June 29

June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 226 – Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
• 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
• 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
• 1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
• 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
• 1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
• 1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
• 1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey
• 1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
• 1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• 1807 – Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
• 1850 – Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
• 1864 – Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
• 1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
• 1880 – France annexes Tahiti.
• 1881 – In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
• 1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
• 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
• 1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
• 1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
• 1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• 1922 – France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
• 1926 – Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1927 – The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
• 1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller.
• 1928 – The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
• 1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
• 1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
• 1972 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
• 1974 – Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Peron, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
• 1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
• 1975 – Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
• 1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
• 1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
• 2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
• 2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
• 2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
• 2012 – A derecho strikes the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.

Births

• 1136 – Petronilla of Aragon (d. 1173)
• 1398 – John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
• 1475 – Beatrice d'Este, Italian wife of Ludovico Sforza (d. 1497)
• 1482 – Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
• 1517 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (d. 1585)
• 1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
• 1746 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, German linguist, educator, and author (d. 1818)
• 1793 – Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller (d. 1857)
• 1798 – Willibald Alexis, German author (d. 1871)
• 1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (d. 1837)
• 1844 – Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
• 1849 – Pedro Montt, Chilean politician, 15th President of Chile (d. 1910)
• 1849 – Sergei Witte, Russian politician, 1st Chairmen of Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire (d. 1915)
• 1803 – John Newton Brown, American minister and author (d. 1868)
• 1818 – Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)
• 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 (d. 1932)
• 1861 – William James Mayo, American physician, co-founded the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
• 1863 – Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1934)
• 1865 – Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese centenarian (d. 1986)
• 1868 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
• 1870 – Joseph Carl Breil, American tenor, composer, and director (d. 1926)
• 1873 – Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (d. 1938)
• 1877 – Ruurd Leegstra, Dutch rower (d. 1933)
• 1879 – Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian cardinal (d. 1970)
• 1879 – Zsigmond Móricz, Hungarian author (d. 1942)
• 1880 – Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
• 1881 – Harry Frazee, American director, producer, and agent (d. 1929)
• 1881 – Curt Sachs, German-American musicologist (d. 1959)
• 1882 – Franz Seldte, German politician (d. 1947)
• 1886 – Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1963)
• 1886 – James Van Der Zee, American photographer (d. 1983)
• 1888 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)
• 1888 – Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (d. 1927)
• 1889 – Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
• 1890 – Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch super-centenarian (d. 2005)
• 1892 – Henry Gerber, German-American activist, founded the Society for Human Rights (d. 1972)
• 1893 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
• 1893 – Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist and statistician (d. 1972)
• 1897 – Fulgence Charpentier, Canadian journalist (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)
• 1903 – Paul Newlan, American actor (d. 1973)
• 1906 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
• 1906 – Heinz Harmel, German general (d. 2000)
• 1908 – Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (d. 1975)
• 1910 – Frank Loesser, American composer (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 (d. 1975)
• 1912 – José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1958)
• 1912 – Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
• 1912 – John Toland, American historian and author (d. 2004)
• 1914 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech-American conductor and composer (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
• 1916 – Ruth Warrick, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
• 1919 – Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (d. 2008)
• 1919 – Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
• 1919 – Lloyd Richards, Canadian-American actor and director (d. 2006)
• 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 (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Jean Kent, English actress
• 1921 – Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (d. 2009)
• 1921 – Harry Schell, American race car driver (d. 1960)
• 1922 – Vasko Popa, Serbian poet (d. 1991)
• 1922 – John William Vessey, Jr., American general
• 1923 – Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer
• 1924 – Ezra Laderman, American composer
• 1924 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician, 11th President of Italy
• 1925 – Chan Parker, American dancer (d. 1999)
• 1925 – Hale Smith, American pianist and composer (d. 2009)
• 1925 – Cara Williams, American actress and singer
• 1926 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler, 3rd Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
• 1927 – Pierre Perrault, Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 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 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
• 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 – Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1932 – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, Irish politician, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
