August 29 facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts

This page is all about the interesting things that happened on August 29 throughout history! You'll find out about important events, famous people who were born, and notable people who passed away on this day.

Historic Events
Famous Births
Notable Deaths
Holidays and Observances
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Historic Events

Early History (Before 1600)

In 708, the very first copper coins were made in Japan. This was a big step for their economy!
The city of Melite (which is now part of Malta) was taken over by an army in 870. This ended the rule of the Byzantine Empire there.
A large fire badly damaged Mainz Cathedral in 1009, right on the day it was supposed to open.
The Battle of Fariskur took place in 1219 during the Fifth Crusade, a series of religious wars.
In 1261, Pope Urban IV became the 182nd Pope, taking over from Pope Alexander IV.
The army of Pisa won a big battle against the forces of Naples and Florence in 1315, even though they were outnumbered. This was called the Battle of Montecatini.
In 1350, the English navy, led by King Edward III, defeated a large Spanish fleet in the Battle of Winchelsea.
A short war between France and England ended with the Treaty of Picquigny in 1475.
Pope Innocent VIII became Pope in 1484, following Pope Sixtus IV.
The famous explorer Vasco da Gama decided to leave Calicut (in India) and head back to Portugal in 1498.
In 1521, the Ottoman Turks captured Belgrade, an important city.
The Battle of Mohács in 1526 was a major victory for the Ottoman Turks, led by Suleiman the Magnificent. They defeated the Hungarian and Bohemian armies.
The Ottoman Turks also captured Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom, in 1541.
In 1588, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a powerful leader in Japan, ordered that all peasants had to give up their swords. This helped to keep the peace and separate the samurai (warrior class) from common people.

Modern History (1601–1900)

The city of Nuuk in Greenland was founded in 1728 as a fort called Godt-Haab.
A huge tsunami (a giant ocean wave) hit the Japanese coast in 1741 after a volcano erupted. At least 2,000 people drowned.
Frederick the Great attacked Saxony in 1756, which marked the start of the Seven Years' War in Europe.
In 1758, the Treaty of Easton created the first Indian reservation in America for the Lenape people.
During the American Revolutionary War, British and American forces fought in the Battle of Rhode Island in 1778, but neither side won clearly.
American forces defeated the British and Iroquois at the Battle of Newtown in 1779.
Shays' Rebellion, an uprising of farmers in Massachusetts, began in 1786 because people were struggling with high debts and taxes.
British troops, led by Arthur Wellesley, defeated a Danish army outside Copenhagen in 1807.
In 1825, Portugal officially recognized Brazil's independence with the signing of the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro.
Michael Faraday made an amazing discovery in 1831: electromagnetic induction. This is a key idea behind how electricity works!
The First Opium War ended in 1842 with the signing of the Treaty of Nanking.
During the American Civil War, Federal forces gained control of Pamlico Sound after the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries in 1861.
The Mount Washington Cog Railway opened in 1869. It was the world's first mountain-climbing train!
In 1871, Emperor Meiji of Japan changed how the country was governed, replacing old feudal areas with new prefectures.
Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first motorcycle with an internal combustion engine in 1885.
The Goodyear tire company was founded in Akron, Ohio, in 1898.

Recent History (1901–Present)

