The July 29th is the 210e Jour of the Année (211e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.
Events
1 to 1900
20th century
Births
- 1571 : Johannes Kepler, German astronomer († 1630)
- 1609: Marie de Mantoue, noble Italian, wife of the duke Charles III of Mayenne († August 14th 1660, 51 years)
- 1654: Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician († 1705)
- 1750: Fabre d' Églantine, actor, playwright, poet and politician French († April 5th 1794)
- 1805: Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian, political thinker († 1859)
- 1867: Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist († 1916)
- 1883: Benito Mussolini, politician Italy N († 1945)
- 1905: Dag Hammarskjöld, diplomatic Swedish, Nobel Prize of peace
- 1916: Alice Sapritch, French actress († 1990)
- 1921: Chris Marker, realizer
- 1925: Mikis Theodorakis, type-setter and Greek politician
- 1946: Jean-Paul Huchon, president of the District council of Ile-de-France
- 1951: Claude Bartolone, French politician, former minister of Lionel Jospin
- 1955: Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor
- 1962: Vincent Rousseau, Belgian long-distance runner
- 1968 :
- 1971: LISA Ekdahl, Swedish singer
- 1980: Fernando Gonzalez, Chilean tennis player
- 1981: Fernando Alonso, Spanish racing driver
- 1982: Allison Mack, American actress (° Germany)
Death
- 1030 : Holy Olaf, king of Norway
- 1108: Philippe I {{er}}, King de France (° 1052)
- 1751: Benjamin Robins Engineer and British Mathematician inventive of the ballistic Clock
- 1856: Robert Schumann, German type-setter (° June 8th 1810)
- 1866: Bore-Nicole Ponsardin, known as '' Veuve Clicquot '', producing champagne Frenchwoman (° December 16th 1777)
- 1882: Andrew Leith Adams, Doctor, Naturalist and geologist (° 1827)
- 1885: Henri Milne Edwards, zoologist French (° 1800)
- 1890: Vincent Van Gogh, painter Dutch (° 1853)
- 1900: Humbert I {{er}}, king of Italy (° 1844)
- 1975: James Blish, American writer of science fiction (° May 23rd 1921)
- 1979
- 1981: Robert Moses, (° 1888)
- 1982: Vladimir Zworykin, physicist and Russian inventor (° 1889)
- 1983:
- 1990: Bruno Kreisky, Austrian statesman (° 1911)
- 1996: Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, academician of the Academy of Science
- 2001:
- 2003: Foday Sankoh, chief rebels of Sierra Leone (° 1937)
- 2007: Michel Serrault, actor French (° 1928)
Celebrations
Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day
- Marthe, sister of Marie de Béthanie. According to a legend of Provence it finishes its days with Tarascon, where it évangélisa country. Symbolically she strangles the tarasque one, a voracious dragon appearing the demon.
- Wolf of Troyes (+ 478 or 479), bishop.
- Olaf II of Norway (+ 1030), king and martyr.
Catholic saints of the day
See too
Beats-smg: Lėipas 29
Be-X-old: 29 ліпеня
Fiu-vro: 29. hainakuu päiv
Nds-nl: 29 juli
Simple: July 29
Zh-yue: 7 月 29 號