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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 29th of April 0711 | EVENT | Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus). |
| 29th of April 1429 | EVENT | Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans. |
| 29th of April 1483 | EVENT | Gran Canaria, the main of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile, very important step in the expansion of Spain. |
| 29th of April 1587 | EVENT | Francis Drake leads a raid in the Bay of Cadiz, sinking at least 23 ships of the Spanish fleet. |
| 29th of April 1672 | EVENT | Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands. |
| 29th of April 1770 | EVENT | James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia. |
| 29th of April 1781 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique. |
| 29th of April 1832 | EVENT | Evariste Galois released from prison. |
| 29th of April 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union. |
| 29th of April 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut. |
| 29th of April 1864 | EVENT | Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the Civil War. |
| 29th of April 1903 | EVENT | A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada. |
| 29th of April 1910 | EVENT | The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public. |
| 29th of April 1916 | EVENT | World War I: The British 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. |
| 29th of April 1916 | EVENT | Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin. |
| 29th of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies. |
| 29th of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II : Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Donitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun will commit suicide the next day. |
| 29th of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Start of Operation Manna. |
| 29th of April 1945 | EVENT | The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops. |
| 29th of April 1945 | EVENT | The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces. |
| 29th of April 1946 | EVENT | 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. |
| 29th of April 1946 | EVENT | Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement. |
| 29th of April 1951 | EVENT | Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy. |
| 29th of April 1953 | EVENT | The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV. |
| 29th of April 1965 | EVENT | Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series. |
| 29th of April 1967 | EVENT | After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title. |
| 29th of April 1968 | EVENT | The controversial musical Hair opens on Broadway. |
| 29th of April 1970 | EVENT | Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong. |
| 29th of April 1974 | EVENT | Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal. |
| 29th of April 1975 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end. |
| 29th of April 1986 | EVENT | A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items. |
| 29th of April 1991 | EVENT | A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 mph, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless. |
| 29th of April 1992 | EVENT | Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed. |
| 29th of April 1997 | EVENT | The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories. |
| 29th of April 1999 | EVENT | The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. |
| 29th of April 2004 | EVENT | Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office. |
| 29th of April 2004 | EVENT | Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production. |
| 29th of April 2005 | EVENT | Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation. |
| 29th of April 2011 | EVENT | Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton. |
| 29th of April 1665 | BIRTHDAY | James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1745) |
| 29th of April 1667 | BIRTHDAY | John Arbuthnot, English physician and satirist (d. 1735) |
| 29th of April 1686 | BIRTHDAY | Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1742) |
| 29th of April 1727 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer (d. 1810) |
| 29th of April 1745 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1807) |
| 29th of April 1758 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Carl von Dobeln, Swedish Lieutenant General and war hero (d. 1820) |
| 29th of April 1762 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (d. 1833) |
| 29th of April 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Anglo-Irish statesman (d. 1852) |
| 29th of April 1780 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844) |
| 29th of April 1784 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Turell Armstrong, American politician and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1850) |
| 29th of April 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Adolphus Trollope, British author and journalist, (d. 1892) |
| 29th of April 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Tsar Alexander II of Russia (d. 1881) |
| 29th of April 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891) |
| 29th of April 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Millocker, Dutch composer (d. 1899) |
| 29th of April 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Raja Ravi Varma,Indian painter (d.1906) |
| 29th of April 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Poincare, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912) |
| 29th of April 1863 | BIRTHDAY | William Randolph Hearst, American publisher (d. 1951) |
| 29th of April 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (d. 1922) |
| 29th of April 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (d. 1933) |
| 29th of April 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1930) |
| 29th of April 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Sabatini, Italian/British writer (d. 1950) |
| 29th of April 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia (d. 1930) |
| 29th of April 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Beecham, British conductor (d. 1961) |
| 29th of April 1882 | BIRTHDAY | H. N. Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (d. 1945) |
| 29th of April 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Egon Erwin Kisch, Czech journalist and author (d. 1948) |
| 29th of April 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Harold C. Urey, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) |
| 29th of April 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Sargent, British conductor (d. 1967) |
| 29th of April 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (d. 1974) |
| 29th of April 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (d. 1989) |
| 29th of April 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (d. 1983) |
| 29th of April 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born American film director (d. 1997) |
| 29th of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Williamson, American writer (d. 2006) |
| 29th of April 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Ewell, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 29th of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Carlson, American actor (d. 1977) |
| 29th of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers) (d. 1999) |
| 29th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Maya Deren, Ukraine-born American avant-garde filmmaker (d. 1961) |
| 29th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Celeste Holm, American actress |
| 29th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | George Allen, American football player and coach (d. 1990) |
| 29th of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Oury, French film actor and director (d. 2006) |
| 29th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Blishen, English author (d. 1996) |
| 29th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Shapero, American composer |
| 29th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcyclist (d. 2001) |
| 29th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz guitarist and harmonica player |
| 29th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Al Balding, Canadian golfer (d. 2006) |
| 29th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Zizi Jeanmaire, French ballet dancer and actress |
| 29th of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | John Compton, Saint Lucian Prime Minister (d. 2007) |
| 29th of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Ned Austin, American character actor (d. 2007) |
| 29th of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Iwao Takamoto, American animator, producer and film director (d. 2007) |
| 29th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Elmer Kelton, American Western novelist (d. 2009) |
| 29th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Gardner, American singer (The Coasters) |
| 29th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Barretto, American jazz musician (d. 2006) |
| 29th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Kempowski, German author (d. 2007) |
| 29th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (d. 2003) |
| 29th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer |
| 29th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Rochefort, French actor |
| 29th of April 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Lonnie Donegan, British musician (d. 2002) |
| 29th of April 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Auerbach, German-born British painter |
| 29th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Joy Clements, American soprano (d. 2005) |
| 29th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium |
| 29th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Rod McKuen, American poet and composer |
| 29th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Aparicio, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 29th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Pires, 3rd President of Cape Verde |
| 29th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Otis Rush, American musician |
| 29th of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Zubin Mehta, Indian-born conductor |
| 29th of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Adolfo Nicolas, Spanish priest |
| 29th of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | April Stevens, American singer |
| 29th of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Lane Smith, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 29th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Paton Walsh, British writer |
| 29th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Dibnah, British television personality (d. 2004) |
| 29th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Madoff, American convict, Ponzi scheme operator |
| 29th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus Voormann, German musician, artist, and record producer |
| 29th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Galina Kulakova, Soviet cross country skier |
| 29th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Benedikte of Denmark |
| 29th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Kline, American actor and director |
| 29th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Lee, British footballer |
| 29th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Tammi Terrell, American singer (d. 1970) |
| 29th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Serge Bernier, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 29th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy James, American musician |
| 29th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Ryun, American athlete and politician |
| 29th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Karoli, German guitarist and violinist (Can) (d. 2001) |
| 29th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Cutler, American attorney |
| 29th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Phillip Noyce, Australian film director |
| 29th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Debbie Stabenow, American politician, junior senator of Michigan |
| 29th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001) |
| 29th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Nora Dunn, American actress |
| 29th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | David Icke, British writer |
| 29th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bob McClure, American baseball player |
| 29th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Washington, American baseball manager(Texas Rangers) |
| 29th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Burton Carpenter, American snowboarder |
| 29th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian |
| 29th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Epcar, American voice actor |
| 29th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Wendee Lee, American voice actress |
| 29th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Mulgrew, American actress |
| 29th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Gino Quilico, Canadian baritone |
| 29th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Sofia Sakorafa, Greek javelin thrower and politician |
| 29th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Ketil Stokkan, Norwegian singer |
| 29th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Day-Lewis, British-Irish actor |
| 29th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Kendall, American guitarist |
| 29th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Treadwell, American ecologist (d. 2003) |
| 29th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Whitmarsh, British businessman, CEO of McLaren Racing |
| 29th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Cohen, Baseball broadcaster |
| 29th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Eve Plumb, American actress |
| 29th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress |
| 29th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Phil King, British bassist |
| 29th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian writer |
| 29th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Caveh Zahedi, American filmmaker |
| 29th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Fumihiko Tachiki, Japanese seiyu |
| 29th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Babcock, NHL Coach |
| 29th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Federico Castelluccio, Italian-American actor |
| 29th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Melody Barnes, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council |
| 29th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammad Qatanani, Muslim Imam |
| 29th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Tufnell, British cricketer |
| 29th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Curtis Joseph, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 29th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Master P, American rapper |
| 29th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Carnie Wilson, American singer |
| 29th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Adelstein, American actor |
| 29th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Izel, Turkish singer |
| 29th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Agassi, American tennis player |
| 29th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | China Forbes, American singer and songwriter (Pink Martini) |
| 29th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Uma Thurman, American actress |
| 29th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tamara Johnson-George, American singer (SWV) |
| 29th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Michael, Australian engineer |
| 29th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Dustin McDaniel, American politician |
| 29th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | David Belle, French physical educator |
| 29th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Hegg, Swedish heavy metal vocalist (Amon Amarth) |
| 29th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Anggun, Indonesian singer |
| 29th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Pascal Cygan, French footballer |
| 29th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Knowle, Austrian tennis player |
| 29th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jasper Wood, Canadian violinist |
| 29th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Koston, Thai American professional skateboarder |
| 29th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Beres Zoo, Hungarian radio DJ |
| 29th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Betancourt, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 29th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Orpin, Swedish composer and producer |
| 29th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Rocio Carrasco, Spanish TV host and socialite |
| 29th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Claus Jensen, Danish footballer |
| 29th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Armas, Jr., Venezuelan baseball player |
| 29th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, American tennis players |
| 29th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Gower, Australian rugby league and union player |
| 29th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jo O'Meara, British singer (S Club) |
| 29th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Dong-Gook, Korean footballer |
| 29th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Sharp, British racing driver |
| 29th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Tong, British drummer (Bloc Party) |
| 29th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mathieu Biron, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 29th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kian Egan, Irish singer (Westlife) |
| 29th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Magdalena Tul, Polish pop singer |
| 29th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Shoppach, American baseball player |
| 29th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | George McCartney, Northern Irish footballer |
| 29th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Emilie Mondor, Canadian athlete (d. 2006) |
| 29th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Vincent, American actor |
| 29th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Travis Smith, American drummer (Trivium) |
| 29th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Cutler, American football player |
| 29th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | David Lee, American basketball player |
