Died on Saturday, 29th November – Famous Deaths

29/11/2024

Marshall Brickman, Brazilian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1939)

Marshall Jacob Brickman was an American screenwriter and director, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen, with whom he shared the 1977 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Annie Hall. He was previously the head writer for Johnny Carson, writing scripts for recurring characters such as Carnac the Magnificent. He is also known for playing the mandolin and banjo with Eric Weissberg in the 1960s, and for a series of comical parodies published in The New Yorker.

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Will Cullen Hart, American musician (born 1971)

William Cullen Hart was an American musician, singer, songwriter and visual artist. He was a co-founder of the Elephant 6 Recording Company, as well as the rock band the Olivia Tremor Control. Following that band's breakup, Hart and several other former members regrouped to create Circulatory System. Hart's music was characterized by its blend of indie rock, Beatlesque psychedelic pop and musique concrète.

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Wayne Northrop, American actor (born 1947)

Wayne Alan Northrop was an American actor known for his parts in soap operas such as Dynasty and Days of Our Lives. Wayne Northrop died on November 29th, 2024 in Los Angeles, California of complications from Alzheimer’s Disease. He was 77 years old.

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29/11/2023

Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state (born 1923)

Henry Alfred Kissinger was an American diplomat, political scientist, and politician. He served as the 7th national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, followed by being the 56th United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977. He served under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

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Taichi Yamada, Japanese screenwriter and novelist (born 1934)

Taichi Yamada was a Japanese screenwriter and novelist. His real name was Taichi Ishizaka .

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29/11/2022

Derek Granger, British film and television producer and screenwriter (born 1921)

Derek Granger was a British film and television producer, and screenwriter. He worked on Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust, and Where Angels Fear to Tread.

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Tapunuu Niko Lee Hang, Samoan politician (born 1953/1954)

Tapunuu Niko Lee Hang was a Samoan politician and Cabinet Minister. He was a member of the Human Rights Protection Party.

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29/11/2021

Kinza Clodumar, Nauruan politician, 7th President of Nauru (born 1945)

Kinza Godfrey Clodumar was a Nauruan politician who served as President of Nauru from 1997 to 1998.

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Arlene Dahl, American actress, businesswoman and writer (born 1925)

Arlene Carol Dahl was an American actress active in films from the late 1940s. Born in Minnesota to parents of Norwegian descent, Dahl started her acting career in musicals before transitioning to film, where she gained significant roles in MGM productions such as My Wild Irish Rose (1947) and The Bride Goes Wild (1948). She also starred in the adventure films Caribbean Gold (1952) and Desert Legion (1953).

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LaMarr Hoyt, Major League Baseball player, 1983 AL Cy Young Award winner (born 1955)

Dewey LaMarr Hoyt Jr. was an American professional baseball right-handed pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox and San Diego Padres from 1979 to 1986. He won the 1983 American League Cy Young Award and was an All-Star in 1985.

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29/11/2020

Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer (born 1978)

Papa Bouba Diop was a Senegalese professional footballer. His preferred position was as a defensive midfielder, but he could also play as a centre-back, where he played at Lens. Diop was considered a physically strong and aggressive player. His playing style, position, and ability drew comparisons to former France holding midfielder Patrick Vieira.

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29/11/2019

Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese politician, 45th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1918)

Yasuhiro Nakasone was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1982 to 1987. His political term was best known for pushing through the privatization of state-owned companies, pursuing a hawkish and pro-United States foreign policy and his rejection of Keynesianism and his support of neoliberalism.

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29/11/2017

Slobodan Praljak, Croatian general (born 1945)

Slobodan Praljak was a Bosnian Croat war criminal and general found guilty by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of committing violations of the laws of war, crimes against humanity, and breaches of the Geneva Conventions during the 1992–1994 Croat–Bosniak War.

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29/11/2016

Luis Alberto Monge, Costa Rican politician, 39th President of Costa Rica (born 1925)

Luis Alberto Monge Álvarez was the President of Costa Rica from 1982 to 1986. He also served as Costa Rica's first Ambassador to Israel from 1963 until 1966.

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Ruta Šaca-Marjaša, Latvian lawyer, writer and politician (born 1927)

Ruta Šaca-Marjaša was a Jewish Latvian lawyer, writer, poet, and politician, a former Deputy of the Latvian Parliament of 5th (1995) and 6th (1998) convocations. She lived in Riga.

