The 302nd day of the year, the 303rd in a leap year
Born on 29 October
Every 29 October birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Scorpio, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- ScorpioWater, fixed, ruled by Mars.
- Birthstone
- Opal, TourmalineThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Marigold, CosmosUsually taken today to mean warmth and order.
- Most common weekdays
- Saturday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 29 October in any year.
Which weekday 29 October falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 29 October falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
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How common a birthday 29 October is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,804 babies were born on 29 October in each year of the twenty, making it the 193rd most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 29 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Goebbels | 1897–1945 | Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister |
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | 1938– | President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018 |
| Abdullah Gül | 1950– | President of Turkey from 2007 to 2014 |
| Winona Ryder | 1971– | American actress |
| Ahmed al-Sharaa | 1982– | President of Syria since 2025 |
| Franz von Papen | 1879–1969 | German general staff officer, politician, diplomat, nobleman and Chancellor of Germany |
| Edwin van der Sar | 1970– | Dutch association football player |
| Richard Dreyfuss | 1947– | American actor |
| Dan Castellaneta | 1957– | American actor |
| John Magufuli | 1959–2021 | 5th President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021 |
| Jean Giraudoux | 1882–1944 | French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright |
| Necmettin Erbakan | 1926–2011 | 23rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey |
| Baruj Benacerraf | 1920–2011 | Venezuelan-American immunologist |
| Robert Pires | 1973– | French footballer |
| Yevgeny Primakov | 1929–2015 | 4th Russian Prime Minister |
| Isao Takahata | 1935–2018 | Japanese filmmaker |
| Laura Bassi | 1711–1778 | Italian physicist |
| A. J. Ayer | 1910–1989 | English philosopher |
Died on 29 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Jean Le Rond d'Alembert | 1717–1783 | French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist |
| Joseph Pulitzer | 1847–1911 | Hungarian-American newspaper publisher and politician |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1849–1924 | English-American playwright and author |
| Walter Raleigh | 1552–1618 | English statesman, soldier and writer |
| Gustaf V | 1858–1950 | King of Sweden from 1907 to 1950 |
| Henry George | 1839–1897 | American political economist and journalist |
| Arne Tiselius | 1902–1971 | Swedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry |
| Anton LaVey | 1930–1997 | founder of the Church of Satan; author of the Satanic Bible |
| George Gurdjieff | 1866–1949 | philosopher, mystic, and writer |
| Georges Brassens | 1921–1981 | French singer-songwriter and poet |
| Teri Garr | 1944–2024 | American actress |
| Maria Anna Mozart | 1751–1829 | Austrian musician |
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