| 29th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Tommie Harris, American football player |
| 29th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Jones III, American actor |
| 29th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Yuriko Shiratori, Japanese gravure idol and actress |
| 29th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Cole, American actress |
| 29th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Firass Dirani, Australian actor |
| 29th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Pham Van Quyen, Vietnamese footballer |
| 29th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Vasilis Xanthopoulos, Greek basketball player |
| 29th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Renee Alway, American model |
| 29th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Alicia Morton, American actress |
| 29th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Toews, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 29th of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Francis, English actress |
| 29th of April 0926 | DEATH | Burchard II, Duke of Swabia |
| 29th of April 1380 | DEATH | Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (Born 1347) |
| 29th of April 1594 | DEATH | Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer |
| 29th of April 1630 | DEATH | Agrippa d'Aubigne, French poet (Born 1552) |
| 29th of April 1658 | DEATH | John Cleveland, English poet (Born 1613) |
| 29th of April 1676 | DEATH | Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (Born 1607) |
| 29th of April 1688 | DEATH | Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (Born 1620) |
| 29th of April 1698 | DEATH | Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (Born 1655) |
| 29th of April 1707 | DEATH | George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (Born 1678) |
| 29th of April 1743 | DEATH | Charles-Irenee Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (Born 1658) |
| 29th of April 1768 | DEATH | Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (Born 1694) |
| 29th of April 1771 | DEATH | Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Italian-born Russian architect (Born 1700) |
| 29th of April 1776 | DEATH | Edward Wortley Montagu, British traveler and writer (Born 1713) |
| 29th of April 1782 | DEATH | Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral (Born 1718) |
| 29th of April 1793 | DEATH | Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (Born 1713) |
| 29th of April 1793 | DEATH | John Michell, British scientist (Born 1724) |
| 29th of April 1798 | DEATH | Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (Born 1723) |
| 29th of April 1854 | DEATH | Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, British general (Born 1768) |
| 29th of April 1903 | DEATH | Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (Born 1835) |
| 29th of April 1916 | DEATH | J?rgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (Born 1850) |
| 29th of April 1916 | DEATH | The O'Rahilly, Irish Nationalist and member of the Easter Rising (Born 1875) |
| 29th of April 1920 | DEATH | William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (Born 1839) |
| 29th of April 1933 | DEATH | Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (Born 1863) |
| 29th of April 1935 | DEATH | Leroy Carr, American blues singer, songwriter and pianist (Born 1905) |
| 29th of April 1937 | DEATH | William Gillette, American actor (Born 1853) |
| 29th of April 1944 | DEATH | Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (Born 1851) |
| 29th of April 1945 | DEATH | Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (Born 1893) |
| 29th of April 1947 | DEATH | Irving Fisher, American economist (Born 1867) |
| 29th of April 1951 | DEATH | Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (Born 1889) |
| 29th of April 1956 | DEATH | Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (Born 1876) |
| 29th of April 1961 | DEATH | Cisco Houston, American folk singer (Born 1918) |
| 29th of April 1966 | DEATH | William Eccles, British physicist and radio pioneer (Born 1875) |
| 29th of April 1967 | DEATH | Anthony Mann, American actor and director (Born 1906) |
| 29th of April 1967 | DEATH | J. B. Lenoir, American musician (Born 1929) |
| 29th of April 1979 | DEATH | Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (Born 1907) |
| 29th of April 1980 | DEATH | Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (Born 1899) |
| 29th of April 1988 | DEATH | James McCracken, American tenor (Born 1926) |
| 29th of April 1992 | DEATH | Mae Clarke, American actress (Born 1910) |
| 29th of April 1993 | DEATH | Mick Ronson, British musician (Born 1946) |
| 29th of April 1993 | DEATH | Michael Gordon, American film director (Born 1909) |
| 29th of April 1997 | DEATH | Mike Royko, American columnist (Born 1932) |
| 29th of April 1998 | DEATH | Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (Born 1922) |
| 29th of April 2002 | DEATH | Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (Born 1936) |
| 29th of April 2002 | DEATH | Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (Born 1914) |
| 29th of April 2004 | DEATH | Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1925) |
| 29th of April 2005 | DEATH | William J. Bell, American television writer and producer (Born 1927) |
| 29th of April 2005 | DEATH | Mariana Levy, Mexican actress, singer, and television show host (Born 1966) |
| 29th of April 2006 | DEATH | John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-born US economist (Born 1908) |
| 29th of April 2007 | DEATH | Milt Bocek, American baseball player (Born 1912) |
| 29th of April 2007 | DEATH | Josh Hancock, American baseball player (Born 1978) |
| 29th of April 2007 | DEATH | Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor, known as the leader of Olsenbanden (Born 1921) |
| 29th of April 2007 | DEATH | Ivica Racan, Prime Minister of Croatia (Born 1944) |
| 29th of April 2007 | DEATH | Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (Born 1931) |
| 29th of April 2007 | DEATH | Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer (Born 1940) |
| 29th of April 2008 | DEATH | Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (Born 1906) |
| 29th of April 2010 | DEATH | A.S. Douglas, British computer scientist, creator of the first graphical computer game (Born 1921) |