August 29
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Births
- 1632 - John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
- 1780 - Jean Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
- 1805 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
- 1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician (d. 1894)
- 1810 - Juan Bautista Alberdi, founding father of the Argentine Republic (d. 1884)
- 1843 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
- 1844 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
- 1862 - Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
- 1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
- 1871 - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
- 1876 - Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
- 1898 - Preston Sturges, American filmmaker (d. 1959)
- 1901 - Aurel Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
- 1905 - Werner Forssmann, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
- 1905 - Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
- 1912 - Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-Polish cinematographer
- 1912 - Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
- 1916 - George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1916 - Luther Davis, American playwright
- 1917 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1920 - Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
- 1923 - Richard Attenborough, English film director
- 1923 - Marmaduke Hussey, BBC Chairman (d. 2006)
- 1924 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1924 - Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
- 1926 - María Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer
- 1928 - Charles Gray, English actor (d. 2000)
- 1929 - Thom Gunn, British poet (d. 2004)
- 1930 - Jacques Bouchard, Quebec advertising executive (d. 2006)
- 1931 - Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
- 1931 - Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist
- 1933 - Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1935 - William Friedkin, American film director
- 1936 - John McCain, American politician
- 1937 - James Florio, Governor of New Jersey
- 1938 - Elliott Gould, American actor
- 1938 - Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury
- 1939 - Joel Schumacher, American film director
- 1940 - Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984)
- 1941 - Robin Leach, English television host
- 1942 - James Glennon, American cinematographer (d. 2006)
- 1942 - John Heuser, Electron Microscopist, Washington University in Saint Louis
- 1945 - Wyomia Tyus, American athlete
- 1946 - Bob Beamon, American jumper
- 1947 - James Hunt, English race car driver (d. 1993)
- 1952 - Karen Hesse, American children's writer
- 1952 - Dave Malone, American rock guitarist
- 1953 - James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist
- 1954 - Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American science fiction novelist
- 1956 - GG Allin, American singer (d. 1993)
- 1956 - Viv Anderson, English former footballer
- 1956 - Mark Morris, American choreographer
- 1957 - Jerry D. Bailey, American racing jockey
- 1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer
- 1958 - Lenny Henry, British comic
- 1959 - Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese composer
- 1959 - Akkineni Nagarjuna, Telugu film actor
- 1959 - Timothy Perry Shriver, Member of the Kennedy Family
- 1959 - Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut
- 1959 - Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
- 1961 - Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
- 1962 - Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese composer
- 1963 - Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer
- 1965 - Dina Spybey, American actress
- 1967 - Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
- 1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello, American singer
- 1969 - Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
- 1970 - Jacco Eltingh, Dutch tennis player
- 1971 - Carla Gugino, American actress
- 1972 - Bae Yong Joon, South Korean actor
- 1973 - Adam Sessler, American TV show host
- 1973 - Olivier Jacque, motorcyclist
- 1974 - Kumi Tanioka, Japanese composer
- 1975 - Dante Basco, Filipino-American actor
- 1976 - Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
- 1976 - Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player
- 1976 - Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer
- 1977 - John Patrick O'Brien, American soccer player
- 1977 - Aaron Rowand, American baseball player
- 1977 - Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
- 1977 - Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian
- 1978 - Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
- 1979 - Ali Eftekhari, Iranian scientist
- 1979 - Chieu Luu, Canadian journalist
- 1980 - David Desrosiers, Canadian musician
- 1980 - Chris Simms, American football player
- 1980 - David West, American basketball player
- 1980 - Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer and actor
- 1981 - Lanny Barbie, Canadian adult actress
- 1981 - Geneviève Jeanson, Quebec bicycle racer
- 1982 - A+, American rapper
- 1982 - Carlos Delfino, Argentinean basketball player
- 1985 - Pouyan Afkary, American musician (Scary Kids Scaring Kids)
- 1985 - Jeffrey Licon, American actor
- 1986 - Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
- 1987 - Tony Kane, Irish footballer
Deaths
- 886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)
- 1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
- 1123 - King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)
- 1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
- 1442 - John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
- 1526 - King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle) (b. 1506)
- 1542 - Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)
- 1657 - John Lilburne, English dissenter
- 1712 - Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)
- 1769 - Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)
- 1780 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
- 1799 - Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
- 1844 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
- 1856 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)
- 1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)
- 1889 - Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)
- 1891 - Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)
- 1904 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)
- 1930 - William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
- 1931 - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder
- 1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)
- 1966 - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)
- 1968 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)
- 1972 - Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)
- 1975 - Eamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (b. 1882)
- 1976 - Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (b. 1925)
- 1976 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1899)
- 1977 - Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (b. 1945)
- 1981 - Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)
- 1982 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
- 1984 - Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)
- 1987 - Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (b. 1914)
- 1987 - Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1989 - Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
- 1992 - Teddy Turner, comedian (b. 1917)
- 1995 - Frank Perry, American film director (b. 1930)
- 2000 - Willie Maddren, English former footballer (b. 1951)
- 2001 - Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
- 2002 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
- 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)
- 2003 - Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
- 2003 - Michel Constantin, French film actor (b. 1924)
- 2004 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
- 2007 - Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (b. 1962)
- 2007 - Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1916)
- 2007 - Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
Notes
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- Félix Guattari
- Hermann Nitsch
- Richard Euringer
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- GG Allin
- Veikko Ennala
- John Locke
- Charlie Parker
- William Friedkin
- Charlie Feathers
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