Famous Deaths in 1929

Wyatt Earp

Jan 13 Wyatt Earp, US marshall (OK Corral), dies at 80

Jan 13 H. B. Higgins, Australian politician and judge (b. 1851)
Jan 14 Cornelis W Lely, Dutch Governor of Suriname (1902-05), dies at 74
Jan 19 Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
Jan 24 Willem Royaards, theater directeor (Adam in Ballingschap), dies
Jan 24 Wilfred Baddeley, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1891-2, 95), dies at 57
Jan 30 La Goulue, French Cancan dancer (b. 1866)
Feb 1 August Otto Halm, composer, dies at 59
Feb 3 Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878)
Feb 5 Siegfried Ochs, composer, dies at 70
Feb 8 Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain, dies at 71

Feb 12 Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist, dies at 66
Feb 12 Lillie Langtry [Emilie Charlotte Le Breton], American actress (His Neighbor's Wife), dies at 75
Feb 14 Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875)
Feb 17 John Read, cricketer (batted in 17 Tests for Eng for 463 runs), dies
Feb 24 Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer, dies at 75
Feb 27 Manuel Manrique de Lara, Spanish composer (The Oresteia), dies at 65
Feb 28 Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (React of P), dies at 54
Feb 28 John Ebenezer West, composer, dies at 65
Mar 1 Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
Mar 5 David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American automobile pioneer (b. 1854)
Mar 12 Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
Mar 15 Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, American jazz pianist and singer (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies of a gunshot wound in a dance-hall fight at 24
Mar 20 Ferdinand Foch, French Allied military commander and marshal of France during WW I, dies at 77
Mar 22 Anton Beer-Walbrun, German composer, dies at 64
Mar 26 Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859)
Mar 27 Samuil Shatunovsky, Ukrainian mathematician, dies at 70
Mar 28 Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)

Karl Benz

Apr 4 Karl Benz, German inventor, engine designer and automobile manufacturer (Mercedes-Benz), dies of bronchial inflammation at 84

Apr 10 Edmond Thieffry, Belgian WW I pilot, dies at 36
Apr 15 Antonio Smareglia, Italian composer, dies at 74
Apr 16 Abraham van Stolk Jzn, art collector, dies at 57
Apr 22 Ödön Mihalovich, Hungarian composer, dies at 86
Apr 22 Henry Lerolle, French painter, dies at 80
Apr 23 Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at 28
May 4 Henry Morton Dunham, composer, dies at 75

May 7 Albert Anselmi, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
May 7 John Scalise, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
May 7 Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
May 11 Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (b. 1864)
May 16 Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies
May 21 V P F A Royle, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879), dies

Archibald Primrose

May 21 Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, British Prime Minister (Liberal: 1894-95), dies at 82

May 28 Alice Stopford Green, Irish historian and proponent of Irish independence, dies at 81
Jun 2 Charles Coventry, cricketer (13 runs in 2 Tests Eng v S Af 1889), dies
Jun 4 Harry Frazee, American MLB team owner (Boston Red Sox), dies of kidney failure at 48
Jun 7 J E P McMaster, cricketer (Eng v S Af Test 1889 (out for 0), dies
Jun 8 Bliss Carman, Canadian poet, dies at 68
Jun 9 Lewis Bennison, American actor (The Road Called Straight), commits suicide at 44
Jun 11 Gyula Andressy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 68
Jun 16 Bramwell Booth, 2nd General of The Salvation Army, dies at 73
Jun 16 Vernon Louis Parrington, American author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928), dies at 57
Jun 25 Georges Courteline [Moineau], French playwright, dies at 71
Jun 28 Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure), dies at 84
Jul 1 Henry Johnson, American soldier of 369th regiment (aka Harlem Hell Fighters), 1st US WWI soldier to receive the Croix de guerre after fighting a German raid in hand-to-hand combat to rescue a fellow soldier (posthumous Medal of Honour, 2015), dies of myocarditis at 36
Jul 2 Gladys Brockwell, American actress (Long Pants, Oliver Twist), dies in an automobile accident at 34
Jul 3 Dustin Farnum, American actor (Squaw Man, Virginian, The Flaming Frontier), dies at 55
Jul 4 Otto Taubmann, German composer, dies at 70
Jul 11 Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
Jul 12 Robert Henri, US painter (The Eight), dies at 63
Jul 15 Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright/poet, dies
Jul 22 Bror Beckman, composer, dies at 63
Jul 22 Édouard Empain, Belgian railway builder (Heliopolis), dies at 76
Jul 27 Raoul Pictet, Swiss physicist who invented liquid nitrogen and was a pioneer of cryogenics, dies at 83
Aug 1 Syd Gregory, cricketer (Australian captain pre-WWI), dies
Aug 2 Mae Costello [Altschuk], American actress (The Joys of a Jealous Wife), dies of heart disease at 47

Aug 3 Thorstein Veblen, American economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899), dies at 72
Aug 3 Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
Aug 5 Millicent Fawcett, English suffragist, dies at 82
Aug 9 Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71
Aug 10 Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor and feminist, dies at 75
Aug 10 Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
Aug 16 Frank Valentine der Stucken, American-Belgian composer, dies at 70
Aug 19 Sergei P Diaghilev, Russian dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
Aug 22 Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WWI), dies at 74
Aug 23 Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies
Aug 25 Frederick Burton, Australian cricketer (Australian wicketkeeper 1886-87), dies at 63
Aug 27 Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)
Sep 12 Rainis [Jānis Pliekšāns], Latvian poet and playwright, dies at 64
Sep 18 Hermann Gradener, German composer, dies at 85
Sep 23 Richard A Zsigmondy, Austria chemist (Nobel 1925), dies at 64
Sep 25 Miller Huggins, American Baseball Hall of Fame 2nd baseman, manager (NY Yankees WS 1923, 27-28), dies of pyaemia at 51
Sep 29 Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66
Sep 30 Charles Bonin, French explorer and diplomat (China), dies at 64
Oct 1 Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (b. 1861)
Oct 3 Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (Nobel 1926), dies at 51
Oct 3 Jeanne Eagels, American actress and former Ziegfeld Girl (Rain, Under False Colors), dies of a drug overdose at 39
Oct 4 John Metzelaar, Dutch/US writer (Report on the Fishes), dies at 37

Elijah McCoy

Oct 10 Elijah McCoy, Canadian-American inventor (57 patents), dies at 86

Oct 12 Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52
Oct 20 Rudolf Kittel, German theologist (Psalms), dies at 76
Oct 21 Owen Dunell, cricketer (two Tests for South Africa in 1889), dies
Oct 23 Thomas Frederick Tout, British historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74
Oct 24 Peter J Blok, Dutch historian, dies at 74
Oct 25 James Lillywhite Jr, cricketer (two Tests for England 1877), dies
Oct 26 Arno Holz, German writer (Phantasus), dies at 66
Oct 28 Hermann Ungar, Moravian writer, dies at 36
Oct 28 Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany, dies at 80
Oct 31 António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
Nov 3 Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
Nov 6 Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies at 62
Nov 6 Maximilian, Prince of Baden, German chancellor (Oct-Nov 1918), dies at 62
Nov 9 Nicolaas Theunissen, South African cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies
Nov 11 Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer, dies at 66
Nov 14 Joseph McGinnity, baseball pitcher (NY Giants), dies at 58
Nov 17 A F A Lilley, cricketer (92 dismissals in 35 Tests 1896-1909), dies
Nov 17 Herman Hollerith, German/US statistician (punch card), dies at 69
Nov 18 Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
Nov 19 Arthur H Mann, English composer (Church of England Hymnal), dies

Georges Clémenceau

Nov 24 Georges Clémenceau, Prime Minister of France (Radical-Socialist Party: 1906-09, 1917-20) who defended Dreyfuss, dies at 88

Nov 26 Michele Esposito, Italian composer who worked in Ireland, dies at 74
Dec 9 Willis Cuttell, cricketer (two Tests England v South Africa 1899), dies
Dec 12 Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (b. 1836)
Dec 13 Knut Algot Hakanson, composer, dies at 42
Dec 19 Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 36
Dec 20 Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90
Dec 29 Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)

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