Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 29

Births

 * 1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
 * 1632 – John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
 * 1725 – Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
 * 1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician (d. 1894)
 * 1871 – Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
 * 1898 – Preston Sturges, American filmmaker (d. 1959)
 * 1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982) (pictured)
 * 1923 – Richard Attenborough, English film director (d. 2014)
 * 1938 – Elliott Gould, American actor
 * 1947 – James Hunt, English race car driver (d. 1993)
 * 1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer (d. 2009)
 * 1959 – Rebecca De Mornay, American actress

Deaths

 * 1533 – Atahualpa, last Inca ruler of Peru
 * 1877 – Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)
 * 1904 – Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)
 * 1975 – Éamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (b. 1882)
 * 1982 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915) (pictured)
 * 1987 – Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
 * 1989 – Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
 * 2003 – Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b. 1939)