Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 29

Births

 * 106 BC - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome, (d. 48 BC) (pictured)
 * 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
 * 1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
 * 1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (d. 1843)
 * 1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
 * 1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
 * 1907 - Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
 * 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician (d. 2022)
 * 1943 - Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
 * 1948 - Bryant Gumbel, American television personality
 * 1957 - Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
 * 1958 - Ralf Rangnick, German association football manager

Deaths

 * 48 BC - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome (b. 106 BC)
 * 1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
 * 1642 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608)
 * 1902 - Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
 * 1967 - Carson McCullers, American author (b. 1917)
 * 1973 - W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
 * 1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)