April 29 is the 119st day of the year (120nd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 246 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

1903 - 70 people died in a landslide in Alberta, Canada.
1916 – In the Siege of Kut'ül Ammare, the 6th Army under the command of Halil Kut Pasha took the British Mesopotamian army in the town of Kut'ül Ammare on the Iraqi front.
1920 – The Turkish Grand National Assembly approved the Treason-i Vataniye Law.
1939 – In the European Wrestling Championship, Turkish wrestlers Yaşar Doğu and Mustafa Çakmak came second in Europe in 66 and 87 kilos.
1945 - German troops in Italy surrender.
1945 – Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun in Berlin and appointed Admiral Karl Dönitz as heir apparent.
1945 – Soviet tanks enter Berlin.
1945 – Detainees at Dachau Concentration Camp are liberated by the US Army's 42nd Infantry Division and other 7th Army units.
1949 – The trial of Ali Ertegin, who killed Sabahattin Ali, began.
1951 – Turkish National Team won the World Wrestling Championship, which was held for the first time in the freestyle category in Helsinki.
1955 – Civil war begins in South Vietnam.
1968 – Hair Musical opened on Broadway.
1991 – A hurricane in Bangladesh killed at least 138.000 people and left 10 million homeless.
1992 – In a popular uprising in Los Angeles, 54 people died and hundreds of buildings were destroyed in three days.
2004 - Oldsmobile produces its last car. The company had been producing automobiles for exactly 107 years.
2005 – Syria withdrew completely from Lebanon after 29 years of occupation.
2007 – Çağlayan Meeting was held in Istanbul.
2011 – Prince William of Wales married Kate Middleton in the United Kingdom.
2017 – Access to Wikipedia is blocked in Turkey.

Births

1785 – Karl Drais, German inventor (d. 1851)
1806 – Ernst von Feuchtersleben, Austrian physician, poet, and philosopher (d. 1849)
1818 – II. Alexander, Tsar of Russia (d. 1881)
1854 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (d. 1912)
1863 – William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1961)
1880 – Ali Fethi Okyar, Turkish soldier and politician (d. 1943)
1892 – Müfide Ferit Tek, Turkish novelist (d. 1971)
1893 – Harold Clayton Urey, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (d. 1981)
1899 – Duke Ellington, American jazz musician (d. 1974)
1901 – Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan (d. 1989)
1906 – Eugène Ehrhart, French mathematician (d. 2000)
1907 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American film director and Academy Award winner for Best Director (d. 1997)
1924 – Annette Chalut, French physician and resistance fighter
1943 – İlker Başbuğ, Turkish general and 26th Chief of General Staff
1954 – Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
1957 – Daniel Day-Lewis, English actor and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor
1958 – Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
1963 – Aykut Gürel, Turkish composer and musician
1967 – Dan Ariely, professor of psychology and behavioral economist
1967 – Latif Doğan, Turkish singer
1967 - Master P or as it is used in the business world P. Miller, American rapper, producer, actor and investor
1968 – Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Croatian politician who served as President of Croatia from February 2015 to February 2020
1969 – Izel Celiköz, Turkish singer
1970 – Andre Agassi, American tennis player
1970 – China Forbes, American singer-songwriter
1970 – Uma Thurman, American actress
1973 – David Belle, French actor
1974 – Anggun, Indonesian-French singer
1975 – Ziynet Sali, Turkish Cypriot musician
1976 – Taner Gulleri, Turkish football player
1976 – Fabio Liverani, Italian national football player
1977 – Titus O'Neil, American professional wrestler and retired professional football player
1979 – Lee Dong-Gook, South Korean football player
1980 – Bahar Yanılmaz, Turkish actress
1982 – Cengiz Coşkun, Turkish model and actor
1982 – Kate Nauta, American actress, model, and singer
1983 – David Lee, American professional basketball player
1983 – Mehmet Aslan, Turkish actor and politician
1983 – Semih Şentürk, Turkish football player
1984 – Paulius Jankunas, Lithuanian basketball player
1984 – Melike İpek Yalova, Turkish actress
1987 – Sara Errani, Italian tennis player
1988 – Elias Hernandez, Mexican football player
1988 – Tevfik Mahlufi, Algerian middle distance fighter
1989 – Domagoj Vida, Croatian football player
1991 – Jung Hye-sung, South Korean actress
1992 – Sebastian Holmén, Swedish football player
1992 – Bilal Özhan, Turkish football player
1996 – Katherine Langford, Australian actress
2006 – Xochitl Gomez, American actress
2007 – Sofía de Borbón, King of Spain VI. Second child of Felipe and Letizia Ortiz

Deaths

1380 – Catherine of Siena, non-nun and mystic of the Dominican Order (b. 1347)
1688 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia (b. 1620)
1771 – Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Russian architect of Italian descent (b. 1700)
1870 – Juan Crisóstomo Falcón, president of Venezuela (b. 1820)
1924 – Ernest Fox Nichols, American educator and physicist (b. 1869)
1933 – Konstantinos Kavafis, Greek poet (b. 1863)
1944 – Bernardino Machado, president of Portugal 1915-16 and 1925-26 (b. 1851)
1945 – Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, II. Waffen SS general of Nazi Germany during World War II (b. 1893)
1947 – Irving Fisher, American economist (b. 1867)
1951 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born English philosopher (b. 1889)
1951 – Osman Batur, Kazakh resistance leader (folk hero who fought against the Chinese for the independence of East Turkestan) (b. 1899)
1954 – Zekai Apaydın, Turkish diplomat and politician (b. 1884)
1956 – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)
1967 – Anthony Mann, American film director and actor (b. 1906)
1979 – Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish director, actor and producer (b. 1892)
1980 – Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (b. 1899)
1988 – Leman Cevat Tomsu, Turkish architect and academic (Turkey's first female architect) (b. 1913)
1992 – Burhan Uygur, Turkish painter (b. 1940)
2006 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist (b. 1908)
2008 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss scientist (first person to synthesize LSD) (b. 1906)
2009 – Sedat Balkanlı, Turkish football player (b. 1965)
2010 – Avigdor Arikha, Israeli-French painter, printmaker, and art historian (b.1929)
2012 – Şükrü Gane, Libyan politician (b. 1942)
2013 – Parekura Horomia, New Zealand politician (b. 1950)
2014 – Iveta Bartošová, Czech singer (b. 1966)
2014 – Bob Hoskins, English actor (b. 1942)
2014 – Tahir Şeybi, Tunisian former national football player (b. 1946)
2014 – Gailene Stock, Australian-British ballerina and ballet instructor (b. 1946)
2016 – Alyson Bailes, British woman diplomat, policy expert, academic, and linguist (b. 1949)
2016 – Renato C. Corona, top jurist who served as president of the Filipino supreme court (b. 1948)
2016 – Jok Church, American animator and cartoon producer (b. 1949)
2016 – Chen Zhongshi, Chinese poet and writer (b. 1942)
2018 – Baki İlkin, Turkish diplomat (b. 1943)
2018 – Lester James Peries, Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter, and film producer (b. 1919)
2018 – Luis García Meza Tejada, former Bolivian dictator (b. 1929)
2018 – Michael Martin, British Labor politician (b. 1945)
2018 – Özden Örnek, Turkish soldier and 20th Commander of the Naval Forces (b. 1943)
2018 – Rose Laurens, French female singer and songwriter (b. 1953)
2019 – Carlo Maria Abate, Italian speedway driver (b. 1932)
2019 – Dilber Ay, Turkish singer, songwriter and presenter (b. 1956)
2019 – Eldon A. Bargewell, American veteran of the rank of Major General (b. 1947)
2019 – Gino Marchetti, American football player (b. 1926)
2019 – John Llewellyn Moxey, Argentine-born British film and television director (b. 1925)
2019 – Leslie Allan Murray, Australian poet, historian, novelist, educator and critic (b. 1938)
2019 – Josef Šural, Professional Czech football player (b. 1990)
2019 – Ellen Tauscher, American politician and diplomat (b. 1951)
2020 – Philippe Breton, French Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1936)
2020 – Germano Celant, Italian art historian (b. 1940)
2020 – Lenora Garfinkel, American architect (b. 1930)
2020 – Denis Goldberg, South African human rights activist and politician (b. 1933)
2020 – Yahya Hassan, Danish poet and activist of Palestinian origin (b. 1995)
2020 – Irrfan Khan, Indian actor (b. 1967)
2020 – Martin Lovett, English cellist (b. 1927)
2020 – Dick Lucas, American football player (b. 1934)
2020 – Noel Walsh, Irish football player (b. 1935)
2021 – Amris, Indonesian politician and general (b. 1957)
2021 – Hans van Baalen, Dutch politician (b. 1960)
2021 – Rajendrasingh Baghel, Indian politician and agriculturist (b. 1945)
2021 – Anne Buydens, German-born Belgian-American actress, philanthropist, and filmmaker (b. 1919)
2021 – Johnny Crawford, American actor, singer, musician, and bandleader (b. 1946)
2021 – Zhang Enhua, Chinese national football player (b. 1973)
2021 – Billie Hayes, American stage, film and television actress (b. 1924)
2022 – Joanna Barnes, American actress, journalist, and columnist (b. 1934)
2022 – Taz Stereo Nation, British Indian singer, composer and actor (b. 1967)

Holidays and special occasions

World Dance Day