Famous Deaths for 29th October 2025

1618 – Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet, historian and explorer, beheaded for treason at about 64
1824 – Charles Pinckney, American Founding Father, planter and Governor of South Carolina (1789-92; 1796-98; 1806-08), dies at 67
1853 – William Richard Bexfield, English composer, dies at 29
1924 – Peter Verigin, Russian Doukhobor leader (led Doukhobor community in Canada), dies, possibly assassinated in an explosion on a train at 65
1933 – Paul Painlevé, French Prime Minister (1917, 1925), dies at 69
1957 – Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl, strangled in her apartment in an unsolved murder at 24
1973 – Heathcote Dicken Statham, English organist, composer, and conductor, dies at 83
1986 – Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68
1986 – Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
2016 – John D. Roberts, American chemist, received American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2013), dies at 98

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