October 29th, 1965

Born on October 29th, 1965

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, 1965

29

Yasutomo Nagai

Japanese motorcycle racer (1965-1995)

*October 29th, 1965, Koshigaya †September 12th, 1995, Assen

58

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta

Argentine economist and politician

*October 29th, 1965, Buenos Aires

58

Andrew Ettingshausen

Australian rugby league footballer

*October 29th, 1965, Sutherland

41

Chen Xiaoxu

Chinese actress (1965–2007)

*October 29th, 1965, Anshan †May 13th, 2007, Shenzhen

58

Petronella Barker

British-born Norwegian actress

*October 29th, 1965, Colchester

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46

Toby Smith

British musician (1970-2017)

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

55

Johann Olav Koss

Norwegian speed skater

*October 29th, 1968, Drammen Municipality

52

Jean-Pierre Martins

French actor and musician

*October 29th, 1971, Paris

52

Winona Ryder

American actress

*October 29th, 1971, Winona

53

Edwin van der Sar

Dutch association football player

*October 29th, 1970, Voorhout

73

Abdullah Gül

11th President of Turkey

*October 29th, 1950, Kayseri

56

Rufus Sewell

British actor (born 1967)

*October 29th, 1967, Twickenham

71

Udo Schmuck

German association football player and manager

*October 29th, 1952, Frankenthal

78

Melba Moore

American singer, and actress

*October 29th, 1945, New York City

66

Dan Castellaneta

American actor (born 1957)

*October 29th, 1957, Chicago

61

John Magufuli

5th President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021

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

44

R. L. Ryan

American actor (1946-1991)

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

60

Christophe Alévêque

French humorist

*October 29th, 1963, Le Creusot

50

Tom Baxter

British singer-songwriter

*October 29th, 1973, Ipswich

40

Malik Fathi

German footballer

*October 29th, 1983, West Berlin

50

Vonetta Flowers

Bobsledder

*October 29th, 1973, Birmingham

59

Yasmin Le Bon

English model

*October 29th, 1964, Oxford

79

Denny Laine

British rock musician (1944–2023)

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

85

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

24th president of Liberia

*October 29th, 1938, Monrovia

27

Astrid S

Norwegian singer and songwriter

*October 29th, 1996, Berkåk

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59

Martin Sonneborn

German satirist, journalist and politician

*May 15th, 1965, Göttingen

59

Claudine Loquen

French painter and sculptor

*February 22nd, 1965, Sainte-Adresse

59

Jan Tore Sanner

Norwegian politician

*May 6th, 1965, Bærum Municipality

58

J. K. Rowling

British author and philanthropist (born 1965)

*July 31st, 1965, Yate

58

Norbert Röttgen

German politician (CDU)

*July 2nd, 1965, Meckenheim

59

Hansi Flick

German association football player and manager

*February 24th, 1965, Heidelberg

59

Thomas Kemmerich

German politician

*February 20th, 1965, Aachen

58

Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen

Danish badminton player and administrator

*September 20th, 1965, Esbønderup

58

Dmitry Medvedev

President of Russia from 2008 to 2012

*September 14th, 1965, Saint Petersburg

58

Andreas Thom

German association football player and manager

*September 7th, 1965, Rüdersdorf bei Berlin

58

Karl-Heinz Riedle

German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1965, Weiler-Simmerberg

58

Karin Beier

German theatre director

*December 14th, 1965, Cologne

59

Gunnar Beck

German EU lawyer and legal philosopher

*May 1st, 1965, Düsseldorf

59

Inger Lise Hegge

Norwegian cross-country skier

*January 6th, 1965, Steinkjer Municipality

48

Wolfgang Herrndorf

German novelist, painter, and illustrator (1965-2013)

*June 12th, 1965, Hamburg †August 26th, 2013, Berlin

58

Eva Christiane Cancik-Kirschbaum

German assyriologist

*August 29th, 1965, Tübingen

59

Sven Demandt

German footballer

*February 13th, 1965, Cologne

53

Jörg Stübner

German footballer (1965–2019)

*July 23rd, 1965, Freiberg †June 24th, 2019, Dresden

59

Brooke Shields

American actress (born 1965)

*May 31st, 1965, Manhattan

58

Shah Rukh Khan

Indian actor, producer and television personality

*November 2nd, 1965, New Delhi

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No: With 365 days 1965 is a normal year and no leap year.

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