September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). There are 93 days remaining.
Events:
Births:
- 106 BC - Pompey the Great, Roman statesman and general
- 1328 - Joan of Kent
- 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, author (+ 1616)
- 1758 - Lord Horatio Nelson, British admiral (+ 1805)
- 1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist (+ 1954)
- 1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (+ 1996)
- 1907 - Gene Autry, actor, singer, businessman (+ 1998)
- 1908 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete
- 1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, film director
- 1913 - Trevor Howard, actor (+ 1988)
- 1913 - Stanley Kramer[?], film director
- 1931 - Anita Ekberg[?], actress
- 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
- 1938 - Wim Kok, Dutch politician and former prime minster
- 1939 - Larry Linville[?], actor (+ 2000)
- 1941 - Edmund Stoiber, German politician
- 1942 - Madeline Kahn[?], actress (+ 1999)
- 1943 - Lech Walesa, Polish trade union activist and politician
- 1948 - Bryant Gumbel[?], television personality
- 1956 - Sebastian Coe[?], track and field champion
- 1964 - Tom Sizemore[?], actor
- 1964 - Les Claypool, bassist of Primus
Deaths:
- 235 - Saint Pontianus, Pope
- 855 - Lothair, King of Lotharingia
- 1694 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician
- 1804 - Michael Hillegas[?], first Treasurer of the United States
- 1902 - Emile Zola, important writer
- 1902 - William Topaz McGonagall, Irish poet
- 1913 - Rudolf Diesel, automobile pioneer
- 1913 - Trevor Howard, actor
- 1967 - Carson McCullers[?], author
- 1970 - Edward Everett Horton, actor
- 1975 - Casey Stengel, American baseball player and coach
- 1988 - Charles Addams, cartoonist
- 1997 - Roy Liechenstein[?], artist
- 1998 - Tom Bradley[?], former mayor of Los Angeles, California
- 2001 - Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam
Holidays:
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February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December
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