• 1933 – Bob Shaw, American baseball player (d. 2010)
• 1933 – John Bradshaw, American theologian and author
• 1934 – Corey Allen, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Chuck Schaden, American historian and radio host
• 1935 – Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
• 1936 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2011)
• 1939 – Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
• 1939 – Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial artist, actor, and director (d. 2002)
• 1939 – Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer and coach
• 1940 – Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
• 1941 – John Boccabella, American baseball player
• 1941 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
• 1941 – Margitta Gummel, German shot putter
• 1942 – Paul Lorieau, Canadian singer (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Mike Willesee, Australian journalist
• 1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Gary Busey, American actor
• 1944 – Seán Patrick O'Malley, American cardinal
• 1945 – Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan 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 – Michael Carter, Scottish actor
• 1947 – Richard Lewis, American comedian and actor
• 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 (Deep Purple and Paice Ashton Lord)
• 1949 – Dan Dierdorf, American football player and sportscaster
• 1949 – Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician, 116th Mayor of Barcelona
• 1949 – Ann Veneman, American politician
• 1949 – Greg Burson, American voice actor (d. 2008)
• 1950 – Don Moen, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1951 – Don Rosa, American author and illustrator
• 1953 – Don Dokken, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dokken)
• 1953 – Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian singer, guitarist, and actor (Men at Work)
• 1954 – Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player and coach
• 1954 – Leovegildo Lins da Gama Júnior, Brazilian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1955 – Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist
• 1955 – Charles J. Precourt, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1956 – Nick Fry, English economist and businessman
• 1956 – Pedro Guerrero, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese politician, 118th Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1956 – Pyotr Vasilevsky, Belarusian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• 1957 – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmen politician, 2nd President of Turkmenistan
• 1957 – María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
• 1957 – Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Go-Betweens and Tuff Monks)
• 1957 – Michael Nutter, American politician, 98th Mayor of Philadelphia
• 1958 – Dieter Althaus, German politician
• 1958 – Jeff Coopwood, American actor and singer
• 1958 – Rosa Mota, Portuguese runner
• 1958 – Mark Radcliffe, English singer and radio host (Shirehorses and The Family Mahone)
• 1958 – Ralf Rangnick, German footballer and manager
• 1961 – Kimberlin Brown, American actress
• 1961 – Greg Hetson, American singer and guitarist (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks, Black President, and Redd Kross)
• 1961 – Sharon Lawrence, American actress
• 1962 – Amanda Donohoe, English actress
• 1962 – Joan Laporta, Spanish lawyer and politician
• 1962 – George D. Zamka, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1963 – Khalid El-Masri, German kidnapped victim
• 1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
• 1964 – Stedman Pearson, English singer-songwriter and dancer (Five Star)
• 1965 – Tripp Eisen, American guitarist (Static-X, Dope, and Murderdolls)
• 1965 – Panagiotis Karatzas, Greek basketball player
• 1966 – Yoko Kamio, Japanese illustrator
• 1966 – John Part, Canadian darts player
• 1967 – Jeff Burton, American race car driver
• 1967 – Murray Foster, Canadian bass player (Moxy Früvous and Great Big Sea)
• 1967 – Melora Hardin, American actress and singer
• 1967 – Seamus McGarvey, Irish cinematographer
• 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
• 1969 – Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
• 1970 – Melanie Paschke, German sprinter
• 1970 – Emily Skinner, American actress and singer
• 1970 – Mike Vallely, American skateboarder and actor
• 1971 – Kaitlyn Ashley, American porn actress
• 1971 – Matthew Good, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Matthew Good Band)
• 1971 – Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
• 1972 – DJ Shadow, American DJ and producer (Unkle)
• 1972 – Samantha Smith, American actress, author, and activist (d. 1985)
• 1972 – Külli Tomingas, Estonian opera singer
• 1972 – Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
• 1973 – George Hincapie, American cyclist
• 1976 – Daniel Carlsson, Swedish race car driver
• 1976 – Bret McKenzie, New Zealand comedian, actor, guitarist, and producer (Flight of the Conchords, The Black Seeds, So You're a Man, and Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra)
• 1977 – Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1977 – Zuleikha Robinson, English actress and singer
• 1978 – Sam Farrar, American singer and bass player (Phantom Planet)
• 1978 – Nicole Scherzinger, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Pussycat Dolls and Eden's Crush)
• 1979 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
• 1979 – Matthew Bode, Australian footballer
• 1979 – Abz Love, English singer and DJ (Five)
• 1979 – Andy O'Brien, English footballer
• 1979 – Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
• 1980 – Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
• 1980 – Melissa Peachey, English television host
• 1980 – Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
• 1981 – Nino, Greek singer-songwriter
• 1981 – Joe Johnson, American basketball player
• 1981 – Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentinian race car driver (d. 2005)
• 1982 – Dusty Hughes, American baseball player
• 1982 – Ott Sepp, Estonian actor
• 1983 – Aundrea Fimbres, American singer-songwriter and dancer (Danity Kane)
• 1983 – Jeremy Powers, American cyclist
• 1984 – Christopher Egan, Australian actor
• 1984 – Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress
• 1984 – Derek Lee Rock, American drummer (Mêlée and Suburban Legends)
• 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 – Luke McLean, Australian-Italian rugby player
• 1987 – Yasuka Saitō, Japanese actor
• 1987 – Ilya Shesterkov, Russian footballer
• 1988 – Éver Banega, Argentinian footballer
• 1988 – Elnur Mammadli, Azerbaijani martial artist
• 1988 – Becky Taylor, English singer
• 1990 – Yann M'Vila, French footballer
• 1990 – Sayuri Sugawara, Japanese singer
• 1991 – Soren Fulton, American actor
• 1991 – Suk Hyun-Jun, South Korean footballer
• 1991 – Addison Timlin, American actress
• 1992 – Adam G. Sevani, American actor and dancer
• 1993 – George Sampson, English actor and dancer
• 1993 – James Sanderson, Gibraltarian swimmer
• 1994 – Shin Dongho, South Korean singer and actor (U-KISS)

