ON THIS DAY
Born in 1929
1,456 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Jimmy Cobb
jazz musician, drummer
- Toshiko Akiyoshi
bandleader, pianist
- Ray Barretto
percussionist, musician
- Charles Tilly
university teacher, social scientist
- Richard Welch
diplomat, spy
- Bazilio Olara-Okello
military personnel, politician
- Surinder Kaur
singer, actor
- Edith Windsor
activist, programmer
- Susie Garrett
television actor, jazz musician
- Barry Harris
composer, jazz musician
- Bert Berns
composer, record producer
- Carlos Lacoste
politician, military personnel
- John Polanyi
university teacher, chemist
- Luis García Meza Tejada
politician, military officer
- René Laloux
animator, painter
- Pauline Yates
actor, film actor
- Pat Crawford Brown
teacher, television actor
- Ramon Bieri
television actor, film actor
- Alice Hirson
film actor, television actor
- Isamu Akasaki
university teacher, engineer
- K. Natwar Singh
diplomat, politician
- Eve Brent
film actor, television actor
- Dick Tiger
boxer
- Fred Hollows
surgeon, ophthalmologist
- Fireball Roberts
racing automobile driver, racing driver
- Paul Lauterbur
chemist, physicist
- Barbara Murray
actor, stage actor
- Maurice Vachon
professional wrestler, amateur wrestler
- Alfred Moisiu
politician, military personnel
- Joanna Macy
ecologist, religious studies scholar
- Eugene Braunwald
cardiologist, physician
- Peter Jeffrey
television actor, actor
- Rudi Glöckner
association football referee
- Karolos Papoulias
diplomat, jurist
- Barbara Marx Hubbard
author, opinion journalist
- Susan Shaw
film actor, actor
- Harry Frankfurt
university teacher, philosopher
- Richard Lewontin
zoologist, university teacher
- King Moody
actor, television actor
- Radley Metzger
film director, film distributor
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
cellist, composer
- Pierre Brice
actor, film actor
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
university teacher, philosopher
- Gertrude Baniszewski
murderer, babysitter
- Raphael Eitan
lieutenant general, military personnel
- Bernard Haitink
musician, conductor
- Gerald Edelman
physicist, neurologist
- T. P. McKenna
television actor, stage actor
- George Crumb
university teacher, composer
- Ruth Pfau
physician, writer
- Héctor Alterio
actor, film actor
- Claire Maurier
actor
- David Rosenhan
university teacher, psychologist
- Bob Bullock
politician, lawyer
- Ralf Dahrendorf
opinion journalist, political scientist
- Jack Betts
film actor, television actor
- Peter Thomson
professional golfer, athlete
- Elsa Raven
television actor, film actor
- Hélène Carrère d'Encausse
university teacher, politician
- Jack Hedley
television actor, actor
- Elio Petri
screenwriter, film critic
- Gump Worsley
ice hockey player
- Richard Bass
art collector, entrepreneur
- Roy Hamilton
screenwriter, singer
- Kanu Sanyal
politician
- Clyde Lovellette
basketball player
- Mel Stewart
stage actor, jazz musician
- Henry McGee
stage actor, television actor
- Richard Ottinger
politician, military officer
- Farida Khanum
singer
- Michael Michai Kitbunchu
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Buddy Van Horn
actor, film actor
- Cy Coleman
bandleader, pianist
- Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
lawyer, judge
- Milorad Pavić
prose writer, literary critic
- Ahmed Kathrada
politician, activist
- Prince Georg, 3rd Duke of Hohenberg
diplomat, jurist
- Sarkis Soghanalian
entrepreneur
- Abdi İpekçi
journalist, writer
- Don Heck
comics artist
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
writer, playwright
- Milan Panić
philanthropist, businessperson
- Carolyn S. Shoemaker
astronomer, university teacher
- Aleksandra Pakhmutova
film score composer, pianist
- Jean-Jacques Perrey
organist, recording artist
- Betta St. John
film actor, stage actor
- Lee Fierro
actor
- Poul Schlüter
lawyer, politician
- Jacqueline Hill
actor, stage actor
- Leonard Harris
film critic, theatre critic
- Wayde Preston
television actor, actor
- Louise Slaughter
politician, microbiologist
- Jan Howard
singer-songwriter, singer
- Eddie Charlton
snooker player
- Mordechai Eliyahu
rabbi, Posek
- Christos Sartzetakis
author, politician
- Mohamed Said Ramadan Al-Bouti
philosopher, writer
- Hugo Claus
lithographer, film director
- Ivor Allchurch
association football player
- Jack Hogan
television actor, actor
- Branko Zebec
association football player, association football coach
- Francis Bebey
composer, journalist
- Manuel Contreras
military officer, spy
- Ana Luisa Peluffo
actor, television actor
- Jonathan Haze
film producer, film actor
- Fali Sam Nariman
politician, barrister
- Billy Walker
composer, lyricist
- Ulu Grosbard
film director, film producer
- Antonino Zichichi
university teacher, nuclear physicist
- Bill Cunningham
journalist, modiste
- Andre Gunder Frank
sociologist, university teacher
- Christoph von Dohnányi
conductor, theatre manager
- Anna Walentynowicz
crane operator, welder
- Richard Rush
film producer, film director
- Liselotte Pulver
musician, actor
- Jitendra Abhisheki
actor, singer
- Samuel Pisar
jurist, politician
- Robert K. Massie
writer, essayist
- Mariama Bâ
political activist, women's rights activist
- Mochtar Riady
politician, businessperson
- Tomisaburō Wakayama
singer, director
- Heiner Müller
writer, poet
- Ed Shaughnessy
musician, jazz musician
- Art Taylor
jazz drummer, drummer
- Hebe Camargo
television presenter, television actor
- Thom Gunn
writer, poet
- Stu Phillips
record producer, conductor
- David Waddington, Baron Waddington
politician
- Marcel Amont
actor, jazz musician
- Maurice Strong
ecologist, entrepreneur
- Brigid Brophy
writer, novelist
- Jacques Deray
director, film director
- Pamela Green
film actor, model
- Basilio Lami Dozo
military officer
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
writer, university teacher
- Shirley Stoler
stage actor, film actor
- Lynne Reid Banks
novelist, stage actor
- Peter Maas
screenwriter, journalist
- Sartaj Aziz
diplomat, economist
- Marvin J. Chomsky
television director, film director
- Edith M. Flanigen
chemist