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. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).
1091 – Battle of Levounion : The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos .
1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River : The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and becomes its vassal.
1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans .
1483 – Gran Canaria , the main island of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile .
1521 – Swedish War of Liberation : Swedish troops under Gustav Vasa defeat a Danish force under Didrik Slagheck in the Battle of Västerås and soon capture the city of Västerås . The Danish-held castle, however, does not surrender to the Swedes until 31 January the following year, after a nine-month siege.
1770 – James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay , Australia .
1781 – American Revolutionary War : British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique .
1832 – Évariste Galois is released from prison.
1861 – American Civil War : Maryland 's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union .
1862 – American Civil War: Capture of New Orleans New Orleans falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut .
1864 – Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War .
1882 – The "Elektromote ", forerunner of the trolleybus , is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
1903 – A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, North-West Territories , Canada.
1910 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget , the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
1916 – World War I : The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
1916 – Easter Rising : After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin , bringing the Easter Rising to an end.
1944 – World War II : British agent Nancy Wake , a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo 's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to become a liaison between London and the local maquis group.
1945 – World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies .
1945 – World War II: Start of Operation Manna .
1945 – World War II: The Captain -class frigate HMS Goodall (K479) is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
1945 – World War II: Führerbunker : Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the following day.
1945 – The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
1945 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes .
1946 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 4 relating to Francoist Spain is adopted.
1946 – Father Divine , a controversial religious leader who claims to be God , marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings , a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement .
1951 – Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV .
1965 – Pakistan 's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.
1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
1968 – The controversial musical Hair , a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway , with its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement .
1970 – Vietnam War : United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong .
1974 – Watergate scandal : United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind : The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
1975 – Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese Army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese -held Trường Sa Islands .
1986 – A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
1986 – Chernobyl disaster : American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant
1991 – A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
1991 – The 7.0 Mw Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive ), killing 270 people.
1992 – Los Angeles riots : Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King . Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
1999 – The Avala Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia .
2004 – Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office .
2004 – Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
2011 – The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London .
2013 – A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague , believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people.
