September 29th, 1778

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Born on September 29th, 1778 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on September 29th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on September 29th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (September 1778)

Born on September 29th, 1778

Weekday

Tuesday

September 29th, 1778 was a Tuesday.

Age

245

People born on September 29th, 1778 will turn 246 this year (2024), in exactly 154 days .

Zodiac

♎

Libra (The Scales)

September 24th, 1778 - October 23rd, 1778

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 89,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 304 days, exactly on February 26th, 2025, people who were born on September 29th, 1778 will be 90,000 days old!

89,696 Days

12,813 Weeks

2,946 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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Hours

What happened on September 29th?

September 29th, 2006

Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collided in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Brazil, killing 154 people and triggering a national aviation crisis.

September 29th, 2004

Archaeologists and volunteers began excavation of the remains of Fort Tanjong Katong in Singapore.

September 29th, 1991

The award-winning Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast premiered while unfinished at the New York Film Festival.

September 29th, 1990

The Lockheed YF-22, the prototype for the F-22 Raptor, made its first flight.

September 29th, 1963

The University of East Anglia was founded in Norwich, England, after talk of establishing a university in the city began as early as the 19th century.

September 29th, 1957

An explosion at the Soviet nuclear reprocessing plant Mayak released 74 to 1,850 PBq of radioactive material.

September 29th, 1955

The first Indonesian legislative election resulted in an unexpectedly poor result for the Masyumi Party of incumbent prime minister Burhanuddin Harahap (pictured).

September 29th, 1954

Twelve countries signed a convention to establish the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which manages the world's largest particle physics laboratory.

September 29th, 1941

The Holocaust: Nazi forces, aided by Ukrainian collaborators, began a massacre of Jews in a ravine in Kyiv, killing more than 30,000 civilians in two days and thousands more in the following months.

September 29th, 1940

During a Royal Australian Air Force training exercise over Brocklesby, two planes collided and interlocked in mid-air (pictured); the pilot of the upper plane was able to land safely using the lower plane's engines.

September 29th, 1923

The Mandate for Palestine came into effect, officially creating the protectorates of Mandatory Palestine under British administration and Transjordan as a separate emirate under King Abdullah I.

September 29th, 1918

World War I: The Battle of St Quentin Canal took place, which led to the British Fourth Army making the first breach of the German defensive Hindenburg Line.

September 29th, 1833

The Spanish American wars of independence ended with the death of King Ferdinand VII, with what had once been the Spanish Empire disintegrating into independent Latin American states.

September 29th, 1760

The Williamsburg Bray School, the oldest-surviving school building in the U.S. dedicated to educating Black children, opened at Benjamin Franklin's suggestion.

September 29th, 1011

An army of Viking pirates that had besieged the English city of Canterbury for weeks took Archbishop Ælfheah prisoner and seized power.

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

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

Massi Furlan

Italian-American actor and film producer

*September 29th, 1968, Treviso

Lech Wałęsa

Statesman, pro-democracy activist, and former president of Poland

*September 29th, 1943, Popowo

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)

*September 29th, 1547, Alcalá de Henares †April 22nd, 1616, Madrid

Enrico Fermi

Italian-American physicist (1901-1954)

*September 29th, 1901, Rome †November 28th, 1954, Chicago

Sara Sankey

British badminton player

*September 29th, 1967, Southport

Julia Gillard

Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013

*September 29th, 1961, Barry

Jon Fosse

Norwegian writer, theater writer and translator

*September 29th, 1959, Haugesund Municipality

Silvio Berlusconi

Italian politician and media tycoon (1936–2023)

*September 29th, 1936, Milan †June 12th, 2023, San Raffaele Hospital

Miguel de Unamuno

Spanish poet

*September 29th, 1864, Bilbao †December 31st, 1936, Salamanca

Horatio Nelson

British Royal Navy admiral (1758–1805)

