August 29

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
*708 &ndash; Copper coins are first minted in Japan.
*1261 &ndash; Urban IV becomes Pope, the last man to do so without being a Cardinal first.
*1315 &ndash; Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuoli, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered (meaning the opposing armies, combined, had more soldiers).
*1350 &ndash; Battle of Winchelsea: An English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
*1475 &ndash; Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
*1484 &ndash; Pope Innocent VIII, a staunch supporter of the Spanish Inquisition, is elected Pope.
*1498 &ndash; Vasco da Gama decides to leave Calicut, present–day Kerala, southern India, and return to Portugal.
*1521 &ndash; The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
*1526 &ndash; Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
*1541 &ndash; The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
*1728 &ndash; Nuuk, Greenland, is founded as the fort of Godt–Haab by Danish royal governor Claus Paarss. 
*1741 &ndash; The volcanic eruption on Oshima–Oshima Island, Japan, causes tsunamis in the Sea of Japan, which kill around 1600 people.
*1751 &ndash; The world's biggest wine barrel is completed in the cellar of Heidelberg Castle, present–day Germany. It can carry 221,726 liters.
*1756 &ndash; Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.
*1782 &ndash; The British ship HMS *Royal George* sinks while anchored in the Solent, south coast of England, killing between 800 and 950 people.
*1786 &ndash; Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
*1825 &ndash; Portugal recognizes Brazil as independent.
*1831 &ndash; Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
*1833 &ndash; The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of Slavery in its then–Empire.
*1842 &ndash; The Treaty of Nanking is signed, ending the First Opium War.
*1861 &ndash; American Civil War: A United States Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
*1862 &ndash; Battle of Aspromonte – Italian royal forces defeat rebels.
*1871 &ndash; Emperor Meiji of Japan orders the establishment of prefectures as local centres of administration.
*1885 &ndash; Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle.
*1893 &ndash; Whitcomb Judson gets a US patent for the zipper.
*1895 &ndash; The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield.
*1896 &ndash; Chop suey is said to have been invented in New York City on this date.
*1897 &ndash; The first Zionist World Congress is held in Basel, Switzerland.
*1898 &ndash; Goodyear tire company is founded.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
*1907 &ndash; The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
*1910 &ndash; The Japan-Korea Treaty of 1910 becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule on the Korean peninsula.
*1911 &ndash; Ishi, considered the last Stone Age Native American, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
*1914 &ndash; World War I: The then–German colony of Samoa is occupied by New Zealand troops.
*1915 &ndash; United States Navy salvage divers raise *F-4*, the first US submarine sunk in an accident.
*1916 &ndash; The Mount Field and Freycinet National Parks are created in Tasmania.
*1916 &ndash; The US passes the Philippine Autonomy.
*1922 &ndash; The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF–AM in New York City.
*1930 &ndash; The last 36 remaining inhabitants of the remote Scottish island of Saint Kilda, leave forever.
*1941 &ndash; World War II: Tallinn, Estonia, is occupied by Germany, following its occupation by the Soviet Union.
*1943 &ndash; World War II: German–occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves Danish government
*1944 &ndash; Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazi rulers.
*1949 &ndash; The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
*1950 &ndash; Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to support South Korea and the United States.
*1952 &ndash; Premiere of John Cage's ''4'33"'' in Woodstock, New York
*1958 &ndash; United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
*1965 &ndash; The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth.
*1966 &ndash; Last Beatles concert, in San Francisco
*1966 &ndash; Execution of Sayyid Qutb, an important theoretician of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
*1968 &ndash; The future King Harald V of Norway marries Sonja Haraldsen in Oslo.
*1982 &ndash; The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
*1991 &ndash; Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
*1995 &ndash; An assassination attempt is made on President of Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze.
*1996 &ndash; A Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
*1997 &ndash; At least 98 villagers are killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
*1997 &ndash; Serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz bludgeons to death Christopher Maier of Lexington, Kentucky, the first of nine victims.
*1999 &ndash; East Timor votes for independence from Indonesia.

### From 2001 
*2003 &ndash; Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, was assassinated in a terrorist bombing that killed him along with nearly 100 worshippers as they were leaving a mosque in Najaf.
*2004 &ndash; End of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
*2004 &ndash; Michael Schumacher wins his 7th Formula One world title and his 5th in a row, breaking the record held by Juan Manuel Fangio.
*2005 &ndash; Hurricane Katrina reaches the US' Gulf coast with winds at a speed of 225&nbsp;km/h. The city of New Orleans is among the places that are severely flooded, as over 1,000 people are killed.
