On This Day — October 29
3704 noted people were born and 1850 died on October 29 in our archive, including Carl Gustav Witt, Fabiola Gianotti and Mehmet Haberal.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on October 29
Carl Gustav Witt
1866 – 1946
Fabiola Gianotti
b. 1960
Mehmet Haberal
b. 1944
A. J. Ayer
1910 – 1989
Abdullah Gül
b. 1950
Abraham Kuyper
1837 – 1920
Alexander Karlin
b. 1951
Alfredo Ottaviani
1890 – 1979
Anders P. Ravn
1947 – 2019
Andrei Tupolev
1888 – 1972
Andrey Yepishin
b. 1967
Antoine Prost
b. 1933
Baruj Benacerraf
1920 – 2011
Carl Djerassi
1923 – 2015
Dmitri Muratov
b. 1961
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
b. 1938
Elvira Nabiullina
b. 1963
Ernst Hartert
1859 – 1933
Evgeny Primakov
1929 – 2015
Francis Penrose
1817 – 1903
Franck de Lapersonne
b. 1963
Franco Bassani
1929 – 2008
Irina Podnosova
1953 – 2025
Jaime Benítez Rexach
1908 – 2001
Jean Giraudoux
1882 – 1944
Johann Olav Koss
b. 1968
John Elliotson
1791 – 1868
Katarzyna Skórzyńska
b. 1959
Ma Huateng
b. 1971
Marc Perrin de Brichambaut
b. 1948
Matthias Preusser
b. 1976
Michael Rostovtzeff
1870 – 1952
Niels Christian Ditleff
1881 – 1956
Peter K. Hepler
b. 1936
Rudolf Hoppe
1922 – 2014
Ruslan Aushev
b. 1954
Ruslan Stefanchuk
b. 1975
S. R. Ramaswamy
1937 – 2026
Sakuhei Fujiwhara
1884 – 1950
Sam Eyde
1866 – 1940
Stanisław Ostrowski
1892 – 1982
Stepan Rumovsky
1734 – 1812
Ted Baker
b. 1942
Tomasz Chłoń
b. 1961
Valérie Masson-Delmotte
b. 1971
Victor Stern
1885 – 1958
Walter Natynczyk
b. 1957
Abdülkadir İnan
1889 – 1976
Akim Tamiroff
1899 – 1972
Aksel Berg
1893 – 1979
Alberto Mantovani
b. 1948
Alexei Gvishiani
b. 1948
Anatoly Kharlampiyev
1906 – 1979
Benedetto Accolti the Younger
1497 – 1549
Camille Polonceau
1813 – 1859
Celedonio Calatayud
1880 – 1931
Chase Strangio
b. 1982
Chen Chi-nan
b. 1947
Chester Crocker
b. 1941
Chris Mattmann
b. 1980
Christophe van der Maat
b. 1980
Constantine A. Balanis
b. 1938
Daniel J. Bernstein
b. 1971
Daniel Pedoe
1910 – 1998
Darwin Zahedy Saleh
1960 – 2025
Denis Pasler
b. 1978
Dieter Nuhr
b. 1960
Dimitri Simes
b. 1947
Dmitry Golitsyn
1771 – 1844
Donald Liao
1929 – 2026
Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald
1852 – 1935
Eddie McGuire
b. 1964
Ewen MacAskill
b. 1952
Frank H. T. Rhodes
1926 – 2020
Frank Tjepkema
b. 1970
Frans de Waal
1948 – 2024
Franz Stuhlmann
1863 – 1928
Franz von Papen
1879 – 1969
Frida Boccara
1940 – 1996
Fridtjof Frank Gundersen
1934 – 2011
Gabriele Kotsis
b. 1967
Gerald C. Thomas
1894 – 1984
Gerhard Kraft
1941 – 2023
Gerrit Ybema
1945 – 2012
Giuseppe Alessi
1905 – 2009
Gogi Totibadze
1928 – 2010
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad
b. 1939
Hanna Kanapackaja
b. 1976
Harry Dexter White
1892 – 1948
Heinrich Mussinghoff
b. 1940
Henryka Bochniarz
b. 1947
Ignasi Giménez Renom
b. 1979
Imre Steindl
1839 – 1902
Isao Takahata
1935 – 2018
Ivan Bagryanov
1891 – 1945
Jean Pradel
1933 – 2021
Jerzy Fedorowicz
b. 1947
Joachim Herrmann
1928 – 1992
John C. Inglis
b. 1954
John Shawe-Taylor
b. 1953
János Scheffler
1887 – 1952
Kaido Reivelt
b. 1970
Kat Timpf
b. 1988
Kate Bedingfield
b. 1981
Kazuyo Sejima
b. 1956
Kelyn Bacon
b. 1973
Klaus Thielmann
1933 – 2024
Kurt Vieweg
1911 – 1976
Lee Child
b. 1954
Li Dazhao
1889 – 1927
Liao Liou-yi
b. 1947
Louis Feldman
1926 – 2017
Luca Beccari
b. 1974
Ludomir Sleńdziński
1889 – 1980
Malegapuru William Makgoba
b. 1952
Manuel Corte-Real
b. 1940
Marcia Fudge
b. 1952
Marcus Lipton
1900 – 1978
Margarita Argúas
1902 – 1986
Mariusz Dmochowski
1930 – 1992
Markéta Šichtařová
b. 1976
Martin Folkes
1690 – 1754
Martin Gusinde
1886 – 1969
Mary Chinery-Hesse
b. 1938
Matiur Rahman
1941 – 1971
Mauro Moretti
b. 1953
Menno Snel
b. 1970
Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski
1822 – 1902
Necmettin Erbakan
1926 – 2011
Olha Stefanishyna
b. 1985
Othniel Charles Marsh
1831 – 1899
Paul Tyler, Baron Tyler
b. 1941
Philip Oppenheimer
1911 – 1995
Pierre Sikivie
b. 1949
Pål Spilling
1934 – 2018
Qu Dongyu
b. 1963
Rajeev Gowda
b. 1963
Ralph Bakshi
b. 1938
Raphael Carl Lee
b. 1949
Robert B. Darnell
b. 1957
Robert Murray Smith
1831 – 1921
Roland Trimen
1840 – 1916
Rudolph Sohm
1841 – 1917
Rupert Brabner
1911 – 1945
Sergei Kolbin
b. 1969
Shin Hyun-hwak
1920 – 2007
Sir William Gladstone, 7th Baronet
1925 – 2018
Snježana Kordić
b. 1964
Svetlana Navasardyan
b. 1946
Thomas E. McKay
1875 – 1958
Thomas Stewart Traill
1781 – 1862
Tudor Deliu
1955 – 2023
Wilbur Wade Card
1873 – 1948
William Benjamin Carpenter
1813 – 1885
William Conyngham Greene
1854 – 1934
William Walker
1931 – 2010
Yaroslav Rushchyshyn
1967 – 2025
Yasen Zasursky
1929 – 2021
Yelena Drapeko
b. 1948
Zbigniew Herbert
1924 – 1998
Abel Herrero
b. 1969
Abuzar Aydamirov
1933 – 2005
Achille Leclère
1785 – 1853
Acko Ankarberg Johansson
b. 1964
Adolphe Marcoux
1884 – 1951
Ahmed al-Sharaa
b. 1982
Ahmet Nur Çebi
b. 1959
Aili Keskitalo
b. 1968
Aksel Hennie
b. 1975
Akseli Nikula
1884 – 1956
Alex Gâlmeanu
b. 1978
Alexander von Falkenhausen
1878 – 1966
Alexandre Hay
1919 – 1991
Alfonso E. Lenhardt
b. 1943
Alfred B. Miles
1888 – 1962
Alfred V. Kidder
1885 – 1963
Alin Petrache
b. 1976
Alois Mertes
1921 – 1985
Alun Ffred Jones
b. 1949
Alva B. Adams
1875 – 1941
Alva L. Hager
1850 – 1923
Andrej Bagar
1900 – 1966
Andrzej S. Nowak
b. 1952
Angela Okorie
b. 1985
Angelino Garzón
b. 1956
Ann-Marie MacDonald
b. 1958
Anna Estelle Glancy
1883 – 1975
Anne Pierre Adrien, duc de Montmorency-Laval
1768 – 1837
Annelie Enochson
b. 1953
Anthony Mosse
b. 1964
Antonio Luna
1866 – 1899
Apel·les Mestres i Oñós
1854 – 1936
Arkady Tugarinov
1880 – 1948
Arnulfo Fuentebella
1945 – 2020
Arthur P. Fairfield
1877 – 1946
Arthur Yager
1858 – 1941
Augusto Heleno
b. 1947
Aurora Bertrana
1892 – 1974
Austin Quinn-Davidson
b. 1979
Avi Vartzman
b. 1970
… and 3,504 more
Died on October 29
Albert Calmette
1863 – 1933
Alexander Vedernikov
1964 – 2020
Alexei Fridman
1940 – 2010
Angelika Amon
1967 – 2020
Arne Tiselius
1902 – 1971
Bei Shizhang
1903 – 2009
Fernando Alegría
1918 – 2005
Frederick Wollaston Hutton
1836 – 1905
Gabriel Xavier Paul Koenigs
1858 – 1931
Giovanni Battista Guccia
1855 – 1914
Jacques Mathieu Delpech
1772 – 1832
Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud
1796 – 1881
Jean-François Bergier
