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August 1 – History, Events, Births, Deaths Holidays and Observances On This Day

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30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
AD 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
527 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabids army, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
1203 – Isaac II Angelos, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
1291 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
1469 – Louis XI of France founds the chivalric order called the Order of Saint Michael in Amboise.
1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
1571 – The Ottoman conquest of Cyprus is concluded, by the surrender of Famagusta.
1620 – Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
1664 – Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
1714 – George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era of British history.
1759 – Seven Years’ War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay): Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 are passed which merge the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force, although it remains legal in the possessions of the East India Company until the passage of the Indian Slavery Act, 1843.
1842 – The Lombard Street riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1849 – Joven Daniel wrecks at the coast of Araucanía, Chile, leading to allegations that local Mapuche tribes murdered survivors and kidnapped Elisa Bravo.
1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1893 – Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
1911 – Harriet Quimby takes her pilot’s test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator’s certificate.
1914 – The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army.
1933 – Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff, and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in Altona.
1936 – The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution “Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH” to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
1943 – World War II: Operation Tidal Wave also known as “Black Sunday”, was a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian oil fields.
1944 – World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
1946 – Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason.
1950 – Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth as President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act.
1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1961 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation’s first centralized military espionage organization.
1964 – The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1965 – Frank Herbert’s novel, Dune was published for the first time. It was named as the world’s best-selling science fiction novel in 2003.
1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1968 – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
1971 – The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by former Beatle George Harrison, is held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1974 – Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the “Green Line”, dividing Cyprus into two zones.
1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world’s first democratically elected female head of state.
1980 – A train crash kills 18 people in County Cork, Ireland.
1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles.
1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, England.
1988 – A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England.
1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
1998 – The establishment of Muslim Medics, one of the largest student-led societies in Imperial College London that provides both academic and wellbeing support to medical students of all backgrounds.
2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145.
2008 – The Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world.
2008 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
2017 – A suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan kills 20 people.

Births on August 1

10 BC – Claudius, Roman emperor (d. 54)
126 – Pertinax, Roman emperor (d. 193)
845 – Sugawara no Michizane, Japanese scholar and politician (d. 903)
992 – Hyeonjong, Korean king (d. 1031)
1068 – Taizu, Chinese emperor (d. 1123)
1313 – Kōgon, Japanese emperor (d. 1364)
1377 – Go-Komatsu, Japanese emperor (d. 1433)
1385 – John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel (d. 1421)
1410 – Jan IV, count of Nassau-Dillenburg (d. 1475)
1492 – Wolfgang, German prince (d. 1566)
1520 – Sigismund II, Polish king (d. 1572)
1545 – Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and scholar (d. 1622)
1555 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
1579 – Luis Vélez de Guevara, Spanish author and playwright (d. 1644)
1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi and theorist (d. 1676)
1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1673)
1659 – Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter (d. 1734)
1713 – Charles I, German duke and prince (d. 1780)
1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter and academic (d. 1782)
1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (d. 1829)
1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (d. 1838)
1778 – Mary Jefferson Eppes, daughter of Thomas Jefferson who died in childbirth (d. 1804)
1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and poet (d. 1843)
1779 – Lorenz Oken, German-Swiss botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (d. 1851)
1809 – William B. Travis, American colonel and lawyer (d. 1836)
1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1882)
1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and academic (d. 1889)
1819 – Herman Melville, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (d. 1891)
1831 – Antonio Cotogni, Italian opera singer and educator (d. 1918)
1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
1858 – Gaston Doumergue, French lawyer and politician, 13th President of France (d. 1937)
1858 – Hans Rott, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1884)
1860 – Bazil Assan, Romanian engineer and explorer (d. 1918)
1861 – Sammy Jones, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
1865 – Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (d. 1917)
1871 – John Lester, American cricketer and soccer player (d. 1969)
1877 – George Hackenschmidt, Estonian-English wrestler and strongman (d. 1968)
1878 – Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Greek physician and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1961)
1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician and academic (d. 1940)
1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic (d. 1979)
1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss lawyer and politician, 52nd President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1968)
1893 – Alexander of Greece (d. 1920)
1894 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
1898 – Morris Stoloff, American composer and musical director (d. 1980)
1899 – Raymond Mays, English race car driver and businessman (d. 1980)
1900 – Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965)
1901 – Francisco Guilledo, Filipino boxer (d. 1925)
1903 – Paul Horgan, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1995)
1905 – Helen Sawyer Hogg, American-Canadian astronomer and academic (d. 1993)
1907 – Eric Shipton, Sri Lankan-English mountaineer and explorer (d. 1977)
1910 – James Henry Govier, English painter and illustrator (d. 1974)
1910 – Walter Scharf, American pianist and composer (d. 2003)
1910 – Gerda Taro, German war photographer (d. 1937)
1911 – Jackie Ormes, American journalist and cartoonist (d. 1985)
1912 – David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1979)
1912 – Gego, German-Venezuelan sculptor and academic (d. 1994)
1912 – Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
1914 – Jack Delano, American photographer and composer (d. 1997)
1914 – Alan Moore, Australian painter and educator (d. 2015)
1914 – J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1916 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
1916 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)
1918 – T. J. Jemison, American minister and activist (d. 2013)
1919 – Stanley Middleton, English author (d. 2009)
1920 – Raul Renter, Estonian economist and chess player (d. 1992)
1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player, sailor, and sportscaster (d. 2009)
1921 – Pat McDonald, Australian actress (d. 1990)
1922 – Arthur Hill, Canadian-American actor (d. 2006)
1923 – Val Bettin, American actor
1924 – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (d. 2015)
1924 – Frank Havens, American canoeist (d. 2018)
1924 – Marcia Mae Jones, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1924 – Frank Worrell, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1967)
1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian poet and author (d. 2000)
1926 – George Hauptfuhrer, American basketball player and lawyer (d. 2013)
1926 – Hannah Hauxwell, English TV personality (d. 2018)
1927 – María Teresa López Boegeholz, Chilean oceanographer (d. 2006)
1927 – Anthony G. Bosco, American bishop (d. 2013)
1928 – Jack Shea, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1929 – Hafizullah Amin, Afghan educator and politician, Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1979)
1929 – Ann Calvello, American roller derby racer (d. 2006)
1929 – Leila Abashidze, Georgian actress (d. 2018)
1930 – Lionel Bart, English composer (d. 1999)
1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (d. 2002)
1930 – Julie Bovasso, American actress and writer (d. 1991)
1930 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American lieutenant and politician, 62nd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
1930 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1996)
1930 – Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2014)
1931 – Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1931 – Trevor Goddard, South African cricketer (d. 2016)
1932 – Meir Kahane, American-Israeli rabbi and activist, founded the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
1932 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2009)
1933 – Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player and manager (d. 2019)
1933 – Teri Shields, American actress, producer, and agent (d. 2012)
1933 – Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian and author (d. 2007)
1934 – John Beck, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2000)
1934 – Derek Birdsall, English graphic designer
1935 – Geoff Pullar, English cricketer (d. 2014)
1936 – W. D. Hamilton, Egyptian born British biologist, psychologist, and academic (d. 2000)
1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-French fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint Laurent (d. 2008)
1936 – Laurie Taylor, English sociologist, radio host, and academic
1937 – Al D’Amato, American lawyer and politician
1939 – Bob Frankford, English-Canadian physician and politician (d. 2015)
1939 – Terry Kiser, American actor
1939 – Stephen Sykes, English bishop and theologian (d. 2014)
1939 – Robert James Waller, American author and photographer (d. 2017)
1940 – Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer and umpire
1940 – Henry Silverman, American businessman, founded Cendant
1940 – Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Iranian writer and actor
1941 – Ron Brown, American captain and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1996)
1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995)
1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1944 – Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Russian banker and politician (d. 1998)
1945 – Douglas Osheroff, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1946 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and guitarist (d. 2006)
1946 – Rick Coonce, American drummer (d. 2011)
1946 – Richard O. Covey, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist and academic
1947 – Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet and author
1947 – Chantal Montellier, French comics creator and artist
1948 – Avi Arad, Israeli-American screenwriter and producer, founded Marvel Studios
1948 – Cliff Branch, American football player
1948 – David Gemmell, English journalist and author (d. 2006)
1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Kyrgyzstani politician, 2nd President of Kyrgyzstan
1949 – Jim Carroll, American poet, author, and musician (d. 2009)
1949 – Ray Nettles, American football player (d. 2009)
1950 – Roy Williams, American basketball player and coach
1951 – Tim Bachman, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 – Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)
1951 – Pete Mackanin, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
1953 – Robert Cray, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 – Howard Kurtz, American journalist and author
1954 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer (d. 2006)
1954 – James Gleick, American journalist and author
1954 – Benno Möhlmann, German footballer and manager
1957 – Taylor Negron, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1958 – Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2000)
1958 – Michael Penn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1958 – Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player and coach
1959 – Joe Elliott, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1960 – Chuck D, American rapper and songwriter
1960 – Suzi Gardner, American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 – Jacob Matlala, South African boxer (d. 2013)
1963 – Demián Bichir, Mexican-American actor and producer
1963 – Coolio, American rapper, producer, and actor
1963 – John Carroll Lynch, American actor
1963 – Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut and engineer
1963 – Dean Wareham, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist
1964 – Adam Duritz, American singer-songwriter and producer
1964 – Fiona Hyslop, Scottish businesswoman and politician
1964 – Augusta Read Thomas, American composer, conductor and educator
1965 – Brandt Jobe, American golfer
1965 – Sam Mendes, English director and producer
1966 – James St. James, American club promoter and author
1967 – Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player and coach
1967 – José Padilha, Brazilian director, producer and screenwriter
1968 – Stacey Augmon, American basketball player and coach
1968 – Dan Donegan, American heavy metal guitarist and songwriter
1968 – Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Japanese baseball player and sportscaster
1969 – Andrei Borissov, Estonian footballer and manager
1969 – Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player and scout
1969 – Graham Thorpe, English cricketer and journalist
1970 – Quentin Coryatt, American football player
1970 – David James, English footballer and manager
1970 – Eugenie van Leeuwen, Dutch cricketer
1972 – Nicke Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 – Christer Basma, Norwegian footballer and coach
1972 – Todd Bouman, American football player and coach
1972 – Thomas Woods, American historian, economist, and academic
1973 – Gregg Berhalter, American soccer player and coach
1973 – Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgian runner
1973 – Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer
1974 – Cher Calvin, American journalist
1974 – Marek Galiński, Polish cyclist (d. 2014)
1974 – Tyron Henderson, South African cricketer
1974 – Dennis Lawrence, Trinidadian footballer and coach
1974 – Beckie Scott, Canadian skier
1975 – Vhrsti, Czech author and illustrator
1976 – Don Hertzfeldt, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
1976 – Søren Jochumsen, Danish footballer
1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
1976 – David Nemirovsky, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 – Hasan Şaş, Turkish footballer and manager
1976 – Cristian Stoica, Romanian-Italian rugby player
1977 – Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1977 – Haspop, French-Moroccan dancer, choreographer, and actor
1977 – Darnerien McCants, American-Canadian football player
1977 – Damien Saez, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 – Yoshi Tatsu, Japanese wrestler and boxer
1978 – Andy Blignaut, Zimbabwean cricketer
1978 – Björn Ferry, Swedish biathlete
1978 – Dhani Harrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978 – Chris Iwelumo, Scottish footballer
1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player
1979 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer
1979 – Nathan Fien, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
1979 – Jason Momoa, American actor, director, and producer
1980 – Mancini, Brazilian footballer
1980 – Romain Barras, French decathlete
1980 – Esteban Paredes, Chilean footballer
1981 – Dean Cox, Australian footballer
1981 – Pia Haraldsen, Norwegian journalist and author
1981 – Christofer Heimeroth, German footballer
1981 – Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
1981 – Jamie Jones-Buchanan, English rugby player
1982 – Basem Fathi, Jordanian footballer
1982 – Montserrat Lombard, English actress, director, and screenwriter
1983 – Bobby Carpenter, American football player
1983 – Craig Clarke, New Zealand rugby player
1983 – Julien Faubert, French footballer
1983 – David Gervasi, Swiss decathlete
1984 – Steve Feak, American game designer
1984 – Francesco Gavazzi, Italian cyclist
1984 – Brandon Kintzler, American baseball player
1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
1985 – Stuart Holden, Scottish-American soccer player
1985 – Adam Jones, American baseball player
1985 – Cole Kimball, American baseball player
1985 – Tendai Mtawarira, South African rugby player
1985 – Kris Stadsgaard, Danish footballer
1985 – Dušan Švento, Slovak footballer
1986 – Damien Allen, English footballer
1986 – Anton Strålman, Swedish ice hockey player
1986 – Andrew Taylor, English footballer
1986 – Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
1986 – Mike Wallace, American football player
1987 – Iago Aspas, Spanish footballer
1987 – Karen Carney, English women’s football winger
1987 – Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
1987 – Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer
1988 – Mustafa Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
1988 – Patryk Małecki, Polish footballer
1988 – Bodene Thompson, New Zealand rugby league player
1989 – Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player
1989 – Tiffany Hwang, Korean American singer, songwriter, and actress
1990 – Aledmys Díaz, Cuban baseball player
1990 – Jean Hugues Gregoire, Mauritian swimmer
1990 – Elton Jantjies, South African rugby player
1991 – Piotr Malarczyk, Polish footballer
1991 – Marco Puntoriere, Italian footballer
1992 – Austin Rivers, American basketball player
1992 – Mrunal Thakur, Indian actress
1993 – Álex Abrines, Spanish basketball player
1993 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
1994 – Sergeal Petersen, South African rugby player
1994 – Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer
1996 – Katie Boulter, English tennis player
2001 – Park Si-eun, South Korean actress

