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Deaths on the 29th of April in history

Deaths
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29 Apr 0643 Hou Junji, Chinese general and politician, Chancellor of the Tang dynasty
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29 Apr 0852 Amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon bishop, dies at 76
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29 Apr 0926 Burchard II, Duke of Swabia (b. 883)
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29 Apr 1380 Catherine of Siena, Italian mystic, philosopher, and saint (b. 1347)
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29 Apr 1499 John IV Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies
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29 Apr 1535 John Houghton English, executed
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29 Apr 1594 Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and theologian (b. 1517)
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29 Apr 1630 Agrippa d'Aubigné, French soldier and poet (b. 1552)
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29 Apr 1658 John Cleveland, English poet and author (b. 1613)
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29 Apr 1676 Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (b. 1607)
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29 Apr 1676 Michiel A de Ruyter Dutch Rear-Admiral, (Newport), killed at 69
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29 Apr 1688 Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1620)
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29 Apr 1698 Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk (b. 1655)
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29 Apr 1699 Samuel Apostool vicar/theologist (Zonisten), dies at 50
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29 Apr 1707 George Farquhar, Irish-English actor and playwright (b. 1678)
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29 Apr 1712 Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles composer, dies at 67
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29 Apr 1743 Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French theorist and author (b. 1658)
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29 Apr 1768 Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1694)
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29 Apr 1771 Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, French-Italian architect, designed Winter Palace and Catherine Palace (b. 1700)
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29 Apr 1776 Edward Wortley Montagu, English explorer and author (b. 1713)
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29 Apr 1793 John Michell, English geologist and astronomer (b. 1724)
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29 Apr 1793 Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and author (b. 1713)
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29 Apr 1798 Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, Austrian entomologist and author (b. 1723)
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29 Apr 1813 Christian Danner composer, dies at 55
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29 Apr 1841 A Bertrand writer, dies
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29 Apr 1854 Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1768)
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29 Apr 1864 Charles-Julien Brianchon math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80
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29 Apr 1871 John Gelinde van Blom Fries notary/author, dies at 75
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29 Apr 1903 Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and zoologist (b. 1835)
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29 Apr 1905 Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847)
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29 Apr 1916 Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850)
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29 Apr 1916 The O'Rahilly, Irish activist (b. 1875)
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29 Apr 1918 Gavrilo Princip Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22
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29 Apr 1920 William H. Seward, Jr., American general and banker (b. 1839)
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29 Apr 1921 Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
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29 Apr 1928 Henrich Federer Switzerland, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61
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29 Apr 1933 Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863)
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29 Apr 1935 Leroy Carr, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1905)
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29 Apr 1936 Florentinus M Wibaut Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76
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29 Apr 1937 William Gillette, American actor and playwright (b. 1853)
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29 Apr 1943 Joseph Achron Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite), dies at 56
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29 Apr 1943 Karl Adrian Wohlfart composer, dies at 68
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29 Apr 1943 Sidney A K Keyes English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20
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29 Apr 1944 Bernardino Machado, Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (b. 1851)
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29 Apr 1945 Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
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29 Apr 1947 Irving Fisher, American economist and statistician (b. 1867)
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29 Apr 1951 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (b. 1889)
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29 Apr 1951 Jules Verstraete [Julien G de Graef] actor (Boefje), dies at 67
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29 Apr 1951 Ludwig J J Wittgenstein Austria/English philosopher, dies at 62
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29 Apr 1953 Mo
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29 Apr 1954 Kathleen Clarice Groom, Australian-English author and screenwriter (b. 1872)
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29 Apr 1954 Ernst Heldring Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier, dies at 82
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29 Apr 1956 Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)
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29 Apr 1956 Harold Bride, English soldier and operator (b. 1890)
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29 Apr 1956 Nemesio Otano y Eugenio composer, dies at 75
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29 Apr 1957 Otallo Morales composer, dies at 82
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29 Apr 1961 Cisco Houston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)
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29 Apr 1964 Albert Saverys Flemish painter, dies at 77
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29 Apr 1966 William Eccles, English physicist and engineer (b. 1875)
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29 Apr 1966 Eugene O'Brien actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
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29 Apr 1967 Anthony Mann, American actor and director (b. 1906)
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29 Apr 1967 J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
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29 Apr 1968 Frankie Lymon rocker (& Teenagers), dies of a drug overdose at 25
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29 Apr 1972 Ntare V deposed King of Burundi, killed in an abortive coup
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29 Apr 1973 Manfred Gurlitt composer, dies at 82
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29 Apr 1975 Charles McMahon Jr US USMC lance corporal, killed in Vietnam
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29 Apr 1975 Darwin Judge USMC-corporal, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
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29 Apr 1975 Michael John Shea USMC-Lieutenant/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam
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29 Apr 1975 William Craig Nystul USMC Captain, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
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29 Apr 1976 Edvard Drabløs, Norwegian actor and director (b. 1883)
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29 Apr 1976 Wilhelm Maler composer, dies at 73
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29 Apr 1979 Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (b. 1907)
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29 Apr 1979 Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (b. 1892)
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29 Apr 1979 Julia A Perry US composer/conductor (Soul Symphony), dies at 55
