On this day: 29 September
Events, births and deaths on 29 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Miriam Defensor Santiago
- Deaths · Cheng Yu-tung
100 years ago1926
- Births · Chuck Cooper
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 25
- 1267(Julian date)Treaty of Montgomery — treaty signed 29 September 1267 between England and Wales
- 1364(Julian date)Battle of Auray — 1364 battle of the War of the Breton Succession
- 1567(Julian date)Michelade — mass murder of Catholics during the French Wars of Religion
- 1578Tegucigalpa — capital and largest city of Honduras
- 1714Murder Friday — 1714 massacre in the Hailuoto island
- 1829Metropolitan Police — territorial police force in Greater London
- 1848Battle of Pákozd — 1848 battle
- 1864Treaty of Lisbon — treaty between Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal (1864)
- 1864Battle of Chaffin's Farm — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
- 1911Italo-Turkish War — 1911–12 war between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Italy
- 1918
- 1918Battle of St. Quentin Canal — 1918 major battle of WWI
- 19401940 Brocklesby mid-air collision — 1940 aviation incident in New South Wales, Australia
- 1954CERN — international organization which operates the world's largest particle physics laboratory
- 19551955 Indonesian legislative election — 1st legislative election in Indonesia
- 1957Kyshtym disaster — nuclear disaster
- 1959Braniff Flight 542 — 1959 aviation accident
- 1963University of East Anglia — university in Norwich, England, United Kingdom
- 1964Mafalda — 1964–1973 comic strip series by Quino
- 1975WWJ-TV — CBS television station in Detroit
- 19811981 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash — aviation crash in Iran
- 19911991 Haitian coup d'état — Overthrow of recently-elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 2006Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 — mid-air collision
- 20092009 Samoa earthquake — earthquake
- 2013Gujba college massacre — shooting massacre in Gujba, Yobe State, Nigeria
Births · 60
- 106 BCE(Julian date)Pompey — Roman general and statesman (106–48 BC)
- 1511(Julian date)Michael Servetus — Spanish physician and theologian
- 1518(Julian date)Jacopo Tintoretto — Renaissance painter (1518/1519–1594)
- 1547(Julian date)Miguel de Cervantes — Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
- 1571(Julian date)Caravaggio — Italian painter (1571–1610)
- 1703François Boucher — French painter (1703–1770)
- 1725Robert Clive — British military officer and East India Company official (1725-1774)
- 1758
- 1765Karl Ludwig Harding — German astronomer (1765-1834)
- 1766Charlotte, Princess Royal — British princess (1766-1828); eldest daughter of George III
- 1786
- 1803Charles Sturm — mathematician from Geneva (1803-1855)
- 1810Elizabeth Gaskell — British author (1810-1865)
- 1843Mikhail Skobelev — Russian general (1843–1882)
- 1864
- 1866Mykhailo Hrushevskyi — Ukrainian politician and historian (1866–1934)
- 1881Ludwig von Mises — Austrian-American economist (1881–1973)
- 1899László Bíró — Hungarian inventor (1899–1985)
- 1901Enrico Fermi — Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
- 1904Greer Garson — British-American actress (1904-1996)
- 1907Gene Autry — American actor and singer (1907–1998)
- 1912Michelangelo Antonioni — Italian film director and screenwriter (1912–2007)
- 1913Stanley Kramer — American film director and producer (1913-2001)
- 1913Trevor Howard — English film, stage and television actor (1913–1988)
- 1920Peter D. Mitchell — British biochemist (1920-1992)
Deaths · 60
- 855(Julian date)Lothair I — Emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 817 to 855
- 1186William of Tyre — medieval prelate and chronicler, archbishop of Tyre
- 1364Charles, Duke of Brittany — Duke of Brittany (1319-1364)
- 1560Gustav I of Sweden — King of Sweden from 1523 to 1560
- 1637Lorenzo Ruiz — Filipino saint and Martyr
- 1800Michael Denis — Austrian entomologist and writer
- 1833Ferdinand VII of Spain — King of Spain (1784–1833) (r. 1808; 1813–1833)
- 1839Friedrich Mohs — German geologist and mineralogist (1773-1839)
- 1861Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska — Polish composer
- 1867Sterling Price — American politician and Confederate States Army general in the Civil War (1809–1867)
- 1902Émile Zola — French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)
- 1902William McGonagall — Scottish weaver, actor, poet (1825–1902)
- 1908Machado de Assis — Brazilian writer (1839–1908)
- 1910Winslow Homer — American landscape painter (1836–1910)
- 1923Walther Penck — German geographer (1888-1923)
- 1925Léon Bourgeois — French statesman (1851-1925)
- 1927Willem Einthoven — Dutch physiologist
- 1929Tanaka Giichi — Japanese general (1864-1929)
- 1930Ilya Repin — Russian-empire painter of Ukrainian birth (1844-1930)
- 1931William Orpen — Irish artist (1878–1931)
- 1935Winifred Holtby — British writer (1898–1935)
- 1937Ray Ewry — American track and field athlete (1873–1937)
- 1952Clifford Hugh Douglas — British engineer and economic theorist (1879–1952)
- 1953Ernst Reuter — German mayor of West Berlin (1889–1953)
- 1956Anastasio Somoza García — former President of Nicaragua (1896–1956)
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