About the day » Sunday April 29, 1900Calender converter

• Anna A. (Ostermenn) McConnell, New Jersey († 1986)
• Anna Catharina Vorstenbos, Schiedam
• Alida Johanna Karreman, Overschie
• Afien Bunk, Vriescheloo, Groningen, Nederland († 2001)
• Alida Johanna Karreman, Overschie, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1984)
• Alida Karreman Karreman, Overschie,Zuid Holland,Nederland
• Agnes D H Sey, 70 Barclay Street, Stonehaven, Kincardineshire († 1975)
• Adrianus Jacobus Jacobs, Duizel († 1976)
• Adrianus van Boekel, Empel († 1900)
• Abeltje Meijerhof, Woldendorp (NL) († 1960)

• * Grietje Grave (0), Tange gem. Onstwedde
• Anna Josephina Hubertina Francken (73), Argenteau, Liege, Belgium
• Albert Henry Arnold (1), Milton District, Kent, England
• Anna Josephina Francken (73), Heer, Limburg, Nederland
• Adelbertus Lampe (66)
• --- van Veen (0), Maasland
• Alida Johanna Hendrika Geiger (15), Van Rhynsdorp, Cape Province, South Africa
• Adriana Antonia Maria Huberdina Kokken (46), Utrecht Utrecht Nederland
• Adrianus van Tussenbroek (74), Ophemert
• Adrianus de Waal (1), Neerijnen

• 1893 » Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1894 » Marietta Blau, Austrian physicist and academic († 1970)
• 1895 » Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor († 1967)
• 1895 » Vladimir Propp, Russian scholar and critic († 1970)
• 1899 » Duke Ellington, American pianist, composer, and bandleader († 1974)
• 1899 » Mary Petty, American illustrator († 1976)
• 1900 » Amelia Best, Australian politician, one of the first women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly († 1979)
• 1900 » Concha de Albornoz, Spanish feminist and intellectual, exiled during the Spanish Civil War († 1972)
• 1901 » Hirohito, Japanese emperor († 1989)
• 1907 » Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director and producer († 1997)

• 1854 » Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1768)
• 1903 » Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and zoologist (b. 1835)
• 1905 » Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847)
• 1916 » Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850)
• 1920 » William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (b. 1839)
• 1921 » Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863)
• 1937 » William Gillette, American actor and playwright (b. 1853)
• 1944 » Bernardino Machado, Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (b. 1851)
• 1945 » Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
• June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
• June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
• June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
• October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
• December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

The temperature on April 29, 1900 was about 8.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%.