Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 29

Births

• 1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875) (pictured)
• 1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898)
• 1876 - Pablo Casals, Catalan musician (d. 1973)
• 1936 - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (d. 2017)
• 1972 - Jude Law, British actor

Deaths

• 1170 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (b. 1118)
• 1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748)
• 1891 - Leopold Kronecker, mathematician (b. 1823)
• 1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)