Anniversaries 29 April

Birth

Charles Nodier2

French author 1780–1844

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben18

Austrian psychiatrist, poet and philosopher 1806–1849

Raja Ravi Varma2

Indian painter 1848–1906

Henri Poincaré49

French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher … 1854–1912

Georgia Hopley3

American journalist and temperance advocate 1858–1944

Constantine P. Cavafy62

Greek poet 1863–1933

William Randolph Hearst12

American newspaper publisher 1863–1951

Rafael Sabatini19

Italian writer 1875–1950

Thomas Beecham12

British conductor and impresario 1879–1961

Hendrik Werkman17

Dutch artist 1882–1945

Duke Ellington14

American jazz musician, composer and band leader 1899–1974

Hirohito9

Emperor of Japan from 1926 until 1989 1901–1989

Jack Williamson5

American science fiction writer 1908–2006

Yury Dombrovsky2

Soviet writer 1909–1978

Charles Reis Felix4

American writer 1923–2017

Maurice Strong5

Canadian businessman 1929–2015

Derek Humphry6

British-born American euthanasia activist and writer 1930

Mark Eyskens2

Belgian politician 1933

Rod McKuen19

American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer 1933–2015

Willie Nelson32

American country music singer-songwriter. 1933

Zubin Mehta2

Indian conductor 1936

Alejandra Pizarnik3

Argentinian poet 1936–1972

Ian Kershaw9

British historian 1943

Ruth Deech4

British academic, lawyer and bioethicist 1943

Liu Chuanzhi4

Chinese businessman 1944

Hal Abelson11

computer scientist 1947

Olavo de Carvalho6

Brazilian journalist, essayist and professor of philosophy 1947

Yusef Komunyakaa1

American writer 1947

David Icke55

English writer and public speaker 1952

Bill Drummond1

Scottish musician, music industry figure, writer and artist 1953

Mo Brooks3

American politician 1954

Jerry Seinfeld52

American comedian and actor 1954

Kate Mulgrew2

American actress 1955

David C. Lane1

American scholar 1956

Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa1

Samoan politician 1957

Daniel Day-Lewis5

British-Irish actor 1957

Michelle Pfeiffer15

American actress 1958

Doreen Virtue4

American writer 1958

Ramachandra Guha6

historian and writer from India 1958

Robert J. Sawyer24

Canadian science fiction writer 1960

Amy Krouse Rosenthal4

author, a radio show host and producer, and filmmaker 1965–2017

Dan Ariely1

Israeli American professor of psychology and behavioral eco… 1967

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović1

President of Croatia 1968

Andre Agassi10

US tennis player 1970

Uma Thurman8

American actress and model 1970

David Belle9

French actor 1973

Thomas Weber (historian)23

German historian 1974

Death

Catherine of Siena3

Italian Dominican saint 1347–1380

John Cleveland4

English poet 1613–1658

George Farquhar11

Irish dramatist 1677–1707

Dionysius Lardner4

Irish science writer 1793–1859

William G. Brownlow1

American newspaper editor, minister, and politician (1805-1… 1805–1877

Constantine P. Cavafy62

Greek poet 1863–1933

Herman Kruyder5

Dutch painter 1881–1935

Ludwig Wittgenstein228

Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951

Achille Starace3

Italian Fascist general 1889–1945

Alfred Hitchcock45

British filmmaker 1899–1980

Albert Hofmann42

Swiss chemist 1906–2008

John Kenneth Galbraith207

American economist and diplomat 1908–2006

Nick Joaquín2

Filipino writer 1917–2004

Russell Kirk6

American political theorist and writer 1918–1994

Charles Tilly1

American sociologist 1929–2008

Mike Royko1

American writer and newspaper columnist 1932–1997

Sara Henderson1

Australian writer 1936–2005

Joanna Russ22

American author 1937–2011