Deaths on August 1

30 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (b. 83 BC)
371 – Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop and saint (b. 283)
527 – Justin I, Byzantine emperor (b. 450)
873 – Thachulf, duke of Thuringia
946 – Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah, Abbasid vizier (b. 859)
946 – Lady Xu Xinyue, Chinese queen (b. 902)
953 – Yingtian, Chinese Khitan empress (b. 879)
984 – Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester
1098 – Adhemar of Le Puy, French papal legate
1137 – Louis VI, king of France (b. 1081)
1146 – Vsevolod II of Kiev, Russian prince
1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian archbishop and explorer (b. 1180)
1299 – Conrad de Lichtenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg (b. 1240)
1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1341)
1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian author and educator (b. 1406)
1464 – Cosimo de’ Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1386)
1494 – Giovanni Santi, artist and father of Raphael (b. c. 1435)
1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian and scholar (b. 1493)
1543 – Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1488)
1546 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish archbishop, historian, and cartographer (b. 1490)
1580 – Albrecht Giese, Polish-German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
1603 – Matthew Browne, English politician (b. 1563)
1714 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1665)
1787 – Alphonsus Maria de’ Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1696)
1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1735)
1796 – Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet, English colonel and politician (b. 1720)
1798 – François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers, French admiral (b. 1753)
1807 – John Boorman, English cricketer (b. c. 1754)
1807 – John Walker, English actor, philologist, and lexicographer (b. 1732)
1808 – Lady Diana Beauclerk, English painter and illustrator (b. 1734)
1812 – Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (b. 1763)
1851 – William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic (b. 1775)
1863 – Jind Kaur Majarani (Regent) of the Sikh Empire (b. 1817)
1866 – John Ross, American tribal chief (b. 1790)
1869 – Peter Julian Eymard, French Priest and Founder Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (b. 1811)
1869 – Richard Dry, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1815)
1903 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and scout (b. 1853)
1911 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (b. 1852)
1911 – Samuel Arza Davenport, American lawyer and politician (b. 1843)
1918 – John Riley Banister, American cowboy and police officer (b. 1854)
1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian lawyer and journalist (b. 1856)
1921 – T.J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
1922 – Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (b. 1856)
1929 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
1938 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and academic (b. 1862)
1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921)
1944 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
1959 – Jean Behra, French race car driver (b. 1921)
1963 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
1966 – Charles Whitman, American murderer (b. 1941)
1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
1970 – Doris Fleeson, American journalist (b. 1901)
1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (b. 1882)
1973 – Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician (b. 1893)
1974 – Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (b. 1898)
1977 – Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (b. 1929)
1980 – Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (b. 1944)
1980 – Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
1982 – T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1933)
1989 – John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (b. 1937)
1990 – Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1897)
1996 – Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (b. 1929)
1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-British actress (b. 1927)
2001 – Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
2003 – Guy Thys, Belgian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922)
2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress and screenwriter (b. 1962)
2004 – Philip Abelson, American physicist and author (b. 1913)
2005 – Al Aronowitz, American journalist (b. 1928)
2005 – Wim Boost, Dutch cartoonist and educator (b. 1918)
2005 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter and sculptor (b. 1920)
2005 – Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
2006 – Bob Thaves, American illustrator (b. 1924)
2006 – Iris Marion Young, American political scientist and activist (b. 1949)
2007 – Tommy Makem, Irish singer-songwriter and banjo player (b. 1932)
2008 – Gertan Klauber, Czech-English actor (b. 1932)
2008 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1916)
2009 – Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
2010 – Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican-American activist (b. 1919)
2010 – Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer (b. 1910)
2012 – Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer and agent (b. 1953)
2012 – Douglas Townsend, American composer and musicologist (b. 1921)
2012 – Barry Trapnell, English cricketer and academic (b. 1924)
2013 – John Amis, English journalist and critic (b. 1922)
2013 – Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (b. 1932)
2013 – Babe Martin, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2013 – Toby Saks, American cellist and educator (b. 1942)
2013 – Wilford White, American football player (b. 1928)
2014 – Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager (b. 1973)
2014 – Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian author (b. 1974)
2014 – Charles T. Payne, American soldier (b. 1925)
2014 – Mike Smith, English radio and television host (b. 1955)
2015 – Stephan Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager (b. 1968)
2015 – Cilla Black, English singer and actress (b. 1943)
2015 – Bernard d’Espagnat, French physicist, philosopher, and author (b. 1921)
2015 – Bob Frankford, English-Canadian physician and politician (b. 1939)
2015 – Hong Yuanshuo, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1948)
2016 – Queen Anne of Romania (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances on August 1

Armed Forces Day (Lebanon)
Armed Forces Day (China) or Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Liberation Army (People’s Republic of China)
Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day (Azerbaijan)
Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time (British West Indies):
- Earliest day on which Caribana celebration can fall, celebrated on the first Weekend of August. (Toronto)
- Earliest day on which Emancipation Day can fall, celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Anguilla, the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands)
- Emancipation Day (Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago)
Christian feast day:
- Abgar V of Edessa (Syrian Church)
- Alphonsus Maria de’ Liguori
- Æthelwold of Winchester
- Bernard Võ Văn Duệ (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
- Blessed Gerhard Hirschfelder
- Eusebius of Vercelli
- Exuperius of Bayeux
- Felix of Girona
- Peter Apostle in Chains
- Procession of the Cross and the beginning of Dormition Fast (Eastern Orthodoxy)
- The Holy Maccabees
- August 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which August Bank Holiday (Ireland) can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August.
Earliest day on which Civic Holiday can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Canada)
Earliest day on which Commerce Day, or Frídagur verslunarmanna, can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Iceland)
Earliest day on which Constitution Day (Cook Islands) can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August.
Earliest day on which Farmers’ Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Zambia)
Earliest day on which International Beer Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Friday of August.
Earliest day on which Friendship Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday of August. (United States)
Earliest day on which Kadooment Day can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August (Barbados)
Earliest day on which Labor Day (Samoa) can fall, while August 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of August (Samoa)
Minden Day (United Kingdom)
National Day, celebrates the independence of Benin from France in 1960.
National Day, commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit in 1291.
Official Birthday and Coronation Day of the King of Tonga (Tonga)
Parents’ Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Statehood Day (Colorado)
Swiss National Day (Switzerland)
The beginning of autumn observances in the Northern hemisphere and spring observances in the Southern hemisphere (Neopagan Wheel of the Year):
- Lughnasadh in the Northern hemisphere, Imbolc in the Southern hemisphere; traditionally begins on the eve of August 1. (Gaels, Ireland, Scotland, Neopagans)
- Lammas (England, Scotland, Neopagans)
- Pachamama Raymi (Quechuan in Ecuador and Peru)
The first day of Carnaval del Pueblo (Burgess Park, London, England)
Victory Day (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam)
World Scout Scarf Day
Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire, England)

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July 27 – History, Events, Births, Deaths Holidays and Observances On This Day

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1054 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland somewhere north of the Firth of Forth.
1189 – Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian King Stefan Nemanja, during the Third Crusade.
1202 – Georgian–Seljuk wars: At the Battle of Basian the Kingdom of Georgia defeats the Sultanate of Rum.
1214 – Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of France decisively defeats Imperial, English and Flemish armies, effectively ending John of England’s Angevin Empire.
1299 – According to Edward Gibbon, Osman I invades the territory of Nicomedia for the first time, usually considered to be the founding day of the Ottoman state.
1302 – Battle of Bapheus: Decisive Ottoman victory over the Byzantines opening up Bithynia for Turkish conquest.
1549 – The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier’s ship reaches Japan.
1663 – The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports. After the Acts of Union 1707, Scotland would be included in the Act.
1689 – Glorious Revolution: The Battle of Killiecrankie is a victory for the Jacobites.
1694 – A Royal charter is granted to the Bank of England.
1775 – Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing “an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men.”
1778 – American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant: British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
1789 – The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State).
1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 “enemies of the Revolution”.
1816 – Battle of Negro Fort: The battle ends when a hot shot cannonball fired by US Navy Gunboat No. 154 explodes the Fort’s Powder Magazine, killing approximately 275. It is considered the deadliest single cannon shot in US history.
1857 – Siege of Arrah begins: Sixty-eight men hold out for eight days against a force of 2,500 to 3,000 mutinying sepoys and 8,000 irregular forces.
1865 – Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
1866 – The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.
1880 – Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand: Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
1890 – Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
1900 – Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, “Hun” would be a disparaging name for Germans.
1917 – World War I: The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
1919 – The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period.
1921 – Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
1929 – The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
1940 – The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
1942 – World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.
1949 – Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
1953 – Cessation of hostilities is achieved in the Korean War when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
1955 – The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.
1955 – El Al Flight 402 is shot down by two fighter jets after straying into Bulgarian air space. All 58 people onboard are killed.
1959 – The Continental League is announced as baseball’s “3rd major league” in the United States.
1964 – Vietnam War: Five thousand more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
1974 – Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
1975 – Mayor of Jaffna and former MP Alfred Duraiappah is shot dead.
1976 – Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
1981 – While landing at Chihuahua International Airport, Aeromexico Flight 230 overshoots the runway. Thirty-two of the 66 passengers and crew on board the DC-9 are killed.^[2]
1983 – Black July: Eighteen Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
1987 – RMS Titanic Inc. begins the first expedited salvage of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
1989 – While attempting to land at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, Korean Air Flight 803 crashes just short of the runway. Seventy-five of the 199 passengers and crew and four people on the ground are killed, in the second accident involving a DC-10 in less than two weeks, the first being United Airlines Flight 232.
1990 – The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Republic declares independence of Belarus from the Soviet Union. Until 1996 the day is celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus; after a referendum held that year the celebration of independence is moved to June 3.
1990 – The Jamaat al Muslimeen attempt a coup d’état in Trinidad and Tobago.
1995 – The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
1996 – In Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
1997 – About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
2002 – Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 77 and injuring more than 500 others, making it the deadliest air show disaster in history.
2005 – After an incident during STS-114, NASA grounds the Space Shuttle, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the external fuel tank.
2015 – At least seven people are killed and many injured after gunmen attack an Indian police station in Punjab.
2016 – At a news conference in Florida, U.S. Presidential Candidate Donald Trump publicly appealed to Russia to find and release private emails from Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton; a Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019) later alleged that Russian operatives began hacking into servers at the Democratic National Committee on that same day, leading to the July 13, 2018 indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers.^[3]

