Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 29

Births

 * 1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (pictured) (d. 1837)
 * 1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
 * 1920 – Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker (d. 2013)
 * 1925 – Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician, President, and lifetime senator
 * 1928 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
 * 1941 – Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), American civil rights activist and member of the Black Panther Party (d. 1998)
 * 1971 – Matthew Good, Canadian musician and activist

Deaths

 * 1852 – Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)
 * 1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
 * 1940 – Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
 * 1967 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
 * 1993 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
 * 2003 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)

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