The Russian battleship Slava was launched in 1903.
The Quebec Bridge collapsed during construction in 1907, sadly killing 75 workers.
In 1910, the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910 officially began the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
Ishi, believed to be the last Native American to live completely separate from modern society, came out of the wilderness in California in 1911.
Also in 1911, the Canadian Naval Service became the Royal Canadian Navy.
A terrible typhoon hit China in 1912, causing at least 50,000 deaths.
World War I began for France in 1914 with the Battle of St. Quentin.
US Navy divers successfully raised the submarine F-4 in 1915, which was the first U.S. submarine to sink in an accident.
The United States passed the Philippine Autonomy Act in 1916, giving more self-rule to the Philippines.
In 1918, during World War I, the New Zealand Division captured Bapaume as part of the Hundred Days Offensive.
The last 36 people living on the remote island of St Kilda were moved to other parts of Scotland in 1930.
During World War II, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, was taken over by Nazi Germany in 1941.
In 1943, also during World War II, German-occupied Denmark sank most of its navy to prevent it from falling into German hands.
The Slovak National Uprising happened in 1944, where 60,000 Slovak troops fought against the Nazis.
The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb in 1949, known as First Lightning.
In 1950, during the Korean War, British Commonwealth Forces Korea arrived to help the US forces.
The famous experimental music piece 4’33” by John Cage premiered in 1952. It's famous because it's mostly silence!
The United States Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1958.
The Gemini V spacecraft returned to Earth in 1965, landing safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Beatles played their very last concert for paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966.
In 1970, the Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War took place in East Los Angeles, California. Sadly, three people were killed during a police riot.
Peruvian Prime Minister Francisco Morales Bermúdez took over as president in 1975 in a coup d’état.
The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium was first created in 1982 in Darmstadt, Germany.
In 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union stopped all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed into a mountain in Spitsbergen in 1996, killing all 141 people on board.
Netflix was launched in 1997 as an internet DVD rental service.
In 1998, Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 crashed during takeoff in Quito, Ecuador, killing eighty people.
Hurricane Katrina caused massive damage along the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005, especially in Louisiana and Florida. It killed many people and caused huge financial losses.
The XIV Paralympic Games opened in London, England, in 2012.
In 2022, Ukraine began its southern counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast during the Russo-Ukrainian War, which eventually led to the liberation of the city of Kherson.

Famous Births

Born Before 1600

979 – Otto, a French nobleman.
1321 – John of Artois, another French nobleman.
1347 – John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, an English nobleman and soldier.
1434 – Janus Pannonius, a Hungarian bishop and poet.
1514 – García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca, a Spanish noble and admiral.
1534 – Nicholas Pieck, a Dutch Franciscan friar.
1597 – Henry Gage, an English soldier during the English Civil War.

Born Between 1601 and 1900

1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, a French economist and politician.
1628 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, an English soldier and politician.
1632 – John Locke, a famous English physician and philosopher.
1724 – Giovanni Battista Casti, an Italian poet and author.
1725 – Charles Townshend, an English politician.
1728 – Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, an electress of Bavaria.
1756 – Jan Śniadecki, a Polish mathematician and astronomer.
1756 – Count Heinrich von Bellegarde, an Austrian general and politician.
1772 – James Finlayson, a Scottish industrialist.
1773 – Aimé Bonpland, a French botanist and explorer.
1777 – Hyacinth, a Russian religious leader who helped start the study of China (Sinology).
1780 – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, a French painter.
1792 – Charles Grandison Finney, an American minister and author.
1805 – Frederick Denison Maurice, an English priest and author.
1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., an American physician and author.
1810 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, an Argentinian thinker and diplomat.
1813 – Henry Bergh, an American activist who founded the ASPCA.
1842 – Alfred Shaw, an English cricketer and rugby player.
1843 – David B. Hill, an American lawyer and politician, who was Governor of New York.
1844 – Edward Carpenter, an English poet.
1854 – William C. White, an American minister.
1857 – Sandford Schultz, an English cricketer.
1861 – Byron G. Harlan, an American singer.
1862 – Andrew Fisher, a Scottish-Australian politician who became Prime Minister of Australia.
1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck, a Belgian poet and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1871 – Albert François Lebrun, a French engineer and politician who became President of France.
1875 – Leonardo De Lorenzo, an Italian flute player.
1876 – Charles F. Kettering, an American engineer who founded Delco Electronics.
1876 – Kim Koo, a South Korean politician.
1879 – Han Yong-un, a Korean independence activist and poet.
1887 – Jivraj Narayan Mehta, an Indian physician and politician.
1888 – Salme Dutt, an Estonian-English politician.
1890 – Peder Furubotn, a Norwegian Communist and anti-Nazi Resistance leader.
1891 – Marquis James, an American journalist and author.
1898 – Preston Sturges, an American director and producer.