Births on July 27

1452 – Ludovico Sforza, Italian son of Francesco I Sforza (d. 1508)
1452 – Lucrezia Crivelli, mistress of Ludovico Sforza (d. 1508)
1502 – Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer (d. 1571)
1578 – Frances Howard, Duchess of Richmond (d. 1639)
1612 – Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640)
1625 – Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich (d. 1672)
1667 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and academic (d. 1748)
1733 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
1740 – Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803)
1741 – François-Hippolyte Barthélémon, French-English violinist and composer (d. 1808)
1752 – Samuel Smith, American general and politician (d. 1839)
1768 – Charlotte Corday, French assassin of Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
1768 – Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter (d. 1839)
1773 – Jacob Aall, Norwegian economist and politician (d. 1844)
1777 – Thomas Campbell, Scottish-French poet and academic (d. 1844)
1777 – Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English general (d. 1853)
1781 – Mauro Giuliani, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1828)
1784 – Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
1812 – Thomas Lanier Clingman, American general and politician (d. 1897)
1818 – Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and saint (d. 1902)
1824 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist and playwright (d. 1895)
1833 – Thomas George Bonney, English geologist, mountaineer, and academic (d. 1923)
1834 – Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian admiral (d. 1879)
1835 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
1848 – Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (d. 1919)
1848 – Friedrich Ernst Dorn, German physicist (d.1916)
1853 – Vladimir Korolenko, Ukrainian journalist, author, and activist (d. 1921)
1853 – Elizabeth Plankinton, American philanthropist (d. 1923)
1854 – Takahashi Korekiyo, Japanese accountant and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1936)
1857 – José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican physician, sociologist, and politician (d. 1921)
1857 – Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist (d.1934)
1858 – George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (d. 1938)
1866 – António José de Almeida, Portuguese physician and politician, 6th President of Portugal (d. 1929)
1867 – Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1916)
1870 – Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian (d. 1953)
1872 – Stanislav Binički, Serbian composer, conductor, and pedagogue. (d. 1942)
1879 – Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (d. 1927)
1877 – Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1960)
1881 – Hans Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)
1882 – Geoffrey de Havilland, English pilot and engineer, founded the de Havilland Aircraft Company (d. 1965)
1886 – Ernst May, German architect and urban planner (d. 1970)
1889 – Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina, choreographer, and actress (d. 1972)
1890 – Benjamin Miessner, American radio engineer and inventor (d. 1976)
1890 – Armas Taipale, Finnish discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1976)
1891 – Jacob van der Hoeden, Dutch-Israeli veterinarian and academic (d. 1968)
1893 – Ugo Agostoni, Italian cyclist (d. 1941)
1894 – Mientje Kling, Dutch actress (d. 1966)
1896 – Robert George, Scottish air marshal and politician, 24th Governor of South Australia (d. 1967)
1896 – Henri Longchambon, French lawyer and politician (d. 1969)
1899 – Percy Hornibrook, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
1902 – Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian playwright and publicist (d. 1949)
1903 – Nikolay Cherkasov, Russian actor (d. 1966)
1903 – Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, President of Greece (d. 2002)
1903 – Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright (d. 1990)
1904 – Lyudmila Rudenko, Soviet chess player (d. 1986)
1905 – Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (d. 1991)
1906 – Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish author and activist (d. 2000)
1906 – Herbert Jasper, Canadian psychologist and neurologist (d. 1999)
1907 – Ross Alexander, American stage and film actor (d. 1937)
1907 – Carl McClellan Hill, African American educator and academic administrator (d. 1995)
1907 – Irene Fischer, Austrian-American geodesist and mathematician (d. 2009)
1908 – Joseph Mitchell, American journalist and author (d. 1996)
1910 – Julien Gracq, French author and critic (d. 2007)
1910 – Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress (d. 2016)
1911 – Rayner Heppenstall, English author and poet (d. 1981)
1912 – Vernon Elliott, English bassoon player, composer, and conductor (d. 1996)
1913 – George L. Street III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2000)
1914 – August Sang, Estonian poet and translator (d. 1969)
1915 – Mario Del Monaco, Italian tenor (d. 1982)
1915 – Josef Priller, German colonel and pilot (d. 1961)
1916 – Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (d. 2007)
1916 – Skippy Williams, American saxophonist and arranger (d. 1994)
1916 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (d. 1986)
1918 – Leonard Rose, American cellist and educator (d. 1984)
1920 – Henry D. “Homer” Haynes, American comedian and musician (Homer and Jethro) (d. 1971)
1921 – Garry Davis, American pilot and activist, created the World Passport (d. 2013)
1921 – Émile Genest, Canadian-American actor (d. 2003)
1922 – Adolfo Celi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1986)
1922 – Norman Lear, American screenwriter and producer
1923 – Mas Oyama, South Korean-Japanese martial artist (d. 1994)
1924 – Vincent Canby, American historian and critic (d. 2000)
1924 – Otar Taktakishvili, Georgian composer and conductor (d. 1989)
1927 – Guy Carawan, American singer and musicologist (d. 2015)
1927 – Pierre Granier-Deferre, French director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1927 – Will Jordan, American comedian and actor (d. 2018)
1927 – C. Rajadurai, Sri Lankan journalist and politician, 1st Mayor of Batticaloa
1927 – John Seigenthaler, American journalist and academic (d. 2014)
1928 – Joseph Kittinger, American colonel and pilot
1929 – Jean Baudrillard, French sociologist and philosopher (d. 2007)
1929 – Harvey Fuqua, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2010)
1929 – Jack Higgins, English author and academic
1929 – Marc Wilkinson, French-Australian composer and conductor
1930 – Joy Whitby, English director, producer, and screenwriter
1930 – Shirley Williams, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Education
1931 – Khieu Samphan, Cambodian academic and politician, 28th Prime Minister of Cambodia
1931 – Jerry Van Dyke, American actor (d. 2018)
1932 – Forest Able, American basketball player
1932 – Diane Webber, American model, dancer and actress
1933 – Nick Reynolds, American singer and bongo player (d. 2008)
1933 – Ted Whitten, Australian footballer and journalist (d. 1995)
1935 – Hillar Kärner, Estonian chess player
1935 – Billy McCullough, Northern Irish footballer
1936 – J. Robert Hooper, American businessman and politician (d. 2008)
1937 – Anna Dawson, English actress and singer
1937 – Don Galloway, American actor (d. 2009)
1937 – Robert Holmes à Court, South African-Australian businessman and lawyer (d. 1990)
1938 – Gary Gygax, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (d. 2008)
1939 – William Eggleston, American photographer and academic
1939 – Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet and academic
1939 – Paulo Silvino, Brazilian comedian, composer and actor (d. 2017)
1940 – Pina Bausch, German dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)
1941 – Christian Boesch, Austrian opera singer
1941 – Johannes Fritsch, German viola player and composer (d. 2010)
1942 – Édith Butler, Canadian singer-songwriter
1942 – John Pleshette, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1942 – Dennis Ralston, American tennis player
1943 – Jeremy Greenstock, English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United Nations
1944 – Bobbie Gentry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 – Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist and journalist
1944 – Barbara Thomson, English saxophonist and composer
1945 – Edmund M. Clarke, American computer scientist
1946 – Peter Reading, English poet and author (d. 2011)
1947 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (d. 2008)
1947 – Betty Thomas, American actress, director, and producer
1948 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater and sportscaster
1948 – James Munby, English lawyer and judge
1948 – Henny Vrienten, Dutch singer-songwriter and bass player
1949 – Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (d. 2010)
1949 – André Dupont, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1949 – Rory MacDonald, Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player
1949 – Maureen McGovern, American singer and actress
1949 – Robert Rankin, English author and illustrator
1950 – Simon Jones, English actor
1951 – Roseanna Cunningham, Scottish lawyer and politician, Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs
1951 – Bob Diamond, American-English banker and businessman
1951 – Rolf Thung, Dutch tennis player
1952 – Marvin Barnes, American basketball player (d. 2014)
1952 – Roxanne Hart, American actress
1953 – Chung Dong-young, South Korean journalist and politician, 31st South Korean Minister of Unification
1953 – Yahoo Serious, Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1954 – Philippe Alliot, French race car driver and sportscaster
1954 – G. S. Bali, Indian lawyer and politician
1954 – Ricardo Uceda, Peruvian journalist and author
1954 – Mark Stanway, English keyboard player Magnum
1955 – Cat Bauer, American journalist, author, and playwright
1955 – Allan Border, Australian cricketer and coach
1955 – John Howell, English journalist and politician
1955 – Bobby Rondinelli, American drummer
1956 – Carol Leifer, American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer
1957 – Bill Engvall, American comedian, actor, and producer
1958 – Christopher Dean, English figure skater and choreographer
1958 – Kimmo Hakola, Finnish composer
1959 – Joe DeSa, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1959 – Hugh Green, American football player
1959 – Yiannos Papantoniou, French-Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister of National Defence
1960 – Jo Durie, English tennis player and sportscaster
1960 – Conway Savage, Australian singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 2018)
1960 – Emily Thornberry, English lawyer and politician
1961 – Ed Orgeron, American football coach^[4]
1962 – Neil Brooks, Australian swimmer
1962 – Karl Mueller, American bass player (d. 2005)
1963 – Donnie Yen, Chinese-Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and martial artist
1964 – Rex Brown, American bass player and songwriter
1965 – José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan footballer
1966 – Steve Tilson, English footballer and manager
1967 – Rahul Bose, Indian journalist, actor, director, and screenwriter
1967 – Juliana Hatfield, American singer-songwriter and musician
1967 – Hans Mathisen, Norwegian guitarist and composer
1967 – Neil Smith, English cricketer
1967 – Craig Wolanin, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Italian actress and producer
1968 – Tom Goodwin, American baseball player and coach
1968 – Sabina Jeschke, Swedish-German engineer and academic
1968 – Julian McMahon, Australian actor and producer
1968 – Ricardo Rosset, Brazilian race car driver
1969 – Triple H, American wrestler and actor
1969 – Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer and coach
1970 – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Danish actor and producer
1970 – David Davies, English-Welsh politician
1971 – Matthew Johns, Australian rugby league player, sportscaster and television host
1972 – Clint Robinson, Australian kayaker^[5]
1972 – Maya Rudolph, American actress
1972 – Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Malaysian surgeon and astronaut
1973 – Cassandra Clare, American journalist and author
1973 – Erik Nys, Belgian long jumper
1973 – Gorden Tallis, Australian rugby league player and coach
1974 – Eason Chan, Hong Kong singer, actor, and producer
1974 – Pete Yorn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 – Serkan Çeliköz, Turkish keyboard player and songwriter
1975 – Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
1975 – Fred Mascherino, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 – Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer
1975 – Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player
1976 – Demis Hassabis, English computer scientist and academic
1976 – Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (d. 2005)
1977 – Foo Swee Chin, Singaporean illustrator
1977 – Björn Dreyer, German footballer
1977 – Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor
1978 – Diarmuid O’Sullivan, Irish hurler and manager
1979 – Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician, feminist, and human rights activist (d. 2018)
1979 – Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
1979 – Sidney Govou, French footballer
1979 – Shannon Moore, American wrestler and singer
1980 – Allan Davis, Australian cyclist
1980 – Wesley Gonzales, Filipino basketball player
1981 – Susan King Borchardt, American basketball player
1981 – Collins Obuya, Kenyan cricketer
1981 – Dash Snow, American painter and photographer (d. 2009)
1981 – Christopher Weselek, German rugby player
1982 – Neil Harbisson, English-Catalan painter, composer, and activist
1983 – Lorik Cana, Albanian footballer
1983 – Martijn Maaskant, Dutch cyclist
1983 – Goran Pandev, Macedonian footballer
1983 – Soccor Velho, Indian footballer (d. 2013)
1984 – Antoine Bethea, American football player
1984 – Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Japanese baseball player
1984 – Max Scherzer, American baseball player
1984 – Taylor Schilling, American actress
1984 – Kenny Wormald, American actor, dancer, and choreographer
1985 – Husain Abdullah, American football player
1985 – Matteo Pratichetti, Italian rugby player
1985 – Ajmal Shahzad, English cricketer
1986 – DeMarre Carroll, American basketball player
1986 – Ryan Flaherty, American baseball player
1986 – Ryan Griffen, Australian footballer
1987 – Jacoby Ford, American football player
1987 – Marek Hamšík, Slovak footballer
1987 – Jordan Hill, American basketball player
1987 – Sarah Parsons, American ice hockey player
1988 – Adam Biddle, Australian footballer
1988 – Yoervis Medina, Venezuelan baseball player
1988 – Ryan Tannehill, American football player
1989 – Maya Ali, Pakistani actress
1990 – Nick Hogan, American race car driver and actor
1990 – Paolo Hurtado, Peruvian footballer
1990 – Cheyenne Kimball, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1990 – Stephen Li-Chung Kuo, Taiwanese-American figure skater
1990 – Kriti Sanon, Indian actress
1991 – Rena Matsui, Japanese actress and singer
1993 – Reagan Campbell-Gillard, Australian rugby league player
1993 – Max Power, English footballer
1993 – Jordan Spieth, American golfer
2001 – Shin Ki-joon, South Korean actor

