Famous Birthdays on this Day in History - per Wikipedia

June 29

• 1397 – King John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
• 1482 – Maria of Aragon, Spanish-born wife of King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1517)
• 1517 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician (d. 1585)
• 1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
• 1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
• 1803 – John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
• 1849 – John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
• 1858 – George Washington Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
• 1858 – Julia Lathrop, American social reformer and children's rights activist (d. 1932)
• 1861 – William James Mayo, American physician (d. 1939)
• 1863 – Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player and hall-of-famer (d. 1934)
• 1866 – Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
• 1868 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
• 1879 – Zsigmond Móricz, Hungarian writer (d. 1942)
• 1880 – Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
• 1881 – Harry Frazee, American baseball team owner (d. 1929)
• 1881 – Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
• 1886 – Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
• 1886 – James Van Der Zee, African American Harlem Renaissance photographer (d. 1983)
• 1888 – Joseph 'Squizzy' Taylor, Australian underworld figure (d. 1927)
• 1889 – Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
• 1893 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
• 1893 – Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist and statistician (d. 1972)
• 1897 – Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
• 1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
• 1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
• 1903 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
• 1906 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
• 1908 – Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
• 1910 – Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
• 1910 – Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1911 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
• 1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
• 1912 – John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
• 1914 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Allan Houser, Native American artist (d. 1994)
• 1914 – Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
• 1915 – Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1919 – Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
• 1919 – Lloyd Richards, American theatre director (d. 2006)
• 1920 – Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
• 1921 – Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
• 1923 – Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-born American composer
• 1924 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
• 1924 – Ezra Laderman, American composer
• 1925 – Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician, 11th President of the Republic
• 1925 – Hale Smith, American composer and editor (d. 2009)
• 1925 – Cara Williams, American actress
• 1925 – Chan Parker, American memoir writer, wife of Charlie Parker and of Phil Woods (d. 1999)
• 1926 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
• 1928 – Radius Prawiro, Indonesian politician (d. 2005)
• 1929 – Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
• 1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
• 1931 – Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1930 – Robert Evans, American film producer
• 1932 – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician
• 1933 – Bob Shaw, baseball player
• 1933 – John Bradshaw, American theologian
• 1934 – Corey Allen, American filmmaker and actor (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Chuck Schaden, Chicago radio personality and historian
• 1935 – Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
• 1936 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (d. 2011)
• 1939 – Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
• 1939 – Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial artist and actor (d. 2002)
• 1940 – Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
• 1941 – John Boccabella, American baseball player
• 1941 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
• 1942 – Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter
• 1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Gary Busey, American actor
• 1944 – Sean O'Malley, American Roman Catholic bishop
• 1945 – Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
• 1946 – Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
• 1946 – Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician
• 1947 – Michael Carter, British actor
• 1947 – Richard Lewis, American comedian
• 1948 – Ian Paice, English drummer (Deep Purple)
• 1949 – Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician
• 1949 – Ann Veneman, American politician
• 1951 – Don Rosa, American illustrator
• 1953 – Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer (Men at Work)
• 1954 – Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player
• 1955 – Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist
• 1955 – Charles J. Precourt, American astronaut
• 1956 – Nick Fry, CEO of Mercedes GP Formula One team
• 1956 – Pedro Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
• 1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese politician, former Prime Minister
• 1957 – María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
• 1957 – Michael Nutter, American politician
• 1957 – Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter (The Go-Betweens)
• 1958 – Rosa Mota, Portuguese marathon runner
• 1958 – Jeff Coopwood, American actor, broadcaster and singer
• 1961 – Kimberlin Brown, American actress
• 1961 – Greg Hetson, American guitarist (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks)
• 1961 – Sharon Lawrence, American actress
• 1962 – Amanda Donohoe, British actress
• 1962 – George Zamka, American astronaut
• 1963 – Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
• 1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
• 1964 – Stedman Pearson, British singer (Five Star)
• 1965 – Tripp Eisen, American guitarist (Static-X)
• 1965 – Panagiotis Karatzas, Greek basketball player
• 1966 – John Part, Canadian darts player
• 1966 – Yoko Kamio, Japanese manga artist
• 1967 – Seamus McGarvey, Irish cinematographer
• 1967 – Jeff Burton, American racing driver
• 1967 – Murray Foster, Canadian bassist and double-bassist (Moxy Früvous, Great Big Sea)
• 1967 – Melora Hardin, American actress and singer
• 1968 – Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Judith Hoag, American actress and acting teacher
• 1969 – Claude Béchard, Canadian politician
• 1969 – Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer and football manager
• 1969 – Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
• 1969 – Toru Hashimoto, Japanese politician
• 1970 – Mike Vallely, American skateboarder
• 1970 – Emily Skinner, American actress and singer
• 1971 – Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress
• 1971 – Matthew Good, Canadian singer (Matthew Good Band)
• 1971 – Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
• 1972 – Samantha Smith, American activist (d. 1985)
• 1972 – Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
• 1973 – George Hincapie, American cyclist
• 1976 – Bret McKenzie, New Zealand comedian, actor and multi-instrumentalist (Flight of the Conchords)
• 1976 – Daniel Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
• 1977 – Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1977 – Zuleikha Robinson, English actress
• 1978 – Sam Farrar, American bassist (Phantom Planet)
• 1978 – Nicole Scherzinger, American singer (Pussycat Dolls) and actress
• 1979 – Abz Love (formerly known as Abs Breen), English DJ and singer (Five)
• 1979 – Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
• 1979 – Andy O'Brien, English footballer
• 1979 – Matthew Bode, Australian Rules football player
• 1979 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
• 1980 – Katherine Jenkins, Welsh mezzo soprano
• 1980 – Mel Peachey, British television personality
• 1980 – Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
• 1981 – Joe Johnson, American basketball player
• 1981 – Nino, Greek singer
• 1981 – Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
• 1983 – Aundrea Fimbres, American singer (Danity Kane)
• 1983 – Jeremy Powers, American cyclist
• 1984 – Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
• 1984 – Christopher Egan, Australian actor
• 1984 – Derek Lee Rock, American drummer (Mêlée, Suburban Legends)
• 1985 – Quintin Demps, American football player
• 1986 – Iya Villania, Filipino actress
• 1987 – Ana Free, Portuguese singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Luke McLean, Australian-born Italian rugby player
• 1987 – Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor
• 1988 – Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
• 1988 – Becky Jane Taylor, English singer
• 1990 – Yann M'Vila, French footballer
• 1992 – Adam Sevani, American actor and dancer
• 1993 – George Sampson, English dancer and actor