Notable Birthdays for June 29
Published in History & Quotes
Those born on this date include:
- William Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in 1861
- astronomer George Ellery Hale, founder of the Yerkes and Mount Palomar observatories, in 1868
- French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery in 1900
- actor/singer Nelson Eddy in 1901
- composer/arranger Leroy Anderson in 1908
- Broadway songwriter Frank Loesser in 1910
- composer/conductor Bernard Herrmann in 1911
- actor Slim Pickens in 1919
- baseball Hall of Fame member Harmon Killebrew in 1936
- black power advocate Stokely Carmichael in 1941
- singer Little Eva -- Eva Narcissus Boyd -- in 1943
- actor Gary Busey in 1944 (age 72)
- Swiss fashion designer Egon von Furstenberg in 1946
- comedian Richard Lewis in 1947 (age 69)
- actor/former U.S. Rep. Fred Grandy, R-Iowa, in 1948 (age 68)
- actor Sharon Lawrence in 1961 (age 55)
- musician/actor Bret McKenzie in 1976 (age 40).
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