April 29th
Holidays and Festivals
International Dance Day (International)
National Dance Day (USA)
Greenery Day
Sense of Smell Day
International Yak Day
National Persian Gulf Day (Iran)
National Shrimp Scampi Day
Christian Feast Day of Catherine of Siena
Christian Feast Day of Hugh of Cluny
Christian Feast Day of Peter of Verona
Christian Feast Day of Robert of Molesme
Christian Feast Day of Torpes of Pisa
* Showa Day, traditionally the start of the Golden Week holiday period. Japan
* The beginning of Arita Ceramic Fair (Arita, Saga, Japan)
* The ninth day of Ridván (Bahá'í Faith)
* The second day of the Floralia (Roman Empire)
* Eek-A-Mouse Festival Sacramento, California, USA (2010)
* Festival of Nations 4/29/2010 - 5/3/2010 St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (1of5) (2010)
* Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival 4/29/2010 - 5/2/2010 Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA (1of5) (2010)
Toast of The Day
"Here's To Singles,
Friends And Heroes.
They say in life we need friends and heros,
As I look out upon all of you today,
I raise my glass and say to you....
I am glad I can be both."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Slow Screw (Double Shot)
1 shot vodka
1/2 shot sloe gin
Splash of orange juice
Pour into double shot glass and mix together
Wine of The Day
Potomac Point Winery (2008) Richland Reserve, "Heritage",
Virginia
$36
Beer of The Day
Session Black
Brewer - Full Sail Brewing Co. Hood River, OR
Style - American-Style Dark Lager
Joke of The Day
There's a little fellow named Junior who hangs out at Tim's Grocery Store.
The owner Tim doesn't know what Junior's problem is, but the boys like to tease him. They say he is two bricks shy of a load, or two pickles shy of a barrel.
To prove it, sometimes they offer Junior his choice between a nickel and a dime. He always takes the nickel - they say - because it's bigger.
One day after Junior grabbed the nickel, Tim got him off to one side and said, "Junior, those boys are making fun of you. They think you don't know the dime is worth more than the nickel. Are you grabbing the nickel because it's bigger, or what?"
And Junior said, "Well, if I took the dime, they'd quit doing it
Quote of The Day
"The drunk mind speaks the sober heart"
- Unknown
Whisky of The Day
$15
April Observances
ASPCA Month
Alcohol Awareness Month
Amateur Radio Month
Atlanta Food & Wine Month
Brussels Sprouts and Cabbage Month
Cancer Control Month
Celebrate Diversity Month
Community Spirit Days
Confederate History Month
Couple Appreciation Month
Cranberries and Gooseberries Month
DNA, Genomics and Stem Cell Education and Awareness Month
Defeat Diabetes Month
Emotional Overeating Awareness Month
Facial Protection Month
Fair Housing Month
Financial Literacy Month
Fresh Florida Tomatoes Month
Frog Month
Get Yourself Tested Month
Global Child Nutrition Month
Grange Month
Holy Humor Month
Home Improvement Time (April-Sept.30)
Honor Society Awareness Month (Different Sponsor to March)
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Month
Informed Woman Month
Injury Prevention Month
International Cesarean Awareness Month
International Customer Loyalty Month
International Daffynitions Month
International Guitar Month
International Twit Award Month
Jazz Appreciation Month
Keep America Beautiful Month
Lawn and Garden Month
Learn Thai Month
Library Snapshot Month
Math Awareness Month
Month of the Military Child
Month of the Young Child
National African American Women's Fitness Month
National Autism Awareness Month
National Car Care Month
National Card and Letter Writing Month
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
National DNA & Genomics & Stem Cell Education & Awareness Month
National Decorating Month
National Donate Life Month
National Garden Month
National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month
National Humor Month
National Kite Month
National Knuckles Down Month
National Landscape Architecture Month
National Multiple Birth Awareness Month
National Occupational Therapy Month
National Oral Health Month
National Parkinson's Awareness Month
National Pecan Month
National Pest Management Month
National Pet First Aid Awareness Month
National Pet Month
National Poetry Month
National Prepare Your Home To Be Sold Month
National Rebuilding Month
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month
National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month
National Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) Education and Awareness Month
National Stress Awareness Month
National Welding Month
National Welding Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month
Patient Safety Awareness Month
Pharmacists War on Diabetes Month
Physical Wellness Month
Prematurity Awareness Month
Prevent Lyme in Dogs Month
Prevention of Animal Cruelty Month
Procrastination Awareness Month
Records and Information Management Month
Rosacea Awareness Month
School Library Media Month
Southern Belles Month
Soy Foods Month
Sports Eye Safety Month
Straw Hat Month
Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
Tomatillo and Asian Pear Month
Women's Eye Health and Safety Month
Workplace Conflict Awareness Month
World Habitat Awareness Month
Worldwide Bereaved Spouses Awareness Month
Observances this Week
Mariachi Week (Tucsan, AZ, USA), Last week in April
National Pro-Life T-shirt Week, Last week in April
National Scoop The Poop Week, Last week in April
National Playground Safety Week, Last Week in April
Historical Events on April 29th
711 Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1091 Battle at Monte Levunium: Emperor Alexius I beats Petshegenes
1429 Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans. leads Orleans, France, to victory over English
1483 Gran Canaria, the main of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile, very important step in the expansion of Spain.
