In the year 1929, the first Academy Awards are announced, with the actual awards being handed out in May (Feb 18), Herbert Hoover becomes the 31st U.S. President (Mar 4), the first public demonstration of color TV is held in New York (Jun 27), a secret decree of the Sovnarkom creates the backbone of the Gulag system in Soviet Union (Jul 11),** Wall Street Crash of 1929** (Oct 24-29) marks the beginning of the Great Depression, the Museum of Modern Art in New York opens to the public (Nov 7), the first light poles appear in London (Dec 2) - and all these fine people were born:

1929-0102 Tellervo Koivisto* (b Kankaanranta) economist/ First Lady - Punkalaidun, Finland***** 1929-0103 Sergio Leone* film director - Rome,  Kingdom of Italy (1989/60) 1929-0103 Gordon Moore* engineer/ businessman/co-founder of Intel Corporation - San Francisco, CA USA (2023/94) 1929-0104 Arik Brauer* אריק בראואר (b Erich Brauer) painter/poet/singer-songwriter etc - Vienna, Austria (2021/92) 1929-0105 Aulis Rytkönen* football player - Karttula, Finland (2014/85) 1929-0109 Håkon Bleken* painter/ graphic artist - Trondheim, Norway (2025/96) 1929-0112 Jaakko Hintikka* philosopher/logician/active in the U.S. - Helsingin maalaiskunta, Finland (2015/86) 1929-0115 Martin Luther King Jr.* civil rights activist - Atlanta, GA USA (1968/39) I Have a Dream 1929-0117 Jacques Plante* hockey goalie (NHL 100)/coach/GM - Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, QC Canada (1986/57) 1929-0125 Brian O’Neill* sports executive (NHL) - Montreal, QC Canada (2023/94) 1929-0127 Mohamed Al-Fayed* business magnate - Alexandria, Egypt (2023/94) 1929-0127 Bill English* computer engineer (the computer mouse) - Lexington, KY USA (2020/91) 1929-0128 Claes Oldenburg* Swedish-American sculptor/ to U.S. at age 7 - Stockholm, Sweden (2022/93) 1929-0131 Rudolf Mössbauer* physicist/N - Munich, Germany (2011/82) 1929-0131 Mikko Niskanen* film director - Äänekoski, Finland (1990/61) 1929-0131 Jean Simmons* actress - Crouch Hill, London, England (2010/80) 1929-0201 1929-0204 Mary Coombs* computer programmer/school teacher - Muswell Hill, London, England (2022/93) 1929-0205 Hal Blaine* drummer/session musician - Holyoke, MA USA (2019/90) 1929-0206 Sixten Jernberg* cross-country skier/OG - Lima, Dalarna, Sweden (2012/83) 1929-0210 Jerry Goldsmith* composer - Los Angeles, CA USA (2004/75) 1929-0212 Kirsti Paakkanen* (b Poikonen) businesswoman (Marimekko) - Saarijärvi, Finland (2021/92) 1929-0214 Vic Morrow* actor/director - The Bronx, NY USA (1982/53) 1929-0215 Graham Hill* racing driver/WC - Hampstead, London, England (1975/46) 1929-0215 Marita Nordberg* actress - Tuusula, Finland (2009/80) 1929-0217 Patricia Routledge* actress/ singer - Tranmere, Cheshire, England***** 1929-0218 Len Deighton* author/ illustrator - Marylebone, London, England **** 1929-0228 1929-0301 1929-0302 Robert Dean* U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major/ufologist - Tucson, AZ USA (2018/89) 1929-0303 Hilda Braid* actress - Northfleet, Kent, England (2007/78) 1929-0304 Bernard Haitink* violinist/conductor - Amsterdam, Netherlands (2021/92) 1929-0306 Marianne Preger-Simon* dancer/ choreographer/psychotherapist - New York City, NY USA (2024/95) 1929-0308 1929-0309 Jay Weston* (b Weinstein) film producer/restaurant critic - Brooklyn, NY USA (2023/93) 1929-0311 Timothy Carey* actor/ of Italian and Irish descent - Brooklyn, NY USA (1994/65) 1929-0311 Hugh Newell Jacobsen* architect - Grand Rapids, MI USA (2021/91) 1929-0312 Owe Thörnqvist* singer-songwriter/revue artist - Uppsala, Sweden***** 1929-0313 Jan Howard* country music singer/ songwriter/author - West Plains, MO USA (2020/91) 1929-0315 Antonietta Stella* opera singer - Perugia, Umbria, Italy (2022/92) 1929-0316 Nadja Tiller* actress - Vienna, Austria (2023/93) 1929-0320 1929-0322 Yayoi Kusama* 草間 彌生  contemporary artist - Nagano, Empire of Japan **** 1929-0323 Roger Bannister* first sub-4-minute-mile runner/physician - Harrow, England (2018/88) 1929-0324 Ángela Gurría* sculptor - Mexico City, Mexico (2023/93) 1929-0325 Allan Wright* farmer/ farming leader/businessman - Darfield, New Zealand (2022/93) 1929-0329 Lennart Meri* writer/film maker/politician/P - Tallinn, Estonia (2006/76) 1929-0331 Liz Claiborne* American fashion designer/businesswoman - Brussels, Belgium (2007/78) 1929-0401 Milan Kundera* Czech-French novelist - Brno, Czechoslovakia (2023/94) 1929-0404 Toimi Alatalo* cross-country skier/OG - Savitaipale, Finland (2014/85) 1929-0404 John Dee Holeman* blues guitarist/singer/songwriter - Hillsborough, NC USA (2021/92) 1929-0405 1929-0406 Joi Lansing* model/ actress/nightclub singer - Salt Lake City, UT USA (1972/43) 1929-0406 André Previn* German-American pianist/ conductor/composer - Berlin, Germany (2019/89) 1929-0408 Jacques Brel* singer - Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium (1978/49) 1929-0410 Mike Hawthorn* racing driver/WC - Mexborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (1959/29) 1929-0410 Max von Sydow* Swedish-French actor - Lund, Sweden (2020/90) 1929-0415 Rauni Mollberg* film director - Hämeenlinna, Finland (2007/78) 1929-0420 1929-0424 Aimo Hiltunen* actor/ theater director - Leppävirta, Finland (2002/73) 1929-0430 Klausjürgen Wussow* actor - Cammin, Weimar Germany (2007/78) 1929-0501 S. G. Neginhal* forest official/conservationist - Dharwad, Bombay, British India (2021/92) 1929-0504 Audrey Hepburn* British actress - Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium (1993/63) 1929-0504 J. Heinrich Matthaei* German biochemist/genetic code researcher - Bonn, Weimar Republic ***** 1929-0504 Paige Rense* writer/editor - Des Moines, IA USA (2021/91) 1929-0504 Ella Stack* physician/the first female Lord Mayor of an Australian capital city - Sydney, Australia (2023/94) 1929-0506 Paul Lauterbur* chemist/N - Sidney, OH USA (2007/77) 1929-0510 Miles Warren* architect - Christchurch, New Zealand (2022/93) 1929-0511 1929-0512 Sam Nujoma* Namibian anti-apartheid activist/politician/the first president of Namibia - Ongandjera, Ovamboland, South West Africa (2025/95) 1929-0513 Hans Dobida* ice hockey administrator - Graz, Austria (2025/95) 1929-0514 Åke Ortmark* journalist/author/radio and television presenter - Stockholm, Sweden (2018/89) 1929-0514 Gump Worsley* hockey goalie - Montreal, QC Canada (2007/77) 1929-0520 1929-0524 Tiina Rinne* actress/daughter of Jalmari Rinne - Turku, Finland (2021/91) 1929-0529 Harry Frankfurt* philosopher/adopted at birth - Langhorne, PA USA (2023/94) 1929-0601 1929-0606 1929-0610 James McDivitt* aeronautical engineer/astronaut - Chicago, IL USA (2022/93) 1929-0610 Grace Mirabella* fashion journalist/editor-in-chief - Newark, NJ USA (2021/92) 1929-0611 1929-0612 Margit Feldman* (b Buchhalter) Hungarian-American Holocaust survivor/ public speaker/activist - Budapest, Hungary (2020/90) 1929-0612 Anne Frank* Holocaust author - Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (1945/15) 1929-0615 1929-0617 Tigran Petrosian* Armenian chess player/Grandmaster - Tbilisi, Georgia, Soviet Union (1984/55) 1929-0618 Jürgen Habermas* philosopher/sociologist - Gummersbach, Prussia, Germany***** 1929-0620 Edgar Bronfman Sr.* Canadian-American businessman (Seagram) - Montreal, QC Canada (2013/84) 1929-0620 Russell Kirsch* engineer/inventor of the pixel/developer of the first digital image scanner - Manhattan, NY USA (2020/91) 1929-0620 Edith Windsor* technology manager/LGBT rights activist - Philadelphia, PA USA (2017/88) 1929-0621 1929-0622 Goodloe Byron* politician - Williamsport, MD USA (1978/49) 1929-0623 June Carter Cash* singer/songwriter/actress - Maces Spring, VA USA (2003/73) 1929-0624 Carolyn S. Shoemaker* (b Spellmann) astronomer/ co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 - Gallup, NM USA (2021/92) 1929-0625 Eric Carle* German-American designer/illustrator/writer of children’s books - Syracuse, NY USA (2021/91) 1929-0626 Milton Glaser* graphic designer (I♥NY) - The Bronx, NY USA (2020/91) 1929-0629 Oriana Fallaci* journalist/political interviewer - Florence, Italy (2006/77) 1929-0701 1929-0705 Katherine Helmond* actress/director - Galveston, TX USA (2019/89) 1929-0708 Shirley Ann Grau* writer - New Orleans, LA USA (2020/91) 1929-0710 1929-0718 Adelaide Tambo* (b Tshukudu) anti-apartheid activist - Vereeniging, South Africa (2007/77) 1929-0719 Josef Lorch* painter/ conservationist - Füssen, Nazi Germany (1999/70) 1929-0720 Irving Wardle* theatre critic/author - Manchester, England (2023/93) 1929-0723 Kicki Anderson* (b Håkansson) Miss World 1951/active in the U.S. - Stockholm, Sweden (2011/82) 1929-0723 Robert Quackenbush* author/illustrator of children’s books - Los Angeles, CA USA (2021/91) 1929-0725 Al Adamson* film director - Hollywood, CA USA (1995/65) 1929-0728 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis* Southampton, NY USA (1994/64) 1929-0731 Don Murray* actor - Hollywood, CA USA (2024/94) 1929-0808 Gudrun Burwitz* daughter of Heinrich Himmler/herself a Nazi - Munich, Weimar Republic (2018/88) 1929-0811 Geeta Parikh* poet - Gujarat, India (2012/82) 1929-0812 Harry M. Rosenfeld* German-American newspaper editor/to U.S. at age 10 - Berlin, Weimar Republic (2021/91) 1929-0814 Louise Slaughter* microbiologist/ politician - Lynch, KY USA (2018/88) 1929-0817 Gary Powers* pilot/spy - Jenkins, KY USA (1977/47) 1929-0821 Emma Mashinini* trade unionist/political leader - Rosettenville, Johannesburg, South Africa (2017/87) 1929-0823 Vera Miles* (b Ralston) actress - Boise City, OK USA***** 1929-0824 Yasser Arafat* politician - Cairo, Egypt (2004/75) 