Arafat, Yasser (August 24)
Head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, 1969-2004
Famous People Born in 1929
From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:
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Asner, Ed (November 15)
Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show -
Baker, Chet (December 23)
The druggie white jazz trumpeter who also crooned -
Bannister, Roger (March 23)
The first person to run a mile in under four minutes -
Barris, Chuck (June 3)
Host of TV's The Gong Show -
Benson, Harry (December 2)
The photographer who got The Beatles' pillow fight in 1964 -
Bulger, James "Whitey" (September 3)
The Boston Irish gangster who was a fugitive, 1995-2011 -
Carle, Eric (June 25)
Author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar -
Cash, June Carter (June 23)
Country music legend and wife of Johnny Cash -
Clark, Dick (November 30)
The host of American Bandstand and New Year's Rockin' Eve -
Conyers, John Jr. (May 16)
U.S. Congressman from Michigan, 1964-2017 -
Cox, Harvey (March 19)
The Harvard professor who wrote The Secular City -
Davis, Al (July 4)
General manager and owner of the Oakland Raiders, 1963-2011 -
Evans, Bill (August 16)
One of the all-time greats on jazz piano -
Frank, Anne (June 12)
Author of The Diary of Anne Frank -
Gehry, Frank (February 28)
The architect who designed the Guggenheim Museum in Spain -
Gordy, Berry (November 28)
The founder of Motown Records -
Hepburn, Audrey (May 4)
The elfin star of the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's -
Higgs, Peter Ware (May 29)
The Nobel-winning physicist behind the Higgs boson -
Kelly, Grace (November 12)
The actress who became Princess of Monaco -
King, Martin Luther, Jr. (January 15)
The civil rights hero who said "I have a dream" -
Le Guin, Ursula K. (October 21)
The sci-fi author of The Earthsea Trilogy -
Leone, Sergio (January 3)
Italian director of movie westerns -
Marcos, Imelda (July 2)
The wife of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos -
Newhart, Bob (September 5)
Deadpan star of the sitcom Newhart -
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy (July 28)
Wife of president John F. Kennedy -
Palmer, Arnold (September 10)
The great golfer who led "Arnie's Army" -
Plummer, Christopher (December 13)
Captain von Trapp in the 1965 movie The Sound of Music -
Popeye the Sailor (January 17)
Fist-fighting, spinach-loving sailor of comics and cartoons -
Powers, Francis Gary (August 17)
The U-2 pilot shot down by the Soviet Union in 1960 -
Previn, André (April 6)
The jet-setting conductor who married Mia Farrow in 1970 -
Ray, James Earl (May 10)
The man who killed Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Rich, Adrienne (May 16)
The feminist-lesbian poet who wrote Diving Into the Wreck -
Safire, William (December 17)
Political columnist for The New York Times, 1973-2005 -
Squibb, June (November 6)
The foul-mouthed mom in Nebraska -
Stevenson, McLean (November 14)
Lt. Col. Henry Blake on TV's M*A*S*H -
Sydow, Max von (April 10)
The gaunt Swede who was The Exorcist -
Walters, Barbara (September 25)
20/20 veteran and host of ABC's The View -
Weber, Dick (December 23)
Star PBA bowler from the 1950s to the 1990s -
Wilson, E.O. (June 10)
The ant expert who wrote 1978's On Human Nature