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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 29th of August 0708 | EVENT | Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708). |
| 29th of August 1350 | EVENT | Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships. |
| 29th of August 1475 | EVENT | The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England. |
| 29th of August 1498 | EVENT | Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal. |
| 29th of August 1521 | EVENT | The Ottoman Turks capture Nandorfehervar, now known as Belgrade. |
| 29th of August 1526 | EVENT | Battle of Mohacs: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia. |
| 29th of August 1541 | EVENT | The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom. |
| 29th of August 1655 | EVENT | Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge. |
| 29th of August 1756 | EVENT | Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War. |
| 29th of August 1758 | EVENT | The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey. |
| 29th of August 1786 | EVENT | Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens. |
| 29th of August 1825 | EVENT | Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil. |
| 29th of August 1831 | EVENT | Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction. |
| 29th of August 1833 | EVENT | The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire. |
| 29th of August 1842 | EVENT | Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War. |
| 29th of August 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina. |
| 29th of August 1869 | EVENT | The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway. |
| 29th of August 1871 | EVENT | 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). |
| 29th of August 1885 | EVENT | Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen |
| 29th of August 1898 | EVENT | The Goodyear tire company is founded. |
| 29th of August 1903 | EVENT | The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched. |
| 29th of August 1907 | EVENT | The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers. |
| 29th of August 1910 | EVENT | Japan changes Korea's name to Chosen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony. |
| 29th of August 1911 | EVENT | Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California. |
| 29th of August 1915 | EVENT | US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident. |
| 29th of August 1916 | EVENT | The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act. |
| 29th of August 1918 | EVENT | Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive |
| 29th of August 1922 | EVENT | Turkish forces set fire to Smyrna in Asia Minor. |
| 29th of August 1930 | EVENT | The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. |
| 29th of August 1943 | EVENT | German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government. |
| 29th of August 1944 | EVENT | Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis. |
| 29th of August 1949 | EVENT | Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. |
| 29th of August 1958 | EVENT | United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 29th of August 1966 | EVENT | The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. |
| 29th of August 1970 | EVENT | Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar. |
| 29th of August 1982 | EVENT | The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany. |
| 29th of August 1991 | EVENT | Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands. |
| 29th of August 1991 | EVENT | Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party. |
| 29th of August 1996 | EVENT | Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard. |
| 29th of August 1997 | EVENT | At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria. |
| 29th of August 2003 | EVENT | Ayatollah Sayed 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. |
| 29th of August 2005 | EVENT | Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $80 billion in damage. |
| 29th of August 2007 | EVENT | 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base. |
| 29th of August 1619 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683) |
| 29th of August 1628 | BIRTHDAY | John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701) |
| 29th of August 1632 | BIRTHDAY | John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704) |
| 29th of August 1694 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Luneburg (d. 1715) |
| 29th of August 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767) |
| 29th of August 1728 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797) |
| 29th of August 1756 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Sniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830) |
| 29th of August 1756 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845) |
| 29th of August 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853) |
| 29th of August 1780 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Ingres, French painter (d. 1867) |
| 29th of August 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872) |
| 29th of August 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894) |
| 29th of August 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian politician, writer and Constitution main promoter (d. 1884) |
| 29th of August 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Bergh, founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1888) |
| 29th of August 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Shaw, English cricketer (d. 1907) |
| 29th of August 1843 | BIRTHDAY | David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910) |
| 29th of August 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929) |
| 29th of August 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937) |
| 29th of August 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet Nobel laureate (d. 1949) |
| 29th of August 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928) |
| 29th of August 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950) |
| 29th of August 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958) |
| 29th of August 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949) |
| 29th of August 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Preston Sturges, American filmmaker (d. 1959) |
| 29th of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Aurele Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986) |
| 29th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Forssmann, German physician Nobel laureate (d. 1979) |
| 29th of August 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (d. 1941) |
| 29th of August 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979) |
| 29th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Vivien Thomas, African American surgeon (d. 1985) |
| 29th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 29th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Sohn Kee-chung, Korean runner (d. 2002) |
| 29th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian/Polish cinematographer |
| 29th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999) |
| 29th of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982) |
| 29th of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist (d. 1985) |
| 29th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000) |
| 29th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Luther Davis, American playwright (d. 2008) |
| 29th of August 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004) |
| 29th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955) |
| 29th of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic (d. 2008) |
| 29th of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Hiralal Gaekwad, Indian cricketer |
| 29th of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Attenborough, English film director |
