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Oliver Tree Nickell was an American singer-songwriter, rapper, and record producer.
Famous Birthdays on June 29
1993 — Oliver Tree
American singer-songwriter (died 2026)
June 29 has 246 recorded notable births across history, from 1136 to 2007. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on June 29
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- 2006 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law. Source
- 1950 Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorizes a sea blockade of Korea. Source
- 1194 Sverre is crowned King of Norway, leading to his excommunication by the Catholic Church and civil war. Source
- 1620 English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shilling per pound. Source
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Raymond Frederick Harryhausen was an American-British animator and special effects creator who is regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of both fields.
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Katherine Jenkins came to wide public attention in 2003 when she sang at Westminster Cathedral in honour of Pope John Paul II's silver jubilee.
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Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist, and philologist.
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Anne-Sophie Mutter was supported early in her career by Herbert von Karajan, made her orchestral debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1977, and rose to international prominence in the early 1980s.
More major people born on June 29
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1920
Ray Harryhausen
American animator and producer (died 2013)
Raymond Frederick Harryhausen was an American-British animator and special effects creator who is regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of both fields.
1980
Katherine Jenkins
Welsh soprano and actress
Katherine Jenkins is a Welsh singer. She is a mezzo-soprano who performs operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre and hymns.
1798
Giacomo Leopardi
Italian poet and philosopher (died 1837)
Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist, and philologist.
1963
Anne-Sophie Mutter
German violinist
Anne-Sophie Mutter is a German violinist. Born in Rheinfelden, Baden-Württemberg and raised in the nearby town Wehr, Mutter began playing the violin aged five and pursued further studies in Germany and Switzerland.
1990
Kim Little
Scottish footballer
Kim Alison Little is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for and captains Arsenal of the English Women's Super League.
1886
Robert Schuman
Luxembourgian-French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1963)
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist.
1957
Robert Forster
Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Robert Derwent Garth Forster is an Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and music critic. In December 1977 he co-founded an indie rock group, the Go-Betweens, with fellow musician Grant McLennan.
1890
Robert Laurent
American sculptor and academic (died 1970)
Robert Laurent was a French-American modernist figurative sculptor, printmaker and teacher.
1949
Ann Veneman
American lawyer and politician, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture
Ann Margaret Veneman is an American attorney who served as the fifth executive director of UNICEF from 2005 to 2010. She previously served as the 27th United States secretary of agriculture from 2001 to 2005.
1949
Joan Clos
Spanish anesthesiologist and politician, 116th Mayor of Barcelona
Joan Clos i Matheu, GCIH is a Spanish politician who was mayor of Barcelona, Spain from September 1997 to September 2006. He took over from Pasqual Maragall in 1997.
1870
Joseph Carl Breil
American tenor, composer, and director (died 1926)
Joseph Carl Breil was an American lyric tenor, stage director, composer and conductor. He was one of the earliest American composers to compose specific music for motion pictures.
1985
Quintin Demps
American football player
Quintin Lamon Demps is an American college football coach and former safety. He is the defensive pass game coordinator and safeties coach Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio, a position he has held since 2025.
1835
Celia Thaxter
American poet and story writer (died 1894)
Celia Thaxter was an American writer of poetry and stories. For most of her life, she lived with her father on the Isles of Shoals at his Appledore Hotel.
1893
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Indian economist and statistician (died 1972)
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA, FASc, FRS was an Indian scientist and statistician.
1936
Eddie Mabo
Australian land rights activist (died 1992)
Edward Koiki Mabo was a Torres Strait Islander man, known for his role in campaigning for Indigenous land rights in Australia, in particular the landmark decision of the High Court of Australia that recognised that…
1967
Jeff Burton
American race car driver
Jeffrey Tyler Burton, nicknamed "the Mayor", is an American former professional stock car racing driver and current racing commentator. He is a member of the Burton racing family.
1136
Petronilla of Aragon (died 1173)
Petronilla, whose name is also spelled Petronila or Petronella, was Queen of Aragon (1137–1164) from the abdication of her father, Ramiro II, in 1137 until her own abdication in 1164.
1936
Harmon Killebrew
American baseball player (died 2011)
Harmon Clayton Killebrew Jr., nicknamed "the Killer" and "Hammerin' Harmon", was an American professional baseball player as a first baseman, third baseman, and left fielder.
1941
Stokely Carmichael
Trinidadian-American activist (died 1998)
Kwame Ture was a Trinidadian and American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement.