Sunday, 29th June 2025 in London

On this day, 240 notable people were born on 29th June — spanning from 1136 to 2006. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

29/06/2006

Sam Lavagnino, American child voice actor

Sam Lavagnino is an American actor and YouTuber. He is best known for his roles as Catbug in Bravest Warriors, young Grizz in We Bare Bears, Rolly in the first three seasons of Puppy Dog Pals, and Mr. Muffin in asdfmovie.

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29/06/2003

Jude Bellingham, English footballer

Jude Victor William Bellingham is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and the England national team. Known for his exceptional work rate, playmaking ability, interceptions and fast dribbling, he is widely regarded as one of the best players in the world.

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29/06/2002

Matt Rempe, Canadian ice hockey player

Matthew Rempe is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a centre for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. He was drafted by the Rangers in the sixth round of the 2020 NHL entry draft.

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29/06/2001

Julian Champagnie, American basketball player

Julian Kymani Champagnie is an American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the St. John's Red Storm, where he was a two-time first-team All-Big East selection and led the conference in scoring in 2021.

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Gunnar Henderson, American baseball player

Gunnar Randal Henderson is an American professional baseball shortstop and third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2022 and won the American League Rookie of the Year Award and a Silver Slugger Award in 2023. He was named an All-Star in 2024.

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Aaron Schoupp, Australian rugby league player

Aaron Schoupp is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a centre for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League (NRL).

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29/06/1998

Michael Porter Jr., American basketball player

Michael Lamar Porter Jr., also known as "MPJ", is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Missouri Tigers. Porter was ranked as one of the top prospects in the class of 2017. He was selected 14th overall by the Denver Nuggets in the 2018 NBA draft, winning his first NBA championship with them in 2023. After six seasons with Denver, Porter was traded to the Nets in 2025.

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29/06/1996

Joseph Manu, New Zealand rugby league player

Joseph Manu is a New Zealand professional rugby footballer who plays for Racing 92 in the Top 14. He previously played as a centre for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League (NRL), with whom he won premierships in 2018 and 2019, and represented New Zealand and the New Zealand Māori at international level. He was widely regarded as one of the greatest centres in the game.

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29/06/1994

Camila Mendes, American actress and model

Camila Carraro Mendes is an American and Brazilian actress. She made her acting debut portraying Veronica Lodge on The CW teen drama series Riverdale (2017–2023), for which she won a Teen Choice Award in 2017. Mendes transitioned her career to film, taking on supporting roles in The New Romantic (2018), The Perfect Date (2019), and Palm Springs (2020). She has since played leading roles in the black comedy film Do Revenge (2022), and the romantic comedies Upgraded (2024) and Música (2024), also serving as an executive producer for the latter two.

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29/06/1993

Harrison Gilbertson, Australian actor

Harrison Sloan Gilbertson is an Australian actor. Beginning his career as a stage actor, he is known for his roles in the films Upgrade (2018), In The Tall Grass (2019), Oppenheimer (2023), and Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025).

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Oliver Tree, American singer-songwriter

Oliver Tree Nickell is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, rapper, and filmmaker. Born in Santa Cruz, California, Tree signed to Atlantic Records in 2017 after his song "When I'm Down" went viral and released his debut studio album Ugly Is Beautiful on July 17, 2020. He achieved international recognition with his songs "Life Goes On" in 2021, and "Miss You" in 2022. He released his second studio album Cowboy Tears on February 18, 2022, his third studio album, Alone in a Crowd, on September 29, 2023 and his fourth studio album, Love You Madly Hate You Badly, on April 24, 2026.

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29/06/1991

Suk Hyun-jun, South Korean footballer

Suk Hyun-jun is a South Korean footballer who plays as a forward for K League 2 club, Yongin FC.

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Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player

Kawhi Anthony Leonard is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A two-time NBA champion and Finals MVP, he is a seven-time All-Star and seven-time member of the All-NBA Team. Nicknamed the "Claw" or "Klaw" for his ball-hawking skills and exceptionally large hands, Leonard is often regarded as one of the greatest two-way players in NBA history, earning seven All-Defensive Team selections and winning Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2015 and 2016. In 2021, he was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.

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Addison Timlin, American actress

Addison Timlin is an American actress. She played Jami Lerner in The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014), Colleen Lunsford in Little Sister (2016) and Sasha Bingham in Showtime's Californication.

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29/06/1990

Kim Little, Scottish footballer

Kim Alison Little is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for and captains Arsenal of the English Women's Super League. Before her retirement from international duty in 2021, Little was vice-captain of the Scotland national team. She began her senior career at Hibernian, winning the Scottish Premier League, Scottish Women's Cup and Scottish Premier League Cup with the club in the 2006–2007 season. With Arsenal, she is a two time Premier League National Division winner, five time League Cup winner, three time Women's Super League and FA Cup winner, and a Champions League winner. During her time at Seattle Reign, Little won the Golden Boot and Most Valuable Player awards.

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Yann M'Vila, French footballer

Yann Gérard M'Vila is a French professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Caen.

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29/06/1988

Éver Banega, Argentinian footballer

Éver Maximiliano David Banega is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Argentine Primera División club Defensa y Justicia.

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29/06/1986

José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer

José Manuel Jurado Marín is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Edward Maya, Romanian singer-songwriter and producer

Eduard Marian Ilie, better known by his stage name Edward Maya, is a Romanian musician, record producer, DJ and songwriter. He is known for his 2009 smash hit single "Stereo Love".

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29/06/1985

Quintin Demps, American football player

Quintin Lamon Demps is an American college football coach and former safety. He is the defensive pass game coordinator and safeties coach Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio, a position he has held since 2025. Demps played college football at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), and was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the fourth round of the 2008 NFL draft. He played in the National Football League (NFL) with the Eagles, Houston Texans, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Giants and Chicago Bears, and with the Hartford Colonials of United Football League (UFL). Demps served as head football coach at Judson University in Elgin, Illinois from 2023 to 2024.

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29/06/1984

Aleksandr Shustov, Russian high jumper

Aleksandr Andreyevich Shustov, born 29 June 1984) is a male high jumper from Russia, best known for winning the gold medal in the men's high jump at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand. On 29 July at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona, Spain he achieved his personal best and won gold medal.

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29/06/1983

Aundrea Fimbres, American singer-songwriter and dancer

Aundrea Aurora Fimbres is an American singer. She was a former member of the pop music group Danity Kane. She is a soprano and was known for her melismatic vocal runs, and falsetto registered harmonies and also for having the highest vocal range of her fellow band members.

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Jeremy Powers, American cyclist

Jeremy Powers is an American former professional racing cyclist, who has achieved over 90 UCI victories, four USA Cyclocross national championships, and the 2015 Pan American Championship during his career. He was a presenter for Global Cycling Network before joining WHOOP.

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29/06/1982

Colin Jost, American comedian

Colin Kelly Jost is an American comedian, writer, and actor. He has been a staff writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2005, and co-anchor of Weekend Update since 2014. He also served as one of the show's co-head writers from 2012 to 2015 and later came back as one of the show's head writers from 2017 to 2022 alongside Michael Che.

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Dusty Hughes, American baseball player

Dustin Robert "Dusty" Hughes is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals and Minnesota Twins from 2009 to 2011.

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Lily Rabe, American actress

Lily Rabe is an American actress. She is best known for her multiple roles on the FX anthology horror series American Horror Story (2011–2021). For her performance as Portia in the Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice, she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

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O. J. Hogans, American sprinter

Obra J. Hogans is an American former sprinter specializing in the 400 metres and the 9th World Athletics Indoor Championships gold medallist in the 4 × 400 m relay. Before his professional career, Hogans was a multiple-time All American in the indoor 400 m for the Seton Hall Pirates.

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29/06/1981

Luke Branighan, Australian rugby league player

Luke Branighan is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s. He played in the National Rugby League for the St George Illawarra Dragons and Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, primarily as a five-eighth.

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Joe Johnson, American basketball player

Joe Marcus Johnson is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Iso Joe", he played college basketball for the Arkansas Razorbacks. After two years with Arkansas, he declared for the 2001 NBA draft where he was drafted 10th overall by the Boston Celtics.

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Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentinian race car driver (died 2005)

Nicolás Vuyovich was a sportscar driver from Argentina.

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Shmuly Yanklowitz, American rabbi, author, and educator

Shmuly Yanklowitz is an American open orthodox rabbi and activist. In March 2012 and March 2013, Newsweek listed Yanklowitz as one of the 50 most influential rabbis in America.

