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Jackson first gained recognition on the family's variety television series, The Jacksons, on CBS between 1976 and 1977.
Famous Birthdays on May 29
1956 — La Toya Jackson
American singer-songwriter and actress
May 29 has 227 recorded notable births across history, from 1421 to 2006. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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- 1999 Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule. Source
- 1999 Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station. Source
- 1973 Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California. Source
- 1990 The Congress of People's Deputies of Russia elects Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Source
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Rupert Everett first came to public attention in 1981 when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as a gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s; the role earned him his first BAFTA Award nomination.
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In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word, making her the first trans woman to win the award.
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As an actor, he is known for his leading roles in the first and second seasons of television series Weak Hero (2022–2025) and the historical film The King's Warden (2026).
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Eric Keith Davis is an American former professional baseball center fielder for several Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, most notably the Cincinnati Reds, to which he owes his nickname "Eric the Red.
More major people born on May 29
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1959
Rupert Everett
English actor and novelist
Rupert James Hector Everett is an English actor. He first came to public attention in 1981 when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as a gay pupil at an English public school…
1972
Laverne Cox
American actress and LGBT advocate
Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBTQ advocate. She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, becoming in 2014 the first transgender person to be nominated…
1999
Park Ji-hoon
South Korean actor and singer
Park Ji-hoon is a South Korean singer and actor. He started his career in the entertainment industry as a commercial model and child actor in 2006.
1962
Eric Davis
American baseball player
Eric Keith Davis is an American former professional baseball center fielder for several Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, most notably the Cincinnati Reds, to which he owes his nickname "Eric the Red." Davis was 21…
1939
Al Unser
American race car driver (died 2021)
Alfred Unser was an American automobile racing driver, the younger brother of fellow racing drivers Jerry and Bobby Unser, and father of Al Unser Jr.
1627
Anne
Duchess of Montpensier, French princess (died 1693)
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, known as La Grande Mademoiselle, was the only daughter of Gaston d'Orléans with his first wife, Marie, Duchess of Montpensier.
1967
Steven Levitt
American economist, author, and academic
Steven David Levitt is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book Freakonomics and its sequels. Levitt is a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago.
1893
Max Brand
American journalist and author (died 1944)
Frederick Schiller Faust was an American writer known primarily for his Western stories using the pseudonym Max Brand. As Max Brand, he also created the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr.
1959
Steve Hanley
Irish-English bass player and songwriter
Stephen Hanley is an Irish-born English musician best known as the bass guitarist in the Fall from 1979 to 1998 and with House Of All since 2022.
2000
Adam Zdrójkowski
Polish actor and television presenter
Adam Zdrójkowski is a Polish television and film actor, and television presenter. He is best known for portraying Kuba one of the main characters in the TVP2 comedy series Family.pl.
1957
Jeb Hensarling
American lawyer and politician
Thomas Jeb Hensarling is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 5th congressional district from 2003 to 2019.
1933
Helmuth Rilling
German conductor and educator (died 2026)
Helmuth Rilling was a German choral conductor and an academic teacher who was internationally known as an authority on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
1975
Daniel Tosh
American comedian, television host, actor, writer, and executive producer
Daniel Dwight Tosh is an American comedian, writer, and producer. After graduating from the University of Central Florida with a degree in marketing, Tosh moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in comedy.
1984
Carmelo Anthony
American basketball player
Carmelo Kyam Anthony is an American former professional basketball player.
1947
Anthony Geary
American actor (died 2025)
Anthony Geary was an American actor. His career spanned more than four decades, and began in episodic television.
1988
Tobin Heath
American soccer player
Tobin Powell Heath is an American former professional soccer player and entrepreneur.
1967
Noel Gallagher
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Noel Thomas David Gallagher is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Gallagher is the primary songwriter, lead guitarist and a co-lead vocalist of the rock band Oasis.
1880
Oswald Spengler
German historian and philosopher (died 1936)
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history.
1949
Robert Axelrod
American actor and screenwriter (died 2019)
Robert Axelrod, also credited as Axel Roberts and Myron Mensah, was an American actor.