Born After 1900

1901 – Aurèle Joliat, a Canadian ice hockey player.
1904 – Werner Forssmann, a German physician who won a Nobel Prize.
1905 – Dhyan Chand, a famous Indian field hockey player.
1905 – Arndt Pekurinen, a Finnish activist.
1910 – Vivien Thomas, an American surgeon.
1911 – John Charnley, a British orthopedic surgeon.
1912 – Sohn Kee-chung, a South Korean runner.
1912 – Barry Sullivan, an American actor.
1912 – Wolfgang Suschitzky, an Austrian-English cinematographer.
1913 – Len Butterfield, a New Zealand cricketer.
1913 – Jackie Mitchell, an American baseball pitcher.
1915 – Ingrid Bergman, a famous Swedish actress.
1915 – Nathan Pritikin, an American nutritionist.
1916 – Luther Davis, an American playwright.
1917 – Isabel Sanford, an American actress.
1920 – Otis Boykin, an American inventor and engineer.
1920 – Charlie Parker, a legendary American saxophonist and composer.
1920 – Herb Simpson, an American baseball player.
1921 – Iris Apfel, an American businesswoman and interior designer.
1922 – Arthur Anderson, an American actor.
1922 – Richard Blackwell, an American fashion designer and critic.
1922 – John Edward Williams, an American author.
1923 – Richard Attenborough, a famous English actor, director, and producer.
1924 – Dinah Washington, an American singer and pianist.
1926 – Helene Ahrweiler, a Greek historian.
1926 – Donn Fendler, an American author.
1926 – Betty Lynn, an American actress.
1927 – Jimmy C. Newman, an American singer-songwriter.
1928 – Herbert Meier, a Swiss author.
1929 – Thom Gunn, an English-American poet.
1930 – Jacques Bouchard, a Canadian businessman.
1930 – Carlos Loyzaga, a Filipino basketball player.
1931 – Stelios Kazantzidis, a Greek singer.
1931 – Lise Payette, a Canadian journalist and politician.
1933 – Sorel Etrog, a Romanian-Canadian sculptor.
1933 – Arnold Koller, a Swiss politician.
1934 – Dimitris Papamichael, a Greek actor.
1935 – Hugo Brandt Corstius, a Dutch linguist.
1935 – William Friedkin, an American director and producer.
1935 – László Garai, a Hungarian psychologist.
1936 – John McCain, an American politician and captain.
1937 – James Florio, an American politician, who was Governor of New Jersey.
1938 – Elliott Gould, an American actor.
1938 – Angela Huth, an English journalist.
1938 – Christian Müller, a German footballer.
1938 – Robert Rubin, an American lawyer and politician.
1939 – Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, a Hungarian discus thrower.
1939 – Joel Schumacher, an American director and screenwriter.
1940 – James Brady, an American politician and activist.
1940 – Gary Gabelich, an American race car driver.
1941 – Robin Leach, an English journalist and TV host.
1942 – James Glennon, an American cinematographer.
1942 – Gottfried John, a German actor.
1942 – Sterling Morrison, an American singer and guitarist.
1943 – Mohamed Amin, a Kenyan photographer and journalist.
1943 – Dick Halligan, an American pianist and composer.
1943 – Arthur B. McDonald, a Canadian astrophysicist who won a Nobel Prize.
1945 – Chris Copping, an English singer-songwriter.
1945 – Wyomia Tyus, an American sprinter.
1946 – Bob Beamon, an American long jumper.
1946 – Francine D. Blau, an American economist.
1946 – Demetris Christofias, a Cypriot politician who became President of Cyprus.
1946 – Warren Jabali, an American basketball player.
1946 – Giorgio Orsoni, an Italian lawyer and politician.
1947 – Temple Grandin, an American ethologist and author.
1947 – James Hunt, an English race car driver.
1948 – Robert S. Langer, an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur.
1949 – Stan Hansen, an American wrestler and actor.
1949 – Darnell Hillman, an American basketball player.
1950 – Doug DeCinces, an American baseball player.
1950 – Frank Henenlotter, an American director.
1950 – Dave Reichert, an American soldier and politician.
1951 – Geoff Whitehorn, an English singer-songwriter.
1952 – Karen Hesse, an American author and poet.
1952 – Dave Malone, an American singer-songwriter.
1952 – Don Schlitz, a Hall of Fame country music songwriter.
1952 – Deborah Van Valkenburgh, an American actress.
1953 – David Boaz, an American businessman and author.
1953 – Richard Harding, an English rugby player.
1953 – James Quesada, a Nicaraguan-American anthropologist.
1954 – Michael P. Kube-McDowell, an American author.
1955 – Diamanda Galás, an American singer-songwriter.
1955 – Jack Lew, an American lawyer and politician.
1956 – Mark Morris, an American dancer and choreographer.
