October 29th, 1954

Born on October 29th, 1954

Age in days, weeks and months
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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, 1954

69

Lee Child

British thriller writer

*October 29th, 1954, Coventry

69

Paul Di Filippo

American science fiction writer (born 1954)

*October 29th, 1954, Rhode Island

69

Herman Frazier

American track and field athlete, college athletics administrator

*October 29th, 1954, Philadelphia

69

Matthias Zschokke

Swiss writer

*October 29th, 1954, Bern

69

Siegrun Siegl

East German athlete

*October 29th, 1954, Apolda

69

Ruslan Aushev

Russian politician and general

*October 29th, 1954, Saumalkol (North Kazakhstan)

69

Scott Jaeck

American actor

*October 29th, 1954, Milwaukee

69

Tomoko Ai

Japanese actress

*October 29th, 1954, Kawasaki

43

Alois Estermann

Colonel, 31st Commander of the Pontifical Swiss Guard

*October 29th, 1954, Gunzwil †May 4th, 1998, Vatican City

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Who's birthday is on October 29th?

71

Udo Schmuck

German association football player and manager

*October 29th, 1952, Frankenthal

73

Abdullah Gül

11th President of Turkey

*October 29th, 1950, Kayseri

46

Toby Smith

British musician (1970-2017)

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

66

Dan Castellaneta

American actor (born 1957)

*October 29th, 1957, Chicago

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

79

Denny Laine

British rock musician (1944–2023)

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

52

Jean-Pierre Martins

French actor and musician

*October 29th, 1971, Paris

61

John Magufuli

5th President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021

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

85

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

24th president of Liberia

*October 29th, 1938, Monrovia

52

Winona Ryder

American actress

*October 29th, 1971, Winona County

76

Richard Dreyfuss

American actor

*October 29th, 1947, Brooklyn

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

64

Fritz Weege

German art historian and archaeologist (1880-1945)

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

64

Tamar Baruch

Dutch actress

*October 29th, 1959, Laren

52

Kevin DuBrow

American singer (1955–2007)

*October 29th, 1955, Hollywood †November 19th, 2007, Las Vegas

30

Rino Gaetano

Italian recording artist; singer-songwriter

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

40

Malik Fathi

German footballer

*October 29th, 1983, West Berlin

70

Denis Potvin

Canadian ice hockey player

*October 29th, 1953, Hull

Same year
Born in 1954

69

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

*August 12th, 1954, Rouen

69

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

*July 17th, 1954, Eimsbüttel

69

Lim Swee Say

Former Singaporean politician

*July 13th, 1954, Singapore

70

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

70

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President of the Republic of Turkey since 2014

*February 26th, 1954, Kasımpaşa

69

Lorraine Bracco

American actress

*October 2nd, 1954, Brooklyn

70

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

67

Shinzō Abe

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954-2022)

*September 21st, 1954, Shinjuku †July 8th, 2022, Nara Medical University Hospital

58

Hugo Chávez

President of Venezuela, 1999–2002 and 2002–2013

*July 28th, 1954, Sabaneta †March 5th, 2013, Hospital Militar de Caracas

69

Uli Stielike

German association football player and manager

*November 15th, 1954, Ketsch

69

Karl-Heinz Körbel

German association football player and manager

*December 1st, 1954, Dossenheim

69

Sven-Erik Bucht

Swedish politician

*December 28th, 1954, Karungi

70

Eckhardt Rehberg

German politician

*April 3rd, 1954, Ribnitz-Damgarten

69

Emir Kusturica

Bosnian film director, actor and musician

*November 24th, 1954, Sarajevo

69

Caroline Cossey

English model and actress

*August 31st, 1954, Brooke

69

Kathy Kinney

American actress

*November 3rd, 1954, Stevens Point

69

Petra Uhlig

East German handball player

*July 22nd, 1954, Penig

69

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus since 1994

*August 30th, 1954, Kopyś

70

Isabelle McEwen

Canadian film director

*January 6th, 1954, Montreal

69

Renate Franz

German journalist and sport historian

*November 18th, 1954, Solingen

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No: With 365 days 1954 is a normal year and no leap year.

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