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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 29th of December 1170 | EVENT | 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 Roman Catholic Church. |
| 29th of December 1778 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: 3,500 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia. |
| 29th of December 1786 | EVENT | French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened. |
| 29th of December 1812 | EVENT | The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle. |
| 29th of December 1813 | EVENT | British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York during the War of 1812. |
| 29th of December 1835 | EVENT | The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States. |
| 29th of December 1845 | EVENT | According with International Boundary delimitation, U.S.A annexes the Mexican state of Texas, following the Manifest Destiny doctrine. For others, the Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution of 1836, is admitted as the 28th U.S. state. |
| 29th of December 1851 | EVENT | The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 29th of December 1860 | EVENT | The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched. |
| 29th of December 1876 | EVENT | The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio. |
| 29th of December 1890 | EVENT | United States soldiers kill more than 200 Oglala Lakota people with four Hotchkiss guns in the Wounded Knee Massacre. |
| 29th of December 1911 | EVENT | Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912. |
| 29th of December 1911 | EVENT | Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty. |
| 29th of December 1914 | EVENT | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialised in The Egoist. |
| 29th of December 1930 | EVENT | Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan. |
| 29th of December 1934 | EVENT | Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930. |
| 29th of December 1937 | EVENT | The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution. |
| 29th of December 1939 | EVENT | First flight of the Consolidated B-24. |
| 29th of December 1940 | EVENT | World War II: In The Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, killing almost 200 civilians. |
| 29th of December 1949 | EVENT | KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule. |
| 29th of December 1959 | EVENT | Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology; the Lisbon Metro begins operation. |
| 29th of December 1966 | EVENT | The Beatles start the recording session that would become the hit single Penny Lane at Abbey Road Studio. |
| 29th of December 1972 | EVENT | An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed Tristar) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101. |
| 29th of December 1975 | EVENT | A bomb explodes at La Guardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74. |
| 29th of December 1989 | EVENT | Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees. |
| 29th of December 1992 | EVENT | Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached. |
| 29th of December 1996 | EVENT | Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war. |
| 29th of December 1997 | EVENT | Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain. |
| 29th of December 1998 | EVENT | Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million lives. |
| 29th of December 2001 | EVENT | A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291. |
| 29th of December 2003 | EVENT | The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct. |
| 29th of December 1709 | BIRTHDAY | Empress Elizabeth of Russia (d. 1762) |
| 29th of December 1721 | BIRTHDAY | Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1764) |
| 29th of December 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877) |
| 29th of December 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Goodyear, American inventor (d. 1860) |
| 29th of December 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875) |
| 29th of December 1809 | BIRTHDAY | William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898) |
| 29th of December 1816 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895) |
| 29th of December 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth of Wied, queen of Romania and novelist (d. 1916) |
| 29th of December 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician (d. 1894) |
| 29th of December 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Venustiano Carranza, 54th President of Mexico (d. 1920) |
| 29th of December 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Amrhein, German rugby player (death year unknown) |
| 29th of December 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Pau Casals, Catalan musician (d. 1973) |
| 29th of December 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968) |
| 29th of December 1896 | BIRTHDAY | David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (d. 1974) |
| 29th of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist leader (d. 1992) |
| 29th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1957) |
| 29th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian (d. 1993) |
| 29th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Coase, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 29th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Tucker, Australian artist (d. 1999) |
| 29th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Tipton, American musician (d. 1989) |
| 29th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Osmanski, American football player (d. 1996) |
| 29th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Bradley, American politician (d. 1998) |
| 29th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Ramanand Sagar, Indian film director (d. 2005) |
| 29th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Viveca Lindfors, Swedish-American actress (d. 1995) |
| 29th of December 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (d. 2006) |
| 29th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998) |
| 29th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Dye, American golf course architect |
| 29th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985) |
| 29th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Cribbins, British actor |
| 29th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Gu of Korea (d. 2005) |
| 29th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Inga Swenson, American actress |
| 29th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995) |
| 29th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998) |
| 29th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Tyler Moore, American actress |
| 29th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Huizenga, American football team owner |
| 29th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Steele, British actress |
