October 29th, 1947

Born on October 29th, 1947

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What happened on October 29th?

October 29th, 1883

The San Francisco Mint signed a contract to produce the Kalākaua coinage for the Kingdom of Hawaii.

October 29th, 2013

The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.

October 29th, 2012

Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, made landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion in damages, becoming the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.

October 29th, 1999

About 10,000 people died when a tropical cyclone made landfall in the Indian state of Odisha near the city of Bhubaneswar.

October 29th, 1998

At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn (pictured) returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission.

October 29th, 1991

Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra.

October 29th, 1986

British prime minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25, one of Britain's busiest motorways.

October 29th, 1960

A C-46 airliner carrying the Cal Poly Mustangs football team crashed during takeoff from Toledo Express Airport in Ohio, U.S., resulting in 22 deaths.

October 29th, 1956

Israeli Border Police massacred 48 Arab citizens of Kafr Qasim, among them women and children who were returning from work.

October 29th, 1955

An explosion, likely caused by a World War II–era naval mine, capsized the Soviet ship Novorossiysk in the harbor of Sevastopol, with the loss of 608 men.

October 29th, 1948

Arab–Israeli War: The Israel Defense Forces massacred at least 52 villagers while capturing the Palestinian Arab village of Safsaf.

October 29th, 1868

The Nanbu clan of Honshu surrendered to imperial forces during the Boshin War.

October 29th, 1863

American Civil War: The Battle of Wauhatchie, one of the few night battles of the war, concluded with the Union Army opening a supply line to troops in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

October 29th, 1831

Rioting broke out in Bristol, England, after the Second Reform Bill failed to pass parliament, causing 250 casualties and £300,000 of damage (pictured).

October 29th, 1792

William Robert Broughton, a member of George Vancouver's expedition, observed a peak in the present-day U.S. state of Oregon and named it Mount Hood after British admiral Samuel Hood.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 29th

Born on October 29th, 1947

76

Richard Dreyfuss

American actor

*October 29th, 1947, Brooklyn

70

Henri Michel

French association football player and manager (1947-2018)

*October 29th, 1947, Aix-en-Provence †April 24th, 2018, Gardanne

76

Helen Coonan

Australian politician; Senator for New South Wales

*October 29th, 1947, Mangoplah

76

Coline Serreau

French actress, film director and writer

*October 29th, 1947, Paris

76

Robert Service

British historian

*October 29th, 1947, United Kingdom

76

Wenceslao López Martínez

Asturian politician

*October 29th, 1947, Oviedo

76

Þorsteinn Pálsson

Prime Minister of Iceland

*October 29th, 1947, Selfoss

71

Paul McAuley

British environmental activist and Catholic missionary

*October 29th, 1947, Portsmouth †April 2nd, 2019, Iquitos

54

Kemal Kurt

German writer (1947-2002)

*October 29th, 1947, Çorlu †October 21st, 2002, Berlin

76

Mary Charlotte Wilcox

Canadian actress

*October 29th, 1947, St. Thomas

76

Stephan Schmidheiny

Swiss businessman

*October 29th, 1947, St. Gallen

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Who's birthday is on October 29th?

44

R. L. Ryan

American actor (1946-1991)

*October 29th, 1946, Pennsylvania †March 22nd, 1991, Pennsylvania

78

Melba Moore

American singer, and actress

*October 29th, 1945, New York City

73

Abdullah Gül

11th President of Turkey

*October 29th, 1950, Kayseri

79

Denny Laine

British rock musician (1944–2023)

*October 29th, 1944, Tyseley †December 5th, 2023, Naples

71

Udo Schmuck

German association football player and manager

*October 29th, 1952, Frankenthal

46

Toby Smith

British musician (1970-2017)

*October 29th, 1970, London †April 11th, 2017, London

85

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

24th president of Liberia

*October 29th, 1938, Monrovia

73

Peter Green

British blues rock guitarist (1946–2020)

*October 29th, 1946, London †July 25th, 2020, Canvey Island

75

Frans de Waal

Dutch primatologist and ethologist (1948–2024)

*October 29th, 1948, 's-Hertogenbosch †March 14th, 2024, Atlanta

52

Jean-Pierre Martins

French actor and musician

*October 29th, 1971, Paris

66

Dan Castellaneta

American actor (born 1957)

*October 29th, 1957, Chicago

30

Rino Gaetano

Italian recording artist; singer-songwriter

*October 29th, 1950, Crotone †June 2nd, 1981, Rome

52

Winona Ryder

American actress

*October 29th, 1971, Winona County

64

Fritz Weege

German art historian and archaeologist (1880-1945)

*October 29th, 1880, Frankfurt †August 20th, 1945, Wrocław

75

Kate Jackson

American actress

*October 29th, 1948, Birmingham

55

Johann Olav Koss

Norwegian speed skater

*October 29th, 1968, Drammen Municipality

53

Edwin van der Sar

Dutch association football player

*October 29th, 1970, Voorhout

75

Thomas Thieme

German actor

*October 29th, 1948, Weimar

61

John Magufuli

5th President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021

*October 29th, 1959, Chato District †March 17th, 2021, Dar es Salaam

40

Malik Fathi

German footballer

*October 29th, 1983, West Berlin

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Born in 1947

76

Rodney Williams

Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)

*November 2nd, 1947, Swetes

76

Hillary Clinton

American politician and diplomat (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

77

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

69

Gregg Allman

American musician

*December 8th, 1947, Saint Thomas Hospital †May 27th, 2017, Richmond Hill

76

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

German association football player and manager

*July 19th, 1947, Dresden

69

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

*January 8th, 1947, Brixton †January 10th, 2016, Manhattan

77

Wiranto

Indonesian politician

*April 4th, 1947, Yogyakarta City

76

Stephen King

American writer (born 1947)

*September 21st, 1947, Portland

76

Angry Anderson

Australian rock singer

*August 5th, 1947, Melbourne

76

Kjell Magne Bondevik

33rd Prime Minister of Norway

*September 3rd, 1947, Molde Municipality

76

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)

*July 30th, 1947, Thal

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

77

Mitt Romney

United States Senator from Utah since 2019

*March 12th, 1947, Detroit

76

Dilma Rousseff

President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 (born 1947)

*December 14th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

76

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

*July 30th, 1947, Paris

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

68

Johan Cruyff

Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)

*April 25th, 1947, Amsterdam †March 24th, 2016, Barcelona

77

Glenn Close

American actress

*March 19th, 1947, Greenwich

77

Edward James Olmos

American actor

*February 24th, 1947, Los Angeles

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No: With 365 days 1947 is a normal year and no leap year.

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