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From 1984 to 1989 he played in MLB as an outfielder for the New York Mets, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, and Oakland Athletics.
Famous Birthdays on March 29
1962 — Billy Beane
American baseball player and manager
March 29 has 190 recorded notable births across history, from 1187 to 2004. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on March 29
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- 1549 The city of Salvador, Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded. Source
- 2017 Prime Minister Theresa May invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union. Source
- 1936 The 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for the recent remilitarization of the Rhineland. Source
- 1962 Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11+1⁄2 day constitutional crisis. Source
Did you know
John Tyler was the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841.
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Christopher Lambert started his career playing supporting parts in several French films, and became internationally famous for portraying Tarzan in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984).
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Utpal Dutt was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the "Little Theatre Group" in 1949.
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Nick Ut won both the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and the 1973 World Press Photo of the Year for the 1972 photograph The Terror of War, depicting children running away from a napalm bombing attack during the Vietnam War.
More major people born on March 29
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1790
John Tyler
American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the United States (died 1862)
John Tyler was the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841.
1957
Christopher Lambert
American-French actor
Christophe Guy Denis Lambert, often credited as Christopher Lambert, is a French–American actor, producer, and writer.
1929
Utpal Dutt
Indian actor, director and playwright (died 1993)
Utpal Dutt was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright.
1951
Nick Ut
Vietnamese-American photographer
Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut, is a Vietnamese-American photographer who worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles.
1949
Israel Finkelstein
Israeli archaeologist and professor
Israel Finkelstein is an Israeli archaeologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa.
1956
Kurt Thomas
American gymnast (died 2020)
Kurt Bilteaux Thomas was an American Olympic gymnast and part-time actor.
1959
Brad McCrimmon
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2011)
Byron Brad McCrimmon was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach.
1780
Jørgen Jørgensen
Danish adventurer (died 1841)
Jørgen Jørgensen was a Danish adventurer during the Age of Revolution. During the action of 2 March 1808, his ship was captured by the British.
1872
Hal Colebatch
English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Western Australia (died 1953)
Sir Harry Pateshall Colebatch was a long-serving figure in Western Australian politics.
1921
Sam Loxton
Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician (died 2011)
Samuel John Everett Loxton was an Australian cricketer, footballer and politician. As a cricket player he played in 12 Tests for Australia from 1948 to 1951.
1936
Joseph P. Teasdale
American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Missouri (died 2014)
Joseph Patrick Teasdale was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as the 48th governor of Missouri from 1977 to 1981. Teasdale was formerly a prosecutor for Jackson County, Missouri.
1958
Travis Childers
American businessman and politician
Travis Wayne Childers is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Mississippi's 1st congressional district from 2008 to 2011.
1871
Tom Hayward
English cricketer (died 1939)
Thomas Walter Hayward was an English first-class cricketer who played for Surrey and England between the 1890s and the outbreak of World War I.
1867
Cy Young
American baseball player and manager (died 1955)
Denton True "Cy" Young was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. Born in Gilmore, Ohio, he worked on his family's farm as a youth before starting his professional baseball career.
1874
Lou Henry Hoover
American philanthropist and geologist, 33rd First Lady of the United States (died 1944)
Lou Henry Hoover was an American philanthropist, geologist, and the first lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933 as the wife of President Herbert Hoover.
1948
Barbara Clare Foley
American author and educator
Barbara Clare Foley is an American literary scholar and a retired Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. She has focused her research and teaching on U.S.
1981
PJ Morton
American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
Paul Sylvester "P.J." Morton Jr. is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer.
1946
Billy Thorpe
English-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2007)
William Richard Thorpe AM was an English-born Australian singer-songwriter, and record producer.
1799
Edward Smith-Stanley
14th Earl of Derby, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1869)
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, known as Lord Stanley from 1834 to 1851, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served three times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.