2015 – A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball . Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests .
1636 – Esaias Reusner , German lute player and composer (d. 1679)
1665 – James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde , Irish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1745)
1667 – John Arbuthnot , Scottish-English physician and polymath (d. 1735)
1686 – Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven , English politician, Lord Great Chamberlain (d. 1742)
1727 – Jean-Georges Noverre , French actor and dancer (d. 1810)
1745 – Oliver Ellsworth , American lawyer and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1807)
1758 – Georg Carl von Döbeln , Swedish general (d. 1820)
1762 – Jean-Baptiste Jourdan , French general and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1833)
1780 – Charles Nodier , French librarian and author (d. 1844)
1784 – Samuel Turell Armstrong , American publisher and politician, 14th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1850)
1810 – Thomas Adolphus Trollope , English journalist and author (d. 1892)
1814 – Sadok Barącz , Galician religious leader, historian, folklorist, archivist (d. 1892)
1818 – Alexander II of Russia (d. 1881)
1837 – Georges Ernest Boulanger , French general and politician, French Minister of War (d. 1891)
1842 – Carl Millöcker , Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1899)
1847 – Joachim Andersen , Danish flautist, composer, conductor, and co-founder of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (d. 1907)
1848 – Raja Ravi Varma , Indian painter and academic (d. 1906)
1854 – Henri Poincaré , French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (d. 1912)
1863 – Constantine P. Cavafy , Egyptian-Greek journalist and poet (d. 1933)
1863 – William Randolph Hearst , American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (d. 1951)
1863 – Maria Teresia Ledóchowska , Austrian nun and missionary (d. 1922)
1868 – Alice Keppel , British society hostess and mistress of Edward VII (d. 1947)
1872 – Harry Payne Whitney , American businessman and lawyer (d. 1930)
1872 – Forest Ray Moulton , American astronomer and academic (d. 1952)
1875 – Rafael Sabatini , Italian-English novelist and short story writer (d. 1950)
1876 – Zewditu I of Ethiopia (d. 1930)
1879 – Thomas Beecham , English conductor (d. 1961)
1880 – Fethi Okyar , Turkish military officer, diplomat and politician (d. 1943)
1882 – Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman , Dutch printer and typographer (d. 1945)
1891 – Bharathidasan , Indian poet and activist (d. 1964)
1894 – Marietta Blau , Austrian physicist and academic (d. 1970)
1885 – Egon Erwin Kisch , Czech journalist and author (d. 1948)
1887 – Raymond Thorne , American swimmer (d. 1921)
1893 – Harold Urey , American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
1895 – Vladimir Propp , Russian scholar and critic (d. 1970)
1895 – Malcolm Sargent , English organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1967)
1899 – Douglas Abbott , Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 1987)
1899 – Duke Ellington , American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1974)
1899 – Mary Petty , American illustrator (d. 1976)
1901 – Hirohito , Japanese emperor (d. 1989)
1907 – Tino Rossi , French singer and actor (d. 1983)
1907 – Fred Zinnemann , Austrian-American director and producer (d. 1997)
1908 – Jack Williamson , American author and academic (d. 2006)
1909 – Tom Ewell , American actor (d. 1994)
1912 – Richard Carlson , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1977)
1915 – Henry H. Barschall , German-American physicist and academic (d. 1997)
1917 – Maya Deren , Ukrainian-American director, poet, and photographer (d. 1961)
1917 – Celeste Holm , American actress and singer (d. 2012)
1917 – Marcel Trudel , Canadian historian and author (d. 2011)
1918 – George Allen , American football player and coach (d. 1990)
1919 – Gérard Oury , French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1920 – Edward Blishen , English author and radio host (d. 1996)
1920 – Harold Shapero , American composer (d. 2013)
1922 – Helmut Krackowizer , Austrian motorcycle racer and journalist (d. 2001)
1922 – Toots Thielemans , Belgian guitarist and harmonica player
1923 – Irvin Kershner , American actor, director, and producer (d. 2010)
1924 – Al Balding , Canadian golfer (d. 2006)
1924 – Zizi Jeanmaire , French ballerina and actress
1925 – John Compton , Saint Lucian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2007)
1925 – Iwao Takamoto , American animator, director, and producer (d. 2007)
1926 – Elmer Kelton , American journalist and author (d. 2009)
1927 – Dorothy Manley , English sprinter
1927 – Bill Slater , English footballer
1928 – Carl Gardner , American singer (The Coasters ) (d. 2011)
1928 – Heinz Wolff , German-English physiologist, engineer, and academic
1929 – Ray Barretto , American conga player (d. 2006)
1929 – Walter Kempowski , German author and academic (d. 2007)
1929 – Mickey McDermott , American baseball player and coach (d. 2003)
1929 – Peter Sculthorpe , Australian composer and conductor (d. 2014)
1929 – Maurice Strong , Canadian businessman and diplomat (d. 2015)
1929 – Jeremy Thorpe , English lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1930 – Jean Rochefort , French actor and director
1931 – Frank Auerbach , German-English painter and academic
1931 – Lonnie Donegan , Scottish-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
1931 – Chris Pearson , Canadian politician, 1st Premier of Yukon (d. 2014)
1932 – Joy Clements , American soprano and actress (d. 2005)
1932 – David Tindle , English painter and educator
1933 – Ed Charles , American baseball player and coach
1933 – Mark Eyskens , Belgian economist and politician, 61st Prime Minister of Belgium
1933 – Rod McKuen , American singer-songwriter and poet (d. 2015)
1933 – Willie Nelson , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1934 – Luis Aparicio , Venezuelan-American baseball player
1934 – Peter de la Billière , English general
1934 – Erika Fisch , German sprinter and hurdler
1934 – Pedro Pires , Cape Verdean politician, 3rd President of Cape Verde
1935 – Otis Rush , American singer and guitarist
1936 – Zubin Mehta , Indian bassist and conductor
1936 – Adolfo Nicolás , Spanish priest, 13th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
1936 – Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild , English banker and philanthropist
1936 – Lane Smith , American actor (d. 2005)
1937 – Hasil Adkins , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)
1937 – Arvo Mets , Estonian-Russian poet and translator (d. 1997)
1937 – Jill Paton Walsh , English author
1938 – Bernard Madoff , American businessman and financier
1938 – Klaus Voormann , German artist, bass player, and producer
1940 – Stephanos of Tallinn , Estonian metropolitan
1940 – Brian Taber , Australian cricketer
1941 – Jonah Barrington , English-Irish squash player
1941 – Hanne Darboven , German painter (d. 2009)
1942 – Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey , English politician, Minister of State for Europe
1942 – Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie , English civil servant and academic
1942 – Galina Kulakova , Russian skier
1943 – İlker Başbuğ , Turkish general
1943 – Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde , English union leader and politician
1943 – Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech , English lawyer and academic
1944 – Princess Benedikte of Denmark
1944 – Richard Kline , American actor and director
1944 – Francis Lee , English footballer and businessman
1945 – Brian Charlesworth , English biologist, geneticist, and academic
1945 – Catherine Lara , French singer-songwriter and violinist
1945 – Tammi Terrell , American singer-songwriter (d. 1970)
1946 – Aleksander Wolszczan , Polish astronomer
1947 – Serge Bernier , Canadian ice hockey player
1947 – Tommy James , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1947 – Joey Levine , American singer-songwriter and producer
1947 – Johnny Miller , American golfer and sportscaster
1947 – Jim Ryun , American runner and politician
1948 – Bruce Cutler , American lawyer
1948 – Michael Karoli , German guitarist and songwriter (d. 2001)
1950 – Paul Holmes , New Zealand journalist (d. 2013)
1950 – Phillip Noyce , Australian director and producer
1950 – Debbie Stabenow , American social worker and politician
1951 – Dale Earnhardt , American race car driver (d. 2001)
1951 – John Holmes , English diplomat, British Ambassador to France
1952 – Nora Dunn , American actress
1952 – David Icke , English footballer and sportscaster
1952 – Bob McClure , American baseball player and coach
1952 – Rob Nicholson , Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1952 – Brian D. Ripley , English statistician and academic
1952 – Ron Washington , American baseball player and manager
1954 – Jake Burton Carpenter , American snowboarder and businessman, founded Burton Snowboards
1954 – Jerry Seinfeld , American comedian, actor, and producer
1955 – Leslie Jordan , American actor and playwright
1955 – Don McKinnon , Australian rugby league player
1955 – Kate Mulgrew , American actress
1956 – Karen Barad , American physicist and philosopher
1956 – Ketil Stokkan , Norwegian singer-songwriter (Zoo )
1957 – Daniel Day-Lewis , British-Irish actor
1957 – Mark Kendall , American guitarist and songwriter
1957 – Sofia Sakorafa , Greek javelin thrower and politician
1957 – Timothy Treadwell , American ecologist and environmentalist (d. 2003)
1958 – Gary Cohen , American sportscaster
1958 – Ramachandra Guha , Indian historian and author
1958 – Kevin Moore , English footballer (d. 2013)
1958 – Michelle Pfeiffer , American actress
1958 – Eve Plumb , American actress and painter
1958 – Mike Stenhouse , American baseball player and sportscaster
1958 – Martin Whitmarsh , English businessman
1960 – Bill Glasson , American golfer
1960 – Robert J. Sawyer , Canadian author and academic
1960 – Caveh Zahedi , American actor and director
1961 – Fumihiko Tachiki , Japanese voice actor
1962 – Bruce Driver , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1962 – Rob Druppers , Dutch runner
1963 – Mike Babcock , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1963 – Claude Loiselle , Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1963 – Rajneesh Narula , English economist and academic
1964 – Federico Castelluccio , Italian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1964 – Radek Jaroš , Czech mountaineer and author
1965 – Michel Bussi , French geographer, author, and academic
1965 – Peter Rauhofer , Austrian-American disc jockey and producer (d. 2013)
1965 – Larisa Turchinskaya , Russian-Australian heptathlete and coach
1965 – Brendon Tuuta , New Zealand rugby league player
1966 – Marie Plourde , Canadian journalist
1966 – Phil Tufnell , English cricketer and radio host
1966 – Christian Tetzlaff , German violinist
1967 – Marcel Albers , Dutch race car driver (d. 1992)
1967 – Curtis Joseph , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1967 – Master P , American rapper, producer, and actor
1968 – Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović , President of Croatia (2015-)
1968 – Carnie Wilson , American singer-songwriter
1969 – Paul Adelstein , American actor and director
1969 – Jack Mackenroth , American swimmer, model, and fashion designer
1970 – Andre Agassi , American tennis player
1970 – China Forbes , American singer-songwriter (Pink Martini )
1970 – Uma Thurman , American actress
1971 – Tamara Johnson-George , American singer and actress (SWV )
1971 – Sam Michael , Australian engineer
1972 – Dustin McDaniel , American lawyer and politician, 55th Arkansas Attorney General
1974 – Barbora Bobuľová , Slovak-Italian actress
1974 – Pascal Cygan , French footballer
1974 – Julian Knowle , Austrian tennis player
1974 – Jasper Wood , Canadian violinist and educator
1975 – Rafael Betancourt , Venezuelan baseball player
1975 – Artem Yashkin , Ukrainian footballer
1976 – Jay Orpin , Swedish-Finnish songwriter and producer
1977 – Rocío Carrasco , Spanish television host
1977 – Zuzana Hejdová , Czech tennis player
1977 – Claus Jensen , Danish footballer and sportscaster
1977 – Titus O'Neil , American football player and wrestler
1977 – David Sullivan , American actor
1977 – Attila Zsivoczky , Hungarian decathlete and high jumper
1978 – Tony Armas, Jr. , Venezuelan baseball player
1978 – Bob Bryan , American tennis player
1978 – Mike Bryan , American tennis player
1978 – Javier Colon , American singer-songwriter and musician
1978 – Craig Gower , Australian rugby player
1978 – Tyler Labine , Canadian actor and comedian
1979 – Nihan Anaz , Turkish basketball player
1979 – Lee Dong-gook , South Korean footballer
1979 – Ashish Nehra , Indian cricketer
1979 – Jo O'Meara , English singer-songwriter and actress
1979 – Ryan Sharp , Scottish race car driver and manager
1980 – Mathieu Biron , Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Kian Egan , Irish singer-songwriter
1980 – Luciano Milo , Italian ice dancer
1980 – Kelly Shoppach , American baseball player
1980 – Magdalena Tul , Polish singer-songwriter
1981 – Lisa Allen , English chef
1981 – George McCartney , Northern Irish footballer
1981 – Émilie Mondor , Canadian runner (d. 2006)
1981 – Tom Smith , English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1982 – Mersad Selimbegović , Bosnian footballer
1982 – Travis Smith , American drummer
