Alan Moorehead, Australian war correspondent and author (born 1910)

Alan McCrae Moorehead, was a war correspondent and author of popular histories, most notably two books on the nineteenth-century exploration of the Nile, The White Nile (1960) and The Blue Nile (1962). Australian-born, he lived in England, and Italy, from 1937.

September 29 is the 272nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 93 days remain until the end of the year.