August 29 - Deaths

Deaths

• 886 – Basil I, Byzantine emperor (b. 811)
• 979 – Abu Taghlib, Emir of Mosul
• 1093 – Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
• 1123 – Eystein I of Norway (b. 1088)
• 1395 – Albert III, Duke of Austria (b. 1349)
• 1442 – John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
• 1526 – Louis II of Hungary (b. 1506)
• 1526 – Pál Tomori Hungarian archbishop and soldier (b. 1475)
• 1533 – Atahualpa, sovereign emperor (b. 1497)
• 1542 – Cristóvão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (b. 1516)
• 1543 – Maria of Jülich-Berg, German mother of Anne of Cleves (b. 1491)
• 1657 – John Lilburne, English activist (b. 1614)
• 1712 – Gregory King, English genealogist, engraver, and statistician (b. 1648)
• 1749 – Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor and polymath (b. 1684)
• 1769 – Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)
• 1780 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, co-designed The Panthéon (b. 1713)
• 1799 – Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
• 1844 – Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish missionary and educator, founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
• 1856 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author (b. 1778)
• 1866 – Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese 14th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate (b. 1846)
• 1877 – Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
• 1889 – Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)
• 1891 – Pierre Lallement, French inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843)
• 1892 – William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian (b. 1809)
• 1904 – Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
• 1917 – George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)
• 1930 – William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
• 1931 – David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founder of Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)
• 1935 – Astrid of Sweden (b. 1905)
• 1946 – Adolphus Busch III, American businessman (b. 1891)
• 1946 – Grigory Semyonov, Russian general (b. 1890)
• 1947 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
• 1951 – Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
• 1966 – Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
• 1968 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (b. 1881)
• 1971 – Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American convicted murderer (b. 1904)
• 1972 – Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (b. 1905)
• 1975 – Éamon de Valera, Irish politician, 3rd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
• 1976 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, and philosopher (b. 1899)
• 1976 – Jimmy Reed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1977 – Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1977 – Brian McGuire, Australian race car driver (b. 1945)
• 1981 – Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)
• 1982 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
• 1982 – Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
• 1983 – Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1984 – Pina Menichelli, Italian actress (b. 1890)
• 1984 – Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian politician, 1st President of Egypt (b. 1901)
• 1985 – Evelyn Ankers, English actress (b. 1918)
• 1987 – Archie Campbell, American comedian, writer, and actor (b. 1914)
• 1987 – Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
• 1990 – Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian writer and mystic (b. 1901)
• 1991 – Libero Grassi, Italian businessman (b. 1924)
• 1992 – Félix Guattari, French philosopher and theorist (b. 1930)
• 1992 – Teddy Turner, English comedian and actor (b. 1917)
• 1995 – Frank Perry, American director (b. 1930)
• 2000 – Shelagh Fraser, English actress (b. 1922)
• 2000 – Willie Maddren, English footballer (b. 1951)
• 2001 – Graeme Strachan, Australian singer-songwriter (Skyhooks) (b. 1952)
• 2001 – Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b. 1939)
• 2003 – Michel Constantin, French actor (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Richard Jewell, American police officer (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Pierre Messmer, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1916)
• 2007 – Alfred Peet, Dutch-American businessman, founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
• 2007 – James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Geoffrey Perkins, English comedian, writer, and producer (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Michael Schoenberg, American geophysicist (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Said Aburish, Palestinian journalist (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, English academic and author (b. 1953)
• 2012 – Shoshichi Kobayashi, Japanese-American mathematician (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Les Moss, American baseball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Sergei Ovchinnikov, Russian volleyball coach (b. 1969)