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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 29th of October 0312 | EVENT | Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Milvian Bridge, he stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out the Tiber and beheaded. |
| 29th of October 0437 | EVENT | Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius. |
| 29th of October 0969 | EVENT | Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria. |
| 29th of October 1268 | EVENT | Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic church. |
| 29th of October 1390 | EVENT | First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people. |
| 29th of October 1422 | EVENT | Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France. |
| 29th of October 1467 | EVENT | Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege. |
| 29th of October 1618 | EVENT | English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England. |
| 29th of October 1658 | EVENT | Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle). |
| 29th of October 1665 | EVENT | Battle of Ambuila, where Portuguese forces defeated the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king Antonio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga. |
| 29th of October 1675 | EVENT | Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (?) as a symbol of the integral in calculus. |
| 29th of October 1787 | EVENT | Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague. |
| 29th of October 1792 | EVENT | Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River. |
| 29th of October 1859 | EVENT | Spain declares war on Morocco. |
| 29th of October 1863 | EVENT | Eighteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross. |
| 29th of October 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie : Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee. |
| 29th of October 1886 | EVENT | The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated. |
| 29th of October 1901 | EVENT | In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine. |
| 29th of October 1901 | EVENT | Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution. |
| 29th of October 1918 | EVENT | The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German revolution. |
| 29th of October 1921 | EVENT | The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed. |
| 29th of October 1921 | EVENT | Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in USA. |
| 29th of October 1921 | EVENT | The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football. |
| 29th of October 1922 | EVENT | The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister. |
| 29th of October 1923 | EVENT | Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. |
| 29th of October 1929 | EVENT | The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression. |
| 29th of October 1941 | EVENT | Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action". |
| 29th of October 1942 | EVENT | Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews. |
| 29th of October 1944 | EVENT | The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division. |
| 29th of October 1945 | EVENT | Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns. |
| 29th of October 1948 | EVENT | Safsaf massacre. |
| 29th of October 1953 | EVENT | BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco, California. Pianist William Kapell is among the 19 killed. |
| 29th of October 1955 | EVENT | The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol. |
| 29th of October 1956 | EVENT | Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal. |
| 29th of October 1956 | EVENT | Tangier Protocol is signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco. |
| 29th of October 1957 | EVENT | Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset. |
| 29th of October 1960 | EVENT | In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight. |
| 29th of October 1961 | EVENT | Syria exits from the United Arab Republic. |
| 29th of October 1964 | EVENT | Tanganyika and Zanzibar unite to form the Republic of Tanzania. |
| 29th of October 1964 | EVENT | A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. |
| 29th of October 1966 | EVENT | National Organization For Women is founded. |
| 29th of October 1967 | EVENT | London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall. |
| 29th of October 1967 | EVENT | Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors. |
| 29th of October 1969 | EVENT | The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. |
| 29th of October 1980 | EVENT | Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, leaves for New York from his home in Hawaii. |
| 29th of October 1980 | EVENT | Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport. |
| 29th of October 1983 | EVENT | Over 500,000 people demonstrate against cruise missiles in The Hague, Netherlands. |
| 29th of October 1985 | EVENT | Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia. |
| 29th of October 1986 | EVENT | British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway. |
| 29th of October 1991 | EVENT | The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid. |
| 29th of October 1994 | EVENT | Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton). |
| 29th of October 1998 | EVENT | Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. |
| 29th of October 1998 | EVENT | Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities. |
| 29th of October 1998 | EVENT | Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras. |
| 29th of October 1998 | EVENT | While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel. |
| 29th of October 1998 | EVENT | ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission. |
| 29th of October 1998 | EVENT | The Gothenburg nightclub fire in Sweden claims 63 lives and injures 200. |
| 29th of October 1999 | EVENT | A large cyclone devastates Orissa, India. |
| 29th of October 2002 | EVENT | Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime. |
| 29th of October 2004 | EVENT | The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election. |
| 29th of October 2004 | EVENT | In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution. |
| 29th of October 2005 | EVENT | 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60. |
| 29th of October 2008 | EVENT | Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5. |
| 29th of October 1017 | BIRTHDAY | Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056) |
| 29th of October 1682 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761) |
| 29th of October 1690 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754) |
| 29th of October 1704 | BIRTHDAY | John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757) |
| 29th of October 1740 | BIRTHDAY | James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson (d. 1795) |
| 29th of October 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Emmett, American composer (d. 1904) |
| 29th of October 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Ludovit Stur, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language (d. 1856) |
| 29th of October 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Mieczys?aw Halka Ledochowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (d. 1902) |
| 29th of October 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (d. 1907) |
| 29th of October 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Narcisa de Jesus Martillo, Ecuadorian saint (d. 1869) |
| 29th of October 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Bruchesi, archbishop of Montreal (d. 1939) |
| 29th of October 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904) |
| 29th of October 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Luna, Filipino revolutionary general (d. 1899) |
| 29th of October 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Marie of Edinburgh, queen of Romania (d. 1938) |
