| 123783 | October 29 | Death | 1933 – Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France (b. 1853) |
| 123784 | October 29 | Death | 1936 – Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish journalist and theorist (b. 1874) |
| 123785 | October 29 | Death | 1939 – Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (b. 1864) |
| 123786 | October 29 | Death | 1940 – Phan Bội Châu, Vietnamese poet and activist (b. 1867) |
| 123787 | October 29 | Death | 1941 – Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897) |
| 123788 | October 29 | Death | 1947 – Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, American wife of Grover Cleveland, 23rd First Lady of the United States (b. 1864) |
| 123789 | October 29 | Death | 1949 – George Gurdjieff, Armenian-French monk, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1872) |
| 123790 | October 29 | Death | 1950 – Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858) |
| 123791 | October 29 | Death | 1953 – William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922) |
| 123792 | October 29 | Death | 1956 – Louis Rosier, French race car driver (b. 1905) |
| 123793 | October 29 | Death | 1957 – Louis B. Mayer, Belarusian-American production manager and producer (b. 1885) |
| 123794 | October 29 | Death | 1957 – Rosemarie Nitribitt, German murder victim (b. 1933) |
| 123795 | October 29 | Death | 1958 – Zoë Akins, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1886) |
| 123796 | October 29 | Death | 1961 – Astrid Holm, Danish actress (b. 1893) |
| 123797 | October 29 | Death | 1963 – Adolphe Menjou, American actor and singer (b. 1890) |
| 123798 | October 29 | Death | 1969 – Pops Foster, American bassist and trumpet player (b. 1892) |
| 123799 | October 29 | Death | 1971 – Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band, Hour Glass, Derek and the Dominos, and The Allman Joys) (b. 1946) |
| 123800 | October 29 | Death | 1971 – Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) |
| 123801 | October 29 | Death | 1977 – Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (b. 1926) |
| 123802 | October 29 | Death | 1980 – Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911) |
| 123803 | October 29 | Death | 1981 – Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1921) |
| 123804 | October 29 | Death | 1986 – Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor, singer, and academic (b. 1913) |
| 123805 | October 29 | Death | 1987 – Woody Herman, American singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader (b. 1913) |
| 123806 | October 29 | Death | 1988 – Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian author and activist (b. 1903) |
| 123807 | October 29 | Death | 1993 – Lipman Bers, Latvian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1914) |
| 123808 | October 29 | Death | 1994 – Shlomo Goren, Israeli rabbi, general, and scholar (b. 1918) |
| 123809 | October 29 | Death | 1995 – Terry Southern, American author, screenwriter, and academic (b. 1924) |
| 123810 | October 29 | Death | 1996 – Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer and educator (b. 1908) |
| 123781 | October 29 | Death | 1933 – Albert Calmette, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (b. 1863) |
| 123782 | October 29 | Death | 1933 – George Luks, American painter and illustrator (b. 1867) |