1956 – Eddie Murray, an American football player.
1956 – Charalambos Xanthopoulos, a Greek footballer.
1956 – Steve Yarbrough, an American novelist.
1957 – Jerry D. Bailey, an American jockey.
1957 – Grzegorz Ciechowski, a Polish singer-songwriter.
1958 – Lenny Henry, an English comedian and actor.
1958 – Michael Jackson, a world-famous American singer, dancer, and actor.
1959 – Rebecca De Mornay, an American actress.
1959 – Ramón Díaz, an Argentinian footballer and manager.
1959 – Ray Elgaard, a Canadian football player.
1959 – Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut.
1959 – Eddi Reader, a Scottish singer-songwriter.
1959 – Timothy Shriver, an American businessman and activist.
1959 – Stephen Wolfram, an English-American physicist and mathematician.
1959 – Nagarjuna, an Indian film actor and producer.
1960 – Todd English, an American chef.
1960 – Tony MacAlpine, an American guitarist.
1961 – Carsten Fischer, a German field hockey player.
1961 – Rodney McCray, an American basketball player.
1962 – Carl Banks, an American football player.
1962 – Hiroki Kikuta, a Japanese game designer and composer.
1962 – Ian James Corlett, a Canadian voice actor and writer.
1962 – Simon Thurley, an English historian.
1963 – Elizabeth Fraser, a Scottish singer-songwriter.
1964 – Perri "Pebbles" Reid, an American singer-songwriter.
1964 – Zisis Tsekos, a Greek footballer.
1965 – Will Perdue, an American basketball player.
1965 – Geir-Inge Sivertsen, a Norwegian politician.
1966 – Jörn Großkopf, a German footballer.
1967 – Neil Gorsuch, an American lawyer and judge on the Supreme Court.
1967 – Anton Newcombe, an American singer-songwriter.
1968 – Meshell Ndegeocello, a German-American singer-songwriter.
1969 – Joe Swail, a Northern Irish snooker player.
1969 – Jennifer Crittenden, an American screenwriter.
1969 – Lucero, a Mexican singer and actress.
1971 – Henry Blanco, a Venezuelan baseball player.
1971 – Alex Griffin, an English bass player.
1971 – Carla Gugino, an American actress.
1972 – Amanda Marshall, a Canadian singer-songwriter.
1972 – Bae Yong-joon, a South Korean actor.
1973 – Vincent Cavanagh, an English singer and guitarist.
1973 – Olivier Jacque, a French motorcycle racer.
1974 – Kumi Tanioka, a Japanese composer.
1975 – Dante Basco, an American actor.
1975 – Kyle Cook, an American singer-songwriter.
1976 – Stephen Carr, an Irish footballer.
1976 – Phil Harvey, an English band manager.
1976 & Kevin Kaesviharn, an American football player.
1976 & Georgios Kalaitzis, a Greek basketball player.
1976 & Pablo Mastroeni, an Argentine-American soccer player.
1976 & Jon Dahl Tomasson, a Danish footballer.
1977 & Cayetano, a Greek DJ.
1977 & Devean George, an American basketball player.
1977 & John Hensley, an American actor.
1977 & John Patrick O'Brien, an American soccer player.
1977 & Roy Oswalt, an American baseball player.
1977 & Charlie Pickering, an Australian comedian.
1977 & Aaron Rowand, an American baseball player.
1978 & Volkan Arslan, a German-Turkish footballer.
1978 & Celestine Babayaro, a Nigerian footballer.
1979 & Stijn Devolder, a Belgian cyclist.
1979 & Kristjan Rahnu, an Estonian athlete.
1979 & Ryan Shealy, an American baseball player.
1980 & Chris Simms, an American football player.
1980 & David West, an American basketball player.
1981 & Martin Erat, a Czech ice hockey player.
1981 & Geneviève Jeanson, a Canadian cyclist.
1981 & Jay Ryan, a New Zealand-Australian actor.
1982 & Ruhila Adatia-Sood, a Kenyan journalist.
1982 & Carlos Delfino, an Argentinian-Italian basketball player.
1982 & Yakhouba Diawara, a French basketball player.
1982 & Vincent Enyeama, a Nigerian footballer.
1983 & Jennifer Landon, an American actress.
1983 & Antti Niemi, a Finnish ice hockey player.
1983 & Anthony Recker, an American baseball player.
1986 & Hajime Isayama, a Japanese illustrator.
1986 & Lea Michele, an American actress and singer.
1987 & Tony Kane, an Irish footballer.
1989 & Charlotte Ritchie, an English actress.
1990 & Jakub Kosecki, a Polish footballer.
1990 & Chris Taylor, an American baseball player.
1990 & Patrick van Aanholt, a Dutch footballer.
1991 & Néstor Araujo, a Mexican footballer.
1991 & Deshaun Thomas, an American basketball player.
1992 & Mallu Magalhães, a Brazilian singer-songwriter.
1992 & Noah Syndergaard, an American baseball player.
1993 & Liam Payne, an English singer-songwriter.
1994 & Ysaline Bonaventure, a Belgian tennis player.
1996 & Daryll Neita, a British sprinter.