Deaths on July 27

903 – Abdallah II of Ifriqiya, Aghlabid emir
959 – Chai Rong, emperor of Later Zhou
1144 – Salomea of Berg, High Duchess consort of Poland^[6]
1061 – Nicholas II, pope of the Catholic Church
1101 – Conrad II, king of Italy (b. 1074)
1101 – Hugh d’Avranches, Earl of Chester (b. c. 1047)
1158 – Geoffrey VI, Count of Anjou (b. 1134)
1276 – James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
1365 – Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1339)
1382 – Joanna I of Naples (b. 1326)
1510 – Giovanni Sforza, Italian condottiere (b. 1466)
1469 – William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (b. 1423)
1656 – Salomo Glassius, German theologian and critic (b. 1593)
1675 – Henri de la Tour d’Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, French general (b. 1611)
1689 – John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee, Scottish general (b. c. 1648)^[7]
1759 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1698)
1770 – Robert Dinwiddie, Scottish merchant and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1693)
1841 – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet and painter (b. 1814)
1844 – John Dalton, English physicist, meteorologist, and chemist (b. 1776)
1863 – William Lowndes Yancey, American journalist and politician (b. 1813)
1865 – Jean-Joseph Dassy, French painter and lithographer (b. 1791)
1875 – Aleksander Kunileid, Estonian composer and educator (b. 1845)
1876 – Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-born American minister and author (b. 1811)
1883 – Montgomery Blair, American lieutenant and politician, 20th United States Postmaster General (b. 1813)
1916 – Charles Fryatt, English captain (b. 1872)
1916 – William Jonas, English footballer (d. 1890)
1917 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
1921 – Myrddin Fardd, Welsh writer and antiquarian scholar (b. 1836)
1924 – Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1866)
1931 – Auguste Forel, Swiss neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (b. 1848)
1938 – Tom Crean, Irish seaman and explorer (b. 1877)
1941 – Alfred Henry O’Keeffe, New Zealand painter and educator (b. 1858)
1942 – Karl Pärsimägi, Estonian painter (b. 1902)
1946 – Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
1948 – Woolf Barnato, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1898)
1948 – Joe Tinker, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
1948 – Dorothea Bleek, South African anthropologist and philologist (b. 1873)
1951 – Paul Kogerman, Estonian chemist and politician, 22nd Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1891)
1958 – Claire Lee Chennault, American general and pilot (b. 1893)
1960 – Julie Vinter Hansen, Danish-Swiss astronomer and academic (b. 1890)
1962 – Richard Aldington, English poet and author (b. 1892)
1962 – James H. Kindelberger, American pilot and businessman (b. 1895)
1963 – Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (b. 1889)
1963 – Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor (b. 1877)
1964 – Winifred Lenihan, American actress, writer, and director (b. 1898)
1965 – Daniel-Rops, French historian and author (b. 1901)
1968 – Babe Adams, American baseball player and manager (b. 1882)
1970 – António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1889)
1971 – Charlie Tully, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1924)
1975 – Alfred Duraiappah, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (d. 1926)
1978 – Bob Heffron, New Zealand-Australian miner and politician, 30th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1890)
1978 – Willem van Otterloo, Dutch cellist, composer, and conductor (b. 1907)
1980 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iranian king (b. 1919)
1981 – William Wyler, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1902)
1984 – James Mason, English actor (b. 1909)
1985 – Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball player and coach (b. 1889)
1987 – Travis Jackson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1903)
1988 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor and businessman, founded the Zamboni Company (b. 1901)
1990 – Bobby Day, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1928)
1990 – René Toribio, Guadeloupean politician (b. 1912)
1991 – John Friedrich, German-Australian engineer and conman (b. 1950)
1992 – Max Dupain, Australian photographer and educator (b. 1911)
1992 – Tzeni Karezi, Greek actress and screenwriter
1993 – Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1965)
1994 – Kevin Carter, South African photographer and journalist (b. 1960)
1995 – Melih Esenbel, Turkish politician and diplomat, 20th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1915)
1995 – Rick Ferrell, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)
1995 – Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor (b. 1907)
1998 – Binnie Barnes, English-American actress (b. 1903)
1999 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer (b. 1912)
1999 – Harry Edison, American trumpet player (b. 1915)
2000 – Gordon Solie, American sportscaster (b. 1929)
2001 – Rhonda Sing, Canadian wrestler (b. 1961)
2001 – Leon Wilkeson, American bass player and songwriter (b. 1952)
2003 – Vance Hartke, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1919)
2003 – Bob Hope, English-American actor, comedian, television personality, and businessman (b. 1903)
2005 – Al Held, American painter and academic (b. 1928)
2005 – Marten Toonder, Dutch author and illustrator (b. 1912)
2006 – Maryann Mahaffey, American academic and politician (b. 1925)
2007 – James Oyebola, Nigerian-English boxer (b. 1961)
2008 – Youssef Chahine, Egyptian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2008 – Horst Stein, German-born Swiss conductor (b. 1928)
2008 – Isaac Saba Raffoul, Mexican businessman (b. 1923)
2010 – Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (b. 1949)
2010 – Jack Tatum, American football player (b. 1948)
2012 – Norman Alden, American actor (b. 1924)
2012 – R. G. Armstrong, American actor and playwright (b. 1917)
2012 – Darryl Cotton, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1949)
2012 – Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (b. 1944)
2012 – Tony Martin, American actor and singer (b. 1913)
2012 – Jack Taylor, English footballer and referee (b. 1930)
2013 – Fernando Alonso, Cuban dancer, co-founded the Cuban National Ballet (b. 1914)
2013 – Lindy Boggs, American politician and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the Holy See (b. 1916)
2013 – Bud Day, American colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1925)
2013 – Kidd Kraddick, American radio host (b. 1959)
2013 – Ilya Segalovich, Russian businessman, co-founded Yandex (b. 1964)
2014 – Richard Bolt, New Zealand air marshal and pilot (b. 1923)
2014 – George Freese, American baseball player and coach (b. 1926)
2014 – Wallace Jones, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
2014 – Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal (b. 1929)
2014 – Paul Schell, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Seattle (b. 1937)
2015 – Rickey Grundy, American singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
2015 – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India (b. 1931)
2015 – Samuel Pisar, Polish-born American lawyer and author (b. 1929)
2015 – Anthony Shaw, English general (b. 1930)
2016 – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (b.1928)^[8]
2016 – James Alan McPherson, American short story writer and essayist (b. 1943)^[9]
2016 – Jerry Doyle, American actor and talk show host (b. 1956)^[10]
2016 – Piet de Jong, Dutch politician and naval officer, Minister of Defence (1963–67), Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1967–71) (b. 1915)^[11]
2017 – Sam Shepard, American playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director (b.1943)^[12]
2018 – Marco Aurelio Denegri, Peruvian literature critic, television host and sexologist^[13]
2018 – Rahim Uddin Bharosha, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances on July 27

Christian feast day:
- Arethas (Western Christianity)
- Aurelius and Natalia and companions of the Martyrs of Córdoba.
- Maurus, Pantalemon, and Sergius
- Pantaleon
- Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (Roman Martyrology)
  - National Sleepy Head Day (Finland)
- Theobald of Marly
- Blessed Titus Brandsma, O.Carm.
- July 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War (North Korea)
Iglesia ni Cristo Day (the Philippines)
José Celso Barbosa Day (Puerto Rico)
Martyrs and Wounded Soldiers Day (Vietnam)
National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day (United States)

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On This Day

July 25 – History, Events, Births, Deaths Holidays and Observances On This Day

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306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I’s victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
677 – Climax of the Siege of Thessalonica by the Slavs in a three-day assault on the city walls.
864 – The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
1137 – Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France, at the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux.
1139 – Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques who is proclaimed King of Portugal.
1261 – The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
1278 – The naval Battle of Algeciras takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in a victory for the Emirate of Granada and the Maranid Dynasty over the Kingdom of Castile.
1467 – The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively.
1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
1538 – The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
1547 – Henry II of France is crowned.
1554 – Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral.
1567 – Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
1593 – Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
1609 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
1693 – Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico.
1722 – Dummer’s War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.
1755 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians.
1759 – French and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
1799 – At Abu Qir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
1814 – War of 1812: An American attack on Canada is repulsed.
1824 – Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
1853 – Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as the “Robin Hood of El Dorado”, is killed.
1861 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
1866 – The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
1868 – The Wyoming Territory is established.
1869 – The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
1898 – In the Puerto Rican Campaign, the United States seizes Puerto Rico from Spain.
1908 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a “temporary” measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
1934 – The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
1942 – The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation.
1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
1944 – World War II: Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war.
1946 – Nuclear weapons testing: Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.
1956 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
1957 – The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed, under President Habib Bourguiba.
1958 – The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
1961 – Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the “Vietnamization” of the war.
1973 – Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
1978 – Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
1978 – Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
1979 – Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
1983 – Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
1993 – Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
1993 – The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
1994 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
1995 – A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
1996 – In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 people.
2007 – Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India’s first female president.
2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
2018 – As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
2019 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium and Germany during the July 2019 European heatwave.

Births on July 25

975 – Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg (d. 1018)
1016 – Casimir I the Restorer, duke of Poland (d. 1058)
1109 – Afonso I, king of Portugal (d. 1185)
1165 – Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher (d. 1240)
1261 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
1291 – Hawys Gadarn, Welsh noblewoman (d. 1353)
1336 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)
1394 – James I, king of Scotland (d. 1437)
1404 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
1421 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
1450 – Jakob Wimpfeling, Renaissance humanist (d. 1528)
1486 – Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1547)
1498 – Hernando de Aragón, Archbishop of Zaragoza (d. 1575)
1532 – Alphonsus Rodriguez, Jesuit lay brother and saint (d. 1617)
1556 – George Peele, English translator, poet, and dramatist (d. 1596)
1562 – Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1573 – Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer and Jesuit (d. 1650)
1581 – Brian Twyne, English archivist (d. 1644)
1605 – Theodore Haak, German scholar (d. 1690)
1633 – Joseph Williamson, English politician (d. 1701)
1654 – Agostino Steffani, Italian composer and diplomat (d. 1728)
1657 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, German composer (d. 1714)
1658 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish general (d. 1703)
1683 – Pieter Langendijk, Dutch playwright and poet (d. 1756)
1750 – Henry Knox, American general and politician, 1st United States Secretary of War (d. 1806)
1753 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French-Spanish captain and politician, 10th Viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (d. 1810)
1797 – Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1889)
1806 – Maria Weston Chapman, American abolitionist (d. 1885)
1839 – Francis Garnier, French captain and explorer (d. 1873)
1844 – Thomas Eakins, American painter, sculptor, and photographer (d. 1916)
1847 – Paul Langerhans, German pathologist, physiologist and biologist (d. 1888)
1848 – Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English lieutenant and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
1857 – Frank J. Sprague, American naval officer and inventor (d. 1934)
1865 – Jac. P. Thijsse, Dutch botanist and conservationist (d. 1945)
1866 – Frederick Blackman, English physiologist and academic (d. 1947)
1867 – Max Dauthendey, German author and painter (d. 1918)
1867 – Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
1869 – Platon, Estonian bishop and saint (d. 1919)
1870 – Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator (d. 1966)
1875 – Jim Corbett, Indian hunter, environmentalist, and author (d. 1955)
1878 – Masaharu Anesaki, Japanese philosopher and scholar (d. 1949)
1882 – George S. Rentz, American commander (d. 1942)
1883 – Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1947)
1886 – Edward Cummins, American golfer (d. 1926)
1894 – Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
1894 – Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian Serb revolutionary (d. 1918)
1895 – Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, Danish actress (d. 1968)
1896 – Jack Perrin, American actor and stuntman (d. 1967)
1896 – Josephine Tey, Scottish author and playwright (d. 1952)
1901 – Ruth Krauss, American author and poet (d. 1993)
1901 – Mohammed Helmy, Egyptian physician and Righteous Among the Nations (d.1982)
1901 – Lila Lee, American actress and singer (d. 1973)
1902 – Eric Hoffer, American philosopher and author (d. 1983)
1905 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, and memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
1905 – Georges Grignard, French race car driver (d. 1977)
1905 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English author and illustrator (d. 1990)
1906 – Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1970)
1908 – Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
1908 – Ambroise-Marie Carré, French priest and author (d. 2004)
1908 – Jack Gilford, American actor (d. 1990)
1914 – Woody Strode, American football player and actor (d. 1994)
1915 – S. U. Ethirmanasingham, Sri Lankan businessman and politician
1915 – Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1944)
1916 – Lucien Saulnier, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
1917 – Fritz Honegger, Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 1999)
1918 – Jane Frank, American painter and sculptor (d. 1986)
1920 – Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist, chemist, and academic (d. 1958)
1921 – Adolph Herseth, American soldier and trumpet player (d. 2013)
1921 – Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (d. 1965)
1923 – Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
1923 – Edgar Gilbert, American mathematician and theorist (d. 2013)
1923 – Maria Gripe, Swedish journalist and author (d. 2007)
1924 – Frank Church, American lawyer and politician (d. 1984)
1924 – Scotch Taylor, South African cricketer and hockey player (d. 2004)
1925 – Benny Benjamin, American R&B drummer (The Funk Brothers) (d. 1969)
1925 – Jerry Paris, American actor and director (d. 1986)
1925 – Dick Passwater, American race car driver
1925 – Jutta Zilliacus, Finnish journalist and politician
1926 – Whitey Lockman, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2009)
1926 – Bernard Thompson, British television producer and director (d. 1998)
1926 – Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (d. 2018)
1927 – Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1927 – Midge Decter, American journalist and author
1927 – Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician, 10th Governor of Punjab (d. 2000)
1927 – Jean-Marie Seroney, Kenyan activist and politician (d. 1982)
1928 – Dolphy, Filipino actor, singer, and producer (d. 2012)
1928 – Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
1928 – Nils Taube, Estonian-English businessman (d. 2008)
1929 – Judd Buchanan, Canadian businessman and politician, 36th Canadian Minister of Public Works
1929 – Somnath Chatterjee, Indian lawyer and politician, 14th Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d. 2018)
1929 – Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1995)
1930 – Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer and manager (d. 1985)
1930 – Maureen Forrester, Canadian actress and singer (d. 2010)
1930 – Alice Parizeau, Polish-Canadian journalist and criminologist (d. 1990)
1930 – Herbert Scarf, American economist and academic (d. 2015)
1930 – Annie Ross, Scottish-American singer and actress
1931 – James Butler, English sculptor and educator
1932 – Paul J. Weitz, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2017)
1934 – Don Ellis, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1978)
1934 – Claude Zidi, French director and screenwriter
1935 – Barbara Harris, American actress and singer (d. 2018)
1935 – Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian businessman (d. 2017)
1935 – Gilbert Parent, Canadian educator and politician, 33rd Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (d. 2009)
1935 – John Robinson, American football player and coach
1935 – Larry Sherry, American baseball player and coach (d. 2006)
1935 – Lars Werner, Swedish lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
1936 – Gerry Ashmore, English race car driver
1936 – Glenn Murcutt, English-Australian architect and academic
1937 – Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, English archaeologist and academic
1940 – Richard Ballantine, American-English journalist and author (d. 2013)
1941 – Manny Charlton, Spanish-born Scottish rock musician and songwriter
1941 – Nate Thurmond, American basketball player (d. 2016)
1941 – Emmett Till, American lynching victim (d. 1955)
1942 – Bruce Woodley, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Jim McCarty, English singer and drummer
1943 – Erika Steinbach, Polish-German politician
1944 – Sally Beauman, English journalist and author (d. 2016)
1946 – José Areas, Nicaraguan drummer
1946 – Nicole Farhi, French fashion designer and sculptor
1946 – John Gibson, American radio host
1946 – Rita Marley, Cuban-Jamaican singer
1946 – P. Selvarasa, Sri Lankan politician
1946 – Ljupka Dimitrovska, Macedonian-Croatian pop singer (d. 2016)
1948 – Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984)
1950 – Mark Clarke, English singer-songwriter and bass player
1951 – Jack Thompson, American lawyer and activist
1951 – Verdine White, American bass player and producer
1952 – Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese architect, designed the Estádio Municipal de Braga
1953 – Joseph A. Tunzi, Chicago based author, foremost expert on Elvis Presley
1953 – Robert Zoellick, American banker and politician, 14th United States Deputy Secretary of State
1954 – Ken Greer, Canadian guitarist, keyboard player, and producer
1954 – Sheena McDonald, Scottish journalist
1954 – Walter Payton, American football player and race car driver (d. 1999)
1954 – Jochem Ziegert, German footballer and manager
1955 – Iman, Somalian-English model and actress
1955 – Randall Bewley, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2009)
1956 – Andy Goldsworthy, English-Scottish sculptor and photographer
1956 – Frances Arnold, American scientist and engineer
1957 – Mark Hunter, English politician
1957 – Steve Podborski, Canadian skier
1958 – Alexei Filippenko, American astrophysicist and academic
1958 – Thurston Moore, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1959 – Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1959 – Geoffrey Zakarian, American chef and author
1960 – Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
1960 – Justice Howard, American photographer
1960 – Māris Martinsons, Latvian film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor
1962 – Carin Bakkum, Dutch tennis player
1962 – Doug Drabek, American baseball player and coach
1963 – Denis Coderre, Canadian politician, 44th Mayor of Montreal
1963 – Julian Hodgson, Welsh chess player
1964 – Anne Applebaum, American journalist and author
1964 – Tony Granato, American ice hockey player and coach
1964 – Breuk Iversen, American designer and journalist
1965 – Marty Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Illeana Douglas, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1965 – Dale Shearer, Australian rugby league player
1966 – Daryl Halligan, New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
1966 – Maureen Herman, American bass player
1966 – Diana Johnson, English politician
1967 – Matt LeBlanc, American actor and producer
1967 – Ruth Peetoom, Dutch minister and politician
1967 – Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian footballer and referee
1968 – Rudi Bryson, South African cricketer
1968 – Shi Tao, Chinese journalist and poet
1969 – Jon Barry, American basketball player and sportscaster
1969 – Annastacia Palaszczuk, Australian politician, 39th Premier of Queensland
1971 – Roger Creager, American singer-songwriter
1971 – Tracy Murray, American basketball player
1971 – Billy Wagner, American baseball player and coach
1972 – David Penna, Australian rugby league player and coach
1973 – Dani Filth, English singer-songwriter
1973 – Kevin Phillips, English footballer
1973 – Igli Tare, Albanian footballer
1974 – Lauren Faust, American animator, producer, and screenwriter
1974 – Julia Laffranque, Estonian lawyer and judge
1974 – Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese rugby player and wrestler
1975 – Jody Craddock, English footballer and coach
1975 – Jean-Claude Darcheville, Guianan-French footballer
1975 – El Zorro, Mexican wrestler
1975 – Brian Gibson, American bass player
1975 – Evgeni Nabokov, Russian ice hockey player
1976 – Marcos Assunção, Brazilian footballer
1976 – Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet and critic
1976 – Javier Vázquez, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1977 – Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
1978 – Gerard Warren, American football player
1978 – Louise Brown, first human to be born via IVF
1979 – Ali Carter, English snooker player
1979 – Tom Lungley, English cricketer and umpire
1980 – Shawn Riggans, American baseball player
1980 – Toni Vilander, Finnish race car driver
1980 – David Wachs, American actor and producer
1980 – Scott Waldrom, New Zealand rugby player
1981 – Conor Casey, American soccer player
1981 – Constantinos Charalambidis, Cypriot footballer
1981 – Yūichi Komano, Japanese footballer
1981 – Mac Lethal, American rapper and producer
1981 – Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player
1982 – Brad Renfro, American actor and musician (d. 2008)
1982 – Jason Dundas, Australian TV host
1983 – Nenad Krstić, Serbian basketball player
1984 – Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
1985 – James Lafferty, American actor and athlete
1985 – Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian race car driver
1985 – Hugo Rodallega, Colombian footballer
1986 – Abraham Gneki Guié, Ivorian footballer
1986 – Hulk, Brazilian footballer
1987 – Richard Bachman, American ice hockey player
1987 – Mitchell Burgzorg, Dutch footballer and rapper
1987 – Fernando, Brazilian footballer
1987 – Jax Jones, English DJ, singer and songwriter
1987 – Eran Zahavi, Israeli footballer
1988 – John Goossens, Dutch footballer
1988 – Tom Hiariej, Dutch footballer
1988 – Stacey Kemp, English skater
1988 – Paulinho, Brazilian footballer
1988 – Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
1989 – Natalia Vieru, Russian basketball player
1990 – Thodoris Karapetsas, Greek footballer
1991 – Toni Duggan, English footballer
1992 – Sergei Simonov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2016)
1997 – Nat Butcher, Australian rugby league player

