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August 29

August 29's record stretches 521 years, from 1475 to 1996. Its center of gravity is the 20th century, and conflict is a recurring thread.

♍ZodiacVirgo ◈BirthstonePeridot ❀Birth flowerGladiolus

Virgo is the sign for August 29 — read more on the Virgo page, or see August's birthstone & birth flower.

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What happened on August 29?

August 29 is the 241st day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1475 and 1996. Famous people born on August 29 include Michael Jackson, John Locke and John McCain.

Released on August 29

Movies, games, albums & shows

2025

  • Game Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
  • Game Lost Soul Aside

2024

  • Game Gori: Cuddly Carnage
  • Game Emio: The Smiling Man - Famicom Detective Club
  • Game Gundam Breaker 4
  • Game Visions of Mana
  • Game Akimbot
  • Game Monster Jam Showdown
  • Game Squirrel with a Gun

2023

  • Game Goodbye Volcano High
  • Game Under the Waves

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1475

    Hundred Years' War

  2. 1728

    Nuuk

  3. 1831

    Michael Faraday

  4. 1842

    Treaty of Nanking

  5. 1885

    Gottlieb Daimler

  6. 1903

    Russian battleship Slava

  7. 1914

    World War I

  8. 1960

    Air France Flight 343

  9. 1991

    Libero Grassi

  10. 1996

    Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801

Famous birthday twins

Born on August 29

Michael Jackson

b. 1958

John Locke

b. 1632

John McCain

b. 1936

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

b. 1780

Ingrid Bergman

b. 1915

Tony MacAlpine

b. 1960

Maurice Maeterlinck

b. 1862

Richard Attenborough

b. 1923

Deaths

  • 1991Libero Grassi
  • 1987Lee Marvin
  • 1982Ingrid Bergman
  • 1972Lale Andersen
  • 1523Ulrich von Hutten
  • 886Basil I

Holidays & observances

  • —Christian feast day: Adelphus of Metz
  • —Christian feast day: Beheading of St. John the Baptist
  • —Christian feast day: Eadwold of Cerne
  • —Christian feast day: Euphrasia Eluvathingal (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)
  • —Christian feast day: John Bunyan (Episcopal Church)
  • —Christian feast day: Sabina
  • —Christian feast day: Vitalis, Sator and Repositus
  • —Christian feast day: August 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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