Famous People Born in 1929

Martin Luther King Jr.

Baptist minister who led the American civil rights movement, delivered the I Have a Dream speech and won the Nobel Peace Prize

Baptist minister and leader of the American civil rights movement, known for his 'I Have a Dream' speech.

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Anne Frank

Jewish teenager who hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam and whose diary, published after her death in Bergen-Belsen, became world famous

Annelies Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – c. February or March 1945) was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands.

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Yasser Arafat

Leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization for 35 years who signed the Oslo Accords and shared the Nobel Peace Prize

Yasser Arafat (c. August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader.

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Hebe Camargo

Brazilian singer and television host known as the Queen of Brazilian TV, a star of the small screen for six decades

Hebe Maria Monteiro de Camargo Ravagnani (Portuguese pronunciation:; 8 March 1929 – 29 September 2012) was a Brazilian television host, singer and actress. She is considered the "Queen of Brazilian Television" (Portuguese: Rainha da Televisão Brasileira).

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Audrey Hepburn

Belgian-born British actress of Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's, a style icon and UNICEF goodwill ambassador

Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston (née Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema.

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Grace Kelly

American film star of Rear Window and High Noon who won an Oscar, then left Hollywood to become Princess of Monaco

Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death in 1982. Prior to her marriage, she achieved stardom in several significant Hollywood films in the early to mid-1950s.

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Milan Kundera

Czech-born French novelist of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Joke, who explored love and politics under communism

Milan Kundera (UK: KU(U)N-dər-ə; Czech:; 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

American author of the Earthsea books, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, who made science fiction literature

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin ( KROH-bər lə GWIN; née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series.

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