Notable Deaths

Died Before 1600

886 – Basil I, a Byzantine emperor.
892 – Theodora of Thessaloniki, a Byzantine nun and saint.
939 – Wang Jipeng, a Chinese emperor.
939 – Li Chunyan, a Chinese empress.
956 – Fu the Elder, a Chinese empress.
979 – Abu Taghlib, a Hamdanid emir.
1021 – Minamoto no Yorimitsu, a Japanese nobleman.
1046 – Gerard of Csanád, a Hungarian bishop.
1093 – Hugh I, a duke of Burgundy.
1123 – Eystein I, a king of Norway.
1135 – Al-Mustarshid, an Abbasid caliph.
1159 – Bertha of Sulzbach, a Byzantine empress.
1298 – Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar, an English princess.
1315 – Peter Tempesta, an Italian nobleman.
1315 – Charles of Taranto, an Italian nobleman.
1395 – Albert III, a duke of Austria.
1442 – John V, a duke of Brittany.
1499 – Alesso Baldovinetti, a Florentine painter.
1523 – Ulrich von Hutten, a Lutheran reformer.
1526 – Louis II, a king of Hungary and Croatia.
1526 – Pál Tomori, a Hungarian archbishop and soldier.
1533 – Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor.
1542 – Cristóvão da Gama, a Portuguese commander.

Died Between 1601 and 1900

1604 – Hamida Banu Begum, a Mughal empress.
1657 – John Lilburne, an English activist.
1712 – Gregory King, an English statistician.
1749 – Matthias Bel, a Hungarian pastor.
1769 – Edmond Hoyle, an English author.
1780 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, a French architect who co-designed The Panthéon.
1799 – Pius VI, a pope of the Catholic Church.
1844 – Edmund Ignatius Rice, an Irish missionary who founded the Christian Brothers.
1856 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, an English author and activist.
1866 – Tokugawa Iemochi, a Japanese shōgun.
1877 – Brigham Young, an American religious leader.
1889 – Stefan Dunjov, a Bulgarian colonel.
1891 – Pierre Lallement, a French businessman who invented the bicycle.
1892 – William Forbes Skene, a Scottish historian.

