June 29th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day (Seychelles)
Veterans Day (Netherlands)
l-Imnarja (Malta)
Camera Day
Please Take My Children To Work Day
Waffle Iron Day
Christian Feast Day of Cassius of Narni
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, i.e., the Apostles Peter and Paul of Tarsus; also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints, as well as of the Antiochian Orthodox Church and diamond workers.
* Spokane hoopfest (2010)
Fête de la Coriandre Translation: Coriander Day (French Republican) The 11th day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"May your night be like a kitchen table…
all legs and no drawers."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Perfect manhattan
2 Parts Bourrbon
1 Part Sweet Vermouth
1 Part Dry Vermouth
Twist of Lemon
Combine ingredients together in a Cocktail Shaker with ice and strain into a Cocktail Glass
Wine of The Day
Blackstone (2007) Sonoma Reserve
Style - Pinot Noir
Sonoma County
$25
Beer of The Day
TAP 2 Mein Kristall
Brewer - Schneider Weisse, Kelheim, Germany
Style - German-Style Pale Wheat Ale
Joke of The Day
A young couple on the brink of divorce visit a marriage counsellor. The counsellor asks the wife what is the problem.
She responds " My husband suffers from premature ejaculation."
The counsellor turns to her husband and inquires "Is that true?"
The husband replies " Well not exactly, it's her that suffers not me."
Quote of The Day
“The tans will fade, but the memories will last forever.”
- Unknown - Have a Great Summer!
Whiskey of The Day
Price: $40
June Observances
African-American Music Appreciation Month
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month
Aquarium Month
Audio Book Appreciation Month
Beautiful in Your Skin Month
Black Music Month
Cancer From The Sun Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Celibacy Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Corn and Cucumber Month
Country Cooking Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Dairy Month
Effective Communications Month
Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month
Fight the Filthy Fly Month
Fireworks Safety Month
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
Great Outdoors Month
Home Safety Month
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
International Surf Music Month
Lane Courtesy Month
Lemon and Mango Month
National Accordion Awareness Month
National Adopt a Cat Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Camping Month
National Candy Month
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Family Month
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also September)
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Awareness Month
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Book Month
National Ice Tea Month
National Lady Lawyers Month
National Migraine Awareness Month
National Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month
National R.O.S.E. Month
National Rescue a Cat Month
National Rivers Month
National Safety Month
National Smile Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
National Student Safety Month
National Tire Safety Month
Okra & Pluot and Aprium Month
Perennial Gardening Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
Rebuild Your Life Month
Skyscraper Month
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month
Turkey Lovers' Month
Vision Research Month
Women's Golf Month
World Infertility Month
World Naked Bike Ride Month (Northern Hemisphere)
Observances this Week
Water Ski Days, Last Full Weekend in June
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week, Last Weekend Thursday to Sunday in June
Eye Safety Awareness Week, Last Week in June
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week, Last Week in June
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness, June 27th through July 4th
Historical Events on June 29th
512 A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
1149 Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
1194 Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
1312 Roman Catholics German King Henry VII crowned
1377 French invasion fleet lands at Rye England
1428 Jacoba of Bavaria signs cease fire with Philip the Good
1444 Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
1529 Emperor Karel V & Pope Clemens VII sign Treaty of Barcelona
1534 Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
1540 English ex chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic
1613 Shakespeare's 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 The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
1682 Sofia names herself regent of Russia
1694 Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports
1749 New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
1755 515 prominant filipinos baptized as Catholic
1762 Russian Czar Peter III divorces his wife Catharina II
1767 British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America
1776 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
1776 Virginia state constitution adopted & Patrick Henry made governor
1786 Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1800 Free mason lodge establishes in Alkmaar
1822 Prince Charles Bonaparte marries niece Zenaide Bonaparte
1850 Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.
1850 British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse
1850 Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
1854 Netherlands allows corporal punishment
1857 Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British)
1858 Great fire in London harbor
1858 Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia
1862 Day 5 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station Va
1863 Battle at Westminster Maryland: Federal assault
1863 George A Custer (23) appointed Union Brig-general
1863 Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
1863 Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
1864 Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed
1864 Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
1867 Pope Pius IX declares Gorcumse holy martyrs
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 Otaheite (Tahiti)
1881 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud
1888 First (known) recording of classical music, Handel's "Israel in Egypt", made on a wax cylinder.
1891 100°F (SF, CA)
1891 National Forest Service organized
1891 Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.
1895 Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
1897 Chicago beats Louisville 36-7 (baseball)
1899 Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage
1903 British government protests against abuser in Belgian Congo
1904 2 prehistoric bones found in Weerdingerveen, Drenthe
1906 12th US Golf Open, Alex Smith shoots a 295 at Onwentsia Club Ill
1911 Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes premier
1913 2nd Balkan War begins-Bulgaria overthrows Greek/Serbian troops
1914 Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
1916 Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
1916 Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
1921 34th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Suzanne Lenglen beats E Ryan (62 60)
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."
1925 Canada House opens in London, England.
1926 Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
1926 Carter Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research of Black history
1927 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
1927 First test of Wallace Turnbull's Controllable pitch propeller.
1928 The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York both opened.
1929 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
1929 31.1°C (88°F) hoogste temperatuur op deze dag in De Bilt
1929 Mexico & Vatican sign Concord
1931 109°F (43°C), Monticello, Florida (state record)
1931 Pope Pius XI encyclical on Nun abbiamo bisogno Mussolini
1932 USSR & China sign no attack treaty
1933 Primo Carnera KOs Jack Sharkey in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1936 Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines
1936 Pope Pius XI encyclical to US bishops "On motion pictures"
1937 Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
1939 4th Dutch government of Colijn falls
1939 Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe
1940 Anjer (Carnation) Day-anniversary of Prince Bernhard
1940 Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan
1940 US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
1941 DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record
1942 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony, premieres
1943 Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe
1943 Pope Pius XII encyclical Mystic Corporis (mystic body of Christ)
1943 US forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea
1944 German counter attack at Caen
1944 Nazi Paul Touvier shoots 7 Jews dead
1944 Rommel & von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden
1944 Soviet Armys join in Bobroesjk
1944 US 7th army corp conquers Cherbourg
1945 20.6 cm rainfall at Litchville North Dakota (state record)
1945 Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
1945 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR
1946 "Are You with It?" closes at Century Theater NYC after 264 perfs
1946 "Billion Dollar Baby" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 219 perfs
1946 Black Sabbath, British mandatory government of Palestine arrests 2700 Jews in Palestine and 100 leaders of Yishnuv as alleged terrorist
1947 2nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betty Jameson
1947 Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game win streak
1949 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1949 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
1950 US beats England 1-0 in a world cup soccer game (next win in 1994)
1950 West Indies beat England by 326 runs thanks Ramadhin & Valentine
1952 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany
1952 7th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs
1953 XETV TV channel 6 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1954 Atomic Energy Comm voted against reinstating Dr J Robert Oppenheimer
1955 Argentine state of siege ends
1956 Charles Dumas, makes 1st high jump over 7' (2.13 m)-LA, Calif
1956 Federal interstate highway system act signed
1956 PM Drees refuses resignation of queen Juliana (Greet Hofmans)
1956 The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
1957 12th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1957 Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj & Sjepilov leave USSR communist party
1958 Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm
1959 Pope John XXIII 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, & peace, in charity"
1960 Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1960 KYA-AM in SF changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks)
1961 Launch of Transit 4a, with 1st nuclear power supply (SNAP-3)
1961 Willie Mays is 4th major leaguer with 3 or more HRs twice in a season
1962 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
1962 Frank Howard, hits the 5,000th Dodger home run
1963 "Little Me" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 257 performances
1963 Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits UK charts
1963 SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien
1964 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "Cage" released
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate
1965 USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15
1966 In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Hanoi & Haiphong for 1st time
1966 KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, CA begins
1966 US bombs fuel storage facilities near N Vietnamese cities
1967 Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem
1967 Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge
1968 "Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me" by Tiny Tim peaks at #17
1969 1st Jewish worship service at White House
1969 24th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1969 On Billy Williams Day in Chicago, the Cubs outfielder passes Stan Musial's NL record for consecutive games played (896)
1970 US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
1971 Rolling Stones Mick Jagger & Keith Richards sentenced on drug offense
1971 Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days
1972 The U.S. Supreme Court rules (5-4) that the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".
1972 USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)
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 Milt coup in Ethiopia
1975 3rd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner
1975 8.10" (20.57 cm) of rainfall, Litchville No Dakota (state 24-hr rec)
1976 The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
1977 Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults
1977 Willie Stargell hits his 400th career HR
1978 VP Walter F Mondale begins trip to Mid-East
1979 "Moonraker" premieres in US
1979 San Diego Chicken reborn at Jack Murphy Stadium
1980 "Sweeney Todd" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 557 performances
1980 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1981 Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Teheran, 72 killed
1981 Hu Yaobang succeeds Hua Guofeng as leader of China PR
1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
1983 Angel Cordero wins his 5,000th horse races
1983 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1984 Orel Hershiser begins string of making every sched start until 1990
1984 Pete Rose plays in record 3,309th game, surpassing Carl Yastrzemski
1984 USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
1985 STS 51-F vehicle moves to launch pad
1986 Argentina becomes world champion soccer team (3-2 against W-Germany)
1986 Boston Red Sox trade for Tom Seaver
1986 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1986 Sparky Anderson is 1st to win 600 games as manager in both leagues
1987 Phil's Steve Bedrosian is 1st to record 12 saves in 12 attempts
1987 Yanks blow 11-4 lead but trailing 14-11 Dave Winfield's 8th inning grand slammer beats Toronto 15-14; Mattingly also grand slams
1988 Emmy 15th Daytime Award presentation Susan Lucci loses for 9th time straight
1989 Emmy 16th Daytime Award presentation Susan Lucci loses for 10th time straight
1990 A's Dave Stewart no-hits Blue Jays & Dodger's Fernando Valenzuela no-hits St Louis 6-0, 1st time no-hitters in both leagues
1990 Marla Maples father sues National Enquirer for $12M
1990 NY Mets tie their team career high 11 game win streak
1991 "Jackie Mason Brand New" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 216 perfs
1991 6.0 earthquake hits southern Calif
1991 Britain's Nick Brown, 591st rank beats 10th-seeded Goran Ivanisevic 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 in 2nd round at Wimbledon
1992 "Salome" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 9 performances
1992 2 earthquakes including 7.4 hits southern Calif
1992 A's Dennis Eckersley sets record of 26th straight save of season
1992 NHL decides Eric Lindross goes to Flyers instead of Rangers
1994 Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan
1994 US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees
1995 George Foreman loses IBF boxing title, refused to fight Axel Schulz
1995 Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL game (vs Calgary Stampeders)
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.
1996 Andrea Leah Plummer, of Tennessee, crowned 39th America's Junior Miss
1996 Superman's Action Comic #1 (1938) auctioned at Sotheby at $61,900
1997 "American Daughter" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 88 performances
1997 "London Assurance" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 72 perfs
1997 18th US Seniors Golf Open, Graham Marsh
1997 Greg Norman wins PGA St Jude Classic
1997 Michelle McGann wins ShopRite LPGA Classic
1997 Progress M-35 Soyuz Launch (Russia)
1997 Tyrenda Williams, 18, of Alabama, crowned 40th America's Junior Miss
2000 Eminem's mother goes to court claiming defamation of character in a $10 million civil suit, after taking exception to the line "My mother smokes more dope than I do" from her son's single 'My Name Is'
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.
2002 U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
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 Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