| 29th of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Marmaduke Hussey, BBC Chairman (d. 2006) |
| 29th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Consuelo Velazquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005) |
| 29th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963) |
| 29th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Helene Ahrweiler, Greek Byzantinologist |
| 29th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer |
| 29th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Lynn, American actress |
| 29th of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy C. Newman, American Country and Western and Cajun Singer. |
| 29th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Gray, English actor (d. 2000) |
| 29th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Meier, Swiss writer |
| 29th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Thom Gunn, British poet (d. 2004) |
| 29th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive (d. 2006) |
| 29th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001) |
| 29th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist |
| 29th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor |
| 29th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | John Guy, New Zealand cricketer |
| 29th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director (d. 2004) |
| 29th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | William Friedkin, American film director |
| 29th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Laszlo Garai, Hungarian scientist, psychologist |
| 29th of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | John McCain, American politician |
| 29th of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | James Florio, American politician |
| 29th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Elliott Gould, American actor |
| 29th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Muller, German footballer |
| 29th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury 1995 : 1999 |
| 29th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Schumacher, American film director |
| 29th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984) |
| 29th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | James Brady, American White House Press Secretary and gun control activist |
| 29th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Leach, English television host |
| 29th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | James Glennon, American cinematographer (d. 2006) |
| 29th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | John Heuser, Electron microscopist |
| 29th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photojournalist (d. 1996) |
| 29th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Wyomia Tyus, American athlete |
| 29th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Beamon, American long jumper |
| 29th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitris Christofias, Cypriot politician and sixth President of the Republic of Cyprus |
| 29th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Temple Grandin, American animal welfare and autism expert |
| 29th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | James Hunt, English racing driver (d. 1993) |
| 29th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Kaiser, German footballer |
| 29th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Doug DeCinces, American baseball player |
| 29th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Reichert, American politician and sheriff |
| 29th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Henenlotter, American director |
| 29th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Hesse, American children's writer |
| 29th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Malone, American rock guitarist |
| 29th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress |
| 29th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | James Quesada, Nicaraguan/American anthropologist |
| 29th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American science fiction novelist |
| 29th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Diamanda Galas, American singer |
| 29th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Lew, American government official |
| 29th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Hoste, Belgian cyclist |
| 29th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Morris, American choreographer |
| 29th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | GG Allin, American rock singer (d. 1993) |
| 29th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry D. Bailey, American racing jockey |
| 29th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Jackson, American pop singer (d. 2009) |
| 29th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lenny Henry, British writer, comedian and actor |
| 29th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian Telugu actor |
| 29th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese composer |
| 29th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Perry Shriver, member of the Kennedy Family |
| 29th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca De Mornay, American actress |
| 29th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut |
| 29th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Wolfram, British physicist and mathematician |
| 29th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Todd English, American chef |
| 29th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Tony MacAlpine, American guitarist |
| 29th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Carsten Fischer, German field-hockey player |
| 29th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney McCray, American basketball player |
| 29th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Ian James Corlett, Canadian voice actor |
| 29th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Banks, American football player |
| 29th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese composer |
| 29th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer |
| 29th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Will Perdue, American basketball player |
| 29th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Dina Spybey, American actress |
| 29th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jorn Grosskopf, German footballer |
| 29th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jiri Ruzek, Czech photographer |
| 29th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) |
| 29th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Me'Shell NdegeOcello, American singer |
| 29th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player |
| 29th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Daughtry, American Idol contestant |
| 29th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Carla Gugino, American actress |
| 29th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 29th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Bae Yong Joon, South Korean actor |
| 29th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Olivier Jacque, motorcyclist |
| 29th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Sessler, American TV show host |
| 29th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kumi Tanioka, Japanese composer |
| 29th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Diego Botto, Argentine-Spanish actor |
| 29th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Dante Basco, Filipino/American actor |
| 29th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Carr, Irish footballer |
| 29th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Kaesviharn, American football player |
| 29th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer |
| 29th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player |
| 29th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Rowand, American baseball player |
