Famous Deaths on 29 Apr

Famous Deaths on 29 Apr

1380 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)
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 de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (b. 1607)
1688 - Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1620)
1698 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
1707 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
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)
1782 - Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1718)
1793 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713)
1793 - John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724)
1798 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
1854 - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (b. 1768)
1903 - Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835)
1916 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850)
1920 - William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)
1933 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)
1935 - Leroy Carr, American blues singer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1905)
1937 - William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)
1944 - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)
1945 - Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
1951 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1889)
1956 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)
1961 - Cisco Houston, American folk singer (b. 1918)
1966 - William Eccles, English physicist and radio pioneer (b. 1875)
1967 - J.B. Lenoir, American Blues Musician (b. 1929)
1967 - Anthony Mann, American actor and director (b. 1906)
1979 - Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (b. 1907)
1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (b. 1899)
1988 - James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926)
1993 - Mick Ronson, English musician (b. 1946)
1993 - Michael Gordon, American film director (b. 1909)
1997 - Mike Royko, American columnist (b. 1932)
1998 - Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922)
2002 - Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (b. 1914)
2002 - Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (b. 1936)
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 - Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor, known as the leader of Olsenbanden
2007 - Ivica Račan, former Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
2007 - Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)
2007 - Milt Bocek, American baseball player (b. 1912)
2007 - Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
2007 - Dick Motz, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1940)
2008 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)
926 - Burchard II, Duke of Swabia