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Natural disasters in 1979
- Windsor Locks, Connecticut Tornado
People who died on August 29 (various years)
- 2007 - Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet’s Coffee & Tea
- 2007 - Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister
- 2007 - Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing
- 2004 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor
- 2003 - Michel Constantin, French film actor
- 2003 - Patrick Procktor, English artist
- 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)
- 2002 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor
- 2001 - Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor
- 2000 - Willie Maddren, English former footballer
- 1995 - Frank Perry, American film director
- 1992 - Teddy Turner, comedian
- 1989 - Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter
- 1987 - Lee Marvin, American actor
- 1987 - Archie Campbell, American country music comedian
- 1984 - Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman
- 1982 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress
- 1981 - Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster
- 1977 - Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver
- 1976 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher
- 1976 - Jimmy Reed, American blues singer
- 1975 - Eamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland
- 1972 - Lale Andersen, German singer
- 1968 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner
- 1966 - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician
- 1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium
- 1931 - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder
- 1930 - William Archibald Spooner, English writer
- 1904 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan
- 1891 - Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)
- 1889 - Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure
- 1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler
- 1856 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer
- 1844 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers
- 1799 - Pope Pius VI
- 1780 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect
- 1769 - Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher
- 1712 - Gregory King, English statistician
- 1657 - John Lilburne, English dissenter
- 1542 - Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)
- 1526 - King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle)
- 1442 - John VI, Duke of Brittany
- 1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria
- 1123 - King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)
- 1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy
- 886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)