| 29th of October 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (d. 1973) |
| 29th of October 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (d. 1966) |
| 29th of October 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Alva B. Adams, American politician (d. 1941) |
| 29th of October 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Franz von Papen, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1969) |
| 29th of October 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Abram Ioffe, Soviet physicist (d. 1960) |
| 29th of October 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Giraudoux, French writer (d. 1944) |
| 29th of October 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Fanny Brice, American singer (d. 1951) |
| 29th of October 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (d. 1945) |
| 29th of October 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Akim Tamiroff, Russian actor (d. 1972) |
| 29th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Fredric Brown, American science fiction and mystery writer (d. 1972) |
| 29th of October 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Edwige Feuillere, French film actress (d. 1998) |
| 29th of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Ayer, British philosopher (d. 1989) |
| 29th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | William Berenberg, American physician (d. 2005) |
| 29th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Constantine, American actor/singer (d. 1993) |
| 29th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Gordon, American writer and producer (d. 2007) |
| 29th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, Nobel laureate |
| 29th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I Catholicos, Indian Orthodox Church |
| 29th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist (d. 2003) |
| 29th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Neal Hefti, American jazz musician (d. 2008) |
| 29th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch athlete |
| 29th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist |
| 29th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Dominick Dunne, American author (d. 2009) |
| 29th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Hardy, English actor |
| 29th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor |
| 29th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician |
| 29th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002) |
| 29th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992) |
| 29th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer |
| 29th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bertha Brouwer, Dutch athlete (d. 2006) |
| 29th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor |
| 29th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Takahata Isao, Japanese animated film director |
| 29th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Akiko Kojima, Japanese model |
| 29th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia |
| 29th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Bakshi, American cartoonist |
| 29th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Frida Boccara, French singer (d. 1996) |
| 29th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Connie Mack, U.S. Senator from Florida |
| 29th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Ulises Macias Salcedo, Catholic bishop |
| 29th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Ross, American artist and television host (d. 1995) |
| 29th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Melora Harte, American voice actor |
| 29th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Don Simpson, American film producer (d. 1996) |
| 29th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Denny Laine, English musician (Moody Blues, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Wings) |
| 29th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Wiesheu, German minister |
| 29th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Brochu, Canadian businessman and sports executive (Montreal Expos) |
| 29th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Melba Moore, American singer |
| 29th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Green, English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac) |
| 29th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Lynn Carey, American actress and singer (Mama Lion) |
| 29th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Dreyfuss, American actor |
| 29th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Coonan, Australian politician |
| 29th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Frans de Waal, Dutch primatologist |
| 29th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Jackson, American actress |
| 29th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | James Williamson, American guitarist |
| 29th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Orndorff, American professional wrestler |
| 29th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Kieron Baker, English footballer |
| 29th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Abdullah Gul, Turkish President |
| 29th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Bronwen Mantel, Canadian actress and voice actor |
| 29th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Dirk Kempthorne, American politician, 49th United States Secretary of the Interior and 30th Governor of Idaho |
| 29th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Tiff Needell, British racing driver and television presenter |
| 29th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 29th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Roger O'Donnell, English musician (The Cure) |
| 29th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Boy Abunda, Filipino journalist and television personality |
| 29th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) (d. 2007) |
| 29th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfredo Gomez, Puerto Rican boxer |
| 29th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor |
| 29th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Blazej Balaz, Slovak painter |
| 29th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | David Remnick, American writer and editor of The New Yorker |
| 29th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Gartner, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 29th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Finola Hughes, British actress |
| 29th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Thorsten Schlumberger, German footballer |
| 29th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Jackson, American musician |
| 29th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Otto, American ice hockey player turned coach |
| 29th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Einar Orn Benediktsson, Icelandic musician (The Sugarcubes) |
| 29th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Yasmin Le Bon, British model |
| 29th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie McGuire, Australian television presenter |
| 29th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Joely Fisher, American actress |
| 29th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Rufus Sewell, English actor |
| 29th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater |
| 29th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Tsunku, Japanese music producer |
| 29th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Donis, Greek footballer |
| 29th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Eleni Menegaki, Greek TV presenter |
| 29th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | SA Martinez, American singer (311) |
| 29th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Phillip Cocu, Dutch footballer |
| 29th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer |
| 29th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Winona Ryder, American actress |
| 29th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Hayden, Australian cricketer |
| 29th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel J. Bernstein, American professor |
| 29th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Gabrielle Union, American actress |
| 29th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress |
| 29th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Takafumi Horie, Japanese entrepreneur |
| 29th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Pires, French footballer |
| 29th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Messier, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 29th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Vaughan, English cricketer |
| 29th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Lin, Chinese actress |
| 29th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Milena Govich, American actress |
| 29th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Craigan, Northern Irish footballer |
| 29th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Kalaitzis, Greek basketball player |
| 29th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor |
| 29th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Travis Henry, American football player |
| 29th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ignasi Gimenez Renom, Catalan politician |
| 29th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kaine Robertson, New Zealand-born Italian rugby player |
| 29th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Foster, American actor |
| 29th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | B.J. Sams, American football player |
| 29th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Beard, American swimmer |
| 29th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Brown, Australian Australian rules footballer |
| 29th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Reema Sen, Indian actress |
| 29th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer |
| 29th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Chelan Simmons, Canadian actress |
| 29th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor |
| 29th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Dana Eveland, American baseball player |
| 29th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Clarett, American football player |
| 29th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Tahincioglu, Turkish racing driver |
| 29th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 29th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Severino Jefferson, Brazilian footballer |
| 29th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Sarita Perez de Tagle, Filipina actress and model |
| 29th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer |
| 29th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Frazer McLaren, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 29th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Dube, Canadian figure skater |
| 29th of October 1993 | BIRTHDAY | India Eisley, American actress |
| 29th of October 1038 | DEATH | Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 29th of October 1138 | DEATH | Boles?aw III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (Born 1086) |
| 29th of October 1268 | DEATH | Conradin, Duke of Swabia (Born 1252) |
| 29th of October 1268 | DEATH | Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (Born 1249) |
| 29th of October 1590 | DEATH | Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician (Born 1522) |
| 29th of October 1618 | DEATH | Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (Born 1554) |
| 29th of October 1650 | DEATH | David Calderwood, Scottish historian (Born 1575) |
| 29th of October 1666 | DEATH | Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (Born 1600) |
| 29th of October 1666 | DEATH | James Shirley, English dramatist (Born 1596) |
| 29th of October 1783 | DEATH | Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (Born 1717) |
| 29th of October 1829 | DEATH | Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (Born 1751) |
| 29th of October 1877 | DEATH | Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general (Born 1821) |
| 29th of October 1897 | DEATH | Henry George, American writer, politician and political economist (Born 1839) |
| 29th of October 1901 | DEATH | Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (Born 1873) |
| 29th of October 1905 | DEATH | Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (Born 1873) |
| 29th of October 1911 | DEATH | Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher (Born 1847) |
| 29th of October 1916 | DEATH | John Sebastian Little, American politician and congressman (Born 1851) |
| 29th of October 1919 | DEATH | A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (Born 1843) |
| 29th of October 1932 | DEATH | Joseph Babinski, Polish-French neurologist (Born 1857) |
| 29th of October 1933 | DEATH | Albert Calmette, French physician (Born 1863) |
| 29th of October 1933 | DEATH | Paul Painleve, French mathematician and politician (Born 1853) |
| 29th of October 1936 | DEATH | Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish writer and political theorist (Born 1874) |
| 29th of October 1939 | DEATH | Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (Born 1864) |
| 29th of October 1941 | DEATH | Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (Born 1897) |
| 29th of October 1949 | DEATH | G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (Born 1872) |
| 29th of October 1950 | DEATH | King Gustaf V of Sweden (Born 1858) |
| 29th of October 1953 | DEATH | William Kapell, American pianist (Born 1922) |
| 29th of October 1957 | DEATH | Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (Born 1885) |
| 29th of October 1957 | DEATH | Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (Born 1933) |
| 29th of October 1958 | DEATH | Zoe Akins, American playwright (Born 1886) |
| 29th of October 1963 | DEATH | Adolphe Menjou, American actor (Born 1890) |
| 29th of October 1971 | DEATH | Duane Allman, American musician (Born 1946) |
| 29th of October 1971 | DEATH | Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1902) |
| 29th of October 1977 | DEATH | Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (Born 1926) |
| 29th of October 1981 | DEATH | Georges Brassens, French singer (Born 1921) |
| 29th of October 1986 | DEATH | Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (Born 1913) |
| 29th of October 1987 | DEATH | Woody Herman, American musician (Born 1913) |
| 29th of October 1993 | DEATH | Lipman Bers, American Mathematician (Born1914) |
| 29th of October 1994 | DEATH | Shlomo Goren, Israeli Chief Rabbi (Born 1918) |
| 29th of October 1995 | DEATH | Terry Southern, American screenwriter (Born 1924) |
| 29th of October 1997 | DEATH | Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (Born 1930) |
| 29th of October 1997 | DEATH | Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and NASA astrophysicist (Born 1947) |
| 29th of October 1998 | DEATH | Paul Misraki, French songwriter (Born 1908) |
| 29th of October 1999 | DEATH | Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (Born 1931) |
| 29th of October 2002 | DEATH | Glenn McQueen, American animator (Born 1960) |
| 29th of October 2003 | DEATH | Hal Clement, American writer (Born 1922) |
| 29th of October 2003 | DEATH | Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (Born 1921) |
| 29th of October 2004 | DEATH | Vaughn Meader, American comedian (Born 1936) |
| 29th of October 2004 | DEATH | Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (Born 1923) |
| 29th of October 2004 | DEATH | Peter Twinn, English mathematician (Born 1916) |
| 29th of October 2006 | DEATH | Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (Born 1928) |
| 29th of October 2008 | DEATH | Mike Baker, American singer Shadow Gallery (Born 1963) |