List of Famous people who born in 1929

Victor Reux

First Name Victor
Last Name Reux
Born on December 3, 1929
Died on June 1, 2016 (aged 86)
Born in France

Victor Reux was a French and Saint Pierre and Miquelon politician and teacher. He served in the French Senate, representing the overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, for nine years from October 1, 1995, until September 30, 2004.

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André Le Dissez

First Name André
Last Name Dissez
Born on November 11, 1929
Died on May 4, 2018 (aged 88)
Born in France, Brittany

André Le Dissez was a French professional road bicycle racer.

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Anahide Ter Minassian

Anaïs Kévonian
First Name Anahide
Born on August 26, 1929
Died on February 10, 2019 (aged 89)

Anahide Ter Minassian born Anahide Kévonian was a French historian of Armenian origin who specialised in modern Armenian history, particularly the pre- and post-Soviet period of Armenian history, and the Armenian revolutionary movement.

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Billy Simpson

First Name Billy
Last Name Simpson
Born on December 12, 1929
Died on January 27, 2017 (aged 87)

William J. Simpson was a Northern Ireland international footballer, who played for Linfield, Rangers, Stirling Albion, Partick Thistle and Oxford United.

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Karl Otto Pöhl

First Name Karl
Last Name Pöhl
Born on December 1, 1929
Died on December 9, 2014 (aged 85)

Karl Otto Pöhl was a German economist and a President of the Bundesbank and Chairman of its Central Bank Council from 1980 to 1991.

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Francis Dufour

First Name Francis
Last Name Dufour
Born on March 28, 1929
Died on May 25, 2020 (aged 91)
Born in Canada, Quebec, Saguenay

Francis Dufour was a Canadian Quebec politician. He served as the member for Jonquière in the National Assembly of Quebec as a member of the Parti Québécois from 1985 until 1996, when he relinquished his seat to allow Lucien Bouchard, the Premier of Quebec, a seat in the assembly.

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Vadim Yusov

First Name Vadim
Last Name Yusov
Born on April 20, 1929
Died on August 23, 2013 (aged 84)

Vadim Ivanovich Yusov was a Soviet and Russian cinematographer and professor at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. He was known for his collaborations with Andrei Tarkovsky on The Steamroller and the Violin, Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev and Solaris, and with Georgi Daneliya on I Step Through Moscow. He won a number of Nika Awards and Golden Osella for Ivan Dykhovichny's The Black Monk at the Venice International Film Festival in 1988.

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Roger Shepard

First Name Roger
Last Name Shepard
Born on January 30, 1929 (age 97)

Roger Newland Shepard is an American cognitive scientist and author of the "universal law of generalization" (1987). He is considered a father of research on spatial relations. He studied mental rotation, and was an inventor of non-metric multidimensional scaling, a method for representing certain kinds of statistical data in a graphical form that can be apprehended by humans. The optical illusion called Shepard tables and the auditory illusion called Shepard tones are named for him.

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John Robert Evans

First Name John
Last Name Evans
Born on October 1, 1929
Died on February 13, 2015 (aged 85)
Born in Canada, Ontario

John Robert Evans, was a Canadian cardiologist, academic, businessperson, and civic leader.

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Hermann Prey

First Name Hermann
Last Name Prey
Born on July 11, 1929
Died on July 22, 1998 (aged 69)
Born in Germany

Hermann Prey was a German lyric baritone, who was equally at home in the Lied, operatic and concert repertoires. His American debut was in November 1952, with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy, and his American recital debut took place in 1956, at New York's Carnegie Hall. As a Lieder singer, he was a gifted interpreter of Schubert, including his song-cycles Die schöne Müllerin and Die Winterreise and the collection of songs Schwanengesang, as well as of Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler. He also appeared frequently as a soloist in Bach's Passions and Brahms' A German Requiem.

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