July 29 is the 210nd (211rd in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 155 days left until the end of the year.

Railways

29 July 1896 Eskişehir-Konya Line (443 km) was completed. Thus, the journey from Istanbul to Konya decreased to 2 days. This line was nationalized on December 31, 1928.
1953 – TCDD Enterprise was established

Events

1830 – July Revolution in France; Charles X was deposed and replaced by Louis Philippe.
1832 – The Egyptian Khedive Army under the command of Kavalalı İbrahim Pasha defeated the Ottoman Army under the command of Ağa Hüseyin Pasha in the battle at the Belen Pass.
1900 - King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by an anarchist named Gaetano Bresci.
1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chairman of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
1947 - ENIAC, the world's first fully electronic computer, was restarted after a break to increase its memory and worked continuously until October 2, 1955.
1948 – 1948 Summer Olympics: II. The Olympics, which could not be held for 12 years due to World War II, started in London.
1953 – TCDD Enterprise was established.
1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency was established.
1958 - NASA was founded.
1967 – Earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela: About 500 people died.
1981 – Charles, Prince of Wales, married Lady Diana in the United Kingdom.
1987 – Margaret Thatcher and François Mitterrand sign an agreement to build the Channel Tunnel.
1989 - Hashemi Rafsanjani won the Iranian Presidential elections.
1999 – First time a President is imprisoned while in office in the United States. President Bill Clinton was sentenced to $90.000 for making false statements.
2005 - Astronomers announce the discovery of a dwarf planet in the Solar System they call Eris.
2016 – Hakkari attack: 8 soldiers lost their lives and 25 others were injured in the attack organized by the PKK on the soldiers who were controlling the road on the Hakkari - Çukurca highway.

Births

868 – Mahdi al-Muntazar, the twelfth imam (d. 941) according to the official creed of the Imamiyyah, which expresses all branches of Shiism.
1646 – Johann Theile, German composer of the Early Baroque period (d. 1714)
1750 – Fabre d'Églantine, French poet, actor, dramaturg and revolutionary (d. 1794)
1793 – Ján Kollár, Slovak writer, archaeologist, scientist, politician (d. 1852)
1805 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French political thinker and historian (d. 1859)
1817 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (d. 1900)
1841 – Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian-born physician (d. 1912)
1869 – Booth Tarkington, American playwright and novelist (d. 1946)
1876 Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian actress (d. 1949)
1883 – Benito Mussolini, Italian journalist, politician, and Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1945)
1885 – Theda Bara (Theodosia Goobman), American stage and film actress (d. 1955)
1888 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-American physicist and inventor (d. 1982)
1889 – Ernst Reuter, German politician and first Mayor of West Berlin (d. 1953)
1892 – William Powell, American actor (d. 1984)
1898 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, Austrian physicist (d. 1988)
1900 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
1902 – Ernst Glaeser, German writer (d. 1963)
1905 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and 2nd Secretary-General of the UN (d. 1961)
1909 – Chester Himes, African-American writer (d. 1984)
1913 – Erich Priebke, former Hauptsturmführer (captain) in the Waffen-SS, Nazi Germany (d. 2013)
1917 – Rochus Misch, soldier in Nazi Germany (d. 2013)
1918 – Edwin O'Connor, American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator (d. 1968)
1919 – Nevin Akkaya, Turkish actress and voice actor (d. 2015)
1921 – Chris Marker, French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist, and documentarian (d. 2012)
1923 – Atilla Konuk, Turkish politician and athlete (d. 2009)
1924 – Robert Horton, American actor (d. 2016)
1925 – Ted Lindsay, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d. 2019)
1925 – Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer (d. 2021)
1926 – Dominique Appia, Swiss painter (d. 2017)
1926 – Don Carter, American bowler (d. 2012)
1927 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (d. 2010)
1933 – Lou Albano, American professional wrestler and actor (d. 2009)
1937 - Daniel McFadden, American econometrician
1938 Peter Jennings, Canadian journalist (d. 2005)
1940 – Aytaç Yalman, Turkish soldier and Turkish Land Forces Commander (d. 2020)
1940 – Erol Demiröz, Turkish actor and director (d. 2021)
1944 – Jim Bridwell, American mountain rock climber and author (d. 2018)
1945 – Mircea Lucescu, Romanian football player and manager
1949 – Jamil Mahuad, Ecuadorian politician and lawyer
1953 – Ken Burns, American director and documentary filmmaker
1955 – Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor
1958 – Yavuz Sepetçi, Turkish actor
1960 – Binnur Şerbetçioğlu, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actress
1963 – Alexandra Paul, American actress
1963 – Graham Poll, English former football referee, columnist and football commentator
1966 – Martina McBride, American Grammy-winning country music singer
1968 – Paavo Lötjönen, Finnish musician
1970 – Rashed Al-Maced, Saudi artist, musician and music producer
1971 – Lisa Ekdahl, Swedish singer-songwriter
1973 – Stephen Dorff, American actor
1974 – Josh Radnor, American actor
1974 – Yeşim Ceren Bozoğlu, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actress
1978 – Ayşe Hatun Önal, Turkish singer
1980 – Fernando Gonzalez, Chilean tennis player
1981 - Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula 1 driver
1982 - Allison Mack, American actress
1984 – Wilson Palacios, Honduran national football player
1984 – Oh Beom-Seok, South Korean national football player
1985 – Besart Berisha, Kosovo national football player
1990 – Anna Selezneva, Russian model
1994
- Daniele Rugani, Italian football player
- Ryo Toyama, Japanese football player

Deaths

238 – Balbinus, Roman Emperor (b. ca. 165)
238 – Pupienus, Roman Emperor (b. 178)
796 – Offa, king of Mercia between 757-796 (b. ?)
1095 – Ladislaus I, king of Hungary from 1077, Croatian from 1091 (b. 1040)
1099 – II. Urban, Pope (initiator of the First Crusade) (b. 1042)
1108 – Philip I, king of the Franks from 1060 until his death (b. 1052)
1644 – VIII. Urban reigned as pope from August 6, 1623 until his death on July 29, 1644 (b. 1568)
1786 – Franz Asplmayr, Austrian composer and violin virtuoso (b. 1728)
1833 – William Wilberforce, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1759)
1856 – Robert Schumann, German composer (b. 1810)
1890 – Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
1900 – Umberto I, King of Italy (b. 1844)
1913 - Tobias Asser, Dutch lawyer. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911 with Alfred Fried. (b. 1838)
1916 – Tanburi Cemil Bey, Turkish composer, master of string tanbur, classical kemenche and lute (b. 1873)
1927 – Mehmed Nuri Efendi, the last Shaykh al-Islam of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1859)
1951 – Ali Sami Yen, Turkish football player, coach and co-founder of Galatasaray club (b. 1886)
1954 – Franz Josef Popp, founder of BMW AG (b. 1886)
1960 – Hasan Saka, Turkish politician and 7th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey (b. 1886)
1962 – Ronald Fisher, English statistician, biologist, and geneticist (b. 1890)
1973 – Henri Charrière, French writer (b. 1906)
1974 – Cass Elliot (Mama Cass), American singer (b. 1941)
1974 – Erich Kästner, German writer (b. 1899)
1979 – Herbert Marcuse, German-American philosopher (b. 1898)
1982 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-American physicist and inventor (b. 1888)
1983 – Raymond Massey, Canadian-American stage and film actor (b. 1896)
1983 – David Niven, British film actor (b. 1910)
1983 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director (b. 1900)
1983 – Mürüvvet Sim, Turkish theater and cinema artist (b. 1929)
1990 – Bruno Kreisky, Austrian politician, leader of the Austrian Social Democratic Party, and Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
1992 – Kemal Kayacan, Turkish soldier, 7th Commander of the Turkish Naval Forces and politician (b. 1915)
1994 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (b. 1910)
1998 – Jerome Robbins, American theatrical producer, director, and choreographer (b. 1918)
2003 – Foday Sankoh, founder and leader of the Sierra Leone rebel group Revolutionary United Front (RUF) (b. 1937)
2006 – Halit Capin, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1936)
2007 – Michel Serrault, French actor (b. 1928)
2008 – Şevki Vanlı, Turkish architect (b. 1926)
2009 – Demirtaş Ceyhun, Turkish short story and novelist (b. 1934)
2011 – Nella Martinetti, Swiss singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2012 – John Finnegan, American film, television and stage actor, dubbing artist (b. 1926)
2012 – Chris Marker, French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and documentarian (b. 1921)
2012 – James Mellaart, British archaeologist (b. 1925)
2013 – Christian Benítez, former Ecuadorian national football player (b. 1986)
2015 – Suna Kili, Turkish academic (b. 1929)
2017 – Sophie Huet, French journalist (b. 1953)
2017 – Reza Malik, former prime minister of Algeria (b. 1931)
2017 – Olivier Strebelle, Belgian sculptor (b. 1927)
2018 – Hans Kristian Amundsen, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician (b. 1959)
2018 – Brian Christopher, American professional wrestler (b. 1972)
2018 – Oliver Dragojević, Croatian singer and musician (b. 1947)
2018 – Abbas Duzduzani, Iranian soldier and politician (b. 1942)
2018 – Ma Ju-feng, Taiwanese-Chinese actress (b. 1955)
2018 – Tomasz Stańko, Polish trumpeter and composer (b. 1942)
2018 – Nikolai Volkoff, Croatian-Yugoslav American professional wrestler (b. 1947)
2020 – Salko Bukvarević, Bosnian politician and soldier (b. 1967)
2020 – Sheikh Md. Nurul Haque, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1940)
2020 – Malik B., American rapper and singer (b. 1972)
2020 – Hernán Pinto, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1953)
2020 – Perrance Shiri, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1955)
2021 – Carl Levin, American politician (b. 1934)
2021 – Armen Shekoyan, Armenian writer, poet and journalist (b. 1953)
2021 – Geraldo dos Santos, Brazilian professional former football player (b. 1962)
2022 – Juris Hartmanis, Latvian computer scientist (b. 1928)