November 29 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on November 29, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Topaz
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
How common
#250 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous November 29 birthdays
Christian Doppler · Austrian mathematician and physicist1803
Louisa May Alcott · American novelist1832
Empress Dowager Cixi · Chinese empress1835
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg · German politician1856
C. S. Lewis · British writer, lay theologian, and scholar1898
Madeleine L'Engle · American writer1918
Beji Caid Essebsi · Tunisian politician1926
Jacques Chirac · President of France from 1995 to 20071932
Garry Shandling · American comedian1949
Janet Napolitano · American politician, lawyer, and academic administrator1957
John Mahama · President of the Republic of Ghana1958
Rahm Emanuel · American politician1959
Tom Sizemore · American actor1961
Don Cheadle · American actor1964
Ryan Giggs · Welsh association football player and coach1973
Chadwick Boseman · American actor1976
Anna Faris · American actress1976
The Game · American rapper, record producer and actor1979
Lucas Black · American actor1982
Laura Marano · American actress and singer1995
On this day in history
1776American Revolutionary War: British reinforcements brought an end to the Patriot attempt to capture Fort Cumberland in Nova Scotia.
1982Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, was released.
2007During their trial for the 2003 Oakwood mutiny, Philippine soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes mutinied and seized a conference room at The Peninsula Manila in Makati.
2012In resolution 67/19, the United Nations General Assembly voted to accord the status of a non-member observer state to Palestine.
1929U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
1952U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
1967U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
1972Atari announced the release of Pong (screenshot pictured), one of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home-console markets.
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