What happened on August 29 ?

1619 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)

1628 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)

1632 - John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)

1725 - Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)

1756 - Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)

1756 - Jan ?niadecki, Polish mathematician, philosopher and astronomer (d. 1830)

1777 - Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)

1780 - Jean Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)

1805 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)

1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)

1810 - Juan Bautista Alberdi, founding father of the Argentine Republic (d. 1884)

1843 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)

1844 - Edward Carpenter, English Socialist poet (d. 1929

1862 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)

1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)

1871 - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)

1876 - Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)

1898 - Preston Sturges, American screenwriter (d. 1959)

1904 - Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)

1905 - Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)

1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)

1916 - George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)

1916 - Luther Davis, American playwright

1917 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)

1920 - Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist and composer (d. 1955)

1923 - The Lord Attenborough, English film director

1924 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)

1924 - Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)

1933 - Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor

1936 - John McCain, American politician

1937 - James Florio, Governor of New Jersey

1938 - Elliott Gould, American actor

1938 - Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury

1939 - William Friedkin, American film director

1939 - Joel Schumacher, American film director

1940 - Gary Gabelich, race car driver and land world speed record holder

1941 - Robin Leach, English television host

1946 - Bob Beamon, American jumper

1953 - James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American Cultural Anthropologist

1957 - Jerry Bailey, American thoroughbred racing jockey

1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer and songwriter

1958 - Lenny Henry, British comic

1959 - Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese composer

1959 - Akkineni Nagarjuna, Telugu film actor

1959 - Timothy Perry Shriver, American chairman of the Special Olympics

1961 - Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player

1962 - Rebecca De Mornay, American actress

1963 - Elizabeth Fraser, English singer (Cocteau Twins)

1967 - Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)

1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello, American singer

1969 - Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player

1970 - Jacco Eltingh, Dutch tennis player

1971 - Carla Gugino, American actress

1976 - Stephen Carr, Irish footballer

1977 - John O'Brien, American soccer player

1977 - Roy Oswalt, American baseball player

1978 - Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer

1979 - Chieu Luu, Canadian journalist

1980 - David Desrosiers, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)

1981 - Lanny Barbie, Canadian porn star