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Born :04/06/1929"Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster
Born :01/15/1929"Queen Ida" Guillory, Ziadaco music
Born :07/18/1929"Screamin Jay" Hawkins, Cleveland, rocker (I Put a Spell on You)
Born :08/27/1929Ad J Hermes, Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (KVP/CDA)
Born :04/15/1929Adrian Cadbury, director (Bank of England)
Born :05/16/1929Adrienne Cecile Rich, Balt Md, feminist writer (Diamond Cutters)
Born :07/04/1929Al Davis, Brocton Mass, NFL team owner (LA Raiders)
Born :12/13/1929Albert Paulsen, Guayaquil Ecuador, actor (Doctors' Hospital)
Born :06/26/1929Alexander Fenton, CEO (Euro Ethnological Research Center in Edinburgh)
Born :07/26/1929Alexis Weissenberg, Sofia Bulgaria, pianist (Levintritt-1948)
Born :01/16/1929Allard Lowenstein, radical (Students for Democratic Action)
Born :08/11/1929Alun Hoddinott, Bargoed Wales, composer (Floriture)
Born :01/04/1929Amitai W Etzioni, US sociologist (Active Society)
Born :07/23/1929Andrew Rutherford, warden (Goldsmith's College)
Born :09/05/1929Andrian G Nikolayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok III Soyuz 9)
Born :05/20/1929Andr‚ Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet
Born :04/06/1929Andr‚ Previn, Berlin Germany, conductor (London Symphony)/pianist
Born :06/12/1929Anne Frank, Holland, Nazi victim/diarist (Diary of Anne Frank)
Born :09/20/1929Anne Meara, Bkln NY comedian/actress (Stiller & Meara, Archie's Place)
Born :08/06/1929Anneliese Kuppers, German FR, equestrian dressage (Oly-silver-1956)
Born :05/09/1929Anthony Lloyd, Lord Justice of Appeal
Born :09/10/1929Arnold Palmer, golfer (PGA Golfer of Year 1960, 1962)
Born :01/20/1929Arte Johnson, Chicago Ill, comedian (Laugh-in, Don't Call Me Charlie)
Born :05/04/1929Audrey Hepburn, Brussels Belg, (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady)
Born :10/19/1929Balbir Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1948-56)
Born :12/30/1929Barbara Nichols, Jamaica NY, actress (Dear Heart, Disorderly Orderly)
Born :08/22/1929Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British (Lab) spokesperson on Home Affairs
Born :03/12/1929Bernard Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-silver-1956)
Born :03/04/1929Bernard Haitink, Amsterdam Neth, conductor (London Phil Orch 1969-78)
Born :11/28/1929Berry Gordy Jr, Detroit, record company owner (Motown)
Born :08/03/1929Bethel Leslie, NYC, entertainer (Capt Newman MD, Rabbit Trap)
Born :11/01/1929Betsy Palmer, E Chicago Ind, actress (Mr Roberts, Friday the 13th)
Born :11/26/1929Betta St John, Hawthorne Calif, actress (Corridors of Blood)
Born :05/25/1929Beverly Sills, [Belle "Bubbles" Miriam Silverman], Bkln NY, soprano
Born :02/09/1929Bill Barrett, (Rep-R-Nebraska)
Born :10/16/1929Bill Green, (Rep-R-NY, 1978- )
Born :12/25/1929Billy Horton, rocker (The Silhouettes-Get a Job)
Born :01/14/1929Billy Walker, Ralls Tx, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
Born :12/30/1929Bob Bouma, TV host
Born :04/20/1929Bob Braun, Ludlow Ky, singer (Dotty Mack Show)
Born :09/29/1929Bob Newhart, Oak Park Ill, actor/comedian (Bob Newhart Show)
Born :09/05/1929Bob Newhart, Oak Park Ill, comedian (Bob Newhart Show, Newhart)
Born :05/10/1929Brian Corby, CEO (Prudential)
Born :08/12/1929Buck Owens, Sherman Texas, country singer (Hee Haw)
Born :05/12/1929Burt Bacharach, composer (I'll Never Fall in Love Again)
Born :11/11/1929Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author (Death of Artemio Cruz)
Born :04/28/1929Carolyn Jones, Amarillo Texas, actress (Morticia-Addams Family)
Born :04/02/1929Catherine Gaskin, romantic novelist (Fiona, Coporation Wife)
Born :02/17/1929Chaim Potok, novelist (Promise)
Born :08/13/1929Charles Lyon, gen-sect (Transport Salaried Staffs Association)
Born :05/21/1929Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist (Lincoln Center)
Born :03/18/1929Christa Wolf, German proza‹ste
Born :07/30/1929Christine McGuire, Middletown Oh singer (McGuire Sisters-Sugartime)
Born :09/08/1929Christoph von Dohn nyi, Berlin Germany, conductor/pianist
Born :02/25/1929Christopher George, Royal Oak Minn, actor (Rat Patrol, Immortal)
