July 29

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2016 (Friday)

2015 (Wednesday)

July 29 is the 210th day of the year (211th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 155 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 238 – The Praetorian Guard storm the palace and capture Pupienus and Balbinus. They are dragged through the streets of Rome and executed. On the same day, Gordian III, age 13, is proclaimed emperor.
• 615 – Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12.
• 904 – Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.
• 1014 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of Kleidion – Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6.
• 1018 – Count Dirk III defeats an army sent by Emperor Henry II in the Battle of Vlaardingen.
• 1030 – Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad – King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
• 1148 – The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the Second Crusade.
• 1565 – The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 1567 – James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
• 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
• 1693 – War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen – France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
• 1793 – John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
• 1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.
• 1848 – Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – In Tipperary, Ireland, then in the United Kingdom, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
• 1851 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
• 1858 – United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
• 1899 – The First Hague Convention is signed.
• 1900 – In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
• 1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9, 1907, and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
• 1913 – The Norwegian football club Vålerenga Fotball was founded.
• 1914 – The Cape Cod Canal opened.
• 1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
• 1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
• 1932 – Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
• 1937 – Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.
• 1945 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
• 1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
• 1950 – Korean War: After four days, the No Gun Ri Massacre ends when the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment is withdrawn.
• 1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
• 1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
• 1959 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
• 1967 – Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
• 1967 – During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
• 1973 – Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
• 1973 – During the Dutch Grand Prix driver Roger Williamson was killed in the race, after a suspected tire failure caused the car to pitch into the barriers at high speed.
• 1976 – In New York City, David Berkowitz (aka the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
• 1980 – Iran adopts a new "holy" flag after the Islamic Revolution.
• 1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
• 1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
• 1987 – Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
• 1993 – The Supreme Court of Israel acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
• 1996 – The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.
• 2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.

Births

• 869 – Muhammad al-Mahdi, Iraqi 12th Imam (d. 941)
• 1166 – Henry II, Count of Champagne (d. 1197)
• 1605 – Simon Dach, German poet (d. 1659)
• 1646 – Johann Theile, German composer (d. 1724)
• 1763 – Philip Charles Durham, Scottish admiral (d. 1845)
• 1797 – Daniel Drew, American businessman and financier (d. 1879)
• 1801 – George Bradshaw, English cartographer and publisher (d. 1853)
• 1805 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and philosopher (d. 1859)
• 1806 – Horace Abbott, American businessman and banker (d. 1887)
• 1817 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian-Russian painter (d. 1900)
• 1817 – Martin Körber, Baltic German pastor, composer, and conductor (d. 1893)
• 1843 – Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
• 1846 – Sophie Menter, German pianist and composer (d. 1918)
• 1846 – Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (d. 1921)
• 1849 – Max Nordau, Hungarian physician, author, and critic, co-founded the World Zionist Organization (d. 1923)
• 1860 – Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (d. 1940)
• 1869 – Booth Tarkington, American author and playwright (d. 1946)
