Born on October 29
October 29 birthdays & history
If you were born on October 29, you share a birthday with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Winona Ryder and Edwin van der Sar. October 29 babies are Scorpio, with opal as their birthstone and the marigold as their birth flower. October 29 is the 303rd day of the year in leap years (302nd in other years).
Famous people born on October 29
- 1938Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian politician, President of Liberia, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1971Winona Ryder, American actress and producer
- 1970Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer and sportscaster
- 1947Richard Dreyfuss, American actor and activist
- 1957Dan Castellaneta, American actor, voice artist, comedian, singer and producer
- 1882Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright
- 1920Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-American physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1973Robert Pires, French footballer
- 1910A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and author
- 1935Isao Takahata, Japanese director
What happened on October 29
- 1863Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
- 1883The San Francisco Mint signed a contract to produce the Kalākaua coinage for the Hawaiian Kingdom.
- 1923Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1964The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed to the United Republic of Tanzania.
- 1967Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
- 1969The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
- 1985Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced as the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
- 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 Gaspra.
- 1998At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission.
- 1998ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with live coverage of the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.
- 2013The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel across the Bosphorus strait.
Also observed on October 29
- Coronation Day (Cambodia)
- National Cat Day (United States)
- Republic Day (Turkey) or Cumhuriyet Bayramı
Questions, answered
What star sign is October 29?
People born on October 29 are Scorpio. Their birthstone is opal and their birth flower is the marigold.
Which famous people were born on October 29?
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (1938), Winona Ryder (1971), Edwin van der Sar (1970), Richard Dreyfuss (1947), Dan Castellaneta (1957), Jean Giraudoux (1882) were all born on October 29.
What happened on October 29 in history?
Among other things: in 1998, At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission; in 1998, ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with live coverage of the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission; in 2013, The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel across the Bosphorus strait.
Can I get a newspaper front page from October 29?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any October 29 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “October 29”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.