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April 29
is the 119th day of the year (120th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 246 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 1903
? A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in
Frank, Alberta
,
Canada
.
- 1910
?
Andrew Fisher
becomes
Prime Minister of Australia
for the second time.
- 1916
?
Easter Rebellion
:
Martial law
in
Ireland
is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in
Dublin
.
- 1944
?
Dancing Romeo
, the last
Our Gang
movie, is shown for the first time.
- 1945
?
World War II
: The
German
Army in
Italy
surrenders (gives up) to the
Allies
.
- 1945
?
Adolf Hitler
marries his long-time partner
Eva Braun
in a
Berlin
bunker and decides that Admiral
Karl Donitz
will be the next ruler.
- 1945
?
Holocaust
: The
Dachau concentration camp
is freed by
United States
troops.
- 1946
? Former
Prime Minister of Japan
Hideki Tojo
and 28 former
Japanese
leaders are accused of
war crimes
.
- 1967
? After refusing to go into the
United States Army
the day before (because of religious reasons),
Muhammad Ali
is stripped of his
boxing
title.
- 1968
- The
musical
Hair
opens on
Broadway
.
- 1969
?
Jazz
musician
Duke Ellington
receives the
Presidential Medal of Freedom
.
- 1970
?
Vietnam War
:
United States
and
South Vietnamese
forces go into
Cambodia
to hunt
NLF
soldiers.
- 1974
?
Watergate scandal
: President
Richard Nixon
announces the release of edited word copies of
White House
tape recordings that deal with the scandal.
- 1975
?
Vietnam War
:
Operation Frequent Wind
? The last
U.S.
citizens
begin to leave
Saigon
before an expected
North Vietnamese
takeover. United States part in the war comes to an end.
- 1986
-
Fire
at central library of the
Los Angeles
Public
Library
damages over 400,000
books
and other items.
- 1986
-
Funeral
of
Wallis Simpson
, who had died five days earlier.
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
had left the throne in order to marry her.
- 1991
?
Bangladesh
is hit by a
cyclone
, killing at least 138,000 people.
- 1991
? A
train
crash in
Hunan
province in
China
kills over 200 people.
- 1992
?
1992 Los Angeles riots
:
Riots
in
Los Angeles, California
, follow the release of
police officers
charged with too much strength and force in the beating of
Rodney King
. Over the next three days, 54 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
- 1992 - NBA player
Michael Jordan
scores 56 points in a playoff game against the
Miami Heat
in what is considered one of the greatest games of his career.
- 1997
? The
Chemical Weapons Convention
of
1993
enters into force, and makes the production, stockpiling and use of
chemical weapons
illegal.
- 1999
? The Avala TV tower in
Belgrade
in destroyed by
NATO
allied bombing.
- 1667
?
John Arbuthnot
, Scottish
doctor
,
mathematician
and
writer
(d.
1735
)
- 1686
-
Vasily Tartishchev
, Russian
statesman
,
historian
and geographer (d.
1750
)
- 1727
?
Jean-Georges Noverre
, French dancer, founder of modern
ballet
(d.
1810
)
- 1745
?
Oliver Ellsworth
, 3rd
Chief Justice of the United States
(d.
1807
)
- 1762
-
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
, French marshal (d.
1833
)
- 1766
-
Nicolas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley
, English
statesman
(d.
1851
)
- 1780
-
Charles Nodier
, French writer (d.
1844
)
- 1784
-
Samuel Turrell Armstrong
,
Governor of Massachusetts
(d.
1850
)
- 1818
?
Tsar
Alexander II of Russia
(d.
1881
)
- 1820
-
Henry Watkins Alley
, Confederate general and
Governor
of
Louisiana
(d.
1866
)
- 1823
-
Konrad von Mauer
, German
legal
historian (d.
1902
)
- 1824
?
Francisco Pi y Margell
,
Catalan
-
Spanish
politician and writer (d.
1901
)
- 1837
-
Georges Boulanger
, French
general
and politician (d.
