September 29

### Up to 1900

- 61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph, for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
- 48 BC – Ptolemy XIII of Egypt had Pompey murdered and his head cut off on his 58th birthday. Pompey's head and ring are kept for Julius Caesar (some sources give September 28).
- AD 855 – Pope Benedict III becomes Pope.
- 1015 – St. Michael's Church in Hildesheim, present–day Lower Saxony, Germany, is consecrated; It is now on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
- 1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for not taking part in the Crusades.
- 1364 – Battle of Auray – English forces defeat French at Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession
- 1567 – At a dinner, the Duke of Alva arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne for treason.
- 1717 – An earthquake strikes Antigua, Guatemala, destroying much of the city.
- 1760 – The French surrender at Fort Detroit to the British.
- 1774 – Publication of the Sorrows of Young Werther makes Johann Wolfgang von Goethe famous.
- 1789 – United States War Department first establishes regular army with strength of several hundred men.
- 1789 – First United States Congress adjourns.
- 1829 – London's reorganized police force goes on duty, and later becomes known as Scotland Yard. The Metropolitan Police force is founded.
- 1850 – A Roman Catholic hierarchy is re–established in England, Wales by Pope Pius IX.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
- 1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England, United Kingdom.

### 1901 – 2000

- 1902 – Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens.
- 1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral.
- 1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1913 – Mexican Revolution: The Battle of Torreon is fought.
- 1918 – Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I.
- 1923 – The British mandate for Palestine takes effect.
- 1932 – Chaco War: Last Day of the Battle of Boquerón.
- 1934 – The Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City is opened.
- 1938 – Britain and France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 1939 – World War II: Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
- 1941 – Holocaust: The Babi Yar massacre begins.
- 1943 – World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship _Nelson_ off the shore of Malta.
- 1944 – World War II: Soviet forces invade Yugoslavia.
- 1954 – Convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
- 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev disrupts the UN General Assembly meeting with a series of angry outbursts.
- 1961 – The New York Times publishes music critic Robert Sheldon's review of a performance from little known singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which will lead to Dylan's discovery by Columbia Records representative John Hammond
- 1962 – Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite is launched.
- 1963 – The University of East Anglia is founded in Norwich, England, United Kingdom.
- 1964 – _Mafalda_, a comic strip by the Argentine cartoonist Quino, first appears in newspapers.
- 1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named "Panther", is introduced.
- 1971 – Oman joins the Arab League.
- 1972 – Sino–Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
- 1977 – Muhammad Ali defends his heavyweight boxing world title against Earnie Shavers.
- 1988 – NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster.
- 1990 – Washington National Cathedral is completed.
- 1991 – A military coup occurs in Haiti.
- 1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello, President of Brazil, resigns.
- 1995 – PlayStation goes on sale in Europe.
- 1996 – Super Mario 64, a well–known Nintendo 64 video game, is released in the US.

### From 2001

- 2002 – The 14th Asian Games begin in Busan, South Korea.
- 2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
- 2006 – A plane collision in Brazil kills 154 people on board a Boeing 737. The cargo plane manages an emergency landing.
- 2007 – Calder Hall power station at Sellafield, Cumbria, England, is demolished.
- 2008 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average index falls by 777.68 points in a single day.
- 2009 – A magnitude 8.1 earthquake causes a tsunami near Samoa and American Samoa, killing at least 189 people, including 9 in Tonga.
- 2013 – At least 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram in Gujba, Nigeria.
- 2014 – Ashraf Ghani is sworn in as President of Afghanistan.
- 2019 – Big fights following the Afghani elections

### Up to 1800

- 106 BC – Pompey the Great, Roman politician and general (died 48 BC)
- 1240 – Margaret of England, Queen Consort of Scotland (died 1275)
- 1276 – King Christopher II of Denmark (died 1332)
- 1328 – Joan of Kent, mother of King Richard II of England (died 1385)
- 1388 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV of England (died 1421)
- 1511 – Michael Servetus, Spanish humanist, theologian, and scientist (died 1553)
- 1518 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (died 1594)
- 1547 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer (died 1616)
- 1548 – William V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1621)
- 1561 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (died 1615)
- 1571 – Caravaggio, Italian painter (died 1610)
- 1636 – Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1715)
- 1678 – Adrien-Maurice, 3rd Duke of Noailles, French soldier (died 1766)
- 1691 – Richard Challoner, English bishop (died 1781)
- 1718 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (died 1783)
- 1725 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British politician (died 1774)
- 1735 – James Keir, Scottish physician and chemist (died 1820)
- 1758 – Horatio Nelson, British admiral (died 1805)
- 1766 – Charlotte, Princess Royal (died 1828)
- 1786 – Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (died 1843)