1931 – 2009
Johan Gunnar Andersson
1874 – 1960
Joseph Babinski
1857 – 1932
Lyudmila Shvetsova
1949 – 2014
Margaret Floy Washburn
1871 – 1939
Michael Clyne
1939 – 2010
Mkrtich Khrimian
1820 – 1907
Ninian Stephen
1923 – 2017
Paul Bastid
1892 – 1974
Paul Painlevé
1863 – 1933
Russell L. Ackoff
1919 – 2009
Wesley Clair Mitchell
1874 – 1948
Yuri Ponomarev
1946 – 2020
Aarne Üksküla
1937 – 2017
Anatol Volny
1902 – 1937
Arthur Orpen Herbert
1831 – 1890
Assheton Pownall
1877 – 1953
Boris Keller
1874 – 1945
Carel Sirardus Willem van Hogendorp
1788 – 1856
Charles Alexandre de Calonne
1734 – 1802
Chen Wangdao
1891 – 1977
Chikuhei Nakajima
1884 – 1949
Dmitry Chechulin
1901 – 1981
Eger V. Murphree
1898 – 1962
Eliyahu Matza
1935 – 2021
Francisco Mateos Gago
1827 – 1890
François Schommer
1850 – 1935
Frederik Liebmann
1813 – 1856
Friedel Stern
1917 – 2006
George Bell
1867 – 1926
George Borg Olivier
1911 – 1980
George Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford
1806 – 1886
Gustaf V of Sweden
1858 – 1950
Günther Jahn
1930 – 2015
Harry Allan
1882 – 1957
Heinrich Biltz
1865 – 1943
Hermann Ehlers
1904 – 1954
Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue
1854 – 1932
Igor Kirillov
1932 – 2021
James A. Gray Jr.
1889 – 1952
James W. Borcoman
1926 – 2019
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
1717 – 1783
John Alexander Fraser
1896 – 1943
John D. Roberts
1918 – 2016
John Davis Lodge
1903 – 1985
John Marden
1855 – 1924
John S. Nabila
John W. Townsend Jr.
1924 – 2011
Józef Zawitkowski
1938 – 2020
Kalle Kauppi
1892 – 1961
Kenneth C. Smith
1932 – 2023
Kishi Seiichi
1867 – 1933
Konstantin Andreev
1848 – 1921
Lars Brink
1943 – 2022
Leonardus Antonius Lightenvelt
1795 – 1873
Linda Nochlin
1931 – 2017
Lola Prusac
1895 – 1985
Louis-Jean Calvet
1942 – 2025
Maffeo Pantaleoni
1857 – 1924
Manfredi Nicoletti
1930 – 2017
Marie Alphonse Bedeau
1804 – 1863
Mary Isabel McCracken
1866 – 1955
Mikhail Mashkovtsev
1947 – 2022
Muhal Richard Abrams
1930 – 2017
Nagayo Yoshirō
1888 – 1961
Nils L. Landmark
1775 – 1859
Pavel Mironov
1900 – 1969
Peter John Morris
1934 – 2022
Robert Brustein
1927 – 2023
Robert Grant Aitken
1864 – 1951
Robert Levin
1912 – 1996
Rosa Posada
1940 – 2014
Sargis Barkhudaryan
1887 – 1972
Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside
1893 – 1969
Sisavang Vong
1885 – 1959
Steven Rudich
1961 – 2024
Suzanne Rivard-Lemoyne
1928 – 2012
Thomas Cochran
1871 – 1936
Thorstein Hiortdahl
1839 – 1925
Valentin Pokrovsky
1929 – 2020
Valery Kokov
1941 – 2005
Wallace L. W. Sargent
1935 – 2012
Walter Raleigh
1552 – 1618
William Macarthur
1800 – 1882
Willis Carrier
1876 – 1950
Władysław Kowalski
1936 – 2017
Yngve Holmberg
1925 – 2011
Adolphe Menjou
1890 – 1963
Ajith C. S. Perera
1956 – 2020
Albert P. Crary
1911 – 1987
Aleksei Alelyukhin
1920 – 1990
Alex Verrijn Stuart
1923 – 2004
Alexander Houston
1865 – 1933
Alfred Biehle
1926 – 2014
Alfred Woodley Croft
1841 – 1925
Alison Knowles
1933 – 2025
Alvin M. Johnston
1914 – 1998
Amasa Walker
1799 – 1875
Amir Ishemgulov
1960 – 2020
Anna Weber-van Bosse
1852 – 1942
Anthony Joseph Celebrezze, Sr.