1522 Emperor Charles V names Frans van Holly inquisitor-gen of Netherlands
1540 Emperor Charles declares all privileges of Gent ended
1550 Emperor Charles V gives inquisiters additional authority
1553 Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England
1623 11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru
1624 In France, Richelieu assumes as Prime Minister of Louis XIII.
1628 Sweden & Denmark sign defense treaty against Duke of Wallenstein
1636 Prince Frederik Henry occupies Schenkenschans
1644 Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China & flees Peking
1661 Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan
1670 Pope Clemens X elected
1672 Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands, Franco-Dutch War.
1701 Drenthe Neth adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is May 12, 1701
1706 Emperor Jozef I becomes monarch of Cologne/Bavaria
1707 Scotland and England accept Act of Union, unified in United Kingdom of Great Britain.
1715 John Flamsteed observes Uranus for 6th time
1770 James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
1781 French fleet occupies Tobago, stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope
1784 Premiere of Mozart's Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna)
1793 Cornerstone laid for Groningen's new townhall
1813 Rubber is patented
1832 Évariste Galois released from prison.
1834 Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia
1845 Macon B Allen & Robert Morris Jr, 1st blacks to open law practice
1852 1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published
1853 Comet C/1853 G1 (Schweizer) approaches within 0.0839 AUs of Earth
1856 Peace between England & Russia
1857 US Army, Pacific Div HQ permanently forms at Presidio (SF)
1861 Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union
1862 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Miss
1862 New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut in the American Civil War.
1863 Battle of Chancellordville, VA (Fredericksburg, Wilderness Tavern)
1864 Skirmish at Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas
1864 The Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
1882 The "Elektromote" forerunner of the trolleybus is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
1886 1st public Dutch electricity opens
1888 Old Kavallison, Congo: Stanley meet Emin Pasha
1892 Charlie Reilly is baseball's 1st pinch hitter
1894 Commonweal of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Wash, DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol
1901 27th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on His Eminence wins in 2:07.75
1901 Anti semitic riot in Budapest
1903 A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
1903 Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta)
1905 2" rain falls in 10 mins in Taylor, TX
1905 Pierre de Brazza lands in Libreville Gabon
1910 Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam
1912 108°F (42°C), Tuguegarao, Philippines (Oceania record)
1912 Frank Wedekind's "Tod und Teufel," premieres in Berlin
1913 Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper
1916 Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the Easter Rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin. Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin
1916 The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point in World War I.
1918 Tris Speaker ties career outfield record of 4 unassisted double plays
1922 1st official Intl Weightlifting Federation Champ (Tallinn, Estonia)
1925 Netherlands returns to gold standard
1926 France & US reach accord on repayment of WW I
1927 Construction of Spirit of St Louis is completed
1930 123 runs are scored in 7 major league games
1930 North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens
1930 Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service
1931 Cleveland Indian Wes Ferrell no-hits St Louis Browns, 9-0
1934 Pittsburg is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday
1936 1st pro baseball game in Japan is played Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5
1939 Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx & Queens opens
1940 1st radio broadcast of "Young Dr Malone" on CBS
1940 Norwegian King Haakon & government flees to England
1940 Robert Sherwood's "There Shall be No Night," premieres in NYC
1942 Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road
1942 Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands & Vichy-France
1943 Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrested by nazis
1943 Noel Coward's "Present Laughter," premieres in London
1943 US 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia
1944 Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague
1945 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)
1945 Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun
1945 Japanese army evacuates Rangoon
1945 Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed
1945 The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
1945 The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
1945 US liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany
1945 Venice & Mestre were captured by the Allies
1945 Start of Operation Manna in World War II.
1945 The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies in World War II.
1945 Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin Fuehrerbunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun will commit suicide the next day, World War II.
