Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 29

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[edit] Births

• 1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (pictured) (d. 1837)
• 1911 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
• 1920 - Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
• 1925 - Giorgio Napolitano, Italian Politician and lifetime senator
• 1928 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
• 1941 - Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), American civil rights activist and Black Panther member (d. 1998)
• 1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian musician and activist

[edit] Deaths

• 1852 - Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)
• 1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
• 1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
• 1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
• 1993 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
• 2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)

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