• 1872 – Eric Alfred Knudsen, American author, lawyer, and politician (d. 1957)
• 1874 – Auguste Giroux, French rugby player (d. 1953)
• 1874 – J. S. Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
• 1876 – Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-American actress (d. 1949)
• 1878 – Don Marquis, American author (d. 1937)
• 1880 – John Meyers, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1971)
• 1883 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and author (d. 1942)
• 1883 – Benito Mussolini, Italian journalist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1945)
• 1884 – Ralph Austin Bard, American financier and politician (d. 1975)
• 1885 – Theda Bara, American actress (d. 1955)
• 1887 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-American pianist and composer (d. 1951)
• 1888 – Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer, invented the Iconoscope (d. 1982)
• 1891 – Bernhard Zondek, German-Israeli gynecologist (d. 1966)
• 1892 – William Powell, American actor and singer (d. 1984)
• 1897 – Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general (d. 1983)
• 1898 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
• 1899 – Walter Beall, American baseball player (d. 1959)
• 1900 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976)
• 1900 – Don Redman, American composer, and bandleader (d. 1964)
• 1904 – Mahasi Sayadaw, Burmese monk (d. 1982)
• 1904 – J. R. D. Tata, French-Indian pilot and businessman, founded Tata Motors and Tata Global Beverages (d. 1993)
• 1905 – Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
• 1905 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
• 1905 – Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
• 1905 – Thelma Todd, American actress and singer (d. 1935)
• 1906 – Diana Vreeland, French-American fashion editor and journalist (d. 1989)
• 1907 – Melvin Belli, American lawyer and actor (d. 1996)
• 1909 – Samm Sinclair Baker, American author (d. 1997)
• 1909 – Chester Himes, American author (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Helend Peep, Estonian actor (d. 2007)
• 1911 – Foster Furcolo, American politician, 60th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Archbishop Iakovos of America (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Erich Priebke, German captain (d. 2013)
• 1914 – Irwin Corey, American comedian, actor, and activist
• 1915 – Bruce R. McConkie, American religious leader (d. 1985)
• 1915 – Francis W. Sargent, American politician, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1998)
• 1916 – Budd Boetticher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
• 1916 – Charlie Christian, American guitarist (d. 1942)
• 1917 – Rochus Misch, German SS officer (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Edwin O'Connor, American journalist and author (d. 1968)
• 1918 – Mary Lee Settle, American author (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican-American actor (d. 1974)
• 1920 – Neville Jeffress, Australian businessman, founded Sentia Media (d. 2007)
• 1921 – Richard Egan, American actor (d. 1987)
• 1921 – Chris Marker, French photographer and journalist (d. 2012)
• 1923 – George Burditt, American writer and producer (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Jim Marshall, English businessman, founded Marshall Amplification (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Gordon Mitchell, American bodybuilder and actor (d. 2003)
• 1924 – Lloyd Bochner, Canadian-American actor (d. 2005)
• 1924 – Elizabeth Short, American waitress and murder victim (d. 1947)
• 1924 – Robert Horton, American actor
• 1925 – Harold W. Kuhn, American mathematician and academic (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Ted Lindsay, Canadian ice hockey player, manager, and sportscaster
• 1925 – Shivram Dattatreya Phadnis, Indian illustrator
• 1925 – Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
• 1926 – Robert Kilpatrick, British politician and academic
• 1926 – James Wellbeloved, English politician (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (d. 2010)
• 1930 – Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer
• 1932 – Leslie Fielding, British diplomat
• 1932 – Nancy Landon Kassebaum, American politician
• 1933 – Lou Albano, Italian-American wrestler, manager, and actor (d. 2009)
• 1933 – Colin Davis, English race car driver (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Robert Fuller, American actor
• 1935 – Peter Schreier, German tenor and conductor
• 1936 – Elizabeth Dole, American politician, 20th United States Secretary of Labor
• 1937 – Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
• 1938 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist (d. 2005)
• 1938 – Jean Rochon, Canadian politician
• 1941 – Jennifer Dunn, American politician (d. 2007)
• 1941 – Goenawan Mohamad, Indonesian poet and playwright
• 1941 – David Warner, English actor