1983 – Jay Cutler , American football player
1983 – Tommie Harris , American football player
1983 – David Lee , American basketball player
1983 – Megan Boone , American actress
1983 – Semih Şentürk , Turkish footballer
1983 – Yuriko Shiratori , Japanese model and actress
1984 – Taylor Cole , American model and actress
1984 – Kirby Cote , Canadian swimmer
1984 – Paulius Jankūnas , Lihuanian basketball player
1984 – Lina Krasnoroutskaya , Russian tennis player
1984 – Pham Van Quyen , Vietnamese footballer
1984 – Vassilis Xanthopoulos , Greek basketball player
1985 – Jean-François Jacques , Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Jay Lethal , American wrestler
1986 – Renee Alway , American model
1986 – Crystal Harris , American model and singer
1986 – Viljar Veski , Estonian basketball player
1986 – Sisa Waqa , Fijian rugby league player
1987 – Knut Børsheim , Norwegian golfer
1987 – Sara Errani , Italian tennis player
1988 – Younha , South Korean singer-songwriter
1988 – Elías Hernández , Mexican footballer
1988 – Jovan Leacock , American footballer
1988 – Taoufik Makhloufi , Algerian runner
1988 – Steve Mason , Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Julian Reus , German sprinter
1988 – Jonathan Toews , Canadian ice hockey player
1989 – Foxes , English singer-songwriter
1989 – Domagoj Vida , Croatian footballer
1991 – Oviya , Indian model and actress
1991 – Adam Smith , English footballer
1991 – Cole Vosbury , American singer-songwriter
1991 – Misaki Doi , Japanese tennis player
1992 – Emilio Orozco , American soccer player
1994 – Christina Shakovets , German tennis player
1995 – Victoria Sinitsina , Russian ice dancer
1998 – Kimberly Birrell , Australian tennis player
643 – Hou Junji , Chinese general and politician, Chancellor of the Tang dynasty
926 – Burchard II, Duke of Swabia (b. 883)
1380 – Catherine of Siena , Italian mystic, philosopher, and saint (b. 1347)
1594 – Thomas Cooper , English bishop, lexicographer, and theologian (b. 1517)
1630 – Agrippa d'Aubigné , French soldier and poet (b. 1552)
1658 – John Cleveland , English poet and author (b. 1613)
1676 – Michiel de Ruyter , Dutch admiral (b. 1607)
1688 – Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1620)
1698 – Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis , English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk (b. 1655)
1707 – George Farquhar , Irish-English actor and playwright (b. 1678)
1743 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre , French theorist and author (b. 1658)
1768 – Georg Brandt , Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1694)
1771 – Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli , French-Italian architect, designed Winter Palace and Catherine Palace (b. 1700)
1776 – Edward Wortley Montagu , English explorer and author (b. 1713)
1793 – Yechezkel Landau , Polish rabbi and author (b. 1713)
1793 – John Michell , English geologist and astronomer (b. 1724)
1798 – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus , Austrian entomologist and author (b. 1723)
1833 – William Babington , Irish-born, English physician and mineralogist (b. 1756)
1854 – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey , English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1768)
1903 – Paul Du Chaillu , French-American anthropologist and zoologist (b. 1835)
1905 – Ignacio Cervantes , Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847)
1916 – The O'Rahilly , Irish rebel and political activist (b. 1875)
1916 – Jørgen Pedersen Gram , Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850)
1920 – William H. Seward, Jr. , American general and banker (b. 1839)
1921 – Arthur Mold , English cricketer (b. 1863)
1933 – Constantine P. Cavafy , Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863)
1935 – Leroy Carr , American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1905)
1937 – William Gillette , American actor and playwright (b. 1853)
1944 – Bernardino Machado , Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (b. 1851)
1945 – Matthias Kleinheisterkamp , German SS officer (b. 1893)
1947 – Irving Fisher , American economist and statistician (b. 1867)
1951 – Ludwig Wittgenstein , Austrian-English philosopher and academic (b. 1889)
1954 – Kathleen Clarice Groom , Australian-English author and screenwriter (b. 1872)
1956 – Harold Bride , English soldier and operator (b. 1890)
1956 – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb , German field marshal (b. 1876)
