Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 29

Births

 * 1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875) (pictured)
 * 1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898)
 * 1876 - Pablo Casals, Catalan musician (d. 1973)
 * 1936 - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (d. 2017)
 * 1972 - Jude Law, British actor

Deaths

 * 1170 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (b. 1118)
 * 1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748)
 * 1891 - Leopold Kronecker, mathematician (b. 1823)
 * 1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)