*2008 &ndash; US Republican Party Presidential candidate John McCain nominates Sarah Palin as his running mate.
*2011 &ndash; Hurricane Irene dissolves over Eastern Canada, having left a path of destruction over the Caribbean and eastern United States.
*2012 &ndash; The 2012 Summer Paralympics in London begin.
*2013 &ndash; The House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes, by a majority, against military action in Syria.
*2015 &ndash; Three Al-Jazeera journalists are sentenced to three years in prison in Egypt, accused of false reporting and sympathizing with the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
*2015 &ndash; Protests in Kuala Lumpur occurred against Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak, sparked by the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal.
*2017 &ndash; North Korea fires a ballistic missile over the southern part of the Northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 1434 &ndash; Janus Pannonius, Hungarian bishop, poet and diplomat (d. 1472)
* 1619 &ndash; Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French statesman (d. 1683)
* 1628 &ndash; John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English statesman (d. 1701)
* 1632 &ndash; John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
* 1664 &ndash; Giuseppe Toretti, Italian sculptor (d. 1743)
* 1724 &ndash; Giovanni Battista Casti, Italian poet and writer (d. 1803)
* 1725 &ndash; Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
* 1728 &ndash; Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony (d. 1797)
* 1756 &ndash; Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
* 1756 &ndash; Jan Sniadecki, Polish mathematician, philosopher and astronomer (d. 1830)
* 1769 &ndash; Rose Philippine Duchesne, French nun and saint (d. 1852)
* 1780 &ndash; Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
* 1793 &ndash; Josef Naus, Austrian officer and surveyor, first to climb the Zugspitze (d. 1871)
* 1809 &ndash; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
* 1810 &ndash; Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine politician and writer (d. 1884)
* 1842 &ndash; Alfred Shaw, English cricketer, rugby player and umpire (d. 1907)
* 1843 &ndash; David B. Hill, 29th Governor of New York (d. 1910)
* 1844 &ndash; Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
* 1862 &ndash; Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
* 1862 &ndash; Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer (d. 1949)
* 1871 &ndash; Albert Lebrun, President of France (d. 1950)
* 1875 &ndash; Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flautist and educator (d. 1962)
* 1876 &ndash; Charles Franklin Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
* 1876 &ndash; Kim Gu, Korean politician (d. 1949)
* 1880 &ndash; Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian supercentenarian (d. 1998)
* 1881 &ndash; Albert Henderson, Canadian footballer (d. 1947)
* 1883 &ndash; Muriel George, English singer and movie actress (d. 1965)
* 1887 &ndash; Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Gujarat (d. 1978)
* 1888 &ndash; Gunichi Mikawa, Japanese admiral (d. 1981)
* 1898 &ndash; Preston Sturges, American movie director, screenwriter and playwright (d. 1959)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1904 &ndash; Werner Forssmann, German physician (d. 1979)
* 1905 &ndash; Al Taliaferro, American comic artist (d. 1969)
* 1907 &ndash; Takeo Wakabayashi, Japanese footballer (d. 1937)
* 1910 &ndash; Vivien Thomas, American surgical technician (d. 1985)
* 1912 &ndash; Sohn Kee-chung, South Korean runner (d. 2002)
* 1912 &ndash; Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994)
* 1912 &ndash; Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian–Polish cinematographer (d. 2016)
* 1913 &ndash; K. Jeyakody, Sri Lankan Tamil politician
* 1913 &ndash; Jan Ekier, Polish pianist and composer (d. 2014)
* 1915 &ndash; Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
* 1916 &ndash; Consuelo Velazquez, Mexican musician and composer (d. 2005)
* 1916 &ndash; George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
* 1917 &ndash; Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
* 1920 &ndash; Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
* 1921 &ndash; Paddy Roy Bates, English founder of the Sealand micronation (d. 2012)
* 1922 &ndash; Arthur Anderson, American actor (d. 2016)
* 1923 &ndash; Richard Attenborough, English actor and movie director (d. 2014)
* 1924 &ndash; Maria Dolores Pradera, Spanish singer and actress
* 1924 &ndash; Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
* 1925 &ndash; Demetrio B. Lakas, 35th President of Panama (d. 1999)
* 1926 &ndash; Helene Ahrweiler, Greek historian and academic
* 1927 &ndash; Jimmy C. Newman, American singer (d. 2014)
* 1930 &ndash; Atef Sedki, Egyptian politician (d. 2005)
* 1931 &ndash; Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
* 1932 &ndash; Shen Chun-shan, Taiwanese physicist and academic (d. 2018)
* 1933 &ndash; Sorel Etrog, Romanian–Canadian artist, writer and philosopher (d. 2014)
* 1933 &ndash; Arnold Koller, Swiss politician
* 1934 &ndash; Horst Szymaniak, German footballer (d. 2009)
* 1935 &ndash; William Friedkin, American movie director
* 1935 &ndash; Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch writer (d. 2014)
* 1936 &ndash; John McCain, American pilot and politician, 2008 Presidential candidate (d. 2018)
* 1937 &ndash; James Florio, former Governor of New Jersey
* 1938 &ndash; Elliott Gould, American actor
* 1938 &ndash; Robert Rubin, American politician, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
* 1938 &ndash; Carlos Moreno, Argentine actor (d. 2014)
* 1939 &ndash; Joel Schumacher, American director
* 1940 &ndash; James Brady, American activist and 15th White House Press Secretary (d. 2014)
* 1940 &ndash; Wim Ruska, Dutch judoka (d. 2015)
* 1941 &ndash; Robin Leach, English writer and television host (d. 2018)
* 1942 &ndash; Gottfried John, German actor (d. 2014)
* 1943 &ndash; Peter von Bagh, Finnish movie historian (d. 2014)
* 1943 &ndash; Arthur B. McDonald, Canadian astrophysicist
* 1945 &ndash; Wyonia Tyus, American athlete
* 1946 &ndash; Demetris Christofias, Cypriot politician, former President of Cyprus
* 1946 &ndash; Bob Beamon, American long jumper
* 1946 &ndash; Giorgio Orsoni, Italian lawyer and politician, 17th Mayor of Venice
* 1947 &ndash; Temple Grandin, American animal welfare and autism expert
* 1947 &ndash; James Hunt, English racing driver (d. 1993)

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1952 &ndash; Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress
* 1952 &ndash; Dave Malone, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1955 &ndash; Jacob Lew, American politician
* 1956 &ndash; GG Allin, American musician (d. 1993)
* 1958 &ndash; Michael Jackson, American singer and entertainer (d. 2009)
* 1958 &ndash; Lenny Henry, English comedian, actor and writer
* 1959 &ndash; Stephen Wolfram, English mathematician
* 1959 &ndash; Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
* 1959 &ndash; Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut
* 1959 &ndash; Eddi Reader, Scottish singer
* 1959 &ndash; Ramon Diaz, Argentine footballer
* 1960 &ndash; Tony McAlpine, American guitarist, composer and producer
* 1961 &ndash; Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
* 1962 &ndash; Jutta Kleinschmidt, German rally driver
* 1962 &ndash; Simon Thurley, English architectural historian
* 1963 &ndash; Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer
* 1963 &ndash; Steve Clarke, Scottish footballer and football manager
* 1964 &ndash; Zisis Tsekos, Greek footballer
* 1965 &ndash; Frances Ruffelle, English actress and singer
* 1967 &ndash; Neil Gorsuch, American judge, US Supreme Court Justice
* 1969 &ndash; Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
* 1969 &ndash; Lucero, Mexican singer and actress
* 1971 &ndash; Carla Gugino, American actress
* 1972 &ndash; Kentaro Hayashi, Japanese footballer
* 1972 &ndash; Bae Yong-jeon, South Korean actor
* 1973 &ndash; Daniel Burman, Argentine movie director
* 1974 &ndash; Denis Caniza, Paraguayan footballer
* 1974 &ndash; Nicola Amoruso, Italian footballer
* 1975 &ndash; Kyle Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Pablo Mastroeni, American footballer
* 1976 &ndash; Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer
* 1976 &ndash; Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
* 1977 &ndash; Jo Weil, German actor
* 1977 &ndash; Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
* 1977 &ndash; John Hensley, American actor
* 1979 &ndash; Justine Pasek, Panamanian model
* 1980 &ndash; David Desrosiers, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
* 1980 &ndash; David West, American basketball player
* 1981 &ndash; Emilie Duquenne, Belgian actress
* 1982 &ndash; Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer
* 1982 &ndash; A+, American rapper
* 1982 &ndash; Carlos Delfino, Argentine basketball player
* 1985 &ndash; Marc Rzepczynski, American baseball player
* 1986 &ndash; Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
* 1986 &ndash; Lea Michele, American actress and singer
* 1987 &ndash; Tony Kane, Irish footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, British athlete
* 1990 &ndash; Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer
* 1990 &ndash; Nicole Anderson, American actress
* 1990 &ndash; Julia Vlassov, American figure skater
* 1991 &ndash; Deshaun Thomas, American basketball player
