Births on 29 May
2000s
Gukesh Dommaraju
2006
Indian chess grandmaster (born 2006)
Paul Skenes
2002
American baseball player (born 2002)
Puka Nacua
2001
American football player (born 2001)
Andrew Torgashev
2001
American figure skater (born 2001)
Gennaro Nigro
2000
American soccer player (born 2000)
1900s
Park Ji-hoon
1999
South Korean singer and actor (born 1999)
Markelle Fultz
1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Austin Reaves
1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Tyler Nevin
1997
American baseball player (born 1997)
Konosuke Takeshita
1995
Japanese professional wrestler (born 1995)
Jana Čepelová
1993
Slovak tennis player (born 1993)
Maika Monroe
1993
American actress (born 1993)
Grete Griffin
1993
Estonian heptathlete
Sarah Moundir
1992
Swiss tennis player
Gregg Sulkin
1992
British actor (born 1992)
Yaime Pérez
1991
Cuban discus thrower (born 1991)
Tan Zhongyi
1991
Chinese chess grandmaster (born 1991)
Joe Biagini
1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Erica Garner
1990
American activist (1990–2017)
Ezekiel Ansah
1989
Ghanaian-born American football player (born 1989)
Diego Barisone
1989
Argentine footballer (1989–2015)
Riley Keough
1989
American actress (born 1989)
Muath al-Kasasbeh
1988
Jordanian pilot murdered by ISIL in 2015
Cheng Fei
1988
Chinese gymnast
Tobin Heath
1988
American soccer player (born 1988)
Steve Mason (ice hockey)
1988
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1988)
Lina Andrijauskaitė
1987
Lithuanian long jumper (born 1987)
Jon Holland
1987
Australian cricketer (born 1987)
Issac Luke
1987
New Zealand international rugby league footballer
Kelvin Maynard
1987
Surinamese footballer (1987–2019)
Noah Reid
1987
Canadian-American actor, musician, and voice actor (born 1987)
Rui Sampaio
1987
Portuguese footballer
Nathan Horton
1985
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1985)
Carmelo Anthony
1984
American basketball player (born 1984)
Nia Jax
1984
Australian-American professional wrestler (born 1984)
Funmi Jimoh
1984
American long jumper (born 1984)
Dhar Mann
1984
American entrepreneur and film producer (born 1984)
Andreas Schäffer
1984
German footballer
Ina Wroldsen
1984
Norwegian singer and songwriter (born 1984)
Nataliya Dobrynska
1982
Ukrainian heptathlete (born 1982)
Matt Macri
1982
American baseball player (born 1982)
Kim Tae-kyun (baseball, born 1982)
1982
South Korean baseball player
Andrey Arshavin
1981
Russian footballer (born 1981)
Ernesto Farías
1980
Argentine footballer
Arne Friedrich
1979
German footballer (born 1979)
Brian Kendrick
1979
American professional wrestler (born 1979)
John Rheinecker
1979
American baseball player (1979-2017)
Pelle Almqvist
1978
Swedish singer (born 1978)
Sébastien Grosjean
1978
French tennis player
Adam Rickitt
1978
English actor and singer (born 1978)
Massimo Ambrosini
1977
Italian footballer (born 1977)
Marco Cassetti
1977
Italian footballer (born 1977)
António Lebo Lebo
1977
Angolan footballer (born 1977)
Cláudio Caçapa
1976
Brazilian footballer (born 1976)
Jerry Hairston Jr.
1976
American baseball player (born 1976)
Raef LaFrentz
1976
American basketball player (born 1976)
Yegor Titov
1976
Russian footballer
Jason Allison
1975
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1975)
Mel B
1975
British singer and TV personality (born 1975)
Sven Kubis
1975
German footballer (born 1975)
Sarah Millican
1975
English comedian (born 1975)
Anthony Wall (golfer)
1975
English golfer
Daniel Tosh
1975
American comedian and producer (born 1975)
Steve Cardenas
1974
American martial artist (born 1974)
Stephen Larkham
1974
Australian rugby union player and coach
Aaron McGruder
1974
American writer and cartoonist (born 1974)
Jenny Willott
1974
British Liberal Democrat politician
Tomoko Kaneda
1973
Japanese voice actress and radio personality (born 1973)
Mark David Lee
1973
Musical artist
Alpay Özalan
1973
Turkish footballer, manager, and politician
Myf Warhurst
1973
Australian broadcaster (born 1974)
Laverne Cox
1972
American actress and LGBTQ advocate (born 1972)
Bill Curley
1972
American basketball player and coach (born 1972)
Simon Jones (musician)
1972
English bassist
John Simon (rugby league)
1972
Australia international rugby league footballer
Éric Lucas
1971
Canadian boxer
Bernd Mayländer
1971
German racing driver (born 1971)
Filipa Pinto
1971
Portuguese politician (born 1971)
Jo Beth Taylor
1971
Australian television presenter and singer
Rob Womack
1971
British Paralympic shot putter and discus thrower
Natarsha Belling
1970
Australian journalist (born 1970)
Roberto Di Matteo
1970
Italian football player and manager (born 1970)
Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll
1968
Scottish peer (born 1968)
Tate George
1968
American basketball player (born 1968)
Jessica Morden
1968
British politician (born 1968)
Hida Viloria
1968
American activist (born 1968)
Noel Gallagher
1967
English musician (born 1967)
Mike Keane
1967
Canadian ice hockey player
Steven Levitt
1967
American economist
Natalie Nougayrède
1966
French journalist
Howard Mills III
1964
American politician
Oswaldo Negri Jr.
