Died on This Day: June 29

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The following folks died on June 29.

226 – Cao Pi, Chinese emperor (b. 187)

884 – Yang Shili, general of the Tang Dynasty

1059 – Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (b. 995)

1149 – Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch (b. 1115)

1153 – Óláfr Guðrøðarson, King of the Isles

1252 – Abel, King of Denmark (b. 1218)

1293 – Henry of Ghent, philosopher (b. c.1217)

1315 – Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)

1344 – Joan of Savoy, duchess consort of Brittany (b. 1310)

1374 – Jan Milíč of Kroměříž, Czech priest and reformer

1432 – Janus of Cyprus (b. 1375)

1509 – Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (b. 1443)

1520 – Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler (b. 1466)

1575 – Baba Nobuharu, Japanese samurai (b. 1515)

1594 – Niels Kaas, Danish politician, Chancellor of Denmark (b. 1535)

1626 – Scipione Cobelluzzi, Italian cardinal and archivist (b. 1564)

1646 – Laughlin Ó Cellaigh, Gaelic-Irish Lord

1725 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese philosopher, academic, and politician (b. 1657)

1729 – Edward Taylor, American-English poet, pastor, and physician (b. circa 1642)

1744 – André Campra, French composer and conductor (b. 1660)

1764 – Ralph Allen, English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1693)

1779 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (b. 1728)

1831 – Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian minister and politician (b. 1757)

1840 – Lucien Bonaparte, French prince (b. 1775)

1852 – Henry Clay, American lawyer and politician, 9th United States Secretary of State (b. 1777)

1853 – Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, French botanist and academic (b. 1797)

1855 – John Gorrie, American physician and humanitarian (b. 1803)

1860 – Thomas Addison, English physician and endocrinologist (b. 1793)

1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet and translator (b. 1806)

1873 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1824)

1875 – Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)

1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (b. 1825)

1900 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1827)

1907 – Konstantinos Volanakis, Greek painter and academic (b. 1837)

1919 – José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician and educator (b. 1864)

1931 – Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian poet and physician (b. 1850)

1933 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1887)

1935 – Jack O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1873)

1936 – János Szlepecz, Slovene priest and missionary (b. 1872)

1940 – Paul Klee, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1879)

1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1860)

1942 – Paul Troje, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1864)

1949 – Themistoklis Sofoulis, Greek politician, 115th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1860)

1978 – Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)

1995 – Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)

2002 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)

2003 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)

2006 – Randy Walker, American football player and coach (b. 1954)

2012 – Juan Reccius, Chilean triple jumper (b. 1911)

2012 – Floyd Temple, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1926)

2015 – Charles Pasqua, French businessman and politician, French Minister of the Interior (b. 1927)