Anniversaries 29 August

Birth

Jean-Baptiste Colbert3

French politician 1619–1683

John Locke144

English philosopher and physician 1632–1704

Charles Grandison Finney6

American writer 1792–1875

William G. Brownlow1

American newspaper editor, minister, and politician (1805-1… 1805–1877

Oliver Wendell Holmes135

Poet, essayist, physician 1809–1894

George Frisbie Hoar3

American politician 1826–1904

J. Proctor Knott2

American politician 1830–1911

Edward Carpenter19

British poet and academic 1844–1929

Joseph Jacobs17

British historian 1854–1916

Maurice Maeterlinck21

Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist 1862–1949

Charles Kettering11

American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of… 1876–1958

Han Yong-un2

Korean writer 1879–1944

Louis Brownlow10

American mayor 1879–1963

Diana Cooper4

English social figure, actress and memoirist 1892–1986

Alexandre Koyré4

French philosopher 1892–1964

Guido Beck1

German physicist 1903–1988

Arndt Pekurinen1

Finnish pacifist 1905–1941

Dhyan Chand12

Indian field hockey player 1905–1979

Kenneth Allott2

Irish poet 1912–1973

C. West Churchman64

American philosopher and systems scientist 1913–2004

Sylvia Fine2

American lyricist and songwriter 1913–1991

Ingrid Bergman13

Film actress from Sweden 1915–1982

Anthony Crosland17

British politician 1918–1977

Charlie Parker6

American jazz saxophonist and composer 1920–1955

John Edward Williams1

American author 1922–1994

Thom Gunn7

English poet 1929–2004

John McCain169

politician from the United States 1936–2018

Antonio Llidó5

Spanish priest 1936–1974

Robert Rubin2

American banking executive, 70th US Treasury Secretary 1938

Gillian Rubinstein7

Children's author and playwright 1942

Temple Grandin30

USA-american doctor of animal science, author, and autism a… 1947

James Hunt1

British racing driver 1947–1993

Karen Hesse3

American writer 1952

Nancy Holder2

American writer 1953

David Boaz6

libertarian, author and editor 1953

GG Allin24

American singer-songwriter 1956–1993

Michael Jackson110

American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958–2009

Stephen Wolfram16

British-American computer scientist, mathematician, physici… 1959

Neil Gorsuch3

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1967

Timothy Bradley1

American boxer 1983

Lea Michele1

actress, singer 1986

Liam Payne3

English singer and songwriter 1993

Courtney Stodden2

American model, singer, songwriter, reality television pers… 1994

Death

Pope Pius VI3

pope and sovereign of the Papal States 1717–1799

Charles James Napier7

Commander-in-Chief in British India 1782–1853

Brigham Young52

Latter Day Saint movement leader 1801–1877

Georges Sorel19

French philosopher and sociologist 1847–1922

Éamon de Valera12

3rd President of Ireland 1882–1975

Kazi Nazrul Islam2

Bengali poet 1899–1976

Manly P. Hall13

Canadian writer and mystic 1901–1990

Mary Norton2

English children's writer 1903–1992

Sayyid Qutb12

Egyptian author, educator, Islamic theorist, poet, and poli… 1906–1966

Ingrid Bergman13

Film actress from Sweden 1915–1982

Harold Chestnut27

American engineer 1917–2001

Gene Wilder4

American actor 1933–2016

James Mirrlees4

Scottish economist 1936–2018

Wayne W. Dyer92

American writer 1940–2015

Xuân Quỳnh1

poet 1942–1988