April 29 - Deaths

Deaths

• 926 – Burchard II, Duke of Swabia
• 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)
• 1771 – Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Italian-born Russian architect (b. 1700)
• 1776 – Edward Wortley Montagu, British traveler and writer (b. 1713)
• 1782 – Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1718)
• 1793 – Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713)
• 1793 – John Michell, British scientist (b. 1724)
• 1798 – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
• 1854 – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, British 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)
• 1947 – Irving Fisher, American economist (b. 1867)
• 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, British physicist and radio pioneer (b. 1875)
• 1967 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director (b. 1906)
• 1967 – J. B. Lenoir, American Blues Musician (b. 1929)
• 1979 – Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (b. 1907)
• 1980 – Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (b. 1899)
• 1988 – James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926)
• 1992 – Mae Clarke, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Mick Ronson, British 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 – 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-born US 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 (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)