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August 29

Pre-1600

 * 708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
 * 870 – The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a siege, putting an end to Byzantine Malta.
 * 1009 – Mainz Cathedral suffers extensive damage from a fire, which destroys the building on the day of its inauguration.
 * 1219 – The Battle of Fariskur occurs during the Fifth Crusade.
 * 1261 – Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV, becoming the 182nd pope.
 * 1315 – Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered.
 * 1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
 * 1475 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England.
 * 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV.
 * 1498 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to the Kingdom of Portugal.
 * 1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).
 * 1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
 * 1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
 * 1588 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi issues a nationwide sword hunting ordinance, disarming the peasantry so as to firmly separate the samurai and commoner classes, prevent peasant uprisings, and further centralise his own power.

1601–1900

 * 1728 – The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss.
 * 1741 – The eruption of Oshima–Ōshima and the Kampo tsunami: At least 2,000 people along the Japanese coast drown in a tsunami caused by the eruption of Oshima.
 * 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War in Europe.
 * 1758 – The Treaty of Easton establishes the first American Indian reservation, at Indian Mills, New Jersey, for the Lenape.
 * 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
 * 1779 – American Revolutionary War: American forces battle and defeat the British and Iroquois forces at the Battle of Newtown.
 * 1786 – Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
 * 1807 – British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesley defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge.
 * 1825 – Portuguese and Brazilian diplomats sign the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro, which has Portugal recognise Brazilian independence, formally ending the Brazilian war of independence. The treaty will be ratified by the King of Portugal three months later.
 * 1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
 * 1842 – Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
 * 1861 – American Civil War: The Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries gives Federal forces control of Pamlico Sound.
 * 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
 * 1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
 * 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
 * 1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded in Akron, Ohio.

1901–present

 * 1903 – The RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
 * 1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
 * 1910 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
 * 1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
 * 1911  – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
 * 1912 – A typhoon strikes China, killing at least 50,000 people.
 * 1914 – World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
 * 1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise USS F-4 (SS-23), the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
 * 1916 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
 * 1918 – World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
 * 1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
 * 1941 – World War II: Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
 * 1943 – World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
 * 1944 – World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
 * 1948 – Northwest Airlines Flight 421 crashes in Fountain City, Wisconsin, killing all 37 aboard.
 * 1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
 * 1950 – Korean War: British Commonwealth Forces Korea arrives to bolster the US presence.
 * 1952 – American experimental composer John Cage’s 4’33” premieres at Maverick Concert Hall, played by American pianist David Tudor.
 * 1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
 * 1960 – Air France Flight 343 crashes on approach to Yoff Airport in Senegal, killing all 63 aboard.
 * 1965 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
 * 1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
 * 1966  – Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
 * 1970 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.
 * 1975 – El Tacnazo: Peruvian Prime Minister Francisco Morales Bermúdez carries out a coup d’état in the city of Tacna, forcing the sitting President of Peru, Juan Velasco Alvarado, to resign and assuming his place as the new President.
 * 1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
 * 1987 – Odaeyang mass suicide: Thirty-three individuals linked to a religious cult are found dead in the attic of a cafeteria in Yongin, South Korea. Investigators attribute their deaths to a murder-suicide pact.
 * 1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
 * 1991  – Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo, is killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
 * 1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
 * 1997 – Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.
 * 1997  – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
 * 1998 – Eighty people are killed when Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 crashes during a rejected takeoff from the Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Ecuador.
 * 2001 – Four people are killed when Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 crashes into the N-340 highway near Málaga Airport.
 * 2003 – Sayed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
 * 2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage.
 * 2012 – At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua, Sichuan Province.
 * 2012  – The XIV Paralympic Games open in London, England, United Kingdom.
 * 2022 – Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukraine begins its southern counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast, eventually culminating in the liberation of the city of Kherson.

Pre-1600

 * 979 – Otto (or Eudes), French nobleman (d. 1045)
 * 1321 – John of Artois, French nobleman (d. 1387)
 * 1347 – John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English nobleman and soldier (d. 1375)
 * 1434 – Janus Pannonius, Hungarian bishop and poet (d. 1472)
 * 1514 – García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca, Spanish noble and admiral (d. 1577)
 * 1534 – Nicholas Pieck, Dutch Franciscan friar and martyr (d. 1572)
 * 1597 – Henry Gage, Royalist officer in the English Civil War (d. 1645)

