June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining until the end of the year.
1901 – 2000
- 1913 – The Second Balkan War begins.
- 1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to kill Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
- 1916 – The UK sentences Irish Easter Rising leader Roger Casement to death. He is executed on August 3.
- 1922 – France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
- 1925 – Canada House opens in London.
- 1926 – Arthur Meighen returns as Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
- 1933 – Italian boxer Primo Carnera knocked out American Jack Sharkey to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
- 1937 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
- 1939 – The state of Hatay becomes part of the Republic of Turkey.
- 1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
- 1950 – At the 1950 FIFA World Cup, the United States national football team, through a goal from Joe Gaetjens, defeats the England national football team 1-0.
- 1956 – Marilyn Monroe marries Arthur Miller.
- 1958 – Brazil wins the FIFA World Cup for the first time, beating the host country Sweden 5-2 in the final.
- 1974 – Isabel Perón takes over Presidential duties in Argentina, as her husband Juan Perón is dying.
- 1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
- 1975 – Steve Wozniak tests his first prototype Apple Inc. I computer.
- 1976 – The Seychelles become independent.
- 1986 – Argentina wins the FIFA World Cup, defeating West Germany 3-2.
- 1986 – Richard Branson sets the record for the fastest powerboat crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1995 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Space Station Mir.
- 1995 – In Seoul, South Korea, the Sampoong department store collapses, killing 501, and injuring 937 people.
- 1996 – Olafur Ragnar Grimsson is elected President of Iceland, taking office on August 1. He succeeds Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, who decided not to run for election for a fifth time.
Up to 1900
- 1139 – Petronilla of Aragon (d. 1173)
- 1397 – John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
- 1475 – Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan (d. 1497)
- 1482 – Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
- 1516 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist and physician (d. 1585)
- 1528 – Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1589)
- 1543 – Christine of Hesse (d. 1604)
- 1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
- 1609 – Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (d. 1680)
- 1636 – Thomas Hyde, English orientalist (d. 1703)
- 1746 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, pedagogue (d. 1818)
- 1782 – Christian Lyngbye, Danish minister and botanist (d. 1837)
- 1793 – Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor (d. 1857)
- 1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
- 1798 – Willibald Alexis, German writer (d. 1871)
- 1818 – Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)
- 1819 – Thomas Dunn English, American politician (d. 1902)
- 1844 – Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
- 1845 – George W. Atkinson, American politician, 10th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1925)
- 1847 – Paul Flechsig, German neuranatomist (d. 1929)
- 1849 – John Hunn, American politician, 51st Governor of Delaware (d. 1926)
- 1849 – Pedro Montt, President of Chile (d. 1910)
- 1849 – Sergei Witte, Russian politician (d. 1915)
- 1858 – George Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
- 1861 – Dr. William Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
- 1865 (disputed) – Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese centenarian (d. 1986)
- 1868 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
- 1873 – Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist, archaeologist (d. 1938)
- 1879 – Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian cardinal (d. 1970)
- 1880 – Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
- 1881 – Harry Frazee, American director, producer and agent (d. 1929)
- 1882 – Henry Hawtrey, English runner (d. 1961)
- 1886 – Robert Schuman, French politician and statesman (d. 1963)
- 1888 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)
- 1889 – Willie McFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
- 1890 – Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 2005)
- 1893 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
- 1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer (d. 1944)
1901 – 1925
- 1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
- 1901 – Putte Kock, Swedish footballer, ice hockey and contract bridge player (d. 1979)
- 1903 – Alan Blumlein, English engineer (d. 1942)
- 1906 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1945)
