| 146431 | December 29 | Event | 1998 – Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million lives. |
| 146432 | December 29 | Event | 2001 – A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291. |
| 146433 | December 29 | Event | 2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct. |
| 146434 | December 29 | Event | 2006 – UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt. |
| 146435 | December 29 | Event | 2012 – A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured. |
| 146436 | December 29 | Event | 2013 – A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others. |
| 146437 | December 29 | Birth | 765 – Ali al-Ridha, Saudi Arabian 8th of the Twelve Imams (d. 818) |
| 146438 | December 29 | Birth | 1709 – Elizabeth of Russia (d. 1762) |
| 146439 | December 29 | Birth | 1721 – Madame de Pompadour, French mistress of Louis XV of France (d. 1764) |
| 146440 | December 29 | Birth | 1796 – Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist (d. 1877) |
| 146441 | December 29 | Birth | 1800 – Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (d. 1860) |
| 146442 | December 29 | Birth | 1808 – Andrew Johnson, American general and politician, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875) |
| 146443 | December 29 | Birth | 1809 – William Ewart Gladstone, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898) |
| 146444 | December 29 | Birth | 1816 – Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (d. 1895) |
| 146445 | December 29 | Birth | 1843 – Elisabeth of Wied (d. 1916) |
| 146446 | December 29 | Birth | 1855 – August Kitzberg, Estonian author and poet (d. 1927) |
| 146447 | December 29 | Birth | 1856 – Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894) |
| 146448 | December 29 | Birth | 1874 – François Brandt, Dutch rower and bishop (d. 1949) |
| 146449 | December 29 | Birth | 1876 – Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (d. 1973) |
| 146450 | December 29 | Birth | 1877 – Max Hess, German-American gymnast (d. 1969) |
| 146451 | December 29 | Birth | 1879 – Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot (d. 1936) |
| 146452 | December 29 | Birth | 1881 – Scott Leary, American swimmer (d. 1958) |
| 146453 | December 29 | Birth | 1881 – Jess Willard, American boxer and actor (d. 1968) |
| 146454 | December 29 | Birth | 1885 – Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (d. 1921) |
| 146455 | December 29 | Birth | 1886 – Norman Hallows, English runner (d. 1968) |
| 146456 | December 29 | Birth | 1895 – Oswald Freisler, German lawyer (d. 1939) |
| 146457 | December 29 | Birth | 1896 – David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (d. 1974) |
| 146458 | December 29 | Birth | 1899 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese general and politician, Mayor of Beijing (d. 1992) |
| 146459 | December 29 | Birth | 1902 – Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1957) |
| 146460 | December 29 | Birth | 1904 – Kuvempu, Indian author and poet (d. 1994) |