Deaths

• 226 – Cao Pi, Chinese emperor (b. 187)
• 1059 – Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (b. 995)
• 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers (b. 1115)
• 1252 – Abel, King of Denmark (b. 1218)
• 1509 – Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (b. 1443)
• 1520 – Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler (b. 1466)
• 1575 – Baba Nobuharu, Japanese samurai (b. 1515)
• 1594 – Niels Kaas, Danish politician (b. 1535)
• 1725 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese educator and politician (b. 1657)
• 1744 – André Campra, French composer and conductor (b. 1660)
• 1764 – Ralph Allen, English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1693)
• 1779 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (b. 1728)
• 1831 – Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian politician (b. 1757)
• 1840 – Lucien Bonaparte, French prince (b. 1775)
• 1852 – Henry Clay, American lawyer and politician, 9th United States Secretary of State (b. 1777)
• 1853 – Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1797)
• 1855 – John Gorrie, American physician and humanitarian (b. 1803)
• 1860 – Thomas Addison, English physician (b. 1793)
• 1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
• 1873 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Indian poet (b. 1824)
• 1875 – Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
• 1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (b. 1825)
• 1895 – Floriano Peixoto, Brazilian marshal and politician, 2nd President of Brazil (b. 1839)
• 1900 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1827)
• 1907 – Konstantinos Volanakis, Greek painter (b. 1837)
• 1919 – José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
• 1921 – Otto Seeck German historian (b. 1850)
• 1931 – Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian poet and physician (b. 1850)
• 1933 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1887)
• 1935 – Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
• 1936 – János Szlepecz, Slovene priest (b. 1872)
• 1940 – Paul Klee, Swiss painter (b. 1879)
• 1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1860)
• 1942 – Paul Troje, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1864)
• 1949 – Themistoklis Sofoulis, Greek politician (b. 1860)
• 1951 – Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor (b. 1884)
• 1952 – Alfred Braunschweiger, German diver (b. 1885)
• 1953 – Anton Koolmann, Estonian wrestler (b. 1899)
• 1955 – Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881)
• 1958 – Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1959 – Geert Lotsij, Dutch rower (b. 1878)
• 1960 – Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
• 1964 – Eric Dolphy, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1928)
• 1967 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
• 1967 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress and singer (b. 1933)
• 1969 – Shorty Long, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
• 1969 – Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
• 1973 – Germán Valdés, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1915)
• 1975 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1977 – Magda Lupescu, Romanian wife of Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
• 1978 – Bob Crane, American actor and radio host (b. 1928)
• 1979 – Lowell George, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Little Feat and The Mothers of Invention) (b. 1945)
• 1982 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
• 1982 – Henry King, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1886)
• 1990 – Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1992 – Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian politician (b. 1919)
• 1993 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• 1994 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Jack Unterweger, Austrian serial killer (b. 1950)
• 1995 – Lana Turner, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
• 1997 – William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1998 – Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
• 1999 – Karekin I, Syrian-Armenian patriarch (b. 1950)
• 1999 – Allan Carr, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1937)
• 2000 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor and director (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
• 2002 – François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
• 2003 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
• 2004 – Bernard Babior, American physician and biochemist (b. 1935)
• 2004 – Alvin Hamilton, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1959)
• 2006 – Lloyd Richards, Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Randy Walker, American football player and coach (b. 1954)
• 2007 – Fred Saberhagen, American author (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Joel Siegel, American journalist and critic (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Edward Yang, Taiwanese director and screenwriter (b. 1947)
• 2008 – Don S. Davis, American actor (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Diane Hébert, Canadian medical patient (b. 1957)
• 2009 – Joe Bowman, American target shooter and boot-maker (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Takeo Chii, Japanese actor (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Verna Harrah, American film producer (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Graham Horn, English footballer (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Yong Nyuk Lin, Singaporean politician (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Mogale Paul Nkhumishe, South African bishop (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Vincent Ostrom, American political scientist (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Juan Reccius, Chilean triple jumper (b. 1911)
• 2012 – Floyd Temple, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1926)
• 2012 – José Sótero Valero Ruz, Venezuelan bishop (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Harisinh Pratapsinh Chavda, Indian politician (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Peter Fitzgerald, Irish footballer (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Jack Gotta, American-Canadian football player, coach, and manager (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Sarah Guyard-Guillot, French-American acrobat (b. 1981)
• 2013 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Jim Kelly, American actor and martial artist (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Victor Lundin, American actor and singer (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Ryūtarō Nakamura, Japanese animator and director (b. 1955)
• 2013 – Paul Smith, American pianist (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Larry Townsend, American politician (b. 1947)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Cassius of Narni
  • Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Western Christianity), and its related observances:
    • Haro Wine Festival (Haro, La Rioja)
    • l-Imnarja (Malta)
  • June 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Seychelles from United Kingdom in 1976.
• Veterans Day (Netherlands, 2013)

External links

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• BBC: On This Day
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