Notable Deaths on April 29

Q: Who died on April 29?

Notable people who died on April 29 include: Hugh of Cluny, Catherine of Siena, Thomas Cooper, Agrippa d'Aubigné, John Cleveland.

Q: What is Richard Croker known for?

Richard Croker, Irish American political boss (born 1843)

1922 — Richard Croker

Irish American political boss (born 1843)

April 29 has seen 89 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 1109 – 2023. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Notable Deaths 89 people 1109 – 2023

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His control over the city was cemented with the 1897 election of Robert A

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As his power waned following the 1900 and 1901 elections, Croker resigned his position and returned to Ireland, where he spent the rest of his life.

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Richard Welstead Croker, known as "Boss Croker", was an Irish American political boss who was a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall

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During his tenure as Grand Sachem, Boss Croker garnered a reputation for corruption and ruthlessness and was frequently the subject of investigations

Hugh of Cluny

French abbot (born 1024)

Hugh, sometimes called Hugh the Great or Hugh of Semur, was the Abbot of Cluny from 1049 until his death in 1109. He was one of the most influential leaders of the monastic orders from the Middle Ages.

1109

Catherine of Siena

Italian mystic, philosopher and saint (born 1347)

Caterina di Jacopo di Benincasa, known as Catherine of Siena, was an Italian Catholic mystic and diplomat who engaged in papal and Italian politics through extensive letter-writing and advocacy. Canonized in 1461, she…

1380

Thomas Cooper

English bishop, lexicographer, and theologian (born 1517)

Thomas Cooper was an English bishop, lexicographer, theologian, and writer.

1594

Agrippa d'Aubigné

French soldier and poet (born 1552)

Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques (1616) is widely regarded as his masterpiece. In a book about his Catholic contemporary Jean de La Ceppède,…

1630

John Cleveland

English poet and author (born 1613)

John Cleveland was an English poet who supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was best known for political satire.

1658

Michiel de Ruyter

Dutch admiral (born 1607)

Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter was a Dutch States Navy officer. His achievements with the Dutch navy during the Anglo-Dutch Wars earned him the reputation as one of the greatest naval commanders in history.

1676

George Farquhar

Irish-English actor and playwright (born 1678)

George Farquhar was an Irish dramatist. He is noted for his contributions to late Restoration comedy, particularly for his plays The Constant Couple (1699), The Recruiting Officer (1706) and The Beaux' Stratagem (1707).

1707

Georg Brandt

Swedish chemist and mineralogist (born 1694)

Georg Brandt was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist who discovered cobalt c. 1735. He was the first person to discover a metal unknown in ancient times. He is also known for exposing fraudulent alchemists operating…

1768

Edward Wortley Montagu

English explorer and author (born 1713)

Edward Wortley Montagu was an English writer and traveller.

1776

William Babington

Anglo-Irish physician and mineralogist (born 1756)

William Babington FRS FGS was an Anglo-Irish physician and mineralogist.

1833

Chester Ashley

American politician (born 1790)

Chester Ashley was an American politician who represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1844 until his sudden death in 1848.

1848

Henry Paget

1st Marquess of Anglesey, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1768)

Field Marshal Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, styled Lord Paget between 1784 and 1812 and known as the Earl of Uxbridge between 1812 and 1815, was a British Army officer and politician. After serving as a…

1854

Godfrey Carter

Australian businessman and politician, 39th Mayor of Melbourne (born 1830)

Godfrey Downes Carter was an Australian businessman, politician and mayor of Melbourne from 1884 to 1885.

1903

Paul Du Chaillu

French-American anthropologist and zoologist (born 1835)

Paul Belloni Du Chaillu was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people…

1903

Ignacio Cervantes

Cuban pianist and composer (born 1847)

Ignacio Cervantes Kawanagh was a Cuban pianist and composer. He was influential in the creolization of Cuban music.

1905

Jørgen Pedersen Gram

Danish mathematician and academic (born 1850)

Jørgen Pedersen Gram was a Danish actuary and mathematician who was born in Nustrup, Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark and died in Copenhagen, Denmark.

1916

Florence Farr

British actress, composer and director (born 1860)

Florence Beatrice Emery was a British West End leading actress, composer and director. She was also a women's rights activist, journalist, educator, singer, novelist, and leader of the occult order, the Hermetic Order…

1917

Ernest Fox Nichols

American educator and physicist (born 1869)

Ernest Fox Nichols was an American educator and physicist. He served as the 10th President of Dartmouth College.

1924

Ralph Delahaye Paine

American journalist and author (born 1871)

Ralph Delahaye Paine was an American journalist and author popular in the early 20th century. Later, he held both elected and appointed government offices.

1925

Clay Stone Briggs

American politician (born 1876)

Clay Stone Briggs was an American politician and lawyer. A Democrat, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas, serving from 1919 until his death.

1933

Constantine P. Cavafy

Greek poet and journalist (born 1863)

Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, known, especially in English, as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C. P. Cavafy, was a Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria. A major figure of modern Greek…

1933

Leroy Carr

American singer, songwriter and pianist (born 1905)

Leroy Carr was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. Music historian…

1935

William Gillette

American actor and playwright (born 1853)

William Hooker Gillette was an American actor-manager, playwright, and stage manager in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best remembered for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage and in a 1916 silent film.

1937

Joseph Achron

Russian composer and violinist (born 1886)

Joseph Yulyevich Achron, also seen as Akhron was a Russian composer and violinist, who settled in the United States. His preoccupation with Jewish elements and his desire to develop a "Jewish" harmonic and contrapuntal…

1943

Ricardo Viñes

Spanish pianist (born 1875)

Ricardo Viñes y Roda was a Spanish pianist. He gave the premieres of various works by Ravel, Debussy, Satie, Falla and Albéniz. He was the piano teacher of the composer Francis Poulenc and the pianists Marcelle Meyer,…

1943

Billy Bitzer

American cinematographer (born 1872)

Gottfried Wilhelm Bitzer was an American cinematographer, notable for his close association and work with D. W. Griffith.

1944

Pyotr Stolyarsky

Soviet violinist (born 1871)

Pyotr Solomonovich Stolyarsky was a Soviet violinist and eminent pedagogue, honored as People's Artist of UkSSR (1939). He was a member of CPSU from 1939.

1944

Irving Fisher

American economist and statistician (born 1867)

Irving Fisher was an American economist, statistician, inventor, eugenicist and progressive social campaigner. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has…

1947

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Austrian-English philosopher and academic (born 1889)

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.

1951

Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb

German field marshal and convicted war criminal (born 1876)

Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb was a German Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, who was subsequently convicted of war crimes. Leeb was a highly decorated officer in World War I and…

1956

Kenneth Anderson

English soldier and Governor of Gibraltar (born 1891)

General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, was a senior British Army officer who saw service in both world wars. He is mainly remembered as the commander of the British First Army during Operation Torch, the Allied…

1959

William Eccles

English physicist and engineer (born 1875)

William Henry Eccles, FRS was an English physicist who was a pioneer in the development of radio communication.

1966

Paula Strasberg

American actress and acting coach (born 1909)

Paula Strasberg was an American stage actress. She became actor and teacher Lee Strasberg's second wife and mother of actors John and Susan Strasberg, as well as Marilyn Monroe's acting coach and confidante.

1966

J. B. Lenoir

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1929)

J. B. Lenoir was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the Chicago blues scene in the 1950s and 1960s.

1967

Aasa Helgesen

Norwegian midwife (born 1877)

Aasa Helgesen born Aasa Røinesdal was a Norwegian midwife and politician. She served as mayor of Utsira Municipality from 1926 to 1928, and was the first female mayor in Norway. She worked as a midwife in Utsira from…

1968

Lin Zhao

Chinese dissident (born 1932)

Lin Zhao, born Peng Lingzhao (彭令昭), was a prominent Chinese dissident who was imprisoned and later executed by gunshot by the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution for her criticism of Mao Zedong's…

1968

Theo Helfrich

German race car driver (born 1913)

Theodor Helfrich was a racing driver from Germany. He participated in three World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 3 August 1952, but scored no championship points. He was German Formula Two Champion in 1953, took…

1978

Muhsin Ertuğrul

Turkish actor and director (born 1892)

Muhsin Ertuğrul, also known as Ertuğrul Muhsin Bey, was a Turkish actor and director.

1979

Hardie Gramatky

American author and illustrator (born 1907)

Bernhard August "Hardie" Gramatky, Jr. was an American painter, writer, animator, and illustrator. In a 2006 article in Watercolor Magazine, Andrew Wyeth named him as one of America's 20 greatest watercolorists. He…

1979

Alfred Hitchcock

English-American director and producer (born 1899)

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature…

1980

Raymond Bussières

French actor, producer and screenwriter (born 1907)

Raymond Bussières was a French actor. He was born in Ivry-la-Bataille. He began his career on the stage as a member of the celebrated Groupe Octobre. He appeared in more than 160 films from 1933 to 1982. In his early…

1982

Mae Clarke

American actress (born 1910)

Mae Clarke was an American actress. She is widely remembered for playing Henry Frankenstein's bride Elizabeth, who is chased by Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, and for being on the receiving end of James Cagney's halved…

1992

Michael Gordon

American actor and director (born 1909)

Michael Gordon was an American stage actor and stage and film director.

