May 29 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 29, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#287 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 29 birthdays
Louise Michel · French author and anarchist1830
Abdülmecid II · Last caliph of the Ottoman Dynasty1868
G. K. Chesterton · English author and Christian apologist1874
Oswald Spengler · German historian and philosopher1880
Josef von Sternberg · Austrian-American film director1894
Erich Wolfgang Korngold · Austrian-born American composer and conductor1897
Bob Hope · American entertainer1903
Tenzing Norgay · Nepalese Indian Sherpa mountaineer1914
John F. Kennedy · President of the United States from 1961 to 19631917
Abdoulaye Wade · 3rd President of Senegal1926
Peter Higgs · British physicist and Nobel Prize winner1929
Danny Elfman · American film composer1953
La Toya Jackson · American singer1956
Annette Bening · American actress1958
Noel Gallagher · British singer and guitarist1967
Laverne Cox · American actress and LGBT advocate1972
Andrey Arshavin · Russian association football player1981
Carmelo Anthony · American basketball player1984
Riley Keough · American actress1989
Gukesh Dommaraju · Indian chess grandmaster2006
On this day in history
1852Swedish operatic soprano Jenny Lind concluded a successful concert tour of the United States under the management of showman P. T. Barnum.
1999President Olusegun Obasanjo took office as Nigeria's first elected and civilian head of state after 16 years of military dictatorship.
2001The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
2004The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1973Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
1988U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1989Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States that allows for the manufacture of F-16 Falcon parts in Egypt.
1990The Congress of People's Deputies of Russia elects Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
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