bers was a Latvian-American mathematician, born in Riga, who created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. He was also known for his work in human rights…
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1993
Israeli rabbi, general, and scholar (born 1918)
Shlomo Goren was a Polish-born Israeli rabbi and Talmudic scholar. An Orthodox Jew and Religious Zionist, he was considered a foremost rabbinical legal authority on matters of Jewish religious law (halakha). In 1948,…
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1994
American novelist, essayist, screenwriter (born 1924)
Terry Southern was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat…
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1995
Estonian composer and educator (born 1908)
Eugen Kapp was an Estonian composer and music educator. Characterized by simple harmonies, march rhythms and an appealing melodic style, his music is reflective upon the musical ideas favoured by the Stalinist regime of…
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1996
American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (born 1930)
Anton Szandor LaVey was an American writer, musician, and Satanist. He was the founder of the Church of Satan, and the philosophy of LaVeyan Satanism. He authored several books, including The Satanic Bible, The Satanic…
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1997
Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1947)
Dr. Andreas 'Andy' Gerasimos Michalitsianos was a Greek-American astronomer and a NASA astrophysicist, also known and published as Andrew G. Michalitsianos.
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1997
Turkish-French pianist and composer (born 1908)
Paul Misraki was a French composer of popular music and film scores. Over the course of over 60 years, Misraki wrote the music to 130 films, scoring works by directors like Jean Renoir, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Becker,…
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1998
1999
Canadian-American animator (born 1960)
Glenn John McQueen was a Canadian supervisor of digital animation and supervising character animator at Pixar and Pacific Data Images.
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2002
American pilot, author, and educator (born 1922)
Harry Clement Stubbs, better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. He also painted astronomically oriented artworks under the name…
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2003
Italian tenor and actor (born 1921)
Franco Corelli was an Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976. Associated in particular with the spinto and dramatic tenor roles of the Italian and French repertories, he was…
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2003
Duchess of Gloucester (born 1901)
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, was a member of the British royal family. She was the wife of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of King George V and Queen Mary. She was the mother of Prince William…
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2004
2004
Dominican lawyer and politician, Premier of Dominica (born 1923)
Edward Oliver LeBlanc was a Dominican politician who served as the chief minister from January 1961 to 1 March 1967 and as the first premier from 1 March 1967 to 27 July 1974. Born in Vieille Case, a village in the…
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2004
English mathematician and entomologist (born 1916)
Peter Frank George Twinn was an English mathematician, Second World War codebreaker and entomologist. He was the first mathematician to be recruited to the Government Code and Cypher School, Head of Intelligence Service…
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2004
Canadian-American actor (born 1924)
Lloyd Wolfe Bochner was a Canadian film, TV and voice actor. He appeared in many Canadian and Hollywood productions between the 1950s and 1990s, including the films Point Blank (1967), The Detective (1968), The Young…
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2005
Romanian sculptor and illustrator (born 1903)
Ion Irimescu was a Romanian sculptor and sketcher. From 1992, he was an honorary member of the Romanian Academy. In 2001 he was awarded the Prize of Excellence for Romanian Culture. He is often referred to as the…
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2005
American singer-songwriter (born 1963)
Mike Baker was the lead vocalist for the American progressive metal band Shadow Gallery.
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2008
English radio and television host (born 1926)
Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile was an English media personality and disc jockey. He was known for his eccentric image, charitable work, and hosting the BBC shows Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It. After his death,…
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2011
American etiquette expert and author (born 1926)
Letitia "Tish" Baldrige was an American etiquette expert, public relations executive and author who was most famous for serving as Jacqueline Kennedy's Social Secretary.
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2012
Dutch author, poet, and songwriter (born 1937)
Hendrik Jan Marsman, better known by his pen name, J. Bernlef, was a Dutch writer, poet, novelist and translator, much of whose work centres on mental perception of reality and its expression. He won numerous literary…
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2012
American academic (born 1924)
Kenneth Gilmore Ryder was the 4th president of Northeastern University, a post he held from 1975 to 1989. Ryder began his career in education as a history teacher in 1949 and moved into administration in 1955. As…
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2012
English-American astronomer and academic (born 1935)
Wallace Leslie William Sargent was a British-born American astronomer and the Ira S. Bowen Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology.
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2012
American boxer and diplomat (born 1920)
Jack Hood Vaughn was the second director of the United States Peace Corps, succeeding Sargent Shriver. Vaughn was appointed Peace Corps director in 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson and was the first Republican to head…
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2012
Haitian priest and politician, Foreign Minister of Haiti (born 1937)
Jean-Rénald Clérismé was a Haitian politician, diplomat and former Catholic priest. He served as the Foreign Minister of Haiti from 9 June 2006 to 2008.
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2013
American director and producer (born 1957)
Sherman Brooks Halsey was an American music video and television director, producer, and artist manager. Sherman Halsey produced and directed hundreds of television shows and music videos for artists such as Tim McGraw,…
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2013
American soldier and engineer (born 1918)
John Pitts Spence was an American diver for the United States Navy and World War II veteran who is widely credited as the country's first combat frogman. Spence was the first enlisted man to be recruited into a…
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2013
English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
Graham William Stark was an English comedian, actor, writer and director, known for his close friendship with actor Peter Sellers and appearances in several films by director Blake Edwards, including several of The Pink…
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2013
American lawyer and politician (born 1965)
Roger D. Freeman was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 30th Legislative District. He died in office of colon cancer,…
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2014
Swedish footballer and manager (born 1968)
Klas Inge "Klabbe" Ingesson was a Swedish professional footballer and manager. He spent most of his career as a midfielder in Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, England, Italy and France. Ingesson represented the Sweden…
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2014
American businessman (born 1936)
Harold Gary Morse was an American billionaire and the developer, along with his father Harold Schwartz, of the active adult retirement community The Villages, Florida.
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2014
American basketball player and coach (born 1953)
Luther Dean "Ticky" Burden was an American NBA and ABA basketball player.
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2015
Filipino businessman and politician (born 1942)
Ernesto "Boy" Falar Herrera was a Senator of the Philippines and congressman for Bohol's 1st district. He was a trade union leader, an advocate of law and order, and a legislator in the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th…
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2015
Slovene basketball player and coach (born 1931)
Boris Kristančič was a Slovenian basketball player and coach. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally.
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2015
Serbian basketball player and coach (born 1929)
Ranko Žeravica was a Serbian professional basketball coach. With a career that spanned over 50 years, he is most noted for his work with the senior Yugoslav national team, during the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s. In…
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2015
American actor and comedian (born 1942)
John Witherspoon was an American actor and comedian who performed in various television shows and films. He played Willie Jones in the Friday series, and starred in films such as Hollywood Shuffle (1987), Boomerang…
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2019
Austrian-American molecular and cell biologist (born 1967)
Angelika Amon was an Austrian American molecular and cell biologist, and the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor in Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United…
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2020
Australian cricketer (born 1945)
Ashley Alexander Mallett was an Australian cricketer who played in 38 Tests and 9 One Day Internationals between 1968 and 1980. Until Nathan Lyon, he was Australia's most successful off spin bowler since World War II.…
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2021
Japanese musician and singer-songwriter (born 1968)
Hiroshi Morie , known exclusively by his stage name Heath, was a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter. He was best known as bass guitarist of the rock band X Japan from 1992 to 1997, and again from 2007 until his…
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2023
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Notable deaths
Who died on October 29?
Carlos Guastavino — Argentine composer
FeaturedCarlos Guastavino
Death year2000
Known forHis production amounted to over 500 works, most of them songs for piano and voice, many still unpublished
Deaths on this date95 (1050 – 2024)
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