On this day: 29 August
Events, births and deaths on 29 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Gene Wilder
100 years ago1926
- Births · Helene Ahrweiler
- Births · Betty Lynn
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1123 · Deaths · Eystein I of Norway
- 1046 · Deaths · Gerard of Csanád
- 1093 · Deaths · Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy
Events · 32
- 708(Julian date)Wadōkaichin — coinage used in Japan from the 8th century to 958
- 1219(Julian date)Battle of Fariskur — battle in the fifth crusade
- 1315(Julian date)Battle of Montecatini — 1315 battle
- 1350(Julian date)Battle of Winchelsea — 1350 naval battle during the Hundred Years' War
- 1526Battle of Mohács — 1526 major battle in 16th-century Central Europe
- 17411741 Kanpō tsunami — 1741 Tsunami, Hokkaido, Japan
- 1778Battle of Rhode Island — 1778 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1779Battle of Newtown — 1779 battle
- 1807Battle of Køge — 1807 British-Danish battle
- 1825Treaty of Rio de Janeiro — 1825 treaty between Portugal and Brazil
- 1842Treaty of Nanjing — 1842 treaty between Qing China and Britain which ceded Hong Kong and ended the First Opium War
- 1871abolition of the han system — 1871 reform abolishing the feudal system in Japan during the Meiji restoration
- 1898Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company — American multinational tire manufacturer
- 1910Korea under Japanese rule — Japanese colonial period in Chōsen (Korea), 1910–1945
- 1910Japanese annexation of Korea — forced acquisition and appropriation of Korea and its sovereignty by Japan from 1910 to 1945
- 1914Battle of St. Quentin — 1914 battle of the first world war
- 1944Slovak National Uprising — armed uprising of the Slovak domestic resistance during the Second World War
- 1948Northwest Airlines Flight 421 — passenger flight that crashed on 29 August 1948
- 1949RDS-1 — type of nuclear weapon
- 19524′33″ — three-movement musical composition by John Cage
- 1959Casbah Coffee Club — Rock and roll music venue in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
- 1960Air France Flight 343 — plane crash
- 1975Tacnazo — 1975 coup d'état in Peru
- 1996Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 — aircraft crash in Svalbard, 1996
- 1997Netflix — American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service
- 1997Rais massacre — 1997 mass killing by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
- 1998Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 — aviation accident
- 2001Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 — 2001 aviation accident
- 2003Imam Ali Mosque bombing — 2003 bombing in Najaf, Iraq
- 20072007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident — incident of improper handing of nuclear weapons by the US Air Force
- 20122012 Summer Paralympics — 2012 edition of the Summer Paralympics
- 20222022 Kherson counteroffensive — 2022 military operation during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Births · 60
- 1593Toyotomi Hideyori — Japanese samurai (1593-1615)
- 1619Jean-Baptiste Colbert — French statesman (1619–1683)
- 1632John Locke — English philosopher and physician (1632-1704)
- 1777(Julian date)Hyacinth — Russian sinologist, historian, and missionary (1777–1853)
- 1780Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres — French painter (1780–1867)
- 1809Oliver Wendell Holmes — American poet and physician (1809–1894)
- 1844Edward Carpenter — English utopian socialist, poet and activist (1844–1929)
- 1862Maurice Maeterlinck — Belgian playwright and essayist (1862–1949)
- 1862Andrew Fisher — Australian politician, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (1862-1928)
- 1871Albert Lebrun — 15th President of the French Republic (1871–1950)
- 1875Leonardo De Lorenzo — Italian flautist and music educator (1875–1962)
- 1876Kim Ku — Korean politician (1876–1949)
- 1876Charles F. Kettering — American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 140 patents (1876–1958)
- 1892Alexandre Koyré — French philosopher (1892–1964)
- 1898Preston Sturges — American film director and screenwriter (1898-1959)
- 1904Werner Forssmann — German physician, Nobel prize winner (1904-1979)
- 1905Major Dhyan Chand Singh — Indian field hockey player (1905–1979)
- 1912Sohn Kee-chung — South Korean marathon runner (1912–2002)
- 1915Ingrid Bergman — Swedish actress (1915–1982)
- 1920Charlie Parker — American jazz saxophonist (1920–1955)
- 1921Iris Apfel — American interior designer and fashion icon (1921–2024)
- 1923Richard Attenborough — British actor (1923–2014)
- 1924Dinah Washington — American singer (1924-1963)
- 1926Helene Ahrweiler — Greek/French Byzantinist (1926–2026)
- 1935William Friedkin — American director and producer (1935–2023)
Deaths · 60
- 886(Julian date)Basil I — Byzantine emperor from 867 to 886
- 1021(Julian date)Minamoto no Yorimitsu — Regent of the Fujiwara clan
- 1046(Julian date)Gerard of Csanád — Italian Benedictine monk, founder bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of (Szeged-)Csanád, and martyr
- 1093Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy — French duke
- 1123(Julian date)Eystein I of Norway — King of Norway (1088-1123)
- 1135(Julian date)Al-Mustarshid — Abbasid caliph in Baghdad (r. 1118–1135)
- 1159(Julian date)Bertha of Sulzbach — Byzantine empress of German descent
- 1395(Julian date)Albert III, Duke of Austria — Duke of Austria
- 1442(Julian date)John V — Duke of Brittany, Count of Montfort (1389-1442)
- 1499(Julian date)Alesso Baldovinetti — Italian painter (1425-1499)
- 1523(Julian date)
- 1526Louis II, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia — King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1506–1526)
- 1526(Julian date)Pál Tomori — Hungarian archbishop, military leader (1475-1526)
- 1533Atahualpa — Last Incan emperor
- 1542(Julian date)Cristóvão da Gama — Portuguese soldier in Ethiopia
- 1604Hamida Banu Begum — Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire
- 1623Kuroda Nagamasa — daimyo during the late Azuchi-Momoyama and Early Edo Period; 1st lord of Fukuoka
- 1657John Lilburne — English political activist (1614-1657)
- 1769Edmond Hoyle — British writer and whist authority (1672–1769)
- 1780Jacques-Germain Soufflot — French architect (1713–1780)
- 1799Pius VI — Pope of the Catholic Church from 1775 to 1799
- 1866Tokugawa Iemochi — Japanese shogun (1846–1866)
- 1877Brigham Young — American religious leader, second president of the LDS Church, and governor of Utah Territory (1801–1877)
- 1904Murad V — 33th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876)
- 1911Asaf Jah VI of Hyderabad — King of Hyderabad (1866–1911)
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