1929-0831 Julio Ramón Ribeyro* writer - Lima, Peru (1994/65) 1929-0901 1929-0903 Whitey Bulger* organized crime boss - Boston, MA USA (2018/89) 1929-0905 Bob Newhart* stand-up comedian/actor - Oak Park, IL USA (2024/94) 1929-0906 1929-0908 Christoph von Dohnányi* conductor - Berlin, Weimar Republic 1929-0910 Arnold Palmer* golf player - Latrobe, PA USA (2016/87) 1929-0910 Pentti Siimes* actor/w Polish grandfather - Helsinki, Finland (2016/87) 1929-0915 Murray Gell-Mann* physicist/N - Manhattan, NY USA (2019/89) 1929-0917 Stirling Moss* racing driver/colour commentator - West Kensington, London, England (2020/90) 1929-0920 1929-0925 Barbara Walters* broadcast journalist/host of The View - Boston, MA USA (2022/93) 1929-0930 1929-1001 1929-1004 John E. Mack* psychiatrist/alien abduction researcher - New York, NY USA (2004/74) 1929-1008 Betty Boothroyd* politician/MP/Speaker of the House of Commons - Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (2023/93) 1929-1010 1929-1018 Violeta Chamorro* politician/P - Rivas, Nicaragua***** 1929-1018 Jay Last* physicist/silicon pioneer/member of the so-called “traitorous eight” that founded Silicon Valley - Butler, PA USA (2021/92) 1929-1020 1929-1021 Ursula K. Le Guin* novelist - Berkeley, CA USA (2018/88) 1929-1025 1929-1031 Bud Spencer* (b Carlo Pedersoli) swimmer/water polo player/actor - Naples, Kingdom of Italy (2016/86) 1929-1101 1929-1105 Lennart Johansson* sports official/UEFA president - Stockholm, Sweden (2019/89) 1929-1106 June Squibb* actress - Vandalla, IL USA **** 1929-1107 1929-1109 Imre Kertész* novelist/N - Budapest, Hungary (2016/86) 1929-1110 1929-1111 Hans Magnus Enzensberger* author/ poet/translator - Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, Weimar Republic (2022/93) 1929-1112 Grace Kelly* actor/Princess of Monaco - Philadephia, PA USA (1982/52) 1929-1115 Edward Asner* actor/voice actor - Kansas City, MO USA (2021/91) 1929-1120 1929-1123 Sigrid Kehl* opera singer - Berlin, Germany (2024/95) 1929-1124 Marvin Kitman* television critic/humorist/author - Pittsburgh, PA USA (2023/93) 1929-1124 George Moscone* attorney/politician - San Francisco, CA USA (1978/49) 1929-1128 Frederick D. Reese* teacher/ minister/activist - Selma, AL USA (2018/88) 1929-1129 Xaver Unsinn* hockey player - Füssen, Nazi Germany (2012/82) 1929-1130 Joan Ganz Cooney* (b Ganz) television writer/producer - Phoenix, AZ USA***** 1929-1201 1929-1209 John Cassavetes* actor/film director - New York, NY USA (1989/59) 1929-1209 Bob Hawke* politician/PM - Bordertown, SA Australia (2019/89) 1929-1210 1929-1213 Christopher Plummer* actor - Toronto, ON Canada (2021/91) 1929-1220 1929-1223 Patrick Watson* television and radio interviewer/writer/producer - Toronto, ON Canada (2022/92) 1929-1223 Dick Weber* bowler - Indianapolis, Indiana USA (2005/75) 1929-1226 Régine Zylberberg* French singer/pioneer of the modern nightclub - Anderlecht, Belgium (2022/92) 1929-1228 Terry Sawchuk* hockey goalie (NHL 100) - Winnipeg, MB Canada (1970/40) 1929-1230 Rosalinde Hurley* physician/ microbiologist/barrister- England (2004/74) 1929-1231 1929-0 1929-0 1929-0 Updated 2025-0322 Helsinki-Munich-Stockholm Search for another year here