Famous birthdays
Famous people born on July 29
Short answer
Well-known people born on July 29 include Benito Mussolini (1883), Dag Hammarskjöld (1905), Fernando Alonso (1981) and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805). Our list below has 81 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives July 29 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1605 (Simon Dach) and the most recent is 2003 (Renato Veiga). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on July 29?
- Benito Mussolini 1883 Dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1945
- Dag Hammarskjöld 1905 Swedish diplomat, economist, and author
- Fernando Alonso 1981 Spanish racing driver
- Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs
- Fumio Kishida 1957 Prime Minister of Japan from 2021 to 2024
- Isidor Isaac Rabi 1898 American physicist
- Eyvind Johnson 1900 Swedish writer
- Harry Mulisch 1927 Dutch writer
- Ivan Aivazovsky 1817 Russian marine painter
- Mikis Theodorakis 1925 Greek composer
- Clara Bow 1905 American actress
- Arif Alvi 1949 13th President of Pakistan from 2018 to 2024
- Josh Radnor 1974 American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- Henri Fayol 1841 French mining engineer and executive, developer a general theory of business…
- Ryutaro Hashimoto 1937 82nd and 83rd Prime Minister of Japan
- Theda Bara 1885 American actress
- Daniel McFadden 1937 American economist
- Sanjay Dutt 1959 Indian actor and politician
- Mircea Lucescu 1945 Romanian football player and manager
- Allison Mack 1982 American former actress
- William Powell 1892 American actor
- David Warner 1941 British actor
- Ján Kollár 1793 Slovak author writing in Czech
- Djibril Sidibé 1992 French footballer
- Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil 1846 Princess Imperial of the Empire of Brazil
- Nellie Kim 1957 Soviet-Russian artistic gymnast
- Ayoze Pérez 1993 Spanish association football player
- Dana White 1969 American businessman and president of UFC
- Fernando González 1980 Chilean tennis player
- JRD Tata 1904 French‑born Indian industrialist
- Max Nordau 1849 Hungarian Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic
- Gerhard Armauer Hansen 1841 Norwegian physician
- Tijjani Reijnders 1998 Dutch footballer
- Ken Burns 1953 American documentarian and filmmaker
- Besart Berisha 1985 Association football player
- Wilson Palacios 1984 Honduran footballer
- Ginni Rometty 1957 American business executive
- Daniele Rugani 1994 Italian association football player
- Stephen Dorff 1973 American actor
- Kosovare Asllani 1989 Swedish association football player
- Wil Wheaton 1972 American actor and writer
- Renato Veiga 2003 Portuguese footballer
- Jay Rodriguez 1989 English association football player
- Tarjei Bø 1988 Norwegian biathlete
- Oleg Shatov 1990 Russian footballer
- Chris Marker 1921 French filmmaker
- Ilya Kutepov 1993 Russian footballer
- Martina McBride 1966 American country singer
- Booth Tarkington 1869 American novelist
- Geddy Lee 1953 Canadian musician
- Rochus Misch 1917 German SS non-commissioned officer
- Genesis Rodriguez 1987 American actress (b. 1987)
- Elizabeth Dole 1936 American politician
- Amarildo Tavares da Silveira 1939 Brazilian footballer and manager
- Boris Asafyev 1884 Russian composer
- Katarina Taikon 1932 Swedish Romani writer-actor
- Alexandra Paul 1963 American actress
- Carl Cox 1962 British house and techno DJ producer
- Mamoru Shigemitsu 1887 Japanese diplomat and politician
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 1956 Novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist
- Jamil Mahuad 1949 41st Constitutional President of the Republic of Ecuador
- Thelma Todd 1906 American actress
- William Beebe 1877 American naturalist and explorer
- Jamie Maclaren 1993 Australian association football player
- Graham Poll 1963 English football referee
- Georg Michael Anton Kerschensteiner 1854 German educational theorist
- Maria Ouspenskaya 1876 Russian actress
- Richard Steven Horvitz 1966 American actor
- Stede Bonnet 1688 Early 18th-century Barbadian pirate
- Ernst Reuter 1889 German mayor of West Berlin
- Simon Dach 1605 German writer
- Meir Shalev 1948 Israeli writer
- Shingo Hyodo 1985 Japanese association football player
- Pero Antić 1982 Macedonian basketball player
- Oh Beom-seok 1984 South Korean association football player
- Danger Mouse 1977 American musician and producer
- Stanley Kunitz 1905 American poet
- Charlie Christian 1916 American swing and jazz guitarist
- Sally Gunnell 1966 British former track and field athlete
- Jean-Hugues Anglade 1955 French actor
- Anna Bessonova 1984 Gymnast
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on July 29 share the 29th of July as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.