1893 – Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52[NS=8/29]
1961 – Carlos Leon Salzedo, composer, dies at 76
1971 – Horace McMahon, American actor (Detective Story, Martin Kane Private Eye), dies from a heart ailment at 65
1973 – Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
1983 – Ira Gershwin, lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills at 86
1987 – Gary Chester [Cesario Gurciullo], drummer (Monkees, Lovin’ Spoonful) and drum instructor, dies at 62
1987 – Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor, comedian and Israel’s 1st mime (The Policeman, The Delta Force), dies of lung cancer at 57
1988 – Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr, (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies on 74th birthday
1992 – Andre de Villiers, South African, murdered
2004 – Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918)