| 29th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Smith, English showjumper |
| 29th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Voight, American actor |
| 29th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Thomas, British musician (The Moody Blues) |
| 29th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Danko, Canadian musician (The Band) (d. 1999) |
| 29th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor |
| 29th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Aucoin, American rock band manager (d. 2010) |
| 29th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Marianne Faithfull, British singer |
| 29th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Danson, American actor |
| 29th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Cozy Powell, English rock drummer (d. 1998) |
| 29th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Winter, British actor (d. 1998) |
| 29th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Robinson, Northern Ireland politician |
| 29th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Syed Kirmani, Indian cricket player |
| 29th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | David Topliss, English rugby league player |
| 29th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Polito, American actor |
| 29th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Yvonne Elliman, American disco singer |
| 29th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (d. 2007) |
| 29th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Gelsey Kirkland, American dancer |
| 29th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Rusbridger, British newspaper editor |
| 29th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Tookie Williams, American murderer (d. 2005) |
| 29th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Gali Atari, Israeli singer and actress |
| 29th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Takamado of Japan (d. 2002) |
| 29th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Voudouris, American singer (d. 2003) |
| 29th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Fred MacAulay, Scottish comedian |
| 29th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Rudnick, American screenwriter/playwright |
| 29th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Grey, American film producer |
| 29th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy J. Currie, American astronaut |
| 29th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Clarkson, American actress |
| 29th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Poundstone, American comedian |
| 29th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | David Boon, Australian Cricketer |
| 29th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Kandegas, American Painter |
| 29th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Lubanga, Congolese political activist |
| 29th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Katerina Didaskalou, Greek actress |
| 29th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Reid, Scottish singer (The Jesus and Mary Chain, Freeheat) |
| 29th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Granata, American college educator (d. 2007) |
| 29th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Devon White, Jamaican baseball player |
| 29th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Bustamante, Filipino billiard player |
| 29th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Des Foy, British rugby league player |
| 29th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Payton, American football coach |
| 29th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Dave McKean, British artist and filmmaker |
| 29th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Dexter Holland, American musician (The Offspring) |
| 29th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Stefano Eranio, Italian footballer |
| 29th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Laurent Boudouani French Boxer |
| 29th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Offiah, former rugby league footballer |
| 29th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Barnes, American singer |
| 29th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Wachowski, American director |
| 29th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ashleigh Banfield, Canadian journalist |
| 29th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Seinfeld, American musician (Biohazard) and actor |
| 29th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Ehle, British - American actress |
| 29th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Allan McNish, Scottish race car driver |
| 29th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Glen Phillips, American musician (Toad The Wet Sprocket) |
| 29th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Hidetoshi Mitsusada, Japanese racing driver |
| 29th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Weisman, American actor |
| 29th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Aled Jones, Welsh singer |
| 29th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Margot Thien, American synchronized swimmer |
| 29th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Asheru, American rapper |
| 29th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Kreis, American soccer player |
| 29th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jude Law, British actor |
| 29th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Leonor Varela, Chilean actress |
| 29th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Theo Epstein, American baseball general manager |
| 29th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Pimp C, American rapper (UGK) (d. 2007) |
| 29th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mekhi Phifer, American actor |
| 29th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Richie Sexson, American baseball player |
| 29th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Shore, film composer |
| 29th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jaret Wright, American baseball player |
| 29th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Filip Kuba, Czech ice hockey player |
| 29th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Danny R. McBride, American actor, writer, and producer |
| 29th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Katherine Moennig, American actress |
| 29th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Journell, American baseball player |
| 29th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Alexis Amore, Peruvian pornographic actress |
| 29th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Carr, Australian rules footballer |
| 29th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kieron Dyer, English footballer |
| 29th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | LaToya London, American singer |