1946 Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted in Tokyo for war crimes.
1948 Bradman scores 107 Aust v Worcs, 152 mins, 15 fours
1951 A Tibetan delegation to the Chinese government is presented with a draft treaty regarding the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
1953 Joe Adcock is 1st to homer into Polo Grounds' center field bleachers
1953 The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1955 G Gronchi elected president of Italy
1956 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1956 WLUC TV channel 6 in Marquette, MI (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 WSPA TV channel 7 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 WWBT TV channel 12 in Richmond, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va
1961 ABC's "Wide World of Sports, debuts
1962 16th Tony Awards: Man For All Seasons & How to Succeed win
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1963 KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KPAT
1964 Princess Irene marries Spanish prince Carel Hugo de Bourbon Parma
1964 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 Australian government announces it would send troops to Vietnam
1965 Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die
1965 Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe
1965 Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.
1967 After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
1967 Aretha Franklin releases "Respect"
1968 "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 1750 performances
1968 The controversial musical Hair opens on Broadway.
1969 "Trumpets of the Lord" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 7 perfs
1970 50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia
1970 United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong, Vietnam War.
1971 Bill Graham closes down Fillmore & Fillmore East
1971 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration
1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Gloria Ehret wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1974 President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the Watergate Scandal.
1975 Ethiopia nationalizes all ground/earth
1975 Flyers 4-Isles 0-Semifinals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead
1975 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 Vietnam War comes to an end.
1976 Minister Irene Vorrink begins fluoridating Dutch drinking water
1977 British Aerospace forms
1979 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Otey Crisman Golf Classic
1980 Corazones Unidos Siempre Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority Inc. is founded.
1981 Peter Sutcliffe admits he is the Yorkshire Ripper (murdered 13 women)
1981 Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st lefty to strike out 3,000 batters
1982 17th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, Barbara Mandrell
1982 Alfredo Magana elected pres of El Salvador
1982 Nordiques 2-Isles 5-Semifinals-Isles hold 2-0 lead
1983 Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor
1984 "Oliver!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 17 performances
1984 Betsy King wins LPGA Freedom/Orlando Golf Classic
1985 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
1985 Ranger Larry Parrish is 5th to hit 3 HRs in a game in both leagues
1985 Tony Tubbs TKOs Greg Page in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1986 800,000 books destroyed by fire in LA Central Library
1986 A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
1986 Roger Clemens then of the Boston Red Sox sets a major league baseball record with 20 strikeouts in nine innings against the Seattle Mariners.
1987 Chicago Cub Andre Dawson hits for cycle
1987 Japan's premier Nakasone visits the US
1988 "60 Minutes" newscaster Diane Sawyer weds Mike Nichols
1988 Burt Reynolds & Loni Anderson marry
1988 Orioles beat White Sox 9-0 for 1st 1988 win after 21 loses
1989 2nd government of Lubbers falls
1990 "Change in the Heir" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 16 performances
1990 Dan Quisenberry (all-time AL save king, 238) announces his retirement
1990 STS-31 (Discovery 10) lands
1990 Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate
1991 "Our Country's Good" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 48 perfs
1991 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.
1991 Croatia declares independence
1991 Earthquake in Georgia, kills 100
1992 "Falsettos" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 487 performances
1992 27th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks
1992 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.
1992 Country singer Doug Stone, 35, undergoes quadruple bypass surgery
1992 Sheena Easton collapses on stage while performing in "Man of LaMancha"
1992 Voting ends on choice of Elvis stamps
1994 Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor Kenya, kills over 300
1994 Israel & PLO sign economic accord
1995 Final TV broadcast of "Empty Nest" on NBC TV
1995 KC Royal John Nonely is 70th to HR on his 1st at bat
1995 Longest sausage ever, at 2877 miles, made in Kitchener Ontario
1996 "Rent," opens at Nederlander Theater NYC
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fresno CA on KFRR 104.1 FM
1997 "Candide," opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 103 performances
1997 KC Royal Chili Davis is 75th to hit 300 HRs
1997 The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.
1998 15th Miss Hawaiian Tropic crowned
1999 The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
2002 The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat that it had held for 50 years.
2004 Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
2004 Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
2005 New Zealand's first civil union takes place.
2005 Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.
2007 Republic Protests in Turkey.
2011 Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton
2012 International Chemical Weapons Convention deadline for chemical weapon stockpiles comes into effect
2013 7 people are killed after a Boeing 747 crashes in Bagram, Afghanistan
2015 German Measles is declared eradicated from North and South America - 1st world region to do so
2015 Indonesia executes 8 prisoners, including 7 foreigners, for drug offences at Besi Prison on the island of Nusakambangan
2016 Iranian run-off elections give moderates and reforms a majority in parliament
Born on April 29th
534 Taliesin, Welsh poet, according to legend in Mabinogion
1584 Melchior Teschner, composer
1636 Esaias Reusner, composer
1660 Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer
1665 James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1745)
1667 John Arbuthnot, Scottish writer (Alexander Pope) (d. 1735)
1686 Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1742)
1727 Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and choreographer (ballet d'action) (d. 1810)
1745 Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800) (d. 1807)
1758 Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish Lieutenant General and war hero (d. 1820)
1762 Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (d. 1833)
1769 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Anglo-Irish statesman (d. 1852)
1771 Matthaus Stegmayer, composer
1780 Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
1783 David Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting)
1784 Samuel Turell Armstrong, American politician and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1850)
1806 Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria, physician/philosopher
1808 Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer
1810 Thomas Adolphus Trollope, English author and journalist, (d. 1892)
1815 Abram Duryee, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1890)
1818 Alexander II N Romanov, Tsar of Russia (1855-81)
1830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels
1837 Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891)
1842 Karl Millöcker, Dutch composer (d. 1899)
1848 Raja Ravi Varma,Indian painter (d.1906)
1854 Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
1855 Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake)
1855 Edmund van der Straeten, composer
1857 Edouard Rod, France/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e)
1857 Frantisek Ondricek, composer
1860 Lorado Taft, US, sculptor (Black Hawk)
1862 Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer
1863 Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (d. 1933)
1863 Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (d. 1922)
1863 William Randolph Hearst, American publisher (SF Examiner, Seattle P-I) (d. 1951)
1871 Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher (Intelligence of Children)
1872 Eyvind Alnaes, composer
1872 Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1930)
1873 Alida J M Tartaud-Klein, actress/stage star (Rotterdam Stage)
1875 Rafael Sabatini, Italian/British writer (d. 1950)
1876 Zauditu of Ethiopia (d. 1930)
1879 Thomas Beecham, English conductor (found London Philharmonic) (d. 1961)
1882 Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (Hot printing), resistance fighter (d. 1945)
1885 Egon Erwin Kisch, Czech journalist and author (Rasende Reporter) (d. 1948)
1885 Wallingford Riegger, Albany Georgia, composer (Bacchangle)
1893 Elisaveta Bagrjana (Beltsheva), Bulgarian poet
1893 Harold C Urey, Ind, physicist (Deuterium, Nobel Prize laureate 1934) (d. 1981)
1895 Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts) (d. 1967)
1896 Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer
1896 Walter Mehring, writer
1899 Duke Ellington (Edward Kennedy), American jazz pianist and bandleader (Take "A" Train) (d. 1974)
1899 Karl Yngve Skold, composer
1899 Natalie Talmadge, actress (Our Hospitality)
1901 George Osborne Sayles, historian
1901 Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (1926-89) (d. 1989)
1902 Theodore Chanler, composer
1903 Frank Parker, NYC, singer (Arthur Godfrey Show, Masquerade Party)
1904 Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate
1904 Russ Morgan, Scranton Pa, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard)
1907 Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born American film director (From Here to Eternity, Julia) (d. 1997)
1907 Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (Deux Amours, Marlene) (d. 1983)
1908 Jack (Stewart) Williamson, American sci-fi author (Cometeers) (d. 2006)
1908 Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter
1909 Daniel Raphael Mayer, journalist/resistance leader
1909 Tom Ewell (S Yewell Tompkins), American actor (Tom Ewell Show, 7 Yr Itch) (d. 1994)
1910 John Beavan, newspaper editor
1912 Italo Valenti, Italian sculptor
1912 Richard Carlson, American actor (All I Desire, Flat Top, Valley of Gwangi) (d. 1977)
1912 Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic
1913 Jack Alexander Bently, trombonist
1913 Thomas Chalmers, broadcaster
1914 Ewan Roberts, Edinburgh Scotland, actress (Pvt Benjamin)
1915 Donald Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers) (d. 1999)
1918 George Allen, American football player and coach (d. 1990)
1918 Mervyn Roye Harvey, cricketer (brother of Neil, Test for Australia)
1919 Celeste Holm, American actress (Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve), (d. 2012)
1919 Gérard Oury, French film actor and director (d. 2006)
1920 Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster
1920 Harold Samuel Shapero, Lynn Mass, composer (9 Minute Opera)
1920 Harold Shapero, American composer
1921 Cornelis de Jager, Dutch astronomer (Sun)
1922 George Allen, football coach (LA Rams, Washington Redskins)
1922 Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcyclist (d. 2001)
1922 Parren J Mitchell, (Rep-D-MD, 1971)
1922 Tommy Noonan, WA, actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Promises Promises)
1922 Toots (Jean) Thielemans, Belgian jazz guitarist and harmonica player
1923 Irvin Kershner, Phila, director (Never Say Never Again)
1923 Maxine Audley, London, actress (Peeping Tom, Ricochet, House of Cards)
1924 Al Balding, Canadian golfer (Quebec Open-1952) (d. 2006)
1924 Renée Jeanmaire, Paris France, dancer (Hans Christian Anderson)
1924 Zizi Jeanmaire, French ballet dancer and actress
1925 Ab Abspoel, Dutch actor/director (Surprise Attack, Elevator)
1925 Danny Davis, rocker (Nashville Brass
1925 Iwao Takamoto, American animator, producer and film director (d. 2007)
1925 John Compton, Saint Lucian Prime Minister (d. 2007)
1925 Ned Austin, American character actor (d. 2007)
1926 Carie Meek, (Rep-D-Florida)
1926 Elmer Kelton, American Western novelist (d. 2009)
1927 Betsy Ancker-Johnson, physicist/auto company exec
1927 Dorothy Manley, England, 100m sprint (Olympic-silver-1948)
1928 Big Jay McNeely, rocker
1928 Carl Gardner, American singer (The Coasters)
1929 Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1929 Peter Joshua Sculthorpe, Australian composer
1929 Ray Baretto, American jazz musician (d. 2006)
1929 Vaclav Kucera, composer
1929 Walter Kempowski, German author (d. 2007)
1929 (John) Jeremy Thorpe, British MP (Liberal)
1930 Alfred Lewis Valentine, Jamaican cricket player
1930 Jean Rochefort, French actor
1931 Aleksei Aleksandrovich Gubarev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 28)
1931 Anthony "Lonnie" Donegan, Scotish skiffle vocalist/guitarist
1931 Frank Auerbach, German-born British painter
1931 Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician, vocalist (d. 2002)
1931 William Ball, actor (Suburban Commando)
1932 Joy Clements, American soprano (d. 2005)
1932 King Hu, film director
1932 Yevgeni Alekseyevich Zaikin, Russian cosmonaut (Voshkod 2 backup)
1933 Darijan Bozic, composer
1933 Keith Baxter, South Wales, actor (Barretts at Wimpole Street)
1933 Mark Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium
1933 Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist
1933 Rod Marvin McKuen, American poet and composer (Alone, Beatsville)
1934 Luis Aparicio, Venezuelan baseball player
1934 Otis Rush, American musician
1934 Pedro Pires, 3rd President of Cape Verde (1975-91)
1935 Len Weinrib, NYC, comedian (Spike Jones Show)
1935 Otto M Zykan, composer
1936 April Stevens, American singer, vocalist (Deep Purple)
1936 Jacob Rothschild, English banker/multi-millionaire
1936 Lane Smith, American actor (Perry White-Lois & Clark) (d. 2005)
1936 Zubin Mehta, Indian-born conductor (NY Philharmonic)
1937 Jill Paton Walsh, English writer
1938 Bernard Madoff, American convict, who was a financier and Chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange.
