On This Day — December 29
3732 noted people were born and 2050 died on December 29 in our archive, including Johann Christian Poggendorff, William Cunningham and Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on December 29
Johann Christian Poggendorff
1796 – 1877
William Cunningham
1849 – 1919
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
1923 – 2025
Abel Rey
1873 – 1940
Alan Rusbridger
b. 1953
Alexey Mayorov
b. 1961
Anatoly Shirokov
b. 1967
Barry E. Wilmore
b. 1962
Bálint Hóman
1885 – 1951
Carl Ludwig
1816 – 1895
Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
1788 – 1865
Ellen Gleditsch
1879 – 1968
Erhard Mauersberger
1903 – 1982
Gustavo Barroso
1888 – 1959
Jerzy Kłoczowski
1924 – 2017
Josh Harris
b. 1964
Jürgen Ehlers
1929 – 2008
Kanwar Pal Singh Gill
1934 – 2017
Klaus-Robert Müller
b. 1964
Kurt Hensel
1861 – 1941
Malcolm Mackay
1919 – 1999
Marcel Deprez
1843 – 1918
Marvin Chester
1930 – 2016
Mercedes Bengoechea
b. 1952
Olivier Chaline
b. 1964
Paul McCracken
1915 – 2012
Robert C. Weaver
1907 – 1997
Roger Hui
1953 – 2021
Ruth Shady
b. 1946
Solon Irving Bailey
1854 – 1931
Theo Epstein
b. 1973
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
1856 – 1894
Toivo Maimets
b. 1957
Tom Bradley
1917 – 1998
Ulf Kristersson
b. 1963
Wallace Williamson
1856 – 1926
William Ewart Gladstone
1809 – 1898
Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi
b. 1974
Étienne Ghys
b. 1954
A. W. Moore
b. 1956
Adam Gazzaley
b. 1968
Agrippina Vasilievna Shin
b. 1958
Aled Jones
b. 1970
Aleksandr Zhukov
b. 1974
Aleksey Tolstoy
1882 – 1945
Alison Watkins
b. 1962
Amata Coleman Radewagen
b. 1947
Anton Dohrn
1840 – 1909
Anu Saarela
b. 1958
Arturo Brion
b. 1946
Atsutoshi Nishida
1943 – 2017
August von Trott zu Solz
1855 – 1938
Balyş Öwezow
1915 – 1975
Bernhard Sigmund Schultze
1827 – 1919
Bohdan Krawchenko
b. 1946
Braden Allenby
b. 1950
Bruce Beutler
b. 1957
Candido Portinari
1903 – 1962
Catherine Rowett
b. 1956
Charles Scarborough
1615 – 1694
Christian Kracht
b. 1966
Claës Günther
1799 – 1861
Clifford Edmund Bosworth
1928 – 2015
Cornelio Sommaruga
1932 – 2024
Cyril Lakin
1893 – 1948
Danilo Pérez
b. 1965
David Alfaro Siqueiros
1896 – 1974
Dmitry Blokhintsev
1907 – 1979
Donald Hoffman
b. 1955
Edgar C. Jones
1903 – 1980
Edgardo Sogno
1915 – 2000
Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford
1902 – 1961
Eelis Gulin
1893 – 1975
Emmanuel Fauré-Frémiet
1883 – 1971
Eugeniusz Grzeszczak
b. 1954
Fabrice Loher
b. 1966
Federico Gómez de Salazar y Nieto
1912 – 2006
Federico Pinedo
b. 1955
Ferdinand von Wrangel
1796 – 1870
Fran Unsworth
b. 1957
Francesco Saverio Garofani
b. 1962
Freddy Buache
1924 – 2019
George Washington Baines
1809 – 1882
Gilles Peress
b. 1946
Giovanni Gallavotti
b. 1941
Guido Weiss
1928 – 2021
Gustaf af Wetterstedt
1776 – 1837
Henrik Koppel
1863 – 1944
Henry St. George Tucker, Sr.
