| 85583 | July 29 | Birth | 1806 – Horace Abbott, American businessman and banker (d. 1887) |
| 85584 | July 29 | Birth | 1817 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian-Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1900) |
| 85585 | July 29 | Birth | 1817 – Martin Körber, Baltic German pastor, composer, and conductor (d. 1893) |
| 85586 | July 29 | Birth | 1843 – Johannes Schmidt, German linguist and academic (d. 1901) |
| 85587 | July 29 | Birth | 1846 – Sophie Menter, German pianist and composer (d. 1918) |
| 85588 | July 29 | Birth | 1846 – Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (d. 1921) |
| 85589 | July 29 | Birth | 1849 – Max Nordau, Hungarian physician, author, and critic, co-founded the World Zionist Organization (d. 1923) |
| 85590 | July 29 | Birth | 1860 – Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (d. 1940) |
| 85561 | July 29 | Event | 1973 – Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi. |
| 85562 | July 29 | Event | 1973 – During the Dutch Grand Prix driver Roger Williamson was killed in the race, after a suspected tire failure caused the car to pitch into the barriers at high speed. |
| 85563 | July 29 | Event | 1976 – In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks. |
| 85564 | July 29 | Event | 1980 – Iran adopts a new "holy" flag after the Islamic Revolution. |
| 85565 | July 29 | Event | 1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London. |
| 85566 | July 29 | Event | 1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel). |
| 85567 | July 29 | Event | 1987 – Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues. |
| 85568 | July 29 | Event | 1993 – The Supreme Court of Israel acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free. |
| 85569 | July 29 | Event | 1996 – The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad. |
| 85570 | July 29 | Event | 2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris. |
| 85571 | July 29 | Event | 2006 – Declaration of Montreal is adopted. |
| 85572 | July 29 | Event | 2010 – An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths. |
| 85573 | July 29 | Event | 2013 – Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people. |
| 85574 | July 29 | Birth | 869 – Muhammad al-Mahdi, Iraqi 12th Imam (d. 941) |
| 85575 | July 29 | Birth | 1166 – Henry II, Count of Champagne (d. 1197) |
| 85576 | July 29 | Birth | 1605 – Simon Dach, German poet and hymnwriter (d. 1659) |
| 85577 | July 29 | Birth | 1646 – Johann Theile, German organist and composer (d. 1724) |
| 85578 | July 29 | Birth | 1744 – Giulio Maria della Somaglia, Italian cardinal (d. 1830) |
| 85579 | July 29 | Birth | 1763 – Philip Charles Durham, Scottish admiral and politician (d. 1845) |
| 85580 | July 29 | Birth | 1797 – Daniel Drew, American businessman and financier (d. 1879) |
| 85581 | July 29 | Birth | 1801 – George Bradshaw, English cartographer and publisher (d. 1853) |
| 85582 | July 29 | Birth | 1805 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and philosopher (d. 1859) |