Died on Tuesday, 29th April – Famous Deaths

29/04/2023

Padma Desai, Indian-American development economist (born 1931)

Padma Desai was an Indian-American development economist who was the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of comparative economic systems and director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University. Known for her scholarship on Soviet and Indian industrial policy, she was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2009.

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29/04/2022

Joanna Barnes, American actress and writer (born 1934)

Joanna Barnes was an American actress and writer.

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29/04/2021

Cate Haste, English author (born 1945)

Catherine Haste, Baroness Bragg, was an English author, biographer, historian and documentary film director, who worked freelance for major television networks in the UK and US over a period of 40 years.

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29/04/2020

Irrfan Khan, Indian actor (born 1967)

Irrfan Khan was an Indian actor who worked in Indian cinema as well as British and American films. Widely regarded as one of the finest actors in world cinema, Khan's career spanned over 30 years and earned him numerous accolades, including a National Film Award, an Asian Film Award, and six Filmfare Awards. In 2011, he was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour. In 2021, he was posthumously awarded the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Guido Münch, Mexican astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1921)

Guido Münch Paniagua was a Mexican astronomer and astrophysicist.

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29/04/2019

Josef Šural, Czech footballer (born 1990)

Josef Šural was a Czech professional footballer who played as a forward.

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29/04/2018

Luis García Meza, Bolivian general, 57th President of Bolivia (born 1929)

Luis García Meza Tejada was a Bolivian general who served as the de facto 57th president of Bolivia from 1980 to 1981. He was a dictator convicted of human rights violations and leader of a violent coup. A native of La Paz, he was a career military officer who rose to the rank of general during the dictatorship of Hugo Banzer (1971–78).

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Michael Martin, British politician (born 1945)

Michael John Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, was a Scottish politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 2000 and 2009. A member of the Labour Party prior to becoming speaker, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Springburn from 1979 to 2005 and for Glasgow North East until 2009. He was elected as Speaker of the House of Commons in 2000, remaining in the office for nine years until his involuntary resignation in 2009.

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29/04/2017

R. Vidyasagar Rao, Indian bureaucrat and activist (born 1939)

Ramaraju Vidyasagar Rao was an Indian government administrator and a Telangana activist. He was the Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Water Resources, Central Water Commission. After the formation of Telangana State, he was appointed as the Advisor on Irrigation to the Government of Telangana. He was the foremost expert on irrigation projects in Telangana, and was instrumental in highlighting injustices in water allocation for Telangana Region in United Andhra Pradesh.

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29/04/2016

Dmytro Hnatyuk, Ukrainian singer (born 1925)

Dmytro Mykhailovych Hnatyuk was a Soviet and Ukrainian baritone opera singer and a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament.

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Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (born 1948)

Renato Tereso Antonio Coronado Corona was a Filipino judge who served as the 23rd Chief Justice of the Philippines from 2010 until his removal from office in 2012.

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29/04/2015

François Michelin, French businessman (born 1926)

François Michelin was a French heir and businessman. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Michelin from 1955 to 1999. Under his leadership, a family business founded by his grandfather became the leading global tire manufacturer, dominating the market in Europe and the US. A practising Roman Catholic, he was idiosyncratically non-hierarchical and conducted business from his hometown of Clermont-Ferrand in the rural Auvergne.

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Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman, co-founded Weight Watchers (born 1923)

Jean Evelyn Nidetch was an American businessperson and the founder of Weight Watchers.

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Calvin Peete, American golfer (born 1943)

Calvin Peete was an American professional golfer. He was the most successful African-American to have played on the PGA Tour, with 12 wins, prior to the emergence of Tiger Woods. Peete won the 1985 Tournament Players Championship and finished the season top-5 on the PGA Tour money list three times; 1982, 1983 and 1985. He was ranked in the top 10 players on the McCormack's World Golf Rankings in 1984.

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Dan Walker, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (born 1922)

Daniel J. Walker was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 36th governor of Illinois, from 1973 until 1977.

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29/04/2014

Iveta Bartošová, Czech singer and actress (born 1966)

Iveta Bartošová was a Czech singer, actress and celebrity, three-time best female vocalist in the music poll Zlatý slavík. She was also known for her turbulent lifestyle attracting the attention of the Czech tabloid media.

