On this day: 29 November
Events, births and deaths on 29 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Tom Stoppard
- Deaths · Tomomichi Nishimura
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Luis Alberto Monge
100 years ago1926
- Births · Beji Caid Essebsi
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 968 · Births · Emperor Kazan
Events · 27
- 618Battle of Qian Shui Yuan — 618 battle
- 903(Julian date)Battle of Hama — battle between the forces of the Abbasid Caliphate and the Qarmatians
- 1549(Julian date)1549–50 papal conclave — 1549-1550 election of the Catholic pope
- 1729Natchez Massacre — 1729 Revolt against French colonists
- 17321732 Irpinia earthquake — November 1732 earthquake in Southern Italy
- 1777San Jose — city and county seat of Santa Clara County, California, United States
- 1781Zong massacre — Deliberate drowning of Africans by the crew of the slave ship Zong in 1781
- 1807transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil — escape of the Braganza royal family and its court of nearly 15,000 people from Lisbon on November 29, 1807
- 1810Invasion of Isle de France — invasion during the Napoleonic Wars
- 1830November Uprising — Polish uprising against occupying Russian Empire from November 1830 to September 1831
- 1847Whitman massacre — The 1847 massacre by Cayuse Indians of Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa and 11 other missionaries in the Pacific Northwest.
- 1863Battle of Fort Sanders — 1863 battle of the American Civil War
- 1864Sand Creek massacre — massacre of a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in the American Indian Wars
- 1864Battle of Spring Hill — battle which occurred on 29 November 1864
- 1872Battle of Lost River — 1872 battle of the Modoc War
- 1899FC Barcelona — football club in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- 1947
- 1963Warren Commission — U.S. presidential commission on the Assassination of J. F. Kennedy
- 1963Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 — plane crash
- 19731973 Taiyo Department Store fire — fatal fire in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
- 1987Korean Air Flight 858 — 1987 airliner bombing
- 1997
- 19991999 Malaysian general election — election
- 2007Manila Peninsula rebellion — 2007 mutiny at a hotel in Makati, Philippines
- 2009Lakewood, Washington police officer shooting — killings of police officers
- 2013LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 — Deliberate crash of an Embraer 190 in Namibia on November 29, 2013
- 2014
Births · 60
- 1338(Julian date)Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence — Prince of England
- 1427Zhengtong Emperor — emperor of the Ming Dynasty
- 1627John Ray — British botanist (1627–1705)
- 1762Pierre André Latreille — French zoologist and entomologist (1762–1833)
- 1781Andrés Bello — Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist (1781-1865)
- 1797Gaetano Donizetti — Italian opera composer (1797–1848)
- 1799Amos Bronson Alcott — American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer (1799-1888)
- 1802Wilhelm Hauff — German poet and novelist (1802–1827)
- 1803Christian Dopplerr — Austrian mathematician and physicist (1803-1853)
- 1803Gottfried Semper — German architect (1803–1879)
- 1825Jean-Martin Charcot — French neurologist (1825–1893)
- 1832Louisa May Alcott — American novelist (1832–1888)
- 1835Empress Dowager Cixi — Chinese empress (1835–1908)
- 1843Gertrude Jekyll — Garden designer, artist, editor (1843-1932)
- 1849John Ambrose Fleming — English electrical engineer and physicist (1849-1945)
- 1856Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg — German politician (1856–1921)
- 1874António Egas Moniz — Portuguese politian and neurosurgeon (1874-1955)
- 1876Nellie Tayloe Ross — First woman state governor in the U.S.
- 1895William Tubman — Liberian politician, 19th president of Liberia (1895-1971)
- 1898C. S. Lewis — British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
- 1899Emma Morano — Italian supercentenarian (1899–2017)
- 1905Marcel Lefebvre — French traditionalist Catholic archbishop
- 1918Madeleine L'Engle — American writer (1918–2007)
- 1926Beji Caid Essebsi — Tunisian politician
- 1932
Deaths · 60
- 521(Julian date)Jacob of Serugh — Syriac writer and bishop
- 561(Julian date)Clothar I — king of Franks (511-561)
- 1253(Julian date)Otto II Wittelsbach — Duke of Bavaria from 1231 to 1253
- 1268(Julian date)Clement IV — Pope (1265-1268)
- 1314(Julian date)Philip IV of France — King of France from 1285 to 1314 (1268–1314)
- 1330(Julian date)Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March — English nobleman and rebel (1287-1330)
- 1378Charles IV — Holy Roman Emperor
- 1530(Julian date)Thomas Wolsey — English political figure, archbishop of York and cardinal-priest of Santa Cecilia (1473-1530)
- 1543(Julian date)Hans Holbein the Younger — German artist and printmaker (1497–1543)
- 1595Alonso de Ercilla — Spanish soldier and poet (1533-1594)
- 1626Ernst von Mansfeld — German noble and military commander (c.1580-1626)
- 1632Frederick V of the Palatinate — Elector Palatine (1610–23), and King of Bohemia (1619–20), the Winter King; died 1632
- 1643Claudio Monteverdi — Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest (1567–1643)
- 1682Prince Rupert of the Rhine — English-German aristocrat, army officer, admiral, scientist, and colonial administrator (1619–1682)
- 1759Nicolaus I Bernoulli — Swiss mathematician (1687-1759)
- 1780Maria Theresa of Austria — ruler of the Habsburg Dominions (1717-1780)
- 1872Horace Greeley — American politician and publisher (1811–1872)
- 1894Juan N. Méndez — President of Mexico (1876–77)
- 1901Francisco Pi y Margall — Spanish politician (1824–1901)
- 1924Giacomo Puccini — Italian opera composer (1858–1924)
- 1939Philipp Scheidemann — German politician (1865-1939)
- 1941Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya — Soviet resistance member of World War II and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1923–1941)
- 1957Erich Wolfgang Korngold — Austrian-born American composer and conductor (1897–1957)
- 1967Ferenc Münnich — Hungarian politician (1886-1967)
- 1972Carl W. Stalling — American composer, voice actor, and arranger (1891–1972)
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