* 1993 &ndash; Liam Payne, English singer (One Direction) (d. 2024)
* 1993 &ndash; Lucas Cruikshank, American actor
* 1994 &ndash; Courtney Stodden, American television personality

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
*886 &ndash; Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)
*1093 &ndash; Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy
*1123 &ndash; Eystein I of Norway (b. 1088)
*1315 &ndash; Charles of Taranto (b. 1296)
*1395 &ndash; Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
*1435 &ndash; Isabeau de Bavière, queen of Charles VI of France (b. 1371)
*1442 &ndash; John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
*1526 &ndash; King Louis II of Hungary (b. 1506)
*1533 &ndash; Atahualpa, last Inca ruler of Peru (b. 1502)
*1712 &ndash; Gregory King, English genealogist, engraver and statistician (b. 1648)
*1749 &ndash; Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor and polymath (b. 1684)
*1769 &ndash; Edmund Hoyle, English writer and teacher (b. 1672)
*1780 &ndash; Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
*1799 &ndash; Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
*1816 &ndash; Johann Hieronymus Schroeter, German jurist and astronomer (b. 1745)
*1853 &ndash; Charles James Napier, British general (b. 1782)
*1856 &ndash; Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author (b. 1778)
*1866 &ndash; Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1846)
*1877 &ndash; Brigham Young, Mormon leader (b. 1801)
*1889 &ndash; Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian military officer (b. 1815)
*1891 &ndash; Pierre Lallement, French inventor (b. 1843)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
*1904 &ndash; Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
*1918 &ndash; Max Dauthendey, German writer (b. 1867)
*1930 &ndash; William Archibald Spooner, writer (b. 1844)
*1931 &ndash; David T. Abercrombie, a founder of American clothing retailer Abercrombie and Fitch (b. 1867)
*1935 &ndash; Queen Astrid of Belgium, mother of King Albert II of Belgium (b. 1905)
*1946 &ndash; Grigory Semyonov, Russian general (b. 1890)
*1947 &ndash; Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
*1966 &ndash; Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906).
*1972 &ndash; Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)
*1973 &ndash; Stringer Davis, English actor (b. 1899)
*1975 &ndash; Éamon de Valera, Irish statesman and President of Ireland (b. 1882)
*1976 &ndash; Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician and philosopher (b. 1899)
*1981 &ndash; Lowell Thomas, travel writer (b. 1892)
*1982 &ndash; Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
*1982 &ndash; Nahum Goldmann, founder of the Jewish World Congress (b. 1895)
*1984 &ndash; Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian politician and President of Egypt (b. 1901)
*1984 &ndash; Pierre Gemayel, Lebanese politician (b. 1905)
*1987 &ndash; Archie Campbell, American comedian, writer and actor (b. 1914)
*1987 &ndash; Lee Marvin, actor (b. 1924)
*1989 &ndash; Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist and painter (b. 1909)
*1992 &ndash; Teddy Turner, English actor (b. 1917)
*1995 &ndash; Frank Perry, American director (b. 1930)

### From 2001 
*2001 &ndash; Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
*2003 &ndash; Michel Constantin, French actor (b. 1924)
*2003 &ndash; Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)
*2004 &ndash; Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
*2007 &ndash; Pierre Messmer, Prime Minister of France (b. 1916)
*2011 &ndash; David Honeyboy Edwards, American blues musician (b. 1915)
*2013 &ndash; Cliff Morgan, Welsh rugby player (b. 1930)
*2013 &ndash; Bruce C. Murray, American scientist (b. 1931)
*2014 &ndash; Bjorn Waldegard, Swedish rally driver (b. 1943)
*2014 &ndash; David Bala, Singaporean comedian and actor (b. 1947)
*2015 &ndash; Kyle Jean-Baptiste, American actor (b. 1993)
*2015 &ndash; Wayne Dyer, American self–help author and motivational speaker (b. 1940)
*2016 &ndash; Gene Wilder, American actor (b. 1933)
*2017 &ndash; Janine Charrat, French ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1924)
*2017 &ndash; Dmitri Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1978)
*2017 &ndash; David Tang, Hong Kong businessman (b. 1954)
*2018 &ndash; Stan Brock, English philanthropist (b. 1936)
*2018 &ndash; James Mirrlees, Scottish economist (b. 1936)
*2018 &ndash; Carilda Oliver Labra, Cuban poet (b. 1922)
*2018 &ndash; Marie Severin, American comic book artist (b. 1929)
*2018 &ndash; Paul Taylor, American choreographer (b. 1930)

## Observances 
* Anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising
* Telugu language Day (India)