- 1907 – Junji Nishikawa, Japanese footballer (d. unknown)
- 1908 – Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
- 1910 – Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
- 1911 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
- 1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer (d. 1975)
- 1912 – Lucie Aubrac, French Resistance activist (d. 2007)
- 1912 – José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican composer and conductor (d. 1958)
- 1913 – Earle Meadows, American pole vaulter (d. 1992)
- 1914 – Rafael Kubelik, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
- 1915 – Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1919 – Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
- 1919 – Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (d. 2006)
- 1920 – César Rodriguez Alvarez, Spanish footballer (d. 1995)
- 1920 – Ray Harryhausen, American movie maker (d. 2013)
- 1921 – Jean Kent, English actress (d. 2013)
- 1921 – Reinhard Mohn, German publisher (d. 2009)
- 1922 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (d. 1991)
- 1924 – Philip H. Hoff, American politician, former Governor of Vermont (d. 2018)
- 1924 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
- 1925 – Giorgio Napolitano, 11th President of Italy
1926 – 1950
- 1926 – Jaber Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
- 1926 – Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuadorean writer (d. 2009)
- 1928 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
- 1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (d. 2006)
- 1930 – Ernst Albrecht, German politician (d. 2014)
- 1931 – Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1932 – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician
- 1933 – John Bradshaw, American author (d. 2016)
- 1936 – Harmon Killebrew, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2011)
- 1939 – Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer
- 1941 – Kwame Ture, (born "Stokely Carmichael"), civil rights activist (d. 1998)
- 1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
- 1943 – Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur (d. 2017)
- 1944 – Gary Busey, American actor
- 1944 – Sean Patrick O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts
- 1944 – Roger Wootton, English aeronautical engineer and balloonist (d. 2017)
- 1945 – Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan politician and former President
- 1946 – Ernesto Pérez Balladares, 46th President of Panama
- 1946 – Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
- 1948 – Ian Paice, British musician (Deep Purple)
- 1949 – Dan Dierdorf, American football player
- 1949 – Joan Clos i Matheu, 116th Mayor of Barcelona
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Don Rosa, American cartoonist
- 1952 – Joe Johnson, English snooker player
- 1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes, former Prime Minister of Portugal
- 1957 – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, President of Turkmenistan
- 1957 – Michael Nutter, 98th Mayor of Philadelphia
- 1958 – Rosa Mota, Portuguese runner
- 1958 – Dieter Althaus, German politician
- 1958 – Ralf Rangnick, German football manager
- 1959 – Atsushi Uchiyama, Japanese footballer
- 1959 – Gary Rydstrom, American sound designer
- 1961 – Sharon Lawrence, American actress
- 1962 – Joan Laporta, Spanish lawyer and politician
- 1962 – George D. Zamka, American colonel, pilot and astronaut
- 1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
- 1968 – Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1970 – Mike Vallely, American Professional Skateboarder
- 1971 – Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
- 1971 – Kaitlyn Ashley, American erotic actress
- 1971 – Matthew Good, Canadian rock musician and activist
- 1971 – Nawal Al-Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
- 1972 – Samantha Smith, American social activist and actress (d. 1985)
From 1976
- 1977 – Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1978 – Nicole Scherzinger, American actress and singer (Pussycat Dolls)
- 1979 – Tomoyuki Sakai, Japanese footballer
- 1980 – Katherine Jenkins, Welsh singer
- 1981 – Nino, Greek singer
- 1981 – Nicolas Vuyovich, Argentine Formula One driver
- 1984 – Christopher Egan, Australian actor
- 1984 – Derek Lee Rock, American musician
- 1984 – Emil Hallfredsson, Icelandic footballer
- 1986 – José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer
- 1987 – Jena Lee, French singer
- 1988 – Troy Deeney, English footballer
- 1988 – Ever Banega, Argentine footballer
- 1988 – Adrian Mannarino, French tennis player
- 1990 – Kim Little, Scottish footballer
- 1990 – Yann M'Vila, French footballer
- 1991 – Suk Hyun-Jun, South Korean footballer
- 1991 – Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player
