Famous Deaths on 29th April

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Deaths 1 - 97 of 97

852 - Amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon, bishop, dies at 76
926 - Burchard II, Duke of Swabia
1380 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)
1499 - John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies
1535 - John Houghton, English, executed
1594 - Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer
1630 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552)
1658 - John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613)
1676 - Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear-admiral, (Newport), killed at 69
1698 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
1699 - Samuel Apostool, vicar/theologist (Zonisten), dies at 50
1707 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
1712 - Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer, dies at 67
1743 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658)
1768 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (b. 1694)
1776 - Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)
1793 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713)
1793 - John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724)
1798 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
1813 - Christian Danner, composer, dies at 55
1841 - A Bertrand, writer, dies
1854 - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (b. 1768)
1864 - Charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80
1871 - John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author, dies at 75
1903 - Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835)
1905 - Ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57
1916 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850)
1918 - Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22
1920 - William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)
1921 - Arthur Mold, Brit cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies
1928 - Henrich Federer, Switz, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61
1933 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)
1935 - Leroy Carr, rocker, dies=
1936 - Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76
1937 - William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)
1943 - Joseph Achron, Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite), dies at 56
1943 - Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer, dies at 68
1943 - Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20
1944 - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)
1945 - Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
1947 - Irving Fisher, US economist, dies at 80
1951 - Jules Verstraete, [Julien G de Graef], actor (Boefje), dies at 67
1951 - Ludwig J J Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher, dies at 62
1953 - Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse), dies at 62
1954 - Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier, dies at 82
1956 - Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer, dies at 75
1957 - Otallo Morales, composer, dies at 82
1961 - Cisco Houston, American folk singer (b. 1918)
1964 - Albert Saverys, Flemish painter, dies at 77
1966 - Eugene O'Brien, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
1967 - Anthony Mann, US director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies at 60
1967 - J.B. Lenoir, American Blues Musician (b. 1929)
1972 - Ntare V, deposed King of Burundi, killed in an abortive coup
1973 - Manfred Gurlitt, composer, dies at 82
1975 - Charles McMahon Jr, US USMC lance corporal, killed in Vietnam
1975 - Darwin Judge, USMC-corporal, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
1975 - Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam
1975 - William Craig Nystul, USMC capt, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
1976 - Wilhelm Maler, composer, dies at 73
1979 - Julia A Perry, US composer/conductor (Soul Symphony), dies at 55
1979 - Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (b. 1907)
Director Alfred Hitchcock (1980) 1980 - Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80
1986 - Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist, killed at 25
1988 - Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies
1988 - Jan Kapr, composer, dies at 74
1991 - Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies
1992 - Mae Clarke, actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84
1993 - Cy Howard, director (Lovers & Other Strangers), dies at 77
1993 - Michael Gordon, actor/director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83
1993 - Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 46
1994 - Bill Quinn, US actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 81
1994 - Erik Erikson, anthropologist, dies at 53
1994 - Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74
1995 - Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator, dies at 57
1996 - David William Eric Davis, broadcaster, dies at 87
1996 - Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71
1996 - Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of Pres Suharto of Indonesia, dies at 72
1996 - Tony Hymphris, political activist, dies at 45
1997 - Keith Ferguson, blues (Fabulous Thunderbirds), dies of overdose at 50
1997 - Mike Royko, columnist, dies of stroke at 64
1997 - Peter Tali Coleman, gov of Americ Samoa (1956-61, 78-85, 89-93), dies
1998 - Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922)
2002 - Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (b. 1936)
2002 - Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (b. 1914)
2004 - Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2005 - William J. Bell, American television writer and producer (b. 1927)
2005 - Mariana Levy, Mexican actress, singer, and television show host (b. 1966)
2006 - John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
2007 - Milt Bocek, American baseball player (b. 1912)
2007 - Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)
2007 - Ivica Račan, former Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
2007 - Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor, known as the leader of Olsenbanden
2007 - Dick Motz, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1940)
2007 - Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
2008 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)
2012 - Shukri Ghanem, Libyan Prime Minister, dies at 69
2012 - Amarillo Slim, American professional poker player, dies at 83