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29/11/2015

Joseph F. Girzone, American Catholic priest and author (born 1930)

Joseph Francis Girzone, sometimes known as the "Joshua Priest", was an American Catholic priest and writer, most notably as the author of the Joshua series of novels.

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Joe Marston, Australian footballer and manager (born 1926)

James Edward "Joe" Marston was an Australian association footballer who played as a defender. He became the first Australian to appear in a FA Cup Final when he turned out for Preston North End in their 1954 defeat to West Bromwich Albion.

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Christopher Middleton, British poet and translator (born 1926)

John Christopher Middleton was a British poet and translator, especially of German literature.

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O'tkir Sultonov, Uzbek lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Uzbekistan (born 1939)

Utkir Tukhtamurodovich Sultonov was an Uzbek politician who served as the Prime Minister of Uzbekistan from 21 December 1995 until his dismissal on 12 December 2003.

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29/11/2014

Dwayne Alons, American general and politician (born 1946)

Dwayne Arlan Alons was an American politician. A Republican, he sat in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1999 to 2014, representing the 5th district until 2003, and the 4th district thereafter. He was a brigadier general in the Iowa Air National Guard and served as chief of staff at its headquarters. Alons died of cancer on November 29, 2014. He was succeeded in office by John Kooiker.

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Dick Bresciani, American businessman (born 1938)

Richard L. Bresciani became the Vice President/Publications and Archives for the Boston Red Sox in 2003 after serving as Vice President of Public Affairs since November, 1996. He had been Vice President of Public Relations since August 1987. He was born in Hopedale, Massachusetts. He joined the Red Sox in May, 1972 as assistant public relations director, became publicity director in 1978 and public relations director in June, 1984.

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Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator (born 1934)

Mark Strand was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004. Strand was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University from 2005 until his death in 2014.

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29/11/2013

Oliver Cheatham, American singer-songwriter (born 1948)

Oliver Cheatham was an American contemporary R&B singer who is best remembered for his 1983 hit "Get Down Saturday Night". The song was sampled by Italian DJ Room 5 on his 2003 single "Make Luv", which reached number one on the UK chart, as well as by British DJ Michael Gray on his 2004 single "The Weekend".

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Colin Eglin, South African soldier and politician (born 1925)

Colin Wells Eglin was a South African politician best known for having served as national leader of the opposition from 1977–79 and 1986–87. He represented Sea Point in the South African Parliament from 1958–61 and from 1974–2004. Described by Nelson Mandela as "one of the architects of [South Africa's] democracy", Eglin played a leading role in the drafting of the country's post-apartheid constitution.

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Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Russian-Polish poet and activist (born 1936)

Natalya Yevgenyevna Gorbanevskaya was a Russian poet, a translator of Polish literature and a civil-rights activist. She was one of the founders and the first editor of A Chronicle of Current Events (1968–1982). On 25 August 1968, with seven others, she took part in the 1968 Red Square demonstration against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1970 a Soviet court sentenced Gorbanevskaya to incarceration in a psychiatric hospital. She was released from the Kazan Special Psychiatric Hospital in 1972, and emigrated from the USSR in 1975, settling in France. In 2005, she became a citizen of Poland.

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Brian Torrey Scott, American playwright and screenwriter (born 1976)

Brian Torrey Scott was an American writer. He wrote for Rosetta Stone in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Scott previously taught Adventures and Ridiculousness at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and English at Columbia College Chicago.

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29/11/2012

Joelmir Beting, Brazilian journalist (born 1936)

Joelmir José Beting was a Brazilian journalist, radio and TV anchorman, and an economics-specialized columnist. He was widely recognized for his ability to translate the harsh, confusing economical concepts into simple, easy to understand examples for the people in general.

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Sherab Palden Beru, Tibetan painter (born 1911)

Sherab Palden Beru was an exiled Tibetan thangka artist who played a key role in preserving the art-form through the training of western students over a period of more than four decades.

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29/11/2011

Patrice O'Neal, American stand-up comedian (born 1969)

Patrice Lumumba Malcolm O'Neal was an American comedian and actor. He was known for his stand-up comedy career and his regular guest appearances on the talk show Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and the radio show Opie and Anthony.

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Guillermo O'Donnell, Argentine political scientist (born 1936)

Guillermo Alberto O'Donnell Ure was a prominent Argentine political scientist who specialized in comparative politics and Latin American politics. He spent most of his career working in Argentina and the United States, and who made lasting contributions to theorizing on authoritarianism and democratization, democracy and the state, and the politics of Latin America. His brother is Pacho O'Donnell.