| 29th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | John Patrick O'Brien, American footballer |
| 29th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Oswalt, American baseball player |
| 29th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Devean George, American basketball player |
| 29th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian |
| 29th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Weil, German actor |
| 29th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer |
| 29th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Shealy, American baseball player |
| 29th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Stijn Devolder, Belgian cyclist |
| 29th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | David Desrosiers, Canadian musician (Simple Plan) |
| 29th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Simms, American football player |
| 29th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | David West, American basketball player |
| 29th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer and actor |
| 29th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammad Sheikh, Kenyan cricketer |
| 29th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lanny Barbie, Canadian pornographic actress |
| 29th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Genevieve Jeanson, French Canadian cyclist |
| 29th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Ryan (Jay Bunyan), Australian actor |
| 29th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Oh, Korean-American actor |
| 29th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Delfino, Argentine basketball player |
| 29th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Hug, German rugby player |
| 29th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Licon, American actor |
| 29th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Rzepczynski, American baseball player |
| 29th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Lea Michele, American actress and singer |
| 29th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Collins, Canadian actress |
| 29th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Kane, Irish footballer |
| 29th of August 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Anderson, American actress |
| 29th of August 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Mallu Magalhaes, Brazilian singer-songwriter |
| 29th of August 0886 | DEATH | Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (Born 811) |
| 29th of August 1093 | DEATH | Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (Born 1057) |
| 29th of August 1123 | DEATH | King Eystein I of Norway (Born c. 1088) |
| 29th of August 1395 | DEATH | Duke Albert III of Austria (Born 1349) |
| 29th of August 1442 | DEATH | John VI, Duke of Brittany (Born 1389) |
| 29th of August 1526 | DEATH | King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle) (Born 1506) |
| 29th of August 1542 | DEATH | Cristovao da Gama, Portuguese soldier (Born c. 1516) |
| 29th of August 1657 | DEATH | John Lilburne, English dissenter (Born 1614) |
| 29th of August 1712 | DEATH | Gregory King, English statistician (Born 1648) |
| 29th of August 1769 | DEATH | Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (Born 1672) |
| 29th of August 1780 | DEATH | Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (Born 1713) |
| 29th of August 1799 | DEATH | Pope Pius VI (Born 1717) |
| 29th of August 1844 | DEATH | Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (Born 1762) |
| 29th of August 1856 | DEATH | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (Born 1778) |
| 29th of August 1866 | DEATH | Tokugawa Iemochi, 14th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (Born 1846) |
| 29th of August 1877 | DEATH | Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (Born 1801) |
| 29th of August 1889 | DEATH | Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (Born 1815) |
| 29th of August 1891 | DEATH | Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (Born 1843) |
| 29th of August 1904 | DEATH | Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (Born 1840) |
| 29th of August 1930 | DEATH | William Archibald Spooner, English writer (Born 1844) |
| 29th of August 1931 | DEATH | David T. Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (Born 1867) |
| 29th of August 1935 | DEATH | Queen Astrid of Belgium (Born 1905) |
| 29th of August 1946 | DEATH | Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (Born 1890) |
| 29th of August 1946 | DEATH | Adolphus Busch III, American brewing magnate and President and CEO of the Anheuser-Busch Company (Born 1891) |
| 29th of August 1951 | DEATH | Sydney Chapman, British economist and civil servant (Born 1871) |
| 29th of August 1966 | DEATH | Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (Born 1906) |
| 29th of August 1968 | DEATH | Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (Born 1881) |
| 29th of August 1971 | DEATH | Nathan Leopold, American convicted murderer (Leopold and Loeb) (Born 1904) |
| 29th of August 1972 | DEATH | Lale Andersen, German singer (Born 1905) |
| 29th of August 1975 | DEATH | Eamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (Born 1882) |
| 29th of August 1976 | DEATH | Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (Born 1899) |
| 29th of August 1976 | DEATH | Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (Born 1925) |
| 29th of August 1977 | DEATH | Jean Hagen, American actress (Born 1923) |
| 29th of August 1977 | DEATH | Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (Born 1945) |
| 29th of August 1981 | DEATH | Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (Born 1892) |
| 29th of August 1982 | DEATH | Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (Born 1915) |
| 29th of August 1983 | DEATH | Simon Oakland, American actor (Born 1915) |
| 29th of August 1984 | DEATH | Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (Born 1901) |
| 29th of August 1985 | DEATH | Evelyn Ankers, English actress (Born 1918) |
| 29th of August 1987 | DEATH | Lee Marvin, American actor (Born 1924) |
| 29th of August 1987 | DEATH | Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (Born 1914) |
| 29th of August 1989 | DEATH | Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (Born 1909) |
| 29th of August 1991 | DEATH | Libero Grassi, Italian businessman killed by the Mafia (Born 1924) |
| 29th of August 1992 | DEATH | Felix Guattari, French philosopher and social theorist (Born 1930) |
| 29th of August 1992 | DEATH | Teddy Turner, comedian (Born 1917) |
| 29th of August 1995 | DEATH | Frank Perry, American film director (Born 1930) |
| 29th of August 2000 | DEATH | Willie Maddren, English footballer (Born 1951) |
| 29th of August 2001 | DEATH | Graeme "Shirley" Strachan, Australian singer (Skyhooks), TV and radio star (Born 1952) |
| 29th of August 2001 | DEATH | Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (Born 1926) |
| 29th of August 2002 | DEATH | Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (Born 1920) |
| 29th of August 2003 | DEATH | Patrick Procktor, English artist (Born 1936) |
| 29th of August 2003 | DEATH | Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (Born 1939) |
| 29th of August 2003 | DEATH | Michel Constantin, French film actor (Born 1924) |
| 29th of August 2004 | DEATH | Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (Born 1942) |
| 29th of August 2007 | DEATH | Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (Born 1916) |
| 29th of August 2007 | DEATH | Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (Born 1962) |
| 29th of August 2007 | DEATH | Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (Born 1920) |
| 29th of August 2007 | DEATH | James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (Born 1914) |
| 29th of August 2008 | DEATH | Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer (Born 1953) |
| 29th of August 2008 | DEATH | Michael Schoenberg, Geophysicist (Born 1939) |