Birthdays in History on July 29

1796 Walter Hunt, American inventor (safety pin, sewing machine), born in Martinsburg, New York (d. 1859)

1797 Daniel Drew, American financier (d. 1879)
1801 George Bradshaw, British publisher, born in Manchester, England (d. 1853)
1805 Alexis de Tocqueville, French statesman/writer (Democracy in America)
1817 James Blair Steedman, American Major General (Union Army), born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania (d. 1883)
1820 Clement Laird Vallandigham, MC (Union), (d. 1871)
1828 Cuvier Grover, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Bethel, Maine (d. 1885)
1830 Alvan Cullom Gillem, American Major General (Union Army), born in Gainesboro, Tennessee (d. 1875)
1843 Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
1849 Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
1854 Georg Kerschensteiner, German educator (Theory of Education)
1861 Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt, born in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (d. 1884)

1861 Sergei D Sazonov, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs (1910-16)
1869 Booth Tarkington, American novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons)
1872 Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
1874 August Stramm, German poet and playwright, born in Cathedrals (d. 1915)
1874 James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
1878 Don Marquis, Ill, journalist/poet (archy & mehitabel) (d. 1937)

1883 Benito Mussolini [Il Duce], Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43), born in Predappio, Forlì, Italy (d. 1945)

1888 Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American inventor (development of television, cathode ray tube), born in Murom, Russian Empire (d. 1982)

1889 Karl Otten, German Expressionist writer, born in Oberkrüchten (d. 1963)
1891 Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist
1892 Ernst van Raalte, Dutch journalist (Seen, heard... wrote), born in Rotterdam, South Holland (d. 1975)
1897 Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
1898 Isidor Isaac Rabi, Polish physicist (explored atom, Nobel 1944)
1900 Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist (Return to Ithaca), Nobel Prize (1974), born in Svartbjörnsbyn (d. 1976)
1903 Diana Vreeland, French-American fashion editor (Harper's Bazaar, Vogue), born in Paris (d. 1989)
1904 J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1993)
1905 Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), born in Jönköping, Sweden (d. 1961)
1905 Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
1907 Melvin Belli, American lawyer known as "The King of Torts" and "Melvin Bellicose", born in Sonora, California (d. 1996)
1910 Henry Brian Boyne, journalist

1910 Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist who developed protein crystallography, 3rd woman to win a Nobel Prize (1964), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1994)

1911 Iakovos, Archbishop of America (d. 2005)
1913 Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
1914 Abram Games, graphic artist
1914 Dovie Hudson, community activist in rural Mississippi
1915 Bruce R. McConkie, LDS apostle and author (d. 1985)
1915 Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1998)
1918 Vladimir Dudentzev, Russian writer
1919 Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005)
1919 Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice and Royal Commissioner, born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1999)
1920 Neville Jeffress, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia (d. 2007)
1921 Aled Eames, Welsh maritime historian, born in Llandudno (d. 1996)
1924 Arnold Weinstock, English industrial/multi-millionaire (GEC)

1924 Elizabeth Short, American victim in the Black Dahlia case, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1947)

1926 Russel Firestone, polo great (Circle F-1959 champs)
1926 Don Carter, professional bowler, six-time bowler of the year, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2012)
1927 Harry K V Mulisch, writer (Message to King Rat)
1928 Li Ka-Shing, Chinese philanthropist and chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings, born in Chaozhou, Guangdong
1928 Li Ka-Shing, Hong Kong business magnate (CK Holdings), born in Chaozhou, China
1929 Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
1932 Nancy Landon Kassebaum, (Sen-R-Kansas, 1979- )
1936 Elizabeth Hanford Dole, US Secretary of Transportation (1983-87)
1937 Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1937 Charles Schwab, American investor and entrepreneur (Charles Schwab Corporation), born in Sacramento, California

1938 Jean Rochon, Quebec politician
1946 Bill Forsyth, director (Local Hero, Breaking In, Housekeeping)
1949 Marilyn Tucker Quayle, novelist/wife of Vice President Dan Quayle (1989-93)
1955 Dave Stevens, American illustrator
1956 Ronnie Musgrove, Former Governor of Mississippi
1957 Virginia Maria "Ginni" Rometty, American chairwoman, president and CEO of IBM, born in Chigago, Illinois
1959 Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and artist
1963 Graham Poll, English football referee
1963 Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator
1965 Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author
1966 Richard Steven Horvitz, American comic voiceactor