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29/11/2010

Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet and author (born 1937)

Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina was a Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator, known for her apolitical writing stance. She was part of the Russian New Wave literary movement. She was cited by Joseph Brodsky as the best living poet in the Russian language. She is known in Russia as "the voice of the epoch".

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Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1915)

Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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S. Sivanayagam, Sri Lankan journalist and author (born 1930)

Subramaniam Sivanayagam was a Sri Lankan journalist, author and editor of the Saturday Review, Tamil Nation and Hot Spring.

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Stephen J. Solarz, American academic and politician (born 1940)

Stephen Joshua Solarz was an American educator and politician who served as a United States representative from New York until his political career ended in the wake of the House banking scandal in 1992.

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Maurice Wilkes, English physicist and computer scientist (born 1913)

Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes was an English computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored-program computers, and who invented microprogramming, a method for using stored-program logic to operate the control unit of a central processing unit's circuits. In 1967 he won the ACM Turing Award. At the time of his death, Wilkes was an Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge.

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29/11/2009

Robert Holdstock, English author (born 1948)

Robert Paul Holdstock was an English novelist and author best known for his works of Celtic, Nordic, Gothic and Pictish fantasy literature, predominantly in the fantasy subgenre of mythic fiction.

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Zuhair Al-Karmi, Palestinian author, scientific programs presenter on TV (born 1922).

Zuhair Maḥmoud Sa`id Al-Karmi was a TV presenter, journalist, and author from Tulkarm, Palestine. He was a scientific program presenter on radio stations and Arab television, notably Jordan TV and JRTV.

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Tamara Lisitsian, Soviet film director and screenwriter (born 1923)

Tamara Nikolaevna Lisitsian was a Soviet film director and screenwriter, who received the Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1985.

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29/11/2008

Jørn Utzon, Danish architect, designed the Sydney Opera House (born 1918)

Jørn Oberg Utzon was a Danish architect. In 1957, he won an international design competition for his design of the Sydney Opera House in Australia. Utzon's revised design, which he completed in 1961, was the basis for the landmark, although it was not completed until 1973.

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29/11/2007

James Barber, Canadian chef and author (born 1923)

James Barber was a Canadian cookbook author and host of The Urban Peasant, a CBC cooking show.

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Ralph Beard, American basketball player (born 1927)

Ralph Milton Beard Jr. was an American collegiate and professional basketball player. He won two NCAA national basketball championships at the University of Kentucky and played two years in the National Basketball Association prior to being barred for life for his participation in the 1951 college basketball point-shaving scandal.

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Henry Hyde, American lawyer and politician (born 1924)

Henry John Hyde was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007, representing the 6th district of Illinois, an area of Chicago's northwestern suburbs. He was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2001, and the House International Relations Committee from 2001 to 2007. Hyde is most famous for being a vocal opponent of abortion; to this end, he was the primary sponsor of the Hyde Amendment, which largely bars the payment of abortions with federal funds.

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29/11/2006

Allen Carr, English-Spanish accountant and author (born 1934)

Allen John Carr was a British author of books about smoking cessation and other psychological dependencies.

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Ernie Tagg, English footballer (born 1917)

Ernie Tagg was an English professional football player and manager, particularly associated with Crewe Alexandra.

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29/11/2005

David Di Tommaso, French footballer (born 1979)

David di Elias Alemu Tommaso was a French professional footballer who played as a central defender.

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29/11/2004

John Drew Barrymore, American actor (born 1932)

John Drew Barrymore was an American film actor and member of the Barrymore family of actors, which included his father, John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel and Ethel. He was the father of four children, including the actor John Blyth Barrymore III and the actress Drew Barrymore. Diana Barrymore was his half-sister from his father's second marriage.

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Harry Danning, American baseball player and coach (born 1911)

Harry Danning, nicknamed "Harry the Horse", was an American professional baseball player. He played his entire Major League Baseball career as a catcher for the New York Giants, and was considered to be both an excellent hitter and one of the top defensive catchers of his era. He batted and threw right-handed, and was a member of the National League All-Star team for four consecutive years, 1938–41.

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Jack Shields, Canadian member of Parliament (born 1929)

John Wendele Shields was a Progressive Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a soldier, businessman, and teacher by career.

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29/11/2003

Rudi Martinus van Dijk, Dutch composer (born 1932)

Rudi Martinus van Dijk was a Dutch and Canadian composer of orchestral, chamber and vocal music.

