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September 29

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Italo-Turkish War

115 years ago

Born this day

1547

Miguel de Cervantes

Died aged 68

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Famous births31

1518 · 508 yrs

Jacopo Tintoretto

Jacopo Robusti (late September or early October 1518 – 31 May 1594), best known as Tintoretto ( TIN-tə-RET-oh; Italian:; Venetian:), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticised the speed with which he painted and the unprecedented boldness of his brushwork.

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ArtDied aged 75

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1547 · 479 yrs

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ( sur-VAN-teez, -⁠tiz; Spanish:; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616) was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.

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LiteratureDied aged 68

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1571 · 455 yrs

Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for a significant portion of his artistic life.

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ArtDied aged 38

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1703 · 323 yrs

François Boucher

François Boucher (UK: BOO-shay, US: boo-SHAY; French:; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes.

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ArtDied aged 66

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1758 · 268 yrs

Horatio Nelson

Vice-Admiral of the White Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a British Royal Navy officer whose leadership, grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics led to multiple decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

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PoliticsDied aged 47

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1810 · 216 yrs

Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer detailed studies of Victorian society, including the lives of the very poor.

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LiteratureDied aged 55

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1864 · 162 yrs

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo ( OO-nə-MOO-noh, Spanish:; 29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher and academic.

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LiteratureDied aged 72

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1881 · 145 yrs

Ludwig von Mises

Ludwig Heinrich von Mises (German:; September 29, 1881 – October 10, 1973) was an Austrian and American political economist and philosopher of the Austrian school. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the social contributions of classical liberalism and the central role of consumers in a market economy.

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1901 · 125 yrs

Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi (Italian:; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian and naturalized-American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project.

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1904 · 122 yrs

Greer Garson

Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996) was a British and American actress and singer. Known for playing graceful, noble, and dignified women in period and war dramas, she quickly rose to popularity during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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1912 · 114 yrs

Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni ( AN-toh-nee-OH-nee or an-TOH-; Italian:; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor.

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1931 · 95 yrs

James Cronin

James Watson Cronin (September 29, 1931 – August 25, 2016) was an American particle physicist. Cronin and co-researcher Val Logsdon Fitch were awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles.

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Famous deaths19

1253 · 773 yrs

Dōgen

Dōgen Zenji (道元禅師; Japanese pronunciation:, 26 January 1200 – 22 September 1253) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. He is also known as Dōgen Kigen (道元希玄), Eihei Dōgen (永平道元), Kōso Jōyō Daishi (高祖承陽大師), and Busshō Dentō Kokushi (仏性伝東国師).

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PhilosophyDied aged 53

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1530 · 496 yrs

Andrea del Sarto

Andrea del Sarto (US:, UK:, Italian:; 16 July 1486 – 29 September 1530) was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. He was known as an outstanding fresco decorator, painter of altarpieces, portraitist, draughtsman, and colorist.

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ArtDied aged 44

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1560 · 466 yrs

Gustav I of Sweden

Gustav Eriksson Vasa (12 May 1496 – 29 September 1560), also known as Gustav I, was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death in 1560. He was previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm (Riksföreståndare) from 1521, during the Swedish War of Liberation against King Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

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RoyaltyDied aged 64

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1833 · 193 yrs

Ferdinand VII of Spain

Ferdinand VII (Spanish: Fernando VII; 14 October 1784 – 29 September 1833) was King of Spain and the Indies during the early 19th century, and king of the Spains during the Spanish liberal period.

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RoyaltyDied aged 48

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1902 · 124 yrs

Émile Zola

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (also US:; French:; 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.

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LiteratureDied aged 62

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1908 · 118 yrs

Machado de Assis

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Portuguese:), sometimes called Bruxo do Cosme Velho (21 June 1839 – 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature.

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LiteratureDied aged 69

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1913 · 113 yrs

Rudolf Diesel

Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (English:, German:; 18 March 1858 – 29 September 1913) was a German inventor and mechanical engineer. He is best known for inventing the diesel engine, which burns diesel fuel.

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TechnologyDied aged 55

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1925 · 101 yrs

Léon Bourgeois

Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (French:; 21 May 1851 – 29 September 1925) was a French statesman. His ideas influenced the Radical Party regarding a wide range of issues.

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PoliticsDied aged 74

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1930 · 96 yrs

Ilya Repin

Ilya Yefimovich Repin (5 August 1844 – 29 September 1930) was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter. He became one of the most renowned artists in Russia in the 19th century.

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ArtDied aged 86

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1967 · 59 yrs

Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States.

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1973 · 53 yrs

W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden ( WIST-ən HYOO AWD-ən; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content.

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1981 · 45 yrs

Bill Shankly

William Shankly (2 September 1913 – 29 September 1981) was a Scottish football player and manager who is best known for his time as manager of Liverpool. Shankly brought success to Liverpool, gaining promotion to the First Division and winning three League Championships and the UEFA Cup.

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Events5

1818 · 208 yrs

Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1818)

The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, held in the autumn of 1818, was a high-level diplomatic meeting of France and the four allied powers Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia, which had defeated it in 1814.

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History

1911 · 115 yrs

Italo-Turkish War

The Italo-Turkish War (Turkish: Trablusgarp Savaşı, "Tripolitanian War", Italian: Guerra di Libia, "War of Libya"), also known as the Turco-Italian War, was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Ottoman Empire from 29 September 1911 to 18 October 1912.

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War

1918 · 108 yrs

Armistice of Salonica

The Armistice of Salonica (also known as the Armistice of Thessalonica) was the armistice signed at 10:50 p.m. on 29 September 1918 between Bulgaria and the Allied Powers at the General Headquarters of the Allied Army of the Orient in Thessaloniki.

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History

1957 · 69 yrs

Kyshtym disaster

The Kyshtym disaster (Russian: Кыштымская авария), sometimes referred to as the Mayak disaster or Ozyorsk disaster in newer sources, was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium reprocessing production plant for nuclear weapons located in the closed city of…

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Disaster

2002 · 24 yrs

2002 Asian Games

The 2002 Asian Games, officially known as the XIV Asian Games and also known as Busan 2002 (부산2002), were an international multi-sport event held in Busan, South Korea from 29 September to 14 October 2002. Due to schedule impediments the football tournament started two days before the opening ceremony.

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