June 29

Events

 * 1888 – First (known) recording of classical music, Handel's "Israel in Egypt," made on a wax cylinder.

Births

 * 1893 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
 * 1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
 * 1903 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
 * 1908 – Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
 * 1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
 * 1914 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
 * 1923 – Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer
 * 1924 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
 * 1924 – Ezra Laderman, American composer
 * 1925 – Hale Smith, American composer and editor
 * 1940 – Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
 * 1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
 * 1948 – Ian Paice, English drummer
 * 1953 – Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer
 * 1957 – Robert Forster, Australian musician
 * 1961 – Greg Hetson, American punk-rock guitarist
 * 1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
 * 1964 – Stedman Pearson, British singer
 * 1965 – Tripp Eisen, American musician
 * 1967 – Murray Foster, Canadian musician