Famous Deaths In April - 29

0852  Amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon, bishop, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

0926  On April - 29 death of burchard II, Duke of Swabia  

1380  On April - 29 death of catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)  

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

1535  Death of John Houghton, English, executed on April - 29.  

1594  On April - 29 death of thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer  

1630  On April - 29 death of agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552)  

1658  On this day in history death of john Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613)  

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

1698  Death of Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655) on this day in history.  

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1699  Samuel Apostool, vicar/theologist (Zonisten), dies at 50 on April - 29.  

1707  On April - 29 death of george Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)  

1712  Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer, dies at 67 on April - 29.  

1743  Death of Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658) on April - 29.  

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

1776  Death of Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713) on April - 29.  

1793  Death of Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713) on this day in history.  

1798  Death of Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723) on April - 29.  

1813  On April - 29 christian Danner, composer, dies at 55  

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  On this day in history charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80  

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

1903  On April - 29 death of paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835)  

1905  On this day in history ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57  

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

1918  On this day in history gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22  

1920  On April - 29 death of william Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)  

1921  Arthur Mold, Brit cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies on this day in history.  

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

1933  On this day in history death of constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)  

1935  On April - 29 leroy Carr, rocker, dies=  

1936  Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

1937  Death of William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853) on April - 29.  

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1584  On April - 29 birth of melchior Teschner, composer  

1636  Esaias Reusner, composer was born on April - 29.  

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 this day in history.  

1667  On April - 29 birth of john Arbuthnot, Scottish writer (Alexander Pope)  

1686  Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1742) was born on this day in history.  

1727  On April - 29 birth of jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer/choreographer (ballet d'action)  

1745  Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800) was born on April - 29.