On this day: 29 May
Events, births and deaths on 29 May. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Bernard Kerik
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Abdoulaye Wade
- Births · Katie Boyle
- Births · Queen Halaevalu Mataʻaho, Queen Mother of Tonga
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 931 · Deaths · Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona
- 1108 · Events · Battle of Uclés
- 1040 · Deaths · Renauld I, Count of Nevers
Events · 26
- 363(Julian date)Battle of Ctesiphon — 363 battle
- 1108(Julian date)Battle of Uclés — 1108 battle of the Reconquista
- 1167(Julian date)Battle of Monte Porzio — 1167 battle
- 1176(Julian date)Battle of Legnano — 1176 battle
- 1416(Julian date)Battle of Gallipoli — 1416 battle between Venice and the Ottoman Sultanate; upset Venetian victory
- 1555(Julian date)Peace of Amasya — 1555 treaty between Shah Tahmasp of Safavid Iran and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire
- 1658(Julian date)Battle of Samugarh — 1658 battle between sons of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
- 1780Battle of Waxhaws — 1780 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1790Rhode Island — state of the United States of America
- 1825Coronation of Charles X — 1825 coronation in France
- 1895Japanese invasion of Taiwan — 1895 invasion of Taiwan by Imperial Japan
- 1900N'Djamena — capital and largest city of Chad
- 1903May Coup — military assassinations of royal couple and government officials in Serbia
- 1919Eddington experiment — 1919 observational test which confirmed Einstein's theory of general relativity
- 1935Copperbelt strike of 1935 — 1935 strike by African mineworkers in Northern Rhodesia
- 1947United Airlines Flight 521 — air accident on May 29, 1947
- 1957Asia Television — television broadcaster in Hong Kong. Now IPP & AP with new investors and management from Malaysia
- 1985Heysel Stadium disaster — spectator riot in Brussels, Belgium on 29 May 1985
- 19851985 European Cup Final — association football match
- 1988Moscow Summit — 1988 Summit Between the USSR & USA
- 2005
- 20082008 Iceland earthquake — 2008 earthquake centered in southwestern Iceland
- 2011Hands Across Hawthorne — 2011 rally in Portland, Oregon, US
- 20202020 Norilsk oil spill — Major oil spill and environmental disaster in the Arctic Circle
- 20212021 Percy Priest Lake Cessna Citation crash — Plane crash in Tennessee.
- 2022Tara Air Flight 197 — aviation accident in 2022
Births · 60
- 1421Charles, Prince of Viana — King of Navarre
- 1627Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans — Duchess of Montpensier (1627-1693)
- 1630(Julian date)Charles II of England — King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1630-1685)
- 1736Patrick Henry — American Founding Father, orator and politician (1736 – 1799)
- 1860Isaac Albéniz — Spanish composer (1860-1909)
- 1874G. K. Chesterton — English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936)
- 1880Oswald Spengler — German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)
- 1892Alfonsina Storni — Argentine writer and poet
- 1894Josef von Sternberg — Austrian-American film director (1894-1969)
- 1897Erich Wolfgang Korngold — Austrian-born American composer and conductor (1897–1957)
- 1903Bob Hope — American entertainer (1903–2003)
- 1905Sebastian Shaw — British actor and author (1905–1994)
- 1906T. H. White — English author (1906–1964)
- 1910Ralph Metcalfe — American athlete and politician (1910–1978)
- 1914Tenzing Norgay — Nepalese Indian Sherpa mountaineer (1914-1986)
- 1917John F. Kennedy — president of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (1917–1963)
- 1920John Harsanyi — Hungarian economist (1920-2000)
- 1922Iannis Xenakis — Greek-French composer, architect and engineer (1922–2001)
- 1926Abdoulaye Wade — 3rd President of Senegal
- 1929Peter Higgs — British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)
- 1932Paul R. Ehrlich — American biologist and environmentalist (1932–2026)
- 1935André Brink — South African writer (1935–2015)
- 1937Hibari Misora — Japanese singer and actress (1937-1989)
- 1940Farooq Leghari — Pakistani politician (1940-2010)
- 1940Taihō Kōki — Japanese sumo wrestler and the 48th Yokozuna (1940-2013)
Deaths · 60
- 931(Julian date)Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona — King of Pamplona from 925 to 932/3
- 1259(Julian date)Christopher I of Denmark — King of Denmark
- 1311(Julian date)James II of Majorca — King of Majorca
- 1379(Julian date)Henry II of Castile — King of Castile
- 1425(Julian date)Hongxi Emperor — emperor of the Ming Dynasty from 1424 to 1425
- 1453(Julian date)Konstantinos XI Palaiologos — last Byzantine emperor, from 1449 to 1453
- 1500Bartolomeu Dias — Portuguese explorer
- 1546(Julian date)David Beaton — Catholic cardinal (1494-1546)
- 1691Cornelis Tromp — Dutch admiral (1629–1691)
- 1814Joséphine de Beauharnais — Empress consort of the French from 1804 to 1814 (1763-1814)
- 1829Humphry Davy — British chemist
- 1847Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy — French general and marshal (1766-1847)
- 1866Winfield Scott — United States Army general (1786–1866)
- 1892Baháʼu'lláh — founder of the Bahá'í Faith (1817–1892)
- 1898Prince Gong — Manchu prince (1833-1898)
- 1911W. S. Gilbert — English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836–1911)
- 1919Robert Bacon — American diplomat, secretary of state, ambassador to France, etc. (1860-1919)
- 1921Abbott Handerson Thayer — American artist (1849-1921)
- 1935Josef Suk — Czech composer and violinist (1874-1935)
- 1939Ursula Ledóchowska — Roman Catholic missionary and saint (1865–1939)
- 1942John Barrymore — American actor (1882–1942)
- 1942Akiko Yosano — Japanese tanka poet (1878–1942)
- 1948May Whitty — English actress (1865-1948)
- 1951Fanny Brice — American actress, singer and comedian (1891–1951)
- 1957James Whale — British-born American film director
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