September 29 - Deaths

Deaths

• 855 – Lothair I, Roman emperor (b. 795)
• 1304 – John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, English soldier (b. 1231)
• 1364 – Charles I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319)
• 1560 – Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
• 1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (b. 1600)
• 1642 – René Goupil, French missionary (b. 1608)
• 1642 – William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, English son of Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby (b. 1561)
• 1703 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b. 1610)
• 1800 – Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b. 1729)
• 1804 – Michael Hillegas, American politician, 1st Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
• 1833 – Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)
• 1862 – William "Bull" Nelson, American navy officer (b. 1824)
• 1887 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810)
• 1889 – Louis Faidherbe, French general (b. 1818)
• 1900 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician (b. 1814)
• 1902 – William McGonagall, Scottish poet and actor (b. 1825)
• 1902 – Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
• 1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel Engine (b. 1858)
• 1908 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1839)
• 1925 – Léon Bourgeois, French politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1851)
• 1927 – Arthur Achleitner, German journalist and author (b. 1858)
• 1927 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1930 – Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
• 1937 – Ray Ewry, American triple jumper (b. 1873)
• 1937 – Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer (b. 1878)
• 1951 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer player and coach (b. 1864)
• 1952 – John Cobb, English race car driver (b. 1899)
• 1967 – Carson McCullers, American author (b. 1917)
• 1970 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
• 1973 – W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
• 1975 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
• 1976 – Wadi Ayoub, Lebanese wrestler (b. 1927)
• 1981 – Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1913)
• 1982 – Monty Stratton, American baseball player (b. 1912)
• 1987 – Henry Ford II, American businessman (b. 1917)
• 1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Gussie Busch, American businessman (b. 1899)
• 1989 – Georges Ulmer, Danish-French actor and composer (b. 1919)
• 1992 – Jean Aurenche, French screenwriter (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Gordon Douglas, American director (b. 1907)
• 1994 – Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)
• 1996 – Leslie Crowther, English comedian and actor (b. 1933)
• 1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, American painter (b. 1923)
• 1998 – Tom Bradley, American politician, 38th Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Jean-Louis Millette, Canadian actor and scriptwriter (b. 1935)
• 2000 – John Grant, English politician (b. 1932)
• 2001 – Nguyen Van Thieu, Vietnamese general and politician, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Edmund Trebus, Polish-English compulsive hoarder (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Richard Sainct, French motorcycle racer (b. 1970)
• 2005 – Austin Leslie, American chef (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Michael A. Monsoor, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1981)
• 2006 – Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist, poet, and critic (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Louis-Albert Vachon, Canadian archbishop (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
• 2007 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet astronaut (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Sperantza Vrana, Greek actress (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Greg Giraldo, American comedian (b.1965)
• 2012 – Hazloul bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Hebe Camargo, Brazilian singer and actress (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Nan Huai-Chin, Chinese scholar (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Antônio Maria Mucciolo, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Neil Smith, Scottish geographer (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Malcolm Wicks, English politician (b. 1947)