List of Famous people who died in 1929

Wyatt Earp

First Name Wyatt
Last Name Earp
Born on March 19, 1848
Died on January 13, 1929 (aged 80)

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an Old West lawman and gambler in Cochise County, Arizona Territory, and a deputy marshal in Tombstone. He worked in a wide variety of trades throughout his life and took part in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys. He is often erroneously regarded as the central figure in the shootout, although his brother Virgil was the Tombstone City and Deputy U.S. Marshal that day, and had far more experience in combat as a sheriff, constable, marshal, and soldier.

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Ludger Sylbaris

First Name Ludger
Born on June 1, 1874
Died on January 1, 1929 (aged 54)
Born in France

Ludger Sylbaris was an Afro-Caribbean man who was one of three survivors in the city of Saint-Pierre on the Caribbean island of Martinique during the devastating volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée on May 8, 1902. Saint-Pierre, known as the "Paris of the West Indies", was in the direct path of a pyroclastic flow, which destroyed the city and killed an estimated 30,000 people.

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Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch
First Name Ferdinand
Last Name Foch
Born on October 2, 1851
Died on March 20, 1929 (aged 77)
Born in France, Occitania

Ferdinand Foch was a French general and military theorist who served as the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War. An aggressive, even reckless commander at the First Marne, Flanders and Artois campaigns of 1914–1916, Foch became the Allied Commander-in-Chief in late March 1918 in the face of the all-out German spring offensive, which pushed the Allies back using fresh soldiers and new tactics that trenches could not contain. He successfully coordinated the French, British and American efforts into a coherent whole, deftly handling his strategic reserves. He stopped the German offensive and launched a war-winning counterattack. In November 1918, Marshal Foch accepted the German cessation of hostilities and was present at the Armistice of 11 November 1918.

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Frank Gusenberg

First Name Frank
Last Name Gusenberg
Born on October 11, 1892
Died on February 14, 1929 (aged 36)

Frank Gusenberg was an American contract killer and a victim of the Saint Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago, Illinois.

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Aletta Jacobs

Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs
First Name Aletta
Born on February 9, 1854
Died on August 10, 1929 (aged 75)

Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs was a Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the Netherlands. In 1882, she founded the world's first birth control clinic and was a leader in both the Dutch and international women's movements. She led campaigns aimed at deregulating prostitution, improving women's working conditions, promoting peace and calling for women's right to vote.

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Henry Johnson

William Henry Johnson
First Name Henry
Last Name Johnson
Died on July 1, 1929

William Henry Johnson, commonly known as Henry Johnson, was a United States Army soldier who performed heroically in the first African American unit of the United States Army to engage in combat in World War I. On watch in the Argonne Forest on May 14, 1918, he fought off a German raid in hand-to-hand combat, killing multiple German soldiers and rescuing a fellow soldier while experiencing 21 wounds, in an action that was brought to the nation's attention by coverage in the New York World and The Saturday Evening Post later that year. On June 2, 2015, he was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama in a posthumous ceremony at the White House.

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John Mitchell, Jr.

First Name John
Last Name Jr.
Born on July 11, 1863
Died on December 3, 1929 (aged 66)

John Mitchell Jr. was an American businessman, newspaper editor, African American civil rights activist, and politician in Richmond, Virginia, particularly in Richmond's Jackson Ward, which became known as the "Black Wall Street of America." As editor of the Richmond Planet, he frequently published articles in favor of racial equality. In 1904, he organized a black boycott of the city's segregated trolley system.

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Millicent Garrett Fawcett

Millicent Garrett
First Name Millicent
Died on August 5, 1929

Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett was an English politician, writer and feminist. She campaigned for women's suffrage through legislative change and led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), from 1897 to 1919. She wrote of herself: "I cannot say I became a suffragist. I always was one, from the time I was old enough to think at all about the principles of Representative Government." Fawcett tried to improve women's chances of higher education, serving as a governor of Bedford College, London, and co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge in 1875. In 2018, 100 years after the Representation of the People Act, Fawcett became the first woman honoured with a statue in Parliament Square.

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Sergei Diaghilev

First Name Sergei
Last Name Diaghilev
Born on March 31, 1872
Died on August 19, 1929 (aged 57)

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

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Asa Griggs Candler

First Name Asa
Last Name Candler
Born on December 30, 1851
Died on March 12, 1929 (aged 77)

Asa Griggs Candler was an American business tycoon who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola recipe for US$1,750 from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. Candler founded The Coca-Cola Company in 1892 and developed it as a major company.

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