November 2, 1929

1929Amar Bose, American engineer and businessman, founded the Bose Corporation (died 2013)^[†]

Amar Gopal Bose was an American entrepreneur and academic. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. He was also the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation.

1929Robert Gover, American journalist and author (died 2015)^[†]

Robert Gover was an American journalist who became a best-selling novelist at age 30. His first novel, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, a satire on American racism, remains a cult classic that helped break down America's fear of four-letter words and sexually explicit scenes, as well as sensitizing Americans to sanctimonious hypocrisy. Gover worked with writers for three decades. On the Run with Dick and Jane was his ninth novel. His previous book, Time and Money, explores economic and planetary cyclical correlations. In 2015, the Eric Hoffer Prose Award was renamed the Gover Story Prize in his honor.

1929Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Pakistani judge and politician, 9th President of Pakistan (died 2022)^[†]

Muhammad Rafiq Tarar was a Pakistani politician and jurist who served as the ninth president of Pakistan from 1998 until his resignation in 2001 following the military coup by Pervez Musharraf. He also served as a senator from Punjab in 1997; and, before entering politics, as a senior justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1992 to 1994 and as the chief justice of the Lahore High Court from 1989 to 1991.

1929Richard E. Taylor, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)^[†]

Richard Edward Taylor, was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics."