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December 29 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are two days remaining until the end of the year.
1170 – Thomas Becket , Archbishop of Canterbury , is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II ; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church .
1427 – The Ming army begins its withdraw from Hanoi , ending the Chinese domination of Đại Việt .
1508 – Portuguese forces under the command of Francisco de Almeida attack Khambhat at the Battle of Dabul .
1778 – American Revolutionary War : 3,000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia .
1786 – French Revolution : The Assembly of Notables is convened.
1812 – The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge , captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three-hour battle.
1835 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
1845 – In accordance with International Boundary delimitation , the United States annexes the Republic of Texas , following the manifest destiny doctrine. The Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution of 1836, is thereupon admitted as the 28th U.S. state .
1851 – The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts .
1860 – The first British seagoing ironclad warship , HMS Warrior is launched.
1876 – The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio .
1890 – Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation , 300 Lakota killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment .
1911 – Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty , enthroning 9th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia .
1911 – Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China ; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.
1916 – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , the first novel by James Joyce , was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).
1930 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal 's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan .
1934 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution .
1939 – First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator .
1940 – World War II : In the Second Great Fire of London , the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England , UK, killing almost 200 civilians.
1949 – KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
1959 – Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom ", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology .
1959 – The Lisbon Metro begins operation.
1972 – An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar ) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport , Florida , killing 101.
1975 – A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
1989 – Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello , president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.
1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war .
1997 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
1998 – Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million lives.
2001 – A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima , Peru , kills at least 291.
2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
2006 – UK settles its Anglo-American loan , post-WWII loan debt.
2012 – A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured.
2013 – A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others.
765 – Ali al-Ridha , Saudi Arabian 8th of the Twelve Imams (d. 818)
1709 – Elizabeth of Russia (d. 1762)
1721 – Madame de Pompadour , French mistress of Louis XV of France (d. 1764)
1796 – Johann Christian Poggendorff , German physicist and journalist (d. 1877)
1800 – Charles Goodyear , American chemist and engineer (d. 1860)
1808 – Andrew Johnson , American general and politician, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
1809 – William Ewart Gladstone , English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898)
1816 – Carl Ludwig , German physician and physiologist (d. 1895)
1843 – Elisabeth of Wied (d. 1916)
1855 – August Kitzberg , Estonian author and poet (d. 1927)
1856 – Thomas Joannes Stieltjes , Dutch-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)
1874 – François Brandt , Dutch rower and bishop (d. 1949)
1876 – Pablo Casals , Catalan cellist and conductor (d. 1973)
1877 – Max Hess , German-American gymnast (d. 1969)
1879 – Billy Mitchell , American general and pilot (d. 1936)
1881 – Scott Leary , American swimmer (d. 1958)
1881 – Jess Willard , American boxer and actor (d. 1968)
1885 – Roman von Ungern-Sternberg , Austrian-Russian general (d. 1921)
1886 – Norman Hallows , English runner (d. 1968)
1895 – Oswald Freisler , German lawyer (d. 1939)
1896 – David Alfaro Siqueiros , Mexican painter (d. 1974)
1899 – Nie Rongzhen , Chinese general and politician, Mayor of Beijing (d. 1992)
1902 – Nels Stewart , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1957)
1904 – Kuvempu , Indian author and poet (d. 1994)
1908 – Helmut Gollwitzer , German theologian and author (d. 1993)
1908 – Magnus Pyke , English scientist and author (d. 1992)
1910 – Ronald Coase , English-American economist, author, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1911 – Klaus Fuchs , German physicist and spy (d. 1988)
1914 – Zainul Abedin , Bangladeshi painter and academic (d. 1976)
1914 – Billy Tipton , American pianist and saxophonist (d. 1989)
1914 – Albert Tucker , Australian painter (d. 1999)
1915 – Bill Osmanski , American football player and coach (d. 1996)
1915 – Robert Ruark , American hunter and author (d. 1965)
1917 – Tom Bradley , American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 38th Mayor of Los Angeles (d. 1998)
1917 – Ramanand Sagar , Indian director and producer (d. 2005)
1919 – Alfred de Grazia , American political scientist and author (d. 2014)
1919 – Roman Vlad , Italian pianist and composer (d. 2013)
1920 – Viveca Lindfors , Swedish actress and singer (d. 1995)
1921 – Robert C. Baker , American chef, invented the chicken nugget (d. 2006)
1921 – Dobrica Ćosić , Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (d. 2014)
1922 – Little Joe Cook , American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
1922 – William Gaddis , American author and academic (d. 1998)
1923 – Cheikh Anta Diop , Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist (d. 1986)
1923 – Shlomo Venezia , Greek-Italian holocaust survivor and author (d. 2012)
1924 – Joe Allbritton , American businessman and publisher, founded the Allbritton Communications Company (d. 2012)
1925 – Pete Dye , American golfer and architect
1927 – Andy Stanfield , American sprinter (d. 1985)
1928 – Bernard Cribbins , English actor, singer, and director
1929 – Matt Murphy , American guitarist (The Blues Brothers )
1931 – Yi Gu , Japanese-American son of Yi Bangja (d. 2005)
1931 – Stasys Stonkus , Lithuanian basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
1932 – Inga Swenson , American actress and singer
1933 – Samuel Brittan , English journalist and author
1934 – Ed Flanders , American actor (d. 1995)
1935 – Virgil Johnson , American singer (The Velvets ) (d. 2013)
1936 – Mary Tyler Moore , American actress and singer
1936 – Ray Nitschke , American football player and actor (d. 1998)
1937 – Wayne Huizenga , American businessman, founded AutoNation
1937 – Barbara Steele , English actress and producer
1938 – Harvey Smith , English horse rider and sportscaster
1938 – Jon Voight , American actor and producer
1940 – Fred Hansen , American pole vaulter and dentist
1941 – Ray Thomas , English singer-songwriter and flute player (The Moody Blues )
1942 – Rick Danko , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Band ) (d. 1999)
1942 – Rajesh Khanna , Indian actor, singer, and producer (d. 2012)
1942 – Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga , Honduran cardinal
1943 – Bill Aucoin , American talent manager (d. 2010)
1943 – Molly Bang , American author and illustrator
1946 – Marianne Faithfull , English singer-songwriter and actress
1947 – Richard Crandall , American physicist and computer scientist (d. 2012)
1947 – Ted Danson , American actor and producer
1947 – Leonhard Lapin , Estonian architect and poet
1947 – Cozy Powell , English drummer, songwriter, and producer (Emerson, Lake & Powell , The Jeff Beck Group , Whitesnake , and Black Sabbath ) (d. 1998)
1947 – David Tanner , English rower and coach
1947 – Vincent Winter , Scottish actor, director, and production manager (d. 1998)
1948 – Peter Robinson , Northern Irish politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland
1949 – Syed Kirmani , Indian cricketer and actor
1949 – David Topliss , English rugby player and coach (d. 2008)
1950 – Jon Polito , American actor
1951 – Yvonne Elliman , American singer-songwriter and actor
1951 – Georges Thurston , Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
1952 – Gelsey Kirkland , American ballerina and choreographer
1953 – Gali Atari , Israeli singer and actress
1953 – Alan Rusbridger , Zambian-English journalist and academic
1953 – Kate Schmidt , American javelin thrower and coach
1953 – Stanley Williams , American gang leader, co-founded the Crips (d. 2005)
1954 – Albrecht Böttcher , German mathematician and author
1954 – Norihito, Prince Takamado of Japan (d. 2002)
1954 – Roger Voudouris , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)
1956 – Fred MacAulay , Scottish comedian and radio host
1957 – Brad Grey , American screenwriter and producer
1957 – Oliver Hirschbiegel , German actor, director, and producer
1957 – Iain Paxton , Scottish rugby player and coach
1957 – Paul Rudnick , American author and screenwriter
1958 – Nancy J. Currie , American colonel, engineer, and astronaut
1959 – Keith Crossan , Irish rugby player
1959 – Patricia Clarkson , American actress
1959 – Ann Demeulemeester , Belgian fashion designer
1959 – Martin Moran , American actor and author
1959 – Milton Ottey , Jamaican-Canadian high jumper and coach
1959 – Paula Poundstone , American comedian, actress, and author
1960 – David Boon , Australian cricketer and referee
1960 – Katerina Didaskalou , Greek actress
1960 – Thomas Lubanga Dyilo , Congolese militia leader, founded the Union of Congolese Patriots
1961 – Kevin Granata , American engineer and academic (d. 2007)
1961 – Jim Reid , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Jesus and Mary Chain and Freeheat )