Born :12/13/1929Christopher Plummer, Toronto, actor (Sound of Music, Doll's House)
Born :06/03/1929Chuck Barris, Phila, TV game show producer/host (Gong Show)
Born :01/28/1929Claes Oldenburg, US Pop artist (Happenings, Alphabet/Good Humor)
Born :06/14/1929Cy Coleman, [Seymour Kaufman], songwriter (Witchcraft, Sweet Charity)
Born :09/16/1929Dale E Kildee, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1977- )
Born :12/10/1929Dan Blocker, Texas, actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza)
Born :06/23/1929Dave King, Twickenham England, comedian (Kraft Music Hall)
Born :12/01/1929David Doyle, actor (Charley's Angels, Pursuit of Happiness)
Born :05/20/1929David Hedison, [Ara Heditsian], Providence RI, actor (Licence to Kill)
Born :09/11/1929David S Broder, Chicago Hgts Ill, journalist (Pulitzer 1973)
Born :05/25/1929David S Ruder, 23rd chairman of Security & Exchange Commission
Born :03/06/1929David Sheppard, bishop (Liverpool, England)
Born :11/20/1929Dick Clark, Mt Vernon NY, TV host (American Bandstand)
Born :12/01/1929Dick Shawn, Buffalo NY, actor (Producers, Maid to Order, Angel)
Born :07/18/1929Dick Totten Button, Englewood NJ, figure skater (Olympic-gold-48, 52)
Born :12/23/1929Dick Weber, pro bowler (16, 300 games)
Born :05/07/1929Dick Williams, baseball player, manager (including Seattle 1986-87)
Born :10/28/1929Dody Goodman, Columbus Ohio, actress (Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan)
Born :11/29/1929Don January, pro golfer (1976 Vardon Trophy)
Born :08/07/1929Don Larsen, pitcher (NY Yankees), on what must have been a perfect day
Born :07/31/1929Don Murray, Calif, actor (Bus Stop, Advise & Consent, Endless Love)
Born :09/30/1929Dorothee S”lle-Nipperdey, German theologist (Politician Nachtgebet)
Born :10/22/1929Dory Previn, pop singer (Love Be My Cover)
Born :01/07/1929Douglas Kiker, NBC newsman (1970 Peabody Award)
Born :11/17/1929Edgar White, US, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1952)
Born :11/15/1929Edward Asner, KC Kansas, actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant)
Born :04/19/1929Edward Crook, Detroit Mich, middleweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1960)
Born :11/24/1929Eileen Barton, Bkln, singer (Broadway Open House)
Born :04/17/1929Eileen Stamers-Smith, headmistress (Malvern Girls' College)
Born :05/31/1929Elaine Stewart, actress (Take the High Ground)
Born :01/29/1929Elio Petri, Italy, director (Property theft)
Born :08/27/1929Elizabeta Bagrintseve, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1952)
Born :02/23/1929Elston Howard, Yankee catcher (1st black NY Yankee/1963 AL MVP)
Born :12/01/1929Emily McLaughlin, actress (Jessie-General Hospital)
Born :07/03/1929Eustace Gibbs, vice marshal (Diplomatic Corps)
Born :06/18/1929Eva Bartok, Budapest Hungary, actress (Assassin, Crimson Pirate)
Born :06/26/1929Francesco Cossiga, president of Italy (1985- )
Born :08/17/1929Francis Gary Powers, US spy (USSR captures him in 1959 U-2 incident)
Born :02/28/1929Frank O Gehry, architect (Galleria-Okla City)
Born :04/02/1929Frans H J J Andriessen, Dutch 2nd chamber member (KVP/CDA)
Born :02/05/1929Fred Sinowatz (SP™), Neufeld an der Leitha, chancellor of Austria
Born :10/24/1929George Crumb, Charleston WV, composer (Pulitzer 1968-Echoes of Time)
Born :09/24/1929George McNicol, principal (Aberdeen University)
Born :04/23/1929George Steiner, professor of English
Born :07/01/1929Gerald M Edelman, US biochemist (Nobel 1972)
Born :03/23/1929Gerrit den Braber, composer/producer
Born :02/15/1929Graham Hill, auto racer (1962, 68 international racing champ)
Born :03/06/1929Gnter Kunert, German poet/writer (Kaiser von Hondu)
Born :03/06/1929Hal Miller, British MP
Born :02/10/1929Hallgeir Brenden, Norway, 15K/18K cross country (Oly-gold-1952, 56)
Born :11/11/1929Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German author (Tie Verh”r von Habana)
Born :11/02/1929Harold Farberman, NYC, conductor/composer (Medea)
Born :03/25/1929Harris W Fawell, (Rep-R-IL, 1985- )
Born :05/19/1929Harvey Cox, US theologist (Secular City)
Born :07/27/1929Harvey Fuqua, vocalist (Moonglows-Sincerely)
Born :04/09/1929Harvey Lichtenstein, pres Bkln Academy of Music
Born :12/02/1929Harvey Phillips, Aurora Missouri, tubist (NYC Ballet Orch)
Born :05/03/1929Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral
Born :02/10/1929Henk Heidweiler, Dutch ambassador to Suriname
Born :06/23/1929Henri Pousseur, Malm‚dy Belgium, composer (Homo Habitis)
Born :12/19/1929Herman T M Lauxtermann, Dutch 2nd chamber member (VVD)
Born :07/11/1929Hermann Prey, Berlin Germany, baritone (Wolfram-Tannhaser)
Born :08/14/1929Hewlett Thompson, Bishop of Exeter
Born :03/06/1929Ho Dam, Dutch foreign minister to North Korea (1970-83)
Born :01/01/1929Holling Gustav Vapor, character on Northern Exposure
Born :03/09/1929Hugh D Hoyte, president (Guyana, 1985- )
Born :04/05/1929Hugo Claus, Flemish writer/director (Koele Lover, Sugar)
Born :05/26/1929Hugo Raes, Flemish writer (Horses Jump & Fresh Sea)
Born :06/26/1929Ian Prestt, ornithologist
Born :01/27/1929Ingrid Thulin, Sweden, actress (Cries & Whispers, Damned)
Born :08/27/1929Ira Levin, author (Rosemary's Baby, Sleuth, This Perfect Day)
Born :12/25/1929Irish McCalla, Pawnee City Neb, actress (Sheena Queen of Jungle)
Born :08/28/1929Istv n Kert‚sz, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Budapest Opera 1953-57)
Born :03/13/1929J D Slater, writer
Born :07/27/1929Jack Higgins, [Harry Patterson], novelist
Born :07/28/1929Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 1st lady (1961-63)
Born :01/17/1929Jacques "Jake the Snake" Plante, Qu‚bec, NHL goaltender (#1)
Born :04/08/1929Jacques Brel, Belgium, singer/actor (Pain in the A__)
Born :06/18/1929James Bishop, editor (London News Publications)
Born :10/24/1929James Brosnan, baseball player/writer (Long Season)
Born :03/21/1929James Coco, Bronx NY, actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death)
Born :04/17/1929James Last, bandleader
Born :06/10/1929James McDivitt, Chicago, Brig Gen USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4, Apollo 9)
Born :02/15/1929James Schlesinger, US Secretary of Defense (1973-75)
Born :12/02/1929Jap Boersma, AR-min/director Amsterdam municipality
Born :07/26/1929Jean Shepherd, humorist (Playboy satire Award 1966, 1967, 1969)
Born :06/08/1929Jerry Stiller, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Stiller & Meara, Hairspray)
Born :02/10/1929Jim Whittacker, 1st American to climb Mt Everest
Born :11/04/1929Jimmy Piersall, baseball player (Red Sox, Senators, Indians)
Born :11/30/1929Joan Ganz Cooney, Phoenix Az, TV exec (Children's TV Workshop)
Born :10/28/1929Joan Plowright, England, actress (Brimstone & Treacle)
Born :03/05/1929Joan Shawlee, Forest Hills NY, actress (Prehistoric Women)
Born :04/15/1929Jocelyn Barrow, deputy chair person (British Broadcast Standards)
Born :12/09/1929John Cassavetes, NYC, actor (Dirty Dozen, Rosemary's Baby)
Born :05/16/1929John Conyers Jr, (Rep-D-MI, 1965- )
Born :08/02/1929John Gale, theatrical producer
Born :09/14/1929John Gutfreund
Born :08/02/1929John Hannam, MP
Born :09/07/1929John Milford, Johnstown NY, actor (Lieutenant, Legend of Jesse James)
Born :06/21/1929John Morgan, British ambassador to Mexico
Born :12/12/1929John Osborne, Engld, playwright (Look Back in Anger, Luther-TONY 1964)
Born :01/23/1929John Polanyi, Berlin, Canadian chemist (Nobel 1986)
Born :05/05/1929John S Ragin, Newark NJ, actor (Dr Astin-Quincy ME)
Born :09/17/1929John Stewart-Clark, (C) MEP
Born :05/06/1929John Taylor, bishop (St Albans)/Lord High Almoner to Queen
Born :06/07/1929John Turner, Richmond England, (L) 17th Canadian PM (1984)
Born :06/29/1929Johnny Ace, Memphis, ballad singer (My Song)
Born :08/08/1929Josef Suk, Prague Czechoslovakia, violinist (Artist of Merit-1977)
Born :01/26/1929Jules Feiffer, NYC, cartoonist (Passionella) author (Little Murders)
Born :03/21/1929Jules Verne Berman, space & science reporter (ABC-TV)
Born :06/23/1929June Carter Cash, Maces Spring Va, country singer (Johnny Cash Show)
Born :06/18/1929Jrgen Habermans, German sociologist (Frankfurter Schule)
Born :06/09/1929KJeith A St H Gardner, Jamaica, 4x400m runner (Olympic-bronze-1960)
Born :07/05/1929Katherine Helmond, Galveston Tx, actress (Soap, Mona-Who's the Boss)
Born :05/29/1929Katie Boyle, [Lady Sander Saunders], British broadcaster
Born :02/06/1929Keith Waterhouse, writer (Billy Liar, Say Who Are You?)
