On this day | March 29th

On this day: March 29th

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1430 The Ottoman Empire under Murad II Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430) Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice.

1461 Battle of Towton: Edward IV of England defeats Margaret of Anjou to become King Edward IV of England, bringing a temporary stop to the Wars of the Roses.

1549 The city of Salvador, Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.

1632 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1632) is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.

1792 King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Swedish Opera 13 days earlier.

1806 Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal Highway # United States.

1809 King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdication after a ''coup d'état''.

1809 At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's Riksdag of the Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Lands of Sweden.

1847 Mexican–American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz (city) after a Siege of Veracruz.

1849 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland annexes the Punjab Province (British India).

1857 Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry mutinies against the East India Company's Company rule in India and inspires the protracted Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.

1867 Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act, 1867 which establishes Canada on July 1.

1871 Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.

1879 Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.

1882 The Knights of Columbus is established.

1927 Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.

1936 The 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for the recent remilitarization of the Rhineland.

1941 The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.

1941 World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian ''Regia Marina'' off the Peloponnese coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.

1942 The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.

1947 The Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule begins in French Madagascar.

1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.

1951 Hypnosis murders in Copenhagen.

1957 The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.

1961 The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.

1962 Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military Coup d'état by Argentina's Armed forces of Argentina, ending an 11 day constitutional crisis.

1968 The funeral of Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Seryogin, the first man in space, started in Moscow, with thousands of people in attendance.

1971 My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.

1973 Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.

1973 Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop PAVN of South Vietnam, ends.

1974 NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury (planet).

1974 Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi, China.

1982 The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Monarchy of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.

1984 The Indianapolis Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower Transit moving trucks in the early morning hours and Baltimore Colts relocation to Indianapolis to Indianapolis.

1990 The Czechoslovakia parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.

1999 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.

1999 A 1999 Chamoli earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.

2001 A Gulfstream III 2001 Avjet Gulfstream III crash on approach to Aspen/Pitkin County Airport in Aspen, Colorado. All 18 people on board are killed.

2002 In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian political violence, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.

2004 Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.

2004 The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat certifies Taipei 101 as the world's tallest building, based on the building having been topped out on 1 July 2003, even though the building was not completed until 31 December 2004.

2010 Two suicide bombers 2010 Moscow Metro bombings at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.

2013 At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor 2013 Dar es Salaam building collapse in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

2014 The first Same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom in England and Wales are performed.

2015 Air Canada Flight 624 skids off the runway at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, after arriving from Toronto shortly past midnight. All 133 passengers and five crews on board survive, with 23 treated for minor injuries.

2016 A United States Air Force General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.

2017 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Theresa May United Kingdom invocation of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union of the Treaty on European Union, formally beginning Brexit from the European Union.

2021 The ship Ever Given was 2021_Suez_Canal_obstruction # Salvage_and_refloating from the Suez Canal.

1187 Arthur I, Duke of Brittany, grandson of King Henry II of England (d. 1203)

1561 Santorio Santorio, Italian biologist (d. 1636)

1584 Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general and politician (d. 1648)

1602 John Lightfoot, English priest, scholar, and academic (d. 1675)

1713 John Ponsonby (politician), Irish politician (d. 1789)

1735 Johann Karl August Musäus, German author (d. 1787)

1747 Johann Wilhelm Hässler, German pianist and composer (d. 1822)

1769 Jean-de-Dieu Soult, French general and politician, 12th Prime Minister of France (d. 1851)

1780 Jørgen Jørgensen, Danish adventurer (d. 1841)

1790 John Tyler, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)

1799 Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)

1802 Johann Moritz Rugendas, German landscape painter (d. 1858)

1824 Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist, physician, and philosopher (d. 1899)

1826 Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)

1853 Elihu Thomson, English-American engineer and inventor (d. 1937)

1860 William Benham (zoologist), New Zealand zoologist (d. 1950)

1862 Adolfo Müller-Ury, Swiss-American painter (d. 1947)

1863 Walter James (Australian politician), Australian politician, 5th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1943)

1867 Cy Young, American baseball player and manager (d. 1955)

1869 Edwin Lutyens, British architect (d. 1944)

1871 Tom Hayward, English cricketer (d. 1939)

1872 Hal Colebatch, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1953)

1873 Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1941)