2008 Thomas Beatie, the world's first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter.
2009 Coalition forces in Iraq leave Baghdad
2012 Three bombs in Balid, Iraq, kill 6 people and injure 45
2012 16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police
2012 15,000 Japanese anti-nuclear protesters blockade the Japanese Prime Minister's office in Tokyo
2015 Beijing Times reports 30% of the Great Wall of China has disappeared due to natural forces and stealing of bricks
2016 US Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter lifts Pentagon's ban on transgendered people serving in the US armed forces
Born on June 29th
1397 John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
1482 Maria of Aragon, queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
1517 Rembert Dodoens (Rembertus Dodonaeus), Flemish physician (d. 1585)
1596 Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
1738 Constantin Reindl, composer
1783 August Alexander Klengel, composer
1798 Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
1803 John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
1805 Hiram Powers, US sculptor (Greek Slave)
1824 Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Neth engraver (PTT Stempels)
1831 William Thomas Clark, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1842 Josef Labor, composer
1849 John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
1849 Sergei J Witte, Neth/Russ count/premier Russia
1850 Joseph Paul Skelly, composer
1858 George Washington Goethals, American army engineer (built Panama Canal) (d. 1928)
1861 William James Mayo, American physician, co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota (d. 1939)
1863 James Harvey Robinson, Ill, historian (Ordeal of Civilization)
1863 Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player and hall-of-famer (d. 1934)
1864 Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer
1864 Pietro Bonfante, Italian lawyer (Roman law)
1865 Shigechiyo Izumi, once thought to be the world's oldest man ever but birth date now disputed (120y 237d) (d. 1986)
1865 William E Borah, lawyer/(Sen-R-Id)
1866 Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
1868 George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
1870 Joseph Carl Breil, composer
1874 Georg Gohler, composer
1876 Nellie Taylor Ross, 1st woman to serve as a gov (Wyoming, 1925-27)
1880 Ludwig Beck, German general ("July 20th plot") (d. 1944)
1881 Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
1881 Harry Frazee, American baseball team owner (d. 1929)
1885 Andre Gailhard, composer
1885 Virginia Pope, (NY Times)
1886 George Frederick Boyle, composer
1886 James Van DerZee, famous African
1886 Juliane Gabriels, Flemish physician (Artus Quellin)
1886 Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
1889 Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
1893 Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
1893 Antoon Schweigmann, Dutch religious poet/resistance fighter
1893 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist and statistician (d. 1972)
1896 Irene Browne, England, actress (All at Sea, Peg O' My Heart)
1897 Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
1897 Ottmar Gerster, composer
1900 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
1901 Frieda Inescort, Edinburgh Scotland, actress (Pride & Prejudice)
1901 Hendrik Diels, Flemish conductor
1901 Nelson Eddy, American singer, baritone (Duets with Jeanette MacDonald) and actor (d. 1967)
1902 Carl-Heinz Schroth, Innsbruck, director (Reaching for the Stars)
1902 Ellen Clara Pollock, actress (Wicked Lady, Horror Hospital)
1903 Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
1905 Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (La lenta libertad)
1906 Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
1907 Joan Davis, St Paul Minn, actress (I Married Joan)
1907 Paul O'Dwyer, pres of City Council (D-NYC)
1908 Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
1908 Paul Lebeau, Flemish writer (Last Rose, Xanthippe)
1908 Rene Gerber, composer
1909 Leroy Anderson, US, composer (Syncopated Clock)
1910 Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1910 Franc Henry Loesser, US songwriter and composer (Most Happy Fella) (d. 1969)
1911 Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
1911 Bernhard, German Prince of the Netherlands (Consort to Queen Juliana of Netherlands) (d. 2004)
1911 Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist and spy
1912 John Toland, American historian (Rising Sun, Pulitzer 1971) (d. 2004)
1912 Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, Guadalajara Mexico, composer (Huapango)
1912 Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
1914 Allan Houser, Native American artist (d. 1994)
1914 Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
1914 Rafael Kubelik, Czechoslovakian conductor (Cornelia Farooli) (d. 1996)
1915 Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
1916 David Donaldson, painter
1916 Ruth Warwick, St Joseph Mo, actress (Citizen Kane, All My Children)
1918 Jack Harkness, rose grower
1919 Lloyd Richards, American director (d. 2006)
1919 Slim Pickens, American actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles) (d. 1983)