1961 – Richard Horton , English physician and journalist
1962 – Devon White , Jamaican-American baseball player
1963 – Francisco Bustamante , Filipino billiards player
1963 – Des Foy , English rugby player
1963 – Dave McKean , English illustrator, photographer, director, and pianist
1963 – Sean Payton , American football player and coach
1963 – Liisa Savijarvi , Canadian skier
1965 – Dexter Holland , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Offspring )
1965 – Danilo Pérez , Panamanian pianist and composer
1966 – Laurent Boudouani , French boxer
1966 – Stefano Eranio , Italian footballer and coach
1966 – Martin Offiah , English rugby player and sportscaster
1967 – Ashleigh Banfield , Canadian-American journalist
1967 – Chris Barnes , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Six Feet Under , Cannibal Corpse , and Torture Killer )
1967 – Evan Seinfeld , American bass player, actor, and director (Biohazard and Damnocracy )
1969 – Jennifer Ehle , American actress
1969 – Allan McNish , Scottish race car driver
1969 – José Antonio Noriega , Mexican footballer
1970 – Aled Jones , Welsh singer and television host
1970 – Hidetoshi Mitsusada , Japanese race car driver
1970 – Glen Phillips , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Toad the Wet Sprocket and Works Progress Administration )
1970 – Kevin Weisman , American actor
1971 – Um Sang-hyun , South Korean voice actor
1971 – Margot Thien , American swimmer
1972 – Asheru , American rapper
1972 – Jason Kreis , American soccer player and manager
1972 – Jude Law , English actor, director, and producer
1972 – Leonor Varela , Chilean-American actress
1973 – Pimp C , American rapper and producer (UGK ) (d. 2007)
1973 – Theo Epstein , American businessman
1974 – Twinkle Khanna , Indian actress and producer
1974 – Mekhi Phifer , American actor and producer
1974 – Richie Sexson , American baseball player
1974 – Ryan Shore , Canadian composer and producer
1975 – Shawn Hatosy , American actor
1975 – Jaret Wright , American baseball player
1976 – Filip Kuba , Czech ice hockey player
1976 – Danny McBride , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – Jimmy Journell , American baseball player
1977 – Katherine Moennig , American actress
1978 – Alexis Amore , Peruvian-American porn actress and director
1978 – Jake Berry , English lawyer and politician
1978 – Matthew Carr , Australian footballer
1978 – Pierre Dagenais , Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – Kieron Dyer , English footballer and coach
1978 – Danny Higginbotham , English footballer
1978 – Steve Kemp , English drummer (Hard-Fi )
1978 – LaToya London , American singer and actress
1978 – Angelo Taylor , American hurdler and sprinter
1979 – Mitsuhiro Ishida , Japanese mixed martial artist
1979 – Diego Luna , Mexican actor, director, and producer
1979 – Ariel Schrag , American cartoonist and screenwriter
1981 – Shizuka Arakawa , Japanese figure skater and sportscaster
1981 – Shaun Suisham , American football player
1981 – Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko , Estonian footballer
1982 – Alison Brie , American actress and singer
1982 – Gabrielle Destroismaisons , Canadian singer
1982 – Brian Hill , Canadian swimmer
1982 – Dale Morris , Australian footballer
1982 – Norbert Siedler , Austrian racing driver
1983 – Jessica Andrews , American singer-songwriter
1983 – James Kelly , Australian footballer
1983 – Gonzalo Olave , Chilean actor (d. 2009)
1984 – Reimo Tamm , Estonian basketball player
1985 – Wang Ji-hye , South Korean actress
1985 – Alexa Ray Joel , American singer-songwriter and pianist
1986 – Joe Anyon , English footballer
1986 – Kim Ok-bin , South Korean actress and singer
1987 – Yuhi Sekiguchi , Japanese race car driver
1988 – Eric Berry , American football player
1988 – Ágnes Szávay , Hungarian tennis player
1989 – Left Brain , American rapper and producer (Odd Future and MellowHype )
1989 – Jane Levy , American actress
1989 – Kei Nishikori , Japanese tennis player
1990 – Allen Kim , South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (U-KISS and Xing)
1992 – Katsuhiro Suzuki , Japanese actor and model
1994 – Princess Kako of Akishino
1995 – Rina Ikoma , Japanese singer (Nogizaka46 and AKB48 )
1995 – Ross Lynch , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (R5 )
1998 – Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick , American actor
721 – Empress Genmei of Japan (b. 660)
1170 – Thomas Becket , English archbishop (b. 1118)
1563 – Sebastian Castellio , French preacher and theologian (b. 1515)
1565 – Queen Munjeong of Korea (b. 1501)
1634 – John Albert Vasa , Polish cardinal (b. 1612)
1661 – Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant , French poet (b. 1594)
1689 – Thomas Sydenham , English physician and author (b. 1624)
1720 – Maria Margarethe Kirch , German astronomer (b. 1670)
1731 – Brook Taylor , English mathematician and theorist (b. 1685)
1737 – Joseph Saurin , French minister and mathematician (b. 1659)
1785 – Johan Herman Wessel , Norwegian-Danish poet and playwright (b. 1742)
1825 – Jacques-Louis David , French painter and illustrator (b. 1748)
1887 – Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann , Estonian-Russian linguist and botanist (b. 1805)
