On This Day
Wednesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
May 29 1968
Born on This Day
Abdülmecid Efendi
deceasedlast caliph of the Ottoman Dynasty (1868–1944) · 1868–1944
Days lived
27,844
Acun Ilıcalı🇹🇷
Television presenter · b. 1969
Alfred Rasser🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss actor, 1907-1977 (1907-1977) · 1907–1977
Days lived
25,649
Andrey Arshavin🇷🇺
Russian association football player · b. 1981
Annette Bening🇺🇸
Actor · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
B. J. Cunningham🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1989
Bob Hope🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican entertainer (1903–2003) · 1903–2003
Days lived
36,584
C. Anthony Anderson🇺🇸
philosopher · b. 1940
Days alive
10,227
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Carmelo Anthony🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1984
Carol Kirkwood🇬🇧
Presenter · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
Cha-seung Baek🇺🇸
film director · b. 1980
Charlotte Kerr🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1927–2011
Days lived
30,894
Dagmar Hirtz🇩🇪
German film editor and film director · b. 1941
Days alive
9,862
Danny Elfman🇺🇸
singer-songwriter · b. 1953
Days alive
5,479
David Cicero🇺🇸
singer · b. 1970
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David Meyler🇮🇪
Irish association football player · b. 1989
Eike Duckwitz🇩🇪
German field hockey player · b. 1980
Ekkehard Schall🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1930–2005
Days lived
27,491
Elyas M'Barek🇦🇹
Austrian-German · b. 1982
Erwin Finlay-Freundlich🇩🇪
deceasedGerman astronomer (1885–1964) · 1885–1964
Days lived
28,910
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Gukesh D
chess player · b. 2006
Hibari Misora🇯🇵
deceasedsinger · 1937–1989
Days lived
19,019
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Ingo Steinhöfel🇩🇪
German weightlifter · b. 1967
Days alive
366
John F. Kennedy🇺🇸
deceasedwriter · 1917–1963
Days lived
16,978
Julius Leopold Pagel
deceasedGerman physician (1851–1912) · 1851–1912
Days lived
22,160
Justin Tryon🇺🇸
player of American football · b. 1984
Katharina Otte🇩🇪
Olympic field hockey player · b. 1987
Kenny Washington🇺🇸
American musician · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
Kim Tae-kyun🇰🇷
film director · b. 1982
Kirstin Freye🇩🇪
German female tennis player · b. 1975
Marco Cassetti🇮🇹
football player · b. 1977
Max de Crinis🇦🇹
deceasedGerman psychiatrist (1889–1945) · 1889–1945
Days lived
20,426
Mohsen Makhmalbaf🇫🇷
YouTube personality · b. 1957
Days alive
4,018
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Noel Gallagher🇬🇧
singer-songwriter · b. 1967
Days alive
366
Norbert Reithofer🇩🇪
entrepreneur · b. 1956
Days alive
4,383
Oliver Sorg🇩🇪
German footballer · b. 1990
Oswald Spengler🇩🇪
deceasedphilosopher · 1880–1936
Days lived
20,432
Otto Gebühr🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1877-1954) · 1877–1954
Days lived
28,046
Pascale Crozon🇫🇷
member of the National Assembly of France · b. 1944
Days alive
8,766
Petek Dinçöz
Turkish actor and singer (born 1980) · b. 1980
Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon🇹🇭
Olympic weightlifter · b. 1984
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Princess Irmingard of Bavaria🇩🇪
deceasedBavarian Royal (1923-2010) · 1923–2010
Days lived
31,924
Reginald Rodrigues🇮🇳
deceasedfield hockey player (1922–1995) · 1922–1995
Days lived
26,741
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Roberto Di Matteo🇨🇭
Italian association football player and manager · b. 1970
Sébastien Grosjean🇫🇷
French tennis player (born 1978) · b. 1978
Shaun King🇺🇸
former quarterback · b. 1977
Siarhei Liakhovich🇧🇾
Belarusian boxer · b. 1976
Stephan Weidner🇩🇪
rapper · b. 1963
Days alive
1,827
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Stephanie de Groof🇧🇪
Belgian field hockey player · b. 1991
Ted Tollner🇺🇸
American football coach · b. 1940
Days alive
10,227
Udo Proksch🇦🇹
deceasedentrepreneur · 1934–2001
Days lived
24,501
Wiltrud Probst🇩🇪
German tennis player · b. 1969
Wolfgang Heidenfeld🇮🇪
deceasedSouth African chess player (1911–1981) · 1911–1981
Days lived
25,634
Wyn Hoop🇩🇪
German singer · b. 1936
Days alive
11,688
Xavier Rudd🇦🇺
singer-songwriter · b. 1978
Died on This Day
Alfred Kolleritsch🇦🇹
deceasedphilosopher · 1931–2020
Days lived
32,610
Alfred Kramer🇩🇪
deceasedGerman SS-member (1898-1946) · 1898–1946
Days lived
17,369
Anthony Frederick🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican basketball player (1964–2003) · 1964–2003
Days lived
14,174
Antonín Mrkos🇨🇿
deceasedCzech astronomer (1918–1996) · 1918–1996
Days lived
28,612
Arnold Gesell🇺🇸
deceasedpsychologist and pediatrician (1880–1961) · 1880–1961
Days lived
29,561
Charlie Seeling🇳🇿
deceasedNew Zealand rugby union and rugby league footballer (1883-1956) · 1883–1956
Days lived
26,678
Claude Torracinta🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss journalist (1934–2024) · 1934–2024
Days lived
32,707
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Dennis Hopper🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1936–2010
Days lived
27,040
Doris Hart🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican tennis player (1925–2015) · 1925–2015
Days lived
32,850
Erich Honecker🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1912–1994
Days lived
29,862
Eva Hesse🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1936–1970
Days lived
12,557
Fanny Brice🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actress, singer and comedian (1891–1951) · 1891–1951
Days lived
21,761
Georg Wilhelm Pabst🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian film director (1885–1967) · 1885–1967
Days lived
29,859
Glen Selbo🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican basketball player (1926–1995) · 1926–1995
Days lived
25,263
Gunnar Nielsen🇩🇰
deceasedathlete · 1928–1985
Days lived
20,884
Harald zur Hausen🇩🇪
deceasedGerman virologist and professor emeritus (1936–2023) · 1936–2023
Days lived
31,855
Hermann Abendroth🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1883–1956
Days lived
26,793
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Jeff Buckley🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican musician (1966–1997) · 1966–1997
Days lived
11,151
John Barrymore🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor (1882–1942) · 1882–1942
Days lived
22,018
Kurt Weiß🇩🇪
deceasedfield hockey player (1906-1995) · 1906–1995
Days lived
32,567
Mary Pickford🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian actress and producer (1892–1979) · 1892–1979
Days lived
31,826
Raymond Boyer🇫🇷
deceasedFrench archaeologist (1925–2011) · 1925–2011
Days lived
31,396
Soong Ching-ling🇨🇳
deceasedpolitician · 1893–1981
Days lived
32,263
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Wilhelm Castelli🇩🇪
deceasedGerman photographer (1901-1984) · 1901–1984
Days lived
30,114
Wolfgang Behrendt🇩🇪
deceasedGerman television presenter and news presenter · 1919–2001
Days lived
29,962
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,151
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
Hans Reiter🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Nazi physician (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,413
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,822
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Digit🇷🇼
deceasedMountain gorilla · 1967–1977
Days lived
4,017
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,995
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,692
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,265
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,707
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,673
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,307
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,751
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,403
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,202
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,716
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,734
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,403
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,755
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,298
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,208
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,185
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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