Born on Thursday, 29th May – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 226 notable people were born on 29th May — spanning from 1421 to 2006. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Thursday, 29th May 2025 marks the birth of several notable individuals across diverse fields and nationalities. Among those born on this date is Dommaraju Gukesh, who in 2006 became destined to make history as the youngest contender ever to compete for the title of World Chess Champion. The date has also seen the birth of prominent athletes including Carmelo Anthony, the American basketball player born in 1984, whose career has left a significant mark on professional sport. In 1958, Annette Bening entered the world, later establishing herself as a respected American actress with a distinguished career spanning multiple decades and critical acclaim.
European figures born on this date include Noel Gallagher, the English singer-songwriter and guitarist born in 1967, who achieved international recognition through his work in rock music. The date also saw the birth of Rupert Everett in 1959, an English actor and novelist who has contributed substantially to theatre and cinema. Additionally, 1991 witnessed the birth of Tan Zhongyi, who would go on to become Women’s World Chess Champion during 2017 and 2018, reinforcing the date’s connection to chess excellence.
On 29th May 2025, the location experiences mild spring weather conditions typical of late May in the northern hemisphere. The waxing gibbous moon phase illuminates evening skies, whilst those born on this date fall under the Gemini zodiac sign, known for traits associated with communication and adaptability. DayAtlas provides comprehensive information about weather conditions on any given date and location, alongside detailed records of significant events, notable births, and deaths, offering users a complete historical perspective for their chosen day.
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29/05/2006
Dommaraju Gukesh, Youngest contender to compete for the title of World Chess Champion
Gukesh Dommaraju is an Indian chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, Gukesh is the youngest undisputed world champion, the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2750, doing so at the age of 17, and the third-youngest to have surpassed 2700 Elo at the age of 16. He earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 12 and is the third-youngest grandmaster in chess history.
29/05/2002
Paul Skenes, American baseball player
Paul David Skenes is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2024. Skenes played college baseball for the Air Force Falcons and Louisiana State University (LSU) Tigers.
29/05/2001
Puka Nacua, American football player
Makea "Puka" Nacua is an American professional football wide receiver for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Washington Huskies and BYU Cougars and was selected by the Rams in the fifth round of the 2023 NFL draft. Nacua exceeded expectations in his first year, setting the NFL rookie record for receiving yards and receptions and earning Pro Bowl and second-team All-Pro honors.
Andrew Torgashev, American figure skater
Andrew Torgashev is an American figure skater. He is the 2024 Grand Prix de France bronze medalist, 2025 and 2026 U.S. national silver medalist, 2019 Asian Open Trophy silver medalist, the 2016 Tallinn Trophy bronze medalist, and the 2015 U.S. national junior champion.
29/05/2000
Gennaro Nigro, American soccer player
Gennaro Michael Nigro is an American soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Las Vegas Lights FC.
29/05/1999
Park Ji-hoon, South Korean actor and singer
Park Ji-hoon is a South Korean singer and actor. He started his career in the entertainment industry as a commercial model and child actor in 2006. In 2017, he rose to fame by placing second in the second season of the reality competition series Produce 101 and becoming a member of the show's resulting boy group Wanna One. As a solo recording artist, Park has released the EP O'Clock with the lead single "L.O.V.E" in 2019, followed by his debut studio album Message in 2020. As an actor, he is known for his leading roles in the first and second seasons of television series Weak Hero (2022–2025) and the historical film The King's Warden (2026).
29/05/1998
Markelle Fultz, American basketball player
Markelle N'Gai Fultz is an American professional basketball player for the Raptors 905 of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Washington Huskies before being selected by the Philadelphia 76ers with the first overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft.
Austin Reaves, American basketball player
Austin Tyler Reaves is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Wichita State Shockers and the Oklahoma Sooners. Reaves joined the Lakers as an undrafted free agent.
29/05/1997
Tyler Nevin, American baseball player
Tyler Joseph Nevin is an American professional baseball infielder for the Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, and Oakland Athletics.
29/05/1995
Konosuke Takeshita, Japanese professional wrestler
Konosuke Takeshita is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is signed to the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of The Don Callis Family. He is also signed to Japanese promotions DDT Pro-Wrestling and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is the current NJPW World Television Champion in his first reign.
29/05/1993
Jana Čepelová, Slovak tennis player
Jana Čepelová is a Slovak former professional tennis player.
Maika Monroe, American actress and kiteboarder
Maika Monroe is an American actress. She is most notable for her leading roles in The Guest and It Follows, which established her as a scream queen. Such roles recurred in the horror films Villains (2019) and Longlegs (2024).
Grete Šadeiko, Estonian heptathlete
Grete Griffin is an Estonian heptathlete. At the 2010 World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada, she placed fourth with her personal record 5705 points, just one point behind Helga Margrét Thorsteinsdóttir. In the fall of 2012, she joined Florida State University.
29/05/1992
Sarah Moundir, Swiss tennis player
Sarah Moundir is a Swiss tennis player.
Gregg Sulkin, English actor
Gregg Sulkin is an English actor. He made his television debut in the 2002 miniseries Doctor Zhivago, and his film debut in the 2006 comedy Sixty Six, before gaining early recognition for his leading role in the Disney Channel comedy series As the Bell Rings (2007–2008). Sulkin's breakthrough came with his Hollywood debut in the television series Wizards of Waverly Place (2010–2012) and its 2013 television film sequel. He also starred in the Disney television film Avalon High (2010).
29/05/1991
Yaime Perez, Cuban discus thrower
Yaime Pérez Tellez is a Cuban athlete specialising in the discus throw. In 2022, she defected to the United States.
Tan Zhongyi, Women's World Chess Champion, 2017–2018
Tan Zhongyi is a Chinese chess grandmaster (GM). She is a former Women's World Champion, winning the 2017 knockout edition of the world championship in Iran where she defeated Anna Muzychuk in the final. Tan is also a former Women's World Rapid Champion. She is the three-time reigning Chinese women's national champion, and is a five-time national champion overall with titles in 2015, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
29/05/1990
Joe Biagini, American baseball pitcher
Joseph Carlo Biagini is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Astros and Chicago Cubs. The San Francisco Giants selected Biagini in the 26th round of the 2011 MLB draft, and he made his MLB debut for Toronto in 2016. Born in the United States, he represented the Italy national baseball team.
Erica Garner, American civil rights activist (died 2017)
Erica Garner-Snipes was an American activist who advocated for police reform, particularly in the use of force during arrests. Garner became involved in activism following the 2014 killing of her father, Eric Garner, after a New York City police officer placed him in a lethal chokehold during an arrest.
29/05/1989
Ezekiel Ansah, Ghanaian-American football player
Ezekiel Nana "Ziggy" Ansah is a Ghanaian former professional American football defensive end. Born in Accra, Ghana, he moved to the United States to attend Brigham Young University, where he played college football for the Brigham Young Cougars. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions fifth overall in the 2013 NFL draft.
Diego Barisone, Argentinian footballer (died 2015)
Diego Francisco Barisone was an Argentine footballer who played for Unión de Santa Fe, Argentinos Juniors and Lanús.
Riley Keough, American model and actress
Danielle Riley Keough is an American actress. Born into the Presley family, she is the eldest daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and the eldest grandchild of Elvis Presley. She began her career as a model from 2004 to 2008 before transitioning to acting making her feature film debut in a supporting part in the musical biopic The Runaways (2010), portraying Marie Currie.
29/05/1988
Muath Al-Kasasbeh, Jordanian captain and pilot (died 2015)
Muath Safi Yousef al-Kasasbeh was a Jordanian fighter pilot who was captured and burned to death by the Islamic State militant group after his F-16 fighter aircraft crashed over Syria.
Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast
Cheng Fei is a Chinese retired artistic gymnast. She is a three-time World Champion in the vault (2005–2007) and 2006 World Champion in floor exercise. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese teams for the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus, Denmark and 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. She was also a member of the silver medal-winning Chinese team for the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.
Tobin Heath, American soccer player
Tobin Powell Heath is an American former professional soccer player and entrepreneur. Playing primarily as a forward and midfielder for the United States national team, she won gold at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, 2012 London Summer Olympics, 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup as well as silver at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup and bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. She was described as "perhaps the USA's most skillful player" by the United States Soccer Federation, and was named U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year in 2016 and U.S. Soccer Young Female Athlete of the Year in 2009.
Steve Mason, Canadian ice hockey player
Steve Mason is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. During his National Hockey League (NHL) career, he played for the Columbus Blue Jackets, Philadelphia Flyers and Winnipeg Jets.
29/05/1987
Lina Andrijauskaitė, Lithuanian long jumper
Lina Andrijauskaitė is a track and field various events athlete who competes internationally for Lithuania.
Jon Holland, Australian cricketer
Jonathan Mark Holland is a former Australian cricketer. He played as a slow left-arm orthodox bowler and a right-handed tail-end batsman.
Issac Luke, New Zealand rugby league player
Issac Luke is a former New Zealand professional rugby league footballer.
Kelvin Maynard, Dutch footballer (died 2019)
Kelvin Ruben Maynard was a Surinamese professional footballer who played as a right defender.
Noah Reid, Canadian actor, musician, producer, and screenwriter
Noah Nicholas Reid is a Canadian-American actor and musician, best known for his work on the television series Franklin and Schitt's Creek. In 2016, he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Song for his work in the feature film People Hold On. In 2019, he received a Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for his work on Schitt's Creek.
Rui Sampaio, Portuguese footballer
Fernando Rui Valadares Pinto Sampaio is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
29/05/1985
Nathan Horton, Canadian ice hockey player
Nathan Russell Horton is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. During his career, Horton played for the Florida Panthers, Boston Bruins and Columbus Blue Jackets. He was drafted third overall by the Panthers in the 2003 NHL entry draft. He won the Stanley Cup in 2011 with the Bruins.
29/05/1984
Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
Carmelo Kyam Anthony is an American former professional basketball player. Anthony played 19 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and is a ten-time NBA All-Star and six-time All-NBA Team member. He played college basketball for the Syracuse Orange, winning a national championship as a freshman in 2003 while being named the NCAA Tournament's Most Outstanding Player. In 2021, he was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team, and is regarded as one of the greatest scorers in NBA history. He was inducted twice into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2025, as an individual player and also as a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic team.
Nia Jax, Australian-American professional wrestler
Savelina Fanene is an Australian-American professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE where she performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Nia Jax. She is one-half of the current WWE Women's Tag Team Champions with Lash Legend as The Irresistible Forces in their first reign as a team. Individually, it is Jax's third reign.
Funmi Jimoh, American long jumper
Funmilayo Kemi Jimoh, commonly known as Funmi Jimoh, is an American long jumper, who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Dhar Mann, American entrepreneur, film producer and YouTuber
Dharminder "Dhar" Mann is an American entrepreneur and film producer. He is the founder of Dhar Mann Studios, a video production company that creates short scripted videos primarily distributed on platforms such as YouTube. The content is aimed at a young audience and often includes narratives with moral lessons conveyed through plot reversals. The studio produces and finances its content independently and reports a combined following of over 136 million across social media platforms as of July 2025.
Andreas Schäffer, German footballer
Andreas Schäffer is a former professional German footballer who plays for TV 1906 Riedenburg.
Ina Wroldsen, Norwegian singer and songwriter
Ina Christine Wroldsen, previously known simply as Ina, is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. She was a part of the electropop duo Ask Embla with Icelandic producer and songwriter Arnthor Birgisson.
29/05/1982
Nataliya Dobrynska, Ukrainian heptathlete
Nataliya Dobrynska is a retired Ukrainian athlete who competed in the combined events. She is the 2008 Beijing Olympic champion and also holds the heptathlon best in the shot put. Dobrynska was the world indoor record holder for the pentathlon with a score of 5013 points until March 2023.
Matt Macri, American baseball player
Matthew Michael Macri is an American former Major League Baseball third baseman who played for the Minnesota Twins in 2008.
Kim Tae-kyun, South Korean baseball player
Kim Tae-kyun is a South Korean first baseman who played for the Hanwha Eagles in the KBO League. He bats and throws right-handed. He is one of the top career hitters in the KBO, with a lifetime batting average over .320, and more than 300 career home runs and 1300 runs batted in.
29/05/1981
Andrey Arshavin, Russian footballer
Andrey Sergeyevich Arshavin is a Russian former professional footballer who played as a winger or midfielder. Since 2019, Arshavin has held administrative posts at Zenit. In 2022, he became Deputy General Director for Sports Development, and became a member of the club's executive board in 2023.
29/05/1980
Ernesto Farías, Argentinian footballer
Ernesto Antonio Farías, better known as Tecla Farías, is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker.
29/05/1979
Arne Friedrich, German footballer
Arne Friedrich is a German football executive and former player who played as a defender. He formerly was the sporting director of Hertha BSC.
Brian Kendrick, American wrestler
Brian David Kendrick is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in WWE. He is also known for his time in Ring of Honor (ROH), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1).
John Rheinecker, American baseball player (died 2017)
John Philip Rheinecker was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers.
29/05/1978
Pelle Almqvist, Swedish singer-songwriter
Per "Pelle" Almqvist, also known as Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, is a Swedish singer who is the frontman of the garage rock band The Hives.
Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
Sébastien René Grosjean is a French tennis coach and a former professional player. Grosjean reached the semifinals at the 2001 Australian and French Opens, and at Wimbledon in 2003 and 2004. He finished eight consecutive seasons ranked in the top 30 (1999–2006), peaking at world No. 4 in October 2002. He is currently the director of the Open de Roanne.
Adam Rickitt, English singer
Adam Peter Rickitt is an English actor and singer. He portrayed the part of Nick Tilsley on the British soap opera Coronation Street from 1997 to 1999, and again from 2002 to 2004. He later joined the New Zealand soap Shortland Street for a three-year stint between 2007 and 2010. From 2017 to 2020, he appeared as Kyle Kelly on Channel 4's Hollyoaks. His other credits include the BBC's Doctors.
29/05/1977
Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
Massimo Ambrosini is an Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a defensive midfielder. At club level, he is mostly known for his successful time at Italian team AC Milan, where he spent eighteen years of his career, winning several titles, and captained the side from 2009 to 2013 following the retirement of Paolo Maldini. Ambrosini retired from professional football in 2014, after a season with Fiorentina.
Marco Cassetti, Italian footballer
Marco Cassetti is an Italian former footballer who played as a defender.
António Lebo Lebo, Angolan footballer
António Lebo Lebo is an Angolan former footballer. Lebo Lebo ended his career with Recreativo do Libolo in the Angolan league.
29/05/1976
Caçapa, Brazilian footballer and manager
Cláudio Roberto da Silva, commonly known as Cláudio Caçapa or simply Caçapa, is a Brazilian football coach and former player who played as a central defender. He is the current head coach of Confiança.
Jerry Hairston Jr., American baseball player and sportscaster
Jerry Wayne Hairston Jr. is an American former professional baseball infielder and outfielder. He played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, Washington Nationals, Milwaukee Brewers, and Los Angeles Dodgers. He played every position except pitcher and catcher during his baseball career. He is the grandson of former major leaguer Sam Hairston, the son of former major leaguer Jerry Hairston Sr., and the brother of Scott Hairston.
Raef LaFrentz, American basketball player
Raef Andrew LaFrentz is an American former professional basketball power forward and center who played for the Denver Nuggets, Dallas Mavericks, Boston Celtics, and Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Born and raised in Iowa, LaFrentz attended the University of Kansas and was drafted in 1998 by the Denver Nuggets. He was known for his perimeter shooting and his shot blocking abilities. In 2019–20 LaFrentz became an assistant basketball coach at Decorah High School in Decorah, Iowa.
Yegor Titov, Russian footballer
Yegor Ilyich Titov is a Russian football coach and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He was known for his playmaking abilities, vision, ball control and accurate passing.