1891
)
- 1847
-
Joachim Andersen
, Danish
flautist
,
conductor
and
composer
(d.
1909
)
- 1848
-
Raja Ravi Varma
, Indian painter (d.
1906
)
- 1854
?
Henri Poincare
, French
mathematician
and
physicist
(d.
1912
)
- 1857
?
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia
(d.
1905
)
- 1863
?
Constantine Cavafy
, Greek
poet
(d.
1933
)
- 1863
?
William Randolph Hearst
, American media
tycoon
(d.
1951
)
- 1868
?
Alice Keppel
, English socialite and mistress to
Edward VII
(d.
1947
)
- 1871
-
William Stern
, German
psychologist
(d.
1938
)
- 1872
-
Harry Payne Whitney
, American
businessman
,
lawyer
and
horse
-breeder (d.
1930
)
- 1875
-
Margaret Preston
, Australian artist (d.
1963
)
- 1875
-
Rafael Sabatini
, Italian-English writer (d.
1950
)
- 1876
?
Zauditu
,
Empress
of
Ethiopia
(d.
1930
)
- 1879
?
Thomas Beecham
, British
conductor
(d.
1961
)
- 1882
-
Hendrik Nicolaes Werkman
, Dutch artist and painter (d.
1945
)
- 1885
?
Egon Erwin Kisch
, Czech
journalist
and
writer
(d.
1948
)
- 1887
-
Raymond Thorne
, American freestyle swimmer (d.
1921
)
- 1891
-
Bharathidasan
, Indian
Tamil
poet (d.
1964
)
- 1893
?
Harold C. Urey
, American
chemist
(d.
1981
)
- 1894
-
Marietta Blau
, Austrian
physicist
(d.
1970
)
- 1895
-
Vladimir Propp
, Russian
folkorist
(d.
1970
)
- 1895
?
Malcolm Sargent
, British
conductor
(d.
1967
)
- 1899
?
Duke Ellington
, American
pianist
and
jazz
musician
(d.
1974
)
- 1901
?
Hirohito
, Emperor of
Japan
(d.
1989
)
- 1907
?
Fred Zinnemann
, Austrian-born
movie director
(d.
1997
)
- 1907
-
Chuya Nakahara
, Japanese
poet
(d.
1937
)
- 1907
-
Tino Rossi
, French singer and actor (d.
1983
)
- 1909
-
Tom Ewell
, American actor (d.
1994
)
- 1915
?
Donald Mills
, American singer (
Mills Brothers
) (d.
1999
)
- 1917
-
Celeste Holm
, American actress and singer (d.
2012
)
- 1917
-
Maya Deren
, Ukrainian-American
director
,
poet
and
photographer
(d.
1961
)
- 1917
-
Urie Bronfenbrenner
, Russian-American
psychologist
(d.
2005
)
- 1919
-
Alla Rakha
, Indian
tabla
player (d.
2000
)
- 1921
?
Cornelis de Jager
, Dutch
astronomer
- 1922
?
Toots Thielemans
, Belgian
jazz
musician
and
harmonica
player (d.
2016
)
- 1923
?
Irvin Kershner
, American movie director (d.
2010
)
- 1924
-
Zizi Jeanmaire
, French
dancer
and
actress
- 1925
?
Iwao Takamoto
, Japanese-American
animator
and
movie director
(d.
2007
)
- 1925
?
John Compton
,
Prime Minister
of
Saint Lucia
(d.
2007
)
- 1925
-
Ned Austin
, American actor (d.
2007
)
- 1925
-
Colette Marchand
, French
dancer
and
actress
(d.
2015
)
- 1926
?
Paul Baran
, American computer pioneer (d.
2011
)
- 1927
-
Dorothy Manley
, British athlete
- 1927
-
Bill Slater
, British
footballer
(d.
2018
)
- 1928
-
Heinz Wolff
, German-British
scientist
and broadcaster (d.
2017
)
- 1929
?
Walter Kempowski
, German
writer
(d.
