March 29th, 1861

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Born on March 29th, 1861 – 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 1861)

Born on March 29th, 1861

Weekday

Friday

March 29th, 1861 was a Friday.

Age

163

People born on March 29th, 1861 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 163 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♈

Aries (The Ram)

March 21st, 1861 - April 20th, 1861

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 59,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 438 days, exactly on July 7th, 2025, people who were born on March 29th, 1861 will be 60,000 days old!

59,562 Days

8,508 Weeks

1,956 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

Born on March 29th, 1861

Paul Ranson

French painter and writer (1861–1909)

*March 29th, 1861, Limoges †February 20th, 1909, Paris

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

William Benham

New Zealand zoologist (1860–1950)

*March 29th, 1860, Isleworth †August 21st, 1950, Dunedin

Freya von Moltke

German writer and scholar

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

Alan Budikusuma

Badminton player

*March 29th, 1968, Surabaya

Valeria Sorokina

Russian badminton player

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

John Tyler

President of the United States from 1841 to 1845

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

John Major

Former prime minister of the United Kingdom (born 1943)

*March 29th, 1943, London

Brendan Gleeson

Irish actor

*March 29th, 1955, Dublin

Sam Walton

American businessman

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

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

107

Friedrich Grade

German engineer and naval officer

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

Annabella Sciorra

American actress

*March 29th, 1960, Brooklyn

Dimitri Payet

French footballer (born 1987)

*March 29th, 1987, Saint-Pierre

Justin Quiles

American singer

*March 29th, 1990, Bridgeport

Hanna Reitsch

German aviator

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

102

Ernst Jünger

German writer

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

Megan Hilty

American musical theatre actress

*March 29th, 1981, Bellevue

Warner Baxter

American actor (1889–1951)

*March 29th, 1889, Columbus †May 7th, 1951, Beverly Hills

Émile Basly

French trade unionist

*March 29th, 1854, Valenciennes †February 11th, 1928, Lens

Cy Young

American baseball player

*March 29th, 1867, Gilmore †November 4th, 1955, Newcomerstown

Same year
Born in 1861

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

*May 7th, 1861, Kolkata †August 7th, 1941, Kolkata

Fridtjof Nansen

Norwegian polar explorer and diplomat; Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1861-1930)

*October 10th, 1861, Vestre Aker †May 13th, 1930, Polhøgda

Nellie Melba

Australian opera singer

*May 19th, 1861, Melbourne †February 23rd, 1931, Sydney

Friedrich Simon Archenhold

German astronomer

*October 2nd, 1861, Lichtenau †October 14th, 1939, Berlin

Georges Méliès

French film maker and illusionist (1861–1938)

*December 8th, 1861, Paris †January 21st, 1938, Paris

Maximilian von Spee

German admiral

*June 22nd, 1861, Copenhagen †December 8th, 1914, South Atlantic Ocean

Armando Diaz

Italian general (1861-1928)

*December 5th, 1861, Naples †February 29th, 1928, Rome

Marie von Miller

German painter (1861–1933)

*February 22nd, 1861, Munich †August 18th, 1933, Starnberg

Mehmed VI

Last sultan of the Ottoman Empire

*January 14th, 1861, Istanbul †May 16th, 1926, Sanremo

Franz Xaver Engelhart

German composer, priest and choir director

*March 4th, 1861, Geiselhöring †July 14th, 1924, Regensburg

Johannes Angern

*June 13th, 1861, Germany †September 10th, 1938, Berlin

Frederick Jackson Turner

American historian (1861-1932)

*November 14th, 1861, Portage †March 14th, 1932, San Marino

Victor Horta

Belgian architect, designer, publicist, teacher and creator of Art Nouveau

*January 6th, 1861, Ghent †September 8th, 1947, City of Brussels

Rudolf Steiner

Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)

*February 25th, 1861, Donji Kraljevec †March 30th, 1925, Dornach

Lou Andreas-Salomé

German-Russian Psychoanalyst and author

*February 12th, 1861, Saint Petersburg †February 5th, 1937, Göttingen

Charles Édouard Guillaume

Swiss physicist (1861-1938)

*February 15th, 1861, Fleurier †June 13th, 1938, Sèvres

Pauline Johnson

Canadian poet and performer

*March 10th, 1861, Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation †March 7th, 1913, Vancouver

Luigi Facta

Italian politician (1861-1930)

*September 13th, 1861, Pinerolo †November 5th, 1930, Pinerolo

José Rizal

Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)

*June 19th, 1861, Calamba †December 30th, 1896, Manila

Ludwig Fulda

German writer

*November 30th, 1861, Frankfurt †March 30th, 1939, Berlin

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.MDCCCLXI

29.3.1861

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

IX = 9

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1861 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
March 1861

March 1861

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9					1	2	3
10	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
12	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
13	25	26	27	28	29	30	31

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9					1	2	3
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12	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
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10	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
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March 29th, 1861

Born on March 29th, 1861

Weekday

Friday

Age

Zodiac

♈

Aries (The Ram)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 59,000 days old!

59,562 Days

8,508 Weeks

1,956 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

Born on March 29th, 1861

French painter and writer (1861–1909)

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

Same year Born in 1861

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

29.3.1861

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Born in 1861

Calendar
March 1861

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