What happened on October 29 ?

1038 - Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury

1138 - Boles?aw III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (b. 1086)

1268 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252)

1268 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (beheaded) (b. 1249)

1590 - Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician and theologian (b. 1522)

1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed) (b. 1554)

1650 - David Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575)

1666 - Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600)

1666 - James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596)

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 (b. 1821)

1901 - Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (b. 1873)

1905 - Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)

1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher (b. 1847)

1919 - A. B. Simpson, Canadian founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance and Nyack College (b. 1843)

1932 - Joseph Babi?ski, Polish-French neurologist (b. 1857)

1933 - Albert Calmette, French physician (b. 1863)

1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)

1950 - King Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858)

1953 - William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)

1957 - Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (b. 1885)

1957 - Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)

1958 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)

1963 - Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890)

1963 - U. Muthuramalingam Thevar?, Indian politician (b. 1908)

1971 - Duane Allman, American musician (b. 1946)

1971 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

1981 - Georges Brassens, French singer (b. 1921)

1987 - Woody Herman, American musician (b. 1913)

1997 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)

2003 - Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)

2003 - Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (b. 1921)

2004 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (b. 1923)

2004 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian (b. 1936)

2004 - Peter Twinn, English mathematician and World War II code-breaker (b. 1916)