1780 – 1848
Hiroshi Okuda
1932 – 2026
Hubert Murray
1861 – 1940
Ian Lawrence
1937 – 2019
Ian Livingstone
b. 1949
Ihor Zhdanov
b. 1967
Indira Devi Chaudhurani
1873 – 1960
Ivane Beritashvili
1884 – 1974
J. Lister Hill
1894 – 1984
Jacques Bravo
1943 – 2019
Jef Valkeniers
b. 1932
Jenny Macklin
b. 1953
Jim Shepard
b. 1956
Johannes Matthiae Gothus
1592 – 1670
Jon Thompson
b. 1964
Joseph Dauben
b. 1944
Joseph M. Martin
b. 1962
José Antonio Carrillo
b. 1969
José García Molina
b. 1969
Juan Benlloch i Vivó
1864 – 1926
Juan Carlos Maqueda
b. 1949
Julian Lawrence
b. 1963
June Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair
1913 – 2009
Kate Ford
b. 1976
Klaus Fuchs
1911 – 1988
Lionel Tertis
1876 – 1975
Lucien Girardier
1929 – 2024
Luis Alberto Monge
1925 – 2016
László Kövér
b. 1959
Léon Couturier
1842 – 1935
Mamuka Khazaradze
b. 1966
Manuela Ramalho Eanes
b. 1938
Marcel Prawy
1911 – 2003
Marie Elise Gbedo
b. 1954
Matthias Platzeck
b. 1953
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
b. 1937
Mei Yiqi
1889 – 1962
Mike deGruy
1951 – 2012
Mikhail Gorshkov
1950 – 2025
Mohd Khalil Yaakob
b. 1937
Nadezhda Udaltsova
1885 – 1961
Nancy J. Currie-Gregg
b. 1958
Nestor Shufrych
b. 1966
Nie Rongzhen
1899 – 1992
Noel Birch
1865 – 1939
Oskar Amberg
1878 – 1963
Pau Casals
1876 – 1973
Pierre Werner
1913 – 2002
Pierre-François Forissier
b. 1951
Princess Kako of Akishino
b. 1994
Rajesh Khanna
1942 – 2012
Rajmund Andrzejczak
b. 1967
Richard A. Dixon
b. 1951
Richard Dean Rogers
1921 – 2016
Richard Horton
b. 1961
Robert Le Masurier
1913 – 1996
Robert William Philip
1857 – 1939
Roman Vlad
1919 – 2013
Ronald Coase
1910 – 2013
Samuel W. Koster
1919 – 2006
Sergey Prokhanov
b. 1952
Shizuka Arakawa
b. 1981
Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet
1792 – 1867
Song Jian
b. 1931
Steven D. Waldman
b. 1951
Stylianos of Australia
1935 – 2019
Sydney Young
1857 – 1937
Ted Danson
b. 1947
Teresa Perales, 1st Marchioness of Perales
b. 1975
Thea Bowman
1937 – 1990
Thomas Bach
b. 1953
Thomas Percy Draper
1864 – 1946
Thomas Sewall Adams
1873 – 1933
Tomasz Kitliński
b. 1965
Tomás Bretón
1850 – 1923
Ursula Munch-Petersen
1937 – 2025
Valdemar Irminger
1850 – 1938
Vladimir Mau
b. 1959
Volker Leppin
b. 1966
Wayne Huizenga
1937 – 2018
William Gaddis
1922 – 1998
William H. Meyer
1914 – 1983
William J. Dominik
b. 1953
William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale
1757 – 1844
William S. Harley
1880 – 1943
Yaroslav Pustovyi
b. 1970
Yevgeny Rein
b. 1935
Yevhen Nyshchuk
b. 1972
Yves Nat
1890 – 1956
Zainul Abedin
1914 – 1976
Émile Forgue
1860 – 1943
Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga
b. 1942
Abdulfatah Ahmed
b. 1963
Abney Golam Samad
1929 – 2021
Adele Duttweiler-Bertschi
1892 – 1990
Agi Lindegren
1858 – 1927
Aisha Galimbaeva
1917 – 2008
Aku Korhonen
1892 – 1960
Alan Farrell
b. 1977
Albert H. Rooks
1891 – 1942
Albert Mayer
1897 – 1981
Albert Pike
1809 – 1891
Alejandra Krauss
b. 1956
Alexander von Schleinitz
1807 – 1885
Alexis Sepúlveda
b. 1969
Alfred K. Flowers
b. 1947
Alice Rohrwacher
b. 1981
Alison Brie
b. 1982
Amelita Ramos
b. 1927
Amy Totenberg
b. 1950
Andreas Kotelnik
b. 1977
Andrew Raczkowski
b. 1968
… and 3,532 more
Died on December 29
Leopold Kronecker
1823 – 1891
Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain
1895 – 1966
Aleksander Koj
1935 – 2016
Anton Christian Bang
1840 – 1913
Constantin von Höfler
1811 – 1897
Czesław Janicki
1926 – 2012
Edward Christopher Williams
1871 – 1929
Frederick Fuller Russell
1870 – 1960
Hardo Aasmäe
1951 – 2014
Ignacy Tokarczuk
1918 – 2012
Jimmy Carter
1924 – 2024
Johannes Irgens
1869 – 1939
Julius Axelrod
1912 – 2004
Manny Lehman
1925 – 2010