1993

Mick Ronson

English guitarist, songwriter and producer (born 1946)

Michael Ronson was an English musician, songwriter, arranger, and producer. He achieved critical and commercial success working with David Bowie as the guitarist of the Spiders from Mars. He was a session musician who…

1993

Mike Royko

American journalist and author (born 1932)

Michael Royko Jr. was an American newspaper columnist from Chicago, Illinois. Over his 42-year career, he wrote more than 7,500 daily columns for the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune. A…

1997

Phạm Văn Đồng

Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (born 1906)

Phạm Văn Đồng was a Vietnamese politician who served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1955 to 1976. He later served as Prime Minister of Vietnam, following reunification of North and South Vietnam, from 1976…

2000

Arthur B. C. Walker Jr.

American physicist and academic (born 1936)

Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker Jr. was an American solar physicist and a pioneer of EUV/XUV optics. He developed normal incidence multilayer XUV telescopes to photograph the solar corona. Two of his sounding rocket…

2001

Bob Akin

American race car driver and journalist (born 1936)

Robert Macomber Akin, III was an American business executive, journalist, television commentator and champion sports car racing driver.

2002

Janko Bobetko

Croatian Army general and Chief of the General Staff (born 1919)

Janko Bobetko was a Croatian general who had participated in World War II and later in the Croatian War of Independence. He was one of the founding members of 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment, the first anti-fascist…

2003

John Henniker-Major

British diplomat and civil servant (born 1916)

John Patrick Edward Chandos Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker, known as Sir John Henniker-Major from 1965 to 1980, was a British peer, civil servant, and diplomat.

2004

William J. Bell

American screenwriter and producer (born 1927)

William Joseph Bell was an American screenwriter and television producer, best known as the creator of the soap operas Another World, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.

2005

Louis Leithold

American mathematician and academic (born 1924)

Louis Leithold was an American mathematician and teacher. He is best known for authoring The Calculus, a classic textbook about calculus that changed the teaching methods for calculus in world high schools and…

2005

John Kenneth Galbraith

Canadian-American economist and diplomat, United States Ambassador to India (born 1908)

John Kenneth Galbraith, also known as J. K. Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s…

2006

Josh Hancock

American baseball player (born 1978)

Joshua Morgan Hancock was an American professional baseball pitcher, who played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, and St. Louis Cardinals. He was killed in an…

2007

Dick Motz

New Zealand cricketer and rugby player (born 1940)

Richard Charles Motz was a New Zealand cricketer. A right-arm fast bowler and hard-hitting lower order batsman, Motz played 32 Test matches for the New Zealand national cricket team between 1961 and 1969. He was the…

2007

Ivica Račan

Croatian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (born 1944)

Ivica Račan was a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2000 to 2003, heading two centre-left coalition governments.

2007

Gordon Bradley

English-American footballer (born 1933)

Gordon Bradley was a soccer player who played as a midfielder. Born in England, he played for the United States national team. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

2008

Albert Hofmann

Swiss chemist and academic (born 1906)

Albert Hofmann was a Swiss chemist known for being the first to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann's team also isolated, named and synthesized the…

2008

Avigdor Arikha

French-Israeli artist, printmaker and art historian (born 1929)

Avigdor Arikha was a Romanian-born French–Israeli artist, printmaker and art historian.

2010

Siamak Pourzand

Iranian journalist and critic (born 1931)

Siamak Pourzand was an Iranian journalist and film critic. He was the manager of the Majmue-ye Farhangi-Honari-ye Tehran—a cultural center for writers, artists, and intellectuals—and wrote cultural commentary for…

2011

Joanna Russ

American writer, academic and radical feminist (born 1937)

Joanna Russ was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a…

2011

Shukri Ghanem

Libyan politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Libya (born 1942)

Shukri Mohammed Ghanem was a Libyan politician who was the General Secretary of the General People's Committee of Libya from June 2003 until March 2006 when, in the first major government reshuffle in over a decade, he…

2012

Joel Goldsmith

American composer and conductor (born 1957)

Joel King Goldsmith was an American composer of film, television, and video game music.

2012

Roland Moreno. French engineer

invented the smart card (born 1945)

Roland Moreno was a French inventor, engineer, humorist and author who was the inventor of the smart card. Moreno's smart card, or la carte à puce in French, was little known internationally. However, he became a…

2012

Kenny Roberts

American singer-songwriter (born 1926)

George S. Kingsbury Jr., better known as Kenny Roberts, was an American country music singer. He is best known for his recordings of "I Never See Maggie Alone" and "Choc'late Ice Cream Cone", and was a member of The…

2012

Alex Elisala

New Zealand-Australian rugby player (born 1992)

Alex Elisala was a Samoa international rugby league footballer who was contracted to the North Queensland Cowboys at the time of his death. He primarily played as a hooker.

2013

Pesah Grupper

Israeli politician, 13th Israel Minister of Agriculture (born 1924)

Pesah Grupper was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Agriculture between October 1983 and September 1984.

2013

John La Montaine

American pianist and composer (born 1920)

John Maynard La Montaine, also later LaMontaine, was an American pianist and composer, born in Oak Park, Illinois, who won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Piano Concerto No. 1 "In Time of War" (1958), which…

2013

Kevin Moore

English footballer (born 1958)

Kevin Thomas Moore was an English professional footballer.

2013

Marianna Zachariadi

Greek pole vaulter (born 1990)

Marianna Zachariadi was a Greek pole vaulter who later competed for Cyprus.

2013

Iveta Bartošová

Czech singer and actress (born 1966)

Iveta Bartošová was a Czech singer, actress and celebrity, three-time best female vocalist in the music poll Zlatý slavík. She was also known for her turbulent lifestyle attracting the attention of the Czech tabloid…

2014

Al Feldstein

American author and illustrator (born 1925)

Albert Bernard Feldstein was an American writer, editor, and artist, best known for his work at EC Comics and, from 1956 to 1985, as the editor of the satirical magazine Mad. After retiring from Mad, Feldstein…

2014

Bob Hoskins

English actor (born 1942)

Robert William Hoskins was an English actor and film director. Known for his intense but sensitive portrayals of "tough guy" characters, he began his career on stage before making his screen breakthrough playing Arthur…

2014

François Michelin

French businessman (born 1926)

François Michelin was a French heir and businessman. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Michelin from 1955 to 1999. Under his leadership, a family business founded by his grandfather became the leading global…

2015

Jean Nidetch

American businesswoman, co-founded Weight Watchers (born 1923)

Jean Evelyn Nidetch was an American businessperson and the founder of Weight Watchers.

2015

Calvin Peete

American golfer (born 1943)

Calvin Peete was an American professional golfer. He was the most successful African-American to have played on the PGA Tour, with 12 wins, prior to the emergence of Tiger Woods. Peete won the 1985 Tournament Players…

2015

Dan Walker

American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (born 1922)

Daniel J. Walker was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 36th governor of Illinois, from 1973 until 1977.

2015

Dmytro Hnatyuk

Ukrainian singer (born 1925)

Dmytro Mykhailovych Hnatyuk was a Soviet and Ukrainian baritone opera singer and a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament.

2016

Renato Corona

Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (born 1948)

Renato Tereso Antonio Coronado Corona was a Filipino judge who served as the 23rd Chief Justice of the Philippines from 2010 until his removal from office in 2012.

2016

R. Vidyasagar Rao

Indian bureaucrat and activist (born 1939)

Ramaraju Vidyasagar Rao was an Indian government administrator and a Telangana activist. He was the Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Water Resources, Central Water Commission. After the formation of Telangana State, he…

2017

Luis García Meza

Bolivian general, 57th President of Bolivia (born 1929)

Luis Arturo García Meza Tejada was a Bolivian military officer who served as the 57th president of Bolivia from 1980 to 1981. He was a dictator convicted of human rights violations and leader of a violent coup. A native…

2018

Michael Martin

British politician (born 1945)

Michael John Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, was a Scottish politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 2000 and 2009. A member of the Labour Party prior to becoming speaker, he was the Member…

2018

Josef Šural

Czech footballer (born 1990)

Josef Šural was a Czech professional footballer who played as a forward.

2019

Irrfan Khan

Indian actor (born 1967)

Irrfan Khan was an Indian actor who worked in Indian cinema as well as British and American films. Widely regarded as one of the finest actors in world cinema, Khan's career spanned over 30 years and earned him numerous…

2020

Guido Münch

Mexican astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1921)

Guido Münch Paniagua was a Mexican astronomer and astrophysicist.

2020

Cate Haste

English author (born 1945)

Catherine Haste, Baroness Bragg, was an English author, biographer, historian and documentary film director, who worked freelance for major television networks in the UK and US over a period of 40 years.

2021

Joanna Barnes

American actress and writer (born 1934)

Joanna Barnes was an American actress and writer.

2022

Padma Desai

Indian-American development economist (born 1931)

Padma Desai was an Indian-American development economist who was the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of comparative economic systems and director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University. Known…

2023

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A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests. Wikipedia →

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A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people. Wikipedia →

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National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board. Wikipedia →

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