September 29 is the birthday of 50 notable people we've found so far, including authors, politicians, actors and creators, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Silvio Berlusconi was an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in three governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011.
Erivan Karl Matthias Haub was a German billionaire businessman, and the managing director and part owner of Tengelmann Group, one of Germany's largest retailers. At the time of his death in March 2018, his net worth was estimated at US$6.4 billion.
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors24% (12 people)
Politicians22% (11 people)
Actors20% (10 people)
Creators16% (8 people)
Scientists16% (8 people)
Athletes14% (7 people)
Entrepreneurs14% (7 people)
Countries
24 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States11 (11 people)
Germany5 (5 people)
Nigeria4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
Ukraine3 (3 people)
Hungary2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on September 29 doing at your age?
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.
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~25Enrico FermiReceived the Matteucci Medal (1926)
Ian David McShane is an English actor. His television performances include the title role in the BBC series Lovejoy, Al Swearengen in Deadwood (2004–2006) and its 2019 film continuation, and Mr. Wednesday in American Gods (2017–2021).
Enrico Fermi was an Italian-American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project.
Department of Energy-Office of Public Affairs, restored by Yann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jon Olav Fosse is a Norwegian author, translator, and playwright. He was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable."
Tom A. Kolstad/Det norske samlaget., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rainer Weiss was a German-American physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an adjunct professor at Louisiana State University.
Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Peter Dennis Mitchell FRS was a British biochemist who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his theory of the chemiosmotic mechanism of ATP synthesis.
Walther Rathenau was a German industrialist, writer and politician who served as foreign minister of Germany from February 1922 until his assassination in June 1922.
Bain News Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Fikret Abdić, nicknamed "Babo", is a Bosnian politician and businessman who first rose to prominence in the 1980s for his role in turning the Velika Kladuša–based agriculture company Agrokomerc into one of the biggest conglomerates in SFR Yugoslavia.
Taizo Son is a Japanese businessman of Korean ancestry. He is CEO of Mistletoe, a company that he founded in 2013, and chairman of mobile gaming company GungHo, which he founded in 2002. GungHo's market value in 2013 was $10.4 billion, making Son a billionaire.
Zachary Levi Pugh is an American actor. He starred as Kipp Steadman in the sitcom Less Than Perfect (2002–2006), Chuck Bartowski in the action comedy series Chuck (2007–2012), and as the titular character in the superhero film Shazam! (2019) and its 2023 sequel.
Jerry Lee Lewis was an American country music and rock and roll pianist, singer, and songwriter. Nicknamed "The Killer", he was described as "rock 'n' roll's first great wild man".
photographer:Maurice Seymour, Chicago, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko is a Ukrainian former football manager and player. Shevchenko is considered one of the greatest strikers of all time and Ukraine's greatest ever player. He is the all-time top scorer for the Ukraine national team with 48 goals.
Міністерство молоді та спорту України, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Erika Maya Eleniak is an American actress and model known for her role as Shauni McClain in Baywatch. Her film debut was in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). She also starred in the films The Blob (1988), Under Siege (1992), and The Beverly Hillbillies (1993).
Julia Eileen Gillard is an Australian former politician who served as the 27th prime minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013. She held office as the leader of the Labor Party (ALP), having previously served as the 13th deputy prime minister from 2007 to 2010.
Dilma Rousseff, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry, nicknamed the Singing Cowboy, was an American actor, musician, singer, composer, rodeo performer, and baseball team owner, who largely gained fame by singing in a crooning style on radio, in films, and on television for more than three decades, beginning in the early 1930s.
Harry Warnecke / Robert F. Cranston, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg was a Swedish actress active in American and European films, known for her beauty and curvaceous figure. She became prominent in her iconic role as Sylvia in the Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita (1960).
Paramount-photo by Bud Frakes., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson was a British and American actress and singer. Known for playing graceful, noble, and dignified women in period and war dramas, she quickly rose to popularity during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh is an Iranian politician, artist, architect, and opposition figure who served as the forty-fifth and last Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1989.
Ludwig Heinrich von Mises was an Austrian and American political economist and philosopher of the Austrian school. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the social contributions of classical liberalism and the central role of consumers in a market economy.
Ludwig von Mises Institute, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
1810–1865 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer detailed studies of Victorian society, including the lives of the very poor. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848.
George Richmond, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Clarence William Nelson II is an American politician, attorney, and former astronaut who served from 2001 to 2019 as a United States senator from Florida and from 2021 to 2025 as the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Bill Ingalls, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist. He rejected Mendelian genetics in favour of his own idiosyncratic, pseudoscientific ideas later termed Lysenkoism.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Stanley Earl Kramer was an American film director and producer, responsible for making many of Hollywood's most famous "message films" and a liberal movie icon. As an independent producer and director, he brought attention to topical social issues that most studios avoided.
Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi was a Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to creativity.
Michael Servetus was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist. He was the first European to correctly describe the function of pulmonary circulation, as discussed in Christianismi Restitutio (1553).
Christian Fritzsch, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
László József Bíró, Hispanicized as Ladislao José Biro, was an Argentine, Hungary-born inventor who patented the first commercially successful modern ballpoint pen. The first ballpoint pen had been invented roughly 50 years earlier by John J.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
François Boucher was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes.
Gustaf Lundberg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Douglas Benton was an American film director and screenwriter. He, along with his co-writer David Newman, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. In 1979, he wrote and directed the film Kramer vs.
Wolfgang Overath is a former West German footballer. A true one-club man, Overath spent his entire professional career at 1. FC Köln. He represented his country three times in World Cup finals, culminating in 1974 with the 2–1 victory over the Netherlands on home soil.
Bert Verhoeff for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Miguel Alemán Valdés was a Mexican politician who served a full term as the President of Mexico from 1946 to 1952. He was the first civilian president after a string of revolutionary generals.
Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman who was one of the most important figures of the Ukrainian national revival of the early 20th century.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ivica Vastić is a retired professional footballer, who played as a midfielder and as a striker. He is currently the youth head coach of HNK Šibenik U19.
This page lists 50 people born on September 29, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 2023. 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 September 29. Read the full methodology.
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