1891 – Leopold Kronecker , Polish-German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)
1894 – Christina Rossetti , English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830)
1897 – William James Linton , English-American painter, author, and activist (b. 1812)
1910 – Reginald Doherty , English tennis player (b. 1872)
1924 – Carl Spitteler , Swiss poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
1926 – Rainer Maria Rilke , Austrian author and poet (b. 1875)
1929 – Wilhelm Maybach , German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (b. 1846)
1934 – Alma Tell , American actress (b. 1898)
1937 – Don Marquis , American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1878)
1941 – Tullio Levi-Civita , Italian mathematician and scholar (b. 1873)
1949 – Tyler Dennett , American historian and author (b. 1883)
1952 – Fletcher Henderson , American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1897)
1953 – Violet MacMillan , American actress (b. 1887)
1959 – Robin Milford , English composer (b. 1903)
1960 – Eden Phillpotts , English author and poet (b. 1862)
1967 – Paul Whiteman , American violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1890)
1968 – Austin Farrer , English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)
1970 – Marie Menken , American director and painter (b. 1909)
1972 – Joseph Cornell , American artist (b. 1903)
1972 – Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos , Greek priest and missionary (b. 1903)
1976 – Ivo Van Damme , Belgian runner (b. 1954)
1980 – Tim Hardin , American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
1980 – Nadezhda Mandelstam , Russian author and educator (b. 1899)
1981 – Miroslav Krleža , Croatian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
1984 – Indus Arthur , American actress and singer (b. 1941)
1986 – Harold Macmillan , English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
1986 – Andrei Tarkovsky , Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
1988 – Mike Beuttler , Egyptian race car driver (b. 1940)
1989 – Süreyya Ağaoğlu , Azerbaijani-Turkish lawyer and jurist (b. 1903)
1993 – Frunzik Mkrtchyan , Armenian actor (b. 1930)
1995 – Lita Grey , American actress (b. 1908)
1996 – Mireille Hartuch , French singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1906)
1998 – Jean-Claude Forest , French author and illustrator (b. 1930)
1999 – Leon Radzinowicz , Polish-English criminologist and academic (b. 1906)
2000 – Adele Stimmel Chase , American artist (b. 1917)
2001 – Takashi Asahina , Japanese conductor (b. 1908)
2001 – Cássia Eller , Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)
2002 – Ralph Clanton , American actor (d. 1914)
2003 – Earl Hindman , American actor (b. 1942)
2003 – Dinsdale Landen , English actor (b. 1932)
2003 – Bob Monkhouse , English comedian, actor, and game show host (b. 1928)
2004 – Julius Axelrod , American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
2004 – Ken Burkhart , American baseball player and umpire (b. 1915)
2004 – Liddy Holloway , New Zealand actress and screenwriter (b. 1947)
2005 – Gerda Boyesen , Norwegian-English psychotherapist and author (b. 1922)
2007 – Kevin Greening , English radio host (b. 1962)
2007 – Phil O'Donnell , Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
2008 – Freddie Hubbard , American trumpet player and composer (b. 1938)
2009 – Akmal Shaikh , Pakistani-English businessman and drug trafficker (b. 1956)
2009 – "Dr. Death" Steve Williams , American football player and wrestler (b. 1960)
2010 – Avi Cohen , Israeli footballer, manager and chairman of the Israel Professional Footballers Association (b. 1956)
2010 – Bill Erwin , American actor (b. 1914)
2011 – Tyron Perez , Filipino model and actor (b. 1985)
2012 – Mike Auldridge , American singer and guitarist (The Seldom Scene and Chesapeake ) (b. 1938)
2012 – Tony Greig , South African-Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1946)
2012 – Roland Griffiths-Marsh , Malaysian-Australian soldier and author (b. 1923)
2012 – Edward Meneeley , American painter and sculptor (b. 1927)
2012 – Paulo Rocha , Portuguese director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
2012 – Bruce Stark , American cartoonist (b. 1933)
2013 – C. T. Hsia , Chinese-American critic and scholar (b. 1921)
2013 – Benjamin Curtis , American guitarist, drummer, and songwriter (Secret Machines , School of Seven Bells , Tripping Daisy , and UFOFU ) (b. 1978)
2013 – Connie Dierking , American basketball player (b. 1936)
2013 – Wojciech Kilar , Ukrainian-Polish pianist and composer (b. 1932)
2013 – Jagadish Mohanty , Indian author (b. 1951)
2013 – Mike O'Connor , German-American journalist (b. 1946)
2013 – Paul Sally , American mathematician and academic (b. 1933)
2013 – Eero Mäntyranta , Finnish skier and multiple Olympic champion (b. 1937)
2014 – Saiyid Hamid , Indian academic and diplomat (b. 1920)
2014 – Hari Harilela , Indian-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist (b. 1922)
2014 – Odd Iversen , Norwegian footballer (b. 1945)
2014 – Jenny Pat , Hong Kong illustrator and art dealer (b. 1981)
2014 – Juanito Remulla, Sr. , Filipino lawyer and politician, Governor of Cavite (b. 1933)
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