* 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)
* 1694 – Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715)
* 1725 – Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
* 1728 – Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)
* 1756 – Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
* 1756 – Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician (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)
* 1811 – Henry Bergh, founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1888)
* 1842 – Alfred Shaw, English cricketer (d. 1907)
* 1843 – David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
* 1844 – Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
* 1857 – Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)
* 1862 – Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
* 1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
* 1871 – Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
* 1876 – Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
* 1876 – Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
* 1898 – Preston Sturges, American filmmaker (d. 1959)
* 1901 – Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
* 1904 – Werner Forssmann, German physician Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
* 1905 – Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
* 1910 – Vivien Thomas, African American surgeon (d. 1985)
* 1912 – Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994)
* 1912 – Sohn Kee-chung, Korean runner (d. 2002)
* 1913 – Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
* 1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
* 1915 – Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist (d. 1985)
* 1916 – Luther Davis, American playwright (d. 2008)
* 1916 – George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
* 1917 – Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
* 1920 – Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
* 1922 – Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic (d. 2008)
* 1923 – Richard Attenborough, English film director
* 1923 – Marmaduke Hussey, BBC Chairman (d. 2006)
* 1924 – Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
* 1924 – Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
* 1928 – Charles Gray, English actor (d. 2000)
* 1929 – Thom Gunn, British poet (d. 2004)
* 1930 – Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive (d. 2006)
* 1931 – Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
* 1934 – Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director (d. 2004)
* 1940 – Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984)
* 1942 – James Glennon, American cinematographer (d. 2006)
* 1943 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photojournalist (d. 1996)
* 1947 – James Hunt, English race car driver (d. 1993)
* 1956 – GG Allin, American rock singer (d. 1993)
* 1958 – Michael Jackson, American entertainer (d. 2009)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAD PEOPLE THAT WERE BORN AUGUST 29!
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Like Christmas, you mean?
I believe he means an irrelevant dead guy that is of little importance outside of pop.
