In a world with nearly 7 billion people, chances are someone famous is celebrating their birthday today.
And indeed: Lea Michele, John McCain, and more will all be blowing out candles today. Will it be your favorite TV personality? Maybe an important figure from history?
Help us celebrate the birth of some of the world's coolest people by taking a scroll through some of the most noteworthy birthday's of August 29th -- enjoy!
Today would have been Michael Jackson's 53rd birthday. Click here to see how Twitter wished the "King of Pop" a happy birthday.
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