*September 29th, 1758, Burnham Thorpe †October 21st, 1805, Cape Trafalgar

Michelle Bachelet

President of Chile

*September 29th, 1951, La Cisterna

Jah Khalib

Kazakh rapper

*September 29th, 1993, Almaty

Guadalupe Victoria

First president of Mexico (1786-1845)

*September 29th, 1786, Tamazula de Victoria †March 21st, 1845, San Carlos Fortress

Matthias Mangiapane

*September 29th, 1983, Langen

Zachary Levi

American actor

*September 29th, 1980, Lake Charles

Halsey

American singer-songwriter (born 1994)

*September 29th, 1994, Edison

Rainer Weiss

American physicist

*September 29th, 1932, Berlin

Mackenzie Crook

British actor, director, comedian and writer

*September 29th, 1971, Maidstone

Trevor Howard

English film, stage and television actor (1913–1988)

*September 29th, 1913, Cliftonville †January 7th, 1988, Bushey

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Lukas Ammann

Swiss actor (1912-2017)

*September 29th, 1912, Basel †May 3rd, 2017, Munich

Same year
Born in 1778

Humphry Davy

British chemist

*December 17th, 1778, Penzance †May 29th, 1829, Geneva

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

French chemist and physicist (1778–1850)

*December 6th, 1778, Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat †May 9th, 1850, Paris

Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle

Swiss botanist (1778–1841)

*February 4th, 1778, Geneva †September 9th, 1841, Geneva

José de San Martín

Argentine general and independence leader (1778–1850)

*February 25th, 1778, África †August 17th, 1850, Boulogne-sur-Mer

Agathon Jean François Fain

French historian (1778-1837)

*January 11th, 1778, Paris †September 16th, 1837, Paris

William Hazlitt

English essayist and writer

*April 10th, 1778, Maidstone †September 18th, 1830, London

Luigi Lodigiani

Italian bookbinder

*January 7th, 1778, Pontremoli †October 3rd, 1843, Milan

Fernando Sor

Spanish classical guitarist and composer (1778-1839)

*February 13th, 1778, Barcelona †July 10th, 1839, Paris

Louis Bonaparte

King of the Netherlands, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, member of the House of Buonaparte (1778-1846)

*September 2nd, 1778, Ajaccio †July 25th, 1846, Livorno

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Austrian composer and pianist

*November 14th, 1778, Bratislava †October 17th, 1837, Weimar

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn

German educator, writer and politician (1778-1852)

*August 11th, 1778, Lanz †October 15th, 1853, Freyburg

Bernardo O'Higgins

Chilean independence leader (1778-1842)

*August 20th, 1778, Chillán †October 24th, 1842, Lima

James Kirke Paulding

American writer (1778–1860)

*August 22nd, 1778, Pleasant Valley †April 6th, 1860, Hyde Park

Joseph Carrington Cabell

American politician

*December 28th, 1778, Amherst County †February 5th, 1856, Nelson County

Heinrich Luden

German historian (1778-1847)

*April 10th, 1778, Loxstedt †May 23rd, 1847, Jena

Richard Skinner

American politician (1778-1833)

*May 30th, 1778, Litchfield †May 23rd, 1833, Manchester

Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldi

German entrepreneur

*May 21st, 1778, Gotha †May 27th, 1841, Gotha

Rembrandt Peale

American painter (1778-1860)

*February 22nd, 1778, Bucks County †October 3rd, 1860, Philadelphia

Christian Friedrich Nasse

German physician and psychiatrist

*April 18th, 1778, Bielefeld †April 18th, 1851, Marburg

Joseph Grimaldi

English actor, comedian and dancer

*December 18th, 1778, London †May 31st, 1837, London

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on September 29th

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

The Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. One of the four quarter days in the Irish calendar. (England and Ireland). Called Michaelmas in some western liturgical traditions.

Christian feast dayen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archangel

Inventors' Day (Argentina)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventors'_Day

Victory of Boquerón Day (Paraguay)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Paraguay

World Heart Day

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Heart_Federation

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXIX.IX.MDCCLXXVIII

29.9.1778

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

IX = 9

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1778 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
September 1778

September 1778

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