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Famous people born on August 29

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 29 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1593 (Toyotomi Hideyori) and the most recent is 2008 (Rio Ngumoha). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actor.

Who was born on August 29?

1. Michael Jackson 1958 American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer
2. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 French painter
3. John McCain 1936 American politician
4. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 Belgian playwright and essayist
5. Ingrid Bergman 1915 Swedish actress
6. Richard Attenborough 1923 British actor
7. Charlie Parker 1920 American jazz saxophonist
8. Albert Lebrun 1871 15th President of the French Republic
9. Arthur B. McDonald 1943 Canadian physicist
10. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1619 French statesman
11. Dimitris Christofias 1946 6th President of the Republic of Cyprus
12. Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809 American poet and physician
13. Carla Gugino 1971 American actress
14. Thomas Tuchel 1973 German football manager
15. Ramón Díaz 1959 Argentine association football player and coach
16. Lea Michele 1986 American actress and singer
17. Werner Forssmann 1904 German physician, Nobel prize winner
18. Joel Schumacher 1939 American director, screenwriter, and producer
19. Bob Beamon 1946 American track and field athlete
20. Elliott Gould 1938 American actor
21. Temple Grandin 1947 American doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist
22. Major Dhyan Chand Singh 1905 Indian field hockey player
23. Takeo Wakabayashi 1907 Japanese association football player
24. William Friedkin 1935 American director and producer
25. Jon Dahl Tomasson 1976 Danish footballer and manager
26. Andrew Fisher 1862 Australian politician, fifth Prime Minister of Australia
27. Kentaro Hayashi 1972 Japanese association football player and manager
28. Rebecca De Mornay 1959 American actress
29. Kim Ku 1876 Korean politician
30. Dinah Washington 1924 American singer
31. Stephen Wolfram 1959 British-American scientist and businessman
32. Vincent Enyeama 1982 Nigerian professional footballer
33. Nicole Anderson 1990 American actress
34. William Levy 1980 Cuban actor
35. Celestine Babayaro 1978 Nigerian association football player
36. Michael Chekhov 1891 Russian actor and director
37. Émilie Dequenne 1981 Belgian actress
38. Gonzalo Jara 1985 Chilean association football player
39. Robert Merle 1908 French writer
40. Destiny Chukunyere 2002 Maltese singer
41. Ainsley Maitland-Niles 1997 English association football player
42. Chris Hadfield 1959 Canadian astronaut
43. Patrick van Aanholt 1990 Dutch association football player
44. Aimé Bonpland 1773 French physician, botanist and explorer
45. Valery Larbaud 1881 French writer and poet
46. Iris Apfel 1921 American interior designer and fashion icon
47. Neil Gorsuch 1967 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2017
48. Xabi Prieto 1983 Spanish footballer
49. Alexandre Koyré 1892 French philosopher
50. Leonardo De Lorenzo 1875 Italian flautist and music educator
51. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza 1946 President of Burundi
52. Dante Basco 1975 American actor and rapper
53. Edward Carpenter 1844 English utopian socialist, poet and activist
54. Hajime Isayama 1986 Japanese manga artist
55. Marina Aleksandrova 1982 Russian actress
56. Karl Markovics 1963 Austrian actor, film director and screenwriter
57. Steve Clarke 1963 Scottish association football player and manager
58. Mamadou Sarr 2005 Senegalese-French footballer
59. Ahmed Aboutaleb 1961 Dutch politician
60. Consuelo Velázquez 1916 Mexican concert pianist, songwriter and recording artist
61. Charles F. Kettering 1876 American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 140 patents
62. Carlos Delfino 1982 Argentine basketball player
63. Toyotomi Hideyori 1593 Japanese samurai
64. Lucero 1969 Mexican singer and actress
65. Lucas Cruikshank 1993 American actor
66. Preston Sturges 1898 American film director and screenwriter
67. Thomas Marshburn 1960 American physician and NASA astronaut
68. Wyomia Tyus 1945 American sprinter
69. Helene Ahrweiler 1926 Greek/French Byzantinist
70. Nicholas Tse 1980 Hong Kong singer, actor, songwriter and chef
71. Bartosz Kurek 1988 Polish volleyball player
72. Jack Lew 1955 American lawyer and diplomat
73. GG Allin 1956 American punk rock musician
74. Su Bingtian 1989 Chinese sprint athlete
75. Léon Cogniet 1794 French painter
76. Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden 1790 Grand Duke of Baden
77. Mieko Kawakami 1976 Japanese novelist and singer
78. Néstor Araujo 1991 Mexican association football player
79. Denis Caniza 1974 Paraguayan footballer
80. Mikhail Pokrovsky 1868 Russian historian
81. Diamanda Galás 1955 American singer-songwriter
82. John Edward Williams 1922 American writer
83. Aleijadinho 1730 Colonial Brazil-born sculptor and architect
84. Rio Ngumoha 2008 English association football player
85. Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet 1821 French anthropologist
86. Akkineni Nagarjuna 1959 Indian film actor and producer
87. Kei Mikuriya 1977 Japanese association football player
88. José María Guido 1910 President of Argentina
89. Edmundo González 1949 Venezuelan politician
90. Juan Bautista Alberdi 1810 Argentinian politician, lawyer and diplomat
91. Emily Hampshire 1981 Canadian actress
92. Nathan Saliba 2004 Canadian soccer player
93. Paddy Roy Bates 1921 Founder of the Principality of Sealand
94. Jutta Kleinschmidt 1962 German rally driver
95. Stephen Carr 1976 Irish footballer
96. Rui Komatsu 1983 Japanese association football player
97. Bae Yong-joon 1972 South Korean actor and businessman

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 29 share the 29th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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