1959 – Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson , India-born, English soldier and Governor of Gibraltar (b. 1891)
1961 – Cisco Houston , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)
1966 – William Eccles , English physicist and engineer (b. 1875)
1966 – Paula Strasberg , American actress and acting coach (b. 1909)
1967 – J. B. Lenoir , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
1967 – Anthony Mann , American actor and director (b. 1906)
1976 – Edvard Drabløs , Norwegian actor and director (b. 1883)
1978 – Theo Helfrich , German racing driver (b. 1913)
1979 – Muhsin Ertuğrul , Turkish actor and director (b. 1892)
1979 – Hardie Gramatky , American author and illustrator (b. 1907)
1980 – Alfred Hitchcock , English-American director and producer (b. 1899)
1982 – Raymond Bussières , French actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)
1984 – Frances Day , American actress and singer (b. 1908)
1988 – James McCracken , American tenor and actor (b. 1926)
1992 – Mae Clarke , American actress (b. 1910)
1993 – Michael Gordon , American actor and director (b. 1909)
1993 – Mick Ronson , English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Spiders from Mars and Mott the Hoople ) (b. 1946)
1997 – Mike Royko , American journalist and author (b. 1932)
1998 – Hal Laycoe , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922)
2000 – Phạm Văn Đồng , Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1906)
2001 – Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr. , American physicist and academic (b. 1936)
2002 – Bob Akin , American race car driver and journalist (b. 1936)
2004 – Sid Smith , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1925)
2005 – William J. Bell , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1927)
2005 – Louis Leithold , American mathematician and academic (b. 1924)
2005 – Sara Henderson , Australian farmer and author (b. 1936)
2006 – John Kenneth Galbraith , Canadian-American economist and diplomat, United States Ambassador to India (b. 1908)
2007 – Milt Bocek , American baseball player and soldier (b. 1912)
2007 – Josh Hancock , American baseball player (b. 1978)
2007 – Dick Motz , New Zealand cricketer and rugby player (b. 1940)
2007 – Ivica Račan , Croatian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
2007 – Selvarajah Rajivarnam , Sri Lankan journalist (b. 1982)
2007 – Zhang Taofang , Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
2008 – Chuck Daigh , American racing driver (b. 1923)
2008 – Albert Hofmann , Swiss chemist and academic (b. 1906)
2010 – Sandy Douglas , English computer scientist and academic, designed OXO (b. 1921)
2011 – Siamak Pourzand , Iranian journalist and critic (b. 1931)
2012 – Éric Charden , Vietnamese-French singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
2012 – Shukri Ghanem , Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1942)
2012 – Joel Goldsmith , American composer and conductor (b. 1957)
2012 – Roland Moreno . French engineer, invented the smart card (b. 1945)
2012 – Kenny Roberts , American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
2012 – Amarillo Slim , American poker player (b. 1928)
2013 – Alex Elisala , New Zealand-Australian rugby player (b. 1992)
2013 – Pesah Grupper , Israeli politician, 13th Israel Minister of Agriculture (b. 1924)
2013 – Parekura Horomia , New Zealand politician, 40th Minister of Māori Affairs (b. 1950)
2013 – John La Montaine , American pianist and composer (b. 1920)
2013 – Ernest Michael , American mathematician and scholar (b. 1925)
2013 – Kevin Moore , English footballer (b. 1958)
2013 – Marianna Zachariadi , Greek pole vaulter (b. 1990)
2014 – Iveta Bartošová , Czech singer and actress (b. 1966)
2014 – M. V. Devan , Indian painter, sculptor, and critic (b. 1928)
2014 – Al Feldstein , American author and illustrator (b. 1925)
2014 – Reuven Feuerstein , Romanian-Israeli psychologist and academic (b. 1921)
2014 – Bob Hoskins , English actor (b. 1942)
2014 – Michael Kadosh , Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1940)
2014 – Walter Walsh , American target shooter and FBI agent (b. 1907)
2015 – François Michelin , French businessman (b. 1926)
2015 – Jean Nidetch , American businesswoman, co-founded Weight Watchers (b. 1923)
2015 – Calvin Peete , American golfer (b. 1943)
2015 – Dan Walker , American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (b. 1922)
2016 – Renato Corona , Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (b. 1948)
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