Died on This Day (29-Apr)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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John Singleton | John Daniel Singleton was an American director, screenwriter, and producer. | American film director | 51 | 1 | |
Bob Hoskins | Robert William Hoskins was an English actor. His work included lead roles in films and television series such as Pennies from Heaven , The Long Good Friday , Mona Lisa , Who Framed Roger Rabbit , Mermaids , and Super Mario Bros. | English actor | 71 | 6 | |
Amarillo Slim | Thomas Austin Preston Jr. , known as Amarillo Slim, was an American professional gambler known for his poker skills and proposition bets. | American poker player | 83 | 8 | |
Johannes Fritsch | Johannes Georg Fritsch was a German composer. At the age of seven, Fritsch found a violin in the attic of his uncle's house in Bensheim-Auerbach, Germany, and began lessons with a village music teacher named Knapp. | German musician | 68 | 10 | |
Alexander Bovin | Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Bovin was a Soviet and Russian journalist, political scientist and diplomat, notable for being the first Soviet, and then Russian ambassador to Israel after the re-establishment of Soviet-Israeli diplomatic relations. | Soviet diplomat | 73 | 16 | |
Phạm Văn Đồng | Ph?m Van Ð?ng was a Vietnamese politician who served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1955 to 1976. | North Vietnamese prime minister | 94 | 20 | |
Alfred Hitchcock | Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE was an English filmmaker. | British film director and film producer | 80 | 40 | |
Charles R. Chickering | Charles Ransom Chickering was best known as the freelance artist who designed some 77 postage stamps for the U. | American artist | 78 | 50 | |
Edwin Moon | Squadron Leader Edwin Rowland Moon DSO* was an English aviation pioneer who served in the Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force during the First World War. | British aviation pioneer | 33 | 100 | |
Juan Crisóstomo Falcón | Juan Crisóstomo Falcón Zavarce was the president of Venezuela from 1863 to 1868. | President of Venezuela | 50 | 150 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Michael Martin | Michael John Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, PC was a British politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 2000 and 2009. | British Labour politician | 72 | 2 | |
Parekura Horomia | Parekura Tureia Horomia was a New Zealand Labour Party politician who served as Minister of Maori Affairs between 2000 and 2008. | New Zealand politician | 62 | 7 | |
Robert B. Duncan | Robert Blackford Duncan was an American politician from the state of Oregon. | American politician | 90 | 9 | |
Bob Ward | Robert Richard Ward was an American gridiron football coach and player. | American football player and coach | 77 | 15 | |
Vasily Tolstikov | Vasily Sergeyevich Tolstikov was a Soviet diplomat and Communist Party official. | Soviet diplomat and Communist Party official | 85 | 17 | |
Max Bense | Max Bense was a German philosopher, writer, and publicist, known for his work in philosophy of science, logic, aesthetics, and semiotics. | German philosopher | 80 | 30 | |
John Mills Houston | John Mills Houston was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the 5th congressional district of Kansas from 1935 to 1943. | American politician | 84 | 45 | |
Andrés de Santa María | Andrés de Santa Maria was the most internationally known Colombian painter of his time and the pioneer of impressionism in Colombia. | Colombian painter | 84 | 75 | |
Augustus Frank | Augustus Frank was an American merchant, railroad executive, banker and politician. | American politician | 68 | 125 | |
Erdmuthe Dorothea of Saxe-Zeitz | Erdmuthe Dorothea of Saxe-Zeitz was the wife of Duke Christian II of Saxe-Merseburg, whom she married on 14 October 1679 at Moritzburg Palace in Zeitz. | Consort of Duke Christian II of Saxe-Merseburg | 58 | 300 |