29 May

Notable Births

Gukesh Dommaraju

b. 2006

Indian chess grandmaster (born 2006)

Paul Skenes

b. 2002

American baseball player (born 2002)

Puka Nacua

b. 2001

American football player (born 2001)

Andrew Torgashev

b. 2001

American figure skater (born 2001)

Park Ji-hoon

b. 1999

South Korean singer and actor (born 1999)

Markelle Fultz

b. 1998

American basketball player (born 1998)

Austin Reaves

b. 1998

American basketball player (born 1998)

Tyler Nevin

b. 1997

American baseball player (born 1997)

Konosuke Takeshita

b. 1995

Japanese professional wrestler (born 1995)

Jana Čepelová

b. 1993

Slovak tennis player (born 1993)

Maika Monroe

b. 1993

American actress (born 1993)

Grete Griffin

b. 1993

Estonian heptathlete

Gregg Sulkin

b. 1992

British actor (born 1992)

Yaime Pérez

b. 1991

Cuban discus thrower (born 1991)

Tan Zhongyi

b. 1991

Chinese chess grandmaster (born 1991)

Joe Biagini

b. 1990

American baseball player (born 1990)

La Toya Jackson

b. 1956

American singer (born 1956)

John F. Kennedy

b. 1917

President of the United States from 1961 to 1963

Bob Hope

b. 1903

American entertainer (1903–2003)

Max Brand

b. 1893

American writer (1892–1944)

Notable Deaths

Bernard Kerik

d. 2025

American police officer and political consultant (1955–2025)

Bob Rogers (DJ)

d. 2024

Australian disc jockey and radio broadcaster (1926–2024)

Ronnie Hawkins

d. 2022

American-Canadian singer (1935–2022)

Sidhu Moose Wala

d. 2022

Indian rapper and singer (1993–2022)

Gavin MacLeod

d. 2021

American actor (1931–2021)

Mark Eaton

d. 2021

American basketball player (1957–2021)

B. J. Thomas

d. 2021

American singer (1942–2021)

Cornelius Sim

d. 2021

Bruneian cardinal (1951–2021)

Manuel Noriega

d. 2017

Military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989

Mordechai Tzipori

d. 2017

Israeli politician (1924–2017)

Konstantinos Mitsotakis

d. 2017

Prime Minister of Greece from 1990 to 1993

Henry Carr

d. 2015

American track and field athlete (1941–2015)

Doris Hart

d. 2015

American tennis player (1925–2015)

Betsy Palmer

d. 2015

American actress (1926–2015)

Christine Charbonneau

d. 2014

French Canadian singer and songwriter

Walter Jakob Gehring

d. 2014

Swiss developmental biologist (1939–2014)

William M. Roth

d. 2014

American shipping executive and special ambassador for trade

Françoise Blanchard

d. 2013

French actress

Luc Bourdon

d. 2008

Canadian ice hockey player (1987–2008)

Mary Pickford

d. 1979

Canadian actress and producer (1892–1979)

On This Day in History

All 65 ›

2022

Tara Air Flight 197 crashes in Nepal's Mustang District, killing 22.

Tara Air Flight 197

2021

A Cessna Citation I/SP crashes into Percy Priest Lake in Tennessee, killing all six people on board, including actor Joe Lara and his wife Gwen Shamblin Lara.

Cessna Citation I

2020

An oil spill in Norilsk releases 17,500 tons of diesel oil into nearby rivers.

Norilsk oil spill

2015

One World Observatory at One World Trade Center opens.

One World Trade Center

2012

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.

2012 Northern Italy earthquakes

2008

A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.

2008 Iceland earthquake

2005

France rejects the Constitution of the European Union in a national referendum.

France

2004

The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.

World War II Memorial

2001

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.

Supreme Court of the United States

1999

Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.

Olusegun Obasanjo

1999

Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.

Space Shuttle Discovery

1993

The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war-torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.

Sarajevo

1990

The Congress of People's Deputies of Russia elects Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Congress of People's Deputies of Russia

1989

Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States that allows for the manufacture of F-16 Falcon parts in Egypt.

Egypt

1988

U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

President of the United States