List of Famous people who born in 1929

Loïc Bouvard was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Morbihan department, and was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.

Hamza El Din was an Egyptian composer, oud player, tar player, and vocalist. El Din was born in southern Egypt and studied the music of his native region Nubia, near the Sudanese border. He subsequently lived and studied in Italy, Japan and the United States. El Din collaborated with a wide variety of musical performers, including Sandy Bull, the Kronos Quartet and the Grateful Dead.

Walter Berry was an Austrian lyric bass-baritone who enjoyed a prominent career in opera. He has been cited as one of several exemplary operatic bass-baritones of his era.

Hashizo Okawa was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred Jidaigeki films from 1955 to 1967.

Tsutomu “Ben” Goto was a Japanese journalist and writer best known for his books on Nostradamus.

James Hadley Billington was a American academic and author who taught history at Harvard and Princeton before serving for 42 years as CEO of four federal cultural institutions. He served as the 13th Librarian of Congress after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, and his appointment was approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate. He retired as Librarian on September 30, 2015.

Antonio Álvarez Méndez, better known as Antonio Álvarez Solís, was a Spanish journalist.

Aureliano Chaves was a Brazilian politician.

Eiji Kitamura Japanese: 北村 英治 is a Japanese jazz clarinetist originally from Tokyo who made his debut at the age of 22.

Alfred Alvarez was an English poet, novelist, essayist and critic who published under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez.