October 29
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[edit] Births
- 1017 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1046-56)
- 1656 - Edmond Halley, English astronomer (according to the Julian calendar)
- 1740 - James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson (d. 1795)
- 1815 - Daniel Emmett, American composer
- 1877 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (d. 1973)
- 1882 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (d. 1944)
- 1891 - Fanny Brice, American singer and comedienne (d. 1951)
- 1897 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (d. 1945)
- 1899 - Akim Tamiroff, actor (d. 1972)
- 1921 - Bill Mauldin, cartoonist
- 1923 - Carl Djerassi, chemist
- 1925 - Dominick Dunne, author
- 1926 - Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor
- 1935 - Takahata Isao, Japanese director of animated movies
- 1938 - Ralph Bakshi, cartoonist, film director, and video producer
- 1940 - Cornelius McGillicuddy III (Connie Mack), U.S. Senator from Florida
- 1940 - Frida Boccara, French singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner (d. 1996)
- 1944 - Otto Wiesheu, German minister
- 1945 - Melba Moore, singer and actress
- 1947 - Richard Dreyfuss, actor
- 1948 - Kate Jackson, actress
- 1956 - Wilfredo Gomez, boxer
- 1960 - Finola Hughes, British actress
- 1961 - Randy Jackson, American musician
- 1964 - Yasmin Le Bon, model
- 1971 - Winona Ryder, actress
- 1972 - Takafumi Horie, Japanese entrepreneur
- 1973 - Gabrielle Union, actress
- 1973 - Robert Pirès, French footballer
- 1974 - Michael Vaughan, English cricketer
- 1978 - Travis Henry, American football player
- 1981 - Amanda Beard, swimmer
- 1981 - Jonathan Brown, Australian footballer
- 1983 - Maurice Clarett, American football player
[edit] Deaths
- 1038 - Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1138 - Bolesław III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (b. 1086)
- 1268 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia, titular King of Jerusalem, and King of Sicily (executed)
- 1268 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden {beheaded} (b. 1249)
- 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed)
- 1783 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician and encyclopædist (b. 1717)
- 1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan
- 1901 - Leon Czolgosz, assassin
- 1905 - Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete
- 1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher
- 1919 - A. B. Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance and Nyack College
- 1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff, Greek-Armenian mystic
- 1950 - King Gustav V of Sweden
- 1953 - William Kapell, American pianist
- 1957 - Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (b. 1885)
- 1963 - Adolphe Menjou, actor
- 1971 - Duane Allman, musician
- 1987 - Woody Herman, American jazz musician (b. 1913)
- 1995 - Terry Southern, American writer (b. 1924)
- 1997 - Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan
- 2003 - Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
- 2003 - Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (b. 1921)
- 2004 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (b. 1923)
- 2004 - Peter Twinn, English mathematician and World War II code-breaker (b. 1916)
