On this day: 29 June
Events, births and deaths on 29 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Sandy Gall
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Kiichirō Furukawa
- Deaths · James Cooley
- Deaths · Jan Hettema
100 years ago1926
- Births · Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah
- Births · James K. Baxter
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1059 · Deaths · Bernard II
Events · 16
- 1149(Julian date)Battle of Inab — 1149 Frankish defeat to Zengid forces
- 1170(Julian date)1170 Syria earthquake — One of the largest earthquakes to hit Syria. It occurred early in the morning of 29 June 1170.
- 1444(Julian date)Battle of Torvioll — 1444 battle during an Albanian uprising against the Ottoman Empire
- 1644Battle of Cropredy Bridge — 1644 battle of the English Civil War
- 17641764 Woldegk tornado — one of the strongest tornadoes ever documented on Earth
- 1776Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet — naval battle of American Revolutionary War near Cape May, New Jersey
- 1864St-Hilaire train disaster — railroad disaster that occurred on June 29, 1864 in Canada
- 1913Second Balkan War — continuation of the First Balkan War in which Bulgaria fought Serbia, Greece, Romania and the Ottoman Empire
- 1950United States 1–0 England — 1950 FIFA World Cup Match
- 1956Interstate Highway System — network of freeways in the United States
- 19721972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision — 1972 aviation accident
- 1976Seychelles — island sovereign state off the eastern coast of Africa
- 19861986 FIFA World Cup Final — championship match of the 1986 FIFA World Cup
- 1995Sampoong Department Store collapse — June 29 1995 South Korean building collapse disaster
- 2002Second Battle of Yeonpyeong — 2002 naval incident between North Korea and South Korea
- 20032003 Chicago balcony collapse — deadliest porch collapse in U.S. history, with 70 casualties
Births · 60
- 1136(Julian date)Petronilla of Aragon — queen of Aragón and countess of Barcelona
- 1326Murad I — third Ottoman sultan (1362–1389)
- 1398(Julian date)John II of Aragon — King of Aragon from 1458 to 1479
- 1482(Julian date)Maria of Aragon — queen of Portugal
- 1596Emperor Go-Mizunoo — emperor of Japan from 1611 to 1629
- 1798Giacomo Leopardi — Italian noble, poet, philosopher, and writer (1798-1837)
- 1818Angelo Secchi — Italian astronomer
- 1833Peter Waage — Norwegian chemist (1833-1900)
- 1844(Julian date)Peter I of Serbia — Serbian noble (1844–1921); King of Serbia from 1903 to 1918
- 1868George Ellery Hale — American astronomer (1868-1938)
- 1873Leo Frobenius — German ethnologist and archaeologist (1873–1938)
- 1880Ludwig Beck — German general (1880–1944)
- 1886Robert Schuman — Luxembourgish-born German-French statesman and Venerable (1886-1963)
- 1893Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis — Indian scientist and statistician (1893–1972)
- 1900Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
- 1906Ivan Chernyakhovsky — Soviet general (1906–1945)
- 1911Bernard Herrmann — American composer and conductor (1911-1975)
- 1911Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld — husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (1911-2004); prince consort of the Netherlands (1911-2004)
- 1914Rafael Kubelik — Czech conductor, violinist and composer (1914–1996)
- 1920Ray Harryhausen — American animator (1920–2013)
- 1920César Rodríguez Álvarez — Spanish footballer (1920-1995)
- 1925Giorgio Napolitano — President of Italy from 2006 to 2015
- 1926Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah — Emir of Kuwait from 1977 to 2006
- 1928Ian Bannen — Scottish actor (1928–1999)
- 1929Oriana Fallaci — Italian journalist (1929–2006)
Deaths · 60
- 226(Julian date)Cao Pi — Cao Wei Emperror (187-226)
- 1059Bernard II — Duke of Saxony (995-1059)
- 1149Raymond of Poitiers — Prince of Antioch
- 1252Abel of Denmark — King of Denmark
- 1293(Julian date)Henry of Ghent — scholastic philosopher
- 1432(Julian date)Janus, King of Cyprus — King of Cyprus and Armenia (1375-1432)
- 1509(Julian date)Margaret Beaufort — noblewoman; Mother of King Henry VII
- 1520Moctezuma II — 9th tlatoani of Tenochtitlan and ruler of the Aztec Triple Alliance (1466-1520)
- 1575(Julian date)Baba Nobuharu — Japanese samurai
- 1725Arai Hakuseki — Japanese scholar and official (1657–1725)
- 1729Edward Taylor — American poet
- 1744André Campra — French composer and conductor (1660-1744)
- 1779Anton Raphael Mengs — German-Bohemian painter active in Dresden, Rome and Madrid (1728-1779)
- 1831Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein — Prussian and German politician (1757-1831)
- 1840Lucien Bonaparte — 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano (1775–1840)
- 1852Henry Clay — American politician from Kentucky (1777-1852)
- 1853Adrien-Henri de Jussieu — French botanist (1797-1853)
- 1860Thomas Addison — 19th-century British physician and scientist
- 1861Elizabeth Barrett Browning — English poet (1806–1861)
- 1873Michael Madhusudan Dutt — Bengali poet and dramatist (1824–1873)
- 1875Ferdinand I of Austria — Austrian emperor, king of Hungary and Bohemia (1793-1875)
- 1895Thomas Henry Huxley — British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
- 1907Konstantinos Volanakis — Greek painter (1837-1907)
- 1919José Gregorio Hernández — Venezuelan physician and Franciscan tertiary, saint in the Catholic Church
- 1933Roscoe Arbuckle — American actor, director and comedian
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