Deaths in History on July 29

1108 King Philip I, King of the Franks 1059, 1060-1108), dies at 56

1833 William Wilberforce, English abolitionist, dies at 73

1839 Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1857 Charles Lucien Bonaparte, French prince of Canino and Musignano, dies at 54
1857 Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (b. 1774)
1863 Edward Needle Kirk, US Union brigadier general, dies in battle at about 35
1886 Solomon Gazfried, rabbi/author (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch), dies
1887 Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman, Prime Minister of Italy (1876-78, 1778-79, 1881-87), dies at 74

1890 Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (Sunflowers), dies 2 days after shooting himself at 37

1891 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita), dies at 70
1897 Joost G Kist, lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97), dies at 74
1900 Umberto I, Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci
1913 Tobias Asser, Dutch advocate of world law (Nobel 1911), dies at 75
1918 Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (b. 1863)
1922 Edward Gailliard, Flemish linguist and archaeologist, dies at 81
1938 Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
1956 Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (study of graves), dies at 83
1960 Richard Simon, co-founder (Simon & Shuster), dies
1973 Norm Smith, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
1974 Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
1976 Mickey Cohen, American gangster (Cohen crime family), dies at 62
1979 Herbert Marcuse, German-American communist philosopher (Eros & Civilization), dies at 81
1981 Robert Moses, American urban planner (b. 1888)

1982 Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American inventor (development of television, cathode ray tube), dies at 82

1982 Cor[nelis R J] Kieboom, resistor/President Feyenoord, dies at 81
1982 Richard Gale, English general and airborne commander (Normandy), dies at 86
1983 J. B. Charles [Willem H. Nagel], Dutch criminologist and writer, dies at 83
1983 Luis Buñuel, director (Monk), dies of cirrhosis of liver at 83
1987 Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (b. 1894)
1988 Ellin Berlin, [MacKay], Mrs Irving Berlin, dies at 86
1990 Bruno Kreisky, union chancellor Austria, dies
1992 Tavio Amorin, Togolese politician, murdered
1993 AJA Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer, dies at 78
1994 Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British biochemist (B-12, Nobel 1964), dies at 78
1994 Francisco Veguillas, Spanish general, murdered at 68
1994 John Bayard Britton, abortion doctor, killed by Paul Hill

1994 Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist who developed protein crystallography, 3rd woman to win a Nobel Prize (1964), dies of a stroke at 84

1996 Aruna Asaf Ali, Indian independence activist and politician (first Mayor of Delhi), dies at 88
1996 Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
2000 Kobie Coetsee, South African Minister of Defense (1993-94) and Minister of Justice (1980-93), dies at 69
2001 Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
2001 Wau Holland, German computer hacker (b. 1951)
2003 Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
2006 Jim Olin, American politician (Rep-D-VA, 1983-93), dies at 86
2007 Marvin Zindler, American television reporter (b. 1921)
2008 Eric Varley, British politician and cabinet minister, dies at 75
2009 Gayatri Devi, Ex-Maharani of Indian state Jaipur. (b. 1919)
2016 Marta Marzotto, Italian countess and designer, dies at 85
2016 Zelda Fichandler, American theater director and producer (Raisin, K2), dies at 91

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