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Events on Thursday 4 April 1929 2
1844 – 1929Carl Benz (1844-1929)Died 4 April 1929, aged 84German engineer who built the Benz Patent-Motorwagen of 1885, widely regarded as the first practical automobile. His company merged with Daimler in 1926 to form Daimler-Benz.
1929Carl Benz diesFifty-seven years of marriageCarl Benz dies at Ladenburg at eighty-four, five decades after the engine first ran on that New Year's Eve. Bertha outlives him by fifteen years.