People born on 29th June

Births

• 1136 – Petronilla of Aragon (d. 1173)
• 1326 – Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1389)
• 1398 – John II of Aragon and Navarre (d. 1479)
• 1443 – Anthony Browne, English knight (d. 1506)
• 1482 – Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
• 1488 – Pedro Pacheco de Villena, Catholic cardinal (d. 1560)
• 1517 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (d. 1585)
• 1525 – Peter Agricola, German humanist, theologian, diplomat and statesman (d. 1585)
• 1528 – Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1589)
• 1543 – Christine of Hesse, Duchess consort of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1604)
• 1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
• 1621 – Willem van der Zaan, Dutch Admiral (d. 1669)
• 1746 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, German linguist, author, and educator (d. 1818)
• 1768 – Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (d. 1831)
• 1793 – Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller (d. 1857)
• 1798 – Willibald Alexis, German author and poet (d. 1871)
• 1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (d. 1837)
• 1801 – Frédéric Bastiat, French economist and theorist (d. 1850)^[1]
• 1803 – John Newton Brown, American minister and author (d. 1868)
• 1818 – Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1878)
• 1819 – Thomas Dunn English, American poet, playwright, and politician (d. 1902)
• 1833 – Peter Waage, Norwegian chemist and academic (d. 1900)
• 1835 – Celia Thaxter, American poet and story writer (d. 1894)
• 1844 – Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
• 1849 – Pedro Montt, Chilean lawyer and politician, 15th President of Chile (d. 1910)
• 1849 – Sergei Witte, Russian politician, 1st Chairmen of Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire (d. 1915)
• 1849 – John Hunn, American businessman and politician, 51st Governor of Delaware (d. 1926)
• 1858 – George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer, co-designed the Panama Canal (d. 1928)
• 1858 – Julia Lathrop, American activist and politician (d. 1932)
• 1861 – William James Mayo, American physician and surgeon, co-founded the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
• 1863 – Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1934)
• 1866 – Bartholomeus Roodenburch, Dutch swimmer (d. 1939)
• 1868 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and journalist (d. 1938)
• 1870 – Joseph Carl Breil, American tenor, composer, and director (d. 1926)
• 1873 – Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (d. 1938)
• 1879 – Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian cardinal (d. 1970)
• 1880 – Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
• 1881 – Harry Frazee, American director, producer, and agent (d. 1929)
• 1881 – Curt Sachs, German-American composer and musicologist (d. 1959)
• 1882 – Henry Hawtrey, English runner (d. 1961)
• 1882 – Franz Seldte, German captain and politician, Reich Minister for Labour (d. 1947)
• 1886 – Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1963)
• 1888 – Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (d. 1927)
• 1889 – Willie Macfarlane, Scottish-American golfer (d. 1961)
• 1890 – Robert Laurent, American sculptor and academic (d. 1970)
• 1890 – Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 2005)
• 1893 – Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian economist and statistician (d. 1972)
• 1893 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer and educator (d. 1958)
• 1897 – Fulgence Charpentier, Canadian journalist and publisher (d. 2001)
• 1898 – Yvonne Lefébure, French pianist and educator (d. 1986)
• 1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (d. 1944)
• 1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
• 1903 – Alan Blumlein, English engineer, developed the H2S radar (d. 1942)
• 1904 – Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician (d. 1956)
• 1906 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
• 1906 – Heinz Harmel, German general (d. 2000)
• 1908 – Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (d. 1975)
• 1908 – Erik Lundqvist, Swedish javelin thrower (d. 1963)
• 1910 – Frank Loesser, American composer and conductor (d. 1969)
• 1910 – Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1911 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (d. 2004)
• 1911 – Katherine DeMille, Canadian-American actress (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer and conductor (d. 1975)
• 1912 – José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1958)
• 1912 – Émile Peynaud, French oenologist and academic (d. 2004)
• 1912 – John Toland, American historian and author (d. 2004)
• 1913 – Earle Meadows, American pole vaulter (d. 1992)
• 1914 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech-American conductor and composer (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek-American mathematician and academic (d. 1976)
• 1916 – Ruth Warrick, American actress and activist (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Ling Yun, Chinese politician (d. 2018)
• 1918 – Heini Lohrer, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2011)
• 1918 – Gene La Rocque, U.S admiral (d. 2016)
• 1918 – Francis W. Nye, United States Air Force major general
• 1919 – Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (d. 2008)
• 1919 – Walter Babington Thomas, Commander of British Far East Land Forces (d. 2017)
• 1919 – Slim Pickens, American actor and rodeo performer (d. 1983)
• 1920 – César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Ray Harryhausen, American animator and producer (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Nicole Russell, Duchess of Bedford (d. 2012)
• 1921 – Frédéric Dard, French author and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Jean Kent, English actress (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (d. 2009)
• 1921 – Harry Schell, French-American race car driver (d. 1960)
• 1922 – Ralph Burns, American songwriter, bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and pianist (d. 2001)
• 1922 – Vasko Popa, Serbian poet and academic (d. 1991)
• 1922 – John William Vessey, Jr., American general (d. 2016)
• 1923 – Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer and educator
• 1924 – Ezra Laderman, American composer and educator (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Roy Walford, American pathologist and gerontologist (d. 2004)
• 1924 – Philip H. Hoff, American politician (d. 2018)
• 1925 – Francis S. Currey, American World War II Medal of Honor recipient
• 1925 – Giorgio Napolitano, Italian journalist and politician, 11th President of Italy
• 1925 – Chan Parker, American dancer and author (d. 1999)
• 1925 – Jackie Lynn Taylor, American actress (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Cara Williams, American actress
• 1926 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler, 3rd Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Julius W. Becton, Jr., U.S lieutenant general
• 1926 – Roger Stuart Bacon, 21st Premier of Nova Scotia from 1990 to 1991.
• 1926 – Bobby Morgan, American professional baseball player
• 1927 – Pierre Perrault, Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1927 – Marie Thérèse Killens, Canadian politician
• 1928 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
• 1928 – Jean-Louis Pesch, French author and illustrator
• 1928 – Radius Prawiro, Indonesian economist and politician (d. 2005)
• 1929 – Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
• 1929 – Pete George, American weightlifter
• 1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Ernst Albrecht, German economist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Robert Evans, American actor and producer
• 1930 – Viola Léger, American-Canadian actress and politician
• 1930 – Sławomir Mrożek, Polish-French author and playwright (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Sevim Burak, Turkish author (d. 1983)
• 1932 – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British jurist; Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
• 1933 – Bob Shaw, American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)
• 1933 – John Bradshaw, American theologian and author (d. 2016)
• 1934 – Corey Allen, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2010)
• 1935 – Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos, Greek captain and businessman (d. 2011)
• 1935 – Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
• 1936 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2011)
• 1939 – Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
• 1939 – Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer and coach
• 1940 – Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
• 1940 – John Dawes, Welsh rugby player and coach
• 1941 – John Boccabella, American baseball player
• 1941 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
• 1942 – Charlotte Bingham, English author and screenwriter
• 1942 – Mike Willesee, Australian journalist and producer
• 1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1943 – Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur and chairman of Montpellier HSC from 1974 to his death (d. 2017)
• 1944 – Gary Busey, American actor
• 1944 – Andreu Mas-Colell, Spanish economist, academic, and politician
• 1944 – Seán Patrick O'Malley, American cardinal
• 1945 – Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan journalist and politician, 5th President of Sri Lanka
• 1946 – Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician, 33rd President of Panama
• 1946 – Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
