Anniversaries 29 April
Birth
![Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben photo]()
Austrian psychiatrist, poet and philosopher
1806–1849
![Henri Poincaré photo]()
French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher …
1854–1912
![Georgia Hopley photo]()
American journalist and temperance advocate
1858–1944
![William Randolph Hearst photo]()
American newspaper publisher
1863–1951
![Thomas Beecham photo]()
British conductor and impresario
1879–1961
![Duke Ellington photo]()
American jazz musician, composer and band leader
1899–1974
![Hirohito photo]()
Emperor of Japan from 1926 until 1989
1901–1989
![Jack Williamson photo]()
American science fiction writer
1908–2006
![Charles Reis Felix photo]()
American writer
1923–2017
![Maurice Strong photo]()
Canadian businessman
1929–2015
![Derek Humphry photo]()
British-born American euthanasia activist and writer
1930
![Rod McKuen photo]()
American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer
1933–2015
![Willie Nelson photo]()
American country music singer-songwriter.
1933
![Alejandra Pizarnik photo]()
Argentinian poet
1936–1972
![Ruth Deech photo]()
British academic, lawyer and bioethicist
1943
![Olavo de Carvalho photo]()
Brazilian journalist, essayist and professor of philosophy
1947
![David Icke photo]()
English writer and public speaker
1952
![Bill Drummond photo]()
Scottish musician, music industry figure, writer and artist
1953
![Jerry Seinfeld photo]()
American comedian and actor
1954
![Ramachandra Guha photo]()
historian and writer from India
1958
![Robert J. Sawyer photo]()
Canadian science fiction writer
1960
![Amy Krouse Rosenthal photo]()
author, a radio show host and producer, and filmmaker
1965–2017
![Dan Ariely photo]()
Israeli American professor of psychology and behavioral eco…
1967
![Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović photo]()
President of Croatia
1968
![Uma Thurman photo]()
American actress and model
1970
Death
![Catherine of Siena photo]()
Italian Dominican saint
1347–1380
![George Farquhar photo]()
Irish dramatist
1677–1707
![Dionysius Lardner photo]()
Irish science writer
1793–1859
![William G. Brownlow photo]()
American newspaper editor, minister, and politician (1805-1…
1805–1877
![Ludwig Wittgenstein photo]()
Austrian-British philosopher
1889–1951
![Achille Starace photo]()
Italian Fascist general
1889–1945
![Alfred Hitchcock photo]()
British filmmaker
1899–1980
![John Kenneth Galbraith photo]()
American economist and diplomat
1908–2006
![Nick Joaquín photo]()
Filipino writer
1917–2004
![Russell Kirk photo]()
American political theorist and writer
1918–1994
![Charles Tilly photo]()
American sociologist
1929–2008
![Mike Royko photo]()
American writer and newspaper columnist
1932–1997
![Sara Henderson photo]()
Australian writer
1936–2005
![Joanna Russ photo]()
American author
1937–2011
