Anniversaries 29 October

Birth

Edmond Halley1

English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorolog… 1656–1742

James Boswell23

Scottish lawyer, diarist and author 1740–1795

Abraham Kuyper1

Dutch politician 1837–1920

Dora Read Goodale6

U.S. poet 1866–1953

Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania5

last Queen consort of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand… 1875–1938

Franz von Papen10

German chancellor 1879–1969

Anzia Yezierska6

American writer 1880–1970

Jean Giraudoux14

French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright 1882–1944

Fanny Brice2

American actress, singer and comedian 1891–1951

Joseph Goebbels145

Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister 1897–1945

Fritz Roethlisberger4

American business theorist 1898–1974

Vera Stanley Alder50

British artist 1898–1984

Fredric Brown22

American novelist, short story author 1906–1972

Alfred Jules Ayer18

English philosopher 1910–1989

Bill Mauldin15

American editorial cartoonist 1921–2003

Aleksandr Zinovyev28

Russian writer 1922–2006

Carl Djerassi3

American chemistry professor, inventor, author, playwright 1923–2015

Zbigniew Herbert9

Polish writer 1924–1998

Dominick Dunne1

writer, journalist 1925–2009

Franco Bassani1

Italian physicist 1929–2008

Walter Greiner1

German physicist 1935–2016

Ramón Calderón Batres1

Mexican Roman Catholic bishop 1938

Ralph Bakshi5

Animator, filmmaker 1938

Bob Ross16

American painter, art instructor, and television host 1942–1995

Mohammad Reyshahri1

Iranian cleric and politician 1946

Richard Dreyfuss1

American actor 1947

Charles Maung Bo1

Burmese Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal 1948

Frans de Waal17

Dutch primatologist and ethologist 1948

Abdullah Gül1

11th President of Turkey 2007–2014 1950

Lee Child57

British thriller writer 1954

Ann-Marie MacDonald5

Canadian playwright, novelist, actress and broadcast journa… 1958

John Magufuli4

Tanzanian politician 1959

Nancy Werlin1

author 1961

Snježana Kordić5

Croatian linguist 1964

Paul Thurrott10

American podcaster, author, and blogger 1966

Michael Wandmacher3

composer 1967

Edwin van der Sar1

Dutch footballer 1970

Daniel J. Bernstein4

American mathematician, cryptologist and programmer 1971

Matthew Hayden6

Australian cricketer 1971

Ma Huateng5

Chinese internet entrepreneur 1971

Kate Kelly1

American feminist 1980

Death

Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani1

muhaddith, faqih and author (1135-1164) 1117–1197

Walter Raleigh41

English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, a… 1554–1618

Jean le Rond d'Alembert1

French philosopher 1717–1783

Charles Alexandre de Calonne1

French statesman 1734–1802

Francesco Mario Pagano1

Italian jurist and author 1748–1799

David Seth Doggett2

American bishop 1810–1880

Johannes Warnardus Bilders10

painter from the Northern Netherlands 1811–1890

Nathan Bedford Forrest27

Confederate Army general 1821–1877

Gerald Massey6

British poet 1828–1907

Henry George61

American economist 1839–1897

Joseph Pulitzer2

Hungarian-American newspaper publisher 1847–1911

Frances Hodgson Burnett56

English-American childrens' playwright and author 1849–1924

George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff1

influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, compos… 1866–1949

G. I. Gurdjieff62

influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, compos… 1866–1949

Wesley Clair Mitchell4

American statistician 1874–1948

Louis B. Mayer4

American film producer 1884–1957

Evgeny Lifshitz1

Soviet physicist 1915–1985

Russell L. Ackoff70

Scientist 1919–2009

Hal Clement4

American author 1922–2003

William Kapell3

American classical pianist 1922–1953

Terry Southern1

American author 1924–1995

William Wharton2

American author 1925–2008

Jimmy Savile2

English DJ, television presenter, media personality and pae… 1926–2011

Anton LaVey42

Founder of the Church of Satan, author of the Satanic Bible 1930–1997