Tenzing Norgay, born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. On 29 May 1953, he and Edmund Hillary were the first people confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, as part of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition. Time named Norgay one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
Biography from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tenzing Norgay in our timeline
Also born on May 29
- John F. Kennedy1917 · President of the United States from 1961 to 1963
- Charles II of England1630 · King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1660 to 1685
- Annette Bening1958 · American actress
- Danny Elfman1953 · American composer
- Bob Hope1903 · American entertainer
- Carmelo Anthony1984 · American basketball player
- Gukesh Dommaraju2006 · Indian chess grandmaster
- G. K. Chesterton1874 · English author and Christian apologist
Also born in 1914
- Hedy Lamarr1914 · Austrian-American actress and inventor
- Alec Guinness1914 · English actor
- Yuri Andropov1914 · Leader of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1984
- William S. Burroughs1914 · American writer and visual artist
- Dylan Thomas1914 · Welsh poet and writer
- Joe DiMaggio1914 · American baseball player
- Joe Louis1914 · American boxer
- Jonas Salk1914 · American inventor of the polio vaccine