What happened on April 29 ?

1380 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)

1594 - Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer

1630 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552)

1658 - John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613)

1676 - Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (b. 1607)

1688 - Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1620)

1698 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)

1707 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)

1743 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658)

1768 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (b. 1694)

1776 - Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)

1793 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713)

1793 - John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724)

1798 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)

1854 - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (b. 1768)

1933 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)

1937 - William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)

1944 - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)

1951 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1889)

1956 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)

1966 - William Eccles, English physicist and radio pioneer (b. 1875)

1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (b. 1899)

1993 - Mick Ronson, British musician (b. 1946)

1997 - Mike Royko, American columnist (b. 1932)

2005 - William J. Bell, television writer and producer (b. 1927)

2005 - Mariana Levy, Mexican actress, singer, and television show host (b. 1966)

2006 - John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)