Births on 29 October
1900s
Lance Stroll
1998
Canadian racing driver (born 1998)
Vince Dunn
1996
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1996)
Mikko Rantanen
1996
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1996)
Astrid S
1996
Norwegian singer (born 1996)
Danielle Hunter
1994
Jamaican-born American football player (born 1994)
Ăgnes Bukta
1993
Hungarian tennis player
India Eisley
1993
British-born American actress (born 1993)
Evan Fournier
1992
French basketball player (born 1992)
Colin Miller (ice hockey, born 1992)
1992
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Parris Goebel
1991
New Zealand dancer and choreographer (born 1991)
Nikita Zaitsev
1991
Russian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Ender Inciarte
1990
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1990)
Ben Proudfoot
1990
Canadian director and filmmaker (born 1990)
Eric Saade
1990
Swedish singer (born 1990)
Irina Karamanos
1989
Chilean anthropologist and political scientist (born 1989)
PrimoĆŸ RogliÄ
1989
Slovenian racing cyclist (born 1989)
Janoris Jenkins
1988
American football player (born 1988)
Andy Dalton
1987
American football player (born 1987)
Jessica Dubé
1987
Canadian figure skater
Tove Lo
1987
Swedish singer and songwriter (born 1987)
Makoto Ogawa
1987
Japanese singer and actress (born 1987)
Italia Ricci
1986
Canadian-American actress (born 1986)
Cal Crutchlow
1985
British motorcycle racer
Ximena Sariñana
1985
Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
Vijender Singh
1985
Indian boxer (born 1985)
Chris Baio
1984
American musician (born 1984)
Lee Chung-ah
1984
South Korean actress (born 1984)
Eric Staal
1984
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1984)
Richard Brancatisano
1983
Australian actor and musician (born 1983)
Maurice Clarett
1983
American football player (born 1983)
Freddy Eastwood
1983
English footballer (born 1983)
Jérémy Mathieu
1983
French footballer (born 1983)
Nurcan Taylan
1983
Turkish weightlifter (born 1983)
Ariel Lin
1982
21st-century Taiwanese singer-actress
Ahmed al-Sharaa
1982
President of Syria since 2025
Amanda Beard
1981
American swimmer (born 1981)
Jonathan Brown (Australian footballer)
1981
Australian rules footballer, born 1981
Angelika Dela Cruz
1981
Filipino actress (born 1981)
Ben Foster (actor)
1980
American actor (born 1980)
Kaine Robertson
1980
Italy international rugby union player
Ignasi Giménez Renom
1979
Spanish mayor
Andrew-Lee Potts
1979
English actor
Travis Henry
1978
American football player (born 1978)
Kelly Smith
1978
English footballer (born 1978)
Jon Abrahams
1977
American actor
Brendan Fehr
1977
Canadian film and television actor
Stephen Craigan
1976
Northern Irish footballer
Milena Govich
1976
American actress
Raghava Lawrence
1976
Indian actor and choreographer
Mark Sheehan
1976
Irish musician (1975â2023)
Baba Ali
1975
Iranian-born American film developer
Joy Osmanski
1975
American actress (born 1975)
R. A. Dickey
1974
American baseball pitcher (born 1974)
Michael Vaughan
1974
English cricketer
Yenny Wahid
1974
Indonesian politician
Vonetta Flowers
1973
American bobsledder
Ăric Messier
1973
Canadian ice hockey player
Robert Pires
1973
French footballer (born 1973)
Tracee Ellis Ross
1972
American actress (born 1972)
Takafumi Horie
1972
Japanese entrepreneur (born 1972)
Gabrielle Union
1972
American actress (born 1972)
Daniel J. Bernstein
1971
American mathematician, cryptologist and computer scientist (born 1971)
Greg Blewett
1971
Australian cricketer
Matthew Hayden
1971
Australian cricketer (born 1971)
Winona Ryder
1971
American actress (born 1971)
Phillip Cocu
1970
Dutch footballer and manager (born 1970)
Dan Ratushny
1970
Ice hockey player
Kaido Reivelt
1970
Estonian physicist
Toby Smith
1970
English musician (1970â2017)
Edwin van der Sar
1970
Dutch footballer and executive (born 1970)
David Farr (theatre director)
1969
British playwright and theatre director
Chris Verene
1969
American photographer, artist, filmmaker, and musician (born 1969)
Johann Olav Koss
1968
Norwegian speed skater (born 1968)
Beth Chapman
1967
American reality television star (1967â2019)
Thorsten Fink
1967
German football player and coach
Joely Fisher
1967
American actress (born 1967)
Rufus Sewell
1967
British actor (born 1967)
Mary Bucholtz
1966
American linguist
Tyler Collins (singer)
1965
American R&B singer and actress (born 1965)
Andrew Ettingshausen
1965
Australia international rugby league footballer
Michael Passons
1965
American singer-songwriter
Yasmin Le Bon
1964
English model (born 1964)
Eddie McGuire
1964
Australian media personality and television host (born 1964)
Damian Chapa
1963
American actor and filmmaker
Gerald Morris
1963
American author
Einar Ărn Benediktsson
1962
Icelandic musician (born 1962)
Randy Jackson (Jacksons singer)
1961
American musician (born 1961)
Joel Otto
1961
American ice hockey player (born 1961)
Michael Carter (nose tackle)
1960
American football player (born 1960)
Fabiola Gianotti
1960
Italian physicist, director general of the European Council for Nuclear Research
Thorsten Schlumberger
1960
German footballer
Jesse Barfield
1959
American baseball player (born 1959)
Mike Gartner
1959
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1959)
Finola Hughes
1959
British actress
John Magufuli
1959
President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021
BlaĆŸej BalĂĄĆŸ
1958
Slovak artist
David Remnick
1958
American journalist, writer, and editor (born 1958)
Danny Vranes
1958
American basketball player (born 1958)
Dan Castellaneta
1957
American actor (born 1957)
Wilfredo GĂłmez
1956
Puerto Rican boxer (born 1956)
Kevin DuBrow
1955
American singer (1955â2007)
Denis Potvin
1953
Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1953)
Marcia Fudge
1952
American attorney and politician (born 1952)
Dirk Kempthorne
1951
American politician (born 1951)
Tiff Needell
1951
British racing driver and television presenter (born 1951)
Abdullah GĂŒl
1950
President of Turkey from 2007 to 2014
Kieron Baker
1949
English footballer
Raphael Carl Lee
1949
American surgeon and academic
Paul Orndorff
1949
American professional wrestler (1949â2021)
David Paton
1949
Scottish bassist, guitarist and singer
James Williamson (musician)
1949
American musician (born 1949)
Frans de Waal
1948
Dutch primatologist and ethologist (1948â2024)
Kate Jackson
1948
American actress (born 1948)
Helen Coonan
1947
Australian politician (born 1947)
Richard Dreyfuss
1947
American actor (born 1947)
Peter Green (musician)
1946
English musician (1946â2020)
Mick Gallagher
1945
English keyboardist (born 1945)
Ron Maag
1945
American politician
Melba Moore
1945
American singer and actress (born 1945)
Gerrit Ybema
1945
Dutch politician (1945â2012)
Claude Brochu
1944
Canadian businessman and baseball executive
Mehmet Haberal
1944
Turkish politician
Denny Laine
1944
English rock musician (1944â2023)
Robbie van Leeuwen
1944
Dutch musician, songwriter (born 1944)
Don Simpson
1943
American film producer, screenwriter and actor (1943â1996)
Lee Clayton
1942
American songwriter and musician (1942â2023)
Bob Ross
1942
American painter and TV host (1942â1995)
George Davies (retailer)
1941
English fashion designer and retailer
Paul Tyler
1941
British politician
Connie Mack III
1940
American politician (born 1940)
Jack Shepherd (actor)
1940
English actor, playwright and theatre director (1940â2025)
Galen Weston
1940
British-Canadian billionaire businessman (1940â2021)
Ralph Bakshi
1938
American animator and filmmaker (born 1938)
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
1938
President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018
Peter Stampfel
1938
American musician
Sonny Osborne
1937
American bluegrass musician (1937â2021)
David Allen (cricketer)
1935
English cricketer (1935â2014)
Eddie Hopkinson
1935
English footballer
Michael Jayston
1935
English actor (1935â2024)
Isao Takahata
1935
Japanese film director, screenwriter and film producer (1935â2018)
William Harrison (author)
1933
American novelist
Dick Garmaker
1932
American basketball player (1932â2020)
Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton
1932
British trade unionist and peer
Bertha Brouwer
1930
Dutch sprinter
Niki de Saint Phalle
1930
French plastician, painter and sculptor
Omara Portuondo
1930
Cuban singer and dancer (born 1930)
Natalie Sleeth
1930
American composer (1930â1992)
Yevgeny Primakov
1929
Russian politician and diplomat (1929â2015)
Frank Sedgman
1927
Australian tennis player (born 1927)
Necmettin Erbakan
1926
Prime Minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997
Jon Vickers
1926
Canadian opera singer
Dominick Dunne
1925
American writer and journalist (1925â2009)
Robert Hardy
1925
British actor (1925â2017)
Haim Hefer
1925
Israeli songwriter and columnist (1925â2012)
Klaus Roth
1925
British mathematician (1925â2015)
Zoot Sims
1925
American jazz saxophonist (1925â1985)
Bernard Middleton
1924
English bookbinder and restorer (1924-2019)
Carl Djerassi
1923
American pharmaceutical chemist and writer (1923â2015)
Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs
1923
Dutch Olympic athlete (1923â2015)
Neal Hefti
1922
American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger (1922â2008)
Baselios Marthoma Didymos I
1921
20th Malankara Metropolitan and 7th Catholicos of the Malankara Church
Baku Mahadeva
1921
Bill Mauldin
1921
American editorial cartoonist (1921â2003)
Baruj Benacerraf
1920
Venezuelan-American- Moroccan immunologist
VĂĄclav Neumann
1920
Czech conductor and musician (1920â1995)
Bernard Gordon (writer)
1918
American writer and producer (1918â2007)
Diana Serra Cary
1918
American child film actress and film historian (1918â2020)
William Berenberg
1915
American physician
Maxim of Bulgaria
1914
Bulgarian Orthodox Patriarch from 1971 to 2012
Al Suomi
1913
American ice hockey player
A. J. Ayer
1910
English philosopher (1910â1989)
Edwige FeuillĂšre
1907
French actress (1907â1998)
Fredric Brown
1906
American novelist and short story author
Henry Green
1905
English novelist (1905â1973)
Ămilienne Morin
1901
French anarcho-syndicalist (1901â1991)
1800s
Akim Tamiroff
1899
Russian-American actor (1899â1972)
Alan Barker
1898
Joseph Goebbels
1897
German Nazi propaganda minister (1897â1945)
Billy Walker (footballer, born 1897)
1897
English footballer (1897â1964)
Fanny Brice
1891
American actress, singer, and comedian (1891â1951)
Victor Hochepied
1883
French swimmer (1883â1966)
Jean Giraudoux
1882
French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright (1882â1944)
John DeWitt (athlete)
1881
American athlete (1881â1930)
Abram Ioffe
1880
Soviet physicist (1880â1960)
Alva B. Adams
1879
American politician (1875â1941)
Franz von Papen
1879
German politician (1879â1969)
Narcisa de LeĂłn
1877
Filipino film producer (1877â1966)
Wilfred Rhodes
1877
English cricketer (1877â1973)
Marie of Romania
1875
Queen of Romania from 1914 to 1927
Antonio Luna
1866
Filipino general (1866â1899)
Carl Gustav Witt
1866
German astronomer (1866â1946)
Andrei Ryabushkin
1861
Russian painter
Paul Bruchési
1855
Canadian prelate
Jacques Curie
1855
French physicist (1855â1941)
Harriet Powers
1837
American artist (1837â1910)
Narcisa de JesĂșs
1832
Ecuadoran virgin and saint (1832â1869)
James Boucaut
1831
Australian politician and judge
MieczysĆaw Halka-LedĂłchowski
1822
Polish Roman Catholic cardinal-priest (1822â1902)
Dan Emmett
1815
American entertainer and composer (1815â1904)
Louise Granberg
1812
Swedish playwright, translator and theatre director
Caterina Scarpellini
1808
Italian astronomer
Before 1800
James Boswell
1740
Scottish lawyer, diarist and author (1740â1795)
Laura Bassi
1711
Italian physicist and academic (1711â1778)
John Byng
1704
Royal Navy officer and politician (1704â1757)
Martin Folkes
1690
English mathematician and astronomer
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix
1682
French Jesuit priest, traveller and historian
George Abbot (bishop)
1562
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1611 to 1633
Laura Guidiccioni
1550
Italian noblewoman and poet (1550 â c. 1597/9)
Fernando Ălvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
1507
Spanish military leader and diplomat (1507â1582)
Shin Saimdang
1504
Korean calligraphist and poet (1504â1551)
Benedetto Accolti the Younger
1497
Italian cardinal
Alessandro Achillini
1463
Italian philosopher and physician