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Approximately 132,991 people died worldwide on March 29, 1973.
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Unusual Deaths in 1973
- Péter vályi, finance minister of hungary fell into a blast furnace (some sources say a pit of molten iron) on a visit to a steelworks factory at miskolc.
- Bruce lee, a martial arts actor, is thought to have died by a severe allergic reaction to equagesic. his brain had swollen about 13%. his autopsy was written as "death by misadventure."
People who died on March 29 (various years)
- 2006 - Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer
- 2005 - Miltos Sahtouris, Greek poet
- 2005 - Mitch Hedberg, American comedian
- 2005 - Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer
- 2003 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (SARS)
- 2002 - Rico Yan, Philippine Young Movie & TV Actor
- 2001 - John Lewis, American jazz pianist
- 2001 - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer
- 1999 - Joe Williams, American singer
- 1996 - Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director, producer and teacher
- 1995 - Terry Moore, American baseball player
- 1995 - Baltimora, British singer
- 1994 - Bill Travers, British actor
- 1994 - Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright
- 1992 - Brenda, made the world a better place
- 1992 - Paul Henreid, Austrian actor
- 1991 - Lee Atwater, American political consultant
- 1989 - Bernard Blier, French actor
- 1986 - Harry Ritz, American actor and comedian
- 1985 - Luther Terry, Surgeon General of the United States
- 1982 - Nathan Twining, USAF general
- 1982 - Carl Orff, German composer
- 1980 - Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger
- 1972 - Lord J. Arthur Rank, British movie theater owner
- 1971 - Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician
- 1970 - Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist
- 1959 - Barthelemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic
- 1957 - Joyce Cary, Irish author
- 1937 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer
- 1934 - Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire and benefactor
- Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist
- Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer
- 1912 - Members of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole: Henry Robinson Bowers
- 1906 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter
- 1888 - Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer
- 1873 - Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist
- 1855 - Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1826 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet
- 1803 - Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch composer
- 1800 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer
- 1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden (shot)
- 1788 - Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist
- 1772 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician
- 1751 - Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist
- 1683 - Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan
- 1629 - Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch artist
- 1628 - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York
- 1625 - Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian
- 1578 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal
- 1578 - Arthur Champernowne, English admiral
- 1461 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician
- 1368 - Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan
- 1058 - Pope Stephen IX
