29 September: today's birthdays

• Michelle Bachelet - Chilean politician, 36th President of Chile
• Silvio Berlusconi - Italian entrepreneur and politician. He is the founder of the mass media company Mediaset and he is the owner of the Italian football club A.C. Milan
• Pier Luigi Bersani - Italian politician. He is the current Secretary of the Democratic Party
• François Boucher - French painter
• Caravaggio - Italian painter, born Michelangelo Merisi o Amerighi, one of the most famous Italian painters
• Sebastian Coe - English Olympic athlete and politician
• Jacopo Comin - Italian painter best known as Tintoretto
• Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Spanish writer and poet. He wrote the novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha)
• Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo - Spanish philosopher, poet, novelist, playwright and politician of Basque descent
• Enrico Fermi - Italian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in  1938. He was the inventor of the first nuclear reactor
• Jon Fosse - Norwegian writer, poet, and dramatist. He wrote Red, Black (Rødt, svart)
• Greer Garson - British actress
  
• Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - English novelist. She wrote Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters
• Drake Hogestyn - American actor. He is best known for his role as John Black in the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
• Mara Keisling - American transgender rights activist and founder of the National Center for Transgender Equality
• Stanley Kramer - American film director and producer
• Alan McGee - Scottish musician and record producer
• Chrissy Metz - American actress, born Christine Metz
• Horatio Nelson - English officer
• John Tower - American politician
• Lech Wałęsa - Polish politician, Nobel Peace Prize in 1983. He was the 2nd President of Poland