September 29

September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 93 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 522 BC – Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
• 480 BC – Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
• 61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
• 1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
• 1364 – Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession.
• 1567 – At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
• 1650 – Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London.
• 1717 – An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
• 1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
• 1789 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
• 1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
• 1848 – Battle of Pákozd: stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
• 1850 – The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
• 1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
• 1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
• 1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1918 – World War I, Battle of St. Quentin Canal: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice.
• 1923 – The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
• 1932 – Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia.
• 1938 – Munich Agreement: Germany was given permission from France, Italy, and Great Britain to seize the territory of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. The meeting occurred in Munich, and leaders from neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovakia attended.
• 1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babyn Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
• 1949 – The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
• 1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
• 1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
• 1957 – 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
• 1960 – Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
• 1962 – Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
• 1963 – The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
• 1964 – The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
• 1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
• 1971 – Oman joins the Arab League.
• 1972 – Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
• 1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
• 1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
• 1982 – The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
• 1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
• 1990 – Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.
• 1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
• 1991 – Military coup in Haiti (1991 Haitian coup d'état).
• 1992 – Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
• 1995 – The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the "Jolly Rogers".
• 2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
• 2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
• 2006 – Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 total people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
• 2007 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
• 2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
• 2009 – An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami.

Births

• 106 BC – Pompey, Roman general and politician (d. 48 BC)
• 1240 – Margaret of England (d. 1275)
• 1321 – John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
• 1328 – Joan of Kent (d. 1385)
• 1388 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (d. 1421)
• 1511 – Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian, physician, and cartographer (d. 1553)
• 1518 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (d. 1594)
• 1538 – Joan Terès i Borrull, Spanish archbishop (d. 1603)
• 1547 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
• 1548 – William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
• 1561 – Adriaan van Roomen, Belgian mathematician (d. 1615)
• 1571 – Caravaggio, Italian painter (d. 1610)
• 1636 – Thomas Tenison, English archbishop (d. 1715)
• 1639 – William Russell, Lord Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
• 1640 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d. 1720)
• 1674 – Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, French composer and flute player (d. 1763)
• 1678 – Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)
• 1691 – Richard Challoner, English bishop (d. 1781)
• 1703 – François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
• 1718 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian politician (d. 1783)
• 1725 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, English general and politician (d. 1774)
• 1758 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (d. 1805)
• 1766 – Charlotte, Princess Royal of England (d. 1828)
• 1786 – Guadalupe Victoria, Mexican politician, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
• 1803 – Mercator Cooper, American captain (d. 1872)
• 1803 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (d. 1850)
• 1808 – Henry Bennett, American politician (d. 1868)
• 1810 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (d. 1865)
• 1842 – Louis J. Weichmann, American clerk, witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
• 1843 – Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)
• 1853 – Princess Thyra of Denmark (d. 1933)
• 1863 – Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (d. 1919)
• 1864 – Alexandra Kitchin, English model (d. 1925)
• 1864 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish author and philosopher (d. 1936)
• 1876 – Charlie Llewellyn, South African cricketer (d. 1964)
• 1881 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian-American economist, sociologist and philosopher (d. 1973)
• 1895 – Clarence Ashley, American banjo player and singer (d. 1967)
• 1895 – Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (d. 1980)
• 1895 – Roscoe Turner, American pilot (d. 1970)
• 1897 – Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980)
• 1898 – Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist (d. 1976)
• 1899 – László Bíró, Hungarian inventor, invented the ballpoint pen (d. 1985)
• 1901 – Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher, poet, and activist (d. 1981)
• 1901 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
• 1902 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexican politician, 46th President of Mexico (d. 1983)
• 1904 – Greer Garson, English actress (d. 1996)
• 1907 – Gene Autry, American singer and actor (d. 1998)
• 1907 – George W. Jenkins, American businessman, founded Publix (d. 1996)
• 1908 – Eddie Tolan, American sprinter (d. 1967)
• 1910 – Bill Boyd, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
• 1910 – Virginia Bruce, American actress (d. 1982)
• 1912 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
• 1913 – Stanley Kramer, American director (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Vincent DeDomenico, American businessman, founded the Napa Valley Wine Train (d. 2007)
• 1915 – Brenda Marshall, American actress (d. 1992)
• 1916 – Carl Giles, English cartoonist (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Václav Neumann, Czech conductor and violinist (Smetana Quartet) (d. 1995)
• 1921 – Albie Roles, English footballer (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress and singer
• 1923 – Stan Berenstain, American author (d. 2005)
• 1924 – Steve Forrest, American actor
• 1926 – Pete Elliott, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Pete McCloskey, American politician
• 1928 – Brajesh Mishra, Indian diplomat (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Colin Dexter, English author
• 1931 – James Cronin, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
• 1932 – Mehmood Ali, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 2004)
• 1932 – Robert Benton, American screenwriter and director
• 1932 – Paul Giel, American baseball player (d. 2002)
• 1933 – Samora Machel, Mozambican military commander and politician, 1st President of Mozambique (d. 1986)
• 1934 – Skandor Akbar, American wrestler and manager (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hungarian-American psychologist and educator
• 1934 – Lance Gibbs, Guyanese cricketer
• 1934 – Stuart M. Kaminsky, American author (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Mylène Demongeot, French actress
• 1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1936 – Silvio Berlusconi, Italian politician, 50th Prime Minister of Italy
• 1936 – James Fogle, American author (d. 2012)
• 1936 – Hal Trosky, Jr., American baseball player (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Dave Harper, English footballer (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Wim Kok, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1939 – Fikret Abdić, Bosnian politician and businessman
• 1939 – Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
• 1939 – Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (d. 1994)
• 1939 – Dan Crary, American singer and guitarist
• 1939 – Molly Haskell, American author and critic
• 1939 – Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)
• 1939 – Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politician, 2nd First Minister of Wales
• 1940 – Nicola di Bari, Italian singer
• 1941 – Fred West, English serial killer (d. 1995)
• 1942 – Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist
• 1942 – Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1942 – Ian McShane, English actor, director, and producer
• 1942 – Bill Nelson, American politician
• 1942 – Jean-Luc Ponty, French violinist and composer (Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return to Forever)
• 1942 – Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1943 – Mohammad Khatami, Iranian politician, 5th President of Iran
• 1943 – Gary Boyd Roberts, American genealogist
• 1943 – Lech Wałęsa, Polish politician, 2nd President of Poland, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1944 – Mike Post, American composer
• 1945 – Kyriakos Sfetsas, Greek composer
• 1946 – Patricia Hodge, English actress
• 1946 – Ian Wallace, English drummer (King Crimson and Crimson Jazz Trio) (d. 2007)
• 1947 – Martin Ferrero, American actor
• 1947 – Gary Wetzel, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
• 1948 – Mark Farner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Grand Funk Railroad and Terry Knight and the Pack)
• 1948 – Bryant Gumbel, American journalist
• 1948 – Theo Jörgensmann, German clarinet player and composer (German Clarinet Duo, Clarinet Contrast, and Klarinettenquartett Cl-4)
• 1948 – Mike Pinera, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Blues Image, Iron Butterfly, Cactus, and Ramatam)
• 1949 – George Dalaras, Greek singer
• 1950 – Ken Macha, American baseball player and manager
• 1951 – Michelle Bachelet, Chilean politician, 34th President of Chile
• 1951 – Pier Luigi Bersani, Italian politician
• 1951 – Andrés Caicedo, Colombian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1977)
• 1951 – Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
• 1951 – Mike Enriquez, Filipino journalist
• 1952 – Gábor Csupó, Hungarian-American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Klasky Csupo
• 1952 – Max Sandlin, American politician
• 1952 – Takanosato Toshihide, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 59th Yokozuna
• 1953 – Warren Cromartie, American baseball player
• 1953 – Drake Hogestyn, American actor
• 1953 – Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian director (d. 1997)
• 1954 – Uwe Jahn, German football coach
• 1955 – Benoît Ferreux, French actor
• 1955 – Ken Weatherwax, American actor
• 1956 – Sebastian Coe, English politician
• 1957 – Chris Broad, English cricketer and referee
• 1957 – Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
• 1957 – Sokratis Malamas, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1957 – Mark Nicholas, English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1960 – Julian Armour, Canadian cellist
• 1960 – Alan McGee, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Biff Bang Pow!)
