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Among other accolades, his films garnered 46 Academy Award nominations, including six wins, although he never won the award for Best Director, despite five nominations.
Notable Deaths on April 29
1980 — Alfred Hitchcock
English-American director and producer (born 1899)
April 29 has 89 recorded notable deaths across history, from 1109 to 2023. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
89 source records
1109 – 2023
Today in history
Major events on April 29
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- 1864 Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War. Source
- 1916 World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point. Source
- 1946 The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes. Source
- 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on STS-51-B. Source
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Widely regarded as one of the finest actors in world cinema, Khan's career spanned over 30 years and earned him numerous accolades, including a National Film Award, an Asian Film Award, and six Filmfare Awards.
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Known for his intense but sensitive portrayals of "tough guy" characters, he began his career on stage before making his screen breakthrough playing Arthur Parker in the 1978 BBC Television serial Pennies from Heaven.
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John Kenneth Galbraith's books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s.
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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.
More major people who died on April 29
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2020
Irrfan Khan
Indian actor (born 1967)
Irrfan Khan was an Indian actor who worked in Indian cinema as well as British and American films.
2014
Bob Hoskins
English actor (born 1942)
Robert William Hoskins was an English actor and film director.
2006
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.
1854
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.
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.
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.
1917
Florence Farr
British actress, composer and director (born 1860)
Florence Beatrice Emery was a British West End leading actress, composer and director.
1922
Richard Croker
Irish American political boss (born 1843)
Richard Welstead Croker, known as "Boss Croker", was an Irish American political boss who was a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall. His control over the city was cemented with the 1897 election of Robert A.
1982
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.
1935
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.
1959
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.
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.
2017
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.
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.
1956
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.
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…
1630
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.
2012
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…
1978
Theo Helfrich
German race car driver (born 1913)
Theodor Karl 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.