Deaths on July 25

306 – Constantius Chlorus, Roman emperor (b. 250)
885 – Ragenold, margrave of Neustria
1011 – Ichijō, emperor of Japan (b. 980)
1190 – Sibylla, queen of Jerusalem
1409 – Martin I, king of Sicily (b. 1376)
1471 – Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic
1472 – Charles of Artois, French nobleman (b. 1394)
1492 – Innocent VIII, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1432)
1564 – Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1503)
1572 – Isaac Luria, Ottoman rabbi and mystic (b. 1534)
1608 – Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer (b. 1556)
1616 – Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
1643 – Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English general and politician (b. 1584)
1681 – Urian Oakes, English-American minister and educator (b. 1631)
1790 – Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educator and reformer (b. 1723)
1790 – William Livingston, American soldier and politician, 1st Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
1791 – Isaac Low, American merchant and politician (b. 1735)
1794 – André Chénier, Greek-French poet and author (b. 1762)
1794 – Jean-Antoine Roucher, French poet and author (b. 1745)
1794 – Friedrich von der Trenck, Prussian adventurer and author (b. 1726)
1826 – Kondraty Ryleyev, Russian poet and publisher (b. 1795)
1831 – Maria Szymanowska, Polish composer and pianist (b. 1789)
1834 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English philosopher, poet, and critic (b. 1772)
1842 – Dominique Jean Larrey, French physician and surgeon (b. 1766)
1843 – Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and engineer (b. 1766)
1861 – Jonas Furrer, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1805)
1865 – James Barry, English soldier and surgeon (b. 1799)
1887 – John Taylor, American religious leader, 3rd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1808)
1934 – François Coty, French businessman, founded Coty, Inc. (b. 1874)
1934 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician, 14th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892)
1942 – Fred Englehardt, American triple jumper (b. 1879)
1952 – Herbert Murrill, English organist and composer (b. 1909)
1958 – Otto Lasanen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1891)
1959 – Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Irish rabbi and author (b. 1888)
1962 – Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1879)
1963 – Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist and academic (b. 1877)
1966 – Frank O’Hara, American poet and critic (b. 1926)
1967 – Konstantinos Parthenis, Egyptian-Greek painter (b. 1878)
1971 – John Meyers, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1880)
1971 – Leroy Robertson, American composer and educator (b. 1896)
1973 – Amy Jacques Garvey, Jamaican-American journalist and activist (b. 1895)
1973 – Louis St. Laurent, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
1980 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1938)
1981 – Rosa A. González, Puerto Rican nurse, author, feminist, and activist (b. 1889)
1982 – Hal Foster, Canadian-American author and illustrator (b. 1892)
1984 – Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1984 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
1986 – Vincente Minnelli, American director and screenwriter (b. 1903)
1988 – Judith Barsi, American child actress (b. 1978)
1989 – Steve Rubell, American businessman, co-owner of Studio 54 (b. 1943)
1991 – Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician (b. 1893)
1992 – Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1995 – Charlie Rich, American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
1997 – Ben Hogan, American golfer (b. 1912)
1998 – Evangelos Papastratos, Greek businessman, co-founded Papastratos (b. 1910)
2000 – Rudi Faßnacht, German footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1934)
2002 – Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher and poet (b. 1917)
2003 – Ludwig Bölkow, German engineer (b. 1912)
2003 – John Schlesinger, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2004 – John Passmore, Australian philosopher and academic (b. 1914)
2005 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist (b. 1928)
2006 – Ezra Fleischer, Romanian-Israeli poet and philologist (b. 1928)
2007 – Bernd Jakubowski, German footballer and manager (b. 1952)
2008 – Jeff Fehring, Australian footballer (b. 1955)
2008 – Tracy Hall, American chemist and academic (b. 1919)
2008 – Randy Pausch, American computer scientist and educator (b. 1960)
2009 – Vernon Forrest, American boxer (b. 1971)
2009 – Stanley Middleton, English author (b. 1919)
2009 – Harry Patch, English soldier (b. 1898)
2011 – Michael Cacoyannis, Cypriot-Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2012 – B. R. Ishara, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2012 – Barry Langford, English director and producer (b. 1926)
2012 – Greg Mohns, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1950)
2012 – Franz West, Austrian painter and sculptor (b. 1947)
2013 – Walter De Maria, American sculptor, illustrator, and composer (b. 1935)
2013 – William J. Guste, American lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
2013 – Hugh Huxley, English-American biologist and academic (b. 1924)
2014 – Bel Kaufman, German-American author and academic (b. 1911)
2014 – Richard Larter, Australian painter and illustrator (b. 1929)
2015 – Jacques Andreani, French diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (b. 1929)
2015 – R. S. Gavai, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor of Kerala (b. 1929)
2015 – Bob Kauffman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1946)
2017 – Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
2018 – Sergio Marchionne, Italian-Canadian businessman(b. 1952)
2019 – Beji Caid Essebsi , 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances on July 25

Christian feast day:
- Anne (Eastern Christianity)
- Christopher (Western Christianity)
- Cucuphas
- Glodesind
- James the Great (Western Christianity)
- John I Agnus
- Julian of Le Mans (translation)
- Magnerich of Trier
- July 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which Father’s Day can fall, while July 31 is the latest; celebrated on last Sunday in July. (Dominican Republic)
Earliest day on which National Tree Planting Day can fall, while July 31 is the latest; celebrated on last Sunday in July. (Australia)
Earliest day on which Navy Day can fall, while July 31 is the latest; celebrated on last Sunday in July. (Russia)
Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica)
National Baha’i Day (Jamaica)
National Day of Galicia (Galicia)
Puerto Rico Constitution Day (Puerto Rico)
Republic Day (Tunisia)

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July 19 – History, Events, Births, Deaths Holidays and Observances On This Day

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AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.
484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.
711 – Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete: Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.
939 – Battle of Simancas: King Ramiro II of León defeats the Moorish army under Caliph Abd-al-Rahman III near the city of Simancas.
998 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Battle of Apamea: Fatimids defeat a Byzantine army near Apamea.
1333 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill: The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.
1544 – Italian War of 1542–46: The first Siege of Boulogne begins.
1545 – The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.
1553 – Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only nine days on the throne.
1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.
1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
1702 – Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.
1817 – Unsuccessful in his attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Hawaii for the Russian-American Company, Georg Anton Schäffer is forced to admit defeat and leave Kauai.
1821 – Coronation of George IV of the United Kingdom.
1832 – The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.
1843 – Brunel’s steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller, becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1845 – Great New York City Fire of 1845: The last great fire to affect Manhattan began early in the morning and was subdued that afternoon. The fire killed four firefighters, 26 civilians, and destroyed 345 buildings.
1848 – Women’s rights: A two-day Women’s Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York.
1863 – American Civil War: Morgan’s Raid: At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan’s raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
1864 – Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking: The Qing dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
1900 – The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
1903 – Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches as part of the Battle of the Somme.
1936 – Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain – mobilizing workers’ militias against the Nationalist forces.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Cape Spada: The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
1940 – Field Marshal Ceremony: First occasion in World War II, that Hitler appointed field marshals due to military achievements.
1940 – World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
1942 – World War II: The Second Happy Time of Hitler’s submarines comes to an end, as the increasingly effective American convoy system compels them to return to the central Atlantic.
1943 – World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.
1947 – Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
1947 – Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
1952 – Opening of the Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
1961 – Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
1964 – Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
1969 – Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
1972 – Dhofar Rebellion: British SAS units help the Omani government against Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman rebels in the Battle of Mirbat.
1976 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
1977 – The world’s first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal was transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 12:41 a.m. Eastern time (ET).
1979 – The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
1979 – The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.
1980 – Opening of the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
1981 – In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French President François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.
1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
1983 – The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
1985 – The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
1989 – United Airlines Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 111.
1992 – A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort.
1997 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year paramilitary campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
2014 – Gunmen in Egypt’s western desert province of New Valley Governorate attack a military checkpoint, killing at least 21 soldiers. Egypt reportedly declares a state of emergency on its border with Sudan.

