Anniversaries 29 September

Birth

Miguel de Cervantes178

Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547–1616

William Julius Mickle17

British writer 1734–1788

Horatio Nelson38

Royal Navy Admiral 1758–1805

Elizabeth Gaskell12

novelist 1810–1865

Miguel de Unamuno199

19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864–1936

Andrew Paterson4

Scottish photographer 1877–1948

Ludwig von Mises62

austrian economist 1881–1973

Ahmad Kasravi1

Iranian academic 1890–1946

Harold Hotelling1

American economist and statistician 1895–1973

Enrico Fermi9

Italian physicist 1901–1954

Diana Vreeland9

American magazine editor 1903–1989

Michelangelo Antonioni39

Italian film director and screenwriter 1912–2007

Lizabeth Scott2

American actress and singer 1922–2015

Elizabeth Peters26

American author and egyptologist 1927–2013

Colin Dexter2

British writer 1930–2017

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi13

Hungarian American psychologist 1934

Jerry Lee Lewis3

American singer-songwriter and pianist 1935

Silvio Berlusconi49

Italian politician 1936

Marlo Morgan1

American writer 1937

Molly Haskell1

American film critic 1939

Rhodri Morgan5

British politician 1939–2017

Mir-Hossein Mousavi5

Iranian politician and architect 1941

Madeline Kahn8

American actress 1942–1999

Lech Wałęsa11

Polish politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner, former Preside… 1943

Mohammad Khatami17

Iranian prominent reformist politician, scholar and shiite … 1943

Richard J. Evans3

British historian 1947

Bryant Gumbel10

American sportscaster 1948

Pete Hautman2

American children's writer 1952

Michael Talbot1

American Writer 1953–1992

Mark Hertling4

United States Army general 1953

Gwen Ifill1

American journalist, television newscaster and author 1955–2016

Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejehei2

Iranian politician 1956

Ian Shapiro10

American political theorist 1956

Andrew Dice Clay3

American comedian and actor 1957

Zoran Tegeltija1

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegov… 1961

Julia Gillard36

Australian politician and lawyer, 27th Prime Minister of Au… 1961

Philip Rosedale3

American businessman, founder of Second Life 1968

Caroline Pidgeon1

British politician 1972

Andriy Shevchenko3

Ukrainian association football player 1976

Carlos Gershenson46

Mexican researcher 1978

Death

Poliziano1

Italian writer 1454–1494

George Whitefield4

English minister and preacher 1714–1770

J. Augustine Wade2

Irish composer 1796–1845

Alphonse Karr3

French critic, journalist, and novelist 1808–1890

William McGonagall8

weaver, actor, poet 1825–1902

Machado de Assis16

Brazilian writer 1839–1908

Emile Zola54

French writer (1840-1902) 1840–1902

Casey Stengel9

American baseball player and coach 1890–1975

Irving Chernev2

Russian-American chess player 1900–1981

W. H. Auden122

Anglo-American poet 1907–1973

Charles Addams4

Cartoonist 1912–1988

Bill Shankly5

Scottish footballer and manager 1913–1981

Henry Ford II1

American automotive industry executive; longtime president,… 1917–1987

Carson McCullers45

American writer 1917–1967

Madalyn Murray O'Hair9

Atheist activist 1919–1995

Jopie Huisman14

Dutch painter 1922–2000

Shūsaku Endō7

author from Japan 1923–1996

Roy Lichtenstein15

American pop artist 1923–1997

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu4

president of South Vietnam from 1965–75 1923–2001

Georges Charpak3

ukrainian-born french physicist 1924–2010

Helmut Qualtinger2

Austrian actor 1928–1986

John M. Rodgers1

American politician 1928–2012

Hebe Camargo3

Brazilian television host 1929–2012

Joni Madraiwiwi62

Fijian politician 1957–2016

Greg Giraldo12

American comedian 1965–2010