1964
Brazilian racing driver from São Paulo (born 1964)
Blaze Bayley
1963
English singer (born 1963)
Zhu Jianhua
1963
Chinese high jumper (born 1963)
Ukyo Katayama
1963
Japanese racing driver (born 1963)
Claude Loiselle
1963
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1963)
Fandi Ahmad
1962
Singaporean yesterday star (born 1962)
Eric Davis (baseball)
1962
American baseball player (born 1962)
Carol Kirkwood
1962
Scottish weather presenter (born 1962)
Chloé Sainte-Marie
1962
Canadian actress and singer
Melissa Etheridge
1961
American singer-songwriter (born 1961)
Neverland Express
1961
Backing band of singer Meat Loaf
Thomas Baumer
1960
Swiss psychologist (born 1960)
Mike Freer
1960
British politician (born 1960)
Rupert Everett
1959
English actor (born 1959)
Mel Gaynor
1959
British drummer and singer
Steve Hanley (musician)
1959
Irish-born English musician (born 1959)
Annette Bening
1958
American actress (born 1958)
Juliano Mer-Khamis
1958
Palestinian-Israeli actor
Uwe Rapolder
1958
German footballer
Mike Stenhouse
1958
American baseball player (born 1958)
Steven Croft (bishop)
1957
Anglican bishop of Oxford and Lord Spiritual (born 1957)
Jeb Hensarling
1957
American politician (born 1957)
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
1957
Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer
Mark Lyall Grant
1956
British diplomat (born 1956)
La Toya Jackson
1956
American singer (born 1956)
Frank Baumgartl
1955
East German track and field athlete
John Hinckley Jr.
1955
Attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan (born 1955)
David Kirschner
1955
American producer and screenwriter
Gordon Rintoul
1955
Ken Schrader
1955
American racing driver (born 1955)
Robert Beaser
1954
American composer (born 1954)
Jerry Moran
1954
American lawyer and politician (born 1954)
Danny Elfman
1953
American composer (born 1953)
Rebbie Jackson
1950
American singer (born 1950)
Robert Axelrod (actor)
1949
American actor (1949–2019)
Brian Kidd
1949
English football manager (born 1949)
Francis Rossi
1949
English rock musician
Michael Berkeley
1948
British composer and broadcaster on music (born 1948)
Keith Gull
1948
British microbiologist
Anthony Geary
1947
American actor (1947–2025)
Fernando Buesa
1946
Spanish politician in the Basque Christian Democracy (1946–2000)
Gary Brooker
1945
English singer and pianist (1945–2022)
Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie
1945
Scottish politician and advocate (1945–2013)
Julian Le Grand
1945
Martin Pipe
1945
British horse trainer
Joyce Tenneson
1945
American fine art photographer (born 1945)
Jean-Pierre Van Rossem
1945
Belgian economist, politician and fraudster (1945–2018)
Bob Benmosche
1944
American businessman
Quentin Davies
1944
British politician (1944–2025)
Bob Edgar
1943
American politician (1943–2013)
Pierre Bourque (politician)
1942
Former mayor of Montreal, Quebec (1994–2001)
Kevin Conway (actor)
1942
American actor and film director (1942–2020)
Doug Scott
1941
English mountaineer and author (1941–2020)
Bob Simon
1941
American journalist (1941–2015)
Taihō Kōki
1940
Japanese sumo wrestler (1940–2013)
Farooq Leghari
1940
President of Pakistan from 1993 to 1997
Pete Smith (announcer)
1939
Australian radio announcer and television voice-over artist (born 1939)
Al Unser
1939
American racing driver (1939–2021)
Christopher Bland
1938
British businessman (1938–2017)
Fay Vincent
1938
American baseball commissioner (1938–2025)
Charles W. Pickering
1937
American judge (born 1937)
Irmin Schmidt
1937
German keyboardist and composer (born 1937)
Alwin Schockemöhle
1937
German equestrian
Harry Statham
1937
American basketball coach
André Brink
1935
South African writer (1935–2015)
Sylvia Robinson
1935
American singer and record producer (1935–2011)
Bill Vander Zalm
1934
Premier of British Columbia from 1986 to 1991
Helmuth Rilling
1933
German choral conductor (1933–2026)
Tarquinio Provini
1933
Italian motorcycle racer (1933–2005)
Paul R. Ehrlich
1932
American biologist (1932–2026)
Richie Guerin
1932
American basketball player and coach (born 1932)
Harry Frankfurt
1929
American philosopher (1929–2023)
Peter Higgs
1929
British theoretical physicist (1929–2024)
Roberto Vargas
1929
Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1929)
Freddie Redd
1928
American jazz pianist (1928–2021)
Jean Coutu (pharmacist)
1927
Canadian pharmacist and businessman
Katie Boyle
1926
Italian-born British actress, presenter (1926–2018)
Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe
1926
Queen of Tonga from 1965 to 2006
Abdoulaye Wade
1926
President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012
Lars Bo
1924
Danish artist and writer
Miloslav Kříž
1924
Pepper Paire
1924
Baseball player
Bernard Clavel
1923
French writer
John Parker, 6th Earl of Morley
1923
British peer and soldier
Eugene Wright
1923
American jazz bassist (1923–2020)
Edith Roger
1922
Norwegian dancer and stage director (1922–2023)
Joe Weatherly
1922
American racing driver and motorcycle racer (1922–1964)
Iannis Xenakis
1922
Greek-French composer, architect and engineer (1922–2001)
Norman Hetherington
1921
Australian cartoonist (1921–2010)
John Harsanyi
1920
Hungarian-American economist and philosopher (1920–2000)
Clifton James
1920
American actor (1920–2017)
Jacques Genest
1919
John F. Kennedy
1917
President of the United States from 1961 to 1963
Marcel Trudel
1917
Canadian historian, university professor and author (1917–2011)
Karl Münchinger
1915
German conductor
Stacy Keach Sr.
1914
American actor (1914–2003)
Tenzing Norgay
1914
Nepalese-Indian mountaineer (1914–1986)
Tony Zale
1913
American boxer
Aleksandr Laktionov (painter)
1910
Russian painter
Ralph Metcalfe
1910
American athlete and politician (1910–1978)
Diana Morgan (screenwriter)
1908
Welsh playwright and screenwriter (1908–1996)
Hartland Molson
1907
Canadian politician (1907–2002)
T. H. White
1906
English author (1906–1964)
Sebastian Shaw (actor)
1905
English actor, director and writer (1905–1994)
Hubert Opperman
1904
Australian racing cyclist
Bob Hope
1903
American entertainer (1903–2003)
Harry Kadwell
1902
Australian RL coach and former Australia international rugby league footballer
1800s
Douglas Abbott
1899
Canadian politician and Supreme Court judge (1899-1987)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
1897
Austrian-born American composer and conductor (1897–1957)
Beatrice Lillie
1894
Canadian-British actress and comedian (1894–1989)
Josef von Sternberg
1894
Austrian-American film director (1894–1969)
Max Brand
1893
American writer (1892–1944)
Alfonsina Storni
1892
Argentine poet (1892–1938)
Oswald Spengler
1880
German philosopher (1880–1936)
G. K. Chesterton
1874
English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936)
Rudolf Tobias
1873
Estonian composer
Clark Voorhees
1871
American painter (1871–1933)
Isaac Albéniz
1860
Spanish composer (1860–1909)
John H. Balsley
1823
Inventor
Before 1800
Louise-Adéone Drölling
1797
French painter
Johann Heinrich von Mädler
1794
German astronomer
Henri Braconnot
1780
French chemist and pharmacist
Patrick Henry
1736
American Founding Father, Governor of Virginia (1776–1779; 1784–1786)
Jackson of Exeter
1730
English organist and composer
James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster
1722
Anglo-Irish nobleman, soldier and politician
Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton
1716
18th century French naturalist
Humphry Ditton
1675
English mathematician (1675–1715)
Charles II of England
1630
King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1660 to 1685
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier
1627
La Grande Mademoiselle (1627–1693)
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim
1594
Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire (1594–1632)
Virginia de' Medici
1568
Duchess consort of Modena and Reggio
George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes
1555
English politician (1555–1629)
Antun Vrančić
1504
Croatian-Hungarian prelate (1504–1573)
Victor, Duke of Münsterberg
1443
15th century Czech nobleman
Charles, Prince of Viana
1421
Claimed king of Navarre from 1441 to 1461