Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 29

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[edit] Births

• 1667 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and satirist (d. 1735)
• 1863 - William Randolph Hearst, American publisher (d. 1951)
• 1899 - Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (d. 1974)
• 1901 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (d. 1989)
• 1946 - John Waters, American film director and writer
• 1954 - Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
• 1970 - Andre Agassi, American tennis player
• 1970 - Uma Thurman, American actress (pictured)

[edit] Deaths

• 1698 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
• 1707 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
• 1776 - Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)
• 1920 - William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)
• 1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (b. 1899)