What Happened on June 29, 1893

Famous Birthdays

Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (Lemminkäinen; Juha; Schott Concerto), and educator, born in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland (d. 1958)
Antoon Schweigmann, Dutch religious poet and resistance fighter, born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1945)

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893-1972)

Indian scientist and applied statistician (Mahalanobis distance), whose birthdate is celebrated annually in India as "National Statistics Day", born in Calcutta, Bengal, British India