Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 29
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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)