August 29 is the 241st day of the year (242nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 124 days remaining until the end of the year.

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

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

• 2003 – 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 – End of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
• 2004 – Michael Schumacher wins his 7th Formula One world title and his 5th in a row, breaking the record held by Juan Manuel Fangio.
• 2005 – Hurricane Katrina reaches the US' Gulf coast with winds at a speed of 225 kph. The city of New Orleans is among the places that are severely flooded, as over 1,000 people are killed.
• 2008 – US Republican Party Presidential candidate John McCain nominates Sarah Palin as his running mate.
• 2011 – Hurricane Irene dissolves over Eastern Canada, having left a path of destruction over the Caribbean and eastern United States.
• 2012 – The 2012 Summer Paralympics in London begin.
• 2013 – The House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes, by a majority, against military action in Syria.
• 2015 – 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 – Protests in Kuala Lumpur occurred against Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak, sparked by the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal.
• 2017 – North Korea fires a ballistic missile over the southern part of the Northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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