List of Famous people born on November 29th
Nicolas Dhuicq
Nicolas Dhuicq is a French politician. He is the mayor of Brienne-le-Château and a former member of the National Assembly of France from 2007 to 2017. He represented Aube's 1st constituency as a member of "Les Républicains", formerly known as the Union for a Popular Movement. He joined Debout La France in 2018.
Héctor Castro
Héctor Castro was a Uruguayan football player and coach.
Shosei Koda
Shosei Koda was a Japanese citizen who was kidnapped and later beheaded in Iraq on 29 October 2004, by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group, while touring the country. He was the first Japanese person beheaded in Iraq.
Francisco Sanz Durán
Francisco Sanz Durán is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist was an American artist and one of the proponents of the pop art movement. Drawing from his background working in sign painting, Rosenquist's pieces often explored the role of advertising and consumer culture in art and society, utilizing techniques he learned making commercial art to depict popular cultural icons and mundane everyday objects. While his works have often been compared to those from other key figures of the pop art movement, such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rosenquist's pieces were unique in the way that they often employed elements of surrealism using fragments of advertisements and cultural imagery to emphasize the overwhelming nature of ads. He was a 2001 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.
Michael Howard
Sir Michael Eliot Howard was an English military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University, and founder of the Department of War Studies, King's College London. In 1958, he co-founded the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Pavol Demitra
Pavol Demitra was a Slovak professional ice hockey player. He played nineteen seasons of professional hockey, for teams in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League (CSL), National Hockey League (NHL), Slovak Extraliga (SVK), and Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). A skilled offensive player, Demitra was a top-line forward throughout his career.
Friederike Hassauer
Friederike Hassauer is a German literary scholar and professor for Romance Philology at the University of Vienna. he focus of her work is on French and Spanish literature, along with Media studies. She is considered a pioneer of gender research in the field of Romance studies at Vienna.
Abdulaziz al-Tarefe
Abdulaziz al-Tarefe is a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar.
Goro Miyazawa
Goro Miyazawa is a professional Go player.