October 29th, 1774

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Born on October 29th, 1774 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on October 29th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on October 29th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (October 1774)

Born on October 29th, 1774

Weekday

Saturday

October 29th, 1774 was a Saturday.

Age

249

People born on October 29th, 1774 will turn 250 this year (2024), in exactly 182 days .

Zodiac

♏

Scorpio (The Scorpion)

October 24th, 1774 - November 22nd, 1774

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 91,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 871 days, exactly on September 18th, 2026, people who were born on October 29th, 1774 will be 92,000 days old!

91,129 Days

13,018 Weeks

2,994 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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Hours

What happened on October 29th?

October 29th, 1883

The San Francisco Mint signed a contract to produce the Kalākaua coinage for the Kingdom of Hawaii.

October 29th, 2013

The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.

October 29th, 2012

Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, made landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion in damages, becoming the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.

October 29th, 1999

About 10,000 people died when a tropical cyclone made landfall in the Indian state of Odisha near the city of Bhubaneswar.

October 29th, 1998

At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn (pictured) returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission.

October 29th, 1991

Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra.

October 29th, 1986

British prime minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25, one of Britain's busiest motorways.

October 29th, 1960

A C-46 airliner carrying the Cal Poly Mustangs football team crashed during takeoff from Toledo Express Airport in Ohio, U.S., resulting in 22 deaths.

October 29th, 1956

Israeli Border Police massacred 48 Arab citizens of Kafr Qasim, among them women and children who were returning from work.

October 29th, 1955

An explosion, likely caused by a World War II–era naval mine, capsized the Soviet ship Novorossiysk in the harbor of Sevastopol, with the loss of 608 men.

October 29th, 1948

Arab–Israeli War: The Israel Defense Forces massacred at least 52 villagers while capturing the Palestinian Arab village of Safsaf.

October 29th, 1868

The Nanbu clan of Honshu surrendered to imperial forces during the Boshin War.

October 29th, 1863

American Civil War: The Battle of Wauhatchie, one of the few night battles of the war, concluded with the Union Army opening a supply line to troops in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

October 29th, 1831

Rioting broke out in Bristol, England, after the Second Reform Bill failed to pass parliament, causing 250 casualties and £300,000 of damage (pictured).

October 29th, 1792

William Robert Broughton, a member of George Vancouver's expedition, observed a peak in the present-day U.S. state of Oregon and named it Mount Hood after British admiral Samuel Hood.

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

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

Fritz Weege

German art historian and archaeologist (1880-1945)

*October 29th, 1880, Frankfurt †August 20th, 1945, Wrocław

Toby Smith

British musician (1970-2017)

*October 29th, 1970, London †April 11th, 2017, London

Edmond Halley

English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist

*October 29th, 1656, Haggerston †January 14th, 1742, Greenwich

Franz von Papen

German general staff officer, politician, diplomat, nobleman and Chancellor of Germany (1879–1969)

*October 29th, 1879, Werl †May 2nd, 1969, Sasbach

Jean Giraudoux

French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright (1882–1944)

*October 29th, 1882, Bellac †January 31st, 1944, Paris

Abdullah Gül

11th President of Turkey

*October 29th, 1950, Kayseri

Joseph Goebbels

Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)

*October 29th, 1897, Rheydt †May 1st, 1945, Berlin

Melba Moore

American singer, and actress

*October 29th, 1945, New York City

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

24th president of Liberia

*October 29th, 1938, Monrovia

R. L. Ryan

American actor (1946-1991)

*October 29th, 1946, Pennsylvania †March 22nd, 1991, Pennsylvania

Jean-Pierre Martins

French actor and musician

*October 29th, 1971, Paris

Udo Schmuck

German association football player and manager

*October 29th, 1952, Frankenthal

Winona Ryder

American actress

*October 29th, 1971, Winona County

Denny Laine

British rock musician (1944–2023)

*October 29th, 1944, Tyseley †December 5th, 2023, Naples

Astrid S

Norwegian singer and songwriter

*October 29th, 1996, Berkåk

Malik Fathi

German footballer

*October 29th, 1983, West Berlin

Johann Olav Koss

Norwegian speed skater

*October 29th, 1968, Drammen Municipality

Edwin van der Sar

Dutch association football player

*October 29th, 1970, Voorhout

Jessica Dubé

Canadian pair skater

*October 29th, 1987, Drummondville

Lance Stroll

Canadian and Belgian racing driver

*October 29th, 1998, Montreal

Same year
Born in 1774

Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs

German chemist and mineralogist (1774-1856)

*May 15th, 1774, Bavarian Forest †March 5th, 1856, Munich

Hans Graf von Bülow

German noble (1774–1825)

*July 14th, 1774, Essenrode †August 11th, 1825, Lądek-Zdrój

Johann Ernst Daniel Bornschein

German author (1774–1838)

*July 20th, 1774, Prettin †April 1st, 1838, Gera

Jean-Baptiste Biot

French scientist (1774-1862)

*April 21st, 1774, Paris †February 3rd, 1862, Paris

Gaspare Spontini

Italian composer and conductor

*November 14th, 1774, Maiolati Spontini †January 24th, 1851, Maiolati Spontini

Caspar David Friedrich

German Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)

*September 5th, 1774, Greifswald †May 7th, 1840, Dresden

Robert Southey

English romantic poet (1774–1843)

*August 12th, 1774, Bristol †March 21st, 1843, Keswick

Francis Beaufort

Irish hydrographer and naval officer (1774-1857)

*May 27th, 1774, Navan †December 17th, 1857, Hove

Tadeusz Tyszkiewicz

*September 6th, 1774, Belvederis †April 3rd, 1852, Paris

Meriwether Lewis

American explorer (1774-1809)

*August 18th, 1774, Albemarle County †October 11th, 1809, Hickman County

Carl Haller von Hallerstein

German architect

*June 10th, 1774, Hiltpoltstein Castle †January 1st, 1817, Tempi Municipality

Daniel D. Tompkins

American politician; sixth vice president of the United States (1774–1825)

*June 21st, 1774, Scarsdale †June 11th, 1825, Castleton, Staten Island

Domenico Rossetti

Academic (1774 - 1842), member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino since 1832

*March 19th, 1774, Trieste †November 29th, 1842, Trieste

Elizabeth Ann Seton

First native-born American saint of the Roman Catholic Church (1774-1821)

*August 28th, 1774, New York City †January 4th, 1821, Emmitsburg

Claude Charles Marie du Campe de Rosamel

French naval minister (1774-1848)

*June 24th, 1774, Frencq †March 27th, 1848, Paris

Adolf Müllner

German writer

*October 18th, 1774, Langendorf †June 11th, 1829, Weißenfels

Ludwig von Vincke

Politician, writer and jurist (1774-1844)

*December 23rd, 1774, Minden †December 2nd, 1844, Münster

Antonio González de Balcarce

Argentine general

*June 24th, 1774, Buenos Aires †August 5th, 1819, Buenos Aires

Francis Baily

British astronomer

*April 28th, 1774, Newbury †August 30th, 1844, London

Ferdinand Hartmann

German painter (1774-1842)

*July 14th, 1774, Stuttgart †January 6th, 1842, Dresden

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on October 29th

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

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXIX.X.MDCCLXXIV

29.10.1774

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

IX = 9

IV = 4

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1774 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
October 1774

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October 29th, 1774

Born on October 29th, 1774

Weekday

Saturday

Age

Zodiac

♏

Scorpio (The Scorpion)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 91,000 days old!

91,129 Days

13,018 Weeks

2,994 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on October 29th?

The San Francisco Mint signed a contract to produce the Kalākaua coinage for the Kingdom of Hawaii.

The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.

Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, made landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion in damages, becoming the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.

About 10,000 people died when a tropical cyclone made landfall in the Indian state of Odisha near the city of Bhubaneswar.

At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn (pictured) returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission.

Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra.

British prime minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25, one of Britain's busiest motorways.

A C-46 airliner carrying the Cal Poly Mustangs football team crashed during takeoff from Toledo Express Airport in Ohio, U.S., resulting in 22 deaths.

Israeli Border Police massacred 48 Arab citizens of Kafr Qasim, among them women and children who were returning from work.

An explosion, likely caused by a World War II–era naval mine, capsized the Soviet ship Novorossiysk in the harbor of Sevastopol, with the loss of 608 men.

Arab–Israeli War: The Israel Defense Forces massacred at least 52 villagers while capturing the Palestinian Arab village of Safsaf.

The Nanbu clan of Honshu surrendered to imperial forces during the Boshin War.

American Civil War: The Battle of Wauhatchie, one of the few night battles of the war, concluded with the Union Army opening a supply line to troops in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Rioting broke out in Bristol, England, after the Second Reform Bill failed to pass parliament, causing 250 casualties and £300,000 of damage (pictured).

William Robert Broughton, a member of George Vancouver's expedition, observed a peak in the present-day U.S. state of Oregon and named it Mount Hood after British admiral Samuel Hood.

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

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

Same year Born in 1774

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on October 29th

Abraham of Rostov

Blessed Chiara Badano

Colman mac Duagh

Douai Martyrs

Gaetano Errico

James Hannington (Anglicanism)

Michele Rua

Narcissus of Jerusalem

Theuderius

October 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Coronation Day (Cambodia)

Republic Day (Turkey) or Cumhuriyet Bayramı

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

29.10.1774

Legend

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Calendar October 1774

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 91,000 days old!

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

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Who's birthday is on October 29th?

Same year
Born in 1774

Calendar
October 1774

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