1920 Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker, special effect artist (Clash of Titans)
1921 Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
1922 Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (Heaven is a Side Issue) (d. 1991)
1923 Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer (Mode of Shang)
1924 Ezra Laderman, American composer (Jacob & the Indians)
1924 Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
1925 Cara Williams, American actress (Pete & Gladys, Cara Williams Show)
1925 Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (d. 1999)
1925 Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician
1925 Hale Smith, American composer and editor
1926 Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
1928 Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (Eye of the Needle, Gorky Park) (d. 1999)
1928 Radius Prawiro, Indonesia Finance Minister (d. 2005)
1929 Michio Mamaia, composer
1929 Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
1929 Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
1929 Peter George, Akron Ohio, weightlifter (Oly-gold/2 silver-48, 52)
1930 Robert Evans, American film producer (Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown)
1930 Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
1931 Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
1932 Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician
1933 Bob Shaw, baseball player
1933 John Bradshaw, American theologian
1934 Carl Levin, (Sen-D-MI)
1934 Corey Allen, American filmmaker and actor
1934 Henning Kronstam, dancer
1935 Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
1936 David Jenkins, US, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1960)
1936 Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins)
1936 Leonard Lee, US vocalist (Shirley & Lee-Let the Good Times Roll)
1938 Billy Storm, singer (Valiants-This is the Night)
1938 Edmund Falkiner, jazz saxophinist/probation officer
1939 Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
1939 Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial arts actor (d. 2002)
1939 Ron Headley, cricketer (son of George, 2 Tests WI v England 1973)
1940 Louise S Groenman, Dutch MP (D66)
1940 Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
1941 John Boccabella, American baseball player
1941 Margritta Gummel, German DR, shot putter (Olympic-gold-1968)
1941 Stokeley Carmichael (Kwame Toure), Trinidadian-American activist (Black Power) (d. 1998)
1942 Bas J van der Vlies, Dutch MP (SGP)
1942 Larry Snyder, jockey
1942 Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter
1943 Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
1943 Roger Ruskin Spear, London England, saxophonist (Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band)
1944 Collin Peterson, (Rep-D-Minnesota)
1944 Gary Busey, American actor (Buddy Holly Story, Star in Born)
1944 Sean O'Malley, American Roman Catholic bishop
1945 Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
1945 Johnnie Richardson, rocker (Johnnie & Joe)
1945 Little Eva (Boyd), Belhaven NC, rock vocalist (Locomotion)
1946 Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
1946 Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician
1947 Jeff Moss, cricketer (one Test Australia v Pakistan 1979)
1947 Michael Carter, British actor
1947 Richard Lewis, American comedian (Marty Gold-Anything But Love)
1947 Richard Lewis, NYC, comedian
1948 Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet)
1948 Charles McCorquodale, art historian
1948 Fred Grandy, Sioux City IA, (Rep-R-Iowa, 1986)/actor (Love Boat)
1948 Ian Paice, British drummer(White Snake, Deep Purple)
1948 Loncoln Gordon, rocker
1949 Ann Veneman, American politician
1949 Dan Dierdorf, NFLer, sportscaster (Monday Night Football)
1949 Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician
1951 Don Rosa, American illustrator
1952 Joe Johnson, English snooker player
1953 Billy Hinsche, rocker
1953 Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer (Men At Work)
1953 Don Dokken, heavy metal singer (Dokken-Alone Again)
1953 Rosa Mota, Port marathoner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1954 Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1955 Charles J. Precourt, American astronaut (STS 55, 71, 84, sk:91)
1955 Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist
1956 Pedro Guerrero, baseball player
1956 Pedro Santana Lopes, former Prime Minister of Portugal
1957 María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress (Moscow on the Hudson)
1957 Michael Nutter, American politician
1957 Robert Forster, Australian musician
1958 Jeff Coopwood, American actor, broadcaster and singer
1958 Leslie Browne, NYC, ballerina (Turning Point)
1958 Richard Mettee, horse trainer
1958 Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete
1959 Edward F Humenik, Detroit MI, PGA golfer (1994 Kmart Greater-2nd)
1959 Kim Hiett, jockey
1959 Larry Parham, 4th victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (1st to die)
1960 Sergey Kopylov, USSR, cyclist (Olympic-gold-1980)
1961 Greg Hetson, American punk-rock guitarist
1961 Kimberlin Brown, American actress
1961 Sharon Lawrence, American actress
