April 29th, 1955

Born on April 29th, 1955

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on April 29th?

April 29th, 2011

Watched by a worldwide television audience of tens of millions, Prince William and Catherine Middleton were married at Westminster Abbey in London.

April 29th, 2006

Cyclone Mala made landfall near Thandwe, Myanmar, causing 37 deaths.

April 29th, 1997

The Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons in the 87 countries that had ratified the convention.

April 29th, 1992

The acquittal of policemen who had beaten African-American motorist Rodney King sparked six days of civil unrest in Los Angeles (damage pictured), during which 63 people were killed.

April 29th, 1991

A powerful tropical cyclone struck Chittagong, Bangladesh, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving up to 10 million homeless across the region.

April 29th, 1975

Vietnam War: North Vietnam concluded its East Sea Campaign by capturing all of the Spratly Islands held by South Vietnam.

April 29th, 1970

Vietnam War: South Vietnamese forces began the Cambodian campaign, aiming to attack North Vietnamese jungle bases.

April 29th, 1968

The controversial Broadway musical Hair, a product of the counterculture of the 1960s, opened, with its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

April 29th, 1945

World War II: The U.S. Army liberated Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, and killed German prisoners of war.

April 29th, 1944

Second World War: British agent Nancy Wake parachuted into Auvergne, France, becoming a liaison between the Special Operations Executive and the local Maquis group.

April 29th, 1910

Parliament passed the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the express intent of redistributing wealth.

April 29th, 1903

A rockslide buried part of the Canadian mining town of Frank under 110 million tonnes of rock, killing around 70 people.

April 29th, 1863

Confederate forts at Grand Gulf survived a bombardment by Union gunboats, preventing Ulysses S. Grant's troops from crossing the Mississippi River at that point.

April 29th, 1826

In Parramatta, Australia, Scottish astronomer James Dunlop discovered Centaurus A (pictured), which was later recognised as one of the nearest radio galaxies to Earth.

April 29th, 1770

On his first voyage, British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour (pictured) landed at Botany Bay, making the first recorded European landfall on the eastern coast of Australia.

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

Born on April 29th, 1955

60

Klaus Siebert

East German biathlete

*April 29th, 1955, Schlettau †April 24th, 2016, Altenberg

67

Leslie Jordan

American actor

*April 29th, 1955, Memphis †October 24th, 2022, Hollywood

68

Kate Mulgrew

American actress

*April 29th, 1955, Dubuque

68

Richard Epcar

American voice actor

*April 29th, 1955, Denver

68

Larisa Udovichenko

Soviet and Russian actress

*April 29th, 1955, Vienna

68

Gino Quilico

Canadian opera singer

*April 29th, 1955, New York City

63

Georg Funke

German manager

*April 29th, 1955, Gelsenkirchen †June 5th, 2018

68

Yūko Tanaka

Japanese actress

*April 29th, 1955, Ikeda

Same Day
Who's birthday is on April 29th?

66

Daniel Day-Lewis

British-Irish actor

*April 29th, 1957, Kensington

49

Anggun

Indonesian-born French singer-songwriter and television personality

*April 29th, 1974, Jakarta

71

David Icke

English conspiracy theorist, author, broadcaster, and former football player

*April 29th, 1952, Leicester

65

Michelle Pfeiffer

American actress

*April 29th, 1958, Santa Ana

55

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

Croatian politician and diplomat

*April 29th, 1968, Rijeka

42

Juliette Ah-Wan

Badminton player

*April 29th, 1981, Victoria

69

Jerry Seinfeld

American comedian and actor

*April 29th, 1954, Brooklyn

67

Jean-Louis Gagnaire

French politician

*April 29th, 1956, Saint-Étienne

53

Uma Thurman

American actress (born 1970)

*April 29th, 1970, Boston

25

Ingrid Syrstad Engen

Norwegian association football player

*April 29th, 1998, Melhus Municipality

71

Barbara Hendricks

German SPD politician

*April 29th, 1952, Kleve

62

Paul Holmes

New Zealand broadcaster

*April 29th, 1950, Hastings †February 1st, 2013, Hastings

80

Dominique Labourier

French actress

*April 29th, 1943, Paris

74

André Wilms

French actor

*April 29th, 1947, Strasbourg †February 9th, 2022, Paris

53

Andre Agassi

American tennis player (born 1970)

*April 29th, 1970, Las Vegas

69

Mo Brooks

American politician (born 1954)

*April 29th, 1954, Charleston

40

Semih Şentürk

Turkish footballer

*April 29th, 1983, İzmir

58

Henri Poincaré

French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)

*April 29th, 1854, Nancy †July 17th, 1912, Paris

87

Jean Rochefort

French actor

*April 29th, 1930, 20th arrondissement of Paris †October 9th, 2017, 14th arrondissement of Paris

66

Hermann Scheer

German politician (1944-2010)

*April 29th, 1944, Wehrheim †October 14th, 2010, Berlin

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Born in 1955

63

Pete Shelley

British singer-songwriter (1955–2018)

*April 17th, 1955, Leigh †December 6th, 2018, Tallinn

68

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

*October 28th, 1955, Seattle

68

Guillermo Lasso

47 president of Ecuador

*November 16th, 1955, Guayaquil

68

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)

*June 8th, 1955, London

56

Steve Jobs

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)

*February 24th, 1955, San Francisco †October 5th, 2011, Palo Alto

69

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

68

Steve Jones

English guitarist

*September 3rd, 1955, Shepherd's Bush

69

Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

61

Bill Paxton

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

*May 17th, 1955, Fort Worth †February 25th, 2017, Los Angeles

68

Caroline Loeb

French actress and singer

*October 5th, 1955, Neuilly-sur-Seine

68

Saw Swee Leong

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1955, Penang

69

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

61

Jimmy LaFave

American musician

*July 12th, 1955, Wills Point †May 21st, 2017, Austin

69

Steve Mann

British chemist

*April 1st, 1955, Leeds

69

Jair Bolsonaro

President of Brazil from 2019 to 2022

*March 21st, 1955, Glicério

68

Adolf Sauerland

German politician

*June 4th, 1955, Duisburg

43

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

69

Martin Jehne

German historian of classical antiquity

*January 27th, 1955, Hamburg

68

Isabelle Adjani

French actress

*June 27th, 1955, 17th arrondissement of Paris

68

Whoopi Goldberg

American actress, comedian, author and television personality

*November 13th, 1955, New York City

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1955 is a normal year and no leap year.

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