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29 Apr 1980 Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (b. 1899)
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29 Apr 1980 Alfred Joseph Hitchcock British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80
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29 Apr 1982 Raymond Bussières, French actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)
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29 Apr 1984 Marvin Gaye rocker (Sexual Healing), shot dead by his father at 45
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29 Apr 1986 Seamus McElwaine Irish IRA-terrorist, killed at 25
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29 Apr 1988 James McCracken, American tenor and actor (b. 1926)
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29 Apr 1988 Andrew Cruickshank actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies
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29 Apr 1988 Jan Kapr composer, dies at 74
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29 Apr 1991 Claude Gallimard French publisher, dies
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29 Apr 1992 Mae Clarke, American actress and singer (b. 1910)
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29 Apr 1993 Mick Ronson, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Spiders from Mars and Mott the Hoople) (b. 1946)
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29 Apr 1993 Michael Gordon, American actor and director (b. 1909)
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29 Apr 1993 Cy Howard director (Lovers & Other Strangers), dies at 77
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29 Apr 1994 Bill Quinn US actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 81
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29 Apr 1994 Erik Erikson anthropologist, dies at 53
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29 Apr 1994 Oscar Sheldon A Williams artist/critic, dies at 74
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29 Apr 1995 Robert Gibb zoo/theme park creator, dies at 57
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29 Apr 1996 David William Eric Davis broadcaster, dies at 87
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29 Apr 1996 Jaime Garcia Terre poet/essayist, dies at 71
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29 Apr 1996 Siti Hartinah Suharto wife of President Suharto of Indonesia, dies at 72
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29 Apr 1996 Tony Hymphris political activist, dies at 45
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29 Apr 1997 Mike Royko, American journalist and author (b. 1932)
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29 Apr 1997 Keith Ferguson blues (Fabulous Thunderbirds), dies of overdose at 50
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29 Apr 1997 Peter Tali Coleman Governor of American Samoa (1956-61, 78-85, 89-93), dies
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29 Apr 1998 Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922)
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29 Apr 2000 Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1906)
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29 Apr 2001 Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr., American physicist and academic (b. 1936)
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29 Apr 2002 Lor Tok, Thai actor (b. 1914)
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29 Apr 2002 Bob Akin, American race car driver and journalist (b. 1936)
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29 Apr 2004 Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1925)
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29 Apr 2005 Mariana Levy, Mexican actress and singer (b. 1966)
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29 Apr 2005 Sara Henderson, Australian farmer and author (b. 1936)
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29 Apr 2005 Louis Leithold, American mathematician and academic (b. 1924)
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29 Apr 2005 William J. Bell, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1927)
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29 Apr 2006 John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, United States Ambassador to India (b. 1908)
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29 Apr 2007 Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
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29 Apr 2007 Selvarajah Rajivarnam, Sri Lankan journalist (b. 1982)
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29 Apr 2007 Ivica Račan, German-Croatian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
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29 Apr 2007 Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor and singer (b. 1921)
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29 Apr 2007 Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player (b. 1940)
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29 Apr 2007 Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)
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29 Apr 2007 Milt Bocek, American baseball player and soldier (b. 1912)
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29 Apr 2008 Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic (b. 1906)
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29 Apr 2010 Sandy Douglas, English computer scientist and academic, designed OXO (b. 1921)
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29 Apr 2011 Siamak Pourzand, Iranian journalist and critic (b. 1931)
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29 Apr 2012 Amarillo Slim, American poker player (b. 1928)
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29 Apr 2012 Kenny Roberts, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
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29 Apr 2012 Roland Moreno. French engineer, invented the smart card (b. 1945)
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29 Apr 2012 Joel Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (b. 1957)
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29 Apr 2012 Shukri Ghanem, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1942)
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29 Apr 2012 Éric Charden, Vietnamese-French singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
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29 Apr 2012 Dynaformer, American race horse (b. 1985)
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29 Apr 2013 Marianna Zachariadi, Greek pole vaulter (b. 1990)
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29 Apr 2013 Kevin Moore, English footballer (b. 1958)
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29 Apr 2013 Ernest Michael, American mathematician and scholar (b. 1925)
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29 Apr 2013 John La Montaine, American pianist and composer (b. 1920)
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29 Apr 2013 Parekura Horomia, New Zealand politician, 40th Minister of Māori Affairs (b. 1950)
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29 Apr 2013 Pesah Grupper, Israeli politician, 13th Israel Minister of Agriculture (b. 1924)
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29 Apr 2013 Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (b. 1992)
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29 Apr 2014 Walter Walsh, American target shooter and FBI agent (b. 1907)
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29 Apr 2014 Clayton Lockett, American murderer (b. 1975)
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29 Apr 2014 Michael Kadosh, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1940)
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29 Apr 2014 Bob Hoskins, English actor, singer, and director (b. 1942)
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29 Apr 2014 Reuven Feuerstein, Romanian-Israeli psychologist and academic (b. 1921)
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29 Apr 2014 Al Feldstein, American author and illustrator (b. 1925)
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29 Apr 2014 M. V. Devan, Indian painter, sculptor, and critic (b. 1928)
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29 Apr 2014 Iveta Bartošová, Czech singer and actress (b. 1966)
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29 Apr 2015 Dan Walker, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (b. 1922)
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29 Apr 2015 Myuran Sukumaran, English-Australian drug trafficker (b. 1981)
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29 Apr 2015 Calvin Peete, American golfer (b. 1943)
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29 Apr 2015 Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman, co-founded Weight Watchers (b. 1923)
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29 Apr 2015 François Michelin, French businessman (b. 1926)
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29 Apr 2015 Rodrigo Gularte, Brazilian drug trafficker (b. 1972)
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29 Apr 2015 Andrew Chan, Australian drug trafficker (b. 1984)
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