Births on July 19

810 – Muhammad al-Bukhari, Persian scholar (d. 870)
1223 – Baibars, sultan of Egypt (d. 1277)
1420 – William VIII, Marquess of Montferrat (d. 1483)
1569 – Conrad Vorstius, Dutch theologian (d. 1622)
1670 – Richard Leveridge, English singer-songwriter (d. 1758)
1688 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary and painter (d. 1766)
1744 – Heinrich Christian Boie, German author and poet (d. 1806)
1759 – Marianna Auenbrugger, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1782)
1759 – Seraphim of Sarov, Russian monk and saint (d. 1833)
1771 – Thomas Talbot, Irish-Canadian colonel and politician (d. 1853)
1794 – José Justo Corro, Mexican politician and president, (1836-1837) (d. 1864)
1789 – John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (d. 1854)
1800 – Juan José Flores, Venezuelan general and politician, 1st President of Ecuador (d. 1864)
1814 – Samuel Colt, American businessman, founded the Colt’s Manufacturing Company (d. 1862)
1819 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet, and playwright (d. 1890)
1822 – Princess Augusta of Cambridge (d. 1916)
1827 – Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (d. 1857)
1834 – Edgar Degas, French painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 1917)
1835 – Justo Rufino Barrios, Guatemalan president (d. 1885)
1842 – Frederic T. Greenhalge, English-American lawyer and politician, 38th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1846 – Edward Charles Pickering, American astronomer and physicist (d. 1919)
1849 – Ferdinand Brunetière, French scholar and critic (d. 1906)
1865 – Georges Friedel, French mineralogist and crystallographer (d. 1933)
1865 – Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, founded the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
1860 – Lizzie Borden, American woman, tried and acquitted for the murders of her parents in 1892 (d. 1927)
1868 – Florence Foster Jenkins, American soprano and educator (d. 1944)
1869 – Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister of Transport (d. 1927)
1875 – Alice Dunbar Nelson, African-American poet and activist (d. 1935)
1876 – Joseph Fielding Smith, American religious leader, 10th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)
1877 – Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
1881 – Friedrich Dessauer, German physicist and philosopher (d. 1963)
1883 – Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator and producer (d. 1972)
1886 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (d. 1957)
1888 – Enno Lolling, German physician (d. 1945)
1890 – George II of Greece (d. 1947)
1892 – Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1957)
1893 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian actor, playwright, and poet (d. 1930)
1894 – Aleksandr Khinchin, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1959)
1894 – Khawaja Nazimuddin, Bangladeshi-Pakistani politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
1894 – Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor of the microwave oven (d. 1969)
1895 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter and academic (d. 1953)
1896 – Reginald Baker, English film producer (d. 1985)
1896 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and novelist (d. 1981)
1896 – Bob Meusel, American baseball player and sailor (d. 1977)
1898 – Herbert Marcuse, German-American sociologist and philosopher (d. 1979)
1899 – Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay, Indian physician, author, poet, and playwright (d. 1979)
1902 – Samudrala Raghavacharya, Indian singer, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1968)
1904 – Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, American lawyer and farmer (d. 1985)
1907 – Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)
1908 – Daniel Fry, American contactee (d. 1992)
1909 – Balamani Amma, Indian poet and author (d. 2004)
1912 – Peter Leo Gerety, American prelate (d. 2016)
1914 – Marius Russo, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1915 – Åke Hellman, Finnish painter (d. 2017)
1916 – Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)
1917 – William Scranton, American captain and politician, 13th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2013)
1919 – Patricia Medina, English-American actress (d. 2012)
1919 – Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet and author (d. 2005)
1919 – Ron Searle, English-Canadian soldier, publisher, and politician, 4th Mayor of Mississauga (d. 2015)
1920 – Robert Mann, American violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 2018)
1920 – Richard Oriani, Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (d. 2015)
1921 – Harold Camping, American evangelist, author, radio host (d. 2013)
1921 – André Moynet, French soldier, race car driver, and politician (d. 1993)
1921 – Elizabeth Spencer, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 2019)
1921 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
1922 – George McGovern, American lieutenant, historian, and politician (d. 2012)
1922 – Rachel Robinson, American professor, registered nurse, and the widow of baseball player Jackie Robinson
1923 – Theo Barker, English historian (d. 2001)
1923 – Alex Hannum, American basketball player and coach (d. 2002)
1923 – Joseph Hansen, American author and poet (d. 2004)
1923 – William A. Rusher, American lawyer and journalist (d. 2011)
1923 – Lon Simmons, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2015)
1924 – Stanley K. Hathaway, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 2005)
1924 – Pat Hingle, American actor and producer (d. 2009)
1924 – Arthur Rankin Jr., American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1925 – Sue Thompson, American singer
1926 – Helen Gallagher, American actress, singer, and dancer
1928 – Samuel John Hazo, American author
1928 – Choi Yun-chil, South Korean long-distance runner and a two-time national champion in the marathon.
1929 – Gaston Glock, Austrian engineer and businessman, co-founded Glock Ges.m.b.H.
1929 – Orville Turnquest, Bahamian politician
1932 – Buster Benton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)
1932 – Jan Lindblad, Swedish biologist and photographer (d. 1987)
1934 – Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 111th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
1935 – Nick Koback, American baseball player and golfer (d. 2015)
1936 – David Colquhoun, English pharmacologist and academic
1937 – George Hamilton IV, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
1938 – Richard Jordan, American actor (d. 1993)
1938 – Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist and astronomer
1938 – Tom Raworth, English poet and academic (d. 2017)
1941 – Vikki Carr, American singer and actress
1941 – Neelie Kroes, Dutch politician and diplomat, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society
1943 – Han Sai Por, Singaporean sculptor and academic
1944 – Tim McIntire, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
1944 – Andres Vooremaa, Estonian chess player
1945 – Paule Baillargeon, Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter
1946 – Alan Gorrie, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician (Average White Band)
1946 – Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player and politician
1947 – André Forcier, Canadian director and screenwriter
1947 – Hans-Jürgen Kreische, German footballer and manager
1947 – Bernie Leadon, American guitarist and songwriter
1947 – Brian May, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and astrophysicist
1948 – Keith Godchaux, American keyboard player and songwriter (d. 1980)
1949 – Kgalema Motlanthe, South African politician, 3rd President of South Africa
1950 – Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Finance
1950 – Freddy Moore, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1950 – Adrian Noble, English director and screenwriter
1951 – Abel Ferrara, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1952 – Allen Collins, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1990)
1952 – Jayne Anne Phillips American novelist and short story writer
1954 – Mark O’Donnell, American playwright (d. 2012)
1954 – Steve O’Donnell, American screenwriter and producer
1954 – Srđa Trifković, Serbian-American journalist and historian
1955 – Roger Binny, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
1955 – Dalton McGuinty, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Premier of Ontario
1956 – Mark Crispin, American computer scientist, designed the IMAP (d. 2012)
1958 – Brad Drewett, Australian tennis player and sportscaster (d. 2013)
1958 – Robert Gibson, American wrestler
1958 – David Robertson, American conductor
1959 – Juan J. Campanella, Argentinian director, producer, and screenwriter
1960 – Atom Egoyan, Egyptian-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
1960 – Kevin Haskins, English drummer and songwriter
1961 – Harsha Bhogle, Indian journalist and author
1961 – Maria Filatova, Russian gymnast
1961 – Lisa Lampanelli, American comedian, actress, and author
1961 – Benoît Mariage, Belgian director and screenwriter
1961 – Hideo Nakata, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
1961 – Campbell Scott, American actor, director, and producer
1962 – Anthony Edwards, American actor and director
1963 – Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Swiss musician
1963 – Garth Nix, Australian author
1964 – Teresa Edwards, American basketball player
1964 – Masahiko Kondō, Japanese singer-songwriter and race car driver
1965 – Evelyn Glennie, Scottish musician
1965 – Claus-Dieter Wollitz, German footballer and manager
1967 – Yael Abecassis, Israeli model and actress
1967 – Jean-François Mercier, Canadian comedian, screenwriter, and television host
1968 – Robb Flynn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1968 – Pavel Kuka, Czech footballer and manager
1968 – Jim Norton, American comedian, actor, and author
1969 – Matthew Libatique, American cinematographer
1970 – Bill Chen, American poker player and software designer
1970 – Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish lawyer and politician, First Minister of Scotland
1971 – Rene Busch, Estonian tennis player and coach
1971 – Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer and politician, Mayor of Kiev
1971 – Michael Modest, American wrestler
1971 – Catriona Rowntree, Australian television host
1971 – Lesroy Weekes, Montserratian cricketer
1972 – Ebbe Sand, Danish footballer and manager
1973 – Martin Powell, English keyboard player and songwriter
1973 – Scott Walker, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1974 – Rey Bucanero, Mexican wrestler
1974 – Francisco Copado, German footballer and manager
1974 – Josée Piché, Canadian ice dancer
1974 – Vince Spadea, American tennis player
1974 – Preston Wilson, American baseball player and sportscaster
1975 – Luca Castellazzi, Italian footballer
1976 – Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor
1976 – Gonzalo de los Santos, Uruguayan footballer and manager
1977 – Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Tony Mamaluke, American wrestler and manager
1977 – Ed Smith, English cricketer and journalist
1979 – Rick Ankiel, American baseball player
1979 – Josué Anunciado de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1979 – Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
1979 – Luke Young, English footballer
1980 – Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player
1980 – Giorgio Mondini, Italian race car driver
1981 – Nenê, Brazilian footballer
1981 – David Bernard, Jamaican cricketer
1981 – Mark Gasnier, Australian rugby player and sportscaster
1981 – Jimmy Gobble, American baseball player
1981 – Grégory Vignal, French footballer
1982 – Christopher Bear, American drummer
1982 – Phil Coke, American baseball player
1982 – Jared Padalecki, American actor
1982 – Jess Vanstrattan, Australian footballer
1983 – Helen Skelton, English television host and actress
1983 – Fedor Tyutin, Russian ice hockey player
1984 – Andrea Libman, Canadian voice actress
1984 – Adam Morrison, American basketball player
1984 – Ryan O’Byrne, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Lewis Price, Welsh footballer
1985 – LaMarcus Aldridge, American basketball player
1985 – Zhou Haibin, Chinese footballer
1985 – Marina Kuzina, Russian basketball player
1985 – Hadi Norouzi, Iranian footballer (d. 2015)
1986 – Leandro Greco, Italian footballer
1987 – Jon Jones, American mixed martial artist
1987 – Marc Murphy, Australian footballer
1988 – Shane Dawson, American comedian and actor
1988 – Kevin Großkreutz, German footballer
1988 – Jakub Kovář, Czech ice hockey player
1989 – Sam McKendry, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
1991 – Eray İşcan, Turkish footballer
1992 – Jake Nicholson, English footballer
1994 – Christian Welch, Australian rugby league player
1998 – Erin Cuthbert, footballer
1998 – Ronaldo Vieira, Bissau-Guinean footballer

Deaths on July 19

514 – Symmachus, pope of the Catholic Church
806 – Li Shigu, Chinese general (b. 778)
973 – Kyunyeo, Korean monk and poet (b. 917)
998 – Damian Dalassenos, Byzantine general (b. 940)
1030 – Adalberon, French bishop
1234 – Floris IV, Dutch nobleman (b. 1210)
1249 – Jacopo Tiepolo, doge of Venice
1333 – John Campbell, Scottish nobleman
1333 – Alexander Bruce, Scottish nobleman
1333 – Sir Archibald Douglas, Scottish nobleman
1333 – Maol Choluim II, Scottish nobleman
1333 – Kenneth de Moravia, 4th Earl of Sutherland
1374 – Petrarch, Italian poet and scholar (b. 1304)
1415 – Philippa of Lancaster, Portuguese queen (b. 1360)
1543 – Mary Boleyn, English daughter of Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (b. 1499)
1631 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher and academic (b. 1550)
1742 – William Somervile, English poet and author (b. 1675)
1810 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Prussian queen (b. 1776)
1814 – Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (b. 1774)
1824 – Agustín de Iturbide, Mexican general and emperor (b. 1783)
1838 – Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemist (b. 1785)
1850 – Margaret Fuller, American journalist and critic (b. 1810)
1855 – Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet and translator (b. 1787)
1857 – Stefano Franscini, Swiss statistician and politician (b. 1796)
1878 – Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1847)
1896 – Abraham H. Cannon, American publisher and religious leader (b. 1859)
1913 – Clímaco Calderón, Colombian lawyer and politician, 15th President of Colombia (b. 1852)
1925 – John Indermaur, British lawyer (b. 1851)
1930 – Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1844)
1933 – Kaarle Krohn, Finnish historian and academic (b. 1863)
1939 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet and author (b. 1850)
1943 – Yekaterina Budanova, Russian captain and pilot (b. 1916)
1947 – U Razak, Burmese educator and politician (b. 1898)
1947 – Aung San, Burmese general and politician (b. 1915)
1947 – Lyuh Woon-hyung, South Korean politician (b. 1886)
1963 – William Andrew, English priest (b. 1884)
1965 – Syngman Rhee, South Korean journalist and politician, 1st President of South Korea (b. 1875)
1967 – Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (b. 1884)
1969 – Stratis Myrivilis, Greek soldier and author (b. 1890)
1974 – Ernő Schwarz, Hungarian-American soccer player and coach (b. 1904)
1975 – Lefty Frizzell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
1977 – Karl Ristikivi, Estonian geographer, author, and poet (b. 1912)
1980 – Margaret Craven, American journalist and author (b. 1901)
1980 – Nihat Erim, Turkish jurist and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912)
1980 – Hans Morgenthau, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1904)
1981 – Roger Doucet, Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
1982 – Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1930)
1984 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
1984 – Aziz Sami, Iraqi writer and translator (b. 1895)
1985 – Janusz Zajdel, Polish author (b. 1938)
1989 – Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish businessman and politician, President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1913)
1990 – Eddie Quillan, American actor (b. 1907)
1992 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian lawyer and judge (b. 1940)
1994 – Victor Barbeau, Canadian author and academic (b. 1896)
1998 – Elmer Valo, Polish-American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1921)
2002 – Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952)
2002 – Alan Lomax, American historian, scholar, and activist (b. 1915)
2003 – Bill Bright, American evangelist and author, founded the Campus Crusade for Christ (b. 1921)
2003 – Pierre Graber, Swiss politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1908)
2004 – Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (b. 1902)
2004 – J. Gordon Edwards, American entomologist, mountaineer, and DDT advocate (b. 1919)
2004 – Francis A. Marzen, American priest, and journalist (b. 1924)
2004 – Zenkō Suzuki, Japanese politician, 70th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
2005 – Edward Bunker, American author and screenwriter (b. 1933)
2006 – Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 – A. K. Faezul Huq, Bangladeshi journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1945)
2007 – Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentinian cartoonist (b. 1944)
2008 – Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedian and actress (b. 1907)
2009 – Frank McCourt, American author and educator (b. 1930)
2009 – Henry Surtees, English race car driver (b. 1991)
2010 – Cécile Aubry, French actress, author, television screenwriter and director (b. 1928)
2010 – Jon Cleary, Australian author and playwright (b. 1917)
2012 – Humayun Ahmed, Bangladeshi director and playwright (b. 1948)
2012 – Tom Davis, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1952)
2012 – Mohammad Hassan Ganji, Iranian meteorologist and academic (b. 1912)
2012 – Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general, and politician, 16th Vice President of Egypt (b. 1935)
2012 – Sylvia Woods, American businesswoman, co-founded Sylvia’s Restaurant of Harlem (b. 1926)
2012 – Valiulla Yakupov, Islamic cleric (b. 1963)
2013 – Mikhail Gorsheniov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1973)
2013 – Geeto Mongol, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1931)
2013 – Mel Smith, English actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1952)
2013 – Bert Trautmann, German footballer and manager (b. 1923)
2013 – Phil Woosnam, Welsh-American soccer player and manager (b. 1932)
2013 – Peter Ziegler, Swiss geologist and academic (b. 1928)
2013 – Leyla Erbil, Turkish author (b. 1931)
2014 – Rubem Alves, Brazilian theologian (b. 1933)
2014 – David Easton, Canadian-American political scientist and academic (b. 1917)
2014 – Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician and author (b. 1933)
2014 – James Garner, American actor (b. 1928)
2014 – Jerzy Jurka, Polish biologist (b. 1950)
2014 – Ray King, English footballer and manager (b. 1924)
2014 – Ingemar Odlander, Swedish journalist (b. 1936)
2014 – Harry Pougher, English cricketer (b. 1941)
2014 – Leen Vleggeert, Dutch politician (b. 1931)
2014 – John Winkin, American baseball player, coach, and journalist (b. 1919)
2015 – Van Alexander, American composer and conductor (b. 1915)
2015 – Galina Prozumenshchikova, Ukrainian-Russian swimmer and journalist (b. 1948)
2015 – Carmino Ravosa, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1930)
2015 – Gennadiy Seleznyov, Russian journalist and politician, 2nd Speaker of the Duma (b. 1947)
2016 – Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1934)
2018 – Jon Schnepp, American producer, director, voice actor, editor, writer, cartoonist, animator, and cinematographer (b. 1967)
2018 – Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (b. 1993)
2019 – Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor, director, and producer (b. 1944)

