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 mineralogist (b. 1694)
  • 1771 – Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Italian-Russian 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)
  • 1793 – John Michell, English 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)
  • 1905 – Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847)
  • 1916 – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850)
  • 1916 – The O'Rahilly, Irish Nationalist and member of the Easter Rising (b. 1875)
  • 1920 – William Henry Seward, Jr., American Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)
  • 1933 – Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)
  • 1935 – Leroy Carr, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1905)
  • 1937 – William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)
  • 1941 – Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, music critic and composer (b. 1892)
  • 1944 – Bernardino Machado, Portuguese Politician, President of Portugal (b. 1851)
  • 1945 – Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
  • 1947 – Irving Fisher, American economist (b. 1867)
  • 1951 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (b. 1889)
  • 1956 – Harold Bride, British junior wireless officer on RMS Titanic (b. 1890)
  • 1956 – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)
  • 1961 – Cisco Houston, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1918)
  • 1966 – William Eccles, English physicist and radio pioneer (b. 1875)
  • 1967 – J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and 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 director (b. 1899)
  • 1982 – Raymond Bussières, French actor (b. 1907)
  • 1988 – James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926)
  • 1992 – Mae Clarke, American actress (b. 1910)
  • 1993 – Michael Gordon, American director (b. 1909)
  • 1993 – Mick Ronson, English musician, songwriter, and producer (The Spiders from Mars and Mott the Hoople) (b. 1946)
  • 1997 – Mike Royko, American columnist (b. 1932)
  • 1998 – Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922)
  • 2000 – Pham Van Dong, Vietnamese politician (b. 1906)
  • 2001 – Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr., American solar physicist (b. 1936)
  • 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 – Louis Leithold, American mathematician (b. 1924)
  • 2005 – William J. Bell, American writer and producer (b. 1927)
  • 2005 – John D'Amico, Canadian supervisor of officials of the National Hockey League (b. 1937)
  • 2005 – Sara Henderson, Australian pastoralist and author (b. 1936)
  • 2005 – Mariana Levy, Mexican actress, singer, and television host (b. 1966)
  • 2006 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist (b. 1908)
  • 2007 – Milt Bocek, American baseball player (b. 1912)
  • 2007 – Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)
  • 2007 – Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1940)
  • 2007 – Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor (b. 1921)
  • 2007 – Ivica Račan, Croatian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
  • 2007 – Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
  • 2008 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)
  • 2010 – A.S. Douglas, English computer scientist, creator of the first graphical computer game (b. 1921)
  • 2011 – Siamak Pourzand, Iranian dissident journalist (b. 1931)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)

    “I sang of death but had I known
    The many deaths one must have died
    Before he came to meet his own!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)