List of Famous people who born in 1929
Claude Goretta
Claude Goretta was a Swiss television producer and film director. His 1973 film L'Invitation was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His 1981 film La provinciale was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival.
Dong Cunrui
Dong Cunrui was a Chinese Communist soldier in the People's Liberation Army during the Chinese Civil War who blew himself up in order to destroy a Kuomintang bunker guarding an approach to an important bridge in Longhua County.
Lily Leung
Lily Leung Shun-Yin was a Hong Kong actress.
Rutherford Aris
Rutherford "Gus" Aris was a chemical engineer, control theorist, applied mathematician, and a Regents Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota (1958–2005).
Mies Bouwman
Maria Antoinette "Mies" Bouwman was a Dutch television presenter.
Lee Hazlewood
Barton Lee Hazlewood was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s and 1970s.
Tawfiq Ziad
Tawfiq Ziad was an Israeli Arab politician well known for his "poetry of protest".
Abdi İpekçi
Abdi İpekçi was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and an activist for human rights. He was murdered while editor-in-chief of one of the main Turkish daily newspapers Milliyet which then had a centre-left political stance.
Mümtaz Soysal
Osman Mümtaz Soysal was a Turkish professor of constitutional law, political scientist, politician, human rights activist, ex-prisoner of conscience, senior advisor, columnist and author.
Pedro Iturralde
Pedro Iturralde Ochoa was a Spanish saxophonist, saxophone teacher and composer.