December 29 is the birthday of 41 notable people we've found so far, including actors, creators, politicians and historical figures, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Joshua Jordan Harris is an American investor and sports team owner. Harris is a co-founder of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management and managing partner of the NBA team Philadelphia 76ers, the NHL team New Jersey Devils, and the NFL team Washington Commanders.
Share of the 41 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors41% (17 people)
Authors20% (8 people)
Creators20% (8 people)
Musicians20% (8 people)
Politicians20% (8 people)
Scientists17% (7 people)
Entrepreneurs10% (4 people)
Countries
14 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States18 (18 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
India3 (3 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Mexico2 (2 people)
Spain2 (2 people)
Sweden2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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~22Twinkle KhannaReceived the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut (1996)
David Jude Heyworth Law is an English actor. He began his career in British theatre before landing small roles in various television productions and feature films. Law gained international recognition for his role in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Paul Voight is an American actor. Throughout his career, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and four Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards.
Edward Bridge Danson III is an American actor. He achieved stardom playing the lead character Sam Malone on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1982–1993), for which he received two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
Andrew Johnson was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. The 16th vice president, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Mathew Brady, Retouched by Mmxx, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bryan Keith "Dexter" Holland is an American musician, best known as the co-founder, lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, main songwriter and composer, and only constant member of the punk rock band the Offspring.
Livioandronico2013, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Charles Goodyear was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Victor James Osimhen is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Süper Lig club Galatasaray and is the vice-captain of the Nigeria national team.
Fédération Guinéenne Football, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Rajesh Khanna was an Indian actor, film producer and politician who worked in Hindi films. Regarded as one of the greatest and most successful actors in the history of Indian cinema, he is considered the first Superstar of Hindi cinema.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull was an English singer-songwriter and actress who achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her UK top 10 single "As Tears Go By". She became one of the leading female artists of the British Invasion in the United States.
Patricia Davies Clarkson is an American actress. She has starred in numerous leading and supporting roles in a variety of films ranging from independent film features to major film studio productions.
Maximilian Bühn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Twinkle Khanna is an Indian actress and author. The daughter of actors Dimple Kapadia and Rajesh Khanna, she made her acting debut with a leading role in the film Barsaat (1995), which earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Ewart Gladstone was a British statesman who served four times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He began in politics as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Newark and ended as the face of the Liberal Party.
Samuel Alexander Walker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dylan Christopher Minnette is an American actor and musician. He is known for his role as Clay Jensen in the Netflix drama series 13 Reasons Why. He is also a member of the alternative rock band Wallows.
MTV International, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist, atomic spy, and communist who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II.
The National Archives UK, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Katherine Sian Moennig, often credited as Kate Moennig, is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her role as Shane McCutcheon on The L Word (2004–2009) and its sequel The L Word: Generation Q (2019–2023).
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sana Minatozaki, known mononymously as Sana, is a Japanese singer based in South Korea. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Twice, formed in 2015 by JYP Entertainment, and its subunit MiSaMo, formed in 2023.
Albert Pike was an American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general who served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in exile from 1864 to 1865.
Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kei Nishikori is a Japanese professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4, making him the highest-ranked Japanese man in the Open Era and the second-highest-ranked of all time.
Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó is a Catalan politician and journalist. He has been the President of Together for Catalonia (Junts) since 2024, having previously held the office from 2020 to 2022. He served as the 130th President of the Government of Catalonia from 2016 to 2017.
Jo Van Fleet was an American stage, film, and television actress. During her long career, which spanned over four decades, she often played characters much older than her actual age.
David Alfaro Siqueiros was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for his large public murals using the latest in equipment, materials and technique. Along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, he was one of the most famous of the "Mexican muralists".
Galería Fundación Héctor García, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ronald Harry Coase was a British economist and author. Coase was educated at the London School of Economics, where he was a member of the faculty until 1951. He was the Clifton R.
Elisabeth of Wied was the first Queen of Romania as the wife of King Carol I from 15 March 1881 to 27 September 1914. She had been the princess consort of Romania since her marriage to then-Prince Carol on 15 November 1869.
Unidentified photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bruce Alan Beutler is an American immunologist and geneticist. Together with Jules A. Hoffmann, he received one-half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for "discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity."
Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
André Claveau was a French singer, popular in France from the 1940s to the 1960s. He won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958 singing "Dors, mon amour", with music composed by Pierre Delanoë and lyrics by Hubert Giraud.
Erico Aristotle Cabagnot Aumentado, also known in Bohol as Aris, is a Filipino businessman and politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives, representing the second district of Bohol.
This page lists 41 people born on December 29, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of January 2024. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on December 29. Read the full methodology.
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