• 1942 – Tony Sirico, American actor
• 1943 – David Taylor, English snooker player
• 1945 – Sharon Creech, American author
• 1945 – Mircea Lucescu, Romanian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1946 – Ximena Armas, Chilean painter
• 1946 – Stig Blomqvist, Swedish race car driver
• 1946 – Neal Doughty, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (REO Speedwagon)
• 1946 – Alessandro Gogna, Italian mountaineer and adventurer
• 1946 – Diane Keen, English actress
• 1946 – Aleksei Tammiste, Estonian basketball player
• 1947 – Dick Harmon, American golfer and instructor (d. 2006)
• 1947 – Natalie Wheen, British radio presenter
• 1949 – Leslie Easterbrook, American actress
• 1949 – Jamil Mahuad, Ecuadorian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Ecuador
• 1949 – Sergio Martini, Italian mountaineer
• 1950 – Mike Starr, American actor
• 1951 – Susan Blackmore, British psychologist and writer
• 1951 – Dan Driessen, American baseball player and coach
• 1951 – Dean Pitchford, American actor, director, screenwriter, and composer
• 1952 – Norman Blackwell, British businessman and politician
• 1952 – Joe Johnson, English snooker player
• 1952 – Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Greek politician
• 1953 – Ken Burns, American director and producer
• 1953 – Frank McGuiness, Irish playwright
• 1953 – Tim Gunn, American television host and actor
• 1953 – Geddy Lee, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Rush and Big Dirty Band)
• 1953 – Patti Scialfa, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (E Street Band)
• 1955 – Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1955 – Anji Hunter, British public relations officer
• 1955 – Dave Stevens, American illustrator (d. 2008)
• 1955 – Stephen Timms, English politician
• 1956 – Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and sportscaster
• 1956 – Ronnie Musgrove, American politician, 62nd Governor of Mississippi
• 1956 – Faustino Rupérez, Spanish cyclist
• 1957 – Liam Davison, Australian novelist (d. 2014)
• 1957 – Viktor Gavrikov, Lithuanian-Swiss chess player
• 1957 – Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
• 1957 – Alessandra Marc, American soprano
• 1958 – Gail Dines, Anglo-American feminist
• 1958 – Simon Nye, English comedy scriptwriter
• 1958 – Cynthia Rowley, American fashion designer
• 1959 – Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor, singer, and producer
• 1959 – Ruud Janssen, Dutch illustrator
• 1959 – Dave LaPoint, American baseball player and manager
• 1959 – John Sykes, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Tygers of Pan Tang, and Blue Murder)
• 1960 – Didier Van Cauwelaert, French author
• 1962 – Carl Cox, English DJ and producer
• 1962 – Frank Neubarth, German footballer and manager
• 1962 – Vincent Rousseau, Belgian runner
• 1962 – Scott Steiner, American wrestler
• 1963 – Jim Beglin, Irish footballer
• 1963 – Julie Elliott, English politician
• 1963 – Alexandra Paul, American actress and producer
• 1963 – Graham Poll, English footballer, referee, and journalist
• 1963 – Hans-Holger Albrecht, Belgian-born German businessman
• 1964 – Jaanus Veensalu, Estonian footballer
• 1965 – Luis Alicea, Puerto Rican baseball player and coach
• 1965 – Dean Haglund, Canadian actor
• 1965 – Adam Holloway, English politician
• 1965 – Stan Koziol, American soccer player (d. 2014)
• 1965 – Chang-Rae Lee, South Korean-American author
• 1965 – Woody Weatherman, American guitarist and songwriter (Corrosion of Conformity)
• 1966 – Sally Gunnell, English athlete
• 1966 – Richard Steven Horvitz, American voice actor
• 1966 – Stuart Lampitt, English cricketer
• 1966 – Martina McBride, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1968 – Paavo Lötjönen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica)
• 1968 – Rodney Allen Rippy, American actor
• 1969 – Timothy Omundson, American actor
• 1970 – Jonah Falcon, American actor
• 1970 – Adele Griffin, American author
• 1970 – Andi Peters, English journalist, actor, and producer
• 1970 – John Rennie, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1971 – Monica Calhoun, American actress
• 1971 – Bryan Dattilo, American actor
• 1971 – Lisa Ekdahl, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1971 – Andrea Philipp, German sprinter
• 1972 – Wil Wheaton, American actor, screenwriter, and producer
• 1973 – Stephen Dorff, American actor
• 1973 – Wanya Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
• 1973 – Denis Urubko, Kazakh mountaineer
• 1974 – Akram Khan, British dancer
• 1974 – Josh Radnor, American actor
• 1975 – Lanka de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1975 – Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer
• 1975 – Jaanus Sirel, Estonian footballer
• 1977 – Rodney Jerkins, American rapper and producer
• 1978 – Mike Adams, American baseball player
• 1978 – Bidisha, British critic, broadcaster and writer