2007
)
- 1929
-
Ray Barretto
, American
jazz
musician
(d.
2006
)
- 1929
-
Peter Sculthorpe
, Australian
composer
and
conductor
(d.
2014
)
- 1929
-
Maurice Strong
, Canadian businessman and diplomat (d.
2015
)
- 1929
-
Jeremy Thorpe
, English
politician
(d.
2014
)
- 1930
-
Joe Porcaro
, American musician
- 1930
-
Henri Coppens
, Belgian
footballer
(d.
2015
)
- 1930
-
Claus Ogerman
, German-American
composer
- 1930
-
Jean Rochefort
, French actor and director (d.
2017
)
- 1931
-
Frank Auerbach
, German-British painter
- 1931
-
Lonnie Donegan
, Scottish
singer
,
songwriter
and
musician
(d.
2002
)
- 1933
?
Mark Eyskens
, former
Prime Minister of Belgium
- 1933
-
Rod McKuen
, American poet and composer (d.
2015
)
- 1933
-
Willie Nelson
, American singer and musician
- 1934
?
Pedro Pires
, former
President
of
Cape Verde
- 1934
-
Bill Vander Zalm
, Dutch-Canadian politician, 28th
Premier
of
British Columbia
- 1935
-
April Ashley
, English model
- 1936
?
Zubin Mehta
, Indian-born
conductor
- 1936
-
Alejandra Pizarnik
, Argentine
poet
(d.
1972
)
- 1936
-
Lane Smith
, American actor (d.
2005
)
- 1938
-
Klaus Voormann
, German artist, musician and producer
- 1938
?
Bernard Madoff
, American financier and convict
- 1938
-
E. Ahamed
, Indian politician (d.
2017
)
- 1941
-
Toney Anaya
, former
Governor
of
New Mexico
- 1942
-
Galina Kulakova
, Soviet cross-country skier
- 1942
-
Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
, English
politician
- 1944
?
Hermann Scheer
, German politician (d.
2010
)
- 1944
?
Princess Benedikte
of
Denmark
- 1944
-
Richard Kline
, American actor and director
- 1945
-
Tammi Terrell
, American singer (d.
1970
)
- 1947
-
Joey Levine
, American singer and composer
- 1947
-
Jim Ryun
, American athlete and politician
- 1949
-
Anita Dobson
, English actress
- 1950
?
Phillip Noyce
, Australian
movie director
- 1951
-
John Holmes
, British
diplomat
- 1951
?
Dale Earnhardt
, American racing driver (d.
2001
)
- 1952
?
David Icke
, British writer, and former footballer and
journalist
- 1952
-
Rob Nicholson
, Canadian politician
- 1953
-
Nikolai Budarin
, Russian
cosmonaut
- 1954
?
Jerry Seinfeld
, American
comedian
- 1955
?
Kate Mulgrew
, American
actress
- 1955
-
Klaus Siebert
, German
biathlete
(d.
2016
)
- 1957
?
Daniel Day-Lewis
, British
actor
- 1957
-
Timothy Treadwell
, American
activist
(d.
2003
)
- 1958
?
Michelle Pfeiffer
, American actress
- 1958
-
Giovanni Galli
, Italian
footballer
- 1960
- Lachele Carl, American voice actress
- 1964
?
Federico Castelluccio
, Italian-American actor
- 1965
-
Angelo Alessio
, Italian
footballer
- 1966
-
Ramon Medina Bello
, Argentine
footballer
- 1966
?
Phil Tufnell
, English
cricketer
- 1967
-
Master P
, American
rapper
- 1967
-
Curtis Joseph
, Canadian
ice hockey
player and coach
- 1968
-
Michael Herbig
, German
actor
,
comedian
,
director
and
producer
- 1970
?
Andre Agassi
, American
tennis
player
- 1970
?
Uma Thurman
, American actress
- 1972
?
Marko Rehmer
, German
footballer
- 1972
-
Derek Mears
, American actor and stuntman
- 1972
-
Takahiro Yamada
, Japanese
footballer
- 1973
-
David Belle
, French actor
- 1974
-
Anggun
, Indonesian-French
singer-songwriter
- 1978
?
Bob Bryan
, American tennis player
- 1978
?
Mike Bryan
, American tennis player
- 1979
?
Lee Dong-Gook
, South Korean
footballer
- 1979
?
Jo O'Meara
, English singer (
S Club
)
- 1979
-
Matt Tong
, English drummer (
Bloc Party
)
- 1980
?
Kian Egan
, Irish singer (
Westlife
)
- 1980
-
Luciano Milo
, Italian ice dancer
- 1980
-
Magdalena Tul
, Polish actress
- 1982
-
Travis Smith
, American musician
- 1983
-
Semih Senturk
, Turkish
footballer
- 1983
-
Yuriko Shiratori
, Japanese model and actress
- 1984
-
Taylor Cole
, American actress
- 1985
?
Jean-Francois Jacques
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1986
-
Crystal Harris
, American
model
- 1987
-
Sara Errani
, Italian
tennis
player
- 1987
?
Alicia Morton
, American
actress
- 1988
?
Jonathan Toews
,
NHL
ice hockey
centre for the
Chicago Blackhawks
- 1988
?
Younha
, South Korean
singer
- 1989
?
Charlotte Francis
, English
actress
- 1991
-
Oviya
, Indian
model
and
actress
- 1992
-
Emilio Orozco
, American
soccer
player
- 1994
-
Stephen Milne
, Scottish swimmer
- 1995
-
Victoria Sinitsina
, Russian ice dancer
- 2007
-
Infanta Sofia of Spain
, Spanish royal
- 643
-
Hou Junji
, Chinese
chancellor
during the
Tang Dynasty
- 926
-
Burchard III, Duke of Swabia
- 1380
?
Catherine of Siena
, Italian saint (b.
1347
)
- 1594
-
Thomas Cooper
, English
bishop
, lexicographer and writer
- 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
)
- 1768
-
Georg Brandt
, Swedish
chemist
and
mineralogist
(b.
1694
)
- 1771
-
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli
, French-Italian
architect
(b.
1700
)
- 1776
-
Edward Wortley Montagu
, English traveler and writer (b.
1713
)
- 1782
-
Richard Kempenfelt
, English
admiral
(b.
1718
)
- 1793
-
Yechezkel Landau
, Polish
rabbi
(b.
1713
)
- 1827
-
Rufus King
, American
politician
(b.
1755
)
- 1854
-
Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
, English field marshal and politician (b.
1768
)
- 1905
-
Ignacio Cervantes
,
Cuban
pianist
and composer (b.
1847
)
- 1921
-
Annie Edson Taylor
, American
adventuress
(b.
1838
)
- 1933
?
Constantine Cavafy
, Greek poet (b.
1863
)
- 1935
?
Leroy Carr
, American
blues
singer,
songwriter
and
pianist
(b.
1905
)
- 1937
?
William Gillette
, actor (b.
1853
)
- 1944
?
Bernardino Machado
,
President
of
Portugal
(b.
1851
)
- 1947
-
Irving Fisher
, American
economist
(b.
1867
)
- 1951
?
Ludwig Wittgenstein
,
Austrian
-born
philosopher
(b.
1889
)
- 1957
?
Belle Baker
, American 1920s torch singer, movie and television actress (b.
1893
)
- 1961
-
Cisco Houston
, American
singer-songwriter
and
guitarist
(b.
1918
)
- 1967
?
Anthony Mann
, American actor and director (b.
1867
)
- 1967
-
J. B. Lenoir
, American
blues
guitarist
and
singer-songwriter
(b.
1929
)
- 1968
-
Anthony Boucher
, American
science fiction
writer (b.
1911
)
- 1980
?
Alfred Hitchcock
, British movie director (b.
1899
)
- 1992
-
Mae Clarke
, American actress (b.
1910
)
- 1993
?
Mick Ronson
, British musician (b.
1946
)
- 1997
?
Mike Royko
, columnist (b.
1932
)
- 2000
-
Pham Van Dong
, 2nd
Prime Minister
of
Vietnam
(b.
1906
)
- 2001
?
Barend Biesheuvel
,
Prime Minister
of the
Netherlands
(b.
1920
)
- 2002
-
Sune Andersson
, Swedish
footballer
(b.
1921
)
- 2005
?
William J. Bell
, soap opera creator, writer, producer (b.
1927
)
- 2006
-
John Kenneth Galbraith
, Canadian-American
economist
(b.
1908
)
- 2007
?
Ivica Racan
,
Croatian
Prime Minister (b.
1944
)
- 2008
?
Albert Hofmann
, Swiss physicist (b.
1906
)
- 2008
-
Bo Yang
, Chinese author and cultural critic (b.
1920
)
- 2012
-
Eric Charden
, French singer (b.
1943
)
- 2012
?
Shukri Ghanem
,
Libyan
politician
(b.
1942
)
- 2012
-
Joel Goldsmith
, American composer (b.
1957
)
- 2012
?
Amarillo Slim
, American professional
poker
player (b.
1928
)
- 2014
-
Michael Kadosh
, Israeli
footballer
(b.
1940
)
- 2014
-
Bob Hoskins
, English actor (b.
1942
)
- 2014
-
Al Feldstein
, American writer and editor (b.
1925
)
- 2014
-
Norma Pons
, Argentine actress (b.
1943
)
- 2014
-
M. V. Devan
, Indian artist and writer (b.
1928
)
- 2014
-
Walter Walsh
, American
FBI
agent and Olympic shooter (b.
1907
)
- 2014
-
Reuven Feuerstein
, Israeli psychologist (b.
1921
)
- 2014
-
Edgars Vinters
,
Latvian
painter (b.
1919
)
- 2015
- Members of the
Bali Nine
executed in
Indonesia
for drug trafficking:
- 2015
-
Daniel Walker
, American
politician
, 36th
Governor
of
Illinois
(b.
1922
)
- 2015
-
Calvin Peete
, American
golfer
(b.
1943
)
- 2015
-
Jean Nidetch
, American businesswoman (b.
1923
)
- 2015
-
Gopulu
, Indian illustrator and cartoonist (b.
1924
)
- 2016
-
Alyson Bailes
, British
diplomat
(b.
1949
)
- 2016
-
Renato Corona
, Filipino jurist (b.
1948
)
- 2016
-
Jok Church
, American cartoonist (b.
1949
)
- 2016
-
Dmytro Hnatyuk
, Ukrainian
baritone
and
opera
singer (b.
1925
)
- 2016
-
Chen Zhongshi
, Chinese writer (b.
1942
)
- 2017
-
George Genyk
, American football player and coach (b.
1938
)
- 2017
-
R Vidyasagar Rao
, Indian
irrigation
engineer (b.
1939
)
- 2018
-
Luis Garcia Meza Tejada
,
President
of
Bolivia
(b.
1929
)
- 2018
-
Derek Keys
, South African businessman and politician (b.
1931
)
- 2018
-
Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn
, Scottish politician (b.
1945
)
- 2018
-
Lester James Peries
, Sri Lankan film director and screenwriter (b.
1919
)
- 2018
-
Robert Mandan
, American actor (b.
1932
)
- 2019
-
Eldon Bargewell
, American general (b.
1947
)
- 2019
-
Stevie Chalmers
, Scottish
footballer
(b.
1935
)
- 2019
-
Gino Marchetti
, American football player (b.
1926
)
- 2019
-
Les Murray
, Australian poet (b.
1938
)
- 2019
-
Jose Rodrigues Neto
, Brazilian
footballer
(b.
1949
)
- 2019
-
John Singleton
, American film director (b.
1968
)
- 2019
-
Ellen Tauscher
, American politician (b.
1951
)