October 29

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

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)
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)

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