Born :11/20/1929Kenneth DeWitt Schermerhorn, Schenectady NY, conductor (Amer Ballet)
Born :03/25/1929Kenneth Haigh, Yorkshire England, actor (Search for the Nile)
Born :01/07/1929Kenneth Henry, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1952)
Born :11/11/1929LaVern Baker, Chicago, R&B vocalist (I Cried a Tear)
Born :07/15/1929Larry Lamb, newspaper editor
Born :04/11/1929Lawrence Coughlin, (Rep-R-PA, 1969- )
Born :07/09/1929Lee Hazelwood, Ok, country singer/songwriter (Summer Wine, Jackson)
Born :03/31/1929Lee Patterson, Vancouver BC, actor (Dave-Surfside Six)
Born :02/18/1929Len Deighton, writer (Fighter)
Born :10/04/1929Leroy Van Dyke, Spring Fork Mo, country singer (Walk on By)
Born :10/22/1929Lev Jasjin, Russian soccer player (goalie)
Born :09/17/1929Lord Craig of Radley, RAF marshal
Born :08/02/1929Lord Waddington, Govenor of Bermuda
Born :08/14/1929Louise M Slaughter, (Rep-D-New York)
Born :12/02/1929Lowell North, Springfield Mass, yachtsman (Olympic-Gold-1968)
Born :12/28/1929Maarten Schmidt, Neth/US astronomer (quasars)
Born :04/22/1929Margaret Pereira, forensic scientist
Born :09/19/1929Margaret S Roukema, (Rep-R-New Jersey, 1981- )
Born :11/21/1929Marilyn French, US author (The Women's Room)
Born :01/03/1929Marilyn Lloyd, (Rep-D-TN, 1975- )
Born :01/15/1929Martin Luther King Jr, Atlanta, dreamer (Nobel 1964)
Born :12/24/1929Mary Higgins Clark, Bronx NY, author (Cry in the Night, Stillwatch)
Born :02/14/1929Matthew G Martinez, (Rep-D-CA, 1982- )
Born :07/09/1929Mawlai al-Hassan II, King of Morocco (1961- )
Born :04/10/1929Max Von Sydow, Lund Sweden, actor (Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscape)
Born :11/14/1929McLean Stevenson, Normal Ill, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry)
Born :09/14/1929Mel Hancock, (Rep-R-Missouri)
Born :09/26/1929Meredith C Gourdine, Newark NJ, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1952)
Born :04/22/1929Michael Atiyah, educator (Trinity College - Cambridge England)
Born :08/13/1929Michael Beavis, deputy cmdr-in-chief (Allied Forces Central Europe)
Born :06/17/1929Michael L Strang, (Rep-R-CO, 1985- )
Born :05/30/1929Michael Mellinger, Bavaria, actor (Goldfinger)
Born :07/16/1929Michael Morland, High court judge
Born :12/31/1929Mies Bouman, TV hostess (Open the Village)
Born :04/01/1929Milan Kundera, Czech poet/writer (The Joke)
Born :12/20/1929Milan Panic, premier of little Yugoslavia
Born :04/03/1929Miyoshi Umeki, Jap, actr (Mrs Livingston-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
Born :10/02/1929Moses Gunn, St Louis Mo, actor (Amityville II, Good Times, Shaft)
Born :09/15/1929Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted quarks
Born :11/01/1929Nicholas Mavroules, (Rep-D-MA, 1979- )
Born :04/05/1929Nigel Hawthorne, actor (Tartuffe, Pope John Paul II)
Born :04/27/1929Nina Ponomareva Romaschkova, USSR, discus thrower (Oly-gold-1952, 60)
Born :08/14/1929Oliver Neville, principal (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts)
Born :02/13/1929Omar Torr˜os Herrera, president Panama
Born :07/31/1929Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist
Born :12/28/1929Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president
Born :08/13/1929Pat Harrington Jr, NYC, actor (Danny Thomas Show, 1 Day at a Time)
Born :05/28/1929Patrick McNair-Wilson, MP
Born :03/13/1929Peter Breck, Rochester NY, actor (Black Saddle, Big Valley, Benji)
Born :04/30/1929Peter Carsten, Weissenberg Bavaria, actor (Mr Super Invisible)
Born :06/29/1929Peter George, US, light middleweight (Olympic-gold-1952)
Born :04/18/1929Peter Hordern, British CEO (Fina)
Born :04/18/1929Peter Jeffrey, actor (Dr Phibes Rides Again, Twinsanity)
Born :02/16/1929Peter Porter, writer/poet (Chair of Babel, Automatic Oracle)
Born :08/23/1929Peter Thompson, golfer
Born :07/24/1929Peter Yates, director (Breaking Away, Bullitt)
Born :11/17/1929Pieter AH Forest, lawyer/procureur-general on Aruba
Born :11/02/1929Rachel Ames, Portland Oregon, actress (Line Up, Audrey-Gen Hospital)
Born :06/22/1929Ralph Waite, actor (Last Summer, Cool Hand Luke, 5 Easy Piece)
Born :05/17/1929Raymond Hide, geophysicist
Born :07/13/1929Red Terrill Jr, horse trainer
Born :07/28/1929Remco [Wouter] Campert, literary/poet/son of Jan Campert
Born :11/16/1929Renate Rubinstein [Tamar], German/Ned's author/columnist (Tamar)
Born :02/24/1929Richard B Shull, Evanston Ill, actor (Diana, Holmes & Yoyo)
Born :03/30/1929Richard Dysart, Brighton Mass, actor (Leland MacKenzie-LA Law)
Born :10/05/1929Richard F Gordon Jr, Seattle, Capt USN/astronaut (Gemini 11, Apol 12)
Born :08/07/1929Richard T Schulze, (Rep-R-PA, 1975- )
Born :10/12/1929Robert Coles, Milton Mass, author (Anna Freud, Pulitzer 1973)
Born :06/09/1929Robert E Badham, (Rep-R-CA, 1977- )
Born :12/09/1929Robert JL Hawke, (L), PM Australia (1983- )
Born :04/22/1929Robert Wade-Gery, diplomat/exec director (Barclays de Zoete Wedd)
Born :05/21/1929Robert Welch, designer/silversmith
Born :01/11/1929Rod Taylor, Sydney Australia, actor (Bearcats, Time Machine)
Born :03/23/1929Roger Bannister, England, 1st to run a mile under 4 minutes
Born :08/28/1929Rokie Roker, Miami Fla, actress (Helen-Jeffersons)
Born :06/20/1929Ronald Hines, British actor (Pack of Lies)
Born :09/25/1929Ronnie Barker, British comedian (2 Ronnies)
Born :05/06/1929Rosemary Camp, president (Council for British Archaeology)
Born :04/16/1929Roy Hamilton, singer (You'll Never Walk Alone)
Born :01/31/1929Rudolf M”ssbauer, Germany, physicist (Nobel 1961)
Born :11/01/1929Rudy [Herman R] Kousbroek, literary (Leopold the Buch)
Born :02/03/1929Russell Arms, Berkeley Calif, singer (Your Hit Parade)
Born :08/07/1929Ruth Carter-Stapleton, Plains Ga, 1st sister/evangelist
Born :02/22/1929Ryne Duren, NY Yankee near-sighted pitcher
Born :09/27/1929Sada Thompson, Des Moines Ia, actress (Family, Pursuit of Happiness)
Born :01/03/1929Sergio Leone, Italian, director (Fist Full of Dollars)
Born :09/08/1929Severn Darden, actor (Popesco-Mary Hartman)
Born :07/08/1929Shirley Ann Grau, author (Keepers of the House)
Born :07/30/1929Sid Kroft, Athens Greece, puppeteer (Barbara Mandrell Show)
Born :02/06/1929Sixten Jernberg, Sweden, skiier (Olympic-gold-1956/60/64)
Born :10/05/1929Skip Homeier, Chicago Ill, actor (Dan Raven, Interns)
Born :07/19/1929Sofia Muratova, USSR, gymnist,(Olympic-6 gold/3 silv/4 bronze-1952-60)
Born :09/09/1929Stan Parris, (Rep-R-VA, 1973-74, 81- )
Born :11/13/1929Steef C We˜ers, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
Born :09/17/1929Stirling Moss, race car driver
Born :11/17/1929Sumner White, US, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1952)
Born :09/07/1929T[homas] P[atrick] McKenna, Ireland, actor (Rivals, Holocaust)
Born :01/07/1929Terry Moore, [Helen Luella Koford], LA Cal, actress (Little Sheba)
Born :12/28/1929Terry Sawchuk, NHL goaltender (Redwings, Bruins, Maple Leaf, Rangers)
Born :11/25/1929Theo Bruins, pianist/composer (Sei Studii)
Born :08/29/1929Thom Gunn, Kent England, poet (The Wound)
Born :03/14/1929Thomas Bell Jr, race horse trainer
Born :09/04/1929Thomas F Eagleton, (Sen-D-MO, 1968-86/VP candidate-D-1972)
Born :03/06/1929Thomas S Foley, (Rep-D-WA, 1965- ), majority whip/speaker of house
Born :06/17/1929Tigran Petrosyan, USSR, world chess champion (1963-69)
Born :02/25/1929Tommy Newsom, Va, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show)
Born :02/20/1929Toshiro Mayuzumi, Yokohama Japan, composer (Sphenogramme)
Born :05/23/1929Ulla Jacobson, Swedish actress (One Summer of Happiness)
Born :01/19/1929Ulu Grosbard, Belgium, actor(?)
Born :10/21/1929Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin, US, sci-fi author (Tombs of Atuan)
Born :05/08/1929V N M Korte-van Hemel, Dutch Secretary of State (CDA)
Born :05/14/1929Vladimir Antoshin, USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1964)
Born :04/08/1929Walter Berry, Austria singer/ex husband of Christa Ludwig
Born :04/29/1929Walter Kempowski, German writer (Tadell”ser & Wolff)
Born :03/13/1929Walter Medio, race horse trainer
Born :01/11/1929Wanda Wilkomirska, Warsaw, Poland, violinist
Born :01/06/1929Wilbert Harrison, R & B singer (Kansas City)
Born :11/18/1929William (Pete) Knight, X-15 pilot
Born :09/22/1929William E Dannemeyer, (Rep-R-CA, 1979- )
Born :04/14/1929William Edgar Thornton, Faison NC, MD/astronaut (STS-8, 51-B, sk:49)
Born :04/04/1929William F Clinger Jr, (Rep-R-PA, 1979- )
Born :01/29/1929William McMillan, US, rapid pistol (Olympic-gold-1960)
Born :12/17/1929William Safire, political columnis (NY Times)/speech writer (Nixon)
Born :02/17/1929Yasser Arafat, PLO-leader
Born :04/25/1929Yvette Corlett, athlete




Died :02/02/1929Albert Steinrck, German actor, dies
Died :08/10/1929Aletta [Henri‰tte] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician/feminist, dies
Died :11/19/1929Arthur H Mann, English composer (Church of England Hymnal), dies
Died :09/30/1929Charles E Bonin, French explorer/diplomat (China), dies
Died :08/23/1929Charles Van de Woest˜ne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies
Died :02/28/1929Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (Reaction of P), dies
Died :01/14/1929Cornelis W Lely, Governor of Suriname (1902-05), dies
Died :04/10/1929Edmond Thieffry, Belgium, WW I pilot, dies
Died :01/02/1929Erich Wichman(n), fascist painter/sculptor, dies
Died :03/20/1929Ferdinand Foch, German marshal (WW I), dies
Died :02/12/1929Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist, dies
Died :10/28/1929Frst Bernhard von Blow, German chancellor/PM Prussia (1900-09), dies
Died :11/24/1929Georges Clemenceau, [Tiger], PM of France (1906-09, 17-20), dies at 88
Died :06/25/1929Georges Courteline [Moineaux], French playwright, dies
Died :09/29/1929Giitji Tanaka, Japans baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66
Died :10/03/1929Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (Nobel 1926), dies at 51
Died :11/18/1929Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
Died :11/17/1929Herman Hollerith, German/US statistician/inventor (punch card), dies
Died :07/15/1929Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright/poet, dies
Died :11/14/1929Joseph McGinnity, baseball pitcher (NY Giants), dies at 58
Died :04/04/1929Karl Freidrich Benz, automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies
Died :05/16/1929Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies
Died :10/12/1929Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52
Died :11/06/1929Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies
Died :09/25/1929Miller Huggins, Yankee manager, dies at 50
Died :01/06/1929Nicolaas Nikolajevitsj, governor-general of Kaukasi‰, dies
Died :09/23/1929Richard A Zsigmondy, Austria chemist (Nobel 1925), dies at 64
Died :04/23/1929Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies
Died :08/19/1929Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
Died :01/24/1929Willem Royaards, theater directeor (Adam in Ballingschap), dies
Interest:03/27/1929[Ang] Feast of Charles H Brent, Bp of Philippines, & of Western NY




Special :10/29/1929"Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression"
Special :01/07/1929"Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premiers
Special :04/04/1929"New Moon" musical opens in London
Special :01/07/1929"Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
Special :04/04/19291st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held
Special :05/16/19291st Academy Awards (Film-Wings, Actor-E Jennings Actress-J Gaynor)
Special :12/16/19291st NHL game at Chicago Stadium (Black Hawks)
Special :12/21/19291st US group hospital insurance plan instituted, Dallas, Texas
Special :12/05/19291st US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, NYC)
Special :07/15/19291st airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca
Special :08/08/19291st airship flight around Earth flying eastward begins
Special :08/20/19291st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
Special :05/28/19291st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited, NYC
Special :10/28/19291st child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl
Special :02/01/19291st clean & jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402« lbs
Special :06/27/19291st color TV demo (NYC)
Special :01/20/19291st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona"
Special :12/21/19291st group hospital insurance plan effected, Dallas Tx
Special :06/29/19291st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
Special :09/21/19291st legal forward pass in Canadian senior football thrown (Calgary)
Special :09/30/19291st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
Special :04/26/19291st non-stop England to India flight lands
Special :04/24/19291st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
Special :05/11/19291st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
Special :12/02/19291st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
Special :01/07/19291st telephone connection between Netherlands & East Indies
Special :01/08/19291st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies
Special :03/23/19291st telephone installed in White House
Special :06/15/19291st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch
Special :06/03/19291st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light)
Special :01/03/192927 year old William S Paley becomes CBS pres
Special :08/04/192960,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich
Special :03/22/192966 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes
Special :07/05/1929A Deutsch discovers asteroid #1148 Rarahu
Special :07/04/1929AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down
Special :01/19/1929Acadia National Park, Maine established
Special :11/28/1929Adm Richard E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight
Special :01/14/1929Afghan King Amanoellah forced to resign