• 1978 – Silver Eensaar, Estonian orienteer, rogainer and adventure racer
• 1978 – Marina Lazarovska, Macedonian tennis player
• 1979 – Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer
• 1979 – Ronald Murray, American basketball player
• 1979 – Juris Umbraško, Latvian basketball player
• 1980 – Ryan Braun, Canadian-American baseball player
• 1980 – Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
• 1980 – Rachel Miner, American actress and producer
• 1980 – Ben Koller, American drummer (Converge, United Nations, Mutoid Man, and All Pigs Must Die)
• 1981 – Fernando Alonso, Spanish race car driver
• 1981 – Emily Bauer, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1981 – Matt Grice, American mixed martial artist
• 1981 – Dyana Liu, Taiwanese-American actress
• 1981 – Andrés Madrid, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 – Troy Perkins, American soccer player
• 1982 – Prince Azim, Prince of Brunei
• 1982 – Janez Aljančič, Slovenian footballer
• 1982 – Dominic Burgess, English actor
• 1982 – Jônatas Domingos, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 – Allison Mack, American actress
• 1983 – Jason Belmonte, Australian bowler
• 1983 – Kim Dong-wook, South Korean actor
• 1983 – Inés Gómez Mont, Mexican journalist and actress
• 1983 – Tania Gunadi, Indonesian-American actress
• 1983 – Alexei Kaigorodov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Jerious Norwood, American football player
• 1983 – Elise Testone, American singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Oh Beom-Seok, South Korean footballer
• 1984 – Chad Billingsley, American baseball player
• 1984 – Todd Bosley, American actor
• 1984 – Wilson Palacios, Honduran footballer
• 1984 – J. Madison Wright Morris, American actress (d. 2006)
• 1985 – Besart Berisha, Albanian footballer
• 1985 – Simon Santoso, Indonesian badminton player
• 1986 – Adam Weisman, American actor
• 1987 – Sabra Johnson, Dutch-American dancer
• 1987 – Génesis Rodríguez, American actress
• 1988 – Alexander Lee Eusebio, Chinese singer (U-KISS)
• 1988 – Youcef Ghazali, English-Algerian footballer
• 1988 – Sabrina van der Donk, Dutch model, Miss Earth 2006
• 1989 – Grit Šadeiko, Estonian heptathlete
• 1990 – Penny Bae Bridges, American actress
• 1990 – Munro Chambers, Canadian actor
• 1990 – Joey Essex, English reality television personality
• 1990 – Valentina Golubenko, Russian-Croatian chess player
• 1990 – Matt Prokop, American actor
• 1990 – Shin Se-kyung, South Korean actress and singer
• 1990 – Anna Selezneva, Russian model
• 1990 – Joseph Wallace, American murder victim (d. 1993)
• 1991 – Maestro Harrell, American actor and singer
• 1991 – Miki Ishikawa, American actress and singer (T-Squad)
• 1991 – Irakli Logua, Russian footballer
• 1992 – Karen Torrez, Bolivian swimmer
• 1993 – Nicole Melichar, American tennis player
• 1994 – Tjaša Šrimpf, Slovenian tennis player
• 1995 – Kiray, Filipino actress

Deaths

• 238 – Balbinus, Roman emperor (b. 165)
• 238 – Pupienus, Roman emperor (b. 178)
• 1030 – Olaf II of Norway (b. 995)
• 1095 – Ladislaus I of Hungary (b. 1040)
• 1099 – Pope Urban II (b. 1042)
• 1108 – Philip I of France (b. 1052)
• 1507 – Martin Behaim, German-Bohemian geographer and astronomer (b. 1459)
• 1573 – John Caius, English physician (b. 1510)
• 1612 – Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
• 1644 – Pope Urban VIII (b. 1568)
• 1752 – Peter Warren, Irish admiral (b. 1703)
• 1781 – Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
• 1792 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, French politician, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
• 1813 – Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
• 1833 – William Wilberforce, English politician and philanthropist (b. 1759)
• 1839 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1755)
• 1844 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1791)
• 1856 – Robert Schumann, German composer (b. 1810)
• 1857 – Thomas Dick, Scottish minister, astronomer, and author (b. 1774)
• 1887 – Agostino Depretis, Italian politician, 9th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1813)
• 1890 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
• 1895 – Floriano Peixoto, Brazilian general and politician, 2nd President of Brazil (b. 1839)
• 1900 – Umberto I of Italy (b. 1844)
• 1913 – Tobias Asser, Dutch lawyer and jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1838)
• 1918 – Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (b. 1863)
• 1924 – Sotirios Krokidas, Greek educator and politician, 110th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1852)
• 1934 – Didier Pitre, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
• 1938 – Nikolai Krylenko, Russian jurist and politician (b. 1885)
• 1950 – Joe Fry, English race car driver (b. 1915)
• 1954 – Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