• 1960 – John Paxson, American basketball player
• 1960 – David Sammartino, American wrestler
• 1960 – Carol Welsman, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1961 – Julia Gillard, Australian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
• 1961 – Stephanie Miller, American comedian and talk radio host
• 1962 – Roger Bart, American actor
• 1963 – Dave Andreychuk, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963 – Les Claypool, American bass player, songwriter, producer, and author (Primus, Blind Illusion, Oysterhead, and Sausage)
• 1964 – Brad Lohaus, American basketball player
• 1966 – Hersey Hawkins, American basketball player
• 1966 – Jill Whelan, American actress
• 1967 – Brett Anderson, English singer-songwriter (Suede and The Tears)
• 1968 – Patrick Burns, American paranormal investigator
• 1968 – Luke Goss, English singer and actor (Bros)
• 1968 – Matt Goss, English singer/songwriter (Bros)
• 1968 – Alex Skolnick, American guitarist (Testament, Savatage, and Stratospheerius)
• 1968 – Samir Soni, Indian actor
• 1969 – Angelo Barretto, Filipino race car driver
• 1969 – Erika Eleniak, American actress and model
• 1969 – DeVante Swing, American singer-songwriter, and producer (Jodeci)
• 1969 – Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer-songwriter and producer
• 1970 – AMG, American rapper
• 1970 – Emily Lloyd, English actress
• 1970 – Nicolás Pereira, Venezuelan tennis player
• 1970 – Russell Peters, Canadian comedian and actor
• 1970 – Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese wrestler
• 1970 – Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress
• 1971 – Mackenzie Crook, English actor
• 1971 – Sibel Tüzün, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1972 – Oliver Gavin, English race car driver
• 1972 – Togi Makabe, Japanese wrestler
• 1972 – Robert Webb, English actor and comedian
• 1973 – Joe Hulbig, American ice hockey player
• 1973 – Shannon Larratt, Canadian publisher, founded BMEzine (d. 2013)
• 1973 – Athanasios Michalopoulos, Greek volleyball player
• 1973 – Scout Niblett, English singer-songwriter
• 1974 – Brian Ash, American screenwriter and producer
• 1974 – Alexis Cruz, American actor
• 1975 – Albert Celades, Spanish footballer
• 1976 – Darren Byfield, English-Jamaican footballer
• 1976 – Kelvin Davis, English footballer
• 1976 – Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist
• 1976 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
• 1977 – Eric Barton, American football player
• 1977 – Wade Brookbank, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Debelah Morgan, American singer-songwriter
• 1977 – Jake Westbrook, American baseball player
• 1978 – Mohini Bhardwaj, American gymnast
• 1978 – Gunner McGrath, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Much the Same)
• 1978 – Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 – Takumi Beppu, Japanese cyclist
• 1979 – Artika Sari Devi, Indonesian model
• 1979 – Shelley Duncan, American baseball player
• 1979 – Jaime Lozano, Mexican footballer
• 1980 – Patrick Agyemang, English footballer
• 1980 – Dallas Green, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Alexisonfire and City and Colour)
• 1980 – Zachary Levi, American actor
• 1981 – Aris Galanopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1981 – Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian-Spanish handball player
• 1982 – Matt Giteau, Australian rugby player
• 1982 – Ariana Jollee, American porn actress
• 1982 – Amy Williams, English sled racer
• 1982 – Lauren Pope, English actress, radio host, model, and producer
• 1983 – Lisette Oropesa, American soprano
• 1984 – Per Mertesacker, German footballer
• 1984 – Isha Sharvani, Indian actress and dancer
• 1985 – Niklas Moisander, Finnish footballer
• 1985 – Calvin Johnson, American football player
• 1986 – Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Matt Lashoff, American ice hockey player
• 1986 – Isaac Makwala, Botswana sprinter
• 1986 – Benoît Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – David Del Rio, American actor
• 1988 – Kevin Durant, American basketball player
• 1988 – Justin Nozuka, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1989 – Theo Adams, English photographer and director
• 1989 – Aaron Martin, English footballer
• 1989 – Andrea Poli, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Doug Brochu, American actor
• 1990 – Lena Wermelt, German footballer
• 1991 – Adem Ljajić, Serbian footballer
• 1999 – Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish son of Iñaki Urdangarin, Duke of Palma de Mallorca
• 2008 – Emma Tallulah Behn, Norwegian daughter of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway

Deaths

• 855 – Lothair I, Roman emperor (b. 795)
• 1304 – John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, English soldier (b. 1231)
• 1364 – Charles I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319)
• 1560 – Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
• 1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (b. 1600)
• 1642 – René Goupil, French missionary (b. 1608)
• 1642 – William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, English son of Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby (b. 1561)
• 1703 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b. 1610)
• 1800 – Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b. 1729)
• 1804 – Michael Hillegas, American politician, 1st Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
• 1833 – Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)
• 1862 – William "Bull" Nelson, American navy officer (b. 1824)
• 1887 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810)
• 1889 – Louis Faidherbe, French general (b. 1818)
• 1900 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician (b. 1814)
• 1902 – William McGonagall, Scottish poet and actor (b. 1825)
• 1902 – Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
• 1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel Engine (b. 1858)
• 1908 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1839)
• 1925 – Léon Bourgeois, French politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1851)
• 1927 – Arthur Achleitner, German journalist and author (b. 1858)
• 1927 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1930 – Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
• 1937 – Ray Ewry, American triple jumper (b. 1873)
• 1937 – Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer (b. 1878)
• 1951 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer player and coach (b. 1864)
• 1952 – John Cobb, English race car driver (b. 1899)
• 1967 – Carson McCullers, American author (b. 1917)
• 1970 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
• 1973 – W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
• 1975 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
• 1976 – Wadi Ayoub, Lebanese wrestler (b. 1927)
• 1981 – Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1913)
• 1982 – Monty Stratton, American baseball player (b. 1912)
• 1987 – Henry Ford II, American businessman (b. 1917)
• 1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Gussie Busch, American businessman (b. 1899)
• 1989 – Georges Ulmer, Danish-French actor and composer (b. 1919)
• 1992 – Jean Aurenche, French screenwriter (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Gordon Douglas, American director (b. 1907)
• 1994 – Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)
• 1996 – Leslie Crowther, English comedian and actor (b. 1933)
• 1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, American painter (b. 1923)
• 1998 – Tom Bradley, American politician, 38th Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Jean-Louis Millette, Canadian actor and scriptwriter (b. 1935)
• 2000 – John Grant, English politician (b. 1932)
• 2001 – Nguyen Van Thieu, Vietnamese general and politician, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Edmund Trebus, Polish-English compulsive hoarder (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Richard Sainct, French motorcycle racer (b. 1970)
• 2005 – Austin Leslie, American chef (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Patrick Caulfield, English painter and printmaker (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Michael A. Monsoor, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1981)
• 2006 – Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist, poet, and critic (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Louis-Albert Vachon, Canadian archbishop (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
• 2007 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet astronaut (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Sperantza Vrana, Greek actress (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Greg Giraldo, American comedian (b.1965)
• 2012 – Hazloul bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Hebe Camargo, Brazilian singer and actress (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Nan Huai-Chin, Chinese scholar (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Antônio Maria Mucciolo, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Neil Smith, Scottish geographer (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Malcolm Wicks, English politician (b. 1947)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Michaelmas, feast of the Archangels St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael. One of the four Quarter days in the Irish calendar. (England and Ireland)
  • Rhipsime
  • September 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• International Coffee Day
• Inventors' Day (Argentina)
• Victory of Boquerón Day (Paraguay)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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