List of Famous people who born in 1929

Bertrand Russell Berns, also known as Bert Russell and (occasionally) Russell Byrd, was an American songwriter and record producer of the 1960s. Berns' song writing credits include "Twist and Shout", "Piece of My Heart", "Here Comes the Night", "Hang on Sloopy", and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love", and his productions include "Baby, Please Don't Go", "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Under the Boardwalk".

Josef Homeyer was a German Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hildesheim, located in Hildesheim, from his appointment by Pope John Paul II on 25 August 1983 until his retirement on 20 August 2004.

Elio Petri was an Italian political filmmaker best known for the 1970 Academy Award-winning film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion.

Suman Deodhar is a female badminton player from India. She is the daughter of India's cricket player D. B. Deodhar.

Aviezri Siegmund Fraenkel is an Israeli mathematician who has made contributions to combinatorial game theory.

Josef Mikl was an Austrian abstract painter of the Informal style.

Francisco Javier Prado Aránguiz was a Chilean Roman Catholic bishop.

Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer was a German physicist best known for his 1957 discovery of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics. This effect, called the Mössbauer effect, is the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.

Maarten Schmidt is a Dutch-American astronomer who measured the distances of quasars.