August 29
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Art and culture
Births
- 1632 - John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
- 1780 - Jean Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
- 1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
- 1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
- 1920 - Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
- 1935 - William Friedkin, American film director
- 1956 - GG Allin, American singer (d. 1993)
- 1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer
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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