Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 29
Births edit
- 1790 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862) (pictured)
- 1867 - Cy Young, American baseball player (d. 1955)
- 1900 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
- 1918 - Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)
- 1943 - Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer
- 1943 - John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Deaths edit
- 1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden (shot) (b. 1746)
- 1912 - Members of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole:
- Henry Robertson Bowers (b. 1883)
- Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (b. 1868)
- Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist (b. 1872)
- 2005 - Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)