Anniversaries 29 October
Birth
![Edmond Halley photo]()
English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorolog…
1656–1742
![James Boswell photo]()
Scottish lawyer, diarist and author
1740–1795
![Abraham Kuyper photo]()
Dutch politician
1837–1920
![Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania photo]()
last Queen consort of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand…
1875–1938
![Franz von Papen photo]()
German chancellor
1879–1969
![Anzia Yezierska photo]()
American writer
1880–1970
![Jean Giraudoux photo]()
French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright
1882–1944
![Fanny Brice photo]()
American actress, singer and comedian
1891–1951
![Joseph Goebbels photo]()
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
1897–1945
![Fritz Roethlisberger photo]()
American business theorist
1898–1974
![Fredric Brown photo]()
American novelist, short story author
1906–1972
![Alfred Jules Ayer photo]()
English philosopher
1910–1989
![Bill Mauldin photo]()
American editorial cartoonist
1921–2003
![Carl Djerassi photo]()
American chemistry professor, inventor, author, playwright
1923–2015
![Dominick Dunne photo]()
writer, journalist
1925–2009
![Franco Bassani photo]()
Italian physicist
1929–2008
![Walter Greiner photo]()
German physicist
1935–2016
![Ramón Calderón Batres photo]()
Mexican Roman Catholic bishop
1938
![Bob Ross photo]()
American painter, art instructor, and television host
1942–1995
![Mohammad Reyshahri photo]()
Iranian cleric and politician
1946
![Charles Maung Bo photo]()
Burmese Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal
1948
![Frans de Waal photo]()
Dutch primatologist and ethologist
1948
![Abdullah Gül photo]()
11th President of Turkey 2007–2014
1950
![Lee Child photo]()
British thriller writer
1954
![Ann-Marie MacDonald photo]()
Canadian playwright, novelist, actress and broadcast journa…
1958
![John Magufuli photo]()
Tanzanian politician
1959
![Paul Thurrott photo]()
American podcaster, author, and blogger
1966
![Daniel J. Bernstein photo]()
American mathematician, cryptologist and programmer
1971
![Matthew Hayden photo]()
Australian cricketer
1971
![Ma Huateng photo]()
Chinese internet entrepreneur
1971
Death
![Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani photo]()
muhaddith, faqih and author (1135-1164)
1117–1197
![Walter Raleigh photo]()
English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, a…
1554–1618
![Jean le Rond d'Alembert photo]()
French philosopher
1717–1783
![Charles Alexandre de Calonne photo]()
French statesman
1734–1802
![Francesco Mario Pagano photo]()
Italian jurist and author
1748–1799
![David Seth Doggett photo]()
American bishop
1810–1880
![Johannes Warnardus Bilders photo]()
painter from the Northern Netherlands
1811–1890
![Nathan Bedford Forrest photo]()
Confederate Army general
1821–1877
![Henry George photo]()
American economist
1839–1897
![Joseph Pulitzer photo]()
Hungarian-American newspaper publisher
1847–1911
![Frances Hodgson Burnett photo]()
English-American childrens' playwright and author
1849–1924
![George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff photo]()
influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, compos…
1866–1949
![G. I. Gurdjieff photo]()
influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, compos…
1866–1949
![Wesley Clair Mitchell photo]()
American statistician
1874–1948
![Louis B. Mayer photo]()
American film producer
1884–1957
![Evgeny Lifshitz photo]()
Soviet physicist
1915–1985
![Hal Clement photo]()
American author
1922–2003
![William Kapell photo]()
American classical pianist
1922–1953
![Terry Southern photo]()
American author
1924–1995
![William Wharton photo]()
American author
1925–2008
![Jimmy Savile photo]()
English DJ, television presenter, media personality and pae…
1926–2011
![Anton LaVey photo]()
Founder of the Church of Satan, author of the Satanic Bible
1930–1997