29/05/1975
Jason Allison, Canadian ice hockey player
Jason Paul Allison is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 552 games in the National Hockey League (NHL). Allison was born in North York, Ontario, but grew up in Toronto, Ontario. His most productive seasons were with the Boston Bruins, where he briefly served as team captain. He also played for the Washington Capitals, Los Angeles Kings and Toronto Maple Leafs. A very successful junior hockey player with the London Knights, he won two gold medals as part of the men's junior national team in 1994 and 1995 and was the Ontario Hockey League's 1994 winner of the Red Tilson Trophy as the league's most outstanding player. In the NHL, he was top ten in points twice and played in the All-Star Game once. His career was derailed by injuries and a labour dispute. Allison's final game was played against the Montreal Canadiens in March 2006 which he was injured. He attempted a comeback in 2009, but ultimately failed.
Mel B, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
Melanie Janine Brown McPhee, MBE, commonly known as Mel B or Melanie B, is an English singer, songwriter, dancer, television personality, and actress. She rose to prominence in the mid-1990s as a member of the pop group the Spice Girls, where she was nicknamed Scary Spice. With over 100 million records sold worldwide, the Spice Girls are the best-selling female group of all time. The group went on an indefinite hiatus in 2000, before reuniting for a greatest hits album in 2007 and two concert tours: the Return of the Spice Girls (2007–2008) and Spice World (2019).
Sven Kubis, German footballer
Sven Kubis is a German former footballer.
Sarah Millican, English comedian
Sarah Jane Millican is an English comedian. Millican won the comedy award for Best Newcomer at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In February 2013 she was listed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Radio 4's Woman's Hour; in the same year, she married fellow comedian Gary Delaney. Her first book, How to Be Champion, was published in 2017. Among her accolades are two Chortle Awards, a British Comedy Award and two BAFTA nominations.
Anthony Wall, English golfer
Anthony David Wall is an English professional golfer.
Daniel Tosh, American comedian, television host, actor, writer, and executive producer
Daniel Dwight Tosh is an American comedian, writer, and producer. After graduating from the University of Central Florida with a degree in marketing, Tosh moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in comedy. His career accelerated in 2001 after a performance on the Late Show with David Letterman. He went on to appear in other national shows, leading to his own 30-minute special on Comedy Central Presents two years later. From 2009 to 2020, Tosh was the host of Comedy Central series Tosh.0, a showcase of popular Internet video clips with the addition of Tosh's narrative comedic dialogue. Daniel Tosh also went on his own series of comedy tours from 2010 to 2015.
29/05/1974
Steve Cardenas, American martial artist and retired actor
Stephen Antonio Cardenas is an American martial artist and actor. He is best known for playing the character Rocky DeSantos, the second Red Ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and eventually the Blue Zeo Ranger in Power Rangers Zeo.
Stephen Larkham, Australian rugby player and coach
Stephen Larkham is a retired Australian rugby union professional player, currently in the role of head coach for Brumbies. He spent his career with the Brumbies in Super Rugby, for whom he played from the inception of the professional Super 12 in 1996 through 2007. He is best known for his long tenure with the Wallabies at international level, for whom he played 102 times. After initial selection at fullback from 1996 to 1997, Larkham was the first-choice Australian fly-half from 1997 to 2007, playing in the 1999, 2003, and 2007 Rugby World Cups.
Aaron McGruder, American author and cartoonist
Aaron Vincent McGruder is an American writer, cartoonist, and producer best known for creating The Boondocks, a Universal Press Syndicate comic strip and its animated TV series adaptation.
Jenny Willott, English politician
Jennifer Nancy Willott OBE is a British politician. She was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Cardiff Central from 2005 to 2015. Willott became a junior minister in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Government Equalities Office in December 2013, temporarily standing in for Jo Swinson while Swinson was on maternity leave. She was the first woman and first Liberal Democrat to represent her seat. Willott was a councillor in the London Borough of Merton from 1998 to 2000.
29/05/1973
Tomoko Kaneda, Japanese voice actress, singer, and radio personality
Tomoko Kaneda is a Japanese voice actress and radio personality from Yokohama, Japan. She had worked at Aoni Production for eleven years and freelance since April 2011; in August 2011, it was announced that she transferred to Across Entertainment. She graduated from Department of Architecture, Kanto Gakuin University. She is a member of the voice acting unit Drops, which included fellow voice actresses Mariko Kouda, Akemi Kanda, Ai Nonaka and Ryoko Shiraishi, and of the voice acting unit SD-Children along with Miyu Matsuki.
Mark Lee, American guitarist and songwriter
Mark David Lee is an American musician known as the guitarist and a founding member of the Christian rock band, Third Day. He and vocalist Mac Powell were the only original members present throughout the band's entire history.
Alpay Özalan, Turkish footballer
Fehmi Alpay Özalan, known mononymously as Alpay, is a Turkish former professional footballer, football manager and politician. He last worked as the manager of Samsunspor. He played 90 international games for Turkey between 1995 and 2005, making him Turkey's seventh-most capped player of all time. This included performances at two European Championships and the 2002 World Cup, in which he was selected for the Team of the Tournament. Since 2018, he is a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Justice and Development Party (AKP) for İzmir.
Myf Warhurst, Australian radio and television host
Myfanwy Warhurst is an Australian radio announcer and television personality, best known for her work at Triple J radio station and on ABC Television's long-running music-themed quiz show Spicks and Specks. From 2017 to 2024, she served as Australia's commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest alongside Joel Creasey, and as co-host of the weekly podcast Bang On. She also provides the voices of Aunt Trixie and Indy's Mum in the Australian animated show Bluey.
29/05/1972
Laverne Cox, American actress and LGBT advocate
Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBTQ advocate. She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, becoming in 2014 the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, and the first to be nominated for any Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990. In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word, making her the first trans woman to win the award. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on U.S. broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt.
Bill Curley, American basketball player and coach
William Michael Curley is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach of the Emerson Lions men's basketball team.
Simon Jones, English singer and bass player
Simon Robin David Jones is an English bass guitarist. He played bass and provided occasional backing vocals for the rock band The Verve.
John Simon, Australian rugby league player
John "Jack" Simon is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. His club career was spent with the Illawarra Steelers, Easts, Parramatta, Auckland and Wests Tigers. Of Indigenous Australian descent, Simon also represented Australia and New South Wales in Origin.
29/05/1971
Éric Lucas, Canadian boxer
Éric Lucas is a Canadian former professional boxer.
Bernd Mayländer, German race car driver
Bernd Michael Mayländer is a German racing driver and current Formula One safety car driver.
Filipa Pinto, Portuguese politician
Filipa Maria Gonçalves Pinto is a Portuguese teacher, politician and member of the Assembly of the Republic, the national legislature of Portugal. A member of the LIVRE party, she was elected to represent Porto at the 2025 legislative election. She was previously a member of the Assembly between October 2024 and January 2025.
Jo Beth Taylor, Australian television host and actress
Joanne Rebecca Guilfoyle, known professionally as Jo Beth Taylor, is an Australian television presenter, actress and singer most well known for hosting three weekly programs at the same time in the 1990s on the Nine Network: Australia's Funniest Home Video Show (1993–1997), Hey Hey It's Saturday (1995–1997) and What's Up Doc? (1996–1997), before taking a hiatus from television for more than two years.
Rob Womack, English shot putter and discus thrower
Robin "Rob" Womack is a Paralympian track and field athlete from England competing mainly in category F55 throwing events. In 2012 he qualified as a member of the Great Britain team for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London and took the bronze medal in the shot put.
29/05/1970
Natarsha Belling, Australian journalist
Natarsha Belling is an Australian journalist, television and radio presenter.
Roberto Di Matteo, Italian footballer and manager
Roberto Di Matteo is an Italian professional football manager and former player.
29/05/1968
Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
Torquhil Ian Campbell, 13th and 6th Duke of Argyll, styled as Earl of Campbell before 1973 and as Marquess of Lorne between 1973 and 2001, is a Scottish peer.
Tate George, American basketball player
Tate Claude George is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the New Jersey Nets with the 22nd overall pick in the 1990 NBA draft from the University of Connecticut. A 6-foot-5-inch (1.96 m) and 190-pound (86 kg) guard, he played a total of four years in the NBA for the Nets and Milwaukee Bucks, averaging 4.2 points per game in his career.
Jessica Morden, English politician
Jessica Elizabeth Morden is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newport East since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, she was General Secretary of Welsh Labour from 1999 until her election to Parliament.
