On this day: 29 March
Events, births and deaths on 29 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Richard Chamberlain
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Patty Duke
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1918 · Births · Sam Walton
- 1929 · Births · Lennart Meri
- 1927 · Births · John Vane
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1058 · Deaths · Stephen IX
- 1123 · Births · Emperor Shizong of Jin
Events · 17
- 1461Battle of Towton — battle during the English Wars of the Roses, renownedly bloody
- 1865Appomattox campaign — 1865 military campaign during the American Civil War
- 1879Battle of Kambula — 1879 Zulu army attack on the British camp at Kambula during the Anglo-Zulu War
- 1882Knights of Columbus — Catholic fraternal service organization
- 19361936 German parliamentary election and referendum — 1936 parlimentary election in Germany
- 1942Bombing of Lübeck in World War II — 1942 event of World War II
- 1947Malagasy Uprising — 1940s rebellion in Madagascar
- 1951Copenhagen hypnosis murders — 1951 murders in Denmark
- 1979Quebecair Flight 255 — 1979 aviation accident
- 19991999 Chamoli earthquake — earthquake
- 20012001 Avjet Gulfstream III crash — 2001 fatal aviation incident
- 2002Operation Defensive Shield — 2002 Israeli military operation
- 20102010 Moscow Metro bombings — 2010 terrorist attack by Islamist militants in Moscow
- 2013Dar es Salaam building collapse — structural failure in Tanzania
- 2014same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom — same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom
- 2015Air Canada Flight 624 — 2015 crash landing of an Air Canada A320-211 at Halifax International Airport
- 2017United Kingdom invocation of Article 50 — invocation of the EU's withdrawal process for "Brexit"
Births · 60
- 1561(Julian date)
- 1769Jean-de-Dieu Soult — Prime Minister of France (1832–1834, 1834–1839, 1840–1847) and French Marshal (born 1769–1851)
- 1790John Tyler — president of the United States from 1841 to 1845
- 1799Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby — British politician (1799–1869)
- 1824Ludwig Büchner — German philosopher and scientist (1824-1899)
- 1826Wilhelm Liebknecht — German journalist, writer and socialist politician (1826–1900)
- 1869Edwin Lutyens — British architect (1869–1944)
- 1873Tullio Levi-Civita — Italian mathematician and physicist (1873–1941)
- 1874Lou Henry Hoover — First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
- 1885Dezső Kosztolányi — Hungarian poet, writer and translator (1885–1936)
- 1889Warner Baxter — American actor (1889–1951)
- 1892József Mindszenty — Prince Primate, Archbishop of Esztergom, cardinal, and leader of the Catholic Church in Hungary
- 1895Ernst Jünger — German writer (1895–1998)
- 1899Lavrentiy Beria — Soviet politician and NKVD police chief
- 1902Marcel Aymé — French writer (1902–1967)
- 1902William Walton — English composer (1902–1983)
- 1912Hanna Reitsch — German aviator (1912–1979)
- 1916Eugene McCarthy — American politician (1916–2005)
- 1918Sam Walton — American businessman (1918–1992)
- 1918Pearl Bailey — American actress and singer (1918–1990)
- 1919Eileen Heckart — American actress (1919–2001)
- 1927John Vane — English pharmacologist (1927-2004)
- 1929Lennart Meri — Estonian writer, filmmaker and politician; President of Estonia in 1992–2001 (1929-2006)
- 1930Anerood Jugnauth — Mauritian politician (1930–2021)
- 1937Gordon Milne — English association football footballer and manager (born 1937)
Deaths · 60
- 87 BCE(Julian date)Emperor Wu of Han — seventh emperor of the Han dynasty of China (157 BC–87 BC)
- 57Emperor Guangwu of Han — emperor and founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty (5 BC - AD 57) (r. AD 25 - AD 57)
- 1058(Julian date)Stephen IX — pope
- 1368(Julian date)Go-Murakami — emperor of Japan
- 1461(Julian date)Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland — English noble
- 1629Jacob de Gheyn II — Dutch painter and engraver (c.1565-1629)
- 1697(Julian date)Nicolaus Bruhns — Danish-German organist and composer
- 1772Emmanuel Swedenborg — Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)
- 1788Charles Wesley — English Methodist and hymn writer (1707-1788)
- 1792Gustav III of Sweden — King of Sweden from 1771 to 1792 (1746–1792)
- 1800Marc René, marquis de Montalembert — French general (1714–1800)
- 1803Gottfried van Swieten — Dutch noble, diplomat, librettist and music patron (1733-1803)
- 1824Hans Nielsen Hauge — Norwegian Lutheran clergyman
- 1826Johann Heinrich Voss — German poet and classics translator (1751–1826)
- 1830James Rennell — English geographer, historian and oceanographer (1742–1830)
- 1848John Jacob Astor I — German-American businessman (1763-1848)
- 1866John Keble — British churchman and poet (1792–1866)
- 1888Charles-Valentin Alkan — French composer and pianist (1813–1888)
- 1891Georges Seurat — French painter (1859-1891)
- 1906Slava Raškaj — Croatian painter (1877–1906)
- 1911Alexandre Guilmant — French composer (1837–1911)
- 1912Robert Falcon Scott — Royal Navy officer and explorer (1868–1912)
- 1912Edward Adrian Wilson — English polar explorer, ornithologist, natural historian, physician and artist (1872–1912)
- 1912Henry Robertson Bowers — Royal Navy officer and explorer (1883–1912)
- 1915William Wallace Denslow — American illustrator and caricaturist (1856–1915)
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