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29/06/1980

Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano and actress

Katherine Jenkins is a Welsh singer. She is a mezzo-soprano who performs operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre and hymns. After winning singing competitions in her youth, Jenkins studied at the Royal Academy of Music, modelled, and taught voice lessons. She came to wide public attention in 2003 when she sang at Westminster Cathedral in honour of Pope John Paul II's silver jubilee. Since 2004, she has released numerous albums that have performed well on British and foreign charts. In both 2005 and 2006, her albums received Classic Brit Awards as Album of the Year. She has been seen widely in concert and has performed for British Armed Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. She has sung at sporting events and in support of many charities.

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29/06/1979

Matthew Bode, Australian footballer

Matthew Bode is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club and the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Andy O'Brien, English footballer

Andrew James O'Brien is a former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Born in England, he won 26 caps for Republic of Ireland between 2001 and 2006 and was a member of the Republic's 2002 World Cup squad. He retired from international duty in 2006.

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Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer

Magdalena Johanna Maria "Marleen" Veldhuis is a retired swimmer from the Netherlands. She was world record holder in six events. Veldhuis won eight world championships gold medals and 20 European championships gold medals. In the Olympics, she won a bronze medal in London 2012 in the 50 m freestyle, as well as three relay medals: bronze in Athens 2004, gold in Beijing 2008, and silver in London 2012.

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29/06/1978

Nicole Scherzinger, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

Nicole Prascovia Elikolani Scherzinger is an American singer, actress, and television personality. She is a member of the R&B and pop group the Pussycat Dolls. With two albums and over 55 million records sold worldwide, the Pussycat Dolls became one of the world's best-selling female groups ever.

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29/06/1977

Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer

Sotiris Liberopoulos is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Zuleikha Robinson, English actress

Zuleikha Robinson is a British actress. She first came to attention as Yves Adele Harlow, a mysterious thief on the 2001 series The Lone Gunmen. She has appeared in the films Hidalgo (2004), The Merchant of Venice (2004) and The Namesake (2006). Robinson was a regular cast member on the series Lost (2009–10), the political thriller Homeland (2012) and the drama The Following (2015). In 2019, she joined the cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for their 21st season, in the recurring role of Assistant District Attorney Vanessa Hadid.

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29/06/1976

Daniel Carlsson, Swedish race car driver

Daniel Carlsson is a rally car driver from Sweden.

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Bret McKenzie, New Zealand comedian, actor, musician, songwriter, and producer

Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie is a New Zealand musician, comedian, music supervisor, and actor. He is best known as one half of musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords along with Jemaine Clement. In the 2000s, the duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an oft-lauded American television series, which aired for two seasons on HBO. Active since 1998, the duo released their most recent comedy special, Live in London, in 2018.

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29/06/1973

Lance Barber, American actor

Lance Barber is an American actor. He gained recognition for his main role as Paulie G on the HBO sitcom The Comeback, which was followed with a starring role in the film The Godfather of Green Bay (2005).

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George Hincapie, American cyclist

George Anthony Hincapie is an American former racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 1994 and 2012. Hincapie was a key domestique of Lance Armstrong. Hincapie was also a domestique for Alberto Contador in 2007 and for Cadel Evans in 2011, when both men won the Tour de France. He was the owner and general manager of UCI Professional Continental team Hincapie–Leomo p/b BMC until it folded at the end of the 2020 season. In 2025, Hincapie formed Modern Adventure Pro Cycling alongside his brother Richard.

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29/06/1972

Sakis Tolis, Greek singer and guitarist

Athanasios "Sakis" Tolis is a Greek musician best known as the vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the black metal band Rotting Christ. He is also known as Necromayhem.

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29/06/1971

Matthew Good, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Matthew Frederick Robert Good is a Canadian musician. He was the lead singer and songwriter for the Matthew Good Band, one of the most successful alternative rock bands in Canada during the 1990s and early 2000s. Since the band disbanded in 2002, Good has pursued a solo career and established himself as a political commentator and mental health activist. Between 1996 and 2016, with sales by Matthew Good Band included, Good was the 25th best-selling Canadian artist in Canada. Good has been nominated for 21 Juno Awards during his career, winning four.

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29/06/1970

Edda Mutter, German alpine skier

Edda Mutter is a German former alpine skier who competed in the women's slalom at the 1994 Winter Olympics.

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Melanie Paschke, German sprinter

Melanie Paschke is a retired German sprinter, who specialised in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay.

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Emily Skinner, American actress and singer

Emily Skinner, also known as Emily Scott Skinner, is a Tony-nominated American actress and singer. She has played leading roles in 11 Broadway productions including New York, New York, Prince of Broadway, The Cher Show, Side Show, Jekyll & Hyde, James Joyce's The Dead, The Full Monty, Dinner at Eight, Billy Elliot, as well as the Actor's Fund Broadway concerts of Dreamgirls and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. She has sung on concert stages around the world and on numerous recordings.

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29/06/1969

Claude Béchard, Canadian politician (died 2010)

Claude Béchard was a politician in Quebec, Canada. He served as Quebec Liberal Party Member of the National Assembly (MNA) for the riding of Kamouraska-Témiscouata in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region; as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food as well as the Minister for Canadian Intergovernmental Affairs, and previously the Minister of Natural Resources and Wildlife, Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade and Ministry of Employment and Social Solidarity.

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Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer and manager

Pavlos Dermitzakis is a Greek professional football manager and former player.

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Tōru Hashimoto, Japanese lawyer and politician

Tōru Hashimoto is a Japanese television personality, former politician, and lawyer. He is a former governor of Osaka Prefecture and mayor of City of Osaka. He is a founder of Nippon Ishin no Kai and the Osaka Restoration Association. He is one of Japan's leading right-wing conservative-populist politicians.

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29/06/1968

Brian d'Arcy James, American actor and musician

Brian d'Arcy James is an American actor and musician. He is known primarily for his Broadway roles, including Shrek in Shrek the Musical, Nick Bottom in Something Rotten!, King George III in Hamilton, and The Baker in Into the Woods. He has received five Tony Award nominations for his work. On-screen, he is known for his recurring role as Andy Baker on the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, Officer Krupke in West Side Story, and reporter Matt Carroll in Spotlight.

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Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player

Theoren Wallace "Theo" Fleury is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, author and motivational speaker. Fleury played for the Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche, New York Rangers, and Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL), Tappara of Finland's SM-liiga, and the Belfast Giants of the UK's Elite Ice Hockey League. He was drafted by the Flames in the 8th round, 166th overall, at the 1987 NHL entry draft, and played over 1,000 games in the NHL between 1989 and 2003.

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29/06/1967

Jeff Burton, American race car driver

Jeffrey Tyler Burton, nicknamed "the Mayor", is an American former professional stock car racing driver and current racing commentator. He is a member of the Burton racing family. He scored 21 career victories in the NASCAR Cup Series, including two Coca-Cola 600s in 1999 and 2001 and the 1999 Southern 500. He currently serves as a color commentator for NBC Sports, having joined them upon their return to their coverage of NASCAR. His son and nephew, Harrison and Jeb, respectively, both currently compete in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series, while his brother Ward Burton has also raced in the Cup Series.

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Melora Hardin, American actress and singer

Melora Diane Hardin Jackson is an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Jan Levinson on NBC's The Office (2005–2013), Trudy Monk on USA Network's Monk (2004–2009), and Tammy Cashman on Prime's Transparent (2014–2019), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. She starred as Lorelai in Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009). She also starred as magazine editor-in-chief Jacqueline Carlyle on The Bold Type, which aired on Freeform from 2017 to 2021.

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Seamus McGarvey, Northern Irish cinematographer

Seamus McGarvey is an Irish cinematographer.

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29/06/1966

Yoko Kamio, Japanese author and comic artist

Yōko Kamio is a Japanese manga artist. Her best known series Boys Over Flowers , for which she received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1996, is one of the best-selling manga series of all time and the best-selling shōjo manga of all time. Her work has been translated and distributed in Asia, Europe, and North America.

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29/06/1965

Tripp Eisen, American guitarist

Tod Rex Salvador, known professionally as Tripp Eisen, is an American musician best known as the former guitarist of industrial metal band Static-X. He is the current guitarist for the band Face Without Fear, and a former member of Dope, Murderdolls, and Roughhouse.

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Paul Jarvis, English cricketer

Paul William Jarvis is a former English cricketer, who played in nine Tests and sixteen ODIs for England from 1988 to 1993.