Hida Viloria, American activist
Hida Viloria is an American writer, author, producer, and human rights activist of Latin American origin. Viloria is intersex, nonbinary, and genderfluid, using they/them pronouns. They are known for their writing, their intersex and non-binary human rights activism, and as one of the first people to come out in national and media as a nonbinary intersex person. Viloria is Founding Director of the Intersex Campaign for Equality.
29/05/1967
Noel Gallagher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Noel Thomas David Gallagher is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Gallagher is the primary songwriter, lead guitarist and a co-lead vocalist of the rock band Oasis. After leaving Oasis, he formed Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. Gallagher is one of the most successful songwriters in British music history, with nine UK number-one singles and twelve UK number-one albums. He became the first artist in UK chart history to reach number one with ten consecutive studio albums. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential songwriters in the history of British rock music, cited by numerous major subsequent artists as an influence.
Mike Keane, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Michael John Keane is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger. Undrafted, Keane played over 1,100 games in the National Hockey League from 1988 until 2004. He then played five seasons for his hometown Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League until he retired in 2010. Keane is a three-time Stanley Cup champion, having won with the Montreal Canadiens in 1993, Colorado Avalanche in 1996, and the Dallas Stars in 1999. On September 3, 2013, the Winnipeg Jets announced the hiring of Keane as Assistant of Player Development.
Steven Levitt, American economist, author, and academic
Steven David Levitt is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book Freakonomics and its sequels. Levitt is a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. Levitt was the winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal for his work in the field of crime. He was co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy published by the University of Chicago Press until December 2007. In 2009, Levitt co-founded TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He was chosen as one of Time magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World" in 2006. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Levitt their fourth favorite living economist under the age of 60, after Paul Krugman, Greg Mankiw and Daron Acemoglu.
29/05/1966
Natalie Nougayrède, French journalist
Natalie Nougayrède is a French journalist. She is the first woman to be the executive and managing editor of Le Monde. She is a recipient of the Prix de la Presse Diplomatique and the Albert Londres Prize.
29/05/1964
Howard Mills III, American academic and politician
Howard D. Mills III is an American insurance consultant and former politician from Goshen, New York. He served as New York's Superintendent of Insurance from 2005 to 2006, and previously held elective office in both the New York State Assembly and the Town of Wallkill.
Oswaldo Negri Jr., Brazilian race car driver
Oswaldo "Ozz" Negri Jr. is a Brazilian racing driver from São Paulo.
29/05/1963
Blaze Bayley, English singer-songwriter
Blaze Bayley is an English heavy metal singer. He was the lead singer of Wolfsbane from 1984 to 1994. He was also the lead singer of Iron Maiden from 1994 to 1999. Since then, he has pursued a solo career and has released eleven studio albums. Blaze was voted number 67 in Sweden Rock magazine's top 100 singers of all time.
Zhu Jianhua, Chinese high jumper
Zhu Jianhua is a retired Chinese high jumper. His personal best of 2.39 metres is a former world record for the event, and is still the Chinese record.
Ukyo Katayama, Japanese race car driver
Ukyo Katayama is a Japanese former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1992 to 1997.
Claude Loiselle, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
Claude Loiselle is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1981 to 1994.
29/05/1962
Fandi Ahmad, Singaporean footballer, coach, and manager
Fandi bin Ahmad is a Singaporean professional football manager/head coach and former player. During his professional career, he played mainly as a striker, but also occasionally as a midfielder. Along with the Singapore FA, he also played for Malaysia Cup state sides Kuala Lumpur FA and Pahang FA, and won titles with all three, including two doubles in 1992 and 1994, as well as the Golden Boot in 1988. Fandi also played for Indonesia's Niac Mitra, Netherlands' Groningen as well as local Singaporean clubs Geylang United and SAFFC.
Eric Davis, American baseball player
Eric Keith Davis is an American former baseball center fielder for several Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, most notably the Cincinnati Reds, to which he owes his nickname "Eric the Red." Davis was 21 years old when he made his major league debut with the Reds on May 19, 1984. Davis spent eight seasons with the Reds and later played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals, and San Francisco Giants. A right-handed batter and fielder, Davis had a combination of athletic ability, including foot and bat speed, power, and defensive acumen. He achieved a number of rare feats.
Carol Kirkwood, Scottish weather presenter
Carol Anne Kirkwood is a Scottish retired weather presenter. She was trained by the Met Office and worked for the BBC between 1998 and 2026. She is best known for being the main weather presenter for BBC Breakfast for over 25 years. She is also a published author.
Chloé Sainte-Marie, Canadian actress and singer
Marie-Aline Joyal, known professionally as Chloé Sainte-Marie, is a Canadian actress, singer, activist, and official spokesperson for a network of natural caregivers in Québec.
29/05/1961
Melissa Etheridge, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist
Melissa Lou Etheridge is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and guitarist. Her eponymous debut album was released in 1988 and became an underground success. It peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard 200 and its lead single, "Bring Me Some Water", garnered Etheridge her first Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female in 1989. Her second album, Brave and Crazy, appeared that same year and earned Etheridge two more Grammy nominations. In 1992, Etheridge released her third album, Never Enough, and its lead single, "Ain't It Heavy", won Etheridge her first Grammy Award.
John Miceli, American drummer
Meat Loaf’s Neverland Express is an American rotating backing band that previously worked with American singer Meat Loaf. The Neverland Express have continued touring with American singer Caleb Johnson.
29/05/1960
Thomas Baumer, Swiss economist and academic
Thomas Baumer (born 1960 in Fribourg is a Swiss economist and expert for Intercultural competence and Personality assessment. He developed parts of the prognostic personality and abilities assessment and coined this term especially within the German speaking countries.
Mike Freer, English politician
Michael Whitney Freer is a British Conservative Party politician and former banker who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Courts and Legal Services from September 2022 to July 2024. He was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Finchley and Golders Green at the 2010 general election, and stood down in 2024.
29/05/1959
Rupert Everett, English actor and novelist
Rupert James Hector Everett is an English actor. He first came to public attention in 1981 when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as a gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s; the role earned him his first BAFTA Award nomination. He received a second BAFTA nomination and his first Golden Globe Award nomination for his role in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), followed by a second Golden Globe nomination for An Ideal Husband (1999). He voiced Prince Charming in the animated films Shrek 2 (2004) and Shrek the Third (2007). He also played John Lamont/Mr. Barron in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016).
Mel Gaynor, English drummer
Mel George Gaynor is a British drummer, singer and recording artist, best known as the longtime drummer for the rock band Simple Minds.
Steve Hanley, Irish-English bass player and songwriter
Stephen Hanley is an Irish-born English musician best known as the bass guitarist in the Fall from 1979 to 1998 and with House Of All since 2022. His distinctive and muscular basslines were a signature part of their sound, often carrying the songs' instrumental melodies. Hanley is second only to Mark E. Smith in longevity in the band. With Peter Hook, Andy Rourke and Gary Mounfield, he is widely considered one of the pre-eminent Manchester bassists of his generation. He has always been very private and rarely interviewed; for this reason his 2014 autobiography The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall was highly anticipated. On publication it was met with widespread acclaim for its frank honesty and dry, no nonsense humour.
29/05/1958
Annette Bening, American actress
Annette Carol Bening is an American actress. With a career spanning over four decades, she is known for her versatile work across screen and stage. Bening has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, two Actor Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for five Academy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, making her one of few artists nominated for the Triple Crown of Acting without winning.
Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, and activist (died 2011)
Juliano Mer-Khamis was an Israeli–Palestinian actor, director, filmmaker, and political activist of Jewish and Palestinian Eastern Orthodox Christian parentage. On 4 April 2011, he was assassinated by a masked gunman in the city of Jenin, where he had established The Freedom Theatre.
Uwe Rapolder, German footballer and coach
Uwe Rapolder is a German retired football player and manager.
Mike Stenhouse, American baseball player and sportscaster
Michael Steven Stenhouse is an American former outfielder, first baseman, and designated hitter in Major League Baseball who played for the Montreal Expos from 1982-1984, the Minnesota Twins in 1985, and the Boston Red Sox in 1986. Stenhouse is the CEO of the Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity, a public policy think tank. Listed at 6'1", 195 lb., Stenhouse batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He is the son of pitcher Dave Stenhouse.
