October 29, 1971

1971Daniel J. Bernstein, American mathematician, cryptologist, and academic^[†]

Daniel Julius Bernstein is an American mathematician, cryptologist, and computer scientist. He was a professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1995 to 2008. He was a visiting professor in the department of mathematics and computer science at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and a visiting professor at CASA at Ruhr University Bochum through 2023.

1971Greg Blewett, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster^[†]

Gregory Scott Blewett is an Australian international retired cricketer who played Test cricket and One-Day Internationals between 1995 and 2000.

1971Matthew Hayden, Australian cricketer^[†]

Matthew Lawrence Hayden is an Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer. His career spanned fifteen years. Hayden was a powerful and aggressive left-handed opening batsman who, along with opening partners Justin Langer and Adam Gilchrist, contributed heavily to Australia's success during its "golden era" (2000–2008) in Test and ODI cricket respectively. He holds the record of highest individual score by an Australian batsman in Tests, having scored 380 against Zimbabwe during Zimbabwe's 2003 tour of Australia. This stands as the second-highest individual score in test cricket. It is the highest score by an opening batsman in Tests, though infamously he never faced the opening ball in Tests with Langer, always batting at No2. Hayden was a member of the Australian team that won both the 2003 Cricket World Cup, and the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

1971Winona Ryder, American actress and producer^[†]

Winona Laura Horowitz, known professionally as Winona Ryder, is an American actress. Having come to attention playing quirky characters in the late 1980s, she achieved success with her more dramatic performances in the 1990s. Ryder's many accolades include a Golden Globe, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Grammy Award.

1971Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946)^[†]

Howard Duane Allman was an American rock and blues guitarist and the founder and original leader of the Allman Brothers Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

1971Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)^[†]

Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius was a Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948 "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins."