29 April: today's birthdays

• Andre Agassi - American tennis player
• Anggun - Indonesian-born French singer, born Anggun Cipta Sasmi
• Giambattista Bietti - Italian ophthalmologist
• Georges Boulanger - French general and politician
• Urie Bronfenbrenner - Russian-born American psychologist
• Taylor Cole - American actress
• Daniel Day-Lewis - English actor, born Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis. He has won three Oscars for Best Actor: the first in 1990 (My left foot), the second in 2008 (There Will Be Blood), and the third in 2013 (Abraham Lincoln)
• Duke Ellington - American composer and pianist
• Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović - Croatian politician, 4th President of Croatia
• Hirohito - Emperor of Japan
• Bernard Madoff - Former American entrepreneur, born Bernard Lawrence Madoff. He was sentenced to life imprisonment guilty of organizing one of the biggest frauds in US history
• Rubén Darío Maldonado Brizuela - Paraguayan soccer player
• Michelle Pfeiffer - American actress. She starred in Dangerous Liaisons and The Fabulous Baker Boys.
• Francesc Pi i Margall - Catalan writer and politician
• Jules-Henri Poincaré - French mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher
• Jean Rochefort - French actor, born Jean Raoul Robert Rochefort 
• Jerry Seinfeld - American comedian and actor
• Uma Thurman - American actress and model. She was married to American actor and writer Ethan Hawke
• Timothy Treadwell - American environmentalist and documentary filmmaker
• Harold Urey - American chemist
• Ernst von Feuchtersleben - Austrian writer
  
• Fred Zinnemann - Austrian-born American film director