What happened on September 29 ?

1364 - Charles, Duke of Brittany

1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)

1637 - Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint

1703 - Charles de Saint-ÿvremond, French soldier (b. 1610)

1800 - Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b. 1729)

1804 - Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)

1833 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)

1887 - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810)\

1889 - Louis Faidherbe, French general (b. 1818)

1902 - William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825)

1902 - ÿmile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)

1908 - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (b. 1839)

1925 - Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1851)

1927 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)

1930 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)

1937 - Ray Ewry, American athlete (b. 1873)

1967 - Carson McCullers, American author (b. 1917) (

1970 - Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)

1973 - W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)

1975 - Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager

1982 - Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)

1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)

1994 - Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)

1998 - Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (b. 1917)

2001 - Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)