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Daniel Larson, American politician

Daniel Gordon Larson is an American politician in the state of Minnesota. He served in the Minnesota Senate.

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29/06/1964

Stedman Pearson, English singer-songwriter and dancer (died 2025)

Stedman Pearson was a British singer, most notable for being a member of the pop group Five Star with his four siblings.

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29/06/1963

Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist

Anne-Sophie Mutter is a German violinist. Born in Rheinfelden, Baden-Württemberg and raised in the nearby town Wehr, Mutter began playing the violin aged five and pursued further studies in Germany and Switzerland. She was supported early in her career by Herbert von Karajan, made her orchestral debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1977, and rose to international prominence in the early 1980s. She has since performed as a soloist with leading orchestras worldwide and has recorded more than 50 albums, mostly with the Deutsche Grammophon label, earning four Grammy Awards, two ECHO Klassik awards, two Opus Klassik awards, and a Grand Prix du Disque. Despite her success and fame in the 1980s, Mutter's interpretive style often divides critics.

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Judith Hoag, American actress and educator

Judith Hoag is an American actress. She is known for playing April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) and Gwen Cromwell Piper in the Disney Channel television film series Halloweentown, from 1998 to 2006.

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29/06/1962

Amanda Donohoe, English actress

Amanda Donohoe is an English actress. She first came to public attention at age 16 for her relationship with pop singer Adam Ant, appearing in the music videos for the Adam and the Ants singles "Antmusic" (1980) and "Stand and Deliver" (1981) during their four-year relationship. After making her film debut in Foreign Body (1986), she co-starred in Castaway with Oliver Reed and starred in two films by Ken Russell: The Lair of the White Worm (1988) and The Rainbow (1989).

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Joan Laporta, Spanish lawyer and politician

Joan Laporta i Estruch is a Spanish businessman, politician and president of FC Barcelona between 2003–2010 and 2021 onwards.

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George D. Zamka, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut

George David "Zambo" Zamka is a former NASA astronaut and United States Marine Corps pilot with over 3500 flight hours in more than 30 different aircraft. Zamka piloted the Space Shuttle Discovery in its October 2007 mission to the International Space Station and served as the commander of mission STS-130 in February 2010.

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29/06/1961

Sharon Lawrence, American actress, singer, and dancer

Sharon Elizabeth Lawrence is an American actress. From 1993 to 1999, she starred as Sylvia Costas in the ABC drama series, NYPD Blue. The role garnered her three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, and Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. She received three additional Emmy Awards nominations for her later television performances.

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29/06/1958

Dieter Althaus, German politician

Dieter Althaus is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the 3rd Minister President of Thuringia from 2003 to 2009. In 2003/04 he was the 58th President of the Bundesrat.

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Rosa Mota, Portuguese runner

Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota, GCIH, GCM is a Portuguese former marathon runner, one of her country's foremost athletes, being the first sportswoman from Portugal to win Olympic gold. Mota was the first woman to win multiple Olympic marathon medals, as well as being the only woman to be the reigning European, World, and Olympic champion at the same time. On the 30th Anniversary Gala of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS), she was distinguished as the greatest female marathon runner of all time.

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29/06/1957

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmen dentist and politician, 2nd President of Turkmenistan

Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow is a Turkmen politician and former dentist who is currently the chairman of the People's Council of Turkmenistan. He previously served as the second president of Turkmenistan from 2006 to 2022, when he entered into a power-sharing arrangement with his son, Serdar, the current president.

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María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress

María Concepción Alonso Bustillo, known professionally as María Conchita Alonso, is a Cuban-born Venezuelan-American actress and singer whose career spans film, television, music, and theater. She gained international recognition for her role as Amber Mendez in the 1987 film The Running Man, and was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in Caught (1996). As a recording artist, she has received several gold and platinum albums and three Grammy Award nominations.

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Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Robert Derwent Garth Forster is an Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and music critic. In December 1977 he co-founded an indie rock group, the Go-Betweens, with fellow musician Grant McLennan. In 1980, Lindy Morrison joined the group on drums and backing vocals, and by 1981 Forster and Morrison were also lovers. In 1988, "Streets of Your Town", co-written by McLennan and Forster, became the band's highest-charting hit in both Australia and the United Kingdom. The follow-up single, "Was There Anything I Could Do?", was a number-16 hit on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in the United States. In December 1989, after recording six albums, the Go-Betweens disbanded. Forster and Morrison had separated as a couple earlier, and Forster began his solo music career from 1990.

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Michael Nutter, American politician, 98th Mayor of Philadelphia

Michael Anthony Nutter is an American politician who served as the 98th Mayor of Philadelphia from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Democratic Party, he is also a former member of the Philadelphia City Council from the 4th district and had served as the 52nd Ward Democratic Leader until 1990. Nutter also served as the President of the United States Conference of Mayors from 2012 to 2013, and is a former member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.

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Terry Wyatt, English physicist and academic

Terence Richard Wyatt is a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, UK.

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29/06/1956

Nick Fry, English economist and businessman

Nicholas Richard Fry is the former Chief Executive Officer of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team, having previously served in similar roles at previous incarnations of the company.

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David Burroughs Mattingly, American illustrator and painter

David Burroughs Mattingly is an American illustrator and painter, best known for his numerous book covers of science fiction and fantasy literature.

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Pedro Guerrero, Dominican baseball player and manager

Pedro Guerrero is a Dominican former professional baseball player. He played fifteen seasons in Major League Baseball from 1978 to 1992 with the Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals.

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Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of Portugal

Pedro Miguel de Santana Lopes is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, who is the current mayor of Figueira da Foz. He most notably served as prime minister of Portugal from 2004 to 2005.

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Pyotr Vasilevsky, Belarusian footballer and manager (died 2012)

Pyotr Petrovich Vasilevsky was a Belarusian football manager and former player. He worked in a building security company until his death.

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29/06/1955

Charles J. Precourt, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut

Charles Joseph Precourt is a retired NASA astronaut. His career in flight began at an early age, and spans his entire lifetime. He served in the US Air Force, piloted numerous jet aircraft, and piloted and commanded the Space Shuttle. Notably, he piloted or commanded several missions which involved docking with the Russian Mir space station and was heavily involved in Russian/US Space relations as well as the International Space Station collaboration. He also served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1998 to 2002. He retired from the USAF with the rank of colonel.

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29/06/1954

Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player and coach

Frederick Wayne Honeycutt, nicknamed "Honey", is an American former professional baseball coach and pitcher. Honeycutt pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for six different teams over 21 years, from 1977 to 1997. He pitched in 30 post-season games, including 20 League Championship Series games and seven World Series games, and never lost a game, going 3–0. Honeycutt gave up no runs in the 1988 and 1990 post-seasons, and was a member of the Oakland Athletics' 1989 World Series championship team. He was also the pitching coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2006 through 2019.

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Léo Júnior, Brazilian footballer, coach, and manager

Leovegildo Lins da Gama Júnior, also known as Maestro Júnior, Léo Júnior or simply Júnior, is a Brazilian football pundit and retired footballer who played as a left back or midfielder.

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29/06/1953

Don Dokken, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Donald Maynard Dokken is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and founder of glam metal band Dokken. He is known for his vibrato-laden, melodic vocal style which has made him an influential figure in American heavy metal/glam metal.

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Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian singer and guitarist

Colin James Hay is a Scottish-Australian musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and the sole continuous member of the band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist. Hay is a member of the band Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band.

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29/06/1951

Craig Sager, American sportscaster (died 2016)

Craig Graham Sager was an American sports reporter who covered an array of sports for CNN and its sister stations TBS and TNT, from 1981 until his death in late 2016.

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29/06/1950

Bobby London, American illustrator

Robert London is an American underground comix and mainstream comics artist. His style evokes the work of early American cartoonists such as George Herriman, Cliff Sterrett and Elzie Crisler Segar.

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Don Moen, American singer and songwriter

Donald James "Don" Moen is an American singer, songwriter, pastor, and producer of Christian worship music. A pioneer of the modern worship music movement, he served as a creative director and president of Integrity Music and executive producer for the label's Hosanna! Music series of albums.

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Michael Whelan, American artist

Michael Whelan is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years, he worked as an illustrator, specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art. Since the mid-1990s, he has pursued a fine art career, selling non-commissioned paintings through galleries in the United States and through his website.

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29/06/1949

Dan Dierdorf, American football player and sportscaster

Daniel Lee Dierdorf is an American sportscaster and former professional football player. He played 13 seasons (1971–1983) as an offensive tackle for the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL).

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Joan Clos, Spanish anesthesiologist and politician, 116th Mayor of Barcelona

Joan Clos i Matheu, GCIH is a Spanish politician who was mayor of Barcelona, Spain from September 1997 to September 2006. He took over from Pasqual Maragall in 1997. In 1999 he was elected to a four-year term, and was then re-elected in the municipal elections of 25 May 2003. In September 2006, he left Barcelona Town Hall, after nine years of office, as he was appointed Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. After a stint as the Spanish Ambassador to Turkey and Azerbaijan, in 2010 he was appointed as executive director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, (UN-HABITAT), and Under Secretary General of the United Nations. Joan Clos is also president of the Spanish Chapter of The International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI).

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Ann Veneman, American lawyer and politician, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture

Ann Margaret Veneman is an American attorney who served as the fifth executive director of UNICEF from 2005 to 2010. She previously served as the 27th United States secretary of agriculture from 2001 to 2005. Veneman served for the first term of President George W. Bush, and she left to take the UNICEF position. Appointed by the U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on January 18, 2005, she took over the post on May 1, 2005, serving until 2010. Previously, she also served as secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, serving from 1995 to 1999, as well as United States deputy secretary of agriculture, serving from 1991 to 1993. Veneman was the first woman to serve as Secretary of Agriculture and the second woman to lead UNICEF, following her predecessor, Carol Bellamy.

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29/06/1948

Sean Bergin, South African-Dutch saxophonist and flute player (died 2012)

Sean Bergin was an avant-garde jazz saxophonist and flautist from South Africa.

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Fred Grandy, American actor and politician

Fredrick Lawrence Grandy is an American actor who played Burl "Gopher" Smith on the TV series The Love Boat and who later became a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Iowa. Grandy was most recently the host of The Grandy Group, a morning drive time radio talk show on 630 WMAL in Washington, D.C.

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Ian Paice, English drummer, songwriter, and producer

Ian Anderson Paice is an English musician who is the drummer and an original member of the rock band Deep Purple. He remains the only member of Deep Purple who has served in every line-up since the band's inception in 1968, as well as having played on every album and at every live appearance. He is considered one of the greatest rock drummers of all time, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Deep Purple in 2016.

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Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar, Kenyan-English politician

Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar is a British politician and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Since the 1970s, she has served as a director or chair of a variety of public and private sector organisations. She became the first chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission upon its creation in April 2006.

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29/06/1947

Richard Lewis, American actor and screenwriter (died 2024)

Richard Philip Lewis was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. Lewis came to prominence in the 1980s and became known for his dark, neurotic, and self-deprecating humor. As an actor, he was known for starring in the ABC sitcom Anything but Love from 1989 to 1992, and for playing the role of Prince John in the 1993 film Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Lewis also had a recurring role as a fictionalized version of himself in the HBO comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm from 2000 to 2024.

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29/06/1946

Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician, 33rd President of Panama

Ernesto Pérez Balladares González-Revilla, nicknamed El Toro, is a Panamanian politician who was the President of Panama between 1994 and 1999.

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Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (died 2004)

Prince Egon von Fürstenberg was a socialite, banker, fashion and interior designer, and a member of the former German princely family of Fürstenberg.

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29/06/1945

Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan journalist and politician, 5th President of Sri Lanka

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, commonly referred to by her initials CBK, is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the fifth president of Sri Lanka from 12 November 1994 to 19 November 2005. She is the longest-serving president in Sri Lankan history. She led the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) from 1994 to 2006.

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29/06/1944

Gary Busey, American actor

William Gary Busey is an American actor. He portrayed Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story (1978), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor. His other starring roles include A Star Is Born (1976), D.C. Cab (1983), Silver Bullet (1985), Eye of the Tiger (1986), Lethal Weapon (1987), Hider in the House (1989), Predator 2 (1990), Point Break (1991), Under Siege (1992), The Firm (1993), Drop Zone (1994), Black Sheep (1996) and Lost Highway (1997).

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Claude Humphrey, American football player (died 2021)

Claude B. Humphrey was an American professional football player who played as a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Atlanta Falcons and Philadelphia Eagles. Humphrey was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014. He played college football for the Tennessee A&I Tigers.

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Andreu Mas-Colell, Spanish economist, academic, and politician

Andreu Mas-Colell is an economist, an expert in microeconomics and a prominent mathematical economist. He is the founder of the Barcelona School of Economics and a professor in the department of economics at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He has also served several times in the cabinet of the Catalan government. Summarizing his and others' research in general equilibrium theory, his monograph gave a thorough exposition of research using differential topology. His textbook Microeconomic Theory, co-authored with Michael Whinston and Jerry Green, is the most used graduate microeconomics textbook in the world.

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Seán Patrick O'Malley, American cardinal

Seán Patrick O'Malley is an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Boston from 2003 to 2024 and president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors from 2014 to 2025. He is also a founding member of the Council of Cardinals, formed by Pope Francis in 2013. A member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, he was made a cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006.

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29/06/1943

Little Eva, American singer (died 2003)

Eva Narcissus Boyd, known by her stage name Little Eva, was an American singer best known for her 1962 hit "The Loco-Motion".

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Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur and chairman of Montpellier HSC (died 2017)

Louis Nicollin was a French entrepreneur and director of the Nicollin Company, which specializes in the collection and reprocessing of household and industrial waste. Nicollin notably served as chairman of Montpellier Hérault Sport Club, a football team, from 1974 to his death in 2017.

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29/06/1942

Charlotte Bingham, English author and screenwriter (died 2025)

Charlotte Bingham was an English novelist who wrote over 30 mainly historical romance novels and also wrote for many television programmes including Upstairs, Downstairs; Play for Today; and Robin's Nest. In her television work, she often worked with her husband, Terence Brady.

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Mike Willesee, Australian journalist and producer (died 2019)

Michael Robert Willesee, was an Australian award-winning news and current affairs television journalist, interviewer and presenter. Willesee worked at the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), before moving to commercial networks Nine Network and Seven Network.

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29/06/1941

John Boccabella, American baseball player

John Dominic Boccabella is an American former professional baseball player. He played as a catcher and first baseman in Major League Baseball from 1963 to 1974 with the Chicago Cubs, Montreal Expos and San Francisco Giants.

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Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (died 1998)

Kwame Ture was a Trinidadian and American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement. Born in the Crown Colony of Trinidad and Tobago, he moved to the United States at age 11 and became an activist while attending the Bronx High School of Science. Ture was a key leader in the development of the Black Power movement, first while leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), then as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party and as a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP).

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29/06/1940

Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer

Vyacheslav Petrovich Artyomov is a Russian composer.

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John Dawes, Welsh rugby player and coach (died 2021)

Sydney John Dawes was a Welsh rugby union player, playing at centre, and later coach. He captained London Welsh, Wales, the 1971 British Lions and the Barbarians. He is credited with being a major influence in these teams' success, and in the attractive, attacking, free-flowing rugby they played. Dawes also had considerable success as a coach with Wales, and coached the 1977 British Lions. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1972 New Year Honours List for services as Lions captain.

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29/06/1939

Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer

Alan Norman Connolly is a former Australian cricketer who played in 29 Tests and one ODI from 1963 to 1971. He played first-class cricket for Victoria and Middlesex from 1959 to 1971.

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Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer and coach

Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, also known as Amarildo, is a retired Brazilian footballer who played as a striker. He is the only living player who participated in the 1962 World Cup final.

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29/06/1936

Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (died 2011)

Harmon Clayton Killebrew Jr., nicknamed "the Killer" and "Hammerin' Harmon", was an American professional baseball player as a first baseman, third baseman, and left fielder. He spent most of his 22-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Minnesota Twins. A prolific power hitter, Killebrew had the fifth-most home runs in major league history at the time of his retirement. He was second only to Babe Ruth in American League (AL) home runs, and was the AL career leader in home runs by a right-handed batter. Killebrew was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984.

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Eddie Mabo, Australian land rights activist (died 1992)

Edward Koiki Mabo was a Torres Strait Islander man, known for his role in campaigning for Indigenous land rights in Australia, in particular the landmark decision of the High Court of Australia that recognised that indigenous rights to land had continued after the British Crown acquired sovereignty and that the international law doctrine of terra nullius was not applicable to Australian domestic law. High court judges considering the case Mabo v Queensland found in favour of Mabo, which led to the Native Title Act 1993 and established native title in Australia, officially recognising the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia.