29/05/1957
Steven Croft, English bishop and theologian
Steven John Lindsey Croft is a British bishop in the Church of England and a theologian specialising in mission. He has been Bishop of Oxford since the confirmation of his election on 6 July 2016. He was the Bishop of Sheffield from 2008 to 2016; previously he was Archbishops' Missioner and Team Leader of Fresh Expressions, a joint Church of England and Methodist initiative. He falls within the open evangelical tradition of Anglicanism.
Jeb Hensarling, American lawyer and politician
Thomas Jeb Hensarling is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 5th congressional district from 2003 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he chaired the House Republican Conference from 2011 to 2013 and House Financial Services Committee from 2013 until 2019. The Los Angeles Times described Hensarling, "a fervent believer in free market ideology" and that he was "a pivotal player in the GOP effort to reduce financial regulation in the Trump Era". The Wall Street Journal called him "a driver of economic policy in the house". Hensarling has close ties to Wall Street, having received campaign donations from every major Wall Street bank as well as various payday lenders.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian film director
Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won 50 awards, and served as a juror in more than 15 major film festivals. His award-winning films include A Moment of Innocence (1996) and Kandahar. His latest documentary is The Gardener and latest feature The President.
29/05/1956
Mark Lyall Grant, English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United Nations
Sir Mark Justin Lyall Grant is a former senior British diplomat who was previously the United Kingdom's National Security Adviser and Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations.
La Toya Jackson, American singer-songwriter and actress
La Toya Yvonne Jackson is an American singer and television personality. The fifth child and middle daughter of the Jackson family, Jackson first gained recognition on the family's variety television series, The Jacksons, on CBS between 1976 and 1977. Thereafter, she saw success as a solo recording artist under multiple record labels in the 1980s and 1990s, including Polydor, Sony Music and RCA, where she released nine studio albums over the course of 15 years. Her most successful releases in the United States were her self-titled debut album (1980) and the 1984 single "Heart Don't Lie". Jackson's other songs include "Night Time Lover", "If You Feel the Funk", "Bet'cha Gonna Need My Lovin'", "Hot Potato", "You're Gonna Get Rocked!", and "Sexbox". Another one of Jackson's songs, "Just Say No" from her fifth album was composed for US first lady Nancy Reagan and Reagan administration's anti-drug campaign.
29/05/1955
Frank Baumgartl, German runner (died 2010)
Frank Baumgartl was an East German track and field athlete, who specialised in the 3000 meters steeplechase. He was born in Bad Schlema.
John Hinckley Jr., American attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan
John Warnock Hinckley Jr. is an American man who attempted to assassinate U.S. president Ronald Reagan as he left the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 1981, two months after Reagan's first inauguration. Using a revolver, Hinckley wounded Reagan, police officer Thomas Delahanty, Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, and White House Press Secretary James Brady. Brady was left disabled and died 33 years later from his injuries.
David Kirschner, American animator, producer, and author
David Maxwell Kirschner is an American film and television producer and screenwriter. His producing credits include Don Bluth's An American Tail and Titan A.E. animated features as well as Cats Don't Dance, Curious George, the Child's Play horror franchise.
Gordon Rintoul, Scottish historian and curator
Gordon Rintoul CBE FRSE is the former Director of National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Ken Schrader, American race car driver and sportscaster
Kenneth William Schrader is an American professional racing driver. He currently races on local dirt and asphalt tracks around the country. He also last competed part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 11 Ford for Fast Track Racing. He has also previously competed in the NASCAR Cup Series, the NASCAR Xfinity Series, and the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, as well as the Superstar Racing Experience. He is a first cousin once removed of fellow NASCAR driver Carl Edwards.
29/05/1954
Robert Beaser, American composer and educator
Robert Beaser is an American composer.
Jerry Moran, American lawyer and politician
Gerald Wesley Moran is an American lawyer and politician who is the senior United States senator from Kansas, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he was chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee for the 113th U.S. Congress, during which he led successful Republican efforts in the 2014 election, producing the first Republican Senate majority since 2006. Previously, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Kansas's 1st congressional district.
29/05/1953
Danny Elfman, American film composer, singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
Daniel Robert Elfman is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since scoring his first studio film in 1985, Elfman has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 feature film scores as well as compositions for television, stage productions, and the concert hall.
29/05/1950
Rebbie Jackson, American singer and actress
Maureen Reillette "Rebbie" Jackson-Brown is an American singer and the eldest child of the Jackson family of musicians. She first performed on stage with her siblings during shows in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in 1974, before appearing in the CBS television series The Jacksons. At age 34, Jackson released her debut album Centipede (1984). The album's title track was written by her younger brother Michael and has been her most successful single release. She released two more albums: Reaction (1986) and R U Tuff Enuff (1988).
29/05/1949
Robert Axelrod, American actor and screenwriter (died 2019)
Robert Axelrod, also credited as Axel Roberts and Myron Mensah, was an American actor. He was primarily known for his voice work, which included Digimon, having started voice acting for the English-language versions of anime in 1980; providing the voice of Lord Zedd, the main villain of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; and Finster, the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers monster maker. He also portrayed a sympathetic doctor, Jennings, in The Blob. He also portrayed a Paul McCartney look-alike on the popular sitcom Family Matters, and later in his career appeared in several productions by comedy duo Tim & Eric.
Brian Kidd, English footballer and manager
Brian Kidd is an English football coach and former player, who won the European Cup in 1968 with Manchester United. He was most recently assistant coach of Premier League club Manchester City.
Francis Rossi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Francis Dominic Nicholas Michael Rossi, is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is the founder, leader, lead singer, lead guitarist, and sole continuous member of the rock band Status Quo.
29/05/1948
Michael Berkeley, English composer and radio host
Michael Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Baron Berkeley of Knighton is an English composer, broadcaster on music and non-party political member of the House of Lords, speaking as an advocate for the arts, contemporary music and music education.
Keith Gull, English microbiologist and academic
Professor Keith Gull is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Molecular microbiology at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. He was the principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1 October 2009 to 30 September 2018, succeeding Michael Mingos.
29/05/1947
Anthony Geary, American actor (died 2025)
Anthony Geary was an American actor. His career spanned more than four decades, and began in episodic television. He appeared as a guest on several primetime series and transitioned into a career predominantly in the soap opera genre. His first soap role was David Lockhart (1971–1972) on Bright Promise (1969–1972), and he later joined The Young and the Restless as George Curtis. His breakout role came in 1978 when he joined the cast of General Hospital as Luke Spencer. For his work as Luke, Geary went on to earn a record eight Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series prior to his retirement.
29/05/1946
Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (died 2000)
Fernando Buesa Blanco was a Spanish politician in the Basque Christian Democracy and in the Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left (PSE-EE) branch of the social democratic Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was assassinated by ETA.
29/05/1945
Gary Brooker, English singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2022)
Gary Brooker was an English singer and pianist, and the founder and lead singer of the rock band Procol Harum.
Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Scottish lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland (died 2013)
Peter Lovat Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie was a Scottish politician and advocate who served as the Solicitor General for Scotland (1982–1989) and the Lord Advocate (1989–1992).
Julian Le Grand, English economist and author
Sir Julian Ernest Michael Le Grand, FBA FRSA is a British academic specialising in public policy. He is the Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE) and was a senior policy advisor to former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Martin Pipe, English jockey and trainer
Martin Charles Pipe, is an English former racehorse trainer credited with professionalising the British racehorse training industry, and as of 2021 the most successful trainer in British jump racing.
Joyce Tenneson, American photographer
Joyce Tenneson is an American fine art photographer known for her distinctive style of photography, which often involves nude or semi-nude women.
Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, Belgian scholar and author (died 2018)
Jean-Pierre Van Rossem was a Belgian economist, econometrician, activist, author, philosopher, stock-market guru, politician, and member of the Belgian and Flemish Parliaments.
