About the day » Thursday April 18, 1929Calender converter

• Clifton Rankin Whitesell, Guilford County, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Clara Marianne Magnus, Rijssen,Gemeente Rijssen-Holten, Overijssel, Nederland († 1944)
• (Stillborn) BRIK, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1929)
• Agnes Norma HEUFF, Nijmegen († 2023)
• Cornelia Stengs, Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Catharina Johanna Wilhelmina (Toos) Boelens, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2003)
• Cornelis Dubbeld, Middelharnis († 2006)
• Christiaan Johan Henry Brunner, Roermond († 2007)
• Elizabeth Ann Zoellner, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1981)
• Cornelia Alida Maria van Rijn, Wassenaar († 1929)

• Arend Bootsman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus van Doorn (77), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus van Doorn (77), Utrecht, Nederland
• Ada Alvine Bradtke (37), Jamestown
• Arentje Zaaijer (74), Sommelsdijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arentje Zaaijer (73), sommelsdijk (goeree overflakkee)
• "kind van" Bruisschaart (0), Velsen
• Bernardus Lambertus Tijssen (0), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bernardus Hunink (86), Hattem
• Antoon Rongen (70), Oirlo, Limburg, Nederland

• 1925 » Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer and author († 2005)
• 1926 » Doug Insole, English cricketer († 2017)
• 1927 » Charles Pasqua, French businessman and politician, French Minister of the Interior († 2015)
• 1927 » Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist, author, and academic († 2008)
• 1927 » Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland († 2013)
• 1928 » Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian († 2015)
• 1928 » Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic († 2014)
• 1929 » Peter Hordern, English soldier and politician
• 1930 » Clive Revill, New Zealand actor and singer
• 1931 » Bill Miles, American director and producer († 2013)

• 1917 » Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist and academic (b. 1858)
• 1923 » Savina Petrilli, Italian religious leader (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 1936 » Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1879)
• 1938 » George Bryant, American archer (b. 1878)
• 1942 » Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)
• 1942 » Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American heiress, sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Ernie Pyle, American journalist and soldier (b. 1900)
• 1945 » John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (b. 1849)

• 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
• January 17 » Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
• February 14 » Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
• May 15 » A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
• June 17 » The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
• October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
• November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.

The temperature on April 18, 1929 was between 3.1 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.