March 29th, 1717

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Born on March 29th, 1717 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on March 29th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on March 29th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (March 1717)

Born on March 29th, 1717

Weekday

Monday

March 29th, 1717 was a Monday.

Age

307

People born on March 29th, 1717 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 307 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♈

Aries (The Ram)

March 21st, 1717 - April 20th, 1717

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 112,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 841 days, exactly on August 16th, 2026, people who were born on March 29th, 1717 will be 113,000 days old!

112,159 Days

16,022 Weeks

3,684 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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Hours

What happened on March 29th?

March 29th, 1968

The funeral of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, began in Moscow with tens of thousands of people in attendance.

March 29th, 2017

British prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.

March 29th, 2010

Islamist separatists of the Caucasus Emirate detonated two bombs on the Moscow Metro, killing 40 people and injuring 102 others.

March 29th, 1982

Queen Elizabeth II granted royal assent to the Canada Act 1982, which ended any remaining constitutional dependence of Canada on the United Kingdom by a process known as patriation.

March 29th, 1981

Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonsen jointly won the Men's Elite Race and Joyce Smith won the Women's Elite Race in the inaugural London Marathon.

March 29th, 1975

Jeff Beck released Blow by Blow, his most successful album in the U.S., reaching the top five and selling over one million copies.

March 29th, 1974

NASA's Mariner 10 (pictured) became the first space probe to make a flyby of Mercury.

March 29th, 1969

The New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, was formed.

March 29th, 1951

The King and I, a musical about Mongkut of Siam by Rodgers and Hammerstein, premiered on Broadway.

March 29th, 1941

Second World War: British and Australian ships defeated Italian Regia Marina vessels at the Battle of Cape Matapan.

March 29th, 1882

The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, was founded by Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.

March 29th, 1865

American Civil War: The Appomattox campaign opened with the Battle of Lewis's Farm, in which the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was forced into a series of retreats that would culminate in their surrender.

March 29th, 1807

German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Vesta, the brightest asteroid and second-most massive body in the asteroid belt.

March 29th, 1800

William Matthews was ordained as the first Catholic priest born in British America.

March 29th, 1461

Wars of the Roses: The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrian army at the Battle of Towton, allowing Edward IV to secure the English throne.

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

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

John Tyler

President of the United States from 1841 to 1845

*March 29th, 1790, Greenway Plantation †January 18th, 1862, Richmond

Alan Budikusuma

Badminton player

*March 29th, 1968, Surabaya

Valeria Sorokina

Russian badminton player

*March 29th, 1984, Reshetikha, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Freya von Moltke

German writer and scholar

*March 29th, 1911, Cologne †January 1st, 2010, Norwich

Brendan Gleeson

Irish actor

*March 29th, 1955, Dublin

John Major

Former prime minister of the United Kingdom (born 1943)

*March 29th, 1943, London

Sulli

South Korean singer and actress (1994-2019)

*March 29th, 1994, Haeundae District †October 14th, 2019, Sujeong-su

Michel Hazanavicius

French film director, producer and screenwriter

*March 29th, 1967, Paris

Sam Walton

American businessman

*March 29th, 1918, Kingfisher †April 5th, 1992, Little Rock

Dimitri Payet

French footballer (born 1987)

*March 29th, 1987, Saint-Pierre

Justin Quiles

American singer

*March 29th, 1990, Bridgeport

Annabella Sciorra

American actress

*March 29th, 1960, Brooklyn

Megan Hilty

American musical theatre actress

*March 29th, 1981, Bellevue

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Friedrich Grade

German engineer and naval officer

*March 29th, 1916, Büdelsdorf †October 13th, 2023, Bornheim

Hanna Reitsch

German aviator

*March 29th, 1912, Jelenia Góra †August 24th, 1979, Frankfurt

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Ernst Jünger

German writer

*March 29th, 1895, Heidelberg †February 17th, 1998, Riedlingen

Nana Akufo-Addo

President of the Republic of Ghana

*March 29th, 1944, Accra

Lucy Lawless

New Zealand actress

*March 29th, 1969, Mount Albert

Viktor Király

Hungarian-American singer and songwriter

*March 29th, 1984, New York City

Jo Nesbø

Norwegian novelist, musician and economist

*March 29th, 1960, Oslo

Same year
Born in 1717

David Garrick

British actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer (1717–1779)

*February 19th, 1717, Hereford †January 20th, 1779, London

Maria Theresa of Austria

Ruler of the Habsburg Dominions (1717-1780)

*May 13th, 1717, Vienna †November 29th, 1780, Vienna

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)

*November 16th, 1717, Paris †October 29th, 1783, Paris

Ferdinand Stosch

German theologian (1717–1780)

*December 30th, 1717, Liebenberg †June 3rd, 1780, Detmold

Pedro III of Portugal

King of Portugal

*July 5th, 1717, Lisbon †May 25th, 1786, Sintra

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

German art historian and archaeologist, and conservator of the Vatican Library

*December 9th, 1717, Stendal †June 8th, 1768, Trieste

Pius VI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1775 to 1799

*December 25th, 1717, Cesena †August 29th, 1799, Valence

Horace Walpole

English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician (1717-1797)

*September 24th, 1717, London †March 2nd, 1797, London

Mustafa III

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1774

*January 28th, 1717, Constantinople †January 21st, 1774, Constantinople

Jean Dugain

French slave hunter and explorer

*February 23rd, 1717, Saint-Denis †January 1st, 1787

Louis François, Prince of Conti

French noble and art collector (1717-1776)

*August 13th, 1717, Paris †August 2nd, 1776, Paris

George Augustus Eliott

1st Lord Heathfield and Baron of Gibraltar, Army General, Governor of Gibraltar; (1717-1790)

*December 25th, 1717, Roxburghshire †July 6th, 1790, Aachen

Cardinal de Soubise

Catholic cardinal

*December 1st, 1717, Paris †June 28th, 1756, Saverne

Luis de Unzaga

Spanish colonial governor and administrator (1717-1793)

*April 6th, 1717, Málaga †June 21st, 1793, Málaga

Richard Owen Cambridge

British poet

*February 14th, 1717, London †September 17th, 1802, Richmond

Norbert Grund

Czech painter (1717-1767)

*December 4th, 1717, Prague †July 17th, 1767, Prague

Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst

British Army officer (1717-1797)

*January 29th, 1717, Riverhead †August 3rd, 1797, Montreal Park

Philipp Erasmus Reich

German publisher

*December 1st, 1717, Laubach †December 3rd, 1787, Leipzig

Johann Augustin Dietelmair

*January 1st, 1717, Nuremberg †January 1st, 1785

Johann Stamitz

Czech composer and violinist

*June 19th, 1717, Havlíčkův Brod †March 27th, 1757, Mannheim

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on March 29th

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

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXIX.III.MDCCXVII

29.3.1717

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

X = 10

IX = 9

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1717 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
March 1717

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March 29th, 1717

Born on March 29th, 1717

Weekday

Monday

Age

Zodiac

♈

Aries (The Ram)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 112,000 days old!

112,159 Days

16,022 Weeks

3,684 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on March 29th?

The funeral of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, began in Moscow with tens of thousands of people in attendance.

British prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.

Islamist separatists of the Caucasus Emirate detonated two bombs on the Moscow Metro, killing 40 people and injuring 102 others.

Queen Elizabeth II granted royal assent to the Canada Act 1982, which ended any remaining constitutional dependence of Canada on the United Kingdom by a process known as patriation.

Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonsen jointly won the Men's Elite Race and Joyce Smith won the Women's Elite Race in the inaugural London Marathon.

Jeff Beck released Blow by Blow, his most successful album in the U.S., reaching the top five and selling over one million copies.

NASA's Mariner 10 (pictured) became the first space probe to make a flyby of Mercury.

The New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, was formed.

The King and I, a musical about Mongkut of Siam by Rodgers and Hammerstein, premiered on Broadway.

Second World War: British and Australian ships defeated Italian Regia Marina vessels at the Battle of Cape Matapan.

The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, was founded by Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.

American Civil War: The Appomattox campaign opened with the Battle of Lewis's Farm, in which the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was forced into a series of retreats that would culminate in their surrender.

German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Vesta, the brightest asteroid and second-most massive body in the asteroid belt.

William Matthews was ordained as the first Catholic priest born in British America.

Wars of the Roses: The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrian army at the Battle of Towton, allowing Edward IV to secure the English throne.

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

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

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Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on March 29th

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)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

29.3.1717

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Age in days, weeks and months
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Birthdays
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Same year
Born in 1717

Calendar
March 1717

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