29/05/1944
Bob Benmosche, American businessman (died 2015)
Robert Herman Benmosche was the president and chief executive officer of American International Group. He was appointed President & Chief Executive Officer by the US Department of Treasury and AIG Board of Directors to succeed Edward M. Liddy. Benmosche is known for his leadership at AIG, where he led a turnaround and paid down government aid pledged by the Bush and Obama Administrations.
Quentin Davies, English soldier and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
John Quentin Davies, Baron Davies of Stamford was a British Labour politician and life peer who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Grantham and Stamford from 1987 to 2010. He served as a junior defence minister in the Brown ministry from 2008 to 2010.
29/05/1943
Robert W. Edgar, American educator and politician (died 2013)
Robert William Edgar was an American politician, administrator, and religious leader. A native of the Philadelphia area, he began his career as a Methodist pastor and chaplain. He served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1987, representing the 7th district of Pennsylvania. He was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for United States Senate in Pennsylvania in 1986.
29/05/1942
Pierre Bourque, Canadian businessman and politician, 40th Mayor of Montreal
Pierre Bourque is a Canadian businessman and politician in Quebec. He founded the Vision Montreal political party and served as mayor of Montreal from 1994 to 2001.
Kevin Conway, American actor and director (died 2020)
Kevin Brian Conway was an American actor and film director.
29/05/1941
Doug Scott, English mountaineer and author (died 2020)
Douglas Keith Scott was an English mountaineer and climbing author, noted for being on the team that made the first ascent of the south-west face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1975. In receiving one of mountaineering's highest honours, the Piolet d'Or Lifetime Achievement Award, his personal style and his climbs were described as "visionary".
Bob Simon, American journalist (died 2015)
Robert David Simon was an American television correspondent for CBS News. He covered crises, war, and unrest in 67 countries during his career. Simon reported the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, the Israeli–Lebanese Conflict in 1982, and the student protests in China's Tiananmen Square in 1989. During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, he and four of his TV crew were captured and imprisoned by Iraq for 40 days. He published a book about the experience titled Forty Days.
29/05/1940
Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (died 2013)
Taihō Kōki was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He became the 48th yokozuna in 1961 at the age of 21, the youngest ever at the time.
Farooq Leghari, Pakistani politician, 8th President of Pakistan (died 2010)
Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari was a Pakistani politician who served as the eighth president of Pakistan from 1993 until his resignation in 1997. He, prior to his presidency, also served as the minister of foreign affairs in 1993; the minister for water and power from 1988 to 1990; and a senator from 1975 to 1977. He was the first ethnic Baloch to be elected president.
29/05/1939
Pete Smith, Australian radio and television announcer
Peter Philip Smith OAM is an Australian retired radio announcer and television voice-over artist. He is primarily known for his work with GTV-9 in Melbourne as their chief staff announcer, including being the announcer on the nationally screened quiz show Sale of the Century for 21 years.
Al Unser, American race car driver (died 2021)
Alfred Unser was an American automobile racing driver, the younger brother of fellow racing drivers Jerry and Bobby Unser, and father of Al Unser Jr. He was the second of four men to have won the Indianapolis 500 four times, the fourth of six to have won the race in consecutive years, and the winner of the National Championship in 1970, 1983, and 1985. The Unser family has won the Indy 500 a record nine times. He was the only person to have both a sibling (Bobby) and child as fellow Indy 500 winners. Al's nephews Johnny and Robby Unser have also competed in that race. In 1971, he became the only driver to date to win the race on his birthday.
29/05/1938
Christopher Bland, English businessman and politician (died 2017)
Sir Francis Christopher Buchan Bland was a British businessman and politician. He was deputy chairman of the Independent Television Authority (1972), which was renamed the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the same year, and chairman of London Weekend Television (1984) and of the Board of Governors of the BBC, when he took up a position as chairman of British Telecommunications plc (BT). He left his position with BT in September 2007. Before leaving BT, he became chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company, in 2004.
Fay Vincent, American lawyer and businessman, 8th Commissioner of Baseball (died 2025)
Francis Thomas "Fay" Vincent Jr. was an American entertainment lawyer, securities regulator, and sports executive who served as the eighth commissioner of baseball from September 13, 1989, to September 7, 1992.
29/05/1937
Charles W. Pickering, American lawyer and judge
Charles Willis Pickering Sr. is an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi and, briefly, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Irmin Schmidt, German keyboard player and composer
Irmin Schmidt is a German keyboardist and composer, best known as a founding member of the Krautrock band Can and composer of numerous film scores. Following the death of Can's second lead vocalist Damo Suzuki in February 2024, Schmidt is one of three surviving former members of the band, alongside original vocalist Malcolm Mooney and bassist Rosko Gee.
Alwin Schockemöhle, German show-jumper
Alwin Schockemöhle is a former German show-jumper. He was a successful international show jumping equestrian in the 1960s and 1970s at individual and team events in Olympic Games and European Championships. He was one of four children, a girl and three boys. His younger brother Paul was also a successful show-jumper. Werner Schockemöhle, his youngest brother, was a well-known horse breeder in Oldenburg.
Harry Statham, American basketball player and coach
Harry Statham is an American former basketball coach. He is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Basketball Hall of Fame. His 1,122 wins during his 52 seasons at McKendree University of Lebanon, Illinois, were the third-most by any men's or women's basketball head coach at a four-year college or university in the United States. This includes any and all levels or divisions of the NCAA and NAIA. The only other coaches at a four-year school with 1,000 or more wins are Pat Summitt, Danny Miles, Mike Krzyzewski, Herb Magee, Tara VanDerveer, Geno Auriemma, Jim Boeheim, and Sylvia Hatchell.
29/05/1935
André Brink, South African author and playwright (died 2015)
André Philippus Brink was a South African novelist, essayist and poet. He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and taught English at the University of Cape Town.
Sylvia Robinson, American singer and producer (died 2011)
Sylvia Robinson, known mononymously as Sylvia, was an American singer and record producer. Robinson achieved success as a performer on two R&B chart toppers: as half of Mickey & Sylvia with the 1957 single "Love Is Strange", and her solo record "Pillow Talk" in 1973. She later became known for her work as founder and CEO of the pioneering hip hop label Sugar Hill Records.
29/05/1934
Bill Vander Zalm, Dutch-Canadian businessman and politician, 28th Premier of British Columbia
William Nicholas Vander Zalm is a Dutch-born Canadian businessman and politician who served as the 28th premier of British Columbia and leader of the British Columbia Social Credit Party from 1986 to 1991. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of British Columbia, representing the riding of Surrey from 1975 to 1983, and the riding of Richmond from 1986 to 1991.
29/05/1933
Helmuth Rilling, German conductor and educator (died 2026)
Helmuth Rilling was a German choral conductor and an academic teacher who was internationally known as an authority on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was the founder of the Gächinger Kantorei in 1954 when still a student, the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart in 1965, the Oregon Bach Festival in 1970, the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart in 1981 and other Bach Academies worldwide, as well as the Festival Ensemble Stuttgart (FES) in 2001 and Junges Stuttgarter Bach Ensemble in 2011. He taught choral conducting at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule from 1965 to 1989 and led the Frankfurter Kantorei from 1969 to 1982. He held talk concerts, introducing the music with the performers, internationally and notably in Eastern Europe.
Tarquinio Provini, Italian motorcycle racer (died 2005)
Tarquinio Provini was an Italian professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He was a two-time world champion in road racing. Provini was also a four-time Isle of Man TT winner and won 13 Italian national championships.
29/05/1932
Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author
Paul Ralph Ehrlich was an American biologist, author, and environmentalist known for his predictions and warnings about the consequences of population growth, including famine and resource depletion. Ehrlich was the Bing Professor of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of Stanford University. He started working at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve in 1959. He along with many other biology professors, led the efforts for Stanford University to designate and protect Jasper Ridge in 1973 as a biological preserve and as a long-term research facility for faculty and students.
Richie Guerin, American basketball player and coach
Richard Vincent Guerin is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played with the National Basketball Association's (NBA) New York Knicks from 1956 to 1963 and was a player-coach of the St. Louis/Atlanta Hawks franchise where he spent nine years. On February 15, 2013, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced that Guerin had been elected as one of its 2013 inductees.
29/05/1929
Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher and academic (died 2023)
Harry Gordon Frankfurt was an American philosopher. He was a professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught from 1990 until 2002. Frankfurt also taught at Yale University, Rockefeller University, and Ohio State University.
Peter Higgs, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
Peter Ware Higgs was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.
Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2014)
Roberto Enrique Vargas Vélez was a Puerto Rican pitcher in Major League Baseball and Negro league baseball. Vargas played for the Chicago American Giants for one season in 1948, in which he was named a Negro League All-Star. He also played one season for the Milwaukee Braves of the National League during the 1955 season. He was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
29/05/1928
Freddie Redd, American jazz pianist and composer (died 2021)
Freddie Redd was an American hard-bop pianist and composer. He is best known for writing music to accompany The Connection (1959), a play by Jack Gelber. According to Peter Watrous, writing in The New York Times: "Mr. Redd hung out at jam sessions in the 1950s and played with many of the major figures, Sonny Rollins to Art Blakey, and worked regularly with Charles Mingus. When things got tough, he just moved on, living in Guadalajara, Mexico, and in Paris and London."
29/05/1927
Jean Coutu, Canadian pharmacist and businessman, founded the Jean Coutu Group
Jean Coutu, is a Canadian pharmacist and businessman. He is the founder and chairman of the Jean Coutu Group which he started in 1969. With an estimated net worth of $US 2.3 billion, Coutu was ranked by Forbes as the 22nd wealthiest Canadian and 938th wealthiest person in the world.
29/05/1926
Katie Boyle, Italian-English actress and television host (died 2018)
Caterina Irene Elena Maria Boyle, Lady Saunders, usually known as Katie Boyle, was an Italian-born British actress, writer, radio announcer and television personality. She became best known for presenting the Eurovision Song Contest on a record four occasions: in 1960, 1963, 1968 and 1974; the first three in London and the last in Brighton, England. She was also an agony aunt, answering problems that had been posted by readers of the TVTimes.
Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe, Queen Consort of Tonga (died 2017)
Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe was Queen of Tonga from 1965 to 2006, as the wife of King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV. She was the mother of kings George Tupou V and Tupou VI.
Abdoulaye Wade, Senegalese academic and politician, 3rd President of Senegal
Abdoulaye Wade is a Senegalese politician who served as the third president of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. He is also the Secretary-General of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS), having led the party since it was founded in 1974. Assuming office at 73, Wade was the oldest person to occupy the post.
29/05/1924
Lars Bo, Danish author and illustrator (died 1999)
Lars Bo was a Danish artist and writer. He is known for his graphic works with surrealistically inspired fantastic motifs. He was nicknamed "Wizard".
Miloslav Kříž, Czech basketball player and coach (died 2013)
Miloslav Kříž was a Czech professional basketball player, coach and executive. As a player, he played first for Uncas Praha, and later for Sparta Praha, but he was better known as a head coach and trainer, especially as the head coach of the senior Czechoslovak women's national team. He was awarded the FIBA Order of Merit, for his services to basketball, in 2002.
Pepper Paire, American baseball player (died 2013)
Lavone A. "Pepper" Paire Davis was a baseball catcher and infielder who played from 1944 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m), 138 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.
29/05/1923
Bernard Clavel, French author (died 2010)
Bernard Charles Henri Clavel was a French writer.
John Parker, 6th Earl of Morley, English colonel and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Devon (died 2015)
John St. Aubyn Parker, 6th Earl of Morley was a British peer, a professional soldier, and county dignitary. Morley was a staunch monarchist and royal servant.
Eugene Wright, American jazz bassist (died 2020)
Eugene Joseph Wright was an American jazz bassist who was a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
29/05/1922
Edith Roger, Norwegian dancer and choreographer (died 2023)
Edith Roger was a Norwegian dancer, choreographer, and stage director.
Joe Weatherly, American race car driver (died 1964)
Joseph Herbert Weatherly was an American stock car racing driver. Weatherly was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2009 after winning NASCAR's Grand National Series championships in 1962 and 1963, three AMA Grand National Championships, and two NASCAR Modified championships.
Iannis Xenakis, Greek-French composer, engineer, and theorist (died 2001)
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer.
29/05/1921
Norman Hetherington, Australian cartoonist and puppeteer (died 2010)
Norman Frederick Hetherington was an Australian artist, cartoonist, puppeteer, and puppet designer.
29/05/1920
John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000)
John Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian-American economist who spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994.
Clifton James, American actor (died 2017)
George Clifton James was an American actor of film, theatre, and television. He was best known to screen audiences for his various character roles, including prison floorwalker Carr in Cool Hand Luke (1967), Sheriff J.W. Pepper alongside Roger Moore in the James Bond films Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), the sheriff in Silver Streak (1976), a Texas tycoon in The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977), and Charles Comiskey in Eight Men Out (1988).
29/05/1919
Jacques Genest, Canadian physician and academic (died 2018)
Jacques Genest was a Canadian physician and scientist. He founded the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) and was an emeritus professor at Université de Montréal and a professor at McGill University. Genest was best known for founding and leading several organizations related to clinical research in Québec and for his work on arterial hypertension.
29/05/1917
John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (died 1963)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress before his presidency.
Marcel Trudel, Canadian historian, author, and academic (died 2011)
Marcel Trudel was a Canadian historian, university professor (1947–1982) and author who published more than 40 books on the history of New France. He brought academic rigour to an area that had been marked by nationalistic and religious biases. His work was part of the marked changes to Quebec society during the Quiet Revolution. Trudel's work has been honoured with major awards, including the Governor General's Literary Award for French Non-Fiction in 1966, and a second nomination for the award in 1987.
29/05/1915
Karl Münchinger, German conductor and composer (died 1990)
Karl Münchinger was a German conductor of European classical music. He helped to revive the now-ubiquitous Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel, through recording it with his Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in 1960. Münchinger is also noted for restoring baroque traditions to the interpretation of Bach's oeuvre, his greatest musical love — moderate-sized forces, judicious ornamentation, and rhythmic sprightliness, though not on "period instruments".
29/05/1914
Stacy Keach Sr., American actor (died 2003)
Walter Stacy Keach Sr. was an American actor whose screen career spanned more than five decades.
Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese-Indian mountaineer (died 1986)
Tenzing Norgay, born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. On 29 May 1953, he and Edmund Hillary were the first confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, as part of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition. Time named Norgay one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
29/05/1913
Tony Zale, American boxer (died 1997)
Anthony Florian Zaleski, known professionally as Tony Zale, was an American boxer. Zale was born and raised in Gary, Indiana, a steel town, which gave him his nickname, "Man of Steel", reinforced by his reputation of being able to take fearsome punishment and still rally to win. Zale, who held the world middleweight title multiple times, was known as a crafty boxer and punishing body puncher who wore his opponents down before knocking them out. In 1990, Zale was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President George. H. W. Bush.
29/05/1910
Aleksandr Laktionov, Soviet painter (died 1972)
Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov was a Socialist realism painter in the post-war Soviet Union. His meticulous and almost photo-real style was popular, but courted controversy among art critics and other artists.
Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter and politician (died 1978)
Ralph Harold Metcalfe Sr. was an American track and field sprinter and politician. He jointly held the world record in the 100-meter dash and placed second in that event in two Olympics, first to Eddie Tolan in 1932 at Los Angeles and then to Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Metcalfe won four Olympic medals and was regarded as the world's fastest human in 1934 and 1935.
29/05/1908
Diana Morgan, Welsh-English playwright and screenwriter (died 1996)
Mary Diana Morgan was a Welsh playwright, screenwriter and novelist, mostly associated with her work for Ealing Studios as Diana Morgan. She was married to fellow screenwriter Robert MacDermot.
29/05/1907
Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician (died 2002)
Hartland de Montarville Molson, was an Anglo-Quebecer statesman, Canadian senator, military aviator, and a member of the Molson family of brewers.
29/05/1906
T. H. White, Indian-English author (died 1964)
Terence Hanbury "Tim" White was an English writer. He is best known for his Arthurian novels, which were published together in 1958 as The Once and Future King. One of his best known is the first of the series, The Sword in the Stone, which was published as a stand-alone book in 1938.
