August 29th, 1959

Born on August 29th, 1959

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What happened on August 29th, 1959?

August 29th, 1959

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

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What else 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, 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, 1959

64

Stephen Wolfram

British-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, writer and businessman (born 1959)

*August 29th, 1959, London

64

Ramón Díaz

Argentine association football player

*August 29th, 1959, La Rioja

64

Eddi Reader

Scottish singer-songwriter

*August 29th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Ernesto Rodrigues

Portuguese composer

*August 29th, 1959, Lisbon

64

Rebecca De Mornay

American actress

*August 29th, 1959, Santa Rosa

64

Chris Hadfield

Canadian astronaut

*August 29th, 1959, Sarnia

64

Enzo Enzo

French singer

*August 29th, 1959, Paris

64

Akkineni Nagarjuna

Indian film actor and producer

*August 29th, 1959, Chennai

64

Timothy Shriver

American non-profit executive

*August 29th, 1959, Boston

64

Ray Elgaard

Player of American and Canadian football

*August 29th, 1959, Edmonton

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

50

Michael Jackson

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

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

54

Lucero

Mexican singer and actress

*August 29th, 1969, Mexico City

59

Doris Ahnen

German politician (SPD)

*August 29th, 1964, Trier

25

Bizarrap

Argentine record producer

*August 29th, 1998, Ramos Mejía

65

Lenny Henry

British comedian

*August 29th, 1958, Dudley

58

Eva Christiane Cancik-Kirschbaum

German assyriologist

*August 29th, 1965, Tübingen

42

Miyo Akao

Badminton player

*August 29th, 1981, Hita

52

Carla Gugino

American actress

*August 29th, 1971, Sarasota

74

Darnell Hillman

American basketball player

*August 29th, 1949, Sacramento

81

John McCain

American politician, military officer, and presidential candidate (1936–2018)

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

22

Fiorella Corimberto

Argentinian Beach handball player

*August 29th, 2001, Buenos Aires

80

Arthur B. McDonald

Canadian physicist

*August 29th, 1943, Sydney

85

Elliott Gould

American actor

*August 29th, 1938, Brooklyn

60

Elizabeth Fraser

Scottish singer (born 1963)

*August 29th, 1963, Grangemouth

30

Liam Pane

English singer and songwriter

*August 29th, 1993, Wolverhampton

68

Diamanda Galás

American singer-songwriter

*August 29th, 1955, San Diego

65

Mick Harvey

Australian musician

*August 29th, 1958, Rochester

79

Lukas Hartmann

Swiss novelist and children's writers

*August 29th, 1944, Bern

77

Michael Harney

American actor

*August 29th, 1946, The Bronx

67

Ingrid Bergman

Swedish actress (1915–1982)

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

Same year
Born in 1959

64

Jim Kerr

Scottish singer

*July 9th, 1959, Glasgow

65

Andrew Eldritch

British singer

*May 15th, 1959, Ely

64

Martin Atkins

English musician

*August 3rd, 1959, Coventry

56

Nahed Hattar

Jordanian writer

*November 30th, 1959, Amman †September 25th, 2016, Amman

64

Wolfgang Rolff

German association football player and manager

*December 26th, 1959, Lamstedt

64

Mike Pence

Vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021

*June 7th, 1959, Columbus

65

Hartmut Koschyk

German politician

*April 16th, 1959, Forchheim

64

Morten Andreas Meyer

Norwegian politician

*October 20th, 1959, Sarpsborg Municipality

64

Jon Fosse

Norwegian writer, theater writer and translator

*September 29th, 1959, Haugesund Municipality

64

Donna Strickland

Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel laurate

*May 27th, 1959, Guelph

65

Dave Ball

English producer and electronic musician

*May 3rd, 1959, Blackpool

64

Charlie Burchill

Scottish musician and composer

*November 27th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Bryan Adams

Canadian guitarist

*November 5th, 1959, Kingston

64

Rolf Mützenich

German politician (SPD)

*June 25th, 1959, Cologne

64

Michael Boddenberg

German politician

*July 15th, 1959, Troisdorf

64

Steve Alten

American writer

*August 21st, 1959, Philadelphia

64

Carla Antonelli

Spanish actress and activist

*July 12th, 1959, Güímar

64

Johannes Röring

German politician

*May 16th, 1959, Vreden

65

Peter Enders

German politician (1959–)

*May 10th, 1959, Eichen

64

Allison Janney

American actress

*November 19th, 1959, Boston

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1959 is a normal year and no leap year.

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