About the day » Monday August 29, 1892Calender converter

• Agge Jans de Vries, Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Aart Jacobus Teeken, Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1918)
• Albertus Isedorus Josephus Smets, Morkhoven
• "Diana" Olivia Winifred Maud Manners, London († 1986)
• Agge de Vries, Nieuwe-Pekela, Groningen, Nederland († 1974)
• Adriana Wdr van den Enden, Monster, Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina Elen, Gorinchem († 1892)
• Abraham Verkade, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1947)
• Aaltje Post, Sneek, Friesland, Nederland († 1968)
• Adriana Cornelia Maria Potters, Steenbergen, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1972)

• Antje Jakobs Bouma (68)
• Anna Maria Frederika SANDERS (79), Musselkanaal (Onstwedde), Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Van der MAST (69), Oud-Beijerland
• Anthonius KEULEMANS (74), Rotterdam
• Barbara Matthews (67), Covington, Miami, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Adriaan Cornelis Wijnen (16), Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Adrianus van der Mast (69), Oud-Beijerland
• Antje Jakobs Bouma (68), Westernijkerk
• Anna Maria Sanders (80), Musselkanaal
• Anna Maria de Bie (0), Asperen (West Betuwe) (GL)

• 1876 » Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics († 1958)
• 1887 » Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian physicians and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Gujarat († 1978)
• 1888 » Salme Dutt, Estonian-English politician († 1964)
• 1890 » Peder Furubotn, Norwegian Communist and anti-Nazi Resistance leader (d.1975)
• 1891 » Marquis James, American journalist and author († 1955)
• 1898 » Preston Sturges, American director and producer († 1959)
• 1901 » Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player and referee († 1986)
• 1904 » Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1905 » Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist († 1941)
• 1905 » Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player († 1979)

• 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)
• 1891 » Pierre Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843)
• 1892 » William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and author (b. 1809)
• 1904 » Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
• 1911 » Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (b.1866)
• 1917 » George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)
• 1930 » William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author (b. 1844)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• July 4 » Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
• August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
• September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
• September 28 » The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
• October 26 » Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
• November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.

The temperature on August 29, 1892 was about 14.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.