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 (+ 1818)
- 1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, lyricist (+ 1837)
- 1861 - Dr. William Mayo[?], surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic
- 1880 - Ludwig Beck, general (+ 1944)
- 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (+ 1944)
- 1901 - Nelson Eddy[?], singer (+ 1967)
- 1910 - Frank Loesser, composer (+ 1969)
- 1911 - Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands)
- 1911 - Bernard Herrmann, composer (+ 1975)
- 1915 - Ruth Warrick[?], actress
- 1919 - Slim Pickens, actor (+ 1983)
- 1920 - Ray Harryhausen, film maker
- 1921 - Reinhard Mohn[?], publisher
- 1941 - Kwame Ture[?], (born "Stokeley Carmichael"), civil rights activist
- 1944 - Gary Busey, actor
- 1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter[?], violinist
- 1972 - Samantha Smith, U.S. social activist, actress
Deaths
- 1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet
- 1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist
- 1933 - Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle[?], actor
- 1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist
- 1967 - Jayne Mansfield[?], actress
- 1979 - Lowell George[?]
- 1967 - Primo Carnera, boxer
- 1969 - Moise Thsombe[?], Premier of Congo
- 1995 - Lana Turner, actress
- 1999 - Allan Carr[?], film producer, writer
- 2000 - Vittorio Gassman, 78, Italian actor
- 2002 - Rosemary Clooney, 74, singer, actress
- 2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, computer scientist
- 2003 - Katharine Hepburn, actress
Holidays and observances
- Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints)
See Also:
June 28 - June 30 - May 29 - July 29 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, October, November, December
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