August 29th, 1691

On this page

Born on August 29th, 1691 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on August 29th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on August 29th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (August 1691)

Born on August 29th, 1691

Weekday

Wednesday

August 29th, 1691 was a Wednesday.

Age

332

People born on August 29th, 1691 will turn 333 this year (2024), in exactly 124 days .

Zodiac

♍

Virgo (The Maiden)

August 24th, 1691 - September 23rd, 1691

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 121,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 498 days, exactly on September 7th, 2025, people who were born on August 29th, 1691 will be 122,000 days old!

121,502 Days

17,357 Weeks

3,991 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on August 29th?

August 29th, 2016

Chen Quanguo became the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, later overseeing the creation of the Xinjiang internment camps.

August 29th, 2007

Six nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force heavy bomber that flew from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

August 29th, 1996

Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed on approach to Svalbard Airport, Norway, killing all 141 on board.

August 29th, 1991

Italian businessman Libero Grassi was killed by the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo after taking a public stand against their extortion demands.

August 29th, 1984

Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (pictured) began deliberately infecting people in The Dalles, Oregon, with Salmonella in the first and largest bioterrorist attack in United States history.

August 29th, 1960

Air France Flight 343 crashed while attempting to land at Yoff Airport, Dakar, killing all 63 occupants.

August 29th, 1959

Mona Best opened the Casbah Coffee Club with a performance by the Quarrymen, the precursor of the Beatles.

August 29th, 1930

The last 36 residents of St Kilda, Scotland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its natural and cultural qualities, voluntarily evacuated to Morvern.

August 29th, 1916

Congress passed the Philippine Autonomy Act, the first formal and official declaration of the U.S.'s commitment to grant independence to the Philippines.

August 29th, 1911

The last member of the Yahi, known as Ishi, emerged from the wilderness near Oroville, California, to join European American society.

August 29th, 1903

Slava, the last of five Borodino-class battleships, was launched by the Imperial Russian Navy.

August 29th, 1885

Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal-combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.

August 29th, 1842

Under the Treaty of Nanking, an "unequal treaty" that ended the First Opium War, the Chinese island from which Hong Kong would grow was ceded to Britain.

August 29th, 1831

Michael Faraday (pictured) first experimentally demonstrated electromagnetic induction, leading to the formulation of the law of induction named after him.

August 29th, 1786

Farmers in western Massachusetts angered by high tax burdens and disfranchisement began an armed uprising led by Daniel Shays against the U.S. federal government.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 29th

Born on August 29th, 1691

Richard Challoner

Roman Catholic bishop (1691-1781)

*August 29th, 1691, Lewes †January 12th, 1781, London

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 29th?

Michael Jackson

American singer, songwriter, and dancer (1958–2009)

*August 29th, 1958, Gary †June 25th, 2009, Los Angeles

Lucero

Mexican singer and actress

*August 29th, 1969, Mexico City

Bizarrap

Argentine record producer

*August 29th, 1998, Ramos Mejía

John Locke

English philosopher and physician (1632–1704)

*August 29th, 1632, Wrington †October 28th, 1704, High Laver

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

French painter (1780-1867)

*August 29th, 1780, Montauban †January 14th, 1867, Paris

Miyo Akao

Badminton player

*August 29th, 1981, Hita

Doris Ahnen

German politician (SPD)

*August 29th, 1964, Trier

Eva Christiane Cancik-Kirschbaum

German assyriologist

*August 29th, 1965, Tübingen

Fiorella Corimberto

Argentinian Beach handball player

*August 29th, 2001, Buenos Aires

John McCain

American politician and military officer (1936–2018)

*August 29th, 1936, Coco Solo †August 25th, 2018, Cornville

Elliott Gould

American actor

*August 29th, 1938, Brooklyn

Ingrid Bergman

Swedish actress (1915–1982)

*August 29th, 1915, Hedvig Eleonora parish †August 29th, 1982, London

Liam Pane

English singer

*August 29th, 1993, Wolverhampton

Maurice Maeterlinck

Belgian playwright and essayist (1862–1949)

*August 29th, 1862, Ghent †May 6th, 1949, Nice

Arthur B. McDonald

Canadian physicist

*August 29th, 1943, Sydney

Carla Gugino

American actress

*August 29th, 1971, Sarasota

Juan Bautista Alberdi

Argentinian politician

*August 29th, 1810, San Miguel de Tucumán †June 19th, 1884, Neuilly-sur-Seine

Darnell Hillman

American basketball player

*August 29th, 1949, Sacramento

Léon Cogniet

French painter (1794-1880)

*August 29th, 1794, Paris †November 20th, 1880, 10th arrondissement of Paris

Lenny Henry

British comedian

*August 29th, 1958, Dudley

Same year
Born in 1691

Johann Matthias Gesner

German classical scholar and schoolmaster (1691–1761)

*April 9th, 1691, Roth †August 3rd, 1761, Göttingen

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Holy Roman Empress consort (1691-1750)

*August 28th, 1691, Brunswick †December 21st, 1750, Vienna

Edward Cave

British publisher

*February 27th, 1691, Newton †January 10th, 1754, Clerkenwell

Agostino Masucci

Italian painter (1691-1758)