- 1991 – Addison Timlin, American actress
- 1992 – Adam G. Sevani, American dancer and actor
- 1993 – George Sampson, English dancer and actor
- 1993 – Fran Kirby, English footballer
- 1993 – Lorenzo James Henrie, American actor
- 1994 – Shin Dong-ho, South Korean singer (U-KISS)
- 1994 – Leandro Paredes, Argentine footballer
- 2000 – Red Gerard, American snowboarder
Up to 1900
- 67 – Paul the Apostle, preacher, teacher and writer (b. 5)
- 226 – Cao Pi, Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei
- 1059 – Bernard II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 995)
- 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers (b. 1115)
- 1252 – King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
- 1509 – Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
- 1520 – Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler (b. 1466)
- 1575 – Baba Nobuharu, Japanese samurai (b. 1515)
- 1763 – Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Swedish writer (b. 1718)
- 1779 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (b. 1728)
- 1831 – Heinrich Friedrich Karl von und zum Stein, Prussian politician (b. 1757)
- 1837 – Nathaniel Macon, American politician (b. 1758)
- 1840 – Lucien Bonaparte, French politician (b. 1775)
- 1852 – Henry Clay, United States Senator (b. 1777)
- 1855 – John Gorrie, American physician and humanitarian (b. 1803)
- 1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
- 1875 – Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
- 1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist and educator (b. 1825)
- 1895 – Floriano Peixoto, President of Brazil (b. 1839)
- 1900 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1827)
1901 – 2000
- 1925 – Christian Michelsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1857)
- 1928 – Alvaro de Castro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1878)
- 1933 – Olaf Bull, Norwegian poet (b. 1893)
- 1933 – "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
- 1940 – Paul Klee, Swiss painter (b. 1879)
- 1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
- 1950 – Melitta Bentz, German businesswoman and inventor of the coffee filter (b. 1873)
- 1955 – Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881)
- 1957 – Malcolm Lowry, English writer (b. 1909)
- 1958 – Karl Arnold, German politician (b. 1901)
- 1967 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
- 1967 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress and singer (b. 1933)
- 1969 – Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
- 1975 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
- 1977 – Magda Lupescu, former Queen of Romania (b. 1895)
- 1978 – Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
- 1992 – Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
- 1994 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
- 1994 – Jack Unterweger, Austrian writer and murderer (b. 1950)
- 1995 – Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
- 1997 – William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
- 1998 – Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
- 1999 – Karekin I, Catholicos (Head) of the Armenian Apostolic Church (b. 1950)
From 2001
- 2002 – Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
- 2002 – Rosemary Clooney, American actress and singer (b. 1928)
- 2003 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
- 2006 – Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
- 2008 – Don S. Davis, American actor (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Jim Kelly, American actor and martial artist (b. 1946)
- 2014 – Damian D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer (b. 1960)
- 2014 – Dermot Healy, Irish poet, novelist and actor (b. 1947)
- 2015 – Josef Masopust, Czech footballer (b. 1931)
- 2015 – Charles Pasqua, French politician (b. 1927)
- 2015 – Jackson Vroman, American-Lebanese basketball player (b. 1981)
- 2016 – Inocente Carreño, Venezuelan composer (b. 1919)
- 2016 – Vasyl Slipak, Ukrainian opera singer (b. 1974)
- 2016 – Xu Jiatun, Chinese politician and dissident (b. 1916)
- 2016 – Gunnar Garbo, Norwegian politician (b. 1924)
- 2016 – Ojo Maduekwe, Nigerian politician (b. 1945)
- 2017 – John Monckton, American swimmer (b. 1938)
- 2017 – Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur (b. 1943)
- 2017 – Dave Semenko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1957)
- 2018 – Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, Ghanaian economist and politician (b. 1951)
- 2018 – Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler (b. 1979)
- 2018 – Arvid Carlsson, Swedish pharmacologist (b. 1923)
- 2018 – Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian dancer and actress (b. 1932)
- 2019 – Jeon Mi-seon, South Korean actress (b. 1970)
- 2019 – Gunilla Pontén, Swedish fashion designer (b. 1929)