49411 | April 29 | Death | 1916 – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850) |
49412 | April 29 | Death | 1920 – William H. Seward, Jr., American general and banker (b. 1839) |
49413 | April 29 | Death | 1921 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863) |
49414 | April 29 | Death | 1933 – Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863) |
49415 | April 29 | Death | 1935 – Leroy Carr, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1905) |
49416 | April 29 | Death | 1937 – William Gillette, American actor and playwright (b. 1853) |
49417 | April 29 | Death | 1944 – Bernardino Machado, Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (b. 1851) |
49418 | April 29 | Death | 1945 – Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893) |
49419 | April 29 | Death | 1947 – Irving Fisher, American economist and statistician (b. 1867) |
49420 | April 29 | Death | 1951 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (b. 1889) |
49421 | April 29 | Death | 1954 – Kathleen Clarice Groom, Australian-English author and screenwriter (b. 1872) |
49422 | April 29 | Death | 1956 – Harold Bride, English soldier and operator (b. 1890) |
49423 | April 29 | Death | 1956 – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876) |
49424 | April 29 | Death | 1959 – Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, India-born, English soldier and Governor of Gibraltar (b. 1891) |
49425 | April 29 | Death | 1961 – Cisco Houston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918) |
49426 | April 29 | Death | 1966 – William Eccles, English physicist and engineer (b. 1875) |
49427 | April 29 | Death | 1967 – J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929) |
49428 | April 29 | Death | 1967 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director (b. 1906) |
49429 | April 29 | Death | 1976 – Edvard Drabløs, Norwegian actor and director (b. 1883) |
49430 | April 29 | Death | 1978 – Theo Helfrich, German racing driver (b. 1913) |
49431 | April 29 | Death | 1979 – Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (b. 1892) |
49432 | April 29 | Death | 1979 – Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (b. 1907) |
49433 | April 29 | Death | 1980 – Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (b. 1899) |
49434 | April 29 | Death | 1982 – Raymond Bussières, French actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907) |
49435 | April 29 | Death | 1988 – James McCracken, American tenor and actor (b. 1926) |
49436 | April 29 | Death | 1992 – Mae Clarke, American actress and singer (b. 1910) |
49437 | April 29 | Death | 1993 – Michael Gordon, American actor and director (b. 1909) |
49438 | April 29 | Death | 1993 – Mick Ronson, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Spiders from Mars and Mott the Hoople) (b. 1946) |
49439 | April 29 | Death | 1997 – Mike Royko, American journalist and author (b. 1932) |
49440 | April 29 | Death | 1998 – Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922) |