Anniversaries 29 August
Birth
![Jean-Baptiste Colbert photo]()
French politician
1619–1683
![John Locke photo]()
English philosopher and physician
1632–1704
![Charles Grandison Finney photo]()
American writer
1792–1875
![William G. Brownlow photo]()
American newspaper editor, minister, and politician (1805-1…
1805–1877
![Oliver Wendell Holmes photo]()
Poet, essayist, physician
1809–1894
![George Frisbie Hoar photo]()
American politician
1826–1904
![J. Proctor Knott photo]()
American politician
1830–1911
![Edward Carpenter photo]()
British poet and academic
1844–1929
![Joseph Jacobs photo]()
British historian
1854–1916
![Maurice Maeterlinck photo]()
Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist
1862–1949
![Charles Kettering photo]()
American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of…
1876–1958
![Diana Cooper photo]()
English social figure, actress and memoirist
1892–1986
![Alexandre Koyré photo]()
French philosopher
1892–1964
![Guido Beck photo]()
German physicist
1903–1988
![Arndt Pekurinen photo]()
Finnish pacifist
1905–1941
![Dhyan Chand photo]()
Indian field hockey player
1905–1979
![C. West Churchman photo]()
American philosopher and systems scientist
1913–2004
![Sylvia Fine photo]()
American lyricist and songwriter
1913–1991
![Ingrid Bergman photo]()
Film actress from Sweden
1915–1982
![Anthony Crosland photo]()
British politician
1918–1977
![Charlie Parker photo]()
American jazz saxophonist and composer
1920–1955
![John Edward Williams photo]()
American author
1922–1994
![John McCain photo]()
politician from the United States
1936–2018
![Robert Rubin photo]()
American banking executive, 70th US Treasury Secretary
1938
![Gillian Rubinstein photo]()
Children's author and playwright
1942
![Temple Grandin photo]()
USA-american doctor of animal science, author, and autism a…
1947
![James Hunt photo]()
British racing driver
1947–1993
![David Boaz photo]()
libertarian, author and editor
1953
![GG Allin photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1956–1993
![Michael Jackson photo]()
American singer, songwriter and dancer
1958–2009
![Stephen Wolfram photo]()
British-American computer scientist, mathematician, physici…
1959
![Neil Gorsuch photo]()
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1967
![Liam Payne photo]()
English singer and songwriter
1993
![Courtney Stodden photo]()
American model, singer, songwriter, reality television pers…
1994
Death
![Pope Pius VI photo]()
pope and sovereign of the Papal States
1717–1799
![Charles James Napier photo]()
Commander-in-Chief in British India
1782–1853
![Brigham Young photo]()
Latter Day Saint movement leader
1801–1877
![Georges Sorel photo]()
French philosopher and sociologist
1847–1922
![Éamon de Valera photo]()
3rd President of Ireland
1882–1975
![Manly P. Hall photo]()
Canadian writer and mystic
1901–1990
![Mary Norton photo]()
English children's writer
1903–1992
![Sayyid Qutb photo]()
Egyptian author, educator, Islamic theorist, poet, and poli…
1906–1966
![Ingrid Bergman photo]()
Film actress from Sweden
1915–1982
![Harold Chestnut photo]()
American engineer
1917–2001
![James Mirrlees photo]()
Scottish economist
1936–2018
![Wayne W. Dyer photo]()
American writer
1940–2015
