Famous Birthdays for 29th December 2025

1850 – Tomás Bretón, Spanish conductor and composer (La Dolores; La verbena de la Paloma), born in Salamanca, Spain (d. 1923)
1920 – Syd Dernley, British hangman (1949-54), born in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire (d. 1994)
1927 – Andy Stanfield, American athlete (Olympic gold 200m, 4x100m relay 1952, silver 200m 1956; WR 200m: 20.60 1952), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1985)
1930 – Willy Giefer, German composer (Everything That Breathes), born in Koblenz, Germany (d. 2020)
1944 – Rodney Redmond, New Zealand cricket batsman (1 Test, 1 x 100, HS 107; Auckland, Wellington), born in Whangarei, New Zealand
1949 – Michèle Burke, Irish makeup artist and one of the first women to win the Academy Award for Best Makeup (Quest for Fire, Interview with the Vampire), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 2025)
1954 – Glenn Myernick, American soccer player and coach (Olympic gold 1996), born in Trenton, New Jersey
1965 – (Bryan) “Dexter” Holland, American rock singer-songwriter (The Offspring), born in Garden Grove, California
1970 – Hidetoshi Mitsusada, Japanese racing driver, born in Osaka, Japan
1979 – Ariel Schrag, American cartoonist, born in Berkeley, California

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