List of Famous people born on June 29th
Pedro Opeka
Pedro Pablo Opeka, known also as Father Opeka, is a Catholic priest from Argentina, working as a missionary in Madagascar. For his service to the poor, he was awarded the Legion of Honor.
María José Rienda
María José Rienda Contreras is a former World Cup alpine ski racer. She served as the President of the Consejo Superior de Deportes and Secretary of State for Sports of Spain from June 2018 to January 2020.
Valery Shantsev
Valery Pavlinovich Shantsev, born 29 June 1947 in Susanino, Kostroma Oblast, is the former governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast from 8 August 2005, when he replaced Gennady Khodyrev until his resignation on 26 September 2017. Prior to his appointment as governor, Shantsev was the deputy mayor of Moscow. He also led Moscow's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Robert Elsie
Robert Elsie was a Canadian-born German scholar who specialized in Albanian literature and folklore.
Peter Schiller
Peter Schiller was a German ice hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Robert Hébras
Robert Hébras is one of only six people to survive the massacre of Oradour by Nazi Germany's Waffen-SS Das Reich Panzer Division on 10 June 1944.
Pedro Santana
Pedro Santana y Familias, 1st Marquis of Las Carreras, better known as Pedro Santana, was a Dominican military commander and royalist politician who served as the president of the junta that had established the First Dominican Republic, a precursor to the position of the President of the Dominican Republic, and as the first President of the republic in the modern line of succession. A traditional royalist who was fond of the Monarchy of Spain and the Spanish Empire, he ruled as a governor-general, but effectively as an authoritarian dictator.
Júlia Takács
Júlia Takács is a Spanish race walker. She competed in the women's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Takács is Hungarian, born in Budapest. She acquired Spanish citizenship on 20 June 2008.
Chris Egan
Christopher Andrew Egan is an Australian actor. He played Nick Smith in the Australian soap opera Home and Away from 2000 to 2003, and David Shepherd on the NBC television drama Kings. He also portrayed Alex Lannon in the Apocalyptic TV series, Dominion.
Eberhard Jäckel
Eberhard Jäckel was a German historian. In the 1980s he was a principal protagonist in the Historians' Dispute (Historikerstreit) over how to incorporate Nazi Germany and the Holocaust into German historiography.