### 1801 – 1900

- 1803 – Jacques Charles Francois Sturm, French mathematician (died 1855)
- 1810 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English writer (died 1865)
- 1810 – Hugh Allan, Scottish–Canadian businessman (died 1882)
- 1818 – Nathaniel B. Baker, 24th Governor of New Hampshire (died 1876)
- 1820 – Henri, Count of Chambord, claimant to the French throne (died 1883)
- 1843 – Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (died 1882)
- 1844 – Miguel Angel Juarez Colman, President of Argentina (died 1909)
- 1853 – Princess Thyra of Denmark (died 1933)
- 1863 – Hugo Haase, German politician (died 1919)
- 1864 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (died 1936)
- 1866 – Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Ukrainian politician (died 1934)
- 1866 – J. E. Casely Hayford, Ghanaian politician, lawyer and writer (died 1930)
- 1867 – Walther Rathenau, German politician (died 1922)
- 1880 – Liberato Pinto, Portuguese general and politician (died 1949)
- 1881 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian–American economist, sociologist and philosopher (died 1973)
- 1895 – Roscoe Turner, American pilot (died 1970)
- 1899 – László Biró, Hungarian inventor (died 1985)
- 1899 – Billy Butlin, South African–British holiday entrepreneur (d. 1980)
- 1900 – Auguste van Pels, Dutch Holocaust victim (died 1945)
- 1900 – Michel Koliqi, Albanian cardinal (died 1997)

### 1901 – 1950

- 1901 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954)
- 1901 – Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher, poet and activist (died 1981)
- 1902 – Miguel Aleman Valdes, President of Mexico (died 1983)
- 1903 – Diana Vreeland, American fashion designer (died 1989)
- 1904 – Greer Garson, British actress (died 1996)
- 1904 – Egon Eiermann, German architect and designer (died 1970)
- 1907 – Gene Autry, American country music singer and actor (died 1998)
- 1908 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (died 1967)
- 1910 – Virginia Bruce, American actress and singer (died 1982)
- 1911 – Charles Court, English–Australian politician, 21st Premier of Western Australia (died 2007)
- 1912 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian movie director (died 2007)
- 1913 – Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (died 1996)
- 1913 – Stanley Kramer, American movie director (died 2001)
- 1913 – Trevor Howard, English actor (died 1988)
- 1915 – Brenda Marshall, American actress (died 1992)
- 1916 – Antonio Buero Vallejos, Spanish playwright (died 2000)
- 1919 – Margot Hielscher, German singer and actress (died 2017)
- 1919 – Kira Zvorykina, Belarussian chess player (died 2014)
- 1920 – Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist (died 1992)
- 1920 – Vaclav Neumann, Czech conductor, violinist and violist (died 1995)
- 1921 – Franny Beecher, American guitarist (died 2014)
- 1922 – Esther Brand, South African athlete (died 2015)
- 1922 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress (died 2015)
- 1923 – Stan Berenstain, American writer and illustrator (died 2005)
- 1924 – Marina Berti, Italian actress (died 2002)
- 1925 – Steve Forrest, American actor (died 2013)
- 1928 – Gerhard Stoltenberg, German politician (died 2001)
- 1928 – Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, English politician (died 2016)
- 1930 – Colin Dexter, English writer (died 2017)
- 1931 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (died 2015)
- 1931 – James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist (died 2016)
- 1931 – Paul Oestreicher, German–English priest and theologian
- 1932 – Rainer Weiss, German–American physicist, 2017 Nobel laureate
- 1932 – Mehmood, Indian actor (died 2004)
- 1932 – Robert Benton, American director
- 1933 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (died 1986)
- 1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American early rock and roll musician
- 1935 – Mylene Demongeot, French actress
- 1935 – Ingrid Noll, German writer
- 1936 – Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy
- 1937 – Nina Wang, Chinese businesswoman (died 2007)
- 1938 – Wim Kok, Dutch politician, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2018)
- 1939 – Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politician, former First Minister of Wales (died 2017)
- 1939 – Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (died 2001)
- 1939 – Larry Linville, American actor (died 2000)
- 1940 – Nicola di Bari, Italian singer
- 1940 – Carlos Morales Troncoso, Vice President of the Dominican Republic (died 2014)
- 1941 – Fred West, British serial killer (died 1995)
- 1942 – Ian McShane, British actor
- 1942 – Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
- 1942 – Bill Nelson, American politician
- 1942 – Madeline Kahn, American actress (died 1999)
- 1942 – Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist (died 2019)
- 1943 – Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran
- 1943 – Wolfgang Overath, German footballer
- 1943 – Lech Walesa, former President of Poland
- 1945 – Nadezhda Chizhova, Russian athlete
- 1946 – Steve Dalachinsky, American poet (died 2019)
- 1946 – Patricia Hodge, English actress
- 1947 – S. H. Kapadia, Chief Justice of India (died 2016)
- 1948 – Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinet player
- 1948 – Mike Pinera, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer

### 1951 – 1975

- 1951 – Maureen Caird, Australian athlete
- 1951 – Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile
- 1951 – Pier Luigi Bersani, Italian politician
- 1951 – Jutta Ditfurth, German author and activist
- 1952 – Gábor Csupo, Hungarian–born animator
- 1952 – Patrícia Gabancho, Argentine–Spanish writer (d. 2017)
- 1952 – Monika Zehrt, German athlete
- 1954 – Debbie Shapiro, American actress and singer
- 1955 – Ann Bancroft, American adventurer, polar explorer and writer
- 1955 – Gareth Davies, Welsh rugby player
- 1955 – Ken Weatherwax, American actor (died 2014)
- 1956 – Sebastian Coe, English athlete and politician
- 1957 – Chris Broad, English cricketer
- 1957 – Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
- 1959 – Raffaele Riefoli, Italian singer
- 1961 – Julia Gillard, Welsh–Australian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
- 1961 – Stephanie Miller, American comedienne and radio host
- 1961 – Tom Sizemore, American actor
- 1962 – Janne Andersson, Swedish footballer and manager
- 1966 – Helsey Hawkins, American basketball player
- 1966 – Bujar Nishani, former President of Albania
- 1968 – Luke Goss, English actor and singer
- 1968 – Matt Goss, English singer
- 1969 – Erika Eleniak, American actress and model
- 1969 – Ivica Vastic, Austrian footballer
- 1970 – Emily Lloyd, English actress
- 1971 – Mackenzie Crook, English actor and comedian
- 1972 – Robert Webb, English comedian, actor and screenwriter (Peep Show)
- 1974 – Alexis Cruz, American actor
- 1975 – Albert Celades, Spanish footballer

### From 1976

- 1976 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
- 1977 – Heath Bell, American baseball player
- 1978 – Aleš Fućak, Croatian comedian
- 1979 – Gaitana, Ukrainian singer
- 1980 – Patrick Agyemang, English footballer
- 1980 – Zachary Levi, American actor
- 1980 – Dallas Green, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1981 – Shane Smeltz, New Zealand footballer
- 1982 – Amy Williams, British skeleton bobsledder
- 1984 – Per Mertesacker, German footballer
- 1984 – Rune Almenning Jarstein, Norwegian footballer
- 1985 – Dani Pedrosa, Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1986 – Matty McLean, New Zealand television broadcaster
- 1987 – Josh Farro, American bassist (Paramore)
- 1988 – Kevin Durant, American basketball player
- 1989 – Yevhen Konoplyanka, Ukrainian footballer
- 1990 – Doug Brochu, American actor
- 1990 – Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir, Icelandic footballer
- 1990 – Lena Wermelt, German footballer
- 1993 – Carlos Salcedo, Mexican footballer
- 1994 – Halsey, American singer-songwriter
- 1994 – Andy Polo, Peruvian footballer
- 1999 – Juan Valentín Urdangarín, Spanish royal
- 2008 – Emma Tallulah Behn, member of the extended Norwegian Royal Family