• 1962 – Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian-American flute player and educator (b. 1875)
• 1964 – Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1966 – Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian general and politician, 2nd Head of State of Nigeria (b. 1924)
• 1966 – Adekunle Fajuyi, Nigerian colonel (b. 1926)
• 1970 – John Barbirolli, English cellist and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1973 – Norm Smith, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1915)
• 1973 – Roger Williamson, English race car driver (b. 1948)
• 1974 – Cass Elliot, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas, The Big 3, and The Mugwumps) (b. 1941)
• 1974 – Erich Kästner, German author and poet (b. 1899)
• 1976 – Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
• 1979 – Herbert Marcuse, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1898)
• 1979 – Bill Todman, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1916)
• 1981 – Robert Moses, American urban planner, designed the Northern State Parkway and Southern State Parkway (b. 1888)
• 1982 – Harold Sakata, American wrestler and actor (b. 1920)
• 1982 – Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer, invented the Iconoscope (b. 1889)
• 1983 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1983 – Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor (b. 1896)
• 1983 – David Niven, English actor, singer, and producer (b. 1910)
• 1984 – Fred Waring, American television host and bandleader (Waring's Pennsylvanians) (b. 1900)
• 1987 – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author (b. 1894)
• 1990 – Bruno Kreisky, Austrian politician, 22nd Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
• 1992 – Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1952)
• 1994 – John Britton, American physician (b. 1925)
• 1994 – Dorothy Hodgkin, Egyptian-English biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1995 – Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1917)
• 1996 – Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
• 1996 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (b. 1920)
• 1996 – Jason Thirsk, American singer and bass player (Pennywise and Humble Gods) (b. 1967)
• 1998 – Jerome Robbins, American director, producer, and choreographer (b. 1918)
• 2001 – Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
• 2001 – Wau Holland, German hacker, co-founded Chaos Computer Club (b. 1951)
• 2003 – Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean soldier, founded the Revolutionary United Front (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Mike Reid, English comedian, actor, and author (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Michel Serrault, French actor (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Tom Snyder, American journalist (b. 1936)
• 2007 – Marvin Zindler, American journalist (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Ishmeet Singh, Indian singer (b. 1988)
• 2009 – Gayatri Devi, English-Indian wife of Sawai Man Singh II (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Charles E. Wicks, American chemist and academic (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Amos Degani, Israeli politician (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Tatiana Egorova, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1970)
• 2012 – John P. Finnegan, American actor (b. 1926)
• 2012 – August Kowalczyk, Polish actor and director (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Chris Marker, French photographer and journalist (b. 1921)
• 2012 – James Mellaart, English archaeologist and author (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Vempati Chinna Satyam, Indian dancer and guru (b. 1929)
• 2012 – John Stampe, Danish footballer and coach (b. 1957)
• 2013 – Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1986)
• 2013 – Bobby Crespino, American football player (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Peter Flanigan, American banker and civil servant (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Tony Gaze, Australian pilot (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Munir Hussain, Indian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Draga Matkovic, Croatian-German pianist (b. 1907)
• 2013 – Ole Henrik Moe, Norwegian pianist, historian, and critic (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Lupus of Troyes
  • Martha of Bethany (Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran Church)
  • Olaf II of Norway
  • Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix
  • July 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• International Tiger Day
• National Anthem Day (Romania)
• National Thai Language Day (Thailand)
• Ólavsøka, opening of the Løgting session. (Faroe Islands)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada