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What happened in history on this day: June 29?
On June 29 in ...
- 1996 - The Prince's Trust concert is held in Hyde Park, London, and is attended by 150,000 people. Rock group The Who headlines the event in their first performance since 1989.
Births on June 29
- 1901 - Birth of Nelson Eddy; actor/baritone (Great Duets with Jeanette MacDonald).
- 1914 - Birth of Rafael Kubelik in Bychory, Czechoslovakia; conductor (Cornelia Farooli).
- 1915 - Birth of Ruth Warrick in Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA; singer, actress (Citizen Kane, The Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Peyton Place, Phoebe Tyler - All My Children).
- 1929 - Birth of Johnny Ace in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; ballad singer ("My Song").
- 1938 - Birth of Billy Storm; singer (Valiants - "This is the Night").
- 1943 - Birth of Roger Ruskin Spear; rocker (Bonzo Dog Band - "Urban Spaceman").
- 1945 - Birth of "Little" Eva Boyd; rock vocalist ("Locomotion").
- 1948 - Birth of Ian Paice; drummer (Deep Purple).
- 1953 - Birth of Don Dokken; singer (Dokken).
- 1953 - Birth of Colin Hay; singer (Men At Work).
- 1963 - Birth of Anne-Sophie Mutter in Rheinfeldin, Germany; violinist (Berlin Philharmonic).
- 1964 - Birth of Stedman Pearson; rocker (Five Star - "Silk and Steel").
- 1978 - Birth of Todd Sansom; guitarist (Marshall Dyllon).
- 1978 - Birth of Nicole Scherzinger; American pop lead singer (Pussycat Dolls).
- 1979 - Birth of Abs Breen, English singer (5ive).
Deaths on June 29
- 1969 - Death of Shorty Long at age 29, drowned when his boat capsizes off Sandwich Island in Ontario, Canada; soul singer, songwriter and Motown producer.
- 1979 - Death of Lowell George at age 34, American rock musician (Mothers of Invention, Little Feat) (born 1945).
- 1998 - Death of Horst Jankowski at age 62 of lung cancer; German pianist ("A Walk In The Black Forest" (1965)).
- 2002 - Death of Rosemary Clooney at age 74 due to complications from lung cancer in Beverly Hills, California, USA; actress, singer ("Come On-A My House", "Botch-A-Me", "Hey There", "Mambo Italiano").
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