Famous People Who Died in 1929

Wyatt Earp

Jan 13 Wyatt Earp, American frontiersman and marshal who participated in the gunfight at the 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, Dutch theater director (Adam in Ballingschap), dies at 62
Jan 24 Wilfred Baddeley, English tennis player (Wimbledon 1891-2, 95), dies at 57
Jan 29 La Goulue [Louise Weber], French can-can dancer (Moulin Rouge), known as the Queen of Montmartre, dies at 62
Feb 1 August Halm, German composer, dies at 59
Feb 1 Sir Alexander Ogston, British surgeon (discovered Staphylococcus), educator, and military doctor, dies at 84
Feb 3 Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878)
Feb 5 Siegfried Ochs, German composer, dies at 70
Feb 8 Maria Christina of Austria, Austrian born Queen and Regent 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 athlete (Olympic gold 100m, 400m 1896), dies at 53
Feb 17 John Read, English cricketer (batted in 17 Tests for Eng for 463 runs), dies
Feb 24 André Charles Prosper Messager, French organist, composer and conductor (Les Deux Pigeons, Véronique), 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, English composer, dies at 65
Mar 1 Royal H. Weller, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), dies at 47
Mar 5 David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American automobile pioneer (Buick Motor Company), dies at 74
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, Dutch 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, American composer, dies at 75
May 7 Albert Anselmi, American gangster, murdered by Al Capone
May 7 John Scalise, American gangster, murdered by Al Capone
May 7 Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta, American gangster, murdered by Al Capone
May 11 Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor, dies at 65
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 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 Andrássy, Jr., Hungarian politician (Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (1918-20)), dies at 68
Jun 16 Bramwell Booth, English 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, American painter (The Eight) and leader of Ashcan school of painting, dies at 63
Jul 15 Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright/poet, dies
Jul 22 Bror Beckman, Swedish 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, Australian cricket batsman & captain (58 Tests, 4 x 100, 8 x 50, HS 201; NSW CA), dies at 59
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 Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor and women's suffrage activist, dies at 75
Aug 10 Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
Aug 16 Frank Valentine der Stucken, American-Belgian composer, dies at 70
Aug 17 Horace Alderman, American smuggler who murdered two coast guards and a secret service agent, hanged at 38
Aug 19 Serge Diaghilev, Russian ballet director (founder of the Ballets Russes), 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 26 Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat and scholar, dies at 86
Aug 27 Herman Potočnik, Slovenian rocket scientist, dies at 36
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 and Premier (1927-29), dies at 66
Sep 30 Charles Bonin, French explorer and diplomat (China), dies at 64
Oct 1 Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor, dies at 67
Oct 1 Lee Richmond, American baseball pitcher (first ever MLB perfect game, 1880), dies at 72

Gustav Stresemann

Oct 3 Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (1923) who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926, dies of a stroke 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/American 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 José Batlle y Ordóñez, President of Uruguay (1899, 1903-7, 1911-15), dies at 73
Oct 20 Rudolf Kittel, German theologist (Psalms), dies at 76
Oct 21 Owen Dunell, South African cricket batsman (South Africa's 1st Test captain; 2 Tests), dies at 73
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, English cricket slow bowler (1st England Test captain; 2 Tests, 8 wickets; Sussex CCC) and umpire (6 Tests 1881–99), dies at 87
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 Maximilian, Prince of Baden [Max von Bathe], 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, Polish composer, dies at 66
Nov 14 Joe McGinnity, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (World Series 1905; 5 × NL wins leader; NL ERA leader 1904; Baltimore Orioles, NY Giants), dies at 58
Nov 17 Dick Lilley, English cricket wicket-keepe (92 dismissals in 35 Tests 1896-1909), dies at 62
Nov 17 Herman Hollerith, German/US statistician (punch card), dies at 69
Nov 18 Henricus van de Wetering, Archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
Nov 19 Arthur Henry Mann, English composer (Church of England Hymnal), dies at 79
Nov 23 Arvid Kleven, Norwegian flautist and composer, dies at 29

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 Håkanson, Swedish 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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