On this day: 29 April
Events, births and deaths on 29 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Renato Corona
- Deaths · Dmytro Hnatyuk
100 years ago1926
- Births · Elmer Kelton
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1109 · Deaths · Hugh of Cluny
- 1091 · Events · Battle of Levounion
Events · 22
- 801(Julian date)
- 1091(Julian date)Battle of Levounion — 1091 battle
- 1386(Julian date)Battle of the Vikhra River — 1386 battle
- 1521Battle of Västerås — 1521 battle of the Swedish War of Liberation
- 1862Siege of Corinth — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
- 1863Battle of Grand Gulf — 1863 battle of the American Civil War
- 1932Hongkou Park Incident — 1932 bombing attack in Shanghai, China
- 1945Dachau liberation reprisals — reprisals against Germans during the liberation of Dachau
- 1945Operations Manna and Chowhound — Humanitarian Operations of allied air forces in the Netherlands
- 1945Surrender of Caserta — Written agreement for the surrender of German forces in Italy, ending the Italian Campaign
- 1952Pan Am Flight 202 — aviation accident
- 1970Cambodian campaign — 1970 incursion into eastern Cambodia by US and South Vietnamese forces
- 1975Operation Frequent Wind — 1975 military operation by the United States to evacuate Saigon, South Vietnam
- 19911991 Bangladesh cyclone — North Indian cyclone in 1991
- 19911991 Racha earthquake — 1991 earthquake centered in Racha, Georgian SSR
- 19921992 Los Angeles riots — 1992 riots following the beating of Rodney King
- 1995Collision in Korea — 1995 World Championship Wrestling and New Japan Pro-Wrestling pay-per-view event
- 1997Chemical Weapons Convention — international treaty banning chemical weapons
- 19971997 Rongjiawan train collision — fatal train collision that occurred in China
- 2011wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton — April 2011 wedding of British royal Prince William and Catherine Middleton
- 2013National Airlines Flight 102 — 2013 aviation accident in Afghanistan
- 20132013 Prague explosion — Blast caused by a natural gas leak
Births · 60
- 1667John Arbuthnot — Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London (1667-1735)
- 1727Jean-Georges Noverre — French dancer (1727-1810)
- 1762Jean-Baptiste Jourdan — Marshal of France (1762-1833)
- 1780Charles Nodier — French author (1780–1844)
- 1803James Brooke — rajah of Sarawak (1803-1868)
- 1837Georges Ernest Boulanger — French general (1837-1891)
- 1848Raja Ravi Varma — Indian painter from Kerala (1848–1906)
- 1854Henri Poincaré — French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
- 1863Konstantinos P. Cavafy — Greek-Egyptian poet and journalist (1863–1933)
- 1863William Randolph Hearst — American newspaper publisher (1863–1951)
- 1875Rafael Sabatini — Italian–English writer (1875–1950)
- 1876Zewditu I of Ethiopia — Empress of Ethiopia (1876-1930)
- 1879Thomas Beecham — British conductor and impresario (1879–1961)
- 1885Egon Erwin Kisch — Austrian/Czech publicist and writer (1885-1948)
- 1893Harold Urey — American physical chemist (1893-1981)
- 1899Duke Ellington — American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974)
- 1901Hirohito — emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989
- 1907Fred Zinnemann — Austrian film director (1907-1997)
- 1908Jack Williamson — American science fiction writer (1908–2006)
- 1909Tom Ewell — American actor (1909-1994)
- 1917Celeste Holm — American actress (1917–2012)
- 1917(Julian date)Maya Deren — Ukrainian-born American avant-garde filmmaker (1917–1961)
- 1919Gérard Oury — French director and actor (1919–2006)
- 1922Toots Thielemans — Belgian jazz musician (1922–2016)
- 1923Irvin Kershner — American film director (1923–2010)
Deaths · 60
- 1109(Julian date)Hugh of Cluny — Abbot of Cluny (1024-1109)
- 1380(Julian date)Catherine of Siena — Italian Dominican saint (1347-1380)
- 1676Michiel de Ruyter — Dutch admiral (1607-1676)
- 1707George Farquhar — Irish dramatist (1677–1707)
- 1768Georg Brandt — Swedish chemist and mineralogist
- 1854Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey — British soldier and politician
- 1905Ignacio Cervantes — Cuban pianist and composer (1847–1905)
- 1916Jørgen Pedersen Gram — Danish mathematician (1850–1916)
- 1924Ernest Fox Nichols — American physicist and academic administrator (1869-1924)
- 1933Konstantinos P. Cavafy — Greek-Egyptian poet and journalist (1863–1933)
- 1935Leroy Carr — American blues singer, songwriter and pianist (1905–1935)
- 1937William Gillette — American actor, inventor and writer (1853-1937)
- 1943Ricard Viñes — Catalan pianist and composer (1875–1943)
- 1943Joseph Achron — Russian composer and violinist (1886–1943)
- 1944Pyotr Stolyarsky — Ukrainian music educator (1871-1944)
- 1947Irving Fisher — American economist and statistician (1867–1947)
- 1951Ludwig Wittgenstein — Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
- 1956Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb — German field marshal and war criminal (1876–1956)
- 1956Harold Bride — British wireless operator on the Titanic (1890–1956)
- 1959Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson — British Army general
- 1962Hajime Tanabe — Japanese philosopher (1885–1962)
- 1966Paula Strasberg — American actress, drama coach (1909-1966)
- 1966William Eccles — British physicist (1875–1966)
- 1967J. B. Lenoir — African American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (1929-1967)
- 1968Lin Zhao — poet and writer (1932–1968)
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