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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 29th of July 0238 | EVENT | The Praetorian Guard stormed 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. |
| 29th of July 0615 | EVENT | Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at age 12. |
| 29th of July 0904 | EVENT | Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessalonica, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week. |
| 29th of July 1014 | EVENT | 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 several months later, on October 6. |
| 29th of July 1030 | EVENT | Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad : King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes. |
| 29th of July 1565 | EVENT | The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| 29th of July 1567 | EVENT | James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling. |
| 29th of July 1588 | EVENT | 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. |
| 29th of July 1693 | EVENT | War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen : France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands. |
| 29th of July 1793 | EVENT | John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there. |
| 29th of July 1830 | EVENT | Abdication of Charles X of France. |
| 29th of July 1836 | EVENT | Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. |
| 29th of July 1847 | EVENT | Cumberland School of Law is founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States, one of only 15 law schools to exist in the United States at the end of 1847. |
| 29th of July 1848 | EVENT | Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt : in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police. |
| 29th of July 1851 | EVENT | Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia. |
| 29th of July 1858 | EVENT | United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty. |
| 29th of July 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.. |
| 29th of July 1899 | EVENT | The First Hague Convention is signed. |
| 29th of July 1900 | EVENT | In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci. |
| 29th of July 1901 | EVENT | The Socialist Party of America is founded. |
| 29th of July 1907 | EVENT | 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. |
| 29th of July 1920 | EVENT | Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project. |
| 29th of July 1921 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. |
| 29th of July 1932 | EVENT | Great Depression: in Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans. |
| 29th of July 1937 | EVENT | Tongzhou Incident: in Tongzhou (China), the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians. |
| 29th of July 1945 | EVENT | The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music. |
| 29th of July 1948 | EVENT | 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. |
| 29th of July 1957 | EVENT | The International Atomic Energy Agency is established. |
| 29th of July 1958 | EVENT | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). |
| 29th of July 1959 | EVENT | First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union. |
| 29th of July 1965 | EVENT | Vietnam War: the first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. |
| 29th of July 1967 | EVENT | 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. |
| 29th of July 1967 | EVENT | During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead. |
| 29th of July 1976 | EVENT | 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. |
| 29th of July 1981 | EVENT | 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. |
| 29th of July 1987 | EVENT | British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France Francois Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel). |
| 29th of July 1987 | EVENT | Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Lankan Pact on ethnic issues. |
| 29th of July 1988 | EVENT | The film Cry Freedom is seized by South African authorities. |
| 29th of July 1993 | EVENT | The Israeli Supreme Court acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free. |
| 29th of July 1996 | EVENT | The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad . |
| 29th of July 2005 | EVENT | Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris. |
| 29th of July 1166 | BIRTHDAY | Henry II, Count of Champagne and King of Jerusalem (d. 1197) |
| 29th of July 1605 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Dach, German poet (d. 1659) |
| 29th of July 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Charles Durham, Scottish Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1845) |
| 29th of July 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Drew, American financier (d. 1879) |
| 29th of July 1801 | BIRTHDAY | George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853) |
| 29th of July 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political scientist (d. 1859) |
| 29th of July 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Horace Abbott, American iron manufacturer (d. 1887) |
| 29th of July 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian-Russian painter (d. 1900) |
| 29th of July 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901) |
| 29th of July 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (d. 1921) |
| 29th of July 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Max Nordau, Austrian-Hungarian writer and Zionist leader (d. 1923) |
| 29th of July 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist (d. 1946) |
| 29th of July 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957) |
| 29th of July 1874 | BIRTHDAY | James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942) |
| 29th of July 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born American actress (d. 1949) |
| 29th of July 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Don Marquis, American author (d. 1937) |
| 29th of July 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator (d. 1945) |
| 29th of July 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942) |
| 29th of July 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975) |
| 29th of July 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Theda Bara, American film actress (d. 1955) |
| 29th of July 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born American composer (d. 1951) |
| 29th of July 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Bernhard Zondek German-born Israeli gynecologist, developer of first reliable pregnancy test (d. 1966) |
| 29th of July 1892 | BIRTHDAY | William Powell, American actor (d. 1984) |
| 29th of July 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983) |
| 29th of July 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988) |
| 29th of July 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Beall, American baseball player (d. 1959) |
| 29th of July 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Don Redman, American jazz trumpeter, oboist and pianist (d. 1964) |
| 29th of July 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976) |
| 29th of July 1904 | BIRTHDAY | J. R. D. Tata, France-born Indian aviation pioneer and industrialist (d. 1993) |
| 29th of July 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965) |
| 29th of July 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish 2nd UN Secretary-General, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (d. 1961) |
| 29th of July 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Thelma Todd, American actress (d. 1935) |
| 29th of July 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006) |
| 29th of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Vreeland, French-born American fashion editor (d. 1989) |
| 29th of July 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Melvin Belli, American lawyer and actor (d. 1996) |
| 29th of July 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Chester Himes, American novelist (d. 1984) |
| 29th of July 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Archbishop Iakovos of America, Turkish-born Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America (d. 2005) |
| 29th of July 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Foster Furcolo, 60th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1995) |
| 29th of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Erich Priebke, German Nazi war criminal |
| 29th of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Irwin Corey, American stand-up comedian |
| 29th of July 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1998) |
| 29th of July 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce R. McConkie, American Mormon apostle and writer (d. 1985) |
| 29th of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Christian, American jazz guitarist (d. 1942) |
| 29th of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Budd Boetticher, American film director (d. 2001) |
| 29th of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Rochus Misch, German courier, bodyguard and telephone operator for Adolf Hitler, the last survivor of the Fuhrerbunker |
| 29th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1968) |
| 29th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Neville Jeffress, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia (d. 2007) |
| 29th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican actor (d. 1974) |
| 29th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Egan, American actor (d. 1987) |
| 29th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Marshall, English founder of Marshall Amplification |
| 29th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Mitchell, American actor (d. 2003) |
| 29th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005) |
| 29th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Horton, American actor |
| 29th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Short, American waitress, victim in the Black Dahlia case (d. 1947) |
| 29th of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer |
| 29th of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Lindsay, Canadian hockey player |
| 29th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Mulisch, Dutch novelist, playwright, essayist and poet |
| 29th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer |
| 29th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Kassebaum Baker, United States Senator from Kansas |
| 29th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Albano, American pro wrestling manager (d. 2009) |
| 29th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Fuller, American actor |
| 29th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Davis, British racing driver |
| 29th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Schreier, German tenor |
| 29th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator from North Carolina |
| 29th of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate |
| 29th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Rochon, Quebec politician |
| 29th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Jennings, Canadian-born American journalist (d. 2005) |
| 29th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | David Warner, English actor |
| 29th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Dunn, American politician (d. 2007) |
| 29th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Sirico, American actor |
| 29th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | David Taylor, English snooker player |
| 29th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Mircea Lucescu, Romanian football manager |
| 29th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ximena Armas, Chilean painter |
| 29th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Diane Keen, English actress |
| 29th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Neal Doughty, American keyboardist (REO Speedwagon) |
| 29th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (d. 2006) |
| 29th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jamil Mahuad, 51st President of Ecuador |
| 29th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Easterbrook, American actress |
| 29th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Starr, American actor |
| 29th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Pitchford, American songwriter, filmmaker and novelist |
| 29th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Driessen, American baseball player |
| 29th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Greek politician |
| 29th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Burns, American producer and director |
| 29th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Patti Scialfa, American singer, guitarist and songwriter |
| 29th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Geddy Lee, Canadian bassist and singer (Rush) |
| 29th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Gunn, American television personality |
| 29th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Stevens, American illustrator |
| 29th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor |
| 29th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Musgrove, 62nd Governor of Mississippi |
| 29th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator |
| 29th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Faustino Ruperez, Spanish cyclist |
| 29th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandra Marc, American operatic soprano |
| 29th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast |
| 29th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor |
| 29th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and Fluxus and mail artist |
| 29th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Dave LaPoint, American baseball player |
| 29th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | John Sykes, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Tygers of Pan Tang) |
| 29th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Rousseau, Belgian long-distance runner |
| 29th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Steiner, American professional wrestler |
| 29th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator |
| 29th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Poll, English football referee |
| 29th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra Paul, American actress |
| 29th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Alicea, Puerto Rico baseball player and coach |
| 29th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born American novelist |
| 29th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Haglund, Canadian actor |
| 29th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Steven Horvitz, American comic voice actor |
| 29th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Martina McBride, American country music singer |
| 29th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Paavo Lotjonen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica) |
| 29th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | John Rennie, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 29th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Andi Peters, British TV presenter |
| 29th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Monica Calhoun, American actress |
| 29th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Dattilo, American actor |
| 29th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Ekdahl, Swedish singer and songwriter |
| 29th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Wil Wheaton, American actor |
| 29th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Wanya Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men) |
