29 October: today's birthdays

• Richard Dreyfuss - American actor, born Richard Stephen Dreyfuss. He won an Oscar for Best Actor for starring inThe Goodbye Girl, in 1978
• Necmettin Erbakan - Turkish politician
• Jean Giraudoux - French novelist, playwright and diplomat. He wrote The Madwoman of Chaillot, Ondine, Duel of Angels, and The Trojan War Will Not Take Place
• Joseph Paul Goebbels - German politician and journalist, he was a Nazi hierarch
• ​Primož Roglič - Slovenian racing cyclist
• Tracee Ellis Ross - American actress, born Tracee Joy Silberstein. She is the daughter of American singer Diana Ross
• Winona Ryder - American actress, born Winona Laura Horowitz. She starred in Heathers, Reality Bites, The Crucible, and Girl, Interrupted
• Niki de Saint Phalle - French sculptor, painter and filmmaker, born Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle
• Henry John Temple - English politician best known as Lord Palmerston. He served twice as as Prime Minister in Great Britain