List of Famous people born on August 29th

Pierre Risch, born in 1943 in Paris, is a painter, engraver, lithographer, sculptor, and French designer.

Dinah Washington was an American singer and pianist, who has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s". Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music, and gave herself the title of "Queen of the Blues". She was a 1986 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

Sara Brita Stridsberg is a Swedish author and playwright. Her first novel, Happy Sally was about Sally Bauer, who in 1939 had become the first Scandinavian woman to swim the English Channel.

Tom Reidar Haraldsen is a Norwegian football defender who is currently without a club.

William Edgar Fulton is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.