Marie-Claude Beaud
1946 – 2024
Michael Hardie Boys
1931 – 2023
Nicholas Prokopievich Miholaps
1886 – 1979
Paul Sally
1933 – 2013
Samuel H. Butcher
1850 – 1910
Thomas Chase-Casgrain
1852 – 1916
Tullio Levi-Civita
1873 – 1941
Abby Leach
1855 – 1918
Alan Sargeson
1930 – 2008
Alasdair Gray
1934 – 2019
Aleksander Ładoś
1891 – 1963
Aleksandr Mints
1894 – 1974
Aleksandr Stishinsky
1851 – 1921
Alevtina Aparina
1941 – 2013
Andrei Tarkovsky
1932 – 1986
Antoine-Marie Chenavard
1787 – 1883
Anton Pace
1851 – 1923
Arthur Fell
1850 – 1934
Bartholomew Price
1818 – 1898
Carmen De Lavallade
1931 – 2025
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
1735 – 1806
Daniil Lider
1917 – 2002
Doris Humphrey
1895 – 1958
Edgar Savisaar
1950 – 2022
Eduard Artemyev
1937 – 2022
Elaine McCoy
1946 – 2020
Ellen Louise Mertz
1896 – 1987
Erhard Heinz
1924 – 2017
Felice Cavagnis
1841 – 1906
Francis Calley Gray
1790 – 1856
Franz von Pitha
1810 – 1875
George Downing Liveing
1827 – 1924
Gerard Veringa
1924 – 1999
Gertruda Sekaninová-Čakrtová
1908 – 1986
Guido De Ruggiero
1888 – 1948
György Kepes
1906 – 2001
Hakutei Ishii
1882 – 1958
Hans Rosbaud
1895 – 1962
Harold Macmillan
1894 – 1986
Harry L. Van Trees
1930 – 2022
Hermann Paul
1846 – 1921
Hsia Chih-tsing
1921 – 2013
Humphrey T. Walwyn
1879 – 1957
Isabel Kelly
1906 – 1982
Ivan Goryushkin-Sorokopudov
1873 – 1954
Ivane Beritashvili
1884 – 1974
Jacques-Louis David
1748 – 1825
Jaime de Piniés
1917 – 2003
Jan Rypka
1886 – 1968
John Marshall Harlan II
1899 – 1971
Jun Ishikawa
1899 – 1987
June Whitfield
1925 – 2018
Katherine Greacen Nelson
1913 – 1982
Kees van Dijk
1931 – 2008
Kōsaku Yamada
1886 – 1965
Linda Lavin
1937 – 2024
Lothar Bolz
1903 – 1986
Louis Visconti
1791 – 1853
Luigi Snozzi
1932 – 2020
Manfred Stolpe
1936 – 2019
Nils Hermann Nilsson-Ehle
1873 – 1949
Om Prakash Malhotra
1922 – 2015
Oscar Schneider
1927 – 2024
Otto Retowski
1849 – 1925
Pannalal Bose
1881 – 1956
Paul Whiteman
1890 – 1967
Paul X. Kelley
1928 – 2019
Pelé
1940 – 2022
Pierre Nothomb, Baron Nothomb
1887 – 1966
Prince Adalbert of Bavaria
1886 – 1970
Reinhard Süring
1866 – 1950
Robert Barbour
1899 – 1994
Simone Iff
1924 – 2014
Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet
1806 – 1896
Sumner Ely Wetmore Kittelle
1867 – 1950
Sören Wibe
1946 – 2010
Theodor Ziehen
1862 – 1950
Tiberiu Popoviciu
1906 – 1975
Tibor Radó
1895 – 1965
Tino Schwierzina
1927 – 2003
Vasily Molokov
1895 – 1982
Vivienne Westwood
1941 – 2022
Wilhelm Maybach
1846 – 1929
William Crotch
1775 – 1847
William King Gregory
1876 – 1970
Wojciech Kilar
1932 – 2013
Yanina Zhejmo
1909 – 1987
Yvonne Desportes
1907 – 1993
Zhang Zhongjun
1915 – 1995
"Dr. Death" Steve Williams
1960 – 2009
A. C. Gibbs
1825 – 1886
Aaron H. Grout
1879 – 1966
Adrien Albert
1907 – 1989
Aldo Parisot
1918 – 2018
Alexander Barrow
1801 – 1846
Alexander Clutterbuck
1897 – 1975
Alexander von Benckendorff
1849 – 1916
Angelica Singleton Van Buren
1818 – 1877
Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale
1824 – 1878
Aulikki Rautawaara
1906 – 1990
Azalea Thorpe
1911 – 1988
Bertram Wodehouse Currie
1827 – 1896
Bhaurao Gaikwad
1902 – 1971
Brent Spencer
1760 – 1828
Bronislaw Onuf-Onufrowicz
1863 – 1928
Burr Harrison
1904 – 1973
C. Aswath
1939 – 2009
Canutus Hahn
1633 – 1687
Carl Johan Schlyter
1795 – 1888
Carl Spitteler
1845 – 1924
Carlo Marochetti
1805 – 1867
Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco
1926 – 2017
Charles Fitzgerald
1792 – 1887
Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard-Briau
1873 – 1927
Charlie Tyra
1935 – 2006
Chase A. Clark
1883 – 1966
Chemogoh Kevin Dzang
1941 – 2009
Christian Giordano
1945 – 2018
Clarence H. Johnston, Sr.
1859 – 1936
Claude Bolling
1930 – 2020
Clinton D. McKinnon
1906 – 2001
Connie Dierking
1936 – 2013
Constance Stone
1856 – 1902
Daniel Wray
1701 – 1783
David Arthur Brodie
1867 – 1951
Diana Maxwell, Baroness Farnham
1931 – 2021
Doeke Eisma
1939 – 2023
Dorothy Livesay
1909 – 1996
Edme Mentelle
1730 – 1815
Edmund Biernacki
1866 – 1911
Edward Boscawen, 1st Earl of Falmouth
1787 – 1841
Edwin David Sanborn
1808 – 1885
Eilif Peterssen
1852 – 1928
Eirik Hornborg
1879 – 1965
Elżbieta Krzesińska
1934 – 2015
Ermanno Gorrieri
1920 – 2004
Ernesto Laura
1879 – 1949
Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen
1859 – 1941
Esther Thelen
1941 – 2004
Eugène Giraud
1806 – 1881
Eugène Mittelhausser
1873 – 1949
F. Edward Hébert
1901 – 1979
Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann
1805 – 1887
Francesco de Sanctis
1817 – 1883
Francisco Barrio
1950 – 2025
Frank Buckland
1847 – 1915
Frank Malzone
1930 – 2015
François Nicholas Madeleine Morlot
1795 – 1862
François Vincent Henri Antoine de Stuers
1792 – 1881
Fred Mukisa
1949 – 2019
Freddie Hubbard
1938 – 2008
Frederik Valdemar Nikolai Beichmann
1859 – 1937
Friedrich Ludwig Leuschner
1824 – 1889
Frunzik Mkrtchyan
1930 – 1993
Félix Torres Amat
1772 – 1847
Geoffrey Robinson
1937 – 2020
George Manning
1887 – 1976
George Paul Miller
1891 – 1982
Giovanni Ameglio
1854 – 1921
Gordon Morgan Holmes
1876 – 1965
Grace S. Dorris
1887 – 1968
Gustav Brock
1816 – 1878
Gustav David Hamilton
1699 – 1788
Gustavo Cisneros
1945 – 2023
Guy Stanton Ford
1873 – 1962
Géza Tóth
1907 – 1990
Han Tong-il
1941 – 2024
Hanna Hirsch-Pauli
1864 – 1940
Hans Henkemans
1913 – 1995
Harold Collison
1909 – 1995
Harold Denny Campbell
1895 – 1955
Harry A. Fisher
1882 – 1967
He Changgong
1900 – 1987
Helen Kirkpatrick
1909 – 1997
Henri Leopold Levy
1840 – 1904
Henry Adams Bellows
1885 – 1939
Henry Dickinson Green
1857 – 1929
Henry Holland
1859 – 1944
Henry Lee Morey
1841 – 1902
Hermann Baumann
1934 – 2023
Hermenegild Jireček
1827 – 1909
Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford
1783 – 1858
Howard J. Rubenstein
1932 – 2020
Hugh L. Nichols
1865 – 1942
Hugh R. Wilson
1885 – 1946
Hyacinthe Rigaud
1659 – 1743
… and 1,850 more