What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every May birthday · battle May 29 against another date · all rankings
Who shares May 29
Share of the 43 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Politician
1917–1963 · United States
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president.
Cecil W. Stoughton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1958 · United States
Annette Carol Bening is an American actress. With a career spanning over four decades, she is known for her versatile work across screen and stage.
Annette_Bening_2011_AA.jpg: David Torcivia at https://www.flickr.com/photos/viatorci/ derivative work: César (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1989 · United States
Danielle Riley Keough is an American actress. Born into the Presley family, she is the eldest daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and the eldest grandchild of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley.
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1956 · United States
La Toya Yvonne Jackson is an American singer and television personality. She is the fifth child and middle daughter of the Jackson family. Jackson first gained recognition on the family's variety television series, The Jacksons, on CBS between 1976 and 1977.
Template:Glória Pires, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Athlete
1984 · United States
Carmelo Kyam Anthony is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Melo", Anthony played 19 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and is a ten-time NBA All-Star and six-time All-NBA Team member.
Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Musician
1953 · United States
Daniel Robert Elfman is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s.
Sachyn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1934 · Japan
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi is a Japanese businessman. During the Japanese economic bubble, Forbes listed Tsutsumi as the wealthiest person in the world during 1987–94 due to his extensive real estate investments through the Seibu Corporation, which he controlled.
筑井正義, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1927 · Canada
Jean Coutu, is a Canadian pharmacist and businessman. He is the founder and chairman of the Jean Coutu Group which he started in 1969.
Asclepias, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1956 · Brazil
Brazilian businessman and politician
Entrepreneur
1951 · Czech Republic
Czech businessman
May 29 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Actor
1975 · United Kingdom
Melanie Janine Brown, commonly known as Mel B or Melanie B, is a British singer, television personality, and actress. She rose to prominence in the mid-1990s as a member of the pop group the Spice Girls, where she was nicknamed Scary Spice.
Photographer.JuliaMustard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1959 · United Kingdom
Rupert James Hector Everett is an English actor.
Vicki Neave from Melbourne, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1967 · United Kingdom
Noel Thomas David Gallagher is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Gallagher is the primary songwriter, lead guitarist and a co-lead vocalist of the rock band Oasis. After leaving Oasis, he formed Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1972 · United States
Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBTQ advocate.
Dominick D, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1903–2003 · United States
Lester Townes "Bob" Hope was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours.
NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1874–1936 · United Kingdom
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English Christian apologist writer. Chesterton's wit, paradoxical style, and defence of tradition made him a dominant figure in early 20th-century literature.
Ernest Herbert Mills, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Explorer
1914–1986 · India
Tenzing Norgay, born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. On 29 May 1953, he and Edmund Hillary were the first confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, as part of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition.
original : OeiJamling Tenzing Norgay, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1995 · France
Nicolas Pépé is a Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a right winger or forward for La Liga club Villarreal. Born in France, he plays for the Ivory Coast national team.
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1981 · Russia
Andrey Sergeyevich Arshavin is a Russian former professional footballer who played as a winger or midfielder. Since 2019, Arshavin has held administrative posts at Zenit.
Анна Мейер, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1961 · United States
Melissa Lou Etheridge is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Her self-titled debut album was released in 1988 and became an underground success.
Angela George, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1880–1936 · Germany
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history.
Athlete
1970 · Switzerland
Roberto Di Matteo is an Italian professional football manager and former player.
Daniel Kraski, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1929–2024 · United Kingdom
Peter Ware Higgs was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.
Bengt Nyman, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1875–1944 · Kingdom of Italy
Giovanni Gentile was an Italian pedagogue, philosopher, and politician.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1868–1944 · Turkey
Abdülmecid II or Abdul Mejid II, commonly known as Abdülmecid Efendi, was the last Ottoman caliph, the only caliph elected by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, and head of the Osmanoğlu family from 1926 to 1944.
Jean Pascal Sébah, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1939–2012 · Ireland
Anne Maeve Binchy Snell was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist, and speaker. Her novels were characterised by a sympathetic and often humorous portrayal of small-town life in Ireland, and surprise endings.
The original uploader was Jon Kay at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1977 · Italy
Massimo Ambrosini is an Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a defensive midfielder.
Io, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1926 · Senegal
Abdoulaye Wade is a Senegalese politician who served as the third president of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. He is also the Secretary-General of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS), having led the party since it was founded in 1974.
Musician
1922–2001 · Greece
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer.
Musician
1897–1957 · United States
Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian composer and conductor, who left Europe in the mid-1930s and later adopted US nationality. A child prodigy, he became one of the most important and influential composers in Hollywood history.
Georg Fayer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1830–1905 · France
Louise Michel, also known by her nickname of Enjolras, was a French teacher, writer, poet, philosopher, Communard, and anarchist.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1894–1969 · United States
Josef von Sternberg was an Austrian-American filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era, during which he worked with most of the major Hollywood studios.
Paramount Pictures, Josef von Sternberg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1985 · Brazil
Anderson Hernanes de Carvalho Viana Lima, known as Hernanes, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a central or attacking midfielder.
copa2014.gov.br, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1940–2010 · Pakistan
Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari was a Pakistani politician who served as the eighth president of Pakistan from 1993 until his resignation in 1997.
Samar Saeed Akhtar, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1982 · Austria
Elyas M'Barek is an Austrian actor based in Germany. He gained recognition for his roles in the comedy television series Türkisch für Anfänger and the 2013 comedy film Fack ju Göhte.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1979 · Germany
Arne Friedrich is a German football executive and former player who played as a defender. He formerly was the sporting director of Hertha BSC.
Sven Mandel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1904–1948 · United States
Gregg Wesley Toland was an American cinematographer known for his innovative use of techniques such as deep focus, examples of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941), William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath, and The Long Voyage Home.
unknown (Samuel Goldwyn Prod.), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1920–2000 · Hungary
John Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian-American economist who spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994.
Rakás, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1892–1938 · Argentina
Alfonsina Carolina Storni was a Swiss-Argentine poet and playwright of the modernist period.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1973 · Turkey
Fehmi Alpay Özalan, known mononymously as Alpay, is a Turkish former professional footballer, football manager and politician. He last worked as the manager of Samsunspor.
F. Höhn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 43 people born on May 29, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. 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 May 29. Read the full methodology.
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