Anniversaries 29 December

Birth

John of St. Samson48

1571–1636

Madame de Pompadour2

chief mistress of Louis XV of France 1721–1764

Andrew Johnson25

American politician, 17th president of the United States (i… 1808–1875

Albert Pike88

Confederate States Army general and Freemason 1809–1891

William Ewart Gladstone121

British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United… 1809–1898

Francisco Palau8

Beatified Spanish Discalced Carmelite friar and priest 1811–1872

Edwin Hubbell Chapin16

American priest 1814–1880

John James Ingalls4

American politician 1833–1900

John Vance Cheney6

American writer 1848–1922

H. Stanley Allen1

English Physicist 1873–1954

Pablo Casals10

Catalan cellist and conductor 1876–1973

Lionel Tertis1

British musician 1876–1975

Vera Brittain10

English writer 1893–1970

Elsa Gidlow3

Canadian-American poet 1898–1986

Kuvempu11

Kannada novelist, poet, playwright, critic, and thinker 1904–1994

Bessie Hyde1

1905

Helmut Gollwitzer3

German theologian and author 1908–1993

Ronald H. Coase19

British economist and author 1910–2013

Josefa Iloilo23

President of Fiji 1920–2011

William Gaddis8

Novelist 1922–1998

John Howard Yoder15

20th century American Mennonite theologian 1927–1997

William Pfaff18

American journalist 1928–2015

Mary Tyler Moore9

American actress, television producer 1936–2017

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom6

Maldivian politician, 3rd president of the Maldives 1937

Jon Voight5

American actor 1938

Gilles Peress1

French photojournalist 1946

Stanley Tookie Williams9

American criminal 1953–2005

Alan Rusbridger17

British newspaper editor 1953

Catherine Rowett10

Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia (b… 1956

Paul Rudnick6

American playwright and screenwiter 1957

Thorsten Heins3

German Canadian businessman 1957

Paula Poundstone7

American comedian 1959

Ritsuko Okazaki11

Japanese singer 1959–2004

James Martin (priest)2

Jesuit priest and writer 1960

Dave Pelzer9

American author 1960

Peter A. McCullough4

American cardiologist and medical professor 1962

Manav Gupta8

Indian artist 1967

Jude Law2

English actor 1972

Pimp C2

Deceased American rapper, 1/2 of UGK 1973–2007

Death

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet19

English politician 1554–1625

Thomas Robert Malthus60

British political economist 1766–1834

Titus Salt1

English industrialist and philanthropist 1803–1876

Jules Van Praet2

Belgian diplomat 1806–1887

Leopold Kronecker2

German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebr… 1823–1891

A. C. Gibbs1

American politician 1825–1886

Christina Rossetti30

English poet 1830–1894

William Osler50

Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, his… 1849–1919

Stanley Lane-Poole3

British orientalist 1854–1931

Eden Phillpotts2

British author 1862–1960

Rainer Maria Rilke176

Austrian poet and writer 1875–1926

Don Marquis55

American writer 1878–1937

Miroslav Krleža2

Croatian writer 1893–1981

Harold Macmillan26

British politician 1894–1986

Nadezhda Mandelstam1

Russian writer and educator 1899–1980

John Marshall Harlan II9

American judge and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (… 1899–1971

Bob Monkhouse17

English entertainer 1928–2003

Andrei Tarkovsky55

Soviet and Russian film-maker, writer, film editor, film th… 1932–1986

Alasdair Gray8

Scottish writer and artist 1934–2019

Estela Portillo-Trambley3

American writer 1936–1998

Judith Rich Harris4

psychology researcher 1938–2018

Pelé48

Brazilian association football player 1940–2022

Vivienne Westwood1

English fashion designer and businesswoman 1941–2022

Neil Innes2

British comic songwriter 1944–2019