Famous Deaths Happened In April - 29
Wednesday, 04 February 2026
0852 Amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon, bishop, dies at 76 on this day in history. 

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 John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies on this day in history. 

1535 On this day in history death of john Houghton, English, executed 

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

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

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

1676 Death of Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear-admiral, (Newport), killed at 69 on this day in history. 

1698 Death of Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655) on April - 29. 

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

1707 Death of George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678) on April - 29. 

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

1743 On April - 29 death of charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658) 

1768 Death of Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (b. 1694) on April - 29. 

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

1793 On April - 29 death of yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713) 

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

1813 On this day in history christian Danner, composer, dies at 55 

1841 A Bertrand, writer, dies on this day in history. 

1854 Death of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (b. 1768) on April - 29. 

1864 On April - 29 charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80 

1871 John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author, dies at 75 on April - 29. 

1903 On this day in history death of paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835) 

1905 Ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57 on April - 29. 

1916 On April - 29 death of jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850) 

1918 Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22 on April - 29. 

1920 Death of William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839) on this day in history. 

1921 Arthur Mold, Brit cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies on April - 29. 

1928 Henrich Federer, Switz, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61 on this day in history. 

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

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

1936 On this day in history florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76 

1937 Death of William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853) on this day in history. 

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