• 1947 – Richard Lewis, American actor and screenwriter
• 1948 – Sean Bergin, South African-Dutch saxophonist and flute player (d. 2012)
• 1948 – Fred Grandy, American actor and politician
• 1948 – Ian Paice, English drummer, songwriter, and producer
• 1948 – Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar, Kenyan-English politician
• 1949 – Dan Dierdorf, American football player and sportscaster
• 1949 – Joan Clos, Spanish anesthesiologist and politician, 116th Mayor of Barcelona
• 1949 – Ann Veneman, American lawyer and politician, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture
• 1950 – Bobby London, American illustrator
• 1951 – Craig Sager, American sportscaster (d. 2016)
• 1953 – Don Dokken, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dokken)
• 1953 – Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian singer and guitarist,
• 1954 – Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player and coach
• 1954 – Leovegildo Lins da Gama Júnior, Brazilian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1955 – Charles J. Precourt, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1956 – Nick Fry, English economist and businessman
• 1956 – David Burroughs Mattingly, American illustrator and painter
• 1956 – Pedro Guerrero, Dominican-American baseball player and manager
• 1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1956 – Pyotr Vasilevsky, Belarusian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• 1957 – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmen dentist and politician, 2nd President of Turkmenistan
• 1957 – María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
• 1957 – Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1957 – Michael Nutter, American politician, 98th Mayor of Philadelphia
• 1957 – Terry Wyatt, English physicist and academic
• 1958 – Dieter Althaus, German politician
• 1958 – Rosa Mota, Portuguese runner
• 1961 – Sharon Lawrence, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1962 – Amanda Donohoe, English actress
• 1962 – Joan Laporta, Spanish lawyer and politician
• 1962 – George D. Zamka, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
• 1964 – Stedman Pearson, English singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1965 – Tripp Eisen, American guitarist
• 1965 – Paul Jarvis, English cricketer
• 1966 – Yoko Kamio, Japanese author and comic artist
• 1967 – Jeff Burton, American race car driver
• 1967 – Melora Hardin, American actress and singer
• 1967 – Seamus McGarvey, Northern Irish cinematographer
• 1968 – Brian d'Arcy James, American actor and musician
• 1968 – Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Judith Hoag, American actress and educator
• 1969 – Claude Béchard, Canadian politician (d. 2010)
• 1969 – Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1969 – Tōru Hashimoto, Japanese lawyer and politician
• 1970 – Melanie Paschke, German sprinter
• 1970 – Emily Skinner, American actress and singer
• 1971 – Matthew Good, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 – George Hincapie, American cyclist
• 1976 – Daniel Carlsson, Swedish race car driver
• 1976 – Bret McKenzie, New Zealand comedian, actor, musician, songwriter, and producer
• 1977 – Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1977 – Zuleikha Robinson, English actress
• 1978 – Nicole Scherzinger, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1979 – Matthew Bode, Australian footballer
• 1979 – Andy O'Brien, English footballer
• 1979 – Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
• 1980 – Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano and actress
• 1981 – Luke Branighan, Australian rugby league player
• 1981 – Joe Johnson, American basketball player
• 1981 – Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentinian race car driver (d. 2005)
• 1981 – Shmuly Yanklowitz, American rabbi, author, and educator
• 1982 – Dusty Hughes, American baseball player
• 1982 – Lily Rabe, American actress
• 1983 – Aundrea Fimbres, American singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1983 – Jeremy Powers, American cyclist
• 1984 – Aleksandr Shustov, Russian high jumper
• 1985 – Quintin Demps, American football player
• 1986 – José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer
• 1986 – Edward Maya, Romanian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1987 – Ana Free, Portuguese singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Ilya Shesterkov, Russian footballer
• 1988 – Éver Banega, Argentinian footballer
• 1990 – Kim Little, Scottish footballer
• 1990 – Yann M'Vila, French footballer
• 1991 – Suk Hyun-jun, South Korean footballer
• 1991 – Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player
• 1991 – R. Jeeva, Indian Tamil Musician
• 1994 – Camila Mendes, American actress and model
• 1996 – Joseph Manu, New Zealand rugby league player
• 2006 – Sam Lavagnino, American child voice actor