Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 29

Births

• 106 BC - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome, (d. 48 BC) (pictured)
• 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
• 1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
• 1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (d. 1843)
• 1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
• 1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
• 1907 - Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
• 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician (d. 2022)
• 1943 - Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1948 - Bryant Gumbel, American television personality
• 1957 - Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
• 1958 - Ralf Rangnick, German association football manager

Deaths

• 48 BC - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome (b. 106 BC)
• 1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
• 1642 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608)
• 1902 - Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
• 1967 - Carson McCullers, American author (b. 1917)
• 1973 - W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
• 1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)