1921 105 years ago Notable Births August 29

Iris Apfel, American businesswoman, interior designer, and philanthropist (died 2024)

On August 29, in the year 1921, Iris Apfel, American businesswoman, interior designer, and philanthropist (died 2024). This event is recorded as a Notable Births event in the history of August 29, one of 431 recorded events on this date across all of history.

1 notable person is associated with this event, including Iris Apfel. Learn more below.

Iris Apfel was an American businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion designer, known for her flamboyant style, outspoken personality and oversized eyeglasses. In business with her husband, Carl, from 1950 to 1992, Apfel had a career in textiles, including a contract with the White House that spanned nine presidencies. In retirement, she drew acclaim for a 2005 show at the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring her collection of costume jewelry and styled with clothes on mannequins as she would wear them. She became a fashion icon, was the focus of the 2014 Albert Maysles documentary Iris, then signed to IMG in 2019 as a model at age 97.

Key Facts

  • This event took place on August 29, 1921 (AD era).
  • It is categorised as a Notable Births event in recorded history.
  • Referenced in 1 Wikipedia article.
  • 1 notable person is recorded as involved in or associated with this event.
  • Wikipedia source last updated on 7 August 2026.

On This Date in History 431

Type Year Date Event
Notable Deaths 2024 Aug 29 Johnny Gaudreau, American ice hockey player (born 1993)
Notable Deaths 2023 Aug 29 Mike Enriquez, Filipino broadcaster (born 1951)
Historical Events 2022 Aug 29 Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its southern counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast, eventually culminating in the…
Notable Deaths 2021 Aug 29 Ed Asner, American actor (born 1929)
Notable Deaths 2021 Aug 29 Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican reggae producer (born 1936)
Notable Deaths 2021 Aug 29 Jacques Rogge, Belgian orthopedic surgeon, Olympic sailor and the 8th President of the International Olympic Committee…
Historical Events 2020 Aug 29 2020 Women's FA Community Shield.
Notable Deaths 2018 Aug 29 James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)
Notable Deaths 2018 Aug 29 Paul Taylor, American choreographer (born 1930)
Notable Deaths 2016 Aug 29 Gene Wilder, American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author (born 1933)
Selected Events 2016 Aug 29 Chen Quanguo became the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, and in that role later oversaw the creation of…
Notable Deaths 2014 Aug 29 Octavio Brunetti, Argentine pianist and composer (born 1975)
Notable Deaths 2014 Aug 29 Björn Waldegård, Swedish race car driver (born 1943)
Notable Deaths 2013 Aug 29 Joan L. Krajewski, American lawyer and politician (born 1934)
Notable Deaths 2013 Aug 29 Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Zambian cardinal (born 1931)
Notable Deaths 2013 Aug 29 Bruce C. Murray, American geologist and academic, co-founded The Planetary Society (born 1931)
Historical Events 2012 Aug 29 At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua,…
Historical Events 2012 Aug 29 The XIV Paralympic Games open in London, England, United Kingdom.
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 29 Ruth Goldbloom, Canadian academic and philanthropist, co-founded Pier 21 (born 1923)
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 29 Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, English historian and author (born 1953)
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 29 Shoshichi Kobayashi, Japanese-American mathematician and academic (born 1932)
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 29 Anne McKnight, American soprano (born 1924)
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 29 Les Moss, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1925)
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 29 Sergei Ovchinnikov, Russian volleyball player and coach (born 1969)
Notable Deaths 2011 Aug 29 Honeyboy Edwards, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1915)
Notable Deaths 2011 Aug 29 Junpei Takiguchi, Japanese voice actor (born 1931)
Notable Births 2008 Aug 29 Rio Ngumoha, English footballer
Notable Deaths 2008 Aug 29 Geoffrey Perkins, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1953)
Notable Deaths 2008 Aug 29 Michael Schoenberg, American geophysicist and theorist (born 1939)
Notable Deaths 2007 Aug 29 James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand businessman (born 1914)
Notable Deaths 2007 Aug 29 Richard Jewell, American police officer (born 1962)
Notable Deaths 2007 Aug 29 Pierre Messmer, French civil servant and politician, 154th Prime Minister of France (born 1916)
Notable Deaths 2007 Aug 29 Alfred Peet, Dutch-American businessman, founded Peet's Coffee & Tea (born 1920)
Selected Events 2007 Aug 29 Six nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force heavy bomber that flew from Minot Air Force…
Historical Events 2005 Aug 29 Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,392…
Notable Deaths 2004 Aug 29 Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (born 1942)
Historical Events 2003 Aug 29 Sayed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along…
Notable Deaths 2003 Aug 29 Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi politician (born 1939)
Notable Deaths 2003 Aug 29 Patrick Procktor, English painter and academic (born 1936)
Notable Deaths 2002 Aug 29 Lance Macklin, English race car driver (born 1919)
Historical Events 2001 Aug 29 Four people are killed when Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 crashes into the N-340 highway near Málaga Airport.
Notable Deaths 2001 Aug 29 Graeme Strachan, Australian singer-songwriter & television personality (born 1952)
Notable Deaths 2001 Aug 29 Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2000 Aug 29 Shelagh Fraser, English actress (born 1922)
Notable Deaths 2000 Aug 29 Willie Maddren, English footballer and manager (born 1951)
Notable Deaths 2000 Aug 29 Conrad Marca-Relli, American-Italian painter and academic (born 1913)
Historical Events 1998 Aug 29 Eighty people are killed when Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 crashes during a rejected takeoff from the Old Mariscal…
Historical Events 1997 Aug 29 Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.
Historical Events 1997 Aug 29 At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
Historical Events 1996 Aug 29 Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing…

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Iris Apfel

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