April 29 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on April 29, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♉︎ Taurus
Apr 20 – May 20
Birth stone
Diamond
Birth flower
Daisy
How common
#343 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous April 29 birthdays
Alexander II of Russia · The 12th Emperor of Russia1818
Raja Ravi Varma · Indian painter from Kerala1848
Henri Poincaré · French mathematician, physicist and engineer1854
William Randolph Hearst · American newspaper publisher1863
Constantine P. Cavafy · Greek-Egyptian poet and journalist1863
Harold Urey · American physical chemist1893
Duke Ellington · American jazz pianist and composer1899
Hirohito · emperor of Japan from 1926 to 19891901
Fred Zinnemann · Austrian film director1907
Celeste Holm · American actress1917
Zubin Mehta · Indian conductor1936
Jerry Seinfeld · American comedian and actor1954
Kate Mulgrew · American actress1955
Daniel Day-Lewis · British actor1957
Michelle Pfeiffer · American actress1958
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović · Croatian politician and diplomat1968
Uma Thurman · American actress and model1970
Andre Agassi · American tennis player1970
Anggun · Indonesian-born French singer-songwriter1974
Domagoj Vida · Croatian footballer1989
On this day in history
1974Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
1975Vietnam War: North Vietnam concluded its East Sea Campaign by capturing all of the Spratly Islands held by South Vietnam.
1997The Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons in the 87 countries that had ratified the convention.
2011Watched by a worldwide television audience of tens of millions, Prince William and Catherine Middleton were married at Westminster Abbey in London.
1953The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1967After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
1968The controversial Broadway musical Hair, a product of the counterculture of the 1960s, opened, with its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
1970Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail in an attempt to cut off supplies to the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army.
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