(+) Millionaire William Randolph Hearst is born in San Francisco, California, United States.
132 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 April 1881
(-) Murderer Royal Carr is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Vermont, United States.
114 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 April 1899
(+) Musician Duke Edward Kennedy Ellington is born in Washington, District Columbia, United States.
112 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 April 1901
(+) Emperor of Japan Akihito Hirohito is born in Tokyo, Aoyama Palace, Japan.
106 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 April 1907
(+) Musician Tino Constantino Rossi is born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France.
106 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 April 1907
(+) Filmmaker Fred Zinneman is born in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
96 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 April 1917
(+) Filmmaker Maya Deren originally Eleanora Derenkovskaya, is born in Kiev, Ukraïne, USSR.
94 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 April 1919
(-) Black George Holden is lynched for writing an improper not to a white woman in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.
(-) Murderer August Sangret aka The Wigwam Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Wandsworth Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 April 1945
(x) The concentration camp of Dachau is liberated by American Armed Forces in Germany.
68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 April 1945
(x) 56-year-old Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler marries 33-year-old Eva Braun in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 April 1945
(+) Musician Hugh Colin Hopper is born in Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom.
64 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 April 1949
(-) Murderer Andrew Berry is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Ohio, United States.
62 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 April 1951
(-) Philosopher Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein dies at the age of 62 in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
55 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 April 1958
(+) Multiple murderer Robert Wayne Vickers is born in Arizona, United States.
46 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 April 1967
(-) Coby Van Der Voort is beaten to death by Hans Van Zon at the age of 37 in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.
43 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 April 1970
(+) Actress Uma Karuna Thurman is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
42 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 April 1971
(-) Edna MacDonald is strangled by Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, in Barrington, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 April 1977
(-) Marie-Therese Majer is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 21 in Schriesheim, Germany.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 April 1980
(-) Filmmaker Alfred Joseph Hitchcock aka The Master of Suspense, dies of kidney failure at the age of 80 in Bel Air, California, United States.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 April 1980
(-) Darin Kendrick is sodomised, strangled and forced to drink chloral hydrate by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 19 in Stanton, California, United States.
20 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 April 1993
(-) Musician Michael “Mick” Ronson dies of liver cancer at the age of 46 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 April 1997
(-) David Madson is shot dead as second victim by Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, at the age of 33 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
His body was found in a lake near Minneapolis a week later.
15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 April 1998
(-) Murderer Arthur Martin Ross is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, United States.
15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 April 1998
(-) Murderer Frank B. McFarland is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
10 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 April 2003
(-) Murderer David M. Brewer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Lucasville, Southern Correctional Facility, Ohio, United States.
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