Anniversaries 29 June

Birth

Giacomo Leopardi18

Italian poet, philosopher and writer 1798–1837

Thomas Dunn English3

American state and federal politician 1819–1902

Mortimer Collins3

British writer 1827–1876

Celia Thaxter8

American writer 1835–1894

William James Mayo1

American surgeon 1861–1939

James Harvey Robinson9

American historian 1863–1936

Sheldon Warren Cheney1

American writer and art critic 1886–1980

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis16

Indian scientist 1893–1972

Boris Podolsky1

American physicist 1896–1966

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry38

French writer and aviator 1900–1944

Cyrus H. Gordon73

American linguist 1908–2001

Frank Loesser7

American songwriter 1910–1969

Ray Harryhausen16

American animator 1920–2013

Desmond Leslie10

British pilot, film maker, writer, and musician 1921–2001

Oriana Fallaci19

Italian writer 1929–2006

Kigeli V of Rwanda5

Rwandan king 1936–2016

Stokely Carmichael6

American activist 1941–1998

Lea Cohen2

1942

Virginia Foxx4

American politician 1943

Quintin Jardine3

Scottish writer 1945

Chandrika Kumaratunga6

President of Sri Lanka 1945

Isla Dewar1

Scottish novelist who died in 2021 1946–2021

Brian Herbert1

author from the United States 1947

John Baptist Odama1

born 1947; Roman-Catholic Archbishop of Gulu, Uganda 1947

Andrew Bernstein2

American philosopher 1949

Patricia Duncker1

British writer and academic 1951

Charles Daniel Balvo1

American archbishop 1951

Breece D'J Pancake1

American writer 1952–1979

Richard Summerbell11

Canadian mycologist 1956

Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov1

president of Turkmenistan 1957

Michael Nutter3

American mayor 1957

Mike Vallely1

American skateboarder and singer 1970

Matthew Good15

Canadian singer-songwriter 1971

DJ Shadow3

American trip-hop musician 1972

Michael Porter Jr.1

American basketball player 1998

Death

Edward Taylor2

American poet 1642–1729

Henry Clay23

American politician from Kentucky 1777–1852

Elizabeth Barrett Browning88

English poet, author 1806–1861

Michael Madhusudan Dutta1

Bengali poet and dramatist 1824–1873

Thomas Henry Huxley127

English biologist and comparative anatomist 1825–1895

Томас Генри Хаксли (Гексли)1

1825–1895

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa7

Irish Republican Brotherhood member 1831–1915

Fritz Mauthner1

Austrian writer 1849–1923

Han Yong-un2

Korean writer 1879–1944

Győző Zemplén1

Hungarian physicist 1879–1916

Paul Klee104

German Swiss painter 1879–1940

Max Pechstein14

German artist 1881–1955

Roscoe Arbuckle3

American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenw… 1887–1933

Kingoro Hashimoto3

officer of Imperial Japanese Army and politician 1890–1957

Henri Lefebvre17

French philosopher 1901–1991

Katharine Hepburn35

film, stage, and television actress 1907–2003

Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi1

Indian mathematician 1907–1966

Irving Wallace1

American writer 1916–1990

Vincent Ostrom3

American academic, educator and political scientist 1919–2012

Lana Turner19

American actress 1921–1995

Margherita Hack2

Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer 1922–2013

Eric Dolphy1

American jazz musician 1928–1964

Jayne Mansfield14

American actress, singer, model 1933–1967

Dermot Healy11

Irish writer 1947–2014

Vasyl Slipak19

Ukrainian opera singer 1974–2016