Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 29

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)

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 H. Seward Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)
 * 1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (b. 1899)