September 29

In literary history

• 1902Émile Zola was found dead of carbon monoxide from a blocked chimney flue. In 1953, a roofer's deathbed confession alleged he and his workmates had blocked it deliberately and cleared it before dawn, on behalf of the anti-Dreyfus right.

Writers born on September 29

• Miguel de Cervantes (1547),
• William Beckford (1760),
• Elizabeth Gaskell (1810)

The Daily Canon for September 29

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (1843).