1601–1900

 * 1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (d. 1683)
 * 1628 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1701)
 * 1632 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher (d. 1704)
 * 1724 – Giovanni Battista Casti, Italian poet and author (d. 1803)
 * 1725 – Charles Townshend, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1767)
 * 1728 – Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)
 * 1756 – Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1830)
 * 1756 – Count Heinrich von Bellegarde, Austrian general and politician (d. 1845)
 * 1772 – James Finlayson, Scottish Quaker (d. 1852)
 * 1777 – Hyacinth, Russian religious leader, founded Sinology (d. 1853)
 * 1780 – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter and illustrator (d. 1867)
 * 1792 – Charles Grandison Finney, American minister and author (d. 1875)
 * 1805 – Frederick Denison Maurice, English priest, theologian, and author (d. 1872)
 * 1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician and author (d. 1894)
 * 1810 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian theorist and diplomat (d. 1884)
 * 1813 – Henry Bergh, American activist, founded the ASPCA (d. 1888)
 * 1842 – Alfred Shaw, English cricketer, rugby player, and umpire (d. 1907)
 * 1843 – David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (d. 1910)
 * 1844 – Edward Carpenter, English anthologist and poet (d. 1929)
 * 1854 – William C. White, American Seventh-day Adventist Church minister (d. 1937)
 * 1857 – Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)
 * 1861 – Byron G. Harlan, American singer (d. 1936)
 * 1862 – Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian politician and diplomat, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
 * 1862  – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
 * 1871 – Albert François Lebrun, French engineer and politician, 15th President of France (d. 1950)
 * 1875 – Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flute player and educator (d. 1962)
 * 1876 – Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics (d. 1958)
 * 1876  – Kim Koo, South Korean politician, 6th President of The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
 * 1879 – Han Yong-un, Korean independence activist, reformer, and poet (d. 1944)
 * 1887 – Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian physicians and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Gujarat (d. 1978)
 * 1888 – Salme Dutt, Estonian-English politician (d. 1964)
 * 1890 – Peder Furubotn, Norwegian Communist and anti-Nazi Resistance leader (d. 1975)
 * 1891 – Marquis James, American journalist and author (d. 1955)
 * 1898 – Preston Sturges, American director and producer (d. 1959)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 1986)
 * 1904 – Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
 * 1905 – Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (d. 1979)
 * 1905  – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist (d. 1941)
 * 1910 – Vivien Thomas, American surgeon and academic (d. 1985)
 * 1911 – John Charnley, British orthopedic surgeon (d. 1982)
 * 1912 – Sohn Kee-chung, South Korean runner (d. 2002)
 * 1912  – Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994)
 * 1912  – Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-English cinematographer and photographer (d. 2016)
 * 1913 – Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
 * 1913 – Jackie Mitchell, American baseball pitcher (d. 1987)
 * 1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
 * 1915  – Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist and author (d. 1985)
 * 1916 – Luther Davis, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2008)
 * 1917 – Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
 * 1920 – Otis Boykin, American inventor and engineer (d. 1982)
 * 1920  – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1955)
 * 1920  – Herb Simpson, American baseball player (d. 2015)
 * 1921 – Iris Apfel, American businesswoman, interior designer, and philanthropist (d. 2024)
 * 1922 – Arthur Anderson, American actor (d. 2016)
 * 1922  – Richard Blackwell, American actor, fashion designer, and critic (d. 2008)
 * 1922  – John Edward Williams, American author and educator (d. 1994)
 * 1923 – Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
 * 1924 – Dinah Washington, American singer and pianist (d. 1963)
 * 1926 – Helene Ahrweiler, Greek historian and academic
 * 1926  – René Depestre, Haitian writer
 * 1926  – Donn Fendler, American author and speaker (d. 2016)
 * 1926  – Betty Lynn, American actress (d. 2021)
 * 1927 – Jimmy C. Newman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
 * 1928 – Herbert Meier, Swiss author and translator (d. 2018)
 * 1929 – Thom Gunn, English-American poet and academic (d. 2004)
 * 1930 – Jacques Bouchard, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
 * 1930  – Carlos Loyzaga, Filipino basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
 * 1931 – Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer and guitarist (d. 2001)
 * 1931  – Lise Payette, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2018)
 * 1933 – Sorel Etrog, Romanian-Canadian sculptor, painter, and illustrator (d. 2014)
 * 1933  – Arnold Koller, Swiss politician
 * 1934 – Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director (d. 2004)
 * 1935 – Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch linguist and author (d. 2014)
 * 1935  – William Friedkin, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2023)
 * 1935  – László Garai, Hungarian psychologist and scholar (d. 2019)
 * 1936 – John McCain, American captain and politician (d. 2018)
 * 1937 – James Florio, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 49th Governor of New Jersey (d. 2022)
 * 1938 – Elliott Gould, American actor and producer
 * 1938  – Angela Huth, English journalist and author
 * 1938  – Christian Müller, German footballer and manager
 * 1938  – Robert Rubin, American lawyer and politician, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury
 * 1939 – Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Hungarian discus thrower and shot putter (d. 2022)
 * 1939  – Joel Schumacher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2020)
 * 1940 – James Brady, American politician and activist, 15th White House Press Secretary (d. 2014)
 * 1940  – Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984)
 * 1941 – Robin Leach, English journalist and television host (d. 2018)
 * 1942 – James Glennon, American cinematographer (d. 2006)
 * 1942  – Gottfried John, German actor (d. 2014)
 * 1942  – Sterling Morrison, American singer and guitarist (d. 1995)
 * 1943 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist (d. 1996)
 * 1943  – Dick Halligan, American pianist and composer (d. 2022)
 * 1943  – Arthur B. McDonald, Canadian astrophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1945 – Chris Copping, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1945  – Wyomia Tyus, American sprinter
 * 1946 – Bob Beamon, American long jumper
 * 1946  – Francine D. Blau, American economist and academic
 * 1946  – Demetris Christofias, Cypriot businessman and politician, 6th President of Cyprus (d. 2019)
 * 1946  – Warren Jabali, American basketball player (d. 2012)
 * 1946  – Giorgio Orsoni, Italian lawyer and politician, 17th Mayor of Venice
 * 1947 – Temple Grandin, American ethologist, academic, and author
 * 1947  – James Hunt, English race car driver and sportscaster (d. 1993)
 * 1948 – Robert S. Langer, American chemical engineer, entrepreneur, and academic
 * 1949 – Stan Hansen, American wrestler and actor
 * 1949  – Darnell Hillman, American basketball player
 * 1950 – Doug DeCinces, American baseball player
 * 1950  – Frank Henenlotter, American director and screenwriter
 * 1950  – Dave Reichert, American soldier and politician
 * 1950  – Aki Yashiro, Japanese singer (d. 2023)
 * 1951 – Geoff Whitehorn, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1952 – Karen Hesse, American author and poet
 * 1952  – Dave Malone, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1952  – Don Schlitz, American Hall of Fame country music songwriter
 * 1952  – Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress
 * 1953 – David Boaz, American businessman and author
 * 1953  – Richard Harding, English rugby player
 * 1953  – James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist and academic
 * 1954 – Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American journalist, author, and academic
 * 1955 – Diamanda Galás, American singer-songwriter and pianist
 * 1955  – Jack Lew, American lawyer and politician, 25th White House Chief of Staff
 * 1956 – Mark Morris, American dancer and choreographer
 * 1956  – Eddie Murray, American football player
 * 1956  – Charalambos Xanthopoulos, Greek footballer
 * 1956  – Steve Yarbrough, American novelist and short story writer
 * 1957 – Jerry D. Bailey, American jockey and sportscaster
 * 1957  – Grzegorz Ciechowski, Polish singer-songwriter, film music composer (d. 2001)
 * 1958 – Lenny Henry, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
 * 1958  – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (d. 2009)
 * 1959 – Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
 * 1959  – Ramón Díaz, Argentinian footballer and manager
 * 1959  – Ray Elgaard, Canadian football player
 * 1959  – Chris Hadfield, Canadian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
 * 1959  – Eddi Reader, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
 * 1959  – Timothy Shriver, American businessman and activist
 * 1959  – Stephen Wolfram, English-American physicist and mathematician
 * 1959  – Nagarjuna, Indian film actor, Producer and Businessman
 * 1960 – Todd English, American chef and author
 * 1960  – Tony MacAlpine, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
 * 1961 – Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
 * 1961  – Rodney McCray, American basketball player
 * 1962 – Carl Banks, American football player and sportscaster
 * 1962  – Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese game designer and composer
 * 1962  – Ian James Corlett, Canadian voice actor, writer, producer and author
 * 1962  – Simon Thurley, English historian and academic
 * 1962  – Richard Angelo, American serial killer and poisoner
 * 1963 – Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer-songwriter
 * 1964 – Perri "Pebbles" Reid, American dance-pop and urban contemporary singer-songwriter
 * 1964  – Zisis Tsekos, Greek footballer
 * 1965 – Will Perdue, American basketball player and sportscaster
 * 1965  – Geir-Inge Sivertsen, Norwegian politician and engineer, Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Seafood
 * 1966 – Jörn Großkopf, German footballer and manager
 * 1967 – Neil Gorsuch, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
 * 1967  – Anton Newcombe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1968 – Meshell Ndegeocello, German-American singer-songwriter
 * 1969 – Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
 * 1969  – Jennifer Crittenden, American screenwriter and producer
 * 1969  – Lucero, Mexican singer, songwriter, actress, and television host
 * 1971 – Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player and coach
 * 1971  – Alex Griffin, English bass player
 * 1971  – Carla Gugino, American actress
 * 1972 – Amanda Marshall, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * 1972  – Bae Yong-joon, South Korean actor
 * 1973 – Vincent Cavanagh, English singer and guitarist
 * 1973  – Olivier Jacque, French motorcycle racer
 * 1974 – Kumi Tanioka, Japanese keyboard player and composer
 * 1975 – Dante Basco, American actor
 * 1975  – Kyle Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1976 – Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
 * 1976  – Phil Harvey, English manager
 * 1976  – Kevin Kaesviharn, American football player
 * 1976  – Georgios Kalaitzis, Greek basketball player
 * 1976  – Pablo Mastroeni, Argentine-American soccer player and manager
 * 1976  – Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer and manager
 * 1977 – Cayetano, Greek DJ and producer
 * 1977  – Devean George, American basketball player
 * 1977  – John Hensley, American actor
 * 1977  – John Patrick O'Brien, American soccer player
 * 1977  – Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
 * 1977  – Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian and radio host
 * 1977  – Aaron Rowand, American baseball player and sportscaster
 * 1978 – Volkan Arslan, German-Turkish footballer
 * 1978  – Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
 * 1979 – Stijn Devolder, Belgian cyclist
 * 1979  – Kristjan Rahnu, Estonian decathlete
 * 1979  – Ryan Shealy, American baseball player
 * 1980 – Chris Simms, American football player
 * 1980  – David West, American basketball player
 * 1981 – Martin Erat, Czech ice hockey player
 * 1981  – Geneviève Jeanson, Canadian cyclist
 * 1981  – Jay Ryan, New Zealand-Australian actor and producer
 * 1982 – Ruhila Adatia-Sood, Kenyan journalist and radio host (d. 2013)
 * 1982  – Carlos Delfino, Argentinian-Italian basketball player
 * 1982  – Yakhouba Diawara, French basketball player
 * 1982  – Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer
 * 1983 – Jennifer Landon, American actress
 * 1983  – Antti Niemi, Finnish ice hockey player
 * 1983  – Anthony Recker, American baseball player
 * 1986 – Hajime Isayama, Japanese illustrator
 * 1986  – Lea Michele, American actress and singer
 * 1987 – Tony Kane, Irish footballer
 * 1989 – Charlotte Ritchie, English actress
 * 1990 – Jakub Kosecki, Polish footballer
 * 1990  – Chris Taylor, American baseball player
 * 1990  – Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer
 * 1991 – Néstor Araujo, Mexican footballer
 * 1991  – Deshaun Thomas, American basketball player
 * 1992 – Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter
 * 1992  – Noah Syndergaard, American baseball player
 * 1993 – Liam Payne, English singer-songwriter
 * 1994 – Ysaline Bonaventure, Belgian tennis player
 * 1996 – Daryll Neita, British sprinter

Pre-1600

 * 886 – Basil I, Byzantine emperor (b. 811)
 * 892 – Theodora of Thessaloniki, Byzantine nun and saint (b. 812)
 * 939 – Wang Jipeng, Chinese emperor of Min
 * 939  – Li Chunyan, Chinese empress
 * 956 – Fu the Elder, Chinese empress
 * 979 – Abu Taghlib, Hamdanid emir
 * 1021 – Minamoto no Yorimitsu, Japanese nobleman (b. 948)
 * 1046 – Gerard of Csanád Venetian monk and Hungarian bishop (b.980)
 * 1093 – Hugh I, duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
 * 1123 – Eystein I, king of Norway (b. 1088)
 * 1135 – Al-Mustarshid, Abbasid caliph (b. 1092)
 * 1159 – Bertha of Sulzbach, Byzantine empress
 * 1298 – Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar, English princess (b. 1269)
 * 1315 – Peter Tempesta, Italian nobleman (b. 1291)
 * 1315  – Charles of Taranto, Italian nobleman (b. 1296)
 * 1395 – Albert III, duke of Austria (b. 1349)
 * 1442 – John V, duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
 * 1499 – Alesso Baldovinetti, Florentine painter (b. 1427)
 * 1523 – Ulrich von Hutten, Lutheran reformer (b. 1488)
 * 1526 – Louis II, king of Hungary and Croatia (b. 1506)
 * 1526  – Pál Tomori Hungarian archbishop and soldier (b. 1475)
 * 1533 – Atahualpa, Inca emperor (b. 1497)
 * 1542 – Cristóvão da Gama, Portuguese commander (b. 1516)

1601–1900

 * 1604 – Hamida Banu Begum, Mughal empress (b. 1527)
 * 1657 – John Lilburne, English activist (b. 1614)
 * 1712 – Gregory King, English genealogist, engraver, and statistician (b. 1648)
 * 1749 – Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor and polymath (b. 1684)
 * 1769 – Edmond Hoyle, English author and educator (b. 1672)
 * 1780 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, co-designed The Panthéon (b. 1713)
 * 1799 – Pius VI, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1717)
 * 1844 – Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish missionary and educator, founded the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
 * 1856 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author and activist (b. 1778)
 * 1866 – Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1846)
 * 1877 – Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
 * 1889 – Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel (b. 1815)
 * 1891 – Pierre Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843)
 * 1892 – William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and author (b. 1809)

1901–present

 * 1904 – Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
 * 1911 – Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (b. 1866)
 * 1917 – George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)
 * 1930 – William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author (b. 1844)
 * 1931 – David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)
 * 1932 – Raymond Knister, Canadian poet and author (b. 1899)
 * 1944 – Attik, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1885)
 * 1946 – Adolphus Busch III, American businessman (b. 1891)
 * 1946  – John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic (b. 1897)
 * 1951 – Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
 * 1952 – Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer (b. 1894)
 * 1958 – Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
 * 1966 – Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
 * 1968 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (b. 1881)
 * 1971 – Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American murderer (b. 1904)
 * 1972 – Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (b. 1905)
 * 1975 – Éamon de Valera, Irish soldier and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
 * 1977 – Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)
 * 1977  – Brian McGuire, Australian race car driver (b. 1945)
 * 1979 – Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator (b. 1890)
 * 1981 – Lowell Thomas, American journalist and author (b. 1892)
 * 1982 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
 * 1982  – Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
 * 1985 – Evelyn Ankers, British-American actress (b. 1918)
 * 1987 – Archie Campbell, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1914)
 * 1987  – Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
 * 1989 – Peter Scott, English explorer and painter (b. 1909)
 * 1990 – Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian-American mystic and author (b. 1901)
 * 1991 – Libero Grassi, Italian businessman (b. 1924)
 * 1992 – Félix Guattari, French philosopher and theorist (b. 1930)
 * 1995 – Frank Perry, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
 * 2000 – Shelagh Fraser, English actress (b. 1922)
 * 2000  – Willie Maddren, English footballer and manager (b. 1951)
 * 2000  – Conrad Marca-Relli, American-Italian painter and academic (b. 1913)
 * 2001 – Graeme Strachan, Australian singer-songwriter & television personality (b. 1952)
 * 2001  – Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
 * 2002 – Lance Macklin, English race car driver (b. 1919)
 * 2003 – Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi politician (b. 1939)
 * 2003  – Patrick Procktor, English painter and academic (b. 1936)
 * 2004 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
 * 2007 – James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand businessman (b. 1914)
 * 2007  – Richard Jewell, American police officer (b. 1962)
 * 2007  – Pierre Messmer, French civil servant and politician, 154th Prime Minister of France (b. 1916)
 * 2007  – Alfred Peet, Dutch-American businessman, founded Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
 * 2008 – Geoffrey Perkins, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1953)
 * 2008  – Michael Schoenberg, American geophysicist and theorist (b. 1939)
 * 2011 – Honeyboy Edwards, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1915)
 * 2011  – Junpei Takiguchi, Japanese voice actor (b. 1931)
 * 2012 – Ruth Goldbloom, Canadian academic and philanthropist, co-founded Pier 21 (b. 1923)
 * 2012  – Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, English historian and author (b. 1953)
 * 2012  – Shoshichi Kobayashi, Japanese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1932)
 * 2012  – Anne McKnight, American soprano (b. 1924)
 * 2012  – Les Moss, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1925)
 * 2012  – Sergei Ovchinnikov, Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1969)
 * 2013 – Joan L. Krajewski, American lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
 * 2013  – Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Zambian cardinal (b. 1931)
 * 2013  – Bruce C. Murray, American geologist and academic, co-founded The Planetary Society (b. 1931)
 * 2014 – Octavio Brunetti, Argentinian pianist and composer (b. 1975)
 * 2014  – Björn Waldegård, Swedish race car driver (b. 1943)
 * 2016 – Gene Wilder, American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author (b. 1933)
 * 2018 – James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1936)
 * 2018  – Paul Taylor, American choreographer (b. 1930)
 * 2021 – Ed Asner, American actor (b. 1929)
 * 2021  – Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican reggae producer (b. 1936)
 * 2021  – Jacques Rogge, Olympic sailor and Orthopedic Surgeon who served as the 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1942)
 * 2023 – Mike Enriquez (b. 1951), Filipino broadcaster

