December 29
December 29 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are two days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 721 – Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661)
- 1170 – Thomas Becket, English bishop (assassinated) (b. 1118)
- 1565 - Queen Munjeong of Korea (b. 1501)
- 1605 - John Davis, English explorer (b. 1550)
- 1634 - John Albert Vasa, Polish cardinal (b. 1612)
- 1661 - Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
- 1689 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624)
- 1731 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1624)
- 1743 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (b. 1659)
- 1785 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742)
- 1825 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748)
- 1886 - A. C. Gibbs, American politician, Governor of Oregon (b. 1825)
- 1891 – Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (b. 1823)
- 1894 – Christina Rossetti, English poet (b. 1830)
- 1897 - William James Linton, English-American painter, author and activist (b. 1812)
1901 – 2000
- 1910 - Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872)
- 1916 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)
- 1924 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer (b. 1845)
- 1925 - Félix Vallotton, Swiss-French artist (b. 1865)
- 1926 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer (b. 1875)
- 1929 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)
- 1934 - Alma Tell, American actress (b. 1898)
- 1937 – Don Marquis, writer (b. 1878)
- 1941 - Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (b. 1873)
- 1952 - Fletcher Henderson, American pianist, composer and bandleader (b. 1897)
- 1960 – Eden Phillpotts, British writer (b. 1862)
- 1967 – Paul Whiteman, American musician and conductor (b. 1890)
- 1972 - Joseph Cornell, American sculptor, painter and filmmaker (b. 1903)
- 1976 – Ivo van Damme, Belgian athlete (b. 1954)
- 1980 – Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (b. 1899)
- 1980 – Tim Hardin, musician (b. 1941)
- 1986 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director (b. 1932)
- 1986 – Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
- 1995 - Lita Grey, American actress (b. 1908)
- 1996 - Mireille Hartuch, French singer and actress (b. 1906)
From 2001
- 2003 – Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942)
- 2003 – Bob Monkhouse, British comedian (b. 1928)
- 2004 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recipient (b. 1912)
- 2004 – Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1945)
- 2005 - Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-English psychotherapist and author (b. 1922)
- 2007 – Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
- 2008 – Freddie Hubbard, American musician (b. 1938)
- 2009 – Akmal Shaikh, British citizen executed for drug trafficking in China (b. 1956)
- 2010 – Avi Cohen, Israeli footballer (b. 1956)
- 2011 – Leopold Hawelka, Austrian cafetier (b. 1911)
- 2012 - Paulo Rocha, Portuguese director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
- 2012 - Mike Auldridge, American singer and guitarist (b. 1938)
- 2012 - Tony Greig, South African-born cricketer (b. 1946)
- 2013 - Wojciech Kilar, Polish composer (b. 1932)
- 2013 - Mary Wibberley, English novelist (b. 1934)
- 2014 - Odd Iversen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1945)
- 2015 - Pavel Srnicek, Czech footballer (b. 1968)
- 2015 - Elzbieta Krzesinska, Polish athlete (b. 1934)
- 2015 - Om Prakash Malhotra, Indian politician, 25th Governor of the Punjab (b. 1922)
- 2015 - Frank Malzone, American baseball player (b. 1930)
- 2015 - Kim Yang-gon, North Korean politician (b. 1942)
- 2016 - Ferdinand Kübler, Swiss cyclist (b. 1919)
- 2016 - Néstor Gonçalves, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1936)
- 2017 - Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Spanish noble (b. 1926)
- 2017 - John C. Portman Jr., American architect (b. 1924)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1904 - Kuvempu, Indian Kannada writer (d. 1994)
- 1908 – Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian (d. 1993)
- 1910 – Ronald Coase, British economist (d. 2013)
- 1910 – Gunnar Thoroddsen, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1983)
- 1911 – Klaus Fuchs, German-British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (d. 1988)
- 1913 – Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 2002)
- 1914 – Billy Tipton, American jazz musician (d. 1989)
- 1914 – Albert Tucker, Australian artist (d 1999)
- 1917 – Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (d. 1998)
- 1919 - Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist and author (d. 2014)
- 1919 - Roman Vlad, Romanian-Italian composer (d. 2013)
- 1920 – Ratu Iosefa Iloilo, President of Fiji (d. 2011)
- 1920 – Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (d. 1995)
- 1921 - Dobrica Cosic, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (d. 2014)
- 1921 - Robert C. Baker, American chef, inventor of the Chicken nugget (d. 2006)
- 1923 - Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist and physicist (d. 1986)
- 1923 - Dina Merrill, American actress (d. 2017)
- 1925 - Luis Alberto Monge, President of Costa Rica (d. 2016)
- 1926 - John Spellman, American politician, Governor of Washington (d. 2018)
- 1927 – Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985)
- 1928 - Bernard Cribbins, English actor
- 1931 – Prince Gu of Korea (d. 2005)
- 1932 - Inga Swenson, American actress
- 1934 – Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995)
- 1936 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Tyler Moore) (d. 2017)
- 1936 – Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998)
- 1937 – Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, former President of the Maldives
- 1937 – Dieter Thomas Heck, German singer and entertainer
- 1937 – Barbara Steele, British actress
- 1938 - Michael Hill, New Zealand businessman
- 1938 – Jon Voight, American actor
- 1941 - Daphne Arden, English athlete
- 1941 - Ray Thomas, English singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
- 1942 - Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor (d. 2012)
- 1942 – Rick Danko, Canadian musician ("The Band") (d. 1999)
- 1942 - Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Honduran cardinal
- 1943 - Atsutoshi Nishida, Japanese business executive (d. 2017)
- 1946 – Marianne Faithfull, British singer
- 1947 – Ted Danson, American actor
- 1947 - Cozy Powell, English musician (d. 1998)
- 1948 – Peter Robinson, Northern Irish politician, former First Minister of Northern Ireland
- 1949 - Grant McBride, Australian politician (d. 2018)
- 1950 - Jon Polito, American actor (d. 2016)
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Mike deGruy, American documentary movie maker (d. 2012)
- 1951 - Yvonne Elliman, American singer, songwriter and actress
- 1952 – Gelsey Kirkland, American dancer
- 1953 - Gali Atari, Israeli singer and actress
- 1953 - Thomas Bach, German fencer and IOC President
- 1953 - Matthias Platzeck, German politician
- 1953 - Alan Rusbridger, British newspaper editor
- 1954 – Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter
- 1954 – Prince Takamado of Japan (d. 2002)
- 1954 – Albrecht Böttcher, German mathematician
- 1956 - Fred MacAulay, Scottish comedian and radio presenter
- 1957 - Iain Paxton, Scottish rugby player and coach
- 1957 – Bruce Beutler, American Nobel Prize-winning immunologist
- 1957 - Oliver Hirschbiegel, German movie director
- 1958 - Nancy J. Currie, American colonel, engineer and astronaut
- 1959 – Patricia Clarkson, American actress
- 1959 - Keith Crossan, Irish rugby player
- 1959 - Paula Poundstone, American comedienne, actress and author
- 1960 - Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Congolese militia leader
- 1961 - Jim Reid, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1962 – Wynton Rufer, New Zealand footballer
- 1962 - Carles Puigdemont, Catalan politician
- 1963 - Dave McKean, English artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician
- 1965 – Dexter Holland, American singer and musician
- 1966 - Stefano Eranio, Italian footballer and manager
- 1966 - Chris Barnes, American singer
- 1967 - Evan Seinfeld, American actor and musician
- 1967 – Andy Wachowski, American director (The Matrix)
- 1969 - Jennifer Ehle, American actress
- 1969 – Allan McNish, Scottish racing driver
- 1970 – Aled Jones, Welsh singer
- 1970 – Kevin Weisman, American actor
- 1970 – Enrico Chiesa, Italian footballer
- 1971 - Dominic Dale, Welsh snooker player
- 1972 – Jason Kreis, American soccer player
- 1972 – Jude Law, British actor
- 1973 - Pimp C, American rapper (d. 2007)
- 1974 – Richie Sexson, American Major League Baseball All-Star
- 1974 - Mekhi Phifer, American actor and producer
From 1976
- 1976 - Danny McBride, American actor, screenwriter and producer
- 1977 - Katherine Moennig, American actress
- 1978 – Kieron Dyer, English footballer
- 1978 - Danny Higginbotham, English footballer
- 1979 - Diego Luna, Mexican actor
- 1981 – Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater
- 1982 - Alison Brie, American actress
- 1983 – Dereck Chisora, British boxer
- 1983 - Angela Scanlon, Irish television presenter
- 1983 – Gonzalo Olave, Chilean actor (d. 2009)
- 1985 – Alexa Ray Joel, American musician
- 1987 - Iain De Caestecker, Scottish actor
- 1989 - Jane Levy, American actress
- 1989 - Kei Nishikori, Japanese tennis player
- 1990 - Allen Kim, South Korean singer, dancer and actor (U-KISS)
- 1994 – Princess Kako of Akishino of Japan
- 1995 - Rina Ikoma, Japanese singer
- 1995 - Ross Lynch, American actor and singer
- 1996 - Dylan Minnette, American actor
Deaths
Observances
- Independence Day (Mongolia)
- Constitution Day (Republic of Ireland)
- Start of the Four Hills Ski jumping tournament (Germany and Austria)