October 29 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 29, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♏︎ Scorpio
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#219 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 29 birthdays
Othniel Charles Marsh · American paleontologist1831
Franz von Papen · German general staff officer1879
Jean Giraudoux · French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright1882
Baruj Benacerraf · Venezuelan-American immunologist1920
Necmettin Erbakan · 23rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey1926
Yevgeny Primakov · 4th Russian Prime Minister1929
Isao Takahata · Japanese filmmaker1935
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf · 24th president of Liberia1938
Bob Ross · American painter1942
Richard Dreyfuss · American actor1947
Abdullah Gül · 11th President of Turkey1950
Dan Castellaneta · American actor1957
John Magufuli · 5th President of Tanzania from 2015 to 20211959
Yahya Sinwar · Palestinian politician and Hamas leader1962
Edwin van der Sar · Dutch association football player1970
Winona Ryder · American actress1971
Gabrielle Union · American actress, singer and model1972
Robert Pires · French footballer1973
Ben Foster · American actor1980
Ahmed al-Sharaa · President of Syria since 20251982
On this day in history
1792William Robert Broughton, a member of George Vancouver's expedition, observed a peak in the present-day U.S. state of Oregon and named it Mount Hood after British admiral Samuel Hood.
1863American Civil War: The Battle of Wauhatchie, one of the few night battles of the war, concluded with the Union Army opening a supply line to troops in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
2012Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, made landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion in damages, becoming the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.
2013The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.
1966Singaporean leftist opposition leader Chia Thye Poh was detained under the Internal Security Act, which allows for preventive detention, and held for 32 years.
1986British prime minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25, one of Britain's busiest motorways.
1991Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra.
1998At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission.
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