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Adelphus of Metz
 * Beheading of St. John the Baptist
 * Eadwold of Cerne
 * Euphrasia Eluvathingal (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)
 * John Bunyan (Episcopal Church)
 * Sabina
 * Vitalis, Sator and Repositus
 * August 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * International Day against Nuclear Tests
 * Miners' Day (Ukraine)
 * Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine (Ukraine)
 * Municipal Police Day (Poland)
 * National Sports Day (India)
 * Slovak National Uprising Anniversary (Slovakia)
 * Telugu Language Day (India)

title: August 29


text:
August 30

Pre-1600

 * 70 – Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.
 * 1282 – Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
 * 1363 – The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.
 * 1464 – Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
 * 1574 – Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
 * 1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
 * 1594 – King James VI of Scotland holds a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle.

1601–1900

 * 1721 – The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad.
 * 1727 – Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
 * 1757 – Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: Russian force under Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin beats a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt, during the Seven Years' War.
 * 1791 – HMS Pandora (1779) sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
 * 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
 * 1800 – Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
 * 1813 – First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
 * 1813  – Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
 * 1835 – Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
 * 1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.
 * 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.
 * 1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
 * 1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.

1901–present

 * 1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
 * 1914 – World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
 * 1916 – Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
 * 1917 – Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
 * 1918 – Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
 * 1922 – Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War (Turkish War of Independence).
 * 1936 – The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
 * 1940 – The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
 * 1941 – The Tighina Agreement, a treaty regarding administration issues of the Transnistria Governorate, is signed between Germany and Romania.
 * 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
 * 1945 – The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
 * 1945  – The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
 * 1945  – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
 * 1959 – South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Dan was elected to the National Assembly despite soldiers being bussed in to vote for President Ngo Dinh Diem's candidate.
 * 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
 * 1963 – The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
 * 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
 * 1974 – A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
 * 1974  – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975, by Japanese authorities.
 * 1974  – The Third World Population Conference ends in Bucharest, Romania. At the end of the ceremony, the UN-Romanian Demographic Centre is inaugurated.
 * 1981 – President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
 * 1983 – Aeroflot Flight 5463 crashes into Dolan Mountain while approaching Almaty International Airport in present-day Kazakhstan, killing all 90 people on board.
 * 1983  – STS-8: The Space Shuttle Challenger takes off on the first night launch of the shuttle program. Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space on this mission.
 * 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
 * 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
 * 1992 – The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.
 * 1995 – Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
 * 1998 – Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
 * 2002 – Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, killing 23 of the 31 people on board.
 * 2008 – A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.
 * 2014 – Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.
 * 2021 – The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war.
 * 2023 – Gabonese coup d'état: After Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection, a military coup ousted him, ending 56 years of Bongo family rule in Gabon.

Pre-1600

 * 1334 – Peter of Castile (d. 1369)
 * 1574 – Albert Szenczi Molnár, Hungarian writer and translator (d. 1634)

1601–1900

 * 1609 – Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1644)
 * 1609  – Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor (d. 1668)
 * 1627 – Itō Jinsai, Japanese philosopher (d. 1705)
 * 1716 – Capability Brown, English landscape architect (d. 1783)
 * 1720 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded Whitbread (d. 1796)
 * 1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator (d. 1825)
 * 1768 – Joseph Dennie, American author and journalist (d. 1812)
 * 1797 – Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright (d. 1851)
 * 1812 – Agoston Haraszthy, Hungarian-American businessman, founded Buena Vista Winery (d. 1869)
 * 1818 – Alexander H. Rice, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
 * 1839 – Gulstan Ropert, French-American bishop and missionary (d. 1903)
 * 1842 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
 * 1844 – Emily Ruete/Salama bint Said, also called Sayyida Salme, a Princess of Zanzibar and Oman (d. 1924)
 * 1848 – Andrew Onderdonk, American surveyor and contractor (d. 1905)
 * 1850 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino journalist and lawyer (d. 1896)
 * 1852 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911)
 * 1852  – J. Alden Weir, American painter and academic (d. 1919)
 * 1855 – Evelyn De Morgan, English painter (d. 1919)
 * 1856 – Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist (d. 1927)
 * 1858 – Ignaz Sowinski, Galician architect (d. 1917)
 * 1860 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1900)
 * 1870 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
 * 1871 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
 * 1883 – Theo van Doesburg, Dutch artist (d. 1931)
 * 1884 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
 * 1885 – Tedda Courtney, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1957)
 * 1887 – Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer (d. 1934)
 * 1890 – Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English captain and pilot (d. 1918)
 * 1893 – Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (d. 1935)
 * 1896 – Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor and playwright (d. 1983)
 * 1898 – Shirley Booth, American actress and singer (d. 1992)

1901–present

 * 1901 – John Gunther, American journalist and author (d. 1970)
 * 1901  – Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (d. 1981)
 * 1903 – Bhagwati Charan Verma, Indian author (d. 1981)
 * 1906 – Joan Blondell, American actress and singer (d. 1979)
 * 1906  – Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian mathematician (d. 1995)
 * 1907 – Leonor Fini, Argentinian painter, illustrator, and author (d. 1996)
 * 1907  – Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist (d. 1978)
 * 1907  – John Mauchly, American physicist and co-founder of the first computer company (d. 1980)
 * 1908 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
 * 1909 – Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (d. 1968)
 * 1910 – Roger Bushell, South African-English soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
 * 1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
 * 1912  – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain (d. 2011)
 * 1913 – Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
 * 1915 – Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (d. 2013)
 * 1915  – Robert Strassburg, American composer, conductor, and educator (d. 2003)
 * 1916 – Shailendra, Pakistani-Indian songwriter (d. 1968)
 * 1917 – Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 2015)
 * 1917  – Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (d. 1992)
 * 1918 – Harold Atcherley, English businessman (d. 2017)
 * 1918  – Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
 * 1918  – Ted Williams, American baseball player and manager (d. 2002)
 * 1919 – Maurice Hilleman, American microbiologist and vaccinologist (d. 2005)
 * 1919  – Wolfgang Wagner, German director and manager (d. 2010)
 * 1919  – Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
 * 1920 – Arnold Green, Estonian soldier and politician (d. 2011)
 * 1922 – Lionel Murphy, Australian jurist and politician, 22nd Attorney-General of Australia (d. 1986)
 * 1922  – Regina Resnik, American soprano and actress (d. 2013)
 * 1923 – Barbara Ansell, English physician and author (d. 2001)
 * 1923  – Charmian Clift, Australian journalist and author (d. 1969)
 * 1923  – Vic Seixas, American tennis player (d. 2024)
 * 1924 – Kenny Dorham, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (d. 1972)
 * 1924  – Lajos Kisfaludy, Hungarian chemist and engineer (d. 1988)
 * 1925 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator (d. 2024)
 * 1925  – Donald Symington, American actor (d. 2013)
 * 1926 – Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D.A.R.E. Program (d. 2010)
 * 1927 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)
 * 1927  – Bill Daily, American actor and comedian (d. 2018)
 * 1927  – Piet Kee, Dutch organist and composer (d. 2018)
 * 1928 – Lloyd Casner, American race car driver (d. 1965)
 * 1928  – Harvey Hart, Canadian director and producer (d. 1989)
 * 1928  – Johnny Mann, American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 2014)
 * 1929 – Guy de Lussigny, French painter and sculptor (d. 2001)
 * 1929  – Ian McNaught-Davis, English mountaineer and television host (d. 2014)
 * 1930 – Warren Buffett, American businessman and philanthropist
 * 1930  – Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer and basketball player (d. 1981)
 * 1931 – Jack Swigert, American pilot and astronaut (d. 1982)
 * 1933 – Don Getty, Canadian football player and politician, 11th Premier of Alberta (d. 2016)
 * 1934 – Antonio Cabangon Chua, Filipino media mogul and businessman (d. 2016)
 * 1935 – John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
 * 1935  – Alexandra Bellow, Romanian-American mathematician
 * 1936 – Peter North, English scholar and academic
 * 1937 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team (d. 1970)
 * 1938 – Murray Gleeson, Australian lawyer and judge, 11th Chief Justice of Australia
 * 1939 – Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
 * 1939  – John Peel, English radio host and producer (d. 2004)
 * 1941 – Ignazio Giunti, Italian race car driver (d. 1971)
 * 1941  – Ben Jones, American actor and politician
 * 1941  – Sue MacGregor, English journalist and radio host
 * 1941  – John McNally, English singer and guitarist
 * 1942 – Jonathan Aitken, Irish-British journalist and politician, Minister for Defence Procurement
 * 1942  – John Kani, South African actor
 * 1942  – Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricketer
 * 1943 – Tal Brody, American-Israeli basketball player and coach
 * 1943  – Robert Crumb, American illustrator
 * 1943  – Colin Dann, English author
 * 1943  – Nigel Hall, English sculptor and academic
 * 1943  – Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
 * 1943  – David Maslanka, American composer and academic (d. 2017)
 * 1944 – Frances Cairncross, English economist, journalist, and academic
 * 1944  – Freek de Jonge, Dutch singer and comedian
 * 1944  – Molly Ivins, American journalist and author (d. 2007)
 * 1944  – Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
 * 1944  – Alex Wyllie, New Zealand rugby player and coach
 * 1946 – Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
 * 1946  – Peggy Lipton, American model and actress (d. 2019)
 * 1947 – Allan Rock, Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
 * 1948 – Lewis Black, American comedian, actor, and author
 * 1948  – Fred Hampton, American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (d. 1969)
 * 1948  – Victor Skumin, Russian psychiatrist, psychologist, and academic
 * 1949 – Ted Ammon, American financier and banker (d. 2001)
 * 1949  – Don Boudria, Canadian public servant and politician, 2nd Canadian Minister for International Cooperation
 * 1950 – Antony Gormley, English sculptor and academic
 * 1951 – Timothy Bottoms, American actor
 * 1951  – Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuanian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Lithuania (d. 2024)
 * 1951  – Jim Paredes, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor
 * 1951  – Dana Rosemary Scallon, Irish singer and activist
 * 1952 – Simon Bainbridge, English composer and educator (d. 2021)
 * 1952  – Wojtek Fibak, Polish tennis player
 * 1953 – Ron George, American businessman and politician
 * 1953  – Lech Majewski, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1953  – Horace Panter, English bass player
 * 1953  – Robert Parish, American basketball player
 * 1954 – Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian marshal and politician, 1st President of Belarus
 * 1954  – Ravi Shankar Prasad, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Communications and IT
 * 1954  – David Paymer, American actor and director
 * 1955 – Jamie Moses, English-American guitarist
 * 1956 – Frank Conniff, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1957 – Gerald Albright, American musician
 * 1958 – Karen Buck, Northern Irish politician
 * 1958  – Fran Fraschilla, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
 * 1958  – Muriel Gray, Scottish journalist and author
 * 1958  – Martin Jackson, English drummer
 * 1958  – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and activist (d. 2006)
 * 1958  – Peter Tunks, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
 * 1959 – Mark "Jacko" Jackson, Australian footballer, actor, and singer
 * 1960 – Ben Bradshaw, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
 * 1960  – Gary Gordon, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
 * 1960  – Guy A. Lepage, Canadian comedian and producer
 * 1962 – Ricky Sanders, American football player
 * 1962  – Craig Whittaker, English businessman and politician
 * 1963 – Dave Brockie, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2014)
 * 1963  – Michael Chiklis, American actor, director, and producer
 * 1963  – Sabine Oberhauser, Austrian physician and politician (d. 2017)
 * 1963  – Phil Mills, Welsh race car driver
 * 1964 – Gavin Fisher, English engineer and designer
 * 1964  – Ra Luhse, Estonian architect
 * 1966 – Peter Cunnah, Northern Irish singer-songwriter and producer
 * 1966  – Joann Fletcher, English historian and academic
 * 1966  – Michael Michele, American actress
 * 1967 – Frederique van der Wal, Dutch model and actress
 * 1967  – Justin Vaughan, New Zealand cricketer
 * 1968 – Diran Adebayo, English author and critic
 * 1968  – Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
 * 1969 – Vladimir Jugović, Serbian footballer
 * 1969  – Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist and composer
 * 1970 – Carlo Checchinato, Italian rugby player and manager
 * 1970  – Paulo Sousa, Portuguese footballer and manager
 * 1970  – Michael Wong, Malaysian-Chinese singer-songwriter
 * 1971 – Lars Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1971  – Julian Smith, Scottish politician
 * 1972 – Cameron Diaz, American model, actress, and producer
 * 1972  – Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer
 * 1972 – Hani Hanjour, Saudi terrorist, September 11 attacks
 * 1973 – Lisa Ling, American journalist and author
 * 1974 – Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist (d. 2018)
 * 1975 – Radhi Jaïdi, Tunisian footballer and coach
 * 1976 – Mike Koplove, American baseball player
 * 1977 – Shaun Alexander, American football player
 * 1977  – Marlon Byrd, American baseball player
 * 1977  – Raúl Castillo, American actor
 * 1977  – Michael Gladis, American actor
 * 1977  – Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
 * 1977  – Félix Sánchez, American-Dominican runner and hurdler
 * 1978 – Sinead Kerr, Scottish figure skater
 * 1978  – Cliff Lee, American baseball player
 * 1979 – Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentinian tennis player
 * 1979  – Leon Lopez, English singer-songwriter and actor
 * 1979  – Scott Richmond, Canadian baseball player
 * 1980 – Roberto Hernández, Dominican baseball player
 * 1980  – Justin Mortelliti, American actor and singer-songwriter
 * 1981 – Germán Legarreta, Puerto Rican-American actor
 * 1981  – Adam Wainwright, American baseball player
 * 1982 – Will Davison, Australian race car driver
 * 1982  – Andy Roddick, American tennis player
 * 1983 – Emmanuel Culio, Argentinian footballer
 * 1983  – Gustavo Eberto, Argentinian footballer (d. 2007)
 * 1983  – Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor
 * 1983  – Simone Pepe, Italian footballer
 * 1983  – Tian Qin, Chinese canoe racer
 * 1983  – Marco Vianello, Italian footballer
 * 1984 – Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
 * 1984  – Joe Staley, American football player
 * 1984  – Michael Grant Terry, American actor
 * 1985 – Duane Brown, American football player
 * 1985  – Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
 * 1985  – Joe Inoue, American singer-songwriter
 * 1985  – Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
 * 1985  – Éva Risztov, Hungarian swimmer
 * 1985  – Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
 * 1985  – Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
 * 1985  – Anna Ushenina, Ukrainian chess player
 * 1985  – Holly Weston, English actress
 * 1986 – Theo Hutchcraft, English singer-songwriter
 * 1986  – Lelia Masaga, New Zealand rugby player
 * 1986  – Ryan Ross, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1986  – Zafer Yelen, Turkish footballer
 * 1987 – Johanna Braddy, American actress
 * 1987  – Tania Foster, English singer-songwriter
 * 1988 – Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
 * 1989 – Simone Guerra, Italian footballer
 * 1989  – Ronald Huth, Paraguayan footballer
 * 1989  – Bebe Rexha, American singer-songwriter
 * 1991 – Seriki Audu, Nigerian footballer (d. 2014)
 * 1991  – Jacqueline Cako, American tennis player
 * 1991  – Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer
 * 1992 – Jessica Henwick, British actress
 * 1994 – Monika Povilaitytė, Lithuanian volleyball player
 * 1994  – Heo Young-ji, South Korean singer
 * 1994  – Kwon So-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress
 * 1996 – Mikal Bridges, American basketball player
 * 1996  – Trevor Jackson, American actor and singer-songwriter
 * 2002 – Fábio Carvalho, Portuguese footballer

Pre-1600

 * 526 – Theodoric the Great, Italian ruler (b. 454)
 * 832 – Cui Qun, Chinese chancellor (b. 772)
 * 1131 – Hervey le Breton, bishop of Bangor and Ely
 * 1181 – Pope Alexander III (b. c. 1100–1105)
 * 1329 – Khutughtu Khan Kusala, Chinese emperor (b. 1300)
 * 1428 – Emperor Shōkō of Japan (b. 1401)
 * 1483 – Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
 * 1500 – Victor, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava, Count of Glatz (b. 1443)
 * 1580 – Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)

1601–1900

 * 1604 – John Juvenal Ancina, Italian Oratorian and bishop (b. 1545)
 * 1619 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
 * 1621 – Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, co-founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (b. 1547)
 * 1751 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and engineer (b. 1661)
 * 1773 – Peshwa Narayan Rao, Prime Minister of Maratha Empire (b. 1755, assassinated)
 * 1856 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and author (b. 1811)
 * 1879 – John Bell Hood, American general (b. 1831)
 * 1886 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1836)
 * 1896 – Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1824)

1901–present

 * 1906 – Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847)
 * 1907 – Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
 * 1908 – Alexander P. Stewart, American general (b. 1821)
 * 1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
 * 1935 – Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873)
 * 1935  – Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890)
 * 1936 – Ronald Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn, English peer (b. 1886)
 * 1938 – Max Factor, Sr., Polish-born American make-up artist and businessman, founded the Max Factor Company (b. 1877)
 * 1940 – J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
 * 1941 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (b. 1874)
 * 1943 – Eddy de Neve, Indonesian-Dutch footballer and lieutenant (b. 1885)
 * 1943  – Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest and missionary (b. 1890)
 * 1945 – Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1893)
 * 1946 – Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian lawyer (b. 1907)
 * 1947 – Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director (b. 1890)
 * 1948 – Alice Salomon, German-American social reformer (b. 1872)
 * 1949 – Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
 * 1951 – Konstantin Märska, Estonian director and cinematographer (b. 1896)
 * 1954 – Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (b. 1880)
 * 1961 – Cristóbal de Losada y Puga, Peruvian mathematician (b. 1894)
 * 1961  – Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
 * 1963 – Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy (b. 1911)
 * 1964 – Salme Dutt, Estonian-English lawyer and politician (b. 1888)
 * 1967 – Ad Reinhardt, American painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1913)
 * 1968 – William Talman, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1915)
 * 1970 – Del Moore, American comedian and actor (b. 1916)
 * 1970  – Abraham Zapruder, American clothing manufacturer, witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy (b. 1905)
 * 1971 – Ali Hadi Bara, Iranian-Turkish sculptor (b. 1906)
 * 1979 – Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
 * 1981 – Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (b. 1921)
 * 1981  – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian politician, 2nd President of Iran (b. 1933)
 * 1985 – Taylor Caldwell, English-American author (b. 1900)
 * 1988 – Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1912)
 * 1989 – Seymour Krim, American journalist and critic (b. 1922)
 * 1990 – Bernard D. H. Tellegen, Dutch engineer and academic (b. 1900)
 * 1991 – Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
 * 1991  – Vladimír Padrůněk, Czech bass player (b. 1952)
 * 1991  – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
 * 1993 – Richard Jordan, American actor (b. 1938)
 * 1994 – Lindsay Anderson, English director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
 * 1995 – Fischer Black, American economist and academic (b. 1938)
 * 1995  – Sterling Morrison, American guitarist and singer (b. 1942)
 * 1996 – Christine Pascal, French actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1953)
 * 1999 – Reindert Brasser, Dutch discus thrower (b. 1912)
 * 1999  – Raymond Poïvet, French illustrator (b. 1910)
 * 2001 – Govan Mbeki, ANC activist and father of President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki (b. 1910)
 * 2002 – J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
 * 2003 – Charles Bronson, American actor and soldier (b. 1921)
 * 2003  – Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (b. 1917)
 * 2004 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (b. 1906)
 * 2006 – Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand lawyer and judge (b. 1926)
 * 2006  – Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor and producer (b. 1916)
 * 2006  – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
 * 2007 – Michael Jackson, English author and journalist (b. 1942)
 * 2007  – Charles Vanik, American soldier and politician (b. 1918)
 * 2008 – Brian Hambly, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1937)
 * 2008  – Killer Kowalski, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1926)
 * 2009 – Klaus-Peter Hanisch, German footballer (b. 1952)
 * 2010 – J. C. Bailey, American wrestler (b. 1983)
 * 2010  – Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
 * 2010  – Myrtle Edwards, Australian cricketer and softball player (b. 1921)
 * 2010  – Francisco Varallo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1910)
 * 2013 – William C. Campbell, American golfer (b. 1923)
 * 2013  – Howie Crittenden, American basketball player and coach (b. 1933)
 * 2013  – Allan Gotthelf, American philosopher and academic (b. 1942)
 * 2013  – Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1939)
 * 2013  – Leo Lewis, American football player and coach (b. 1933)
 * 2014 – Charles Bowden, American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist (b. 1945)
 * 2014  – Bipan Chandra, Indian historian and academic (b. 1928)
 * 2014  – Igor Decraene, Belgian cyclist (b. 1996)
 * 2014  – Andrew V. McLaglen, English-American director and producer (b. 1920)
 * 2014  – Felipe Osterling, Peruvian lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
 * 2015 – Wes Craven, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1939)
 * 2015  – Edward Fadeley, American lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
 * 2015  – M. M. Kalburgi, Indian scholar, author, and academic (b. 1938)
 * 2015  – Marvin Mandel, American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (b. 1920)
 * 2015  – Oliver Sacks, English-American neurologist, author, and academic (b. 1933)
 * 2017 – Louise Hay, American motivational author (b. 1926)
 * 2017  – Skip Prokop, Canadian drummer, guitarist and keyboardist (b. 1943)
 * 2019 – Valerie Harper, American actress and writer (b. 1939)
 * 2022 – Mikhail Gorbachev, 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union. (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Alexander of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodoxy)
 * Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
 * Blessed Eustáquio van Lieshout
 * Blessed Stephen Nehmé (Maronite Church / Catholic Church)
 * Charles Chapman Grafton (Episcopal Church)
 * Fantinus
 * Felix and Adauctus
 * Fiacre
 * Jeanne Jugan
 * Narcisa de Jesús
 * Pammachius
 * Theodosius of Oria
 * August 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Constitution Day (Kazakhstan)
 * Constitution Day (Turks and Caicos Islands)
 * Independence Day (Tatarstan, Russia not formally recognized)
 * International Day of the Disappeared
 * International Whale Shark Day
 * Popular Consultation Day (East Timor)
 * Saint Rose of Lima's Day (Peru)
 * Victory Day (Turkey)

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title: August 30