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Al Feldstein, American author and illustrator (born 1925)

Albert Bernard Feldstein was an American writer, editor, and artist, best known for his work at EC Comics and, from 1956 to 1985, as the editor of the satirical magazine Mad. After retiring from Mad, Feldstein concentrated on American paintings of Western wildlife.

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Bob Hoskins, English actor (born 1942)

Robert William Hoskins was an English actor and film director. Known for his intense but sensitive portrayals of "tough guy" characters, he began his career on stage before making his screen breakthrough playing Arthur Parker on the 1978 BBC Television serial Pennies from Heaven. He subsequently played acclaimed lead roles in the films The Long Good Friday (1980), Mona Lisa (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Mermaids (1990), TwentyFourSeven (1997), Noriega: God's Favorite (2000), Last Orders (2001), The Good Pope: Pope John XXIII (2003) and Ruby Blue (2008).

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29/04/2013

Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (born 1992)

Alex Elisala was a Samoa international rugby league footballer who was contracted to the North Queensland Cowboys at the time of his death. He primarily played as a hooker.

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Pesah Grupper, Israeli politician, 13th Israel Minister of Agriculture (born 1924)

Pesah Grupper was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Agriculture between October 1983 and September 1984.

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John La Montaine, American pianist and composer (born 1920)

John Maynard La Montaine, also later LaMontaine, was an American pianist and composer, born in Oak Park, Illinois, who won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Piano Concerto No. 1 "In Time of War" (1958), which was premiered by Jorge Bolet.

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Kevin Moore, English footballer (born 1958)

Kevin Thomas Moore was an English professional footballer.

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Marianna Zachariadi, Greek pole vaulter (born 1990)

Marianna Zachariadi was a Greek pole vaulter who later competed for Cyprus.

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29/04/2012

Shukri Ghanem, Libyan politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Libya (born 1942)

Shukri Mohammed Ghanem was a Libyan politician who was the General Secretary of the General People's Committee of Libya from June 2003 until March 2006 when, in the first major government reshuffle in over a decade, he was replaced by his deputy, Baghdadi Mahmudi. Ghanem subsequently served as the Minister of Oil until 2011. On 29 April 2012, his body was found floating on the New Danube, Vienna.

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Joel Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (born 1957)

Joel King Goldsmith was an American composer of film, television, and video game music.

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Roland Moreno. French engineer, invented the smart card (born 1945)

Roland Moreno was a French inventor, engineer, humorist and author who was the inventor of the smart card. Moreno's smart card, or la carte à puce in French, was little known internationally. However, he became a national hero in France and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur in 2009.

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Kenny Roberts, American singer-songwriter (born 1926)

George S. Kingsbury Jr., better known as Kenny Roberts, was an American country music singer. He is best known for his recordings of "I Never See Maggie Alone" and "Choc'late Ice Cream Cone", and was a member of The Down Homers with Bill Haley.

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29/04/2011

Siamak Pourzand, Iranian journalist and critic (born 1931)

Siamak Pourzand was an Iranian journalist and film critic. He was the manager of the Majmue-ye Farhangi-Honari-ye Tehran—a cultural center for writers, artists, and intellectuals—and wrote cultural commentary for several reformist newspapers later shut down by the Iranian government. In 2001, he was imprisoned for his articles critical of Iranian leadership, a move condemned by numerous human rights and journalism organizations.

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Joanna Russ, American writer, academic and radical feminist (born 1937)

Joanna Russ was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny. She is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire, and the story "When It Changed".

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29/04/2010

Avigdor Arikha, French-Israeli artist, printmaker and art historian (born 1929)

Avigdor Arikha was a Romanian-born French–Israeli artist, printmaker and art historian.

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29/04/2008

Gordon Bradley, English-American footballer (born 1933)

Gordon Bradley was an English-American soccer midfielder born and raised on Wearside who played several seasons with lower-division English clubs before moving to play in Canada at the age of 30. During the Canadian off-season, he played and coached in the U.S.-based German American Soccer League. In 1971, he became a player and head coach for the New York Cosmos. In addition to coaching the Cosmos, he has coached the U.S. national team and at the collegiate and high school levels. Bradley also earned one cap with the U.S. national team in 1973. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

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Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic (born 1906)

Albert Hofmann was a Swiss chemist known for being the first to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann's team also isolated, named and synthesized the principal psychedelic mushroom compounds psilocybin and psilocin. Hofmann discovered the structure of chitin in 1929. He authored more than 100 scientific articles and numerous books, including LSD: Mein Sorgenkind. In 2007, he shared first place with Tim Berners-Lee on a list of the 100 greatest living geniuses published by The Daily Telegraph.

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29/04/2007

Josh Hancock, American baseball player (born 1978)

Joshua Morgan Hancock was an American professional baseball pitcher, who played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, and St. Louis Cardinals. He was killed in an auto accident on April 29, 2007, at the age of 29.

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Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player (born 1940)

Richard Charles Motz was a New Zealand cricketer. A right-arm fast bowler and hard-hitting lower order batsman, Motz played 32 Test matches for the New Zealand national cricket team between 1961 and 1969. He was the first bowler for New Zealand to take 100 wickets in Test cricket.

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Ivica Račan, Croatian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (born 1944)

Ivica Račan was a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2000 to 2003, heading two centre-left coalition governments.

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29/04/2006

John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, United States Ambassador to India (born 1908)

John Kenneth Galbraith, also known as J. K. Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective. He served as the deputy director of the powerful Office of Price Administration (OPA) during World War II in charge of stabilizing all prices, wages and rents in the American economy, to combat the threat of inflation and hoarding during a time of shortages and rationing, a task which was successfully accomplished.

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29/04/2005

William J. Bell, American screenwriter and producer (born 1927)

William Joseph Bell was an American screenwriter and television producer, best known as the creator of the soap operas Another World, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.

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Louis Leithold, American mathematician and academic (born 1924)

Louis Leithold was an American mathematician and teacher. He is best known for authoring The Calculus, a classic textbook about calculus that changed the teaching methods for calculus in world high schools and universities. Known as "a legend in AP calculus circles," Leithold was the mentor of Jaime Escalante, the Los Angeles high-school teacher whose story is the subject of the 1988 movie Stand and Deliver.

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29/04/2004

John Henniker-Major, British diplomat and civil servant (born 1916)

John Patrick Edward Chandos Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker, known as Sir John Henniker-Major from 1965 to 1980, was a British peer, civil servant, and diplomat.

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29/04/2003

Janko Bobetko, Croatian Army general and Chief of the General Staff (born 1919)

Janko Bobetko was a Croatian general who had participated in World War II and later in the Croatian War of Independence. He was one of the founding members of 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment, the first anti-fascist military unit during World War II in Yugoslavia. He later had a military career in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA).

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29/04/2002

Bob Akin, American race car driver and journalist (born 1936)

Robert Macomber Akin, III was an American business executive, journalist, television commentator and champion sports car racing driver.

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29/04/2001

Arthur B. C. Walker Jr., American physicist and academic (born 1936)

Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker Jr. was an American solar physicist and a pioneer of EUV/XUV optics. He developed normal incidence multilayer XUV telescopes to photograph the solar corona. Two of his sounding rocket payloads, the Stanford/MSFC Rocket Spectroheliograph Experiment and the Multi-Spectral Solar Telescope Array, recorded the first full-disk, high-resolution images of the Sun in XUV with conventional geometries of normal incidence optics. This technology is used in solar telescopes such as SOHO/EIT and TRACE, and in the fabrication of microchips via ultraviolet photolithography.

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29/04/2000

Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (born 1906)

Phạm Văn Đồng was a Vietnamese politician who served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1955 to 1976. He later served as Prime Minister of Vietnam, following reunification of North and South Vietnam, from 1976 until he retired in 1987 under the presidency of Trường Chinh and Nguyễn Văn Linh. He was considered one of Ho Chi Minh's closest lieutenants.

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29/04/1997

Mike Royko, American journalist and author (born 1932)

Michael Royko Jr. was an American newspaper columnist from Chicago, Illinois. Over his 42-year career, he wrote more than 7,500 daily columns for the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune. A humorist whose writing spanned a broad range of topics, he was the winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

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29/04/1993

Michael Gordon, American actor and director (born 1909)

Michael Gordon was an American stage actor and stage and film director.

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Mick Ronson, English guitarist, songwriter and producer (born 1946)

Michael Ronson was an English musician, songwriter, arranger, and producer. He achieved critical and commercial success working with David Bowie as the guitarist of the Spiders from Mars. He was a session musician who recorded five studio albums with Bowie followed by four with Ian Hunter, and also played in touring bands with Van Morrison and Bob Dylan. A classically trained musician, Ronson was known for his melodic approach to guitar playing.

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29/04/1992

Mae Clarke, American actress (born 1910)

Mae Clarke was an American actress. She is widely remembered for playing Henry Frankenstein's bride Elizabeth, who is chased by Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, and for being on the receiving end of James Cagney's halved grapefruit in The Public Enemy. Both films were released in 1931.

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29/04/1982

Raymond Bussières, French actor, producer and screenwriter (born 1907)

Raymond Bussières was a French actor. He was born in Ivry-la-Bataille. He began his career on the stage as a member of the celebrated Groupe Octobre. He appeared in more than 160 films from 1933 to 1982. In his early career he excelled in portraying the Parisian street urchin persona in many of his films. On television he had success in the 1977 mini-series Le Pain noir. He died in Paris and is buried in Marchenoir. He was married to the actress Annette Poivre.

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29/04/1980

Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (born 1899)

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watched and studied today. Known as the "Master of Suspense", Hitchcock became as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo appearances in most of his films, and his hosting and producing the television anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–65). Among other accolades, his films garnered 46 Academy Award nominations, including six wins, although he never won the award for Best Director, despite five nominations.

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29/04/1979

Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (born 1892)

Muhsin Ertuğrul, also known as Ertuğrul Muhsin Bey, was a Turkish actor and director.

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Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (born 1907)

Bernhard August "Hardie" Gramatky, Jr. was an American painter, writer, animator, and illustrator. In a 2006 article in Watercolor Magazine, Andrew Wyeth named him as one of America's 20 greatest watercolorists. He wrote and illustrated several children's books, most notably Little Toot.

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29/04/1978

Theo Helfrich, German race car driver (born 1913)

Theodor Helfrich was a racing driver from Germany. He participated in three World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 3 August 1952, but scored no championship points. He was German Formula Two Champion in 1953, took a number of wins in the German Formula Three Championship in a Cooper-Norton, and finished in second place in the 1952 24 Hours of Le Mans race.

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29/04/1968

Aasa Helgesen, Norwegian midwife (born 1877)

Aasa Helgesen born Aasa Røinesdal was a Norwegian midwife and politician. She served as mayor of Utsira Municipality from 1926 to 1928, and was the first female mayor in Norway. She worked as a midwife in Utsira from 1903 to 1942.

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Lin Zhao, Chinese dissident (born 1932)

Lin Zhao, born Peng Lingzhao (彭令昭), was a prominent Chinese dissident who was imprisoned and later executed by gunshot by the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution for her criticism of Mao Zedong's policies. She is widely considered to be a martyr.

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29/04/1967

J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1929)

J. B. Lenoir was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the Chicago blues scene in the 1950s and 1960s.

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29/04/1966

William Eccles, English physicist and engineer (born 1875)

William Henry Eccles, FRS was an English physicist who was a pioneer in the development of radio communication.

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Paula Strasberg, American actress and acting coach (born 1909)

Paula Strasberg was an American stage actress. She became actor and teacher Lee Strasberg's second wife and mother of actors John and Susan Strasberg, as well as Marilyn Monroe's acting coach and confidante.

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29/04/1959

Kenneth Anderson, English soldier and Governor of Gibraltar (born 1891)

General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, was a senior British Army officer who saw service in both world wars. He is mainly remembered as the commander of the British First Army during Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa and the subsequent Tunisian campaign which ended with the capture of almost 250,000 Axis soldiers. An outwardly reserved character, he did not court popularity either with his superiors or with the public.

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29/04/1956

Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (born 1876)

Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb was a German Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, who was subsequently convicted of war crimes. Leeb was a highly decorated officer in World War I and was awarded the Military Order of Max Joseph which granted him the title of nobility. During the Battle of France, he commanded Army Group C, responsible for the breakthrough of the Maginot Line.

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29/04/1951

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (born 1889)

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.

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29/04/1947

Irving Fisher, American economist and statistician (born 1867)

Irving Fisher was an American economist, statistician, inventor, eugenicist and progressive social campaigner. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the post-Keynesian school. Joseph Schumpeter described him as "the greatest economist the United States has ever produced", an assessment later repeated by James Tobin and Milton Friedman.

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29/04/1944

Billy Bitzer, American cinematographer (born 1872)

Gottfried Wilhelm Bitzer was an American cinematographer, notable for his close association and work with D. W. Griffith.

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Pyotr Stolyarsky, Soviet violinist (born 1871)

Pyotr Solomonovich Stolyarsky was a Soviet violinist and eminent pedagogue, honored as People's Artist of UkSSR (1939). He was a member of CPSU from 1939.

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29/04/1943

Joseph Achron, Russian composer and violinist (born 1886)

Joseph Yulyevich Achron, also seen as Akhron was a Russian composer and violinist, who settled in the United States. His preoccupation with Jewish elements and his desire to develop a "Jewish" harmonic and contrapuntal idiom, underscored and informed much of his work. His friend, the composer Arnold Schoenberg, described Achron in his obituary as "one of the most underrated modern composers".

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Ricardo Viñes, Spanish pianist (born 1875)

Ricardo Viñes y Roda was a Spanish pianist. He gave the premieres of various works by Ravel, Debussy, Satie, Falla and Albéniz. He was the piano teacher of the composer Francis Poulenc and the pianists Marcelle Meyer, Joaquín Nin-Culmell and Léo-Pol Morin.

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29/04/1937

William Gillette, American actor and playwright (born 1853)

William Hooker Gillette was an American actor-manager, playwright, and stage manager in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best remembered for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage and in a 1916 silent film.

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29/04/1935

Leroy Carr, American singer, songwriter and pianist (born 1905)

Leroy Carr was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. Music historian Elijah Wald has called him "the most influential male blues singer and songwriter of the first half of the 20th century". He first became famous for "How Long, How Long Blues", his debut recording released by Vocalion Records in 1928.

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29/04/1933

Clay Stone Briggs, American politician (born 1876)

Clay Stone Briggs was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1919 through his death in 1933.

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Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (born 1863)

Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, known, especially in English, as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C. P. Cavafy, was a Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria. A major figure of modern Greek literature, he is sometimes considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century. His works and consciously individual style earned him a place among the most important contributors not only to Greek poetry, but to Western poetry as a whole.

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29/04/1925

Ralph Delahaye Paine, American journalist and author (born 1871)

Ralph Delahaye Paine was an American journalist and author popular in the early 20th century. Later, he held both elected and appointed government offices.

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29/04/1924

Ernest Fox Nichols, American educator and physicist (born 1869)

Ernest Fox Nichols was an American educator and physicist. He served as the 10th President of Dartmouth College.

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29/04/1922

Richard Croker, Irish American political boss (born 1843)

Richard Welstead Croker, known as "Boss Croker", was an Irish American political boss who was a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall. His control over the city was cemented with the 1897 election of Robert A. Van Wyck as the first mayor of all five boroughs. During his tenure as Grand Sachem, Boss Croker garnered a reputation for corruption and ruthlessness and was frequently the subject of investigations. As his power waned following the 1900 and 1901 elections, Croker resigned his position and returned to Ireland, where he spent the rest of his life.

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29/04/1917

Florence Farr, British actress, composer and director (born 1860)

Florence Beatrice Emery was a British West End leading actress, composer and director. She was also a women's rights activist, journalist, educator, singer, novelist, and leader of the occult order, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. She was a friend and collaborator of Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats, poet Ezra Pound, playwright Oscar Wilde, artists Aubrey Beardsley and Pamela Colman Smith, Masonic scholar Arthur Edward Waite, theatrical producer Annie Horniman, and many other literati of London's fin de siècle era, and even by their standards she was "the bohemian's bohemian". Though not as well known as some of her contemporaries and successors, Farr was a "first-wave" feminist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; she publicly advocated for suffrage, workplace equality, and equal protection under the law for women, writing a book and many articles in intellectual journals on the rights of "the new woman".

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29/04/1916

Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (born 1850)

Jørgen Pedersen Gram was a Danish actuary and mathematician who was born in Nustrup, Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark and died in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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29/04/1905

Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (born 1847)

Ignacio Cervantes Kawanagh was a Cuban pianist and composer. He was influential in the creolization of Cuban music.

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29/04/1903

Godfrey Carter, Australian businessman and politician, 39th Mayor of Melbourne (born 1830)

Godfrey Downes Carter was an Australian businessman, politician and mayor of Melbourne from 1884 to 1885.

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Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and zoologist (born 1835)

Paul Belloni Du Chaillu was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. He later researched the prehistory of Scandinavia.

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29/04/1854

Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1768)

Field Marshal Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, styled Lord Paget between 1784 and 1812 and known as the Earl of Uxbridge between 1812 and 1815, was a British Army officer and politician. After serving as a member of parliament for Carnarvon and then for Milborne Port, he took part in the Flanders Campaign and then commanded the cavalry for Sir John Moore's army in Spain during the Peninsular War; his cavalry showed distinct superiority over their French counterparts at the Battle of Sahagún and at the Battle of Benavente, where he defeated the elite chasseurs of the French Imperial Guard. During the Hundred Days he led the charge of the heavy cavalry against Comte d'Erlon's column at the Battle of Waterloo. At the end of the battle, he lost part of one leg to a cannonball. In later life, he served twice as Master-General of the Ordnance and twice as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

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29/04/1848

Chester Ashley, American politician (born 1790)

Chester Ashley was an American politician who represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1844 until his sudden death in 1848.

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29/04/1833

William Babington, Anglo-Irish physician and mineralogist (born 1756)

William Babington FRS FGS was an Anglo-Irish physician and mineralogist.

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29/04/1776

Edward Wortley Montagu, English explorer and author (born 1713)

Edward Wortley Montagu was an English writer and traveller.

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29/04/1768

Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (born 1694)

Georg Brandt was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist who discovered cobalt c. 1735. He was the first person to discover a metal unknown in ancient times. He is also known for exposing fraudulent alchemists operating during his lifetime.

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29/04/1707

George Farquhar, Irish-English actor and playwright (born 1678)

George Farquhar was an Irish dramatist. He is noted for his contributions to late Restoration comedy, particularly for his plays The Constant Couple (1699), The Recruiting Officer (1706) and The Beaux' Stratagem (1707).

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29/04/1676

Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (born 1607)

Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter was a Dutch States Navy officer. His achievements with the Dutch navy during the Anglo-Dutch Wars earned him the reputation as one of the greatest naval commanders in history.

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29/04/1658

John Cleveland, English poet and author (born 1613)

John Cleveland was an English poet who supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was best known for political satire.

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29/04/1630

Agrippa d'Aubigné, French soldier and poet (born 1552)

Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques (1616) is widely regarded as his masterpiece. In a book about his Catholic contemporary Jean de La Ceppède, the English poet Keith Bosley called d'Aubigné "the epic poet of the Protestant cause," during the French Wars of Religion. Bosley added, however, that after d'Aubigné's death, he "was forgotten until the Romantics rediscovered him."

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29/04/1594

Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and theologian (born 1517)

Thomas Cooper was an English bishop, lexicographer, theologian, and writer.

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29/04/1380

Catherine of Siena, Italian mystic, philosopher and saint (born 1347)

Caterina di Jacopo di Benincasa, known as Catherine of Siena, was an Italian mystic and pious laywoman who engaged in papal and Italian politics through extensive letter-writing and advocacy. Canonized in 1461, she is revered as a saint and as a Doctor of the Church due to her extensive theological authorship. She is also considered to have influenced Italian literature.

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29/04/1109

Hugh of Cluny, French abbot (born 1024)

Hugh, sometimes called Hugh the Great or Hugh of Semur, was the Abbot of Cluny from 1049 until his death in 1109. He was one of the most influential leaders of the monastic orders from the Middle Ages.

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