1874 Lou Henry Hoover, American philanthropist and geologist, 33rd First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)

1883 Donald Van Slyke, Dutch-American biochemist (d. 1971)

1885 Dezső Kosztolányi, Hungarian author and poet (d. 1936)

1889 Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951)

1889 Howard Lindsay, American producer, playwright, librettist, director and actor (d. 1968)

1890 Harold Spencer Jones, English astronomer (d. 1960)

1891 Yvan Goll, French-German poet and playwright (d. 1950)

1892 József Mindszenty, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1975)

1895 Ernst Jünger, German philosopher and author (d. 1998)

1896 Wilhelm Ackermann, German mathematician (d. 1962)

1899 Lavrentiy Beria, Georgian-Russian general and politician (d. 1953)

1900 John McEwen, Australian farmer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)

1900 Charles Sutherland Elton, English zoologist and animal ecologist (d. 1991)

1902 Marcel Aymé, French author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1967)

1902 William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)

1903 Douglas Harkness, Canadian colonel and politician, Minister of National Defence (Canada) (d. 1999)

1907 Braguinha (composer), Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2006)

1908 Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981)

1908 Dennis O'Keefe, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1968)

1909 Moon Mullican, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1967)

1912 Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (d. 1979)

1913 Phil Foster, American actor (d. 1985)

1913 Jack Jones (trade unionist), British trade union leader, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union (d. 2009)

1914 Chapman Pincher, Indian-English historian, journalist, and author (d. 2014)

1916 Peter Geach, English philosopher and academic (d. 2013)

1916 Eugene McCarthy, American poet and politician (d. 2005)

1917 Tommy Holmes, American baseball player (d. 2008)

1917 Ieuan Maddock, Welsh scientist and nuclear researcher (d. 1988)

1918 Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (d. 1990)

1918 Lê Văn Thiêm, Vietnamese mathematician and academic (d. 1991)

1918 Sam Walton, American businessman, founded Walmart and Sam's Club (d. 1992)

1919 Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)

1920 John M. Belk, American businessman and politician (d. 2007)

1920 Clarke Fraser, American-Canadian geneticist and academic (d. 2014)

1920 Pierre Moinot, French author (d. 2007)

1920 Theodore Trautwein, American lawyer and judge (d. 2000)

1921 Sam Loxton, Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician (d. 2011)

1923 Geoff Duke, English-Manx motorcycle racer (d. 2015)

1923 Betty Binns Fletcher, American lawyer and judge (d. 2012)

1926 Vladimir Bolotin, Russian physicist (d. 2008)

1927 Martin Fleischmann, British chemist (d. 2012)

1927 John McLaughlin (host), American journalist and producer (d. 2016)

1927 John Vane, English pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 2004)

1928 Romesh Bhandari, Pakistani-Indian politician, 13th Foreign Secretary (India) (d. 2013)

1928 Keith Botsford, Belgian-American journalist, author, and academic (d. 2018)

1928 Vincent Gigante, American boxer and mobster (d. 2005)

1929 Sheila Kitzinger, English activist, author, and academic (d. 2015)

1929 Richard Lewontin, American biologist, geneticist, and academic (d. 2021)

1929 Lennart Meri, Estonian director and politician, 2nd President of Estonia (d. 2006)

1929 Utpal Dutt, Indian actor, director and playwright (d. 1993)

1930 Anerood Jugnauth, Mauritian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Mauritius (d. 2021)

1931 Aleksei Gubarev, Russian general, pilot and cosmonaut (d. 2015)

1931 Norman Tebbit, English journalist and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

1935 Ruby Murray, Northern Irish singer (d. 1996)

1936 Richard Rodney Bennett, English-American composer and educator (d. 2012)

1936 John A. Durkin, American lawyer and politician (d. 2012)

1936 Joseph P. Teasdale, American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Missouri (d. 2014)

1937 Roberto Chabet, Filipino painter and sculptor (d. 2013)

1937 Smarck Michel, Haitian businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2012)

1937 Gordon Milne, English footballer

1939 Roland Arnall, French-American businessman and diplomat, 63rd United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (d. 2008)

1939 Hanumant Singh, Indian cricketer (d. 2006)

1940 Ray Davis (musician), American bass singer (d. 2005)

1942 Scott Wilson (actor), American actor (d. 2018)

1943 John Major, English banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1943 Vangelis, Greek keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2022)

1943 Eric Idle, English actor, comedian, musician and writer

1945 Speedy Keen, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (d. 2002)

1946 Billy Thorpe, English-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2007)

1947 Frank Bowe, American academic (d. 2007)

1947 Robert Gordon (musician), American singer and actor (d. 2022)

1948 Barbara Clare Foley, American author and educator

1949 Michael Brecker, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2007)

1949 Joe Ehrmann, American football player and writer

1949 Israel Finkelstein, Israeli archaeologist and professor

1949 Dave Greenfield, English musician (d. 2020)

1949 Pauline Marois, Canadian social worker and politician, 30th Premier of Quebec

1949 John Spenkelink, American murderer (d. 1979)

1950 Mory Kanté, Guinean vocalist (d. 2020)

1951 David Cheriton, Canadian computer scientist, mathematician and businessman

1951 William Clarke (musician), American harmonica player (d. 1996)

1951 Roger Myerson, American economist and professor

1951 Nick Ut, Vietnamese-American photographer

1952 Jo-Ann Mapson, American author

1952 Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer and engineer (d. 2012)

1952 Bola Tinubu, Nigerian politician, President of Nigeria

1952 Alec Wilkinson, American writer

1954 Mario Clark, American football player

1954 Martha A. Sandweiss, American historian

1954 Suzanna Sherry, American legal scholar

1954 Evelyn C. White, American writer and editor

1955 Earl Campbell, American football player

1955 Gillian Conoley, American poet

1955 Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor

1955 Marina Sirtis, British-American actress

1956 Patty Donahue, American singer (d. 1996)

1956 Mary Gentle, English author

1956 William Gurstelle, American writer and inventor

1956 Ted Staunton, Canadian author

1956 Kurt Thomas (gymnast), American gymnast (d. 2020)

1957 Elizabeth Hand, American author

1957 Mark Hudson (author), British writer, journalist and art critic

1957 Christopher Lambert, American-French actor

1957 Kathryn Tanner, American theologian

1958 Travis Childers, American businessman and politician

1958 Nouriel Roubini, Iranian-American economic consultant, economist and writer

1959 Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2011)

1960 Jo Nesbø, Norwegian writer, musician and football player

1961 Todd G. Buchholz, American economist and author

1961 Helen Humphreys, Canadian poet and novelist

1961 Amy Sedaris, American actress and comedian

1961 Michael Winterbottom, English director and producer

1962 Billy Beane, American baseball player and manager

1962 Igor Klebanov, Ukrainian-American theoretical physicist

1962 Kirk Triplett, American golfer

1963 Padraic Kenney, American writer, historian and educator

1964 Catherine Cortez Masto, American attorney and politician

1964 Elle Macpherson, Australian model and actress

1965 Todd F. Davis, American poet and critic

1965 Ayun Halliday, American writer and actor

1965 Brooks Hansen, American novelist, screenwriter and illustrator

1965 Maia Szalavitz, American journalist and author

1965 Bradford Tatum, American actor

1966 Dwayne Harper, American football player

1967 Michel Hazanavicius, French director, producer, and screenwriter

1967 Brian Jordan, American baseball player and sportscaster

1967 Edmundo Paz Soldán, Bolivian writer

1968 Chris Calloway, American football player

1968 Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress

1969 Ted Lieu, American politician and Air Force Reserve Command colonel

1969 Jimmy Spencer (American football), American football player and coach

1970 J. A. Konrath, American author

1971 Robert Gibbs, American political adviser, 28th White House Press Secretary

1971 Lara Logan, South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent

1971 Hidetoshi Nishijima (actor), Japanese actor

1972 Ernest Cline, American novelist, poet and screenwriter

1972 Stina Leicht, American author

1972 Priti Patel, British Indian politician, Secretary of State for the Home Department

1973 Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer and coach

1974 Alex Cuba, Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter

1976 Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player

1977 Nina Riggs, American writer and poet (d. 2017)

1978 Ian Holding, Zimbabwean writer

1979 Luis Ortiz (Cuban boxer), Cuban boxer

1980 Hamzah bin Hussein, Jordanian prince

1980 Molly Brodak, American poet and writer (d. 2020)

1980 Chris D'Elia, American stand-up comedian, actor and writer

1980 Bill Demong, American skier

1981 Jasmine Crockett, American attorney and politician

1981 Megan Hilty, American actress and singer

1981 PJ Morton, American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer

1981 Jlloyd Samuel, Trinidadian footballer (d. 2018)

1983 Efstathios Aloneftis, Greek-Cypriot footballer

1983 Chokwe Antar Lumumba, American attorney, activist and politician

1985 Fernando Amorebieta, Venezuelan footballer

1986 Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, English footballer

1986 Lucas Elliot Eberl, American actor and director

1989 James Tomkins (footballer), English footballer

1990 Lyle Taylor, English footballer

1991 Irene (singer), South Korean Korean pop idol, actress and television host

1991 N'Golo Kanté, French footballer

1993 Thorgan Hazard, Belgian footballer

1994 One (rapper), South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, and actor

1994 Matt Olson, American baseball player

1996 Wade Baldwin IV, American basketball player

2004 Kim Ju-chan, South Korean footballer

AD 500 Gwynllyw, Welsh king and religious figure

1058 Pope Stephen IX (b. 1020)

1461 Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421)

1461 Lionel Welles, 6th Baron Welles (c. 1406)

1628 Tobias Matthew, English archbishop and academic (b. 1546)

1629 Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch painter and engraver (b. 1565)

1697 Nicolaus Bruhns, Danish-German organist, violinist, and composer (b. 1665)

1703 George Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, (b. 1678)

1751 Thomas Coram, English captain and philanthropist, founded Foundling Hospital (b. 1668)

1772 Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish astronomer, philosopher, and theologian (b. 1688)

1777 Johann Heinrich Pott, Prussian physician and chemist (b. 1692)

1788 Charles Wesley, English missionary and poet (b. 1707)

1792 Gustav III, Swedish king (b. 1746)

1800 Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French general and engineer (b. 1714)

1803 Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian librarian and diplomat (b. 1733)

1822 Johann Wilhelm Hässler, German pianist and composer (b. 1747)

1824 Hans Nielsen Hauge, Norwegian lay minister, social reformer and author (b. 1771)

1826 Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet, translator and academic (b. 1751)

1830 James Rennell, English geographer, historian and oceanography pioneer (b. 1742)

1848 John Jacob Astor, German-American businessman (b. 1763)

1866 John Keble, English priest and poet (b. 1792)

1888 Charles-Valentin Alkan, French pianist and composer (b. 1813)

1891 Georges Seurat, French painter (b. 1859)

1903 Gustavus Franklin Swift, American business executive (b. 1839)

1906 Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)

1911 Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (b. 1837)

1912 Henry Robertson Bowers, Scottish lieutenant and explorer (b. 1883)

1912 Robert Falcon Scott, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1868)

1912 Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and explorer (b. 1872)

1915 William Wallace Denslow, American illustrator and caricaturist (b. 1856)

1921 John Burroughs, American naturalist and nature essayist (b. 1837)

1924 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer and conductor (b. 1852)

1934 Otto Hermann Kahn, German-American banker and philanthropist (b. 1867)

1937 Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1882)

1940 Alexander Obolensky, Russian-English rugby player and soldier (b. 1916)

1948 Harry Price, English parapsychologist and author (b. 1881)

1953 Väinö Kivisalo, Finnish politician (b. 1882)

1953 & # x2013; Arthur Fields, Jewish-American singer and composer (b. 1888)

1957 Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish novelist (b. 1888)

1959 Barthélemy Boganda, African priest and politician, 1st List of heads of state of the Central African Republic and Central African Empire (b. 1910)

1963 Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian dentist and politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1898)

1963 Frances Jenkins Olcott, American author and librarian (b. 1872)

1966 Stylianos Gonatas, Greek Army officer and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)

1970 Anna Louise Strong, American journalist and author (b. 1885)

1971 Dhirendranath Datta, Pakistani lawyer and politician (b. 1886)

1972 J. Arthur Rank, English businessman, founded Rank Organisation (b. 1888)

1979 Nikos Petzaropoulos, Greece footballer (b. 1927)

1981 Eric Williams, Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1911)

1982 Walter Hallstein, German academic and politician, 1st President of the European Commission (b. 1901)

1982 Frederick George Mann, British organic chemist (b. 1897)

1982 Carl Orff, German composer and educator (b. 1895)

1982 Nathan Farragut Twining, American general (b. 1897)

1985 Luther Terry, American physician and academic, 9th Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1911)

1985 Janet Watson, British geologist (b. 1923)

1988 Maurice Blackburn (composer), Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1914)

1988 Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player and coach (b. 1924)

1991 Guy Bourdin, French photographer (b. 1928)

1992 Paul Henreid, American actor (b. 1908)

1994 Bill Travers, English actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)

1995 Mort Meskin, American illustrator (b. 1916)

1995 Terry Moore (baseball), American baseball player and coach (b. 1912)

1996 Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1944)

1997 Norman Pirie, British biochemist and virologist (b. 1907)

1999 Joe Williams (jazz singer), American jazz singer (b. 1918)

2001 Helge Ingstad, Norwegian lawyer, academic, and explorer (b. 1899)

2001 John Lewis (pianist), American pianist and composer (b. 1920)

2003 Carlo Urbani, Italian physician and microbiologist (b. 1956)

2004 Lise de Baissac, Mauritian-born Special Operations Executive agent (b. 1905)

2004 Joel Feinberg, American philosopher and academic (b. 1926)

2006 Salvador Elizondo, Mexican author and poet (b. 1932)

2007 Larry L'Estrange, English rugby player and soldier (b. 1934)

2009 Vladimir Fedotov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1943)

2009 Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (b. 1975)

2011 Ângelo de Sousa, Portuguese painter and sculptor (b. 1938)

2011 Iakovos Kambanellis, Greek author, poet, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1921)

2012 Pap Cheyassin Secka, Gambian lawyer and politician, 8th Attorney General of the Gambia (b. 1942)

2012 Bill Jenkins (drag racer), American race car driver and engineer (b. 1930)

2013 Reginald Gray (artist), Irish-French painter (b. 1930)

2013 Brian Huggins, English-Canadian journalist and actor (b. 1931)

2013 Ralph Klein, Canadian journalist and politician, 12th Premier of Alberta (b. 1942)

2013 Art Phillips, Canadian businessman and politician, 32nd Mayor of Vancouver (b. 1930)

2014 Marc Platt (dancer), American actor and dancer (b. 1913)

2015 William Delafield Cook, Australian-English painter (b. 1926)

2016 Patty Duke, American actress (b. 1946)

2017 Alexei Abrikosov (physicist), Russian physicist, 2003 List of Nobel laureates in Physics (b. 1928)

2018 Anita Shreve, American author (b. 1946)

2019 Agnès Varda, French film director (b. 1928)

2020 Joe Diffie, American country music singer (b. 1958)

2020 Alan Merrill, American musician (b. 1951)

2020 Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1933)

2021 Bashkim Fino, Albanian politician, 29th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1962)

2021 Sarah Onyango Obama, Kenyan educator and philanthropist (b. 1921)

2022 Charles Jeffrey (botanist), British botanist (b. 1934)

2022 Jennifer Wilson (actress), English actress (b. 1932)

2023 John Kerin, Australian politician (b. 1937)

2023 Vivan Sundaram, Indian contemporary artist (b. 1943)

2024 – Gerry Conway (musician), English Folk music and rock drummer/percussionist (b. 1947)

2024 – Louis Gossett Jr., American actor (b. 1936)

Christian feast day:

- Armogastes

- Berthold of Calabria

- Gwynllyw

- Jonas and Barachisius

- March 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Boganda Day (Central African Republic)

Commemoration of the 1947 Rebellion (Madagascar)

National Vietnam War Veterans Day (United States)

Day of the Young Combatant (Chile)

Youth Day # Taiwan (Taiwan)

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