29 July: today's birthdays

• Fernando Alonso - Spanish racing driver. He has been twice the World Champion in Formula 1
• Alexis de Tocqueville - French philosopher, sociologist, historian, and politician. He wrote Democracy in America
• George Dixon - Canadian boxer. He was the first black boxer to win a world championship
• Henri Fayol - Turkish-born French engineer, first theorist of business administration
• Alvin Ward Gouldner - American sociologist and political scientist. He wrote The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology 
• Lukáš Jarolím - Czech soccer player
• Eyvind Johnson - Swedish writer and translater, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974
• Georg Michael Kerschensteiner - German pedagogist and educator
• Allison Mack - German-born American actress
• Jim Marshall - English businessman, nicknamed The father of loud, a pioneer of the electric guitar. He founded the Marshall Amplification