1962 Amanda Donohoe, British actress (CJ Lamb-LA Law)
1962 George Zamka, American astronaut
1962 Sharon Lawrence, Charlotte NC, actr (Civil Wars, NYPD Blue, Fired Up)
1963 Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist (Berlin Phil)
1963 Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
1964 Pepper Johnson, NFL linebacker (NY Giants, Cleveland Browns)
1964 Stedman Pearson, British singer (Five Star-Silk & Steel)
1964 Wendy Kilbourne, actress (Devon-Midnight Caller) [1964 Approx]
1965 Barry D (Iain Bakker), English pop musician (Jesus Jones)
1965 Paul Jarvis, cricketer (England pace bowler 1988-93)
1965 Tripp Eisen, American musician
1966 John Part, Canadian darts player
1966 Yoko Kamio, Japanese manga artist
1967 Jeff Burton, American racing driver
1967 John Wehner, Pittsburgh PA, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1967 Melora Hardin, American actress (Family Tree, Best Times), singer
1967 Murray Foster, Canadian musician
1967 Seamus McGarvey, Irish Cinematographer
1968 Judith Hoag, American Actress and Acting Teacher
1968 Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames, Canada)
1969 Claude Béchard, Canadian politician
1969 Erik Tammer, soccer player (SC Heerenveen, Go Ahead Eagles)
1969 Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
1969 Simon Brown, cricketer (Durham pace bowler, England 1996)
1969 Toru Hashimoto, Japanese politician
1970 Emily Skinner, American actress and singer
1970 Mike Vallely, American skateboarder
1970 Troy Drayton, tight end (Miami Dolphins)
1971 Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
1971 Dennis Gerritsen, soccer player (NAC)
1971 Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress
1971 Matthew Good, Canadian musician
1971 Mike Sillinger, Regina, NHL right wing (Vanc Canucks, Anaheim Ducks)
1971 Wendee Espinosa, Stockton California, female outfielder (Silver Bullets)
1972 Fabrice L'Henry, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1972 Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
1972 Samantha Smith, American activist (Elizabeth-Lime Street), actress (d. 1985)
1973 George Hincapie, American road cyclist (Olympics-76th-92, 96)
1974 Ted Giannous, San Diego, actor (KGB Chicken)
1975 Mathew Gates, Baldock Engld, dance skater (& Chalom-1995 Nat Jr champ)
1976 Bret McKenzie, New Zealand musician
1976 Daniel Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
1976 Sandhya Chib, Miss Universe-India (1996)
1977 Oleg Korenfeld, Russian-born American poet
1977 Sharon Cripps, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-96)
1977 Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
1977 Tania Joy Gibson, Lake Barrington Ill, Miss America-Illinois (1997)
1977 Zuleikha Robinson, English actress
1978 Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and actress (Pussycat Dolls)
1978 Sam Farrar, American bassist
1979 Abs Breen, English singer
1979 Baris Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
1979 Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
1979 Matthew Bode, Australian Rules football player
1980 Katherine Jenkins, Welsh mezzo soprano
1980 Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
1980 Mel Peachey, British television personality
1981 Joe Johnson, American basketball player
1981 Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
1981 Nino, Greek singer
1983 Aundrea Fimbres, American singer
1984 Christopher Egan, Australian actor
1984 Derek Lee Rock, American drummer
1984 Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
1985 Quintin Demps, American football player
1986 Austin Drage, English singer
1986 Iya Villania, Filipina actress
1987 Ana Free, Portuguese singer/songwriter
1987 Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor
1988 Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
1992 Adam G. Sevani, American actor and dancer
1993 Angela & Amy Lakeberg, US Siamese twin (separated on Aug 20th)
1993 George Sampson, English dancer (Britains Got Talent Winner)
Died on June 29the
1021 Notker Labeo, tutor in convent Sankt Gallen
1059 Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
1252 King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
1293 Hendrik van Gent, Flemish neo-Augustian philosopher/theologist
1306 Musho (Hokai), Zen teacher/found subtemple at Jochiji
1315 Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
1458 Mapheus Vegius, [Maffeo Vegio], Italian lawyer/humanist/poet
1509 Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
1620 John Aerts, Flemish sculptor
1696 Michel Lambert, composer
1725 Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
1744 André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
1764 Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
1779 Anton R Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter Madrid
1784 Caesar Rodney, US judge/singer (Declar of Independence)
1790 Feike H Van de Crew, Fries writer (Mayke Jakkelis
1798 Kaat Mussel (Catharina Mulder), exerciser
1818 Carl P Fohr, German painter/cartoonist
1840 Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano
1852 Henry Clay, U.S. Senator, the great compromiser (b. 1777)
1855 John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)
1860 Thomas Addison, English physician (A-Biermer Disease)