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29/11/2002

Daniel Gélin, French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1921)

Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin was a French film and television actor.

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29/11/2001

Mic Christopher, American-Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1969)

Michael "Mic" Christopher was an Irish singer-songwriter, best known for his posthumously released debut album Skylarkin'.

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George Harrison, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and music producer (born 1943)

George Harrison was an English musician who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Known as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison played a significant role in shaping the band's musical direction and established a successful solo career, particularly through his interest in non-Western musical influences.

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John Knowles, American novelist (born 1926)

John Knowles was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace (1959).

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29/11/2000

Ilmar Laaban, Estonian-Swedish poet and publicist (born 1921)

Ilmar Laaban, was an Estonian poet and literary critic.

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29/11/1999

Germán Arciniegas, Colombian historian, author and journalist (born 1900)

Germán Arciniegas Angueyra was a Colombian historian, writer and journalist who was known for his advocacy of educational and cultural issues, as well as his outspoken opposition to dictatorship. He also served as a college professor and held positions in the government, including Minister of Education and several ambassadorships.

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John Berry, American-French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1917)

John Berry was an American film and theatre director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He went into exile in France when his career was interrupted by the Hollywood blacklist.

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Gene Rayburn, American game show panelist and host (born 1917)

Gene Rayburn was an American radio and television personality. He is best known as the host of various editions of the American television game show Match Game for over two decades.

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Kazuo Sakamaki, Japanese soldier (born 1918)

Kazuo Sakamaki was a Japanese naval officer who became the first prisoner of war of World War II to be captured by U.S. forces.

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29/11/1998

George Van Eps, American swing and mainstream jazz guitarist (born 1913)

George Abel Van Eps was an American swing and mainstream jazz guitarist.

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Robin Ray, English broadcaster, actor, and musician (born 1934)

Robin Ray was an English broadcaster on radio and television, actor of stage and screen, and musician. The eldest son of the comedian Ted Ray, he was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was the school's chief technical instructor from 1961 to 1965.

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29/11/1997

Coleman Young, American politician, 66th Mayor of Detroit (born 1918)

Coleman Alexander Young was an American politician who served as mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1974 to 1994. Young was the first African-American mayor of Detroit and has been described as the "single most influential person in Detroit's modern history."

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29/11/1996

Dan Flavin, American sculptor and illustrator (born 1933)

Daniel Nicholas Flavin Jr. was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.

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Denis Jenkinson, English journalist and author (born 1920)

Denis Sargent Jenkinson, "Jenks" or "DSJ" as he was known in the pages of Motor Sport, was a British journalist deeply involved in motorsports. As Continental Correspondent of the UK-based Motor Sport magazine, he covered Formula One and other races all over Europe. He gained fame as the navigator for Stirling Moss in their record-breaking triumph in the 1955 Mille Miglia cross-country race.

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29/11/1993

J. R. D. Tata, French-Indian pilot and businessman, founded Tata Motors and Tata Global Beverages (born 1904)

Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was a French-born Indian industrialist, philanthropist, aviator and former chairman of Tata Sons and the Tata Group.

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29/11/1992

Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician and academic (born 1906)

Jean Alexandre Eugène Dieudonné was a French mathematician, notable for research in abstract algebra, algebraic geometry, and functional analysis, for close involvement with the Nicolas Bourbaki pseudonymous group and the Éléments de géométrie algébrique project of Alexander Grothendieck, and as a historian of mathematics, particularly in the fields of functional analysis and algebraic topology. His work on the classical groups, and on formal groups, introducing what now are called Dieudonné modules, had a major effect on those fields.

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29/11/1991

Ralph Bellamy, American actor (born 1904)

Ralph Rexford Bellamy was an American actor whose career spanned 65 years on stage, film, and television. During his career, he played leading roles as well as supporting roles, garnering acclaim and awards, including a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for Sunrise at Campobello as well as Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination for The Awful Truth (1937). In 1986, Bellamy was awarded with an Academy Honorary Award.

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Joe Bonson, English footballer (born 1936)

Joseph Bonson was an English professional footballer who played for several clubs during the 1950s and 1960s.

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29/11/1987

Irene Handl, English actress (born 1901)

Irene Handl was a British character actress and novelist who appeared in more than 100 British films.

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29/11/1986

Cary Grant, English-American actor (born 1904)

Cary Grant was an English-American actor. Known for his blended British and American accent, debonair demeanor, lighthearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing, he was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award, received an Academy Honorary Award in 1970, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 1981. He was named the second-greatest male star of the Golden Age of Hollywood by the American Film Institute in 1999.

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29/11/1984

Nora Thompson Dean, American Lenape educator and author (born 1907)

Nora Thompson Dean, from Dewey, Oklahoma, was a member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians. As a Lenape traditionalist and one of the last fluent speakers of the southern Unami dialect of the Lenape language, she was an influential mentor to younger tribal members and is widely cited in scholarship on Lenape (/luh-NAH-pay/) culture.

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29/11/1982

Percy Williams, Canadian sprinter (born 1908)

Percy Alfred Williams was a Canadian athlete, winner of the 100 and 200 metres races at the 1928 Summer Olympics and a former world record holder for the 100 metres sprint.

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29/11/1981

Natalie Wood, American actress (born 1938)

Natalie Wood was an American actress. She began acting at age four and co-starred at age eight in Miracle on 34th Street (1947). As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), followed by a role in John Ford's The Searchers (1956). Wood starred in the musical films West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962) and received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Her career continued with films such as Sex and the Single Girl (1964), The Great Race (1965), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), This Property Is Condemned (1966), and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969).

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29/11/1980

Dorothy Day, American journalist and activist, co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement (born 1897)

Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.

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29/11/1975

Graham Hill plane crash

Anthony William Brise was an English racing driver, who took part in ten Formula One Grand Prix events in 1975, before dying in a plane crash with Graham Hill.

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Graham Hill plane crash

Norman Graham Hill was a British racing driver, rower and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1958 to 1975. Nicknamed "Mr. Monaco", Hill won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles and, at the time of his retirement, held the record for most podium finishes (36); he won 14 Grands Prix across 18 seasons. In American open-wheel racing, Hill won the Indianapolis 500 in 1966 with Mecom. Upon winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1972 with Matra, Hill became the first—and as of 2026, only—driver to complete the Triple Crown of Motorsport.

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29/11/1974

Peng Dehuai, Chinese Communist military leader (born 1898)

Peng Dehuai was a Chinese general and politician who was the Minister of National Defense from 1954 to 1959.

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29/11/1972

Carl Stalling, American pianist and composer (born 1888)

Carl William Stalling was an American composer, voice actor and arranger for music in animated films. He is most closely associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, where he averaged one complete score each week, for 22 years.

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29/11/1970

Robert T. Frederick, American general (born 1907)

Major General Robert Tryon Frederick was a senior United States Army officer. During World War II, he commanded the 1st Special Service Force nicknamed the "Devil's Brigade", and the 1st Allied Airborne Task Force, an ad hoc division-sized airborne formation, commanding the task force as a Brigadier General during Operation Dragoon. As a Major general at 37 years old from December 3, 1944, until September 1945 he commanded the 45th Infantry Division during the Western Allied invasion of Germany and the Allied-occupied Germany that followed. He was twice awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and was a recipient of a remarkable eight Purple Hearts received from combat during World War II.

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29/11/1967

Ferenc Münnich, Hungarian soldier and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1886)

Ferenc Münnich was a Hungarian Communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary from 1958 to 1961.

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29/11/1957

Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Czech-American pianist and composer (born 1897)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian composer and conductor, who left Europe in the mid-1930s and later adopted US nationality. A child prodigy, he became one of the most important and influential composers in Hollywood history. He was a noted pianist and composer of classical music, along with music for Hollywood films, and the first composer of international stature to write Hollywood scores.

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29/11/1954

Dink Johnson, American pianist, clarinet player, and drummer (born 1892)

Ollie "Dink" Johnson was an American Dixieland jazz pianist, clarinetist, and drummer.

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29/11/1953

Sam De Grasse, Canadian-American actor (born 1875)

Samuel Alfred De Grasse was a Canadian actor. He was the uncle of cinematographer Robert De Grasse.

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29/11/1950

Walter Beech, American aviator and early aviation entrepreneur (born 1891)

Walter Herschel Beech was an American aviator and early aviation entrepreneur who co-founded the Beech Aircraft Company in 1932 with his wife, Olive Ann Beech, and a team of three others.

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29/11/1942

Boyd Wagner, American colonel and pilot (born 1916)

Lieutenant Colonel Boyd David "Buzz" Wagner was an American aviator and the first United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) fighter ace of World War II.

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Ron Middleton (VC), Australian bomber pilot and Victoria Cross Recipient (born 1916)

Rawdon Hume "Ron" Middleton, VC was a bomber pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force and a posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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29/11/1941

Frank Waller, American sprinter and hurdler (born 1884)

Frank Laird Waller was an American athlete who specialized in the 400 metres. He later became a vocal coach.

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29/11/1939

Philipp Scheidemann, German lawyer and politician, 10th Chancellor of Germany (born 1865)

Philipp Heinrich Scheidemann was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In the first quarter of the 20th century, he played a leading role in both his party and in the young Weimar Republic. During the German Revolution of 1918–1919 that broke out after Germany's defeat in World War I, Scheidemann proclaimed a German Republic from a balcony of the Reichstag building. In 1919, he was elected Reich Minister President by the National Assembly meeting in Weimar to write a constitution for the republic. He resigned the office the same year due to a lack of unanimity in the cabinet on whether or not to accept the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.

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29/11/1932

Abdullah Cevdet, Kurdish-Turkish physician and academic (born 1869)

Abdullah Cevdet Bey was a Kurdish-Turk intellectual, activist, poet, essayist, and physician. A Young Turk, he was one of the founders of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) and wrote articles with pen name of "Bir Kürd" for the publications such as Meşveret, Kurdistan and Roji Kurd about the East–West dichotomy and Kurdish awakening and nationalism. In his personal publication İctihad he pushed for the westernization of society, feminism, workers rights, liberty, science, secularism, and social liberalism. He was an ideologue of the CUP until 1902, when he became an opponent of the organization he founded as it embraced Turkish nationalism. In 1908, he established the Democratic Party, which merged with the Freedom and Accord Party in 1911. He was briefly active in support of Kurdish independence in the early 1920s before supporting Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's Turkish National Movement.

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29/11/1927

George Giffen, Australian cricketer (born 1859)

George Giffen was a cricketer who played for South Australia and Australia. An all-rounder who batted in the middle order and often opened the bowling with medium-paced off-spin, Giffen captained Australia during the 1894–95 Ashes series and was the first Australian to score 10,000 runs and take 500 wickets in first-class cricket. He was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame on 26 February 2008. At the end of his test career in 1896 Griffin scored 1,238 runs with 1131 runs coming in the Ashes tests making him at the time the leading run getter in Ashes tests.

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29/11/1924

Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer and educator (born 1858)

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late Baroque era. Though his early work was firmly rooted in traditional late-nineteenth-century Romantic Italian opera, it later developed in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents.

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29/11/1918

Prince Antônio Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, Brazilian prince (born 1881)

Captain Prince Antônio Gastão of Orléans-Braganza MC was a Brazilian-born prince of the House of Orléans-Braganza and a military officer who served with distinction in the forces of the British Empire during World War I.

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29/11/1901

Francesc Pi i Margall, Spanish federalist and republican politician and theorist (born 1824)

Francesc Pi i Margall was a Spanish federalist and republican politician and theorist who served as president of the short-lived First Spanish Republic in 1873. He was also a historian, philosopher, romanticist writer, and was also the leader of the Federal Democratic Republican Party and the Democratic Party. Pi was turned into a sort of secular saint in his time.

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29/11/1894

Juan N. Méndez, Mexican general and interim president, 1876–1877 (born 1820)

Juan Nepomuceno Laureano Méndez Sánchez was a Mexican general, a Liberal politician and confidant of Porfirio Díaz, and interim president of the Republic for a few months during the Porfiriato. He served from 6 December 1876 until 17 February 1877.

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29/11/1872

Mary Somerville, Scottish-Italian astronomer, mathematician, and author (born 1780)

Mary Somerville was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorary Members of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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29/11/1847

Marcus Whitman, American physician and missionary (born 1802)

Marcus Whitman was an American physician and missionary. He is most well known for leading American settlers across the Oregon Trail, unsuccessfully attempting to Christianize the Cayuse Indians, and was subsequently killed by the Cayuse Indians in an event known as the 1847 Whitman massacre, over a misunderstanding, resulting in the beginning of the Cayuse War (1847–1855).

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29/11/1846

Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi, Turkish composer and educator (born 1778)

Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi was a composer of Ottoman classical music.

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29/11/1830

Charles-Simon Catel, French composer and educator (born 1773)

Charles-Simon Catel was a French composer and educator born at L'Aigle, Orne.

