December 29th
185 Notable deaths
Wojciech Kilar
Polish composer.
Born July 17th, 1932 in Lviv. [ref]
Died December 29th, 2013 at 81 years old in Katowice (brain cancer). [ref]
Ringo Lam
Hong kong film director (1955–2018).
Born December 8th, 1955 in British Hong Kong.
Died December 29th, 2018 at 63 years old in Hong Kong (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Edgar Savisaar
Estonian politician.
Born May 31st, 1950 in Harku Rural Municipality.
Died December 29th, 2022 at 72 years old in East Tallinn Central Hospital. [ref]
Eduard Artemyev
Soviet and russian composer (1937–2022).
Born November 30th, 1937 in Novosibirsk.
Died December 29th, 2022 at 85 years old in Moscow. [ref]
Tullio Levi-Civita
Italian mathematician and physicist.
Born March 29th, 1873 in Padua. [ref]
Died December 29th, 1941 at 68 years old in Rome. [ref]
Don Taylor
American actor and film director (1920-1998).
Born December 13th, 1920 in Freeport.
Died December 29th, 1998 at 78 years old in Los Angeles (heart failure).
Pupetta Maresca
Italian criminal (1935–2021).
Born January 19th, 1935 in Castellammare di Stabia.
Died December 29th, 2021 at 86 years old in Castellammare di Stabia. [ref]
Miroslav Krleža
Croatian writer.
Born July 7th, 1893 in Zagreb. [ref]
Died December 29th, 1981 at 88 years old in Zagreb. [ref]
Doris Humphrey
American dancer and choreographer (1895–1958).
Born October 17th, 1895 in Oak Park. [ref]
Died December 29th, 1958 at 63 years old in New York City.
Leonid Nikolaev
Russian assassin.
Born May 10th, 1904 in Saint Petersburg.
Died December 29th, 1934 at 30 years old in Saint Petersburg (ballistic trauma, execution by shooting).
Deaths 41 to 50 of 185
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner