On this day: 29 October
Events, births and deaths on 29 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Necmettin Erbakan
- Births · Jon Vickers
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 25
- 1658Battle of the Sound — 1658 battle
- 1665Battle of Mbwila — 1665 battle between Portugal and the Kingdom of the Congo
- 1914Ottoman entry into World War I — entrance of the Ottoman Empire into the First World War
- 1923Turkey — country in West Asia and Southeast Europe
- 1929Great Depression — worldwide economic depression (1929–1939)
- 1941Kaunas massacre of October 29, 1941 — Slaughter of Lithuanian Jews
- 1948Safsaf massacre — 1948 killing of Palestinians by Israeli forces
- 1953BCPA Flight 304 — 1953 aviation accident in California, United States
- 1956Suez Crisis — 1956 invasion of Egypt by Israel, the United Kingdom, and France
- 1956Kafr Qasim massacre — 1956 massacre of Arab civilians by the Israeli Border Police
- 1960Cal Poly football team plane crash — 1960 aviation accident
- 1969Internet — global system of connected computer networks based on IP addressing and routing protocols
- 1972Lufthansa Flight 615 — 1972 aircraft hijacking by Palestinian terrorists
- 1998Gothenburg discothèque fire — 1998 arson attack in Gothenburg, Sweden
- 2002Ho Chi Minh City ITC fire — Fatal fire in Vietnam
- 20052005 East Asian Games — international multi-sport event
- 200529 October 2005 Delhi bombings — Terrorist activity in Delhi
- 2006ADC Airlines Flight 53 — aviation accident
- 2007Dai Hong Dan incident — 2007 attack on North Korean cargo ship by Somali pirates
- 20082008 Pakistan earthquake — earthquake
- 20142014 Badulla landslide — 2014 landslide in Badulla, Sri Lanka
- 2018Lion Air Flight 610 Crash — 2018 aircraft crash in the Java Sea off the coast of Karawang, Indonesia
- 2022Itaewon Halloween crowd crush — 2022 crowd crush in South Korea
- 2022October 2022 Mogadishu bombings — double car bombing attack in Somalia
- 20242024 Spain floods — floods in Spain beginning on 29 October 2024
Births · 60
- 1504Shin Saimdang — calligraphist and noted poet (1504-1551)
- 1507(Julian date)Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba — Spanish military tactician and diplomat (1507-1582)
- 1711Laura Bassi — Italian physicist (1711-1778)
- 1740James Boswell — Scottish lawyer, diarist and author (1740–1795)
- 1831Othniel Charles Marsh — American paleontologist (1831–1899)
- 1875Marie of Romania — last Queen consort of Romania (1875-1938; r. 1914-1927)
- 1879Franz von Papen — German general staff officer, politician, diplomat, nobleman and Chancellor of Germany (1879–1969)
- 1882Jean Giraudoux — French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright (1882–1944)
- 1889Li Dazhao — co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1889–1927)
- 1891Fanny Brice — American actress, singer and comedian (1891–1951)
- 1897Joseph Goebbels — Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
- 1899Akim Tamiroff — American actor (1899-1972)
- 1906Fredric Brown — American novelist, short story author (1906–1972)
- 1910A. J. Ayer — English philosopher
- 1920Baruj Benacerraf — Venezuelan-American immunologist
- 1923Carl Djerassi — American chemistry professor, inventor, author, playwright (1923–2015)
- 1925Robert Hardy — British actor (1925–2017)
- 1925Klaus Roth — British mathematician (1925–2015)
- 1926Necmettin Erbakan — 23rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey (1926–2011)
- 1929Evgeny Primakov — 4th Russian Prime Minister (1929–2015)
- 1930Niki de Saint Phalle — plastician, painter and sculptor (1930–2002)
- 1935Isao Takahata — Japanese filmmaker (1935–2018)
- 1938Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — 24th president of Liberia
- 1938Ralph Bakshi — Palestinian-American animator (born 1938)
- 1942Bob Ross — American painter, art instructor, television host, and Air Force master sergeant (1942–1995)
Deaths · 60
- 1266(Julian date)Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia — queen of Bohemia
- 1268(Julian date)Conradin — Duke of Swabia, King of Jerusalem and King of Sicily (1252–1268)
- 1268(Julian date)Frederick I, Margrave of Baden — Austrian duke
- 1321(Julian date)Stefan Milutin — King of Serbia from 1282 to 1321
- 1590Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert — Dutch writer, philosopher, translator, politician and theologian (1522-1590)
- 1618(Julian date)Walter Raleigh — English statesman, soldier and writer (1552–1618)
- 1783Jean Le Rond d'Alembert — French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
- 1829Maria Anna Mozart — Austrian musician
- 1877Nathan Bedford Forrest — Confederate States Army general (1821–1877)
- 1892William Harnett — American artist (1848-1892)
- 1897Henry George — American political economist and journalist (1839–1897)
- 1901Leon Czolgosz — American laborer and assassin (1873–1901)
- 1905Étienne Desmarteau — Canadian athletics competitor (born 1873)
- 1911Joseph Pulitzer — Hungarian-American newspaper publisher and politician (1847-1911)
- 1918Rudolf Tobias — Estonian composer (1873-1918)
- 1919Albert Benjamin Simpson — Canadian theologian (1843–1919)
- 1924Frances Hodgson Burnett — English-American playwright and author (1849–1924)
- 1932Joseph Babinski — French neurologist (1857-1932)
- 1933Paul Painlevé — French mathematician and politician (1863-1933)
- 1933Albert Calmette — French scientist (1863-1933)
- 1933George Luks — American artist (1867-1933)
- 1936Ramiro de Maeztu — Spanish political theorist, journalist, and literary critic (1874–1936)
- 1940Phan Bội Châu — 19/20th-century Vietnamese nationalist and revolutionary
- 1947Frances Cleveland — First Lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897
- 1949George Gurdjieff — philosopher, mystic, and writer (c. 1866–1877 – 1949)
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