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Deaths on March 29

1058 : Stephen IX, [Frederik van Lotharingen], 1st Belg Pope (1057-58), dies
1546 : Cardinal Beaton, English archbishop of St Andrews, murdered
1650 : Cornelis Galle I, Flemish engraver, dies at about 73
1655 : Valerius Andreas, Flemish historian, dies at 66
1697 : Nikolaus Bruhns, composer, dies
1745 : Robert Walpole, 1st British premier (1722-42), dies at 68
1788 : Charles Wesley, hymn writer, dies
1792 : Gustav III, King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of wounds
1794 : Marie-J-A-N C Condorcet, mathematician (Theory of Comets), dies at 50
1802 : Frederic Thieme, composer, dies at 51
1826 : J H Voá, writer, dies at 75
1837 : Maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, dies
1839 : Bernardus JC Dibbets, Dutch baron/gen-major (Maastricht), dies at 56
1847 : Auguste De Polignac, premier France, dies at 66
1848 : John Jacob Astor, charted American Fur Company, dies at 84
1866 : Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, Rabbi/Chassidic leader, dies
1880 : Jakob Axel Josephson, composer, dies at 62
1886 : John Keble, theologian, Bournemouth
1888 : Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan, composer, dies at 74
1891 : Georges-Pierre Seurat, French painter (Pointillism), dies at 31
1892 : William Bowman, English anatomist, dies at 75
1911 : Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer, dies at 74
1912 : Robert F Scott, British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies
1917 : Fran Gerbic, composer, dies at 76
1924 : Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/writer, dies at 71
1930 : Anton Bettelheim, writer, dies
1933 : Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Dutch violinist/conductor, dies at 52
1937 : Karol Szymanowski, Polish/Ukraine composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 54
1945 : Karl T Sapper, German geographer/geologist (Vulkankunde), dies at 79
1955 : Everard Verachtert, Flemish linguist (I Can Speak Nicely), dies at 81
1957 : Joyce A L Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68
1958 : W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy, composer, dies at 84
1959 : Barthelemy Boganda, Central African Republic's 1st president, dies
1959 : Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer, dies at 84
1963 : Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64
1964 : Ted Collins, pianist (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 63
1966 : Harry Daugherty, trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers), dies at 50
1972 : J Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, industrialist/film magnate
1974 : Seton I Miller, writer, dies at 71
1978 : Jayasinghrao Mansinghrao Ghorpade, cricketer (8 Tests for India), dies
1979 : Melville Cooper, TV panelist (I Got a Secret), dies at 82
1980 : ... Mantovani, orch leader (Mantovani), dies at 74
1981 : Eric Williams, Prime Minister (Trinidad & Tobago), dies at 79
1982 : Carl Orff, German composer (Mouth, Antigonae), dies at 86
1982 : Rudy Bond, actor (Streetcar Named Desire), dies of heart attack at 68
1982 : Walter Hallstein, W German politician (CDU, H-doctrine), dies at 80
1983 : Richard O'Brien, actor (Rocky Horror Show), dies of cancer at 65
1986 : Harry Ritz, actor (3 Musketeers, On the Avenue), dies at 79
1989 : Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women & War), dies at 73
1990 : Germaine Montenesdro, 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer, shot dead
1991 : Lee Atwater, political strategists (R), dies of brain tumor at 40
1991 : Matt Bennett, actor (Hickey & Boggs), dies of brain tumor at 52
1992 : Earl Spencer, father of Lady Diana, dies at 68
1992 : Paul [G J von] Henreid, Austrian actor (Laszlo-Casablanca), dies at 84
1994 : Bill Travers, actor (Trio, Gorgo, Born Free), dies at 72
1994 : Paul Grimault, animator, dies at 89
1994 : William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), dies at 84
1995 : Carl E Jefferson, record company owner, dies at 74
1995 : Eddie Williams Wiggins, alto saxophone/comedian, dies at 78
1995 : James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot, dies at 74
1995 : John Elliott Terry, film financier, dies at 82
1996 : Maggie Donnelly, bag lady, dies at 46
1997 : Eddie Ryder, actor (Slick Jones-General Hospital), dies at 74
1997 : Ellen Clara Pollock, actress (Wicked Lady, Fake), dies at 94

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