Anniversaries 29 May

Birth

Charles II of England6

King of England, Ireland and Scotland 1630–1685

Margaret Hughes8

British actress 1645–1719

Patrick Henry43

attorney, planter, politician and Founding Father of the Un… 1736–1799

Alexander Bryan Johnson35

United States philosopher and banker 1786–1867

Andrew Bonar1

British minister 1810–1892

Frederick Locker-Lampson5

British poet 1821–1895

William Morley Punshon29

English Nonconformist minister 1824–1881

Gerald Massey6

British poet 1828–1907

G. K. Chesterton229

English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936

Giovanni Gentile11

Italian neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher and politician 1875–1944

Oswald Spengler23

German historian and philosopher 1880–1936

Max Brand1

American novelist, and short story writer 1892–1944

Bob Hope12

American comedian, actor, singer and dancer 1903–2003

Gregg Toland2

American cinematographer 1904–1948

T. H. White25

author 1906–1964

Eduard Pestel2

scholar 1914–1988

John F. Kennedy469

35th president of the United States of America 1917–1963

John Harsanyi12

hungarian economist 1920–2000

Iannis Xenakis3

Greek composer 1922–2001

Kyril Bonfiglioli19

British art dealer 1928–1985

Harry G. Frankfurt4

Philosopher 1929

Peter Higgs8

British physicist 1929

Paul R. Ehrlich11

American scientist and environmentalist 1932

Jasper Griffin2

Public Orator and Professor of Classical Literature 1937–2019

Dominic Su Haw Chiu1

Malaysian prelate 1939

Andrew Clements7

American writer 1949–2019

Danny Elfman3

American composer, record producer, and actor 1953

Gary L. Francione12

American legal scholar 1954

Annette Bening2

American actress 1958

Rupert Everett1

British actor 1959

Noel Gallagher60

British musician 1967

Steven D. Levitt9

American economist 1967

Aaron McGruder1

American cartoonist 1974

Daniel Tosh28

American stand-up comedian 1975

Andy Bellatti1

Argentine journalist 1982

Alessandra Torresani1

American actress 1987

Death

Humphry Davy6

Cornish chemist 1778–1829

Winfield Scott6

Union United States Army general 1786–1866

Carlos Wilcox2

American poet 1794–1827

John Lothrop Motley3

American historian and diplomat 1814–1877

Bahá'u'lláh27

founder of the Bahá'í Faith 1817–1892

Henry Thomas Buckle4

English historian 1821–1862

Theodore Tilton7

American newspaper editor 1835–1907

W. S. Gilbert67

English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo 1836–1911

Juan Ramón Jimenéz18

Spanish poet 1881–1958

John Barrymore4

American actor of stage, screen and radio 1882–1942

Suniti Kumar Chatterji2

Bengali linguist 1890–1977

Fanny Brice2

American actress, singer and comedian 1891–1951

Mary Pickford7

Canadian-American actress 1892–1979

Soong Ching-ling2

Sun Yat-Sen's wife, Honorary President of the People's Repu… 1893–1981

Margaret Chase Smith20

Member of the United States Senate from Maine 1897–1995

Charan Singh16

prime minister of India 1902–1987

Moe Berg4

baseball player, spy 1902–1972

Yury Dombrovsky2

Soviet writer 1909–1978

Robert T. Oliver2

American academic 1909–2000

Barry Goldwater32

American politician 1909–1998

George C. Homans7

American sociologist 1910–1989

Archibald Cox3

American prosecutor 1912–2004

Monique Duval4

Canadian journalist 1924–2014

Andrew M. Greeley1

Irish-American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journali… 1928–2013

Gavin MacLeod1

American actor 1931–2021

Eva Hesse2

German-born American sculptor 1936–1970

Jeff Buckley29

American singer, guitarist and songwriter 1966–1997