History Deaths on April 29

William Gillette, American actor and playwright (b. 1853)

#William_Gillette

Mick Ronson, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1946)

#Mick_Ronson

Marianna Zachariadi, Greek pole vaulter (b. 1990)

#Marianna_Zachariadi

Catherine of Siena, Italian mystic, philosopher, and saint (b. 1347)

#Catherine_of_Siena

Harold Bride, English soldier and operator (b. 1890)

#Harold_Bride

Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)

#Wilhelm_Ritter_von_Leeb

Shukri Ghanem, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1942)

#Shukri_Ghanem

Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)

#Arthur_Mold

Dan Walker, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (b. 1922)

#Dan_Walker_(politician)

Edward Wortley Montagu, English explorer and author (b. 1713)

#Edward_Wortley_Montagu_(traveller)

Parekura Horomia, New Zealand politician, 40th Minister of M?ori Affairs (b. 1950)

#Parekura_Horomia

Iveta Bartošová, Czech singer and actress (b. 1966)

#Iveta_Bartošová

Al Feldstein, American author and illustrator (b. 1925)

#Al_Feldstein

Ph?m V?n ??ng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1906)

#Ph?m_V?n_??ng

William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (b. 1839)

#William_H._Seward_Jr.

Louis II of Anjou (b. 1377)

#Louis_II_of_Anjou

Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, French-Italian architect, designed Winter Palace and Catherine Palace (b. 1700)

#Francesco_Bartolomeo_Rastrelli

Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (b. 1899)

#Alfred_Hitchcock

Theo Helfrich, German race car driver (b. 1913)

#Theo_Helfrich

Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847)

#Ignacio_Cervantes

Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1620)

#Frederick_William,_Elector_of_Brandenburg

Ernest Michael, American mathematician and scholar (b. 1925)

#Ernest_Michael

Bernardino Machado, Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (b. 1851)

#Bernardino_Machado

Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850)

#Jørgen_Pedersen_Gram

William Babington, Anglo-Irish physician and mineralogist (b. 1756)

#William_Babington_(physician)

Muhsin Ertu?rul, Turkish actor and director (b. 1892)

#Muhsin_Ertu?rul

Ivica Ra?an, Croatian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)

#Ivica_Ra?an

Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (b. 1607)

#Michiel_de_Ruyter

John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, United States Ambassador to India (b. 1908)

#John_Kenneth_Galbraith

Bob Hoskins, English actor (b. 1942)

#Bob_Hoskins

Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and zoologist (b. 1835)

#Paul_Du_Chaillu

Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1768)

#Henry_Paget,_1st_Marquess_of_Anglesey

John Cleveland, English poet and author (b. 1613)

#John_Cleveland

Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863)

#Constantine_P._Cavafy

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (b. 1889)

#Ludwig_Wittgenstein

Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French theorist and author (b. 1658)

#Charles-Irénée_Castel_de_Saint-Pierre

Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922)

#Hal_Laycoe

Agrippa d'Aubigné, French soldier and poet (b. 1552)

#Agrippa_d'Aubigné

Josef Šural, Czech footballer (b. 1990)

#Josef_Šural

Roland Moreno. French engineer, invented the smart card (b. 1945)

#Roland_Moreno

Mae Clarke, American actress (b. 1910)

#Mae_Clarke

Lin Zhao, Chinese dissident and Christian executed during the Cultural Revolution (b. 1932)

#Lin_Zhao

John Singleton, American film director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1968)

#John_Singleton

Raymond Bussières, French actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)

#Raymond_Bussières

Janko Bobetko, Croatian Army general and Chief of the General Staff (b. 1919)

#Janko_Bobetko

Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (b. 1992)

#Alex_Elisala

Edvard Drabløs, Norwegian actor and director (b. 1883)

#Edvard_Drabløs

Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1925)

#Sid_Smith_(ice_hockey)

Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (b. 1948)

#Renato_Corona

George Farquhar, Irish-English actor and playwright (b. 1678)

#George_Farquhar

Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic (b. 1906)

#Albert_Hofmann

Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)

#Josh_Hancock

Irving Fisher, American economist and statistician (b. 1867)

#Irving_Fisher

Michael Kadosh, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1940)

#Michael_Kadosh

Calvin Peete, American golfer (b. 1943)

#Calvin_Peete

Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman, co-founded Weight Watchers (b. 1923)

François Michelin, French businessman (b. 1926)

Kevin Moore, English footballer (b. 1958)

John La Montaine, American pianist and composer (b. 1920)

Pesah Grupper, Israeli politician, 13th Israel Minister of Agriculture (b. 1924)

Kenny Roberts, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)

Joel Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (b. 1957)

Joanna Russ, American writer, academic and radical feminist (b. 1937)

Siamak Pourzand, Iranian journalist and critic (b. 1931)

Sandy Douglas, English computer scientist and academic, designed OXO (b. 1921)

Chuck Daigh, American race car driver (b. 1923)

Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player (b. 1940)

Milt Bocek, American baseball player and soldier (b. 1912)

Louis Leithold, American mathematician and academic (b. 1924)

William J. Bell, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1927)

Bob Akin, American race car driver and journalist (b. 1936)

Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr., American physicist and academic (b. 1936)

Mike Royko, American journalist and author (b. 1932)

Michael Gordon, American actor and director (b. 1909)

Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (b. 1907)

J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)

Paula Strasberg, American actress, acting coach, and member of the Communist Party (b. 1909)

William Eccles, English physicist and engineer (b. 1875)

Rae Johnstone, Australian jockey (b. 1905)

Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, India-born English soldier and Governor of Gibraltar (b. 1891)

Kathleen Clarice Groom, Australian-English author and screenwriter (b. 1872)

Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)

Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, Austrian entomologist and author (b. 1723)

John Michell, English geologist and astronomer (b. 1724)

Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1694)

Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk (b. 1655)

Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and theologian (b. 1517)

Burchard II, Duke of Swabia (b. 883)

Hou Junji, Chinese general and politician, Chancellor of the Tang dynasty