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September 15, 1929

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Eva Burrows

1929Eva Burrows, Australian 13th General of The Salvation Army (died 2015)[†]

Eva Evelyn Burrows, AC, OF was an Australian Salvation Army Officer who was the 13th General of the Salvation Army, serving from 1986 to 1993. She served as an Officer of the Salvation Army from 1951 until her retirement in 1993. In 1993, Henry Gariepy released her biography, General of God's Army: the Authorized Biography of General Eva Burrows.

Murray Gell-Mann

1929Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)[†]

Murray Gell-Mann was an American theoretical physicist who played a preeminent role in the development of the theory of elementary particles. Gell-Mann introduced the concept of quarks as the fundamental building blocks of the strongly interacting particles, and the renormalization group as a foundational element of quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. Murray Gell-Mann received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.

1929Stan Kelly-Bootle, English singer-songwriter, computer scientist, and author (died 2014)[†]

Stanley Bootle, known as Stan Kelly-Bootle, was a British author, academic, singer-songwriter and computer scientist.

1929Dick Latessa, American actor (died 2016)[†]

Richard Robert Latessa was an American stage, film, and television actor.

John Julius Norwich

1929John Julius Norwich, English historian and author (died 2018)[†]

John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich,, also known as John Julius Norwich, was an English popular historian, writer of widely read travel books, and television personality.

Wilbur Snyder

1929Wilbur Snyder, American football player and wrestler (died 1991)[†]

Wilbur Snyder was an American football player and professional wrestler.

1929Mümtaz Soysal, Turkish academic and politician, 30th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2019)[†]

Osman MĂźmtaz Soysal was a Turkish professor of constitutional law, political scientist, politician, human rights activist, ex-prisoner of conscience, senior advisor, columnist, and author.