### Up to 1950

- 48 BC – Pompey the Great, Roman general (assassinated) (b. 106 BC)
- 722 – Leudwinus, Frankish bishop (b. 660)
- 855 – Lothair I, Emperor of the Romans (b. 795)
- 1364 – Charles de Blois, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319)
- 1560 – King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
- 1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (b. 1600)
- 1800 – Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b. 1729)
- 1804 – Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
- 1833 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)
- 1862 – William "Bull" Nelson, American military officer (b. 1824)
- 1887 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810)
- 1900 – Michael Denis, Austrian priest (b. 1729)
- 1902 – Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
- 1902 – William Topaz McGonagall, Scottish poet (b. 1825)
- 1908 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (b. 1839)
- 1910 – Winslow Homer, American painter (b. 1836)
- 1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor and engineer (b. 1858)
- 1925 – Léon Bourgeois, French politician (b. 1851)
- 1927 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch doctor, won the 1924 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
- 1930 – Ilya Repin, Ukrainian painter (b. 1844)
- 1937 – Ray Ewry, American athlete (b. 1873)

### 1951 – 2000

- 1952 – John Cobb, British racing driver (b. 1899)
- 1953 – Ernst Reuter, German politician (b. 1889)
- 1958 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (b. 1893)
- 1964 – Fred Tootell, American athlete (b. 1902)
- 1967 – Carson McCullers, American writer (b. 1917)
- 1970 – Edward Everett Horton, actor (b. 1886)
- 1973 – W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
- 1975 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and coach (b. 1890)
- 1981 – Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (b. 1913)
- 1982 – Monty Stratton, American Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1912)
- 1987 – Henry Ford II, American businessman (b. 1917)
- 1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
- 1989 – August Anheuser Busch, Jr., American brewer (b. 1899)
- 1993 – Gordon Douglas, American movie director (b. 1907)
- 1994 – Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)
- 1996 – Leslie Crowther, English comedian, actor and game show host (b. 1933)
- 1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
- 1998 – Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (b. 1917)

### From 2001

- 2001 – Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
- 2004 – Christer Pettersson, Swedish murder suspect (b. 1947)
- 2006 – Louis-Albert Vachon, French–Canadian cardinal and Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
- 2006 – Walter Hadlee, 91, New Zealand cricketer, (b. 1915)
- 2007 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
- 2009 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1930)
- 2010 – Georges Charpak, Polish–born physicist (b. 1924)
- 2010 – Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2010 – Greg Giraldo, American comedian (b. 1965)
- 2011 – Hella Haasse, Dutch writer (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress, singer and television presenter (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Carl Joachim Classen, German scholar (b. 1928)
- 2014 – Miguel Boyer, French–Spanish economist and politician (b. 1939)
- 2014 – Luis Nishizawa, Mexican painter (b. 1918)
- 2014 – George Shuba, American baseball player (b. 1924)
- 2015 – Phil Woods, American jazz musician, bandleader and composer (b. 1931)
- 2015 – Hellmuth Karasek, German literary critic and journalist (b. 1934)
- 2016 – Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipina politician (b. 1945)
- 2017 – Tom Alter, Indian actor (b. 1950)
- 2017 – Ludmila Belousova, Russian skater (b. 1935)
- 2017 – Magdalena Ribbing, Swedish etiquette expert, writer and journalist (b. 1940)
- 2017 – Dmitry Smolsky, Belarussian composer and teacher (b. 1937)
- 2018 – Alves Barbosa, Portuguese cyclist (b. 1931)
- 2018 – Otis Rush, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1935)
- 2019 – Beatriz Aguirre, Mexican actress (b. 1925)
- 2019 – Busbee, American songwriter (b. 1976)
- 2019 – Ilkka Laitinen, Finnish military officer and politician (b. 1962)
- 2019 – Yuriy Meshkov, Russian politician (b. 1945)
- 2020 – Mac Davis, American country singer (b. 1942)
- 2020 – Helen Reddy, Australian–American singer (b. 1941)

## Observances

- Christian Feast Day of Michaelmas and Feast day of the three Archangels, honouring St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael
- Inventors' Day in Argentina
- International Coffee Day
- Victory of Boquerón Day (Paraguay)

## Other websites

- BBC: On This Day