Famous Deaths In April - 29

0852  On this day in history amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon, bishop, dies at 76  

0926  Death of Burchard II, Duke of Swabia on April - 29.  

1380  On this day in history death of catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)  

1499  On April - 29 john IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies  

1535  On April - 29 death of john Houghton, English, executed  

1594  On this day in history death of thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer  

1630  Death of Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552) on this day in history.  

1658  Death of John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613) on this day in history.  

1676  On April - 29 death of michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear-admiral, (Newport), killed at 69  

1698  On April - 29 death of charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)  

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1699  On this day in history samuel Apostool, vicar/theologist (Zonisten), dies at 50  

1707  Death of George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678) on this day in history.  

1712  Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1743  Death of Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658) on this day in history.  

1768  On this day in history death of georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (b. 1694)  

1776  On this day in history death of edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)  

1793  On this day in history death of yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713)  

1798  On April - 29 death of nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)  

1813  Christian Danner, composer, dies at 55 on April - 29.  

1841  On April - 29 a Bertrand, writer, dies  

1854  On April - 29 death of henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (b. 1768)  

1864  Charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80 on this day in history.  

1871  John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1903  Death of Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835) on April - 29.  

1905  Ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.  

1916  On this day in history death of jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850)  

1918  On April - 29 gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22  

1920  On this day in history death of william Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)  

1921  On April - 29 arthur Mold, Brit cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies  

1928  Henrich Federer, Switz, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61 on April - 29.  

1933  Death of Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863) on April - 29.  

1935  On this day in history leroy Carr, rocker, dies=  

1936  On April - 29 florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76  

1937  On April - 29 death of william Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)  

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1584  On April - 29 birth of melchior Teschner, composer  

1636  Esaias Reusner, composer was born on this day in history.  

1660  On this day in history birth of matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer  

1665  James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1745) was born on April - 29.  

1667  John Arbuthnot, Scottish writer (Alexander Pope) was born on April - 29.  

1686  Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1742) was born on April - 29.  

1727  On this day in history birth of jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer/choreographer (ballet d'action)  

1745  On this day in history birth of oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800)