1938 Fred Dibnah, English television personality (d. 2004)
1938 Klaus Voormann, German musician, artist, and record producer
1940 Brian Taber, cricket wicket-keeper (Australian between Grout & Marsh)
1941 Jonah Barrington, British World champion squash player (1966-73)
1942 Galina Kulakova, Soviet cross country skier
1942 Klaus Voorman, rock bassist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1943 Duane Allen, Taylortown Texas, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1944 Benedikte, Danish princess/daughter of Frederik IX
1944 Francis Lee, English footballer
1944 Jim Hart, Evanston, Ill, NFL quarterback (St Louis Cardinals)
1944 Princess Benedikte of Denmark
1944 Richard Kline, American actor and director
1945 Hugh Hopper, rocker (Soft Machine)
1945 Richard Warwick, actor (Johnny Dangerously, Sebastine, If)
1945 (Thomasina) Tammi Terrell, American singer (Ain't No Mountain High Enough) (d. 1970)
1946 Franc Roddam, director (K2, Bride, Aria, Quadrophenia)
1947 Jim Ryun, American athlete and politician, 1500m runner/broke 4 minute mile (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 John Laurence Miller, SF CA, golfer (US Open 1973, British Open 1976)
1947 Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian philosopher
1947 Serge Bernier, Canadian ice hockey player
1947 Tommy James, American musician (crimson & clover)
1948 Bruce Cutler, American attorney
1948 Michael Karoli, German guitarist and violinist (Can) (d. 2001)
1948 Reb Brown, Los Angeles CA, actor (Cage, Yor, Capt America, Fast Break)
1949 Anita Dobson, England, actress (Annie Watts-EastEnders)
1949 Eddie Hart, US, 100m runner (Olympic-1972)
1949 Francis Rossi, England, guitarist/vocalist (Status Quo-Down Down)
1950 Debbie Stabenow, American politician
1950 Phillip Noyce, Australian film director
1951 Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)
1952 Bob McClure, American baseball player
1952 David Icke, English writer
1952 Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Schnectady, actress (Too Close for Comfort)
1952 Nora Dunn, American actress (SNL, Miami Blues, Working Girl)
1953 Nikolai Nikolayevich Budarin, Kirya Russia, cosmonaut (STS 71, TM-27)
1954 Bill Paxon, (Rep-R-New York)
1954 Deborah Iyall, rocker (Romeo Void)
1954 Jake Burton Carpenter, American snowboarder
1954 Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
1955 Gino Quilico, Canadian baritone
1955 Jerry Seinfeld, comedian/actor (Jerry-Seinfeld)
1955 Kate Mulgrew, American actress (Capt Janeway-Star Trek Voyager)
1955 Wendee Lee, American voice actress
1956 Ketil Stokkan, Norwegian singer
1956 Ron Verlin, rocker (Shooting Star)
1956 Sofia Sakorafa, Greek javelin thrower and politician
1957 Daniel Day-Lewis, British-Irish actor
1957 Mark Kendall, American guitarist
1957 Richie C Robertson, rock bassist/vocalist (Fabulous Poodles)
1957 Timothy Treadwell, American ecologist, bear enthusiast (d. 2003)
1958 Daniel Day-Lewis, England, actor (Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot)
1958 Eve Plumb, American actress (Jan-Brady Bunch, I'm Gonna Get You Sucka)
1958 Gary Cohen, Baseball broadcaster
1958 Martin Whitmarsh, Current CEO of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 Racing Team
1958 Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress (Married to the Mob)
1958 Simon Edwards, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
1960 Caveh Zahedi, American filmmaker
1960 Gerard Joling, Dutch singer (Love is in Your Eyes)
1960 Joseph Guzaldo, Chicago Ill, actor (Stir Crazy)
1960 Phil King, English bassist
1960 Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian writer
1960 William Lee Glasson Jr, Fresno CA, PGA golfer (1985 Kemper Open)
1961 Fumihiko Tachiki, Japanese seiyu
1962 Bruce Driver, Toronto, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1962 Dieter Hegen, Kaufbeuren GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1962 Robert Druppers, runner (world record 1 km indoor)
1963 Mike Babcock, NHL Coach
1964 Federico Castelluccio, Italian-American actor
1964 Mohammad Qatanani, Muslim Imam
1965 Reggie Miller, NBA player (Indiana Pacers)
1966 John VanderWal, Grand Rapids MI, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1966 Phil Tufnell, English cricketer
1967 Curtis Joseph, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL goalie (Team Canada, Edmonton Oilers)
1967 Elizabeth "Betsy" McCagg, Kirkland Wash, rower (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1967 Mary McCagg, Seattle Wash, rower (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1967 Master P, American rapper
1967 Rachel Williams, Greenwich Village NY, model (Absolut Vodka, Elle)
1968 Browning Nagle, NFL quarterback (NY Jets, Atlanta Falcons)
1968 Carnie Wilson, American singer (Wilson Phillips)
1969 Arthur Marshall, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1969 Izel, Turkish singer
1969 Paul Adelstein, American actor
1970 Andre Agassi, American tennis player (Oly-gold-96, US Open 1994)
1970 Arnaud Briand, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1970 China Forbes, American singer and songwriter (Pink Martini)
1970 Derrick Frazier, NFL cornerback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 J R Phillips, West Covina CA, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1970 Leuea Tagoai, CFL defensive end (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 Mark McMillian, NFL cornerback (Philadelphia Eagles, KC Chiefs)
1970 Uma Thurman, American actress (Baron Munchausen, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill)
1970 William Martin III, Charleston SC, finn yachter (Olympics-23rd-1996)
1971 Sam Michael, Australian engineer
1971 Sterling Hitchcock, Fayetteville NC, pitcher (NY Yanks, Sea Mariners)
1971 Tamara Johnson-George, American singer (SWV)
1972 Dustin McDaniel, American politician
1972 Gwendolyn Wentland, Flint Michigan, high jumper
1973 David Belle, French physical educator
1973 Johan Hegg, Swedish heavy metal vocalist
1974 Alana Blahoski, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1974 Anggun, Indonesian singer
1974 Jasper Wood, Canadian violinist
1974 Julian Knowle, Austrian tennis player
1974 Pascal Cygan, French footballer
1975 Béres Zoo, Hungarian radio DJ
1975 Eric Koston, Thai American professional skateboarder
1975 John Macready, LA California, gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)
1975 Rafael Betancourt, Venezuelan baseball player
1976 God Shammgod, NBA guard (Wash Wizards)
1976 Jay Orpin, Swedish composer and producer
1976 Nayla Micherif, Miss Brazil Universe (1997)
1977 Claus Jensen, Danish footballer
1977 Rocío Carrasco, Spanish TV host and socialite
1978 Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, American tennis players
1978 Mike Bryan, Oxnard California, tennis star (USTA National 18 doubles)
1978 Tony Armas, Jr., Venezuelan baseball player
1979 Jo O'Meara, British singer (S Club)
1979 Lee Dong-Gook, Korean footballer
1979 Matt Tong, English drummer (Bloc Party)
1979 Ryan Sharp, Scottish racing driver
1980 Kelly Shoppach, American baseball player
1980 Kian Egan, Irish singer (Westlife)
1980 Mathieu Biron, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 Alex Vincent, American actor
1981 George McCartney, Northern Irish footballer
1981 Émilie Mondor, Canadian athlete (d. 2006)
1982 Kamran Jawaid, Pakistani film critic
1982 Travis Smith, American drummer (Trivium)
1983 David Lee, American basketball player
1983 Jay Cutler, American football player
1983 Sam Jones III, American Actor
1983 Tommie Harris, American football player
1983 Yuriko Shiratori, Japanese gravure idol and actress
1984 Firass Dirani, Australian actor
1984 Phạm Văn Quyến, Vietnamese footballer
1984 Taylor Cole, American actress
1986 Renee Alway, American Model
1987 Alicia Morton, American actress
1988 Jonathan Toews, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 Younha, Korean pop singer
1992 Jack Beck, Walton High School drummer
1993 Aurelia Clasina Lucia Wildeboer, daughter of Pieter & Mirtle
2003 Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 2007)
2003 Maud Behn, Princess of Norway
2007 Infanta Sofía of Spain, Princess of Spain
Died on April 29th
852 Amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon, bishop
926 Burchard II, Duke of Swabia
1380 Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)
1499 John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond
1535 John Houghton, English, executed
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 (Newport) (b. 1607)
1688 Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1620)
1698 Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
1699 Samuel Apostool, vicar/theologist (Zonisten)
1707 George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
1712 Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer
1743 Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658)
1768 Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (b. 1694)
1771 Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Italian-born Russian architect (b. 1700)
1776 Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)
1782 Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1718)
1793 John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724)
1793 Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713)
1798 Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
1813 Christian Danner, composer
1841 A Bertrand, writer
1854 Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (b. 1768)
1864 Charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem)
1871 John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author,
1903 Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835)
1905 Ignacio Cervantes, composer
1916 Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850)