29/05/1905
Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright (died 1994)
Sebastian Lewis Shaw was an English actor, theatre director, novelist, playwright and poet. During his seven-decade career, he appeared in dozens of stage performances and more than 40 film and television productions.
29/05/1904
Hubert Opperman, Australian cyclist and politician (died 1996)
Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman, OBE, referred to as Oppy by Australian and French crowds, was an Australian cyclist and politician, whose endurance cycling feats in the 1920s and 1930s earned him international acclaim.
29/05/1903
Bob Hope, English-American actor, singer, and producer (died 2003)
Lester Townes "Bob" Hope was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours. He appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, starring in 54, including a series of seven Road to ... musical comedy films with Bing Crosby as his partner. He reached his 100th birthday 59 days before he died in 2003.
29/05/1902
Harry Kadwell, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 1999)
Henry James Kadwell was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative fullback who later moved to the-halves, he played his club football for South Sydney with whom he won the 1927 and 1928 NSWRFL premierships, and later St. George whom he captain-coached to the 1933 grand final.
29/05/1899
Douglas Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Defence (died 1987)
Douglas Charles Abbott was a Canadian Member of Parliament, federal Cabinet Minister, and justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Abbott's appointment directly from the Cabinet of Canada as Finance Minister to the Supreme Court was one of the most controversial in the Supreme Court's history.
29/05/1897
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Czech-American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1957)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian composer and conductor, who left Europe in the mid-1930s and later adopted US nationality. A child prodigy, he became one of the most important and influential composers in Hollywood history. He was a noted pianist and composer of classical music, along with music for Hollywood films, and the first composer of international stature to write Hollywood scores.
29/05/1894
Beatrice Lillie, Canadian-English actress, singer and writer (died 1989)
Beatrice Gladys Lillie, Lady Peel was a Canadian-born British actress, singer and comedy performer.
Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1969)
Josef von Sternberg was an Austrian-American filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era, during which he worked with most of the major Hollywood studios. He is best known for his film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich in the 1930s, including the highly regarded Paramount/UFA production The Blue Angel (1930). He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, for Morocco (1930) and Shanghai Express (1932).
29/05/1893
Max Brand, American journalist and author (died 1944)
Frederick Schiller Faust was an American writer known primarily for his Western stories using the pseudonym Max Brand. As Max Brand, he also created the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare for a series of pulp fiction stories. His Kildare character was subsequently featured over several decades in other media, including a series of American theatrical movies by Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a radio series, two television series, and comics. Faust's other pseudonyms include George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, Peter Dawson, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Henry Morland, George Challis, and Frederick Frost. He also wrote under his real name. As George Challis, Faust wrote the "Tizzo the Firebrand" series for Argosy magazine. The Tizzo saga was a series of historical swashbuckler stories, featuring the titular warrior, set in Renaissance Italy.
29/05/1892
Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet and author (died 1938)
Alfonsina Carolina Storni was a Swiss-Argentine poet and playwright of the modernist period.
29/05/1880
Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (died 1936)
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history. He is best known for his two-volume work The Decline of the West, published in 1918 and 1922, covering human history. Spengler's model of history postulates that human cultures and civilizations are akin to biological entities, each with a limited, predictable, and deterministic lifespan. He predicted that Western civilization would enter the period of pre‑death emergency around the year 2000, which would lead to 200 years of Caesarism before Western civilization's final collapse.
29/05/1874
G. K. Chesterton, English essayist, poet, and playwright (died 1936)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English Christian apologist writer. Chesterton's wit, paradoxical style, and defence of tradition made him a dominant figure in early 20th-century literature.
29/05/1873
Rudolf Tobias, Estonian organist and composer (died 1918)
Rudolf Tobias was the first Estonian professional composer, as well as a professional organist. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. His compositions include among others piano works, string quartets and an oratorio, Des Jona Sendung.
29/05/1871
Clark Voorhees, American painter (died 1933)
Clark Greenwood Voorhees was an American Impressionist and Tonalist landscape painter and one of the founders of the Old Lyme Art Colony.
29/05/1860
Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (died 1909)
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also had a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. He is best known for his piano works that incorporate Spanish folk music idioms and elements. His compositions, particularly his suite Iberia (1905–1908), are considered masterpieces and have influenced both classical music and Spanish nationalism in music. Isaac Albéniz was close to the Generation of '98.
29/05/1823
John H. Balsley, American carpenter and inventor (died 1895)
John H. Balsley was a master carpenter and inventor, inventing a practical folding wooden stepladder and receiving the first U.S. patent issued for a safety stepladder in the year.
29/05/1797
Louise-Adéone Drölling, French painter (died 1836)
Louise-Adéone Drölling, also known as Madame Joubert was a French painter and draughtswoman. Both her father, Martin Drolling, and her older brother, Michel Martin Drolling, were celebrated artists in their day.
29/05/1794
Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer and selenographer (died 1874)
Johann Heinrich von Mädler was a German astronomer.
29/05/1780
Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist (died 1855)
Henri Braconnot was a French chemist and pharmacist.
29/05/1736
Patrick Henry, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (died 1799)
Patrick Henry was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.
29/05/1730
Jackson of Exeter, English organist and composer (died 1803)
William Jackson, referred to as Jackson of Exeter, was an English organist and composer.
29/05/1722
James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish soldier and politician (died 1773)
Lieutenant-General James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, PC (Ire), styled Lord Offaly until 1743 and known as The Earl of Kildare between 1743 and 1761 and as The Marquess of Kildare between 1761 and 1766, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, soldier and politician.
29/05/1716
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French zoologist and mineralogist (died 1800)
Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton was a French naturalist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.
29/05/1675
Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (died 1715)
Humphry Ditton was an English mathematician. He was the author of several influential works.
29/05/1630
Charles II of England (died 1685)
Charles II was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.
29/05/1627
Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French princess (died 1693)
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, known as La Grande Mademoiselle, was the only daughter of Gaston d'Orléans with his first wife, Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier. One of the greatest heiresses in history, she died unmarried and childless, leaving her vast fortune to her cousin Philippe I, Duke of Orléans. After a string of proposals from various members of European ruling families, including Charles II of England, Afonso VI of Portugal, and Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy, she eventually fell in love with the courtier Antoine Nompar de Caumont and scandalised the court of France when she asked Louis XIV for permission to marry him, as such a union was viewed as a mésalliance. She is best remembered for her role in the Fronde, for bringing the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully to the king's court, and for her Mémoires.
29/05/1594
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (died 1632)
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim was a German field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years' War. A supporter of the Catholic League, he was mortally wounded during the Battle of Lützen fighting the Protestant forces under Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus.
29/05/1568
Virginia de' Medici, Italian princess (died 1615)
Virginia de' Medici was an Italian princess, a member of the House of Medici and by marriage Duchess of Modena and Reggio.
29/05/1555
George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes, English general and administrator (died 1629)
George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes, known as Sir George Carew between 1586 and 1605 and as The Lord Carew between 1605 and 1626, served under Elizabeth I during the Tudor conquest of Ireland and was appointed President of Munster. He was an authority on heraldry and the author of Carew's Scroll of Arms 1588, Collected from Churches in Devonshire etc., with Additions from Joseph Holland's Collection of Arms 1579.
29/05/1504
Antun Vrančić, Croatian archbishop (died 1573)
Antun Vrančić or Antonio Veranzio was a Croatian prelate, writer, diplomat and Archbishop of Esztergom in the 16th century. Antun Vrančić was from the Dalmatian town of Šibenik, then part of the Republic of Venice. Vrančić is also known under his Latinized name Antonius Verantius, while Hungarian documents since the 19th century refer to him as Verancsics Antal.
29/05/1443
Victor, Duke of Münsterberg, Reichsgraf, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava, Count of Glatz (died 1500)
Victor, Duke of Münsterberg also: Victor, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava; Czech: Viktorin z Minsterberka; was an Imperial Count from 1459 and Count of Kladsko. From 1462 until his death, he was Duke of Münsterberg, and from 1465 to 1485 Duke of Opava.
29/05/1421
Charles, Prince of Viana (died 1461)
Charles, Prince of Viana, sometimes called Charles IV of Navarre, was the eldest son of King John II of Aragon and Queen Blanche I of Navarre. He pre-deceased his father.