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29/11/1797

Samuel Langdon, American pastor, theologian, and academic (born 1723)

Samuel Langdon was an American Congregational clergyman and educator. After serving as pastor in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he was appointed president of Harvard University in 1774. He held that post until 1780.

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29/11/1780

Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, wife of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1717)

Maria Theresa was the ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position in her own right. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Slavonia, Mantua, Milan, Moravia, Galicia and Lodomeria, Dalmatia, Austrian Netherlands, Carinthia, Carniola, Gorizia and Gradisca, Austrian Silesia, Tyrol, Styria and Parma. By marriage, she was Duchess of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, and Holy Roman Empress.

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29/11/1759

Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and theorist (born 1687)

Nicolaus Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.

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29/11/1699

Patrick Gordon, Scottish-Russian general (born 1635)

Patrick Leopold Gordon of Auchleuchries was a general and rear admiral in Russia, of Scottish origin. He was descended from a family of Aberdeenshire, holders of the estate of Auchleuchries, near Ellon. The family was connected with the noble branch of Haddo. As a result of his distinguished service for Sweden, Poland and Russia he rose in ranks from trooper to full general, and became a principal advisor and close friend of Tsar Peter the Great. Gordon assumed the additional Christian name of Leopold when confirmed as a Roman Catholic shortly before his death.

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29/11/1695

James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Court of Session (born 1619)

James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair was a Scottish lawyer and statesman, and a key influence on the Scottish Enlightenment. He was a leading figure of Scottish law, "and also one of the greatest thinkers on law across Europe has ever produced".

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29/11/1661

Brian Walton, English bishop and scholar (born 1600)

Brian Walton was an English Anglican priest, divine and scholar. He is mostly remembered for his polyglot Bible.

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29/11/1646

Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish astronomer and theologian (born 1565)

Laurentius Paulinus Gothus was a Swedish theologian, astronomer and Archbishop of Uppsala.

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29/11/1643

William Cartwright, English priest and playwright (born 1611)

William Cartwright was an English poet, dramatist and churchman.

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Claudio Monteverdi, Italian priest and composer (born 1567)

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque periods of music history.

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29/11/1632

Frederick V, Elector Palatine (born 1596)

Frederick V was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine in the Holy Roman Empire from 1610 to 1623, and reigned as King of Bohemia from 1619 to 1620. He was forced to abdicate both roles, and the brevity of his reign in Bohemia earned him the derisive sobriquet "the Winter King".

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29/11/1628

John Felton, English soldier and assassin of the Duke of Buckingham (born c. 1595)

Lieutenant John Felton was an English army officer who assassinated George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham by stabbing him to death in the Greyhound Pub at Portsmouth on 23 August 1628. Charles I of England trusted Buckingham, who made himself rich in the process but proved a failure at foreign and military policy. Charles gave him command of a military expedition against Spain in 1625. It was a total fiasco with many dying from disease and starvation. He led another disastrous military campaign in 1627. Buckingham was hated and the damage to the king's reputation was irreparable. Buckingham's assassination by Felton was widely celebrated by the English public even after Felton's execution.

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29/11/1626

Ernst von Mansfeld, German commander (born 1580)

Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld, or simply Ernst von Mansfeld, was a German military commander. Despite being a Catholic, he fought for the Protestants during the early years of the Thirty Years' War. He was one of the leading mercenary generals of the early war.

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29/11/1594

Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet (born 1533)

Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga was a Spanish soldier and poet, born in Madrid. While in Chile (1556–63) he fought against the Araucanians (Mapuche), and there he began the epic poem La Araucana, considered one of the greatest epics of the Spanish Golden Age. This heroic work in 37 cantos is divided into three parts, published in 1569, 1578, and 1589. It celebrates both the violence of the conquistadors and the courage of the Araucanians.

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29/11/1590

Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (born 1547)

Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin was a German philologist, poet, playwright, mathematician, and astronomer, born at Erzingen, today part of Balingen in Württemberg, where his father was parish minister.

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29/11/1577

Cuthbert Mayne, English priest (born 1543)

Cuthbert Mayne was an English Catholic priest executed under the laws of Elizabeth I. He was the first of the seminary priests trained on the Continent to be martyred. Mayne was beatified in 1886 and canonised as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales in 1970.

