Anniversaries 29 May
Birth
King of England, Ireland and Scotland
1630–1685
British actress
1645–1719
attorney, planter, politician and Founding Father of the Un…
1736–1799
United States philosopher and banker
1786–1867
British minister
1810–1892
English Nonconformist minister
1824–1881
English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
1874–1936
Italian neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher and politician
1875–1944
German historian and philosopher
1880–1936
American novelist, and short story writer
1892–1944
American comedian, actor, singer and dancer
1903–2003
American cinematographer
1904–1948
35th president of the United States of America
1917–1963
hungarian economist
1920–2000
British art dealer
1928–1985
American scientist and environmentalist
1932
Public Orator and Professor of Classical Literature
1937–2019
American writer
1949–2019
American composer, record producer, and actor
1953
American legal scholar
1954
American stand-up comedian
1975
Argentine journalist
1982
Death
Cornish chemist
1778–1829
Union United States Army general
1786–1866
American historian and diplomat
1814–1877
founder of the Bahá'í Faith
1817–1892
English historian
1821–1862
American newspaper editor
1835–1907
English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
1836–1911
American actor of stage, screen and radio
1882–1942
Bengali linguist
1890–1977
American actress, singer and comedian
1891–1951
Canadian-American actress
1892–1979
Sun Yat-Sen's wife, Honorary President of the People's Repu…
1893–1981
Member of the United States Senate from Maine
1897–1995
prime minister of India
1902–1987
baseball player, spy
1902–1972
American academic
1909–2000
American politician
1909–1998
American sociologist
1910–1989
American prosecutor
1912–2004
Canadian journalist
1924–2014
Irish-American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journali…
1928–2013
German-born American sculptor
1936–1970
American singer, guitarist and songwriter
1966–1997