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29/06/1935

Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos, Greek captain and businessman (died 2011)

Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos was, a Greek captain, shipowner and entrepreneur.

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Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager (died 2020)

Katsuya Nomura was a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) catcher and manager. During his over 26-season playing career mostly spent with the Nankai Hawks, he became one of NPB's greatest offensive catchers. He was awarded the Pacific League MVP Award five times, became the first NPB batter to win the Triple Crown in 1965, and holds the record for second-most home runs and RBIs in NPB history.

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29/06/1934

Corey Allen, American actor, director, and producer (died 2010)

Corey Allen was an American film and television director, writer, producer, and actor. He began his career as an actor but eventually became a television director. He is best known for playing the character Buzz Gunderson in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1955). He was the son of Carl Cohen.

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29/06/1933

Bob Shaw, American baseball player and manager (died 2010)

Robert John Shaw was an American professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, he played in Major League Baseball on seven teams for 11 seasons, from 1957 to 1967. In 1962, he was a National League (NL) All-Star player. In 1966, he led all National League pitchers with a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage.

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John Bradshaw, American theologian and author (died 2016)

John Elliot Bradshaw was an American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author who hosted a number of PBS television programs on topics such as addiction, recovery, codependency, and spirituality. Bradshaw was active in the self-help movement, and was credited with popularizing such ideas as the "wounded inner child" and the dysfunctional family. In promotional materials, interviews, and reviews of his work, he was often referred to as a theologian.

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29/06/1932

Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British jurist; Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (died 2020)

James Brian Edward Hutton, Baron Hutton, PC was a British Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.

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29/06/1931

Sevim Burak, Turkish author (died 1983)

Zeliha Sevim Burak was a Turkish author and playwright.

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29/06/1930

Ernst Albrecht, German economist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (died 2014)

Ernst Carl Julius Albrecht was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union and a former high-ranking European civil servant. He was one of the first European civil servants appointed in 1958 and served as director-general of the Directorate-General for Competition from 1967 to 1970. He served as Minister President of the state of Lower Saxony from 1976 to 1990. He was the father of the politician Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission.

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Robert Evans, American actor and producer (died 2019)

Robert Evans was an American film producer, studio executive, and actor who worked on Rosemary's Baby (1968), Love Story (1970), The Godfather (1972), and Chinatown (1974).

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Viola Léger, American-Canadian actress and politician (died 2023)

Viola Léger was an American-born Canadian actress and politician who served in the Senate of Canada from 2001 to 2005.

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Sławomir Mrożek, Polish-French author and playwright (died 2013)

Sławomir Tangolo Mrożek was a Polish playwright.

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29/06/1929

Pat Crawford Brown, American actress (died 2019)

Pat Crawford Brown was an American actress.

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Pete George, American weightlifter (died 2021)

Peter T. George was an American weightlifter and Olympic and World champion. He was later an assistant professor of stomatology. George was the first weightlifter of Bulgarian descent to win Olympic gold, which has since been achieved by other Bulgarian Olympians.

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Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (died 2006)

Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist and author. As a teenager she joined the Italian resistance movement during World War II, and later had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. She received various prizes for her work as a journalist and later wrote a number of best selling books.

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29/06/1928

Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (died 1999)

Ian Edmund Bannen was a Scottish stage and screen actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), the first Scots actor to receive the honour. He was also nominated for a BAFTA Award for his performance in Sidney Lumet's The Offence (1973) and John Boorman's Hope and Glory (1987).

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Jean-Louis Pesch, French author and illustrator (died 2023)

Jean-Louis Poisson, better known as Jean Louis Pesch, was a French author of comics series, including Sylvain et Sylvette.

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Radius Prawiro, Indonesian economist and politician (died 2005)

Radius Prawiro was an Indonesian economist and politician.

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29/06/1927

Pierre Perrault, Canadian director and screenwriter (died 1999)

Pierre Perrault was a Canadian documentary film director with the National Film Board of Canada. Over his 40-year career, he directed 32 films and was one of Canada's most important filmmakers, although he is largely unknown outside of Québec.

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Marie Thérèse Killens, Canadian politician

Marie Thérèse Rollande Killens is a former Canadian politician who served as a Liberal member of the House of Commons of Canada. She is an administrator by career.

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29/06/1926

Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler, 3rd Emir of Kuwait (died 2006)

Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, also known as Jaber III, was the Emir of Kuwait from 31 December 1977 until his death in 2006. The 13th ruler in his family's dynasty, Jaber's reign oversaw the transition of a relatively traditional society into a modernized state. He also led Kuwait through the Gulf War, defeating Ba'athist Iraq and Saddam Hussein with the support of the United States.

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Julius W. Becton, Jr., U.S lieutenant general (died 2023)

Julius Wesley Becton Jr. was a United States Army lieutenant general, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and education administrator. He served as Commanding General, VII Corps in 1978 and as Deputy Commanding General for Training of the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) in 1981. He retired in 1983.

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Roger Stuart Bacon, Nova Scotia politician (died 2021)

Roger Stuart Bacon was a Canadian politician who served as the 21st premier of Nova Scotia from 1990 to 1991.

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Bobby Morgan, American professional baseball player (died 2023)

Robert Morris Morgan was an American professional baseball infielder. He played eight seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1950 and 1958 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, and Chicago Cubs.

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29/06/1925

Francis S. Currey, American World War II Medal of Honor recipient (died 2019)

Francis Sherman Currey was a United States Army technical sergeant and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for his heroic actions during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

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Giorgio Napolitano, Italian journalist and politician, 11th President of Italy (died 2023)

Giorgio Napolitano was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 2006 to 2015. At the time the longest-serving president in Italian history, and the first to achieve re-election, he played a dominant role in Italian politics for almost a decade, leading some critics to refer to him as Re Giorgio.

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Chan Parker, American dancer and author (died 1999)

Chan Woods, was a common-law wife of jazz musician Charlie Parker. She later married musician Phil Woods.

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Jackie Lynn Taylor, American actress (died 2014)

Jacklyn DeVon Taylor, professionally known as Jackie Lynn Taylor, was an American child actress.

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Cara Williams, American actress (died 2021)

Cara Williams was an American film and television actress. She was best known for her role as Billy's mother in The Defiant Ones (1958), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and her role as Gladys Porter on the 1960–62 CBS television series Pete and Gladys, for which she was nominated for the Emmy Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy. At the time of her death, Williams was one of the last surviving actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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29/06/1924

Ezra Laderman, American composer and educator (died 2015)

Ezra Laderman was an American composer of classical music. He was born in Brooklyn.

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Roy Walford, American pathologist and gerontologist (died 2004)

Roy Lee Walford, M. D. was a professor of pathology at University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, a leading advocate of calorie restriction for life extension and health improvement, and a crew member of Biosphere 2.

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Philip H. Hoff, American politician (died 2018)

Philip Henderson Hoff was an American politician from the U.S. state of Vermont. He was most notable for his service as the 73rd governor of Vermont from 1963 to 1969, the state's first Democratic governor since 1853.

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29/06/1923

Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer and educator (died 2019)

Chou Wen-chung was a Chinese American composer of contemporary classical music. He emigrated in 1946 to the United States and received his music training at the New England Conservatory and Columbia University. Chou is credited by Nicolas Slonimsky as one of the first Chinese composers who attempted to translate authentic East Asian melo-rhythms into the terms of modern Western music.

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29/06/1922

Ralph Burns, American songwriter, bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and pianist (died 2001)

Ralph Joseph P. Burns was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.

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Vasko Popa, Serbian poet and academic (died 1991)

Vasile "Vasko" Popa was a Yugoslav and Serbian poet of ethnic-Romanian heritage. He is regarded as one of 20th-century Yugoslavia's and Serbia's most important poets, and his work has been widely translated.

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John William Vessey, Jr., American general (died 2016)

John William Vessey Jr. was a career officer in the United States Army. He attained the rank of general, and was most notable for his service as the tenth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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29/06/1921

Frédéric Dard, French author and screenwriter (died 2000)

Frédéric Charles Antoine Dard ) also known under the pen name San-Antonio, was a French writer. Known as an author of crime fiction and as a humorist, he was noted for his ability to blend the two genres. Though Dard also wrote serious fiction, his most successful books used a farcical tone.

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Jean Kent, English actress (died 2013)

Jean Kent was an English film and television actress.

