June 29
June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1746 - Joachim Heinrich Campe, pedagogue (d. 1818)
- 1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, lyricist (d. 1837)
- 1858 - George Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
- 1861 - Dr. William Mayo, surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic
- 1868 - George Ellery Hale, astronomer (d. 1938)
- 1880 - Ludwig Beck, general (d. 1944)
- 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer (d. 1944)
- 1901 - Nelson Eddy, singer (d. 1967)
- 1908 - Leroy Anderson, composer
- 1910 - Frank Loesser, composer (d. 1969)
- 1911 - Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands)
- 1911 - Bernard Herrmann, composer (d. 1975)
- 1915 - Ruth Warrick, actress
- 1919 - Slim Pickens, actor (d. 1983)
- 1920 - Ray Harryhausen, film maker
- 1921 - Reinhard Mohn, publisher
- 1936 - Harmon Killebrew, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1941 - Kwame Ture, (born "Stokeley Carmichael"), civil rights activist
- 1944 - Gary Busey, actor
- 1952 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player
- 1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, prime minister of Portugal
- 1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, violinist
- 1970 - Mike Vallely, Professional Skateboarder
- 1971 - Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
- 1972 - Samantha Smith, U.S. social activist, actress
Deaths
- 1315 - Ramon Llull, philosopher (b. 1235)
- 1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (b. 1806)
- 1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist (b. 1825)
- 1933 - Fatty Arbuckle, actor (b. 1887)
- 1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
- 1967 - Jayne Mansfield, actress (b. 1933)
- 1979 - Lowell George, musician (b. 1945)
- 1967 - Primo Carnera, boxer (b. 1906)
- 1969 - Moise Thsombe, Premier of Congo
- 1993 - Hector Lavoe, salsa music singer (b. 1946)
- 1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor (b. 1908)
- 1995 - Lana Turner, actress (b. 1921)
- 1999 - Allan Carr, film producer, writer
- 2000 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
- 2002 - Rosemary Clooney, singer, actress (b. 1928)
- 2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, computer scientist (b. 1931)
- 2003 - Katharine Hepburn, actress (b. 1907)
Holidays and observances
- Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints)
June 28 - June 30 - May 29 - July 29 -- listing of all days