*January 1st, 1691, Rome †October 19th, 1758, Rome

Paul Egell

German sculptor and plasterer

*April 9th, 1691, Waibstadt †January 10th, 1752, Mannheim

Johann Thomas Wagner

*May 25th, 1691, Gebsattel †January 7th, 1769, Theres

Giovanni Paolo Panini

Italian painter and architect (1691–1765)

*June 17th, 1691, Piacenza †October 21st, 1765, Rome

Pierre-Herman Dosquet

Catholic bishop

*March 4th, 1691, Liège †March 4th, 1777, Paris

Johann Gottlieb Tamitius

Organ builder (1691-1769)

*February 9th, 1691, Dresden †March 26th, 1769, Zittau

Jan Francisci

Slovak organist and composer

*June 14th, 1691, Banská Bystrica †April 27th, 1758, Banská Bystrica

Peter Scheemakers

Flemish sculptor

*January 16th, 1691, Antwerp †September 12th, 1781, Antwerp

Michael Adolf Siebenhaar

German painter (1691-1751)

*March 18th, 1691, Staßfurt †June 15th, 1751, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Josef Antonín Planický

Czech composer, choirmaster and singer

*November 27th, 1691, Manětín †September 17th, 1732, Freising

112

Petro Kalnyshevsky

Ukrainian cossack

*January 1st, 1691, Romny Raion †October 31st, 1803, Solovetsky Islands

Joachim Arndt Saltzmann

German gardener (1691-1771)

*June 3rd, 1691, Grabow †August 13th, 1771, Charlottenburg

Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz

Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (1691-1743)

*March 20th, 1691, Schloss Moritzburg †March 17th, 1743, Kassel

Johann Caspar Wetzel

German author and theologian

*February 22nd, 1691, Meiningen †August 6th, 1755, Meiningen

Franz Joseph Spiegler

German painter (1691-1757)

*April 5th, 1691, Wangen im Allgäu †April 15th, 1757, Constance

Alessandro Galilei

Florentine architect (1691-1737)

*August 25th, 1691, Florence †December 21st, 1737, Rome

Adam Ludwig Blumenthal

(1691-1760)

*March 26th, 1691, Breda †September 23rd, 1760, Berlin

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 29th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on August 29th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXIX.VIII.MDCXCI

29.8.1691

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

XC = 90

X = 10

IX = 9

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1691 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
August 1691

August 1691

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
31			1	2	3	4	5
32	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
33	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
34	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
35	27	28	29	30	31

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
31			1	2	3	4	5
32	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
33	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
34	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
35	27	28	29	30	31

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
31			1	2	3	4	5
32	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
33	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
34	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
35	27	28	29	30	31

August 29th, 1691

Born on August 29th, 1691

Weekday

Wednesday

Age

Zodiac

♍

Virgo (The Maiden)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 121,000 days old!

121,502 Days

17,357 Weeks

3,991 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on August 29th?

Chen Quanguo became the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, later overseeing the creation of the Xinjiang internment camps.

Six nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force heavy bomber that flew from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed on approach to Svalbard Airport, Norway, killing all 141 on board.

Italian businessman Libero Grassi was killed by the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo after taking a public stand against their extortion demands.

Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (pictured) began deliberately infecting people in The Dalles, Oregon, with Salmonella in the first and largest bioterrorist attack in United States history.

Air France Flight 343 crashed while attempting to land at Yoff Airport, Dakar, killing all 63 occupants.

Mona Best opened the Casbah Coffee Club with a performance by the Quarrymen, the precursor of the Beatles.

The last 36 residents of St Kilda, Scotland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its natural and cultural qualities, voluntarily evacuated to Morvern.

Congress passed the Philippine Autonomy Act, the first formal and official declaration of the U.S.'s commitment to grant independence to the Philippines.

The last member of the Yahi, known as Ishi, emerged from the wilderness near Oroville, California, to join European American society.

Slava, the last of five Borodino-class battleships, was launched by the Imperial Russian Navy.

Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal-combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.

Under the Treaty of Nanking, an "unequal treaty" that ended the First Opium War, the Chinese island from which Hong Kong would grow was ceded to Britain.

Michael Faraday (pictured) first experimentally demonstrated electromagnetic induction, leading to the formulation of the law of induction named after him.

Farmers in western Massachusetts angered by high tax burdens and disfranchisement began an armed uprising led by Daniel Shays against the U.S. federal government.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 29th

Born on August 29th, 1691

Roman Catholic bishop (1691-1781)

Same Day Who's birthday is on August 29th?

Same year Born in 1691

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 29th

Adelphus of Metz

Beheading of St. John the Baptist

Eadwold of Cerne

Euphrasia Eluvathingal (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)

John Bunyan (Episcopal Church)

Sabina

Vitalis, Sator and Repositus

August 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

International Day against Nuclear Tests

Miners' Day (Ukraine)

Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine (Ukraine)

Municipal Police Day (Poland)

National Sports Day (India)

Slovak National Uprising Anniversary (Slovakia)

Telugu Language Day (India)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

29.8.1691

Legend

Leap year

Calendar August 1691

August 1691

Date of birth

Try another date

Try another date

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 121,000 days old!

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 29th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 29th?

Same year
Born in 1691

Calendar
August 1691

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
31			1	2	3	4	5
32	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
33	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
34	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
35	27	28	29	30	31