1910 – 1998
Arnold Margolin
1877 – 1956
Arthur L. Hardge
1927 – 1983
Auguste Laval
1843 – 1915
Barry Stout
1936 – 2016
Bernd Moeller
1931 – 2020
Bernhard Salin
1861 – 1931
Betty Adkins
1934 – 2001
Bill Mason
1929 – 1988
Bill Schwab
1959 – 2025
Boris Grigolashvili
1933 – 1993
Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani
1617 – 1661
Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck
1879 – 1969
Chang-Lin Tien
1935 – 2002
Charles Donovan
1863 – 1951
Charles de Lorraine de Vaudémont
1561 – 1587
Chester C. Bolton
1882 – 1939
Christophe Munzihirwa
1926 – 1996
Clive Selwyn Davis
1916 – 2009
Cordelia Edvardson
1929 – 2012
Daniel M. Frost
1823 – 1900
Dave Fultz
1875 – 1959
Dave Treen
1928 – 2009
Didier Motchane
1931 – 2017
Dirk van Hogendorp
1761 – 1822
Domenico Cirillo
1739 – 1799
Dwight Townsend
1826 – 1899
Edison Marshall
1894 – 1967
Edith Clarke
1883 – 1959
Edmund Hirst
1898 – 1975
Edward H. Smith
1889 – 1961
Elias Judah Durand
1870 – 1922
Eugène Ménégoz
1838 – 1921
Eva Beatrice Dykes
1893 – 1986
Evgeny Lifshitz
1915 – 1985
F. D. Wickham
1873 – 1942
F. T. Parks
1890 – 1959
Fenelon D. Hewitt
1883 – 1961
Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
1587 – 1626
Frances Cleveland
1864 – 1947
Francesco Mario Pagano
1748 – 1799
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich
1907 – 1969
Franco Corelli
1921 – 2003
Frank Slayton
1932 – 2013
Frederick North
1800 – 1869
Fyodor Petrovich Korol
1894 – 1942
Félix Bracquemond
1833 – 1914
Gabriel François Venel
1723 – 1775
Gaston Bussière
1862 – 1928
George Brinton McClellan
1826 – 1885
Gerald L. Baliles
1940 – 2019
Geraldo Brindeiro
1948 – 2021
Gerhard von Schwerin
1899 – 1980
Guillermo Jorge del Cioppo
1930 – 2004
Gunnar Halle
1907 – 1986
Gustavus Fox
1821 – 1883
H. C. Coombs
1906 – 1997
H. Clay Myers, Jr.
1927 – 2004
Hal Clement
1922 – 2003
Harold Olsen
1895 – 1953
Hava Pinhas-Cohen
1955 – 2022
Heinrich Oster
1878 – 1954
Henning Webb Prentis Jr.
1884 – 1959
Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose
1800 – 1883
Henry Baldwin Harrison
1821 – 1901
Ion Irimescu
1903 – 2005
Iran Darroudi
1936 – 2021
Isaac N. Morris
1812 – 1879
István Miklósy
1857 – 1937
Ivan Kairov
1893 – 1978
J. J. Williams
1948 – 2020
Jack Vaughn
1920 – 2012
James Anson Otho Brooke
1884 – 1914
James Breathitt, Jr.
1890 – 1934
James Hannington
1847 – 1885
James Van Leuven Mensah
1937 – 2021
Jan Wyżykowski
1917 – 1974
Jesse J. McCrary, Jr.
1937 – 2007
Johann I of Saxony
1801 – 1873
John C. Underwood
1840 – 1913
John Gardner Wilkinson
1797 – 1875
John Lumley-Savile, 8th Earl of Scarbrough
1788 – 1856
John M. Patton
1797 – 1858
John Wolcott Stewart
1825 – 1915
Joseph Cross
1843 – 1913
Joseph Ernest Sampson
1887 – 1946
Joseph Pulitzer
1847 – 1911
Joseph Taussig
1877 – 1947
… and 1,650 more