| 29th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Dorff, American actor |
| 29th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Radnor, American actor |
| 29th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Afroman, American rapper |
| 29th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer |
| 29th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Lanka de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 29th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, American songwriter and record producer |
| 29th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Murray, American basketball player |
| 29th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer |
| 29th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Braun, Canadian-born American baseball player |
| 29th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Gonzalez, Chilean tennis player |
| 29th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Miner, American actress |
| 29th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Andres Madrid, Argentine footballer |
| 29th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula 1 Driver |
| 29th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Perkins, American soccer player |
| 29th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jonatas Domingos, Brazilian footballer |
| 29th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Janez Aljancic, Slovenian footballer |
| 29th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Allison Mack, American actress |
| 29th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Alexei Kaigorodov, Russian hockey player |
| 29th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Billingsley, American baseball player |
| 29th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Besart Berisha, Albanian footballer |
| 29th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Santoso, Indonesian badminton player |
| 29th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Munro Chambers, Canadian actor |
| 29th of July 0238 | DEATH | Pupienus, Roman Emperor (Born c. 164 or c. 178) |
| 29th of July 0238 | DEATH | Balbinus, Roman Emperor (Born c. 165) |
| 29th of July 1030 | DEATH | Olaf II of Norway (Born 995) |
| 29th of July 1095 | DEATH | King Ladislaus I of Hungary (Born c. 1040) |
| 29th of July 1099 | DEATH | Pope Urban II (Born 1042) |
| 29th of July 1108 | DEATH | King Philip I of France (Born 1052) |
| 29th of July 1507 | DEATH | Martin Behaim, German- or Bohemian-born navigator and geographer at the service of the King of Portugal (Born 1459) |
| 29th of July 1573 | DEATH | John Caius, English physician and second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (Born 1510) |
| 29th of July 1612 | DEATH | Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (Born 1554) |
| 29th of July 1644 | DEATH | Pope Urban VIII (Born 1568) |
| 29th of July 1752 | DEATH | Peter Warren, British admiral (Born 1703) |
| 29th of July 1781 | DEATH | Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (Born 1713) |
| 29th of July 1792 | DEATH | Rene Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (Born 1714) |
| 29th of July 1813 | DEATH | Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (Born 1771) |
| 29th of July 1833 | DEATH | William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (Born 1759) |
| 29th of July 1839 | DEATH | Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (Born 1755) |
| 29th of July 1844 | DEATH | Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (Born 1791) |
| 29th of July 1856 | DEATH | Robert Schumann, German composer (Born 1810) |
| 29th of July 1857 | DEATH | Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (Born 1774) |
| 29th of July 1887 | DEATH | Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813) |
| 29th of July 1890 | DEATH | Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (Born 1853) |
| 29th of July 1900 | DEATH | King Umberto I of Italy (Born 1844) |
| 29th of July 1913 | DEATH | Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (Born 1838) |
| 29th of July 1918 | DEATH | Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (Born 1863) |
| 29th of July 1934 | DEATH | Didier Pitre, French-Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1883) |
| 29th of July 1938 | DEATH | Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (Born 1885) |
| 29th of July 1950 | DEATH | Joe Fry, British racing driver (Born 1915) |
| 29th of July 1954 | DEATH | Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (Born 1879) |
| 29th of July 1964 | DEATH | Vean Gregg, American baseball player (Born 1885) |
| 29th of July 1970 | DEATH | John Barbirolli, English conductor (Born 1899) |
| 29th of July 1973 | DEATH | Roger Williamson, English racing driver (Born 1948) |
| 29th of July 1973 | DEATH | Norm Smith, Australian rules footballer and coach (Born 1915) |
| 29th of July 1974 | DEATH | Cass Elliot ("Mama Cass"), American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) (Born 1941) |
| 29th of July 1974 | DEATH | Erich Kastner, German poet and children's writer (Born 1899) |
| 29th of July 1976 | DEATH | Mickey Cohen, American gangster (Born 1913) |
| 29th of July 1979 | DEATH | Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher (Born 1898) |
| 29th of July 1979 | DEATH | Bill Todman, American television producer (Born 1916) |
| 29th of July 1981 | DEATH | Robert Moses, American urban planner (Born 1888) |
| 29th of July 1982 | DEATH | Harold Sakata, American professional wrestler ("Tosh Togo") and actor (Born 1920) |
| 29th of July 1982 | DEATH | Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-born American physicist and inventor (Born 1889) |
| 29th of July 1983 | DEATH | Luis Bunuel, Spanish director and writer (Born 1900) |
| 29th of July 1983 | DEATH | Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (Born 1896) |
| 29th of July 1983 | DEATH | David Niven, English actor (Born 1910) |
| 29th of July 1984 | DEATH | Fred Waring, American bandleader and inventor (Born 1900) |
| 29th of July 1987 | DEATH | Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian-born Bengali writer (Born 1894) |
| 29th of July 1990 | DEATH | Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (Born 1911) |
| 29th of July 1992 | DEATH | Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1952) |
| 29th of July 1994 | DEATH | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1910) |
| 29th of July 1994 | DEATH | John Britton, assassinated American abortion provider (Born 1925) |
| 29th of July 1995 | DEATH | Les Elgart, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (Born 1917) |
| 29th of July 1996 | DEATH | Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (Born 1919) |
| 29th of July 1996 | DEATH | Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (Born 1967) |
| 29th of July 1996 | DEATH | Marcel-Paul Schutzenberger, French mathematician (Born 1920) |
| 29th of July 1998 | DEATH | Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (Born 1918) |
| 29th of July 2001 | DEATH | Edward Gierek, Polish politician (Born 1913) |
| 29th of July 2001 | DEATH | Wau Holland, German hacker (Born 1951) |
| 29th of July 2003 | DEATH | Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (Born 1937) |
| 29th of July 2004 | DEATH | Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (Born 1923) |
| 29th of July 2007 | DEATH | Mike Reid, English comedian and actor (Born 1940) |
| 29th of July 2007 | DEATH | Tom Snyder, American television personality (Born 1936) |
| 29th of July 2007 | DEATH | Michel Serrault, French actor (Born 1928) |
| 29th of July 2007 | DEATH | Marvin Zindler, American television reporter (Born 1921) |
| 29th of July 2008 | DEATH | Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian playback singer (Born 1989) |
| 29th of July 2009 | DEATH | Gayatri Devi, England-born Indian Maharani of Jaipur (Born 1919) |