About the day » Tuesday August 29, 1775Calender converter

• Dirk Dirksz Suiderduin (Zuiderduin), Zandvoort, Netherlands
• Alijdis Dijkman, Soest
• Catrina (Catharina, Catharine, Catrine) (Reijnierse) Scheele, Terneuzen († 1839)
• Aleidis Dijkman, Soest
• Diderik van Leyden Gael, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1846)
• Elisabeth Jacoba Tuttel, Steenwijk († 1799)
• Anna Maria Cools, Loenhout († 1848)
• Elizabeth Leenhouts, IJzendijke († 1843)
• Catharina van Wijngaarden
• Anna Barbara Aschenbrücker, Dirlos (Künzell) († 1844)

• Elisabeth Kommers, Zaamslag
• Johanna Maria Tissing (23), Amsterdam
• Margaretha (Grietje) Leenderse MEURS,VAN, Rijswijk,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Charlotte Sophia Caspers Ziervogel (35), Oudeschild, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Margaretha van Meurs, Rijswijk
• Erdmuthe Christiane von Braun (59)
• Jacobus van der Wiele, Terneuzen
• Hubertus Knubben (67), Amby,, Limburg, Nederland
• Gerarda Dirck Adriaans van Nuland (77), Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christiaan Gottlieb Hering (54), Slupsk (Stolp), Pommeren, Polen

• 1756 » Count Heinrich von Bellegarde, Austrian general and politician († 1845)
• 1756 » Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician and astronomer († 1830)
• 1773 » Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer († 1858)
• 1777 » Hyacinth, Russian religious leader, founded Sinology († 1853)
• 1780 » Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter and illustrator († 1867)
• 1792 » Charles Grandison Finney, American minister and author († 1875)
• 1805 » Frederick Denison Maurice, English priest, theologian, and author († 1872)
• 1809 » Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician and author († 1894)
• 1810 » Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian theorist and diplomat († 1884)
• 1811 » Henry Bergh, American activist, founded the ASPCA († 1888)

• 1712 » Gregory King, English genealogist, engraver, and statistician (b. 1648)
• 1749 » Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor and polymath (b. 1684)
• 1769 » Edmond Hoyle, English author and educator (b. 1672)
• 1780 » Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, co-designed The Panthéon (b. 1713)
• 1799 » Pius VI, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1717)
• 1844 » Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish missionary and educator, founded the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
• 1856 » Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author and activist (b. 1778)
• 1866 » Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1846)
• 1877 » Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
• 1889 » Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel (b. 1815)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• March 8 » An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
• April 14 » The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
• June 11 » The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
• June 12 » American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
• November 13 » American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal.
• December 5 » At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The temperature on August 29, 1775 was about 22.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken omtrent helder.