Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 29
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[edit] Births
- 106 BC - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome, (d. 48 BC)
- 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
- 1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
- 1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (d. 1843)
- 1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
- 1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
- 1907 - Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
- 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
- 1943 - Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1948 - Bryant Gumbel, American television personality
- 1957 - Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
[edit] Deaths