1861 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
1873 Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
1875 Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
1875 Ferdinand I KLJM de Goedige, Emperor of Austria
1880 George W Vreede, lawyer/politician
1895 Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
1900 Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1827)
1903 Rentaro Taki, composer
1919 José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
1921 Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
1923 Fritz Mauthner, German author/philosopher (skepticism)
1923 Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer,
1923 J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st VP, assassinated
1931 Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
1933 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (Keystone comedies) (b. 1887)
1935 Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
1940 Paul Klee, Swiss-German painter, tutor (Modern Art) (b. 1879)
1941 Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
1949 Themistoklis Sophoulis, Greek politician (b. 1860)
1949 Walter Giffen, cricketer (brother of George, 3 Tests)
1953 Jules van Nuffel, composer
1955 Max Pechstein, German painter/graphic artist (Oceania)
1956 Johan(nes F) Bakker Jr, actor
1958 Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
1959 A Cecil Snyder, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico
1960 Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
1964 Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
1964 Milenko Zivkovic, composer
1965 Sidney Marion, actor (Outlaws is Coming, Quicksand)
1966 Arthur Meulemans, Belgian composer
1966 Isabel Dawn, writer
1966 Ronald Shiner, actor (Aunt Clara, Forbidden, Girls at Sea)
1967 Jayne Mansfield, American actress (Female Jungle), dies in a car crash (b. 1933)
1967 O M Graf, writer, dies at 72
1967 Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
1968 Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors)
1969 Moise K Tsjombe, Congolese politician , Premier Congo-Zaire (b. 1919)
1969 Shorty Long, American singer (Here Comes the Judge) (b. 1940)
1969 Vesselin Stoyanov, composer
1970 Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica)
1970 Stefan Andres, German writer (Wir sind Utopia)
1971 Georgi T Dobrovolsky, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-land accident)
1971 Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident)
1973 Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
1975 Jerry Verno, actor (River of Unrest, Ourselves Alone)
1975 Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
1976 Leonora Summers, entertainer
1977 Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Monus)
1977 Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
1978 Bob Crane, American actor (Hogan's Heroes), murdered (b. 1928)
1979 Ben Barnett, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia 1938)
1979 Lowell George, American country-rock singer (Mothers of Invention, Little Feat) (b. 1945)
1981 Mohammed Hussein Beheshti, Iran ayatollah/politician, murdered
1982 Gerard(us PM) Knuvelder, literature historian (Anthology)
1982 Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
1982 Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
1986 Ida Mae McKenzie, entertainer
1986 John P East, (Sen-R-NC)
1986 Robert Drivas, actor (Our Private World)
1990 Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac) (b. 1916)
1992 Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria, assassinated (b. 1919)
1992 Pierre Billotte, French military man (IIGM)
1993 Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
1994 Cameron Mitchell, actor (Man on Tightrope)
1994 Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
1994 Ray Crane, trumpeter
1995 Lana Turner, American actress (Madame X) (b. 1921)
1995 Roy Rowland, film director
1996 Alexander George Ogston, biochemist
1996 Bobby Keetch, footballer/entrepreneur
1996 Pamela Mason, actress (Wild in the Streets)
1997 William Hickey, American actor (Prizzi's Honor) (b. 1927)
1998 Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
1999 Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
2000 Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
2002 François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
2002 Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
2002 Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
2003 Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
2004 Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
2006 Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director (b. 1959)
2006 Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
2006 Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
2007 Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (b. 1947)
2007 Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
2008 Don S. Davis, American actor and artist (b. 1942)
2009 Joe Bowman (marksman), American sharpshooter, Hollywood consultant, famed bootmaker, master showman (b. 1925)
2013 Jim Kelly, American martial artist and actor (b. 1946)
2015 Glenn Ford, American freed death row inmate (wrongly spent 30 years in prison)
2016 Elechi Amadi, Nigerian novelist (The Concubine)