Anniversaries 29 June
Birth
![Giacomo Leopardi photo]()
Italian poet, philosopher and writer
1798–1837
![Thomas Dunn English photo]()
American state and federal politician
1819–1902
![Celia Thaxter photo]()
American writer
1835–1894
![William James Mayo photo]()
American surgeon
1861–1939
![James Harvey Robinson photo]()
American historian
1863–1936
![Sheldon Warren Cheney photo]()
American writer and art critic
1886–1980
![Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis photo]()
Indian scientist
1893–1972
![Boris Podolsky photo]()
American physicist
1896–1966
![Antoine de Saint-Exupéry photo]()
French writer and aviator
1900–1944
![Cyrus H. Gordon photo]()
American linguist
1908–2001
![Frank Loesser photo]()
American songwriter
1910–1969
![Ray Harryhausen photo]()
American animator
1920–2013
![Desmond Leslie photo]()
British pilot, film maker, writer, and musician
1921–2001
![Stokely Carmichael photo]()
American activist
1941–1998
![Chandrika Kumaratunga photo]()
President of Sri Lanka
1945
![Isla Dewar photo]()
Scottish novelist who died in 2021
1946–2021
![Brian Herbert photo]()
author from the United States
1947
![John Baptist Odama photo]()
born 1947; Roman-Catholic Archbishop of Gulu, Uganda
1947
![Andrew Bernstein photo]()
American philosopher
1949
![Patricia Duncker photo]()
British writer and academic
1951
![Breece D'J Pancake photo]()
American writer
1952–1979
![Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov photo]()
president of Turkmenistan
1957
![Mike Vallely photo]()
American skateboarder and singer
1970
![Matthew Good photo]()
Canadian singer-songwriter
1971
![DJ Shadow photo]()
American trip-hop musician
1972
![Michael Porter Jr. photo]()
American basketball player
1998
Death
![Henry Clay photo]()
American politician from Kentucky
1777–1852
![Elizabeth Barrett Browning photo]()
English poet, author
1806–1861
![Michael Madhusudan Dutta photo]()
Bengali poet and dramatist
1824–1873
![Thomas Henry Huxley photo]()
English biologist and comparative anatomist
1825–1895
![Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa photo]()
Irish Republican Brotherhood member
1831–1915
![Fritz Mauthner photo]()
Austrian writer
1849–1923
![Győző Zemplén photo]()
Hungarian physicist
1879–1916
![Paul Klee photo]()
German Swiss painter
1879–1940
![Roscoe Arbuckle photo]()
American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenw…
1887–1933
![Kingoro Hashimoto photo]()
officer of Imperial Japanese Army and politician
1890–1957
![Henri Lefebvre photo]()
French philosopher
1901–1991
![Katharine Hepburn photo]()
film, stage, and television actress
1907–2003
![Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi photo]()
Indian mathematician
1907–1966
![Irving Wallace photo]()
American writer
1916–1990
![Vincent Ostrom photo]()
American academic, educator and political scientist
1919–2012
![Lana Turner photo]()
American actress
1921–1995
![Margherita Hack photo]()
Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer
1922–2013
![Eric Dolphy photo]()
American jazz musician
1928–1964
![Jayne Mansfield photo]()
American actress, singer, model
1933–1967
![Vasyl Slipak photo]()
Ukrainian opera singer
1974–2016
