The 29t o December is the 363t day o the year (364t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 2 days bidin.
- 1709 - Elizabeth o Roushie (d. 1762)
- 1721 - Madame de Pompadour, offeecial mistress o Louis XV o Fraunce (d. 1764)
- 1766 - Charles Macintosh, Scots chemist an inventor o watterpruif faibric (d. 1843)
- 1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1875)
- 1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1898)
- 1859 - Venustiano Carranza, Preses o Mexico (d. 1920)
- 1871 - William Thomas Calman, Scots zoologist (d. 1952)
- 1876 - Pablo Casals, Spainyie cellist (d. 1973)
- 1910 - Ronald Coase, Inglis economist (d. 2013)
- 1928 - Bernard Cribbins, Inglis actor
- 1936 - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (d. 2017)
- 1938 - Jon Voight, American actor
- 1946 - Marianne Faithfull, Inglis sangster
- 1948 - Peter Robinson, umwhile First Meenister o Northren Ireland
- 1953 - Thomas Bach, German fencer an Preses o the Internaitional Olympic Committee
- 1962 - Carles Puigdemont, Catalan politeecian
- 1967 - Ashleigh Banfield, Canadian-American jurnalist
- 1969 - Allan McNish, Scots racin driver
- 1972 - Jude Law, Inglis actor
- 1979 - Diego Luna, Mexican actor, director an producer
- 1981 - Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese feegur skeitcher
- 1982 - Martin Laird, Scots gowfer
- 1989 - Kei Nishikori, Japanese tennis player
- 1995 - Ross Lynch, American actor
- 1170 - Thomas Becket, Inglis airchbeeshop (b. 1118)
- 1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French penter (b. 1748)
- 1924 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet (b. 1845)
- 1926 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrick writer (b. 1875)
- 1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet-Roushie filmmaker (b. 1932)
- 1986 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1894)
- 2007 - Phil O'Donnell, Scots fitbawer (b. 1972)
- 2013 - Wojciech Kilar, Pols componer (b. 1932)
- 2019 - Alasdair Gray, Scots writer an airtist (b. 1934)