Anniversaries 29 July

Birth

Muhammad al-Mahdi15

12th and last Imam in Twelver Shia Islam 869–941

Antonio Simeone Sografi2

Italian playwright 1759–1818

Alexis De Tocqueville135

French political thinker and historian 1805–1859

Henri Fayol27

Developer of Fayolism 1841–1925

Booth Tarkington3

American novelist 1869–1946

William Beebe4

American ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, and… 1877–1962

Don Marquis55

American writer 1878–1937

Benito Mussolini127

Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Le… 1883–1945

Theda Bara3

Silent film actress 1885–1955

Isidor Isaac Rabi3

American physicist 1898–1988

Eyvind Johnson1

Swedish writer 1900–1976

Mahasi Sayadaw13

Burmese Buddhist philosopher 1904–1982

J. R. D. Tata11

Indian businessman 1904–1993

Stanley Kunitz3

poet 1905–2006

Dag Hammarskjöld58

Swedish diplomat, economist, and author 1905–1961

Jo Grimond13

British soldier, politician and academic 1913–1993

Bruce R. McConkie1

American Mormon leader 1915–1985

Mary Lee Settle1

Novelist, biographer, academic 1918–2005

Margaret Singer12

clinical psychology 1921–2003

Arnold Weinstock1

English businessman 1924–2002

Ted Lindsay2

Canadian ice hockey player 1925–2019

Harry Mulisch4

Dutch author 1927–2010

Уильям Демент1

1928

Stanley Rosen1

American philosopher 1929–2014

Charles Schwab1

Businessperson 1937–1939

Peter Jennings22

News anchor 1938–2005

Israel Singer2

American Jewish activist 1942

Sten Nadolny21

German novelist 1942

Sharon Creech21

American writer of children's novels 1945

Jenny Holzer17

American conceptual artist 1950

Susan Blackmore6

British writer and academic 1951

Geddy Lee6

vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock gr… 1953

Tim Gunn9

American actor and fashion consultant 1953

Fumio Kishida1

100th~101st Prime Minister of Japan 1957

Gail Dines2

anti-pornography campaigner 1958

Simon Nye1

British screenwriter 1958

Fernando Simón1

Spanish physician 1963

Caroline Paul1

American writer 1963

Steven Novella20

American neurologist, skepticist 1964

Karen Rose2

American writer 1964

Chang-rae Lee4

Novelist 1965

Tyrone Hayes2

American biologist 1967

Giles Coren6

British food critic, television presenter and novelist 1969

Lisi Harrison39

Canadian writer 1970

Wil Wheaton5

American actor and writer 1972

Gail Simone1

writer 1974

Patri Friedman4

American libertarian activist and theorist of political eco… 1976

Fernando Alonso4

Spanish racing driver 1981

Sabra Johnson2

Dutch dancer 1987

Marlen Esparza2

boxer 1989

Death

Pope Urban II1

pope 1035–1099

Tang Xianzu1

Chinese playwright 1550–1616

Pope Urban VIII1

Pope 1568–1644

William Wilberforce17

English politician 1759–1833

Johann Martin Usteri1

Swiss poet 1763–1827

Jean-Andoche Junot1

French general 1771–1813

Robert Schumann9

German composer, aesthete and influential music critic 1810–1856

Vincent Van Gogh238

Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853–1890

David Eugene Smith33

American mathematician 1860–1944

Edward Gordon Craig2

Modernist stage designer and theatre director 1872–1966

Ludwig Klages8

German psychologist and philosopher 1872–1956

Burrill Bernard Crohn2

American gastroenterologist 1884–1983

Nikolai Krylenko7

Russian revolutionary, politician and chess organiser 1885–1938

Robert Moses4

American urban planner 1888–1981

Ronald Fisher28

English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, a… 1890–1962

Herbert Marcuse105

German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist 1898–1979

Erich Kästner1

German children's writer 1899–1974

Filipp Golikov4

Soviet general 1900–1980

Luis Buñuel16

film director 1900–1983

David Niven1

English actor and novelist 1910–1983

Dorothy Hodgkin3

British chemist 1910–1994

James Harvey Young2

American historian 1915–2006

Stanley Edgar Hyman1

American literary critic 1918–1970

Cass Elliot21

American singer 1941–1974

L.A. Meyer9

American writer 1942–2014

Media Kashigar3

Iranian translator, writer and poet 1956–2017

Дэвид Нивен1

RAF officer