August 29 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 29, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Peridot
Birth flower
Gladiolus
How common
#12 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 29 birthdays
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. · American poet and physician1809
Maurice Maeterlinck · Belgian playwright and essayist1862
Albert Lebrun · 15th President of the French Republic1871
Ingrid Bergman · Swedish actress1915
Charlie Parker · American jazz saxophonist1920
Richard Attenborough · British actor1923
Dinah Washington · American singer1924
William Friedkin · American director and producer1935
John McCain · American politician1936
Elliott Gould · American actor1938
Joel Schumacher · American director, screenwriter, and producer1939
Bob Beamon · American track and field athlete1946
Temple Grandin · American doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist1947
Michael Jackson · American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer1958
Rebecca De Mornay · American actress1959
Stephen Wolfram · British-American scientist and businessman1959
Carla Gugino · American actress1971
Lea Michele · American actress and singer1986
Nicole Gale Anderson · American actress1990
Liam Payne · English singer-songwriter1993
On this day in history
1786Angered by high tax burdens and disfranchisement, farmers in western Massachusetts led by Daniel Shays began an armed uprising against the U.S. federal government.
1911The last member of the Yahi, known as Ishi, emerged from the wilderness near Oroville, California, to join European American society.
1916Congress passed the Philippine Autonomy Act, the first formal and official declaration of the U.S.'s commitment to grant independence to the Philippines.
2016Chen Quanguo became the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, and in that role later oversaw the creation of the Xinjiang internment camps.
1915US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
1952American experimental composer John Cage's 4’33” premieres at Maverick Concert Hall, played by American pianist David Tudor.
1958United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1959Mona Best opened the Casbah Coffee Club with a performance by the Quarrymen, the precursor of the Beatles.
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