Special :01/06/1929Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
Special :12/14/1929Alexander Zaimis elected pres of Greece
Special :02/20/1929American Samoa organized as a territory of US
Special :08/23/1929Arabs attack Jews in Israel
Special :05/31/1929Atlantic City Convention Center opens
Special :04/01/1929Austrian cabinet of Ignaz Seipel falls
Special :05/21/1929Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
Special :12/01/1929BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe
Special :08/11/1929Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers
Special :10/20/1929Bayshore Highway opens (SF)
Special :07/29/1929Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France
Special :06/30/1929Bobby Jones wins golf's US Open
Special :06/03/1929Border dispute between Peru & Chile resolved
Special :03/29/1929Boston Bruins sweep NY Rangers in 2 games for the Stanley Cup
Special :10/03/1929British Labour govt recovers diplomatic relations with USSR
Special :09/17/1929British troops begin evacuating
Special :05/18/1929Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16
Special :05/01/1929Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
Special :04/05/1929C Jackson discovers asteroid #1116 Catriona
Special :08/01/1929C Jackson discovers asteroid #1186 Turnera
Special :10/05/1929C W Tombaugh discovers asteroid #2839 Annette & #3583 Burdett
Special :01/08/1929CBS radio network buys WABC in NYC
Special :03/04/1929Charles Curtis (R-Kans) becomes 1st native American VP
Special :02/28/1929Chic Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home
Special :03/02/1929Chicago Black Hawks shut-out for NHL record 8th straight game
Special :07/28/1929Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Mich)
Special :08/21/1929Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
Special :06/03/1929Chile, Peru & Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area
Special :04/16/1929Cleve Indian Earl Averill, becomes 1st AL to hit a HR on 1st at bat
Special :03/02/1929Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals
Special :01/05/1929Coup against King Alexander in South-Slavia
Special :10/12/1929Cubs blow 8-0 world series lead, A's score 10 in 1 inning
Special :03/28/1929Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador
Special :05/24/1929Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings
Special :07/27/1929Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished
Special :04/01/1929Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens
Special :03/10/1929E Delporte discovers asteroid #1128 Astrid
Special :02/03/1929E Delporte discovers asteroid #1145 Robelmonte
Special :02/04/1929E Delporte discovers asteroid #1664 Felix
Special :09/25/1929E Hertzsprung discovers asteroid #1627 Ivar
Special :08/01/1929E Skvortsov discovers asteroid #1149 Volga
Special :04/30/1929Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austrian
Special :01/31/1929Erich Maria Remarques publishes "Im West nieces Neues" in Berlin
Special :11/28/1929Ernie Nevers scores all 40 pts for Chic Cards vs Bears (NFL record)
Special :05/01/1929Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
Special :05/15/1929Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleve Ohio)
Special :10/25/1929Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe
Special :10/22/1929French cabinet of Briand falls
Special :09/05/1929French premier A Briand requests a United States of Europe
Special :10/03/1929G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1135 Colchis
Special :10/27/1929G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1137 Raissa
Special :12/30/1929G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1140 Crimea
Special :05/07/1929G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1146 Biarmia
Special :06/11/1929G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1147 Stavropolis
Special :08/31/1929G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1158 Luda
Special :05/15/1929Gas fire in Cleveland Ohio; 121 die
Special :05/19/1929General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek govt
Special :03/17/1929General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
Special :06/04/1929George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester NY)
Special :08/08/1929German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
Special :08/29/1929German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
Special :08/25/1929Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
Special :09/13/1929H Van Gent discovers asteroids #1132 Hollandia & #1133 Lugduna
Special :01/13/1929Humanist Society established, Hollywood Calif
Special :07/10/1929In game between Pirates & Phillies 9 HRs hit 1 in each inning
Special :03/04/1929Inauguration of President Herbert Hoover
Special :01/26/1929Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence
Special :10/30/1929J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #1136 Mercedes
Special :11/28/1929J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #1655 Comas Sola
Special :12/01/1929J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #1708 Polit
Special :05/08/1929Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
Special :08/14/1929Jewish Agency for Palestine forms
Special :02/05/1929Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in SF
Special :09/26/1929John Schrober becomes chancellor of Austria
Special :01/01/1929K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1105 Fragaria
Special :05/31/1929K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1108 Demeter
Special :01/11/1929K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1126 Otero
Special :09/10/1929K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1131 Porzia
Special :11/22/1929K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1138 Attica
Special :09/08/1929K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1151 Ithaka
Special :08/31/1929K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1157 Arabia
Special :09/09/1929K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1160 Illyria
Special :09/29/1929K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1161 Thessalia
Special :12/06/1929K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1187 Afra
Special :09/05/1929K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1419 Danzig
Special :01/13/1929K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1985 Hopmann
Special :01/29/1929K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #3425 Hurukawa
Special :02/05/1929K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1106 Cydonia, #1109 Tata & #1346 Gotha
Special :01/09/1929KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
Special :02/16/1929KID-AM in Idaho Falls ID begins radio transmissions
Special :03/22/1929KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions
Special :04/11/1929KLO-AM in Ogden UT begins radio transmissions
Special :02/08/1929KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
Special :02/12/1929Karst Leemburg wins Dutch Elfstedentocht skate (11:30)
Special :10/03/1929Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia
Special :03/30/1929L Volta discovers asteroid #1107 Lictoria
Special :11/18/1929Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places
Special :09/19/1929Latvia dictator A Woldemaras chased out
Special :01/31/1929Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey
Special :04/05/1929Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact
Special :05/04/1929Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
Special :11/01/1929Lundy, part of British Isles, issue their own stamps
Special :09/25/1929M Wolf discovers asteroid #1134 Kepler
Special :08/04/1929M Wolf discovers asteroids #2373 & #3626
Special :02/19/1929Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY
Special :06/29/1929Mexico & Vatican sign Concord
Special :10/08/1929Mohammed Nadir Khan conquerors Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi
Special :04/01/1929Morehouse College, Spelman College & Atlanta University affiliate
Special :12/20/1929Mount Davidson dedicated as a San Francisco city park
Special :02/11/1929Mussolini ends treaties of Lateranen Concord with Pope Pius
Special :05/08/1929NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pirates, 11-0
Special :05/09/1929NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pitts Pirates
Special :04/16/1929NY Yankees become 1st team to use numbers on uniforms
Special :05/06/1929NY to SF footrace begins
Special :07/24/1929NY to SF footrace ends (2« months) winner was 60 year old Monteverde
Special :12/01/1929O Oikawa & K Kubokawa discovers asteroid #1139 Atami
Special :02/12/1929P Bourgeois discovers asteroid #1547 Nele
Special :08/08/1929P Parchomenko discovers asteroid #1129 Neujmina
Special :04/18/1929Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire
Special :08/24/1929Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
Special :11/17/1929Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico
Special :08/11/1929Persia & Iraq sign friendship treaty
Special :04/03/1929Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact
Special :10/14/1929Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1 in 26th World Series
Special :10/14/1929Philadelphia A's set world series record of 10 runs in an inning
Special :08/02/1929Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR
Special :12/29/1929Police arrest Sukarno & 100s PNI-leaders
Special :05/01/1929Police kill 19 Mayday demonstraters in Berlin
Special :01/17/1929Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theatre"
Special :06/25/1929Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
Special :07/24/1929Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
Special :06/27/1929Pres Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I
Special :06/14/1929Prussia & Vatican sign Concord
Special :05/03/1929Prussia bans anti-fascists
Special :05/12/1929Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)
Special :09/25/1929Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam
Special :10/07/1929Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British premier to address US Congress
Special :06/05/1929Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour govt in Britain
Special :07/07/1929Romania & Vatican sign concord
Special :01/01/1929Roy Riegels runs 60 yds the wrong way with Rose Bowl fumble recovery
Special :08/11/1929Russian-Chinese border fights
Special :01/13/1929S Arend discovers asteroid #1127 Mimi
Special :03/03/1929S Arend discovers asteroid #1633 Chimay
Special :09/11/1929SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
Special :08/08/1929Salem Oregon airport dedicated
Special :01/12/1929Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana
Special :01/29/1929Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms
Special :12/30/1929Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates
Special :03/17/1929Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera shuts university of Madrid
Special :07/06/1929St Louis has 2, 10 run innings & beats Phillies 28-6
Special :02/14/1929St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed
Special :01/18/1929Stalin bans Trotsky from the Politburo
Special :11/18/1929Stalin routes troops to Manchuria
Special :11/17/1929Stalin throws Nicolai Bucharin out of Politburo
Special :05/19/1929Stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death
Special :04/24/1929Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
Special :03/06/1929Turkey & Bulgaria sign peace treaty
Special :08/24/1929Turkey & Persia signs peace treaty
Special :02/27/1929Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
Special :12/06/1929Turkey votes for female suffrage
Special :07/01/1929US Immigration law of 1924 in effect
Special :07/10/1929US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
Special :03/22/1929USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
Special :07/17/1929USSR drops diplomatic relations with China
Special :02/09/1929USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland & Romania sign Litvinov Pact
Special :02/11/1929Vatican City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome
Special :06/07/1929Vatican City becomes a soverign state
Special :03/16/1929WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
Special :05/09/1929WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
Special :07/05/1929WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter burns down
Special :06/03/192945øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC

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