| 29th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Kemp, British musician (Hard-Fi) |
| 29th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Luna, Mexican actor |
| 29th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ariel Schrag, American Cartoonist |
| 29th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mitsuhiro Ishida, Japanese mixed-martial arts fighter |
| 29th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater |
| 29th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Shaun Suisham, American football player |
| 29th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Morris, Australian rules footballer |
| 29th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Gabrielle Destroismaisons, Quebec singer |
| 29th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Andrews, American country/pop singer |
| 29th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Alison Brie, American actress |
| 29th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | James Kelly, Australian rules footballer |
| 29th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Gonzalo Olave, Chilean television actor (d. 2009) |
| 29th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Cho Cho Cheng, Chinese American fashion designer |
| 29th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Anyon, English footballer |
| 29th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and model |
| 29th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Yuhi Sekiguchi, Japanese racing driver |
| 29th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Agnes Szavay, Hungarian tennis player |
| 29th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Berry, American football player |
| 29th of December 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Kako of Akishino of Japan |
| 29th of December 0721 | DEATH | Empress Gemmei of Japan (Born 661) |
| 29th of December 1170 | DEATH | Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (Born 1118) |
| 29th of December 1563 | DEATH | Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (Born 1515) |
| 29th of December 1634 | DEATH | John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (Born 1612) |
| 29th of December 1661 | DEATH | Antoine Gerard de Saint-Amant, French poet (Born 1594) |
| 29th of December 1689 | DEATH | Thomas Sydenham, English physician (Born 1624) |
| 29th of December 1731 | DEATH | Brook Taylor, English mathematician (Born 1685) |
| 29th of December 1737 | DEATH | Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (Born 1659) |
| 29th of December 1785 | DEATH | Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (Born 1742) |
| 29th of December 1825 | DEATH | Jacques-Louis David, French painter (Born 1748) |
| 29th of December 1891 | DEATH | Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (Born 1823) |
| 29th of December 1894 | DEATH | Christina Rossetti, English poet (Born 1830) |
| 29th of December 1897 | DEATH | William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (Born 1812) |
| 29th of December 1916 | DEATH | Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (Born 1869) |
| 29th of December 1924 | DEATH | Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1845) |
| 29th of December 1926 | DEATH | Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer (Born 1875) |
| 29th of December 1929 | DEATH | Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (Born 1846) |
| 29th of December 1934 | DEATH | Alma Tell, American stage and film actress (Born 1898) |
| 29th of December 1937 | DEATH | Don Marquis, American author (Born 1878) |
| 29th of December 1941 | DEATH | Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (Born 1873) |
| 29th of December 1953 | DEATH | Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress(Born 1887) |
| 29th of December 1959 | DEATH | Robin Milford, British composer (Born 1903) |
| 29th of December 1960 | DEATH | Philippe Panneton, Quebec physician, diplomat and writer (Born 1895) |
| 29th of December 1960 | DEATH | Eden Phillpotts, British writer (Born 1862) |
| 29th of December 1967 | DEATH | Paul Whiteman, American musician and conductor (Born 1890) |
| 29th of December 1968 | DEATH | Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (Born 1904) |
| 29th of December 1970 | DEATH | Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (Born 1909) |
| 29th of December 1976 | DEATH | Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete (Born 1954) |
| 29th of December 1980 | DEATH | Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (Born 1899) |
| 29th of December 1980 | DEATH | Tim Hardin, American musician (Born 1941) |
| 29th of December 1981 | DEATH | Miroslav Krleza, Croatian writer (Born 1893) |
| 29th of December 1986 | DEATH | Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1894) |
| 29th of December 1986 | DEATH | Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director (Born 1932) |
| 29th of December 1988 | DEATH | Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (Born 1940) |
| 29th of December 1993 | DEATH | Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor (Born 1930) |
| 29th of December 1995 | DEATH | Lita Grey, American actress (Born 1908) |
| 29th of December 1996 | DEATH | Mireille Hartuch, French singer and actress (Born 1906) |
| 29th of December 1998 | DEATH | Jean-Claude Forest, writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella) (Born 1930) |
| 29th of December 1999 | DEATH | Leon Radzinowicz, British criminologist (Born 1906) |
| 29th of December 2001 | DEATH | Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (Born 1908) |
| 29th of December 2001 | DEATH | Cassia Eller, Brazilian musician (Born 1962) |
| 29th of December 2003 | DEATH | Earl Hindman, American actor (Born 1942) |
| 29th of December 2003 | DEATH | Dinsdale Landen, English actor (Born 1932) |
| 29th of December 2003 | DEATH | Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (Born 1928) |
| 29th of December 2004 | DEATH | Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1912) |
| 29th of December 2004 | DEATH | Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (Born 1947) |
| 29th of December 2004 | DEATH | Ken Burkhart, American baseball player (Born 1915) |
| 29th of December 2005 | DEATH | Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (Born 1922) |
| 29th of December 2007 | DEATH | Kevin Greening, British radio presenter (Born 1962) |
| 29th of December 2007 | DEATH | Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (Born 1972) |
| 29th of December 2008 | DEATH | Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpet player (Born 1938) |
| 29th of December 2009 | DEATH | "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, American former professional wrestler and football player (Born 1960) |
| 29th of December 2009 | DEATH | Akmal Shaikh, British drug trafficker, executed by lethal injection in the People's Republic of China (Born 1956) |
| 29th of December 2010 | DEATH | Bill Erwin, American actor (Born 1914) |