September 29 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on September 29, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Sapphire
Birth flower
Aster
How common
#119 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous September 29 birthdays
Miguel de Unamuno · Spanish poet1864
Ludwig von Mises · Austrian-American economist1881
Enrico Fermi · Italian–American physicist1901
Greer Garson · British-American actress1904
Michelangelo Antonioni · Italian film director and screenwriter1912
Stanley Kramer · American film director and producer1913
James Cronin · American physicist1931
Rainer Weiss · American physicist1932
Jerry Lee Lewis · American rock 'n' roll musician1935
Silvio Berlusconi · Italian media tycoon and politician1936
Ian McShane · English actor1942
Lech Wałęsa · President of Poland from 1990 to 19951943
Michelle Bachelet · President of Chile from1951
Masoud Pezeshkian · 9th President of Iran and former Co-Interim Supreme Leader of Iran1954
Jon Fosse · Norwegian writer, playwright, and translator1959
Julia Gillard · Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 20131961
Andriy Shevchenko · Ukrainian association football player1976
Zachary Levi · American actor1980
Kevin Durant · American basketball player1988
Halsey · American singer-songwriter1994
On this day in history
1760The Williamsburg Bray School, the oldest-surviving school building in the U.S. dedicated to educating Black children, opened at Benjamin Franklin's suggestion.
1954Willie Mays of the New York Giants made The Catch, one of the most famous defensive plays in the history of Major League Baseball.
1991The award-winning Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast premiered while unfinished at the New York Film Festival.
2005John Roberts became the 17th Chief Justice of the United States; he would be the first Chief Justice to serve for twenty years since Melville Fuller in 1908.
1964Mafalda, a popular comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina.
1990The Lockheed YF-22, the prototype for the F-22 Raptor, made its first flight.
1992Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
2004Archaeologists and volunteers began excavation of the remains of Fort Tanjong Katong in Singapore.
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