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Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (died 2009)

Reinhard Mohn was a German billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Under his leadership, Bertelsmann, once a medium-sized printing and publishing house, established in 1835, developed into a global media conglomerate. In 1977, he founded the non-profit foundation Bertelsmann Stiftung, which is today one of the largest foundations in Germany, with worldwide reach.

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Harry Schell, French-American race car driver (died 1960)

Harry Lawrence O'Reilly Schell was an American racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1960.

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29/06/1920

César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer and manager (died 1995)

César Rodríguez Álvarez, sometimes known as just César, was a Spanish football forward and manager.

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Ray Harryhausen, American animator and producer (died 2013)

Raymond Frederick Harryhausen was an American-British animator and special effects creator who is regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of both fields. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he built upon the techniques of his mentor, Willis H. O'Brien, to develop a form of stop motion model animation known as "Dynamation" and advance the field of cinematic special effects. Though not credited as a writer or director on any of the feature films he worked on, the role he played in shaping those he made during his peak years has led to him being regarded as "cinema's sole visual effects auteur," and the creatures and sequences he animated are considered some of the most iconic in the history of cinema.

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Nicole Russell, Duchess of Bedford (died 2012)

Nicole Russell, Duchess of Bedford was one of the first female television producers in France. After becoming the Duchess of Bedford, she helped to open and popularize one of the first Stately homes to the public - Woburn Abbey. She was also a best-selling author.

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David Snellgrove, British tibetologist (died 2016)

David Llewellyn Snellgrove, FBA was a British Tibetologist noted for his pioneering work on Buddhism in Tibet as well as his many travelogues.

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29/06/1919

Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (died 2008)

Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada was a Mexican Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mexico and Primate of Mexico(1977–1994). He was made a cardinal in 1979.

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Walter Babington Thomas, Commander of British Far East Land Forces (died 2017)

Major-General Walter Babington "Sandy" Thomas, was a New Zealand-born British Army officer, who served as General Officer Commanding Far East Land Forces from 1970 to 1971. He previously served with the New Zealand Military Forces in the Second World War, where he was decorated, wounded and, at age 24, became the youngest New Zealand battalion commander of the war.

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Juan Blanco, Cuban composer (died 2008)

Juan Blanco was the first Cuban composer to utilize electroacoustics, spatial music and multimedia.

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Slim Pickens, American actor and rodeo performer (died 1983)

Louis Burton Lindley, better known by his stage name Slim Pickens, was an American actor and rodeo performer. Starting off in the rodeo, Pickens took up acting, and appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows. For much of his career, Pickens played cowboy roles. He played comic roles in Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles, 1941, and had a villainous role in One-Eyed Jacks with Marlon Brando.

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Lloyd Richards, Canadian-American theatre director, actor, and dean (died 2006)

Lloyd George Richards was a Canadian-American theatre director, and actor. While head of the National Playwrights Conference, he helped cultivate many of the most famous theater writers of the 20th century. He was also the dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1979 to 1991, and was the first Black director on Broadway.

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29/06/1918

Heini Lohrer, Swiss ice hockey player (died 2011)

Heinrich Lohrer was an ice hockey player for the Swiss national team. He won a bronze medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics. He was a brother of Werner Lohrer.

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Gene La Rocque, U.S admiral (died 2016)

Eugene Robert LaRocque was a rear admiral of the US Navy. He founded the Center for Defense Information in 1971.

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Francis W. Nye, United States Air Force major general (died 2019)

Francis Walter Nye was a United States Air Force major general who was a B-24 Liberator and B-29 Superfortress combat pilot. He was commander, Field Command, Defense Atomic Support Agency, Sandia Base, New Mexico.

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29/06/1917

Ling Yun, Chinese politician (died 2018)

Ling Yun, born as Wu Peilin (吴沛霖), was a politician of the People's Republic of China, who served as the first Minister of State Security, from June 1983 to September 1985.

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29/06/1916

Ruth Warrick, American actress and activist (died 2005)

Ruth Elizabeth Warrick was an American singer, actress and political activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on All My Children, which she played regularly from 1970 until her death in 2005. She made her film debut in Citizen Kane, and years later celebrated her 80th birthday by attending a special screening of the film.

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29/06/1914

Rafael Kubelík, Czech-American conductor and composer (died 1996)

Rafael Jeroným Kubelík, KBE was a Czech conductor and composer.

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Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek-American mathematician and academic (died 1976)

Christos Dimitriou Papakyriakopoulos, commonly known as Papa, was a Greek mathematician specializing in geometric topology.

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29/06/1913

Earle Meadows, American pole vaulter (died 1992)

Earle Elmer Meadows was an American pole vaulter who won a gold medal at the 1936 Olympics. His winning vault is featured in Leni Riefenstahl's film Olympia.

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29/06/1912

José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1958)

José Pablo Moncayo García was a Mexican pianist, percussionist, music teacher, composer and conductor. "As composer, José Pablo Moncayo represents one of the most important legacies of the Mexican nationalism in art music, after Silvestre Revueltas and Carlos Chávez." He produced some of the masterworks that best symbolize the essence of the national aspirations and contradictions of Mexico in the 20th century.

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Émile Peynaud, French oenologist and academic (died 2004)

Émile Peynaud was a French oenologist and researcher who has been credited with revolutionizing winemaking in the latter half of the 20th century, and has been called "the forefather of modern oenology".

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John Toland, American historian and author (died 2004)

John Willard Toland was an American writer and historian. He is best known for his biography of Adolf Hitler and a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II-era Japan, The Rising Sun.

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29/06/1911

Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (died 2004)

Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld was Prince of the Netherlands from 6 September 1948 to 30 April 1980 as the husband of Queen Juliana. They had four daughters together, including Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

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Katherine DeMille, Canadian-American actress (died 1995)

Katherine Lester DeMille was an American actress who played 25 credited film roles from the mid-1930s to the late 1940s.

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Bernard Herrmann, American composer and conductor (died 1975)

Bernard Herrmann was an American composer and conductor best known for his work in film scoring. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time. Alex Ross writes that "Over four decades, he revolutionized movie scoring by abandoning the illustrative musical techniques that dominated Hollywood in the 1930s and imposing his own peculiar harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary." As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers.

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29/06/1910

Frank Loesser, American composer and conductor (died 1969)

Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won a Tony Award for Guys and Dolls and shared the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for How to Succeed. He also wrote songs for over 60 Hollywood films and Tin Pan Alley, many of which have become standards, and was nominated for five Academy Awards for best song, winning once for "Baby, It's Cold Outside."

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Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (died 1993)

Burgess Urquhart "Whitey" Whitehead was an American Major League Baseball second baseman from 1933 to 1946. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, and Pittsburgh Pirates.

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29/06/1909

Harold Edward Dahl, American pilot and mercenary (died 1956)

Harold Edward Dahl was a mercenary American pilot who fought in the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Spanish Civil War. He was a member of the "American Patrol" of the Andres Garcia La Calle group. He was nicknamed "Whitey" due to his very blond hair.

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29/06/1908

Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (died 1975)

Leroy Anderson was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler. John Williams described him as "one of the great American masters of light orchestral music."

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Erik Lundqvist, Swedish javelin thrower (died 1963)

Erik Hjalmar Lundqvist was a Swedish athlete who won a gold medal in the javelin throw at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Two weeks later he became the first man to break the 70 m barrier, setting a new world record at 71.01 m.

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29/06/1906

Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Ukrainian general (died 1945)

Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky was the youngest-ever Soviet General of the army. For his leadership during World War II he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union twice. He died from wounds received outside Königsberg at age 37 while in command of the 3rd Belorussian Front.

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Heinz Harmel, German general (died 2000)

Heinz Harmel was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. He commanded the 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg during World War II. Harmel was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords of Nazi Germany.

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29/06/1904

Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician (died 1956)

Witold Hurewicz was a Polish mathematician who worked in topology.

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29/06/1903

Alan Blumlein, English engineer, developed the H2S radar (died 1942)

Alan Dower Blumlein was an English electronics engineer, notable for his many inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereophonic sound, television and radar. He received 128 patents and was considered one of the most significant engineers and inventors of his time.

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29/06/1901

Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (died 1967)

Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American actor and baritone singer who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he costarred with soprano Jeanette MacDonald. He was one of the first "crossover" stars, a superstar appealing both to shrieking bobby soxers and opera purists, and in his heyday, he was the highest paid singer in the world.

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29/06/1900

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (died 1944)

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.

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29/06/1898

Yvonne Lefébure, French pianist and educator (died 1986)

Yvonne Lefébure was a French pianist and teacher.

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29/06/1897

Fulgence Charpentier, Canadian journalist and publisher (died 2001)

Fulgence Charpentier, OC was a French Canadian journalist, editor and publisher.

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29/06/1893

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian economist and statistician (died 1972)

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA, FASc, FRS was an Indian scientist and statistician. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure, and for being one of the members of the first Planning Commission of free India. He made pioneering studies in anthropometry in India. He founded the Indian Statistical Institute, and contributed to the design of large-scale sample surveys. For his contributions, Mahalanobis has been considered the father of statistics in India. Since 2007, 29 June is celebrated as National Statistics Day in India to commemorate the birth anniversary of P.C. Mahalanobis and his contributions to statistical science and planning.

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Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer and educator (died 1958)

Aarre Merikanto was a Finnish composer.

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29/06/1890

Robert Laurent, American sculptor and academic (died 1970)

Robert Laurent was a French-American modernist figurative sculptor, printmaker and teacher. His work, the New York Times wrote,"figured in the development of an American sculptural art that balanced nature and abstraction." Widely exhibited, he took part in the Whitney's 1946 exhibition Pioneers of Modern Art. Credited as the first American sculptor to adopt a "direct carving" sculpting style that was bolder and more abstract than the then traditional fine arts practice, which relied on models, Laurent's approach was inspired by the African carving and European avant-garde art he admired, while also echoing folk styles found both in the U.S. and among medieval stone cutters of his native Brittany. Best known for his virtuoso mastery of the figure, Laurent sculpted in multiple media, including wood, alabaster, bronze, marble and aluminum. His expertise earned him major commissions for public sculpture, most famously for the Goose Girl for New York City's Radio City Music Hall, as well as for Spanning the Continent for Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. After the Depression, he was also the recipient of several Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project commissions under the New Deal, including a bas-relief called Shipping for the exterior of Washington, D.C.'s Federal Trade Commission Building, commissioned by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts in 1938.

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Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (died 2005)

Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper was a Dutch supercentenarian who lived to the age of 115 years, 62 days. She is the oldest person ever from the Netherlands, breaking the previous record of Catharina van Dam on 26 September 2003, and from 29 May 2004 was the oldest verified person in the world, until the verification of María Capovilla.

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29/06/1889

Willie Macfarlane, Scottish-American golfer (died 1961)

William Macfarlane was a Scottish professional golfer.

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29/06/1888

Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (died 1927)

Joseph Theodore Leslie "Squizzy" Taylor was an Australian gangster from Melbourne. He appeared repeatedly and sometimes prominently in Melbourne news media because of suspicions, formal accusations and some convictions related to a 1919 gang war, to his absconding from bail and hiding from the police in 1921–22, and to his involvement in a robbery where a bank manager was murdered in 1923.

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29/06/1886

Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1963)

Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister, he was instrumental in building postwar European and trans-Atlantic institutions and was one of the founders of the European Communities, the Council of Europe and NATO. He was the one who proposed the Schuman Declaration, which established the European Coal and Steel Community, ultimately a predecessor of the European Union. The 1964–1965 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour. In 2021, Schuman was declared venerable by Pope Francis in recognition of his acting on Christian principles.

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29/06/1885

Izidor Kürschner, Hungarian football player and coach (died 1941)

Izidor "Dori" Kürschner, in Brazil primarily known as Dori Kruschner,, was a Hungarian football player and coach. As player he was successful with Budapest club MTK, and also played for the Hungary national team. As coach he succeeded in Germany, winning the national championship with 1. FC Nürnberg. His greatest triumphs were to follow in Switzerland with the Grasshopper Club Zürich, where he won seven titles. Kürschner's arrival to Brazilian football brought tactical innovations which helped to establish the country as one of the world leaders in the sport.

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29/06/1882

Henry Hawtrey, English runner (died 1961)

Henry Courtenay Hawtrey was a British track and field athlete, winner of 5 miles (8.0 km) run at the 1906 Summer Olympics.

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Franz Seldte, German captain and politician, Reich Minister for Labour (died 1947)

Tobias Wilhelm Franz Seldte was a German reactionary politician who served as the Reich Minister for Labour in Nazi Germany. Prior to his ministry, Seldte was a founding leader of Der Stahlhelm World War I ex-servicemen's organisation from 1918 to 1934.

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29/06/1881

Harry Frazee, American director, producer, and agent (died 1929)

Harry Herbert Frazee was an American theatrical agent, producer, and director, and owner of Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox from 1916 to 1923. He is well known for selling Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, which started the alleged Curse of the Bambino.

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Curt Sachs, German-American composer and musicologist (died 1959)

Curt Sachs was a German musicologist. He was one of the founders of modern organology. Among his contributions was the Hornbostel–Sachs system, which he created with Erich von Hornbostel.

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29/06/1880

Ludwig Beck, German general (died 1944)

Ludwig August Theodor Beck was a German general who served as Chief of the German General Staff from 1933 to 1938. Beck was one of the main conspirators of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

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29/06/1879

Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian cardinal (died 1970)

Benedetto Aloisi Masella was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as prefect of the Discipline of the Sacraments from 1954 to 1968, and as chamberlain of the Roman Church from 1958 until his death. Aloisi Masella was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII, whom he designated to canonically crown Our Lady of Fatima.

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29/06/1873

Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (died 1938)

Leo Viktor Frobenius was a German self-taught ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography.

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29/06/1870

Joseph Carl Breil, American tenor, composer, and director (died 1926)

Joseph Carl Breil was an American lyric tenor, stage director, composer and conductor. He was one of the earliest American composers to compose specific music for motion pictures. His first film was Les amours de la reine Élisabeth (1912) starring Sarah Bernhardt. He later composed and arranged scores for several other early motion pictures, including such epics as D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), as well as scoring the preview version of The Phantom of the Opera (1925), a score that is now lost. His love theme for "Birth of a Nation", titled "The Perfect Song", was published by Chappell & Co. in an arrangement for voice and keyboard. It was later used as the theme for the radio show Amos 'n' Andy.

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29/06/1868

George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and journalist (died 1938)

George Ellery Hale was an American astrophysicist best known for his discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots. He was also a key figure in the planning and construction of several world-leading telescopes: the 40-inch refracting telescope at Yerkes Observatory; the 60-inch Hale and 100-inch Hooker reflecting telescopes, both at Mount Wilson Observatory; and the 200-inch Hale reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory. He played a key role in the foundation of the International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research and the National Research Council, and in developing the California Institute of Technology into a leading research university.

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29/06/1866

Bartholomeus Roodenburch, Dutch swimmer (died 1939)

Bartholomeus Roodenburch was a Dutch backstroke swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.

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29/06/1863

Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1934)

Wilbert Robinson, nicknamed "Uncle Robbie", was an American catcher, coach and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the Philadelphia Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, and St. Louis Cardinals. He managed the Orioles and Brooklyn Robins. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945.

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29/06/1861

William James Mayo, American physician and surgeon, co-founded the Mayo Clinic (died 1939)

William James Mayo was a physician and surgeon in the United States and one of the seven founders of the Mayo Clinic. He and his brother, Charles Horace Mayo, both joined their father's private medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota, after graduating from medical school in the 1880s. In 1919, that practice became the not-for-profit Mayo Clinic.

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29/06/1858

George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer, co-designed the Panama Canal (died 1928)

George Washington Goethals was an American military officer and civil engineer, best known for his administration and supervision of the construction and the opening of the Panama Canal. He was the first Governor of Panama Canal Zone from 1914 to 1917, and was also the State Engineer of New Jersey and the Acting Quartermaster General of the United States Army.

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Julia Lathrop, American activist and politician (died 1932)

Julia Clifford Lathrop was an American social reformer in the area of education, social policy, and children's welfare. As director of the United States Children's Bureau from 1912 to 1922, she was the first woman ever to head a United States federal bureau.

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29/06/1849

Pedro Montt, Chilean lawyer and politician, 15th President of Chile (died 1910)

Pedro Elías Pablo Montt Montt was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile from 1906 to his death from a probable stroke in 1910. His government furthered railroad and manufacturing activities but ignored pressing social and labour problems.

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Sergei Witte, Russian politician, 1st Chairmen of Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire (died 1915)

Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte, also known as Sergius Witte, was a Russian statesman who served as the first prime minister of the Russian Empire, replacing the emperor as head of government. Neither liberal nor conservative, he attracted foreign capital to boost Russia's industrialization. Witte's strategy was to avoid the danger of wars.

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John Hunn, American businessman and politician, 51st Governor of Delaware (died 1926)

John Hunn was an American businessman and politician from Camden, Delaware. The first governor elected after a reform of Delaware's state constitution and a compromise candidate, Hunn served from 1901 until 1905 and became the first of a multi-decade string of elected Republican Delaware governors.

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29/06/1844

Peter I of Serbia (died 1921)

Peter I was King of Serbia from 15 June 1903 to 1 December 1918. On 1 December 1918, he became King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and he held that title until his death three years later. Since he was the king of Serbia during a period of great Serbian military success, he was remembered by Serbians as King Peter the Liberator and also as the Old King.

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29/06/1835

Celia Thaxter, American poet and story writer (died 1894)

Celia Thaxter was an American writer of poetry and stories. For most of her life, she lived with her father on the Isles of Shoals at his Appledore Hotel. How she grew up to become a writer is detailed in her early autobiography, and her book entitled Among the Isles of Shoals. Thaxter became one of America's favorite authors in the late 19th century. Among her best-known poems are "The Burgomaster Gull", "Landlocked", "Milking", "The Great White Owl", "The Kingfisher", and "The Sandpiper". Many of her romantic poems are addressed to women; as such, she has been identified by some scholars as a lesbian poet.

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29/06/1833

Peter Waage, Norwegian chemist and academic (died 1900)

Peter Waage was a Norwegian chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Kristiania. Along with his brother-in-law Cato Maximilian Guldberg, he co-discovered and developed the law of mass action between 1864 and 1879.

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29/06/1819

Thomas Dunn English, American poet, playwright, and politician (died 1902)

Thomas Dunn English was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who represented the state's 6th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1891 to 1895. He was also a published author and songwriter, who had a bitter feud with Edgar Allan Poe. Along with Waitman T. Barbe and Danske Dandridge, English was considered a major West Virginia poet of the mid 19th century.

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29/06/1818

Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer and academic (died 1878)

Angelo Secchi was an Italian Catholic priest and astronomer from the Italian region of Emilia. He was director of the observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University for 28 years. He was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.

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29/06/1803

John Newton Brown, American minister and author (died 1868)

John Newton Brown was an influential Baptist teacher, minister and publisher in the 19th century.

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29/06/1801

Frédéric Bastiat, French economist and theorist (died 1850)

Claude-Frédéric Bastiat was a French economist, writer, and prominent member of the French liberal school.

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29/06/1798

Willibald Alexis, German author and poet (died 1871)

Willibald Alexis, the pseudonym of Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Häring, was a German historical novelist, considered part of the Young Germany movement.

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Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (died 1837)

Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist, and philologist. Considered the greatest Italian poet of the 19th century and one of the greatest authors of his time worldwide, as well as one of the principals of literary Romanticism, his constant reflection on existence and on the human condition—of sensuous and materialist inspiration—has also earned him a reputation as a deep philosopher. He is widely seen as one of the most radical and challenging thinkers of the 19th century, and one of the crowns of Italian Romanticism together with Alessandro Manzoni, even if he expressed different and sometimes opposing positions compared to the latter. Although he lived in a secluded town in the conservative Papal States, he came into contact with the main ideas of the Enlightenment, and, through his own literary evolution, created a remarkable and renowned poetic work, related to the Romantic era. The strongly lyrical quality of his poetry made him a central figure on the European and international literary and cultural landscape.

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29/06/1793

Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller (died 1857)

Josef Ludwig Franz Ressel was a Bohemia-born Austrian forester and inventor who designed one of the first working ship's propellers.

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29/06/1787

Lavinia Stoddard, American poet, school founder (died 1820)

Lavinia Stoddard was an American poet and school founder from Connecticut. She spent her early years in New Jersey, where she received her education. After marrying physician William Stoddard, she co-founded and ran an academy in Troy, New York, which became known for its educational work in the community. Stoddard wrote numerous poems that were published anonymously in periodicals, including "The Soul’s Defiance", which reflected her personal experiences and was widely reprinted in nineteenth-century American anthologies. She spent her final years in Alabama due to ill health and died there in 1820.

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29/06/1768

Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (died 1831)

Vincenzo Dimech was a Maltese sculptor. He is best known for his religious sculptures, which include the titular statues of Gudja and Floriana. He also sculpted monuments or architectural features in Valletta and Corfu.

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29/06/1746

Joachim Heinrich Campe, German linguist, author, and educator (died 1818)

Joachim Heinrich Campe was a German writer, linguist, educator and publisher. He was a major representative of philanthropinism and the German Enlightenment.

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29/06/1686

Pietro Paolo Troisi, Maltese artist (died 1743)

Pietro Paolo Troisi was a Maltese Baroque silversmith, sculptor, medallist, designer, engraver and Master of the Mint. His works include bronze sculptures of his patron António Manoel de Vilhena, designs of various coins and medals, a wide range of mainly religious works in silver, engraved portraits, designs for temporary triumphal arches and designs for works in a number of churches, most notably the altar of repose at the Mdina cathedral.

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29/06/1621

Willem van der Zaan, Dutch Admiral (died 1669)

Willem van der Zaan was a Dutch Admiral. His name is often given in the 17th century spelling Zaen.

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29/06/1596

Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (died 1680)

Kotohito (Japanese: 政仁; IPA: [ko̞to̞çito̞]; 29 June 1596 – 11 September 1680, posthumously honored as Emperor Go-Mizunoo , was the 108th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Go-Mizunoo's reign spanned the years from 1611 through 1629, and he was the first emperor to reign entirely during the Edo period.

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29/06/1543

Christine of Hesse, Duchess consort of Holstein-Gottorp (died 1604)

Christine of Hesse was Duchess consort of Holstein-Gottorp as the spouse of Duke Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp. She exerted some political influence as a widow after 1586.

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29/06/1528

Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1589)

Julius of Brunswick-Lüneburg, a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1568 until his death. From 1584, he also ruled over the Principality of Calenberg. By embracing the Protestant Reformation, establishing the University of Helmstedt, and introducing a series of administrative reforms, Julius was one of the most important Brunswick dukes in the early modern era.

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29/06/1525

Peter Agricola, German humanist, theologian, diplomat and statesman (died 1585)

Peter Agricola was a German Renaissance humanist, educator, classical scholar and theologian, diplomat and statesman, disciple of Martin Luther, friend and collaborator of Philipp Melanchthon.

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29/06/1517

Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (died 1585)

Rembert Dodoens was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus. He has been called the father of botany. The standard author abbreviation Dodoens is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

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29/06/1488

Pedro Pacheco de Villena, Catholic cardinal (died 1560)

Pedro Pacheco de Villena, also known as Pedro Pacheco Ladrón de Guevara, was a Spanish cardinal and viceroy of Naples. In Italian his name is spelled Pietro Pacecco. His nephew Francisco Pacheco de Toledo was also a cardinal.

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29/06/1482

Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (died 1517)

Maria of Aragon was Queen of Portugal from 30 October 1500 until her death in 1517 as the second wife of King Manuel I. Manuel was the widower of Maria's elder sister, Isabella.

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29/06/1443

Anthony Browne, English knight (died 1506)

Sir Anthony Browne was the son of Sir Thomas Browne and Eleanor FitzAlan. He served as Henry VII's standard-bearer and Lieutenant of Calais.

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29/06/1398

John II of Aragon and Navarre (died 1479)

John II, called the Great or the Faithless, was King of Aragon from 1458 until his death in 1479. As the husband of Queen Blanche I of Navarre, he was King of Navarre from 1425 to 1479. John was also King of Sicily from 1458 to 1468.

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29/06/1326

Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (died 1389)

Murad I, nicknamed Hüdavendigâr, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1362 to 1389. He was the son of Orhan Gazi and Nilüfer Hatun. Murad I came to the throne after his elder half-brother Süleyman Pasha's death.

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29/06/1136

Petronilla of Aragon (died 1173)

Petronilla, whose name is also spelled Petronila or Petronella, was Queen of Aragon (1137–1164) from the abdication of her father, Ramiro II, in 1137 until her own abdication in 1164. After her abdication she acted as regent during the minority of her son Alfonso II of Aragon (1164–1173). She was the last ruling member of the Jiménez dynasty in the Kingdom of Aragon, and by marriage to Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona brought the House of Barcelona to the throne of Aragon, uniting the Kingdom of Aragon with the County of Barcelona to create the Crown of Aragon.

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