1918 Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand
1920 William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)
1921 Arthur Mold, Brit cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing)
1928 Henrich Federer, Switz, writer (I Switch Off The Light)
1933 Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)
1935 Leroy Carr, American blues singer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1905)
1936 Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman
1937 William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)
1943 Joseph Achron, Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite)
1943 Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer
1943 Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate)
1944 Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)
1945 Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
1947 Irving Fisher, US economist
1951 Jules Verstraete (Julien G de Graef), actor (Boefje)
1951 Ludwig JJ Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1889)
1953 Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse)
1954 Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier
1956 Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer
1956 Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)
1957 Otallo Morales, composer
1961 Cisco Houston, American folk singer (b. 1918)
1964 Albert Saverys, Flemish painter
1966 Eugene O'Brien, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
1966 William Eccles, English physicist and radio pioneer (b. 1875)
1967 Anthony Mann, American actor and director (El Cid, Last Frontier) (b. 1906)
1967 J. B. Lenoir, American Blues Musician (b. 1929)
1972 Ntare V, deposed King of Burundi, killed in an abortive coup
1973 Manfred Gurlitt, composer
1975 Charles McMahon Jr, US USMC lance corporal, killed in Vietnam
1975 Darwin Judge, USMC-corporal, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
1975 Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam
1975 William Craig Nystul, USMC capt, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
1976 Wilhelm Maler, composer
1979 Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (b. 1907)
1979 Julia A Perry, US composer/conductor (Soul Symphony)
1980 Alfred (Joseph) Hitchcock, English film director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window) (b. 1899)
1986 Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist
1988 Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul)
1988 James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926)
1988 Jan Kapr, composer
1991 Claude Gallimard, French publisher
1992 Mae Clarke, American actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein) (b. 1910)
1993 Cy Howard, director (Lovers & Other Strangers)
1993 Michael Gordon, American film director (Pillow Talk) (b. 1909)
1993 Mick Ronson, English guitarist, producer (Mott the Hoople) (b. 1946)
1994 Bill Quinn, US actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff)
1994 Erik Erikson, anthropologist
1994 Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic
1995 Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator
1996 David William Eric Davis, broadcaster
1996 Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist
1996 Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of Pres Suharto of Indonesia
1996 Tony Hymphris, political activist
1997 Keith Ferguson, blues (Fabulous Thunderbirds), dies of overdose
1997 Mike Royko, American columnist (b. 1932)
1997 Peter Tali Coleman, gov of Americ Samoa (1956-61, 78-85, 89-93)
1998 Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922)
2002 Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (b. 1936)
2002 Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (b. 1914)
2004 Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2005 Mariana Levy, Mexican actress, singer, and television show host (b. 1966)
2005 William J. Bell, American television writer and producer (b. 1927)
2006 John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
2007 Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor, known as the leader of Olsenbanden (b. 1921)
2007 Dick Motz, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1940)
2007 Ivica Racan, former Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
2007 Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)
2007 Milt Bocek, American baseball player (b. 1912)
2007 Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
2008 Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)
2012 Amarillo Slim, American professional poker player
2012 Shukri Ghanem, Libyan Prime Minister
2013 John La Montaine, American composer
2014 Bob Hoskins, English actor (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
2015 Calvin Peete, PGA golfer (12 PGA wins)
2015 Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman and founder of Weight Watchers