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Deaths on April 29

1841 : A Bertrand, writer, dies
1964 : Albert Saverys, Flemish painter, dies at 77
1980 : Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80
1988 : Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies
1967 : Anthony Mann, US director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies at 60
1921 : Arthur Mold, Brit cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies
1994 : Bill Quinn, US actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 81
1975 : Charles McMahon Jr, US USMC lance corporal, killed in Vietnam
1864 : Charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80
1813 : Christian Danner, composer, dies at 55
1991 : Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies
1993 : Cy Howard, director (Lovers & Other Strangers), dies at 77
1975 : Darwin Judge, USMC-corporal, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
1996 : David William Eric Davis, broadcaster, dies at 87
1994 : Erik Erikson, anthropologist, dies at 53
1954 : Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier, dies at 82
1966 : Eugene O'Brien, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
1936 : Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76
1968 : Frankie Lymon, rocker (& Teenagers), dies of a drug overdose at 25
1918 : Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22
1928 : Henrich Federer, Switz, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61
1905 : Ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57
1947 : Irving Fisher, US economist, dies at 80
1996 : Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71
1988 : Jan Kapr, composer, dies at 74
1871 : John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author, dies at 75
1535 : John Houghton, English, executed
1499 : John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies
1943 : Joseph Achron, Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite), dies at 56
1712 : Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer, dies at 67
1951 : Jules Verstraete, [Julien G de Graef], actor (Boefje), dies at 67
1979 : Julia A Perry, US composer/conductor (Soul Symphony), dies at 55
1943 : Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer, dies at 68
1997 : Keith Ferguson, blues (Fabulous Thunderbirds), dies of overdose at 50
1935 : Leroy Carr, rocker, dies=
1951 : Ludwig J J Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher, dies at 62
1992 : Mae Clarke, actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84
1973 : Manfred Gurlitt, composer, dies at 82
1984 : Marvin Gaye, rocker (Sexual Healing), shot dead by his father at 45
1993 : Michael Gordon, actor/director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83
1975 : Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam
1676 : Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear-admiral, (Newport), killed at 69
1993 : Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 46
1997 : Mike Royko, columnist, dies of stroke at 64
1953 : Mo‹se Kisling, Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse), dies at 62
1956 : Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer, dies at 75
1972 : Ntare V, deposed King of Burundi, killed in an abortive coup
1994 : Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74
1957 : Otallo Morales, composer, dies at 82
1997 : Peter Tali Coleman, gov of Americ Samoa (1956-61, 78-85, 89-93), dies
1995 : Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator, dies at 57
1699 : Samuel Apostool, vicar/theologist (Zonisten), dies at 50
1986 : Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist, killed at 25
1943 : Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20
1996 : Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of Pres Suharto of Indonesia, dies at 72
1996 : Tony Hymphris, political activist, dies at 45
1976 : Wilhelm Maler, composer, dies at 73
1975 : William Craig Nystul, USMC capt, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet

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