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29/11/1530

Thomas Wolsey, English cardinal and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (born 1473)

Thomas Wolsey was an English statesman and Catholic cardinal. When Henry VIII became King of England in 1509, Wolsey became the king's almoner. Wolsey's affairs prospered and by 1514 he had become the controlling figure in virtually all matters of state. He also held important ecclesiastical appointments. These included the Archbishop of York—the second most important role in the English church—and that of papal legate. His appointment as a cardinal by Pope Leo X in 1515 gave him precedence over all other English clergy.

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29/11/1378

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1316)

Charles IV was Holy Roman Emperor from 1355 until his death in 1378. He was elected King of Germany in 1346 and became King of Bohemia that same year. He was a member of the House of Luxembourg from his father's side and the Bohemian House of Přemyslid from his mother's side; he emphasized the latter due to his lifelong affinity for the Bohemian side of his inheritance, and also because his direct ancestors in the Přemyslid line included two saints.

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29/11/1342

Michael of Cesena, Italian general, priest, and theologian (born 1270)

Michael of Cesena was an Italian Franciscan, minister general of that order, and theologian. His advocacy of evangelical poverty brought him into conflict with Pope John XXII.

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29/11/1330

Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1287)

Roger Mortimer, 3rd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore, 1st Earl of March, was an English nobleman and powerful marcher lord who gained many estates in the Welsh Marches and Ireland following his advantageous marriage to the wealthy heiress Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville. Her mother was of the royal House of Lusignan. In November 1316, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1322 for having led the marcher lords in a revolt against King Edward II in what became known as the Despenser War.

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29/11/1314

Philip IV, king of France (born 1268)

Philip IV, called Philip the Fair, was King of France from 1285 to 1314. By virtue of his marriage with Joan I of Navarre, he was also King of Navarre and Count of Champagne as Philip I from 1284 to 1305. Although Philip was known to be handsome, hence the epithet le Bel, his rigid, autocratic, imposing, and inflexible personality gained him other nicknames, such as the Iron King. His fierce opponent Bernard Saisset, bishop of Pamiers, said of him: "He is neither man nor beast. He is a statue."

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29/11/1268

Clement IV, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1190)

Pope Clement IV, born Gui Foucois and also known as Guy le Gros, was Bishop of Le Puy (1257–1260), Archbishop of Narbonne (1259–1261), Cardinal of Sabina (1261–1265), and head of the Catholic Church from 5 February 1265 until his death. His election as pope occurred at a conclave held at Perugia that lasted four months while cardinals argued over whether to call in Charles I of Anjou, the youngest brother of Louis IX of France, to carry on the papal war against the Hohenstaufens. Pope Clement was a patron of Thomas Aquinas and of Roger Bacon, encouraging Bacon in the writing of his Opus Majus, which included important treatises on optics and the scientific method.

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29/11/1253

Otto II, duke of Bavaria (born 1206)

Otto II, called the Illustrious, was the Duke of Bavaria from 1231 and Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1228. He was the son of Louis I and Ludmilla of Bohemia and a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty.

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29/11/0835

Muhammad al-Jawad, the ninth of the Twelve Imams (born 811)

Muhammad ibn Ali al-Jawad was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the ninth of the Twelve Imams, succeeding his father, Ali al-Rida. He is known by the epithets al-Jawād and al-Taqī. Like most of his predecessors, Muhammad kept aloof from politics and engaged in religious teaching, while organizing the affairs of the Imamite Shia community through a network of representatives. The extensive correspondence of al-Jawad with his followers on questions of Islamic law has been preserved in Shia sources and numerous pithy religio-ethical sayings are also attributed to him.

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29/11/0561

Chlothar I, Frankish king (born 497)

Chlothar I, sometime called "the Old", also anglicised as Clotaire from the original French version, was a king of the Franks of the Merovingian dynasty and one of the four sons of Clovis I.

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29/11/0524

Ahkal Moʼ Nahb I, ruler of Palenque (born 465)

Ahkal Moʼ Nahb I, also known as Chaacal and Akul Anab I,, was an ajaw of the Maya city of Palenque. He ruled from June 5, 501 AD to his death.

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29/11/0521

Jacob of Serugh, Syrian poet and theologian (born 451)

Jacob of Serugh, also called Jacob of Sarug or Mar Jacob, was one of the foremost poets and theologians of the Syriac Christian tradition, second only to Ephrem the Syrian and equal to Narsai. He lived most of his life as an ecclesiastical official in Suruç, in modern-day Turkey. He became a bishop near the end of his life in 519. He was a Miaphysite, albeit moderate compared to his contemporaries.

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