Died After 1900

1904 – Murad V, an Ottoman sultan.
1911 – Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, the 6th Nizam of Hyderabad.
1917 – George Huntington Hartford, an American businessman.
1930 – William Archibald Spooner, an English priest and author.
1931 – David T. Abercrombie, an American businessman who co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch.
1932 – Raymond Knister, a Canadian poet.
1944 – Attik, a Greek pianist and composer.
1946 – Adolphus Busch III, an American businessman.
1946 – John Steuart Curry, an American painter.
1951 – Sydney Chapman, an English economist.
1952 – Anton Piëch, an Austrian lawyer.
1958 – Marjorie Flack, an American author and illustrator.
1966 – Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptian thinker and author.
1968 – Ulysses S. Grant III, an American general.
1972 – Lale Andersen, a German singer-songwriter.
1975 – Éamon de Valera, an Irish soldier and politician who became President of Ireland.
1977 & Jean Hagen, an American actress.
1977 & Brian McGuire, an Australian race car driver.
1979 & Gertrude Chandler Warner, an American author.
1981 & Lowell Thomas, an American journalist.
1982 & Ingrid Bergman, a famous Swedish actress.
1982 & Lehman Engel, an American composer and conductor.
1985 & Evelyn Ankers, a British-American actress.
1987 & Archie Campbell, an American actor and screenwriter.
1987 & Lee Marvin, an American actor.
1989 & Peter Scott, an English explorer and painter.
1990 & Manly Palmer Hall, a Canadian-American mystic and author.
1991 & Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman.
1992 & Félix Guattari, a French philosopher.
1995 & Frank Perry, an American director and producer.
2000 & Shelagh Fraser, an English actress.
2000 & Willie Maddren, an English footballer.
2000 & Conrad Marca-Relli, an American-Italian painter.
2001 & Graeme Strachan, an Australian singer-songwriter.
2001 & Francisco Rabal, a Spanish actor.
2002 & Lance Macklin, an English race car driver.
2003 & Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, an Iraqi politician.
2003 & Patrick Procktor, an English painter.
2004 & Hans Vonk, a Dutch conductor.
2007 & James Muir Cameron Fletcher, a New Zealand businessman.
2007 & Richard Jewell, an American police officer.
2007 & Pierre Messmer, a French civil servant and politician.
2007 & Alfred Peet, a Dutch-American businessman who founded Peet's Coffee & Tea.
2008 & Geoffrey Perkins, an English actor and producer.
2008 & Michael Schoenberg, an American geophysicist.
2011 & Honeyboy Edwards, an American singer-songwriter.
2011 & Junpei Takiguchi, a Japanese voice actor.
2012 & Ruth Goldbloom, a Canadian academic and philanthropist.
2012 & Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, an English historian.
2012 & Shoshichi Kobayashi, a Japanese-American mathematician.
2012 & Anne McKnight, an American soprano.
2012 & Les Moss, an American baseball player and coach.
2012 & Sergei Ovchinnikov, a Russian volleyball player and coach.
2013 & Joan L. Krajewski, an American lawyer and politician.
2013 & Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, a Zambian cardinal.
2013 & Bruce C. Murray, an American geologist who co-founded The Planetary Society.
2014 & Octavio Brunetti, an Argentinian pianist.
2014 & Björn Waldegård, a Swedish race car driver.
2016 & Gene Wilder, a famous American actor and director.
2018 & James Mirrlees, a Scottish economist who won a Nobel Prize.
2018 & Paul Taylor, an American choreographer.
2021 & Ed Asner, an American actor.
2021 & Lee "Scratch" Perry, a Jamaican reggae producer.
2021 & Jacques Rogge, an Olympic sailor and surgeon who was the President of the International Olympic Committee.
2023 & Mike Enriquez, a Filipino broadcaster.

Holidays and Observances

Christian feast day:
- Adelphus of Metz
- Beheading of St. John the Baptist
- Eadwold of Cerne
- Euphrasia Eluvathingal (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)
- John Bunyan (Episcopal Church)
- Sabina
- Vitalis, Sator and Repositus
- August 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
International Day against Nuclear Tests
Miners' Day (Ukraine)
Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine (Ukraine)
Municipal Police Day (Poland)
National Sports Day (India)
Slovak National Uprising Anniversary (Slovakia)
Telugu Language Day (India)