List of Famous people born on August 29th

Marc Mézard is a French physicist and academic administrator. He is the director of the École normale supérieure (ENS). He is the co-author of two books.

Fleet Admiral Feliks Nikolayevich Gromov was a Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy. Gromov was married and had a daughter and a son.

Kartal Özmızrak is a Turkish professional basketball player for Monbus Obradoiro of the Liga ACB.

Kentaro Hayashi is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

Denis Vladimirovich Popov is a Russian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Latvian club Valmiera.

Martin Erat is a Czech former professional ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League for the Nashville Predators, Washington Capitals and the Phoenix/Arizona Coyotes.

Antti Niemi is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender currently an unrestricted free agent who most recently played for Jokerit of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

Nobuhiro Yamashita is a Japanese film director.

Johann Schwarzhuber was a German SS-Obersturmführer, who was in charge of various subcamps during World War II. His positions included the Schutzhaftlagerführer of the Auschwitz-Birkenau men's camp, where he oversaw the selection process for the gassing of thousands of detainees. He was later transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where he held the post of the Lagerdirektor, second only to the overall camp commander Fritz Suhren. With Suhren on the run, Schwarzhuber was the highest-ranking defendant during the first Ravensbrück trial. In front of the British military tribunal he was indicted for war crimes, sentenced to death and subsequently executed in 1947.