Anniversaries 29 December
Birth
![Madame de Pompadour photo]()
chief mistress of Louis XV of France
1721–1764
![Andrew Johnson photo]()
American politician, 17th president of the United States (i…
1808–1875
![Albert Pike photo]()
Confederate States Army general and Freemason
1809–1891
![William Ewart Gladstone photo]()
British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United…
1809–1898
![Francisco Palau photo]()
Beatified Spanish Discalced Carmelite friar and priest
1811–1872
![Edwin Hubbell Chapin photo]()
American priest
1814–1880
![John James Ingalls photo]()
American politician
1833–1900
![John Vance Cheney photo]()
American writer
1848–1922
![H. Stanley Allen photo]()
English Physicist
1873–1954
![Pablo Casals photo]()
Catalan cellist and conductor
1876–1973
![Lionel Tertis photo]()
British musician
1876–1975
![Elsa Gidlow photo]()
Canadian-American poet
1898–1986
![Kuvempu photo]()
Kannada novelist, poet, playwright, critic, and thinker
1904–1994
![Helmut Gollwitzer photo]()
German theologian and author
1908–1993
![Ronald H. Coase photo]()
British economist and author
1910–2013
![Josefa Iloilo photo]()
President of Fiji
1920–2011
![John Howard Yoder photo]()
20th century American Mennonite theologian
1927–1997
![William Pfaff photo]()
American journalist
1928–2015
![Mary Tyler Moore photo]()
American actress, television producer
1936–2017
![Maumoon Abdul Gayoom photo]()
Maldivian politician, 3rd president of the Maldives
1937
![Gilles Peress photo]()
French photojournalist
1946
![Stanley Tookie Williams photo]()
American criminal
1953–2005
![Alan Rusbridger photo]()
British newspaper editor
1953
![Catherine Rowett photo]()
Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia (b…
1956
![Paul Rudnick photo]()
American playwright and screenwiter
1957
![Thorsten Heins photo]()
German Canadian businessman
1957
![Ritsuko Okazaki photo]()
Japanese singer
1959–2004
![James Martin (priest) photo]()
Jesuit priest and writer
1960
![Peter A. McCullough photo]()
American cardiologist and medical professor
1962
![Pimp C photo]()
Deceased American rapper, 1/2 of UGK
1973–2007
Death
![Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet photo]()
English politician
1554–1625
![Thomas Robert Malthus photo]()
British political economist
1766–1834
![Titus Salt photo]()
English industrialist and philanthropist
1803–1876
![Jules Van Praet photo]()
Belgian diplomat
1806–1887
![Leopold Kronecker photo]()
German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebr…
1823–1891
![A. C. Gibbs photo]()
American politician
1825–1886
![William Osler photo]()
Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, his…
1849–1919
![Stanley Lane-Poole photo]()
British orientalist
1854–1931
![Rainer Maria Rilke photo]()
Austrian poet and writer
1875–1926
![Don Marquis photo]()
American writer
1878–1937
![Miroslav Krleža photo]()
Croatian writer
1893–1981
![Harold Macmillan photo]()
British politician
1894–1986
![Nadezhda Mandelstam photo]()
Russian writer and educator
1899–1980
![John Marshall Harlan II photo]()
American judge and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (…
1899–1971
![Bob Monkhouse photo]()
English entertainer
1928–2003
![Andrei Tarkovsky photo]()
Soviet and Russian film-maker, writer, film editor, film th…
1932–1986
![Alasdair Gray photo]()
Scottish writer and artist
1934–2019
![Estela Portillo-Trambley photo]()
American writer
1936–1998
![Judith Rich Harris photo]()
psychology researcher
1938–2018
![Pelé photo]()
Brazilian association football player
1940–2022
![Vivienne Westwood photo]()
English fashion designer and businesswoman
1941–2022
![Neil Innes photo]()
British comic songwriter
1944–2019