Holidays and observances on July 19

Christian feast day:
- Arsenius (Catholic Church)
- Bernold, Bishop of Utrecht
- Justa and Rufina
- Kirdjun (or Abakerazum)
- Macrina the Younger, Sister of St. Basil the Great
- Symmachus
- July 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Martyrs’ Day (Myanmar)
Sandinista Day or Liberation Day (Nicaragua)

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July 15 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

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484 BC – Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome
AD 70 – Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. (17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).
756 – An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor’s family killed.
1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
1149 – The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
1207 – King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
1240 – Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants’ Revolt, is hanged, drawn, and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
1410 – Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald: The allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
1482 – Muhammad XII is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada.
1738 – Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitzin are burned alive in St. Petersburg, Russia. Vonitzin had converted to Judaism with Laibov’s help, with the consent of Empress Anna Ivanovna.
1741 – Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
1789 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign.
1806 – Pike Expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1823 – A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.
1834 – The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
1862 – The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself. The encounter changed the complexion of warfare on the Mississippi and helped to reverse Rebel fortunes on the river in the summer of 1862.
1870 – Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1870 – Rupert’s Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer’s disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
1920 – The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
1922 – Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
1946 – State of North Borneo, today in Sabah, Malaysia, annexed by the United Kingdom.
1954 – First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
1959 – The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
1971 – The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d’état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his “malaise speech”.
1983 – An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
1998 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.
2002 – “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
2002 – Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
2006 – Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
2014 – A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
2016 – Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.

Births on July 15

980 – Ichijō, Japanese emperor (d. 1011)
1273 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and saint (d. 1352)
1353 – Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
1359 – Antonio Correr, Italian cardinal (d. 1445)
1442 – Boček IV of Poděbrady, Bohemian nobleman (d. 1496)
1455 – Queen Yun, Korean queen (d. 1482)
1471 – Eskender, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1494)
1478 – Barbara Jagiellon, duchess consort of Saxony and Margravine consort of Meissen (d. 1534)
1573 – Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen’s House (d. 1652)
1600 – Jan Cossiers, Flemish painter (d. 1671)
1606 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher (d. 1669)
1611 – Jai Singh I, maharaja of Jaipur (d. 1667)
1613 – Gu Yanwu, Chinese philologist and geographer (d. 1682)
1631 – Jens Juel, Danish politician and diplomat, Governor-general of Norway (d. 1700)
1631 – Richard Cumberland, English philosopher (d. 1718)
1638 – Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1693)
1704 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German bishop and theologian (d. 1792)
1779 – Clement Clarke Moore, American author, poet, and educator (d. 1863)
1793 – Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, American educator, author, editor (d. 1884)
1796 – Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist (d. 1867)
1799 – Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (d. 1882)
1800 – Sidney Breese, American jurist and politician (d. 1878)
1808 – Henry Edward Manning, English cardinal (d. 1892)
1812 – James Hope-Scott, English lawyer and academic (d. 1873)
1817 – Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer, designed the Forth Bridge (d. 1898)
1827 – W. W. Thayer American lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of Oregon (d. 1899)
1848 – Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923)
1850 – Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (d. 1917)
1852 – Josef Josephi, Polish-born singer and actor (d. 1920)
1858 – Emmeline Pankhurst, English political activist and suffragist (d. 1928)
1864 – Marie Tempest, English actress and singer (d. 1942)
1865 – Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Anglo-Irish businessman and publisher, founded the Amalgamated Press (d. 1922)
1865 – Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist (d. 1945)
1867 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (d. 1936)
1871 – Doppo Kunikida, Japanese journalist, author, and poet (d. 1908)
1880 – Enrique Mosca, Argentinian lawyer and politician (d. 1950)
1887 – Wharton Esherick, American sculptor (d. 1970)
1892 – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (d. 1940)
1893 – Enid Bennett, Australian-American actress (d. 1969)
1893 – Dick Rauch, American football player and coach (d. 1970)
1894 – Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer (d. 1989)
1899 – Seán Lemass, Irish soldier and politician, 4th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1971)
1902 – Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the European Commission (d. 1983)
1903 – Walter D. Edmonds, American journalist and author (d. 1998)
1903 – K. Kamaraj, Indian journalist and politician (d. 1975)
1904 – Rudolf Arnheim, German-American psychologist and author (d. 2007)
1905 – Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (d. 1974)
1905 – Anita Farra, Italian actress (d. 2008)
1906 – R. S. Mugali, Indian poet and academic (d. 1993)
1906 – Rudolf Uhlenhaut, English-German engineer (d. 1989)
1909 – Jean Hamburger, French physician and surgeon (d. 1992)
1911 – Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, English geographer and politician, Secretary of State for Air (d. 1994)
1913 – Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1963)
1913 – Hammond Innes, English journalist and author (d. 1998)
1913 – Abraham Sutzkever, Russian poet and author (d. 2010)
1914 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist, scholar, and activist (d. 1999)
1914 – Howard Vernon, Swiss-French actor (d. 1996)
1915 – Albert Ghiorso, American chemist and academic (d. 2010)
1915 – Kashmir Singh Katoch, Indian army officer (d. 2007)
1916 – Sumner Gerard, American politician and diplomat (d. 2004)
1917 – Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic (d. 2015)
1917 – Joan Roberts, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
1917 – Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician (d. 1979)
1918 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
1918 – Brenda Milner, English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic
1919 – Fritz Langanke, German lieutenant (d. 2012)
1919 – Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish British novelist and philosopher (d. 1999)
1921 – Jack Beeson, American pianist and composer (d. 2010)
1921 – Henri Colpi, Swiss-French director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1921 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1921 – Jean Heywood, British actress (d. 2019)
1922 – Leon M. Lederman, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
1922 – Jean-Pierre Richard, French writer (d. 2019)
1923 – Francisco de Andrade, Portuguese sailor
1924 – Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (d. 2014)
1924 – Marianne Bernadotte, Swedish actress and philanthropist
1925 – Philip Carey, American actor (d. 2009)
1925 – Taylor Hardwick, American architect, designed Haydon Burns Library and Friendship Fountain Park (d. 2014)
1925 – D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (d. 2019)
1925 – Evan Hultman, American politician
1925 – Antony Carbone, American actor
1925 – Pandel Savic, American football player (d. 2018)
1926 – Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan-French journalist and author (d. 2007)
1926 – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentinian general and politician, 44th President of Argentina (d. 2003)
1926 – Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (d. 2015)
1926 – Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet, English diplomat (d. 2019)
1927 – Nan Martin, American actress (d. 2010)
1927 – Carmen Zapata, American actress (d. 2014)
1927 – Håkon Brusveen, Norwegian cross-country skier
1928 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (d. 2012)
1928 – Viramachaneni Vimla Devi, Indian parliamentarian (d. 1967)
1929 – Charles Anthony, American tenor and actor (d. 2012)
1929 – Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-French guitarist (d. 2001)
1929 – Ian Stewart, Scottish race car driver (d. 2017)
1930 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (d. 2004)
1930 – Richard Garneau, Canadian journalist and sportscaster (d. 2013)
1930 – Stephen Smale, American mathematician and computer scientist
1930 – Einosuke Akiya, Japanese Buddhist leader
1931 – Clive Cussler, American archaeologist and author (d. 2020)
1931 – Joanna Merlin, American actress and casting director
1931 – Jacques-Yvan Morin, Canadian lawyer and politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec
1932 – Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
1933 – Guido Crepax, Italian author and illustrator (d. 2003)
1933 – M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Indian author and screenwriter
1934 – Harrison Birtwistle, English composer and academic
1934 – Eva Krížiková, Czech actress (d. 2020)
1934 – Risto Jarva, Finnish director and producer (d. 1977)
1935 – Donn Clendenon, American baseball player and lawyer (d. 2005)
1935 – Alex Karras, American football player, wrestler, and actor (d. 2012)
1935 – Ken Kercheval, American actor and director (d. 2019)
1936 – George Voinovich, American lawyer and politician, 65th Governor of Ohio (d. 2016)
1937 – Prabhash Joshi, Indian journalist (d. 2009)
1938 – Ernie Barnes, American football player, actor, and painter (d. 2009)
1938 – Carmen Callil, Australian publisher, founded Virago Press
1938 – Barry Goldwater, Jr., American lawyer and politician
1939 – Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portuguese economist and politician, 19th President of the Portuguese Republic
1940 – Denis Héroux, Canadian director and producer (d. 2015)
1940 – Ronald Gene Simmons, American sergeant and convicted murderer (d. 1990)
1940 – Robert Winston, English surgeon, academic, and politician
1942 – Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)
1943 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Northern Irish astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
1944 – Millie Jackson, American singer-songwriter
1945 – Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (d. 2019)
1945 – David Arthur Granger, Guyanese politician, 9th President of Guyana
1945 – Peter Lewis (musician), American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945 – Jürgen Möllemann, German soldier and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (d. 2003)
1946 – Linda Ronstadt, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1946 – Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
1947 – Peter Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (d. 2013)
1947 – Lydia Davis, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist
1947 – Pridiyathorn Devakula, Thai economist and politician, Thai Minister of Finance
1947 – Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2019)
1948 – Twinkle, English singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1948 – Dimosthenis Kourtovik, Greek anthropologist and critic
1948 – Artimus Pyle, American rock drummer and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1949 – Carl Bildt, Swedish politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Sweden
1949 – Trevor Horn, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
1949 – Richard Russo, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter
1950 – Colin Barnett, Australian economist and politician, 29th Premier of Western Australia
1950 – Arianna Huffington, Greek-American journalist and publisher (The Huffington Post)
1951 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
1951 – Jesse Ventura, American wrestler, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of Minnesota
1952 – David Pack, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1952 – Celia Imrie, English actress
1952 – Terry O’Quinn, American actor
1952 – Marky Ramone, American drummer and songwriter
1952 – Johnny Thunders, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1991)
1953 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitian priest and politician, 49th President of Haiti
1953 – Sultanah Haminah, Malaysian royal consort
1953 – Mohamad Shahrum Osman, Malaysian politician
1953 – Alicia Bridges, American singer-songwriter
1954 – John Ferguson, Australian rugby league player
1954 – Jeff Jarvis, American journalist and blogger
1954 – Giorgos Kaminis, American-Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Mayor of Athens
1954 – Mario Kempes, Argentinian footballer and manager
1956 – Ashoke Sen, Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist
1956 – Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Joy Division) (d. 1980)
1956 – Nicholas Harberd, British botanist, educator and academician
1956 – Barry Melrose, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
1956 – Steve Mortimer, Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator
1956 – Joe Satriani, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1956 – Wayne Taylor, South African race car driver
1958 – Gary Heale, English footballer and coach
1958 – Mac Thornberry, American lawyer and politician
1959 – Vincent Lindon, French actor, director, and screenwriter
1960 – Kim Alexis, American fashion model
1961 – Lolita Davidovich, Canadian actress
1961 – Jean-Christophe Grangé, French journalist and screenwriter
1961 – Scott Ritter, American soldier and international weapons inspector
1961 – Forest Whitaker, American actor
1962 – Nikos Filippou, Greek basketball player and manager
1962 – Michelle Ford, Australian swimmer
1963 – Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-Italian actress
1963 – Steve Thomas, English-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1965 – Alistair Carmichael, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
1965 – Gero Miesenböck, Austrian neuroscientist and educator
1965 – David Miliband, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
1966 – Jason Bonham, English singer-songwriter and drummer
1966 – Irène Jacob, French-Swiss actress
1967 – Adam Savage, American actor and special effects designer
1967 – Elbert West, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1968 – Eddie Griffin, American comedian, actor, and producer
1969 – Ain Tammus, Estonian footballer and coach
1970 – Tarkan Gözübüyük, Turkish bass player and producer
1972 – Scott Foley, American actor
1973 – Brian Austin Green, American actor
1975 – Cherry, American wrestler and manager
1975 – Danny Law, English cricketer
1975 – Ben Pepper, Australian basketball player
1976 – Steve Cunningham, American boxer
1976 – Marco Di Vaio, Italian footballer
1976 – Diane Kruger, German actress and model
1976 – Gabriel Iglesias, Mexican-American comedian and voice actor
1977 – André Nel, South African cricketer
1977 – Lana Parrilla, American actress
1977 – John St. Clair, American football player
1977 – Ray Toro, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978 – Miguel Olivo, Dominican baseball player
1979 – Laura Benanti, American actress and singer
1979 – Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer
1979 – Edda Garðarsdóttir, Icelandic footballer
1979 – Renata Kučerová, Czech tennis player
1980 – Reggie Abercrombie, American baseball player
1980 – BxB Hulk, Japanese professional wrestler
1980 – Jonathan Cheechoo, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Julia Perez, Indonesian singer and actress (d. 2017)
1981 – Alou Diarra, French footballer
1981 – Petros Klampanis, Greek bassist and composer
1981 – Marius Stankevičius, Lithuanian footballer
1982 – Alan Pérez, Spanish cyclist
1982 – Neemia Tialata, New Zealand rugby player
1982 – Aída Yéspica, Venezuelan model and actress
1983 – Nelson Merlo, Brazilian race car driver
1983 – Will Rudge, English cricketer
1983 – Heath Slater, American wrestler
1984 – Angelo Siniscalchi, Italian footballer
1984 – Veronika Velez-Zuzulová, Slovak skier
1985 – Sanjeev, Tamil actor
1985 – Tomer Kapon, Israeli actor
1986 – Tyler Kennedy, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Riki Christodoulou, English race car driver
1989 – Steven Jahn, German footballer
1989 – Alisa Kleybanova, Russian tennis player
1989 – Anthony Randolph, American basketball player
1990 – Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player
1990 – Damian Lillard, American basketball player
1991 – Danilo, Brazilian footballer
1991 – Derrick Favors, American basketball player
1991 – Evgeny Tishchenko, Russian boxer
1992 – Tobias Harris, American basketball player
1992 – Hokutōfuji Daiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
1992 – Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter
1993 – Håvard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer

Deaths on July 15

756 – Yang Guifei, consort of Xuan Zong (b. 719)
998 – Abū al-Wafā’ Būzjānī, Persian mathematician and astronomer (b. 940)
1015 – Vladimir the Great, Grand prince of Kievan Rus’ (b. c. 958)
1274 – Bonaventure, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1221)
1291 – Rudolf I of Germany (b. 1218)
1299 – King Eric II of Norway (b. c. 1268)
1381 – John Ball, English Lollard priest
1388 – Agnes of Durazzo, titular Latin empress consort of Constantinople (d. 1313)
1397 – Catherine of Henneberg, German ruler (b. c. 1334)
1406 – William, Duke of Austria
1410 – Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (b. 1360)
1445 – Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland
1542 – Lisa del Giocondo, subject of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Mona Lisa (b. 1479)
1544 – René of Châlon (b. 1519)
1571 – Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese daimyō (b. 1514)
1609 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter and illustrator (b. 1560)
1614 – Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French soldier, historian, and author (b. 1540)
1655 – Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Dutch-English general and politician, Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull (b. 1649)
1750 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1686)
1765 – Charles-André van Loo, French painter (b. 1705)
1767 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet and composer (b. 1746)
1789 – Jacques Duphly, French harpsichord player and composer (b. 1715)
1828 – Jean-Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
1839 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet and politician (b. 1802)
1844 – Claude Charles Fauriel, French philologist and historian (b. 1772)
1851 – Juan Felipe Ibarra, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1787)
1857 – Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1791)
1858 – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
1883 – General Tom Thumb, American circus performer (b. 1838)
1885 – Rosalía de Castro, Spanish author and poet (b. 1837)
1890 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1819)
1898 – Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop (d. 1825)
1904 – Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (b. 1860)
1919 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1929 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
1930 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1845)
1931 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and mathematician (b. 1868)
1932 – Bahíyyih Khánum, Iranian writer and leader in the Baha’i faith (b. 1846)
1932 – Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African poet and politician (b. 1873)
1933 – Irving Babbitt, American scholar, critic, and academic (b. 1865)
1933 – Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (b. 1890)
1940 – Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and physician (b. 1857)
1940 – Robert Wadlow, American giant, 8″11′ 271 cm (b.1918)
1942 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1910)
1944 – Marie-Victorin Kirouac, Canadian botanist and academic (b. 1885)
1946 – Razor Smith, English cricketer and coach (b. 1877)
1947 – Walter Donaldson, American soldier and songwriter (b. 1893)
1948 – John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860)
1953 – Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, Indian archbishop, founded the Order of the Imitation of Christ (b. 1882)
1957 – James M. Cox, American publisher and politician, 46th Governor of Ohio (b. 1870)
1957 – Vasily Maklakov, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1869)
1959 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss-American composer and academic (b. 1880)
1959 – Vance Palmer, Australian author and critic (b. 1885)
1960 – Set Persson, Swedish politician (b. 1897)
1960 – Lawrence Tibbett, American singer and actor (b. 1896)
1961 – John Edward Brownlee, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Alberta (b. 1884)
1961. – Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1965 – Francis Cherry, American lawyer and politician, 35th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1908)
1966 – Seyfi Arkan, Turkish architect (b. 1903)
1974 – Christine Chubbuck, American journalist (b. 1944)
1976 – Paul Gallico, American journalist and author (b. 1897)
1977 – Donald Mackay, Australian businessman and activist (b. 1933)
1979 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican academic and politician, 29th President of Mexico, 1964-1970 (b. 1911)
1981 – Frédéric Dorion, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1898)
1982 – Bill Justis, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1926)
1986 – Billy Haughton, American harness racer and trainer (b. 1923)
1988 – Eleanor Estes, American librarian, author, and illustrator (b. 1906)
1989 – Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
1990 – Zaim Topčić, Yugoslav and Bosnian writer (b. 1920)
1990 – Margaret Lockwood, English actress (b. 1916)
1990 – Omar Abu Risha, Syrian poet and diplomat, 4th Syrian Ambassador to the United States (b. 1910)
1991 – Bert Convy, American actor, singer, and game show host (b. 1933)
1992 – Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruan educator and politician, 1st President of Nauru (b. 1922)
1992 – Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist and author (b. 1960)
1997 – Justinas Lagunavičius, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1924)
1997 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, founded Versace (b. 1946)
1998 – S. Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1960)
2000 – Louis Quilico, Canadian opera singer and educator (b. 1925)
2001 – C. Balasingham, Sri Lankan lawyer and civil servant (b. 1917)
2003 – Roberto Bolaño, Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist (b. 1953)
2003 – Elisabeth Welch, American actress and singer (b. 1904)
2006 – Robert H. Brooks, American businessman, founder of Hooters and Naturally Fresh, Inc. (b. 1937)
2006 – Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist and academic (b. 1942)
2008 – György Kolonics, Hungarian canoe racer (b. 1972)
2010 – James E. Akins, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (b. 1926)
2011 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler, German landowner and politician (b. 1928)
2011 – Googie Withers, British-Australian actress (b. 1917)
2012 – Boris Cebotari, Moldovan footballer (b. 1975)
2012 – Tsilla Chelton, Israeli-French actress (b. 1919)
2012 – Grant Feasel, American football player (b. 1960)
2012 – David Fraser, English general (b. 1920)
2012 – Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
2012 – Yoichi Takabayashi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2013 – Ninos Aho, Syrian-American poet and activist (b. 1945)
2013 – Henry Braden, American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)
2013 – Tom Greenwell, American lawyer and judge (b. 1956)
2013 – Earl Gros, American football player (b. 1940)
2013 – Noël Lee, Chinese-American pianist and composer (b. 1924)
2013 – Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (b. 1986)
2013 – John T. Riedl, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1962)
2014 – Óscar Acosta, Honduran author, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933)
2014 – James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (b. 1918)
2014 – Saúl Lara, Spanish footballer (b. 1982)
2014 – Edward Perl, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1926)
2014 – Robert A. Roe, American soldier and politician (b. 1924)
2015 – Masahiko Aoki, Japanese-American economist and academic (b. 1938)
2015 – Wan Li, Chinese politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China (b. 1916)
2015 – Aubrey Morris, British actor (b. 1926)
2015 – Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (b. 1933)
2017 – Martin Landau, American film and television actor (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances on July 15

Christian feast day:
- Abhai (Syriac Orthodox Church)
- Anne-Marie Javouhey
- Bernhard II, Margrave of Baden-Baden
- Bonaventure
- Dispersion of the Apostles (No longer officially celebrated by the Catholic Church)
- Donald of Ogilvy
- Edith of Polesworth
- Edith of Wilton
- Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Plechelm
- Quriaqos and Julietta
- Swithun
- Vladimir the Great (Eastern Orthodox; Catholic Church)
- July 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera can fall, while July 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday of July. (Puerto Rico)
Earliest day on which Galla Bayramy can fall, while July 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Sunday of July. (Turkmenistan)
Earliest day on which Marine Day can fall, while July 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday of July. (Japan)
Earliest day on which President’s Day (Botswana) can fall, while July 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday of July.
Elderly Men Day (Kiribati)
Festival of Santa Rosalia (Palermo, Sicily)
Sultan’s Birthday (Brunei Darussalam)

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July 14 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

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July 14 in History

756 – An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong flees the capital Chang’an as An Lushan’s forces advance toward the city.
1223 – Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II.
1420 – Battle of Vítkov Hill, decisive victory of Czech Hussite forces commanded by Jan Žižka against Crusade army led by Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor.
1769 – An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá leaves its base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
1771 – Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
1789 – French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
1789 – Alexander Mackenzie finally completes his journey to the mouth of the great river he hoped would take him to the Pacific, but which turns out to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.
1790 – French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
1791 – The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
1798 – The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
1853 – Opening of the first major US world’s fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
1865 – The first ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
1874 – The Chicago Fire of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago’s city council.
1877 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began in Martinsburg, West Virginia when wages of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers were cut for the third time in a year. The strike was ended on Sept 4 by local and state militias and federal troops.
1881 – Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
1900 – Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion.
1902 – The Campanile in St Mark’s Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
1911 – Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright brothers, lands his airplane at the South Lawn of the White House. He is later awarded a Gold medal from U.S. President William Howard Taft for this feat.
1915 – World War I: The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence between Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca and the British official Henry McMahon concerning the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1916 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Delville Wood as an action within the Battle of the Somme, which was to last until 3 September 1916.
1928 – New Vietnam Revolutionary Party is founded in Huế, providing some of the communist party’s most important leaders in its early years.
1933 – Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
1933 – The Nazi eugenics begins with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring that calls for the compulsory sterilization of any citizen who suffers from alleged genetic disorders.
1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.
1940 – People’s Seimas held parliamentary elections, and the Union of Labor Lithuania (ULL) won, paving the way for Lithuania to become Lithuanian SSR; Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, consolidating into the Soviet Union on July 21, 1940.
1943 – In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
1948 – Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.
1950 – Korean War: North Korean troops initiate the Battle of Taejon.
1957 – Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
1958 – Iraqi Revolution: In Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abd al-Karim Qasim, who becomes the nation’s new leader.
1960 – Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
1965 – The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
1969 – Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer match against El Salvador, riots break out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers.
1969 – The Federal Reserve Banks begins removing large denominations of United States currency from circulation.
1976 – Capital punishment is abolished in Canada.
1992 – 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.
2002 – French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.
2003 – Hurricane Claudette gathers strength over the Gulf of Mexico and heads for the Texas coast, killing two people.
2013 – The dedication of statue of Rachel Carson, a sculpture named for the environmentalist, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
2015 – NASA’s New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
2016 – A terrorist vehicular attack in Nice, France kills 86 civilians and injures over 400 others.

Births on July 14

926 – Murakami, emperor of Japan (d. 967)
1410 – Arnold, Duke of Guelders, (d. 1473)
1448 – Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1508)
1454 – Poliziano, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1494)
1515 – Philip I, Duke of Pomerania (d. 1560)
1602 – Cardinal Mazarin, Italian-French cardinal and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of the French Monarch (d. 1661)
1608 – George Goring, Lord Goring, English general (d. 1657)
1610 – Ferdinando II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
1634 – Pasquier Quesnel, French priest and theologian (d. 1719)
1671 – Jacques d’Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)
1675 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French general (d. 1747)
1676 – Caspar Abel, German historian, poet, and theologian (d. 1763)
1696 – William Oldys, English historian and author (d. 17610
1721 – John Douglas, Scottish bishop and scholar (d. 1807)
1743 – Gavrila Derzhavin, Russian poet and politician (d. 1816)
1755 – Michel de Beaupuy, French general (d. 1796)
1785 – Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist, playwright, and diplomat (d. 1851)
1795 – Eleanor Anne Porden, British Romantic poet; wife of the explorer, John Franklin (d. 1825)
1801 – Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist and anatomist (d. 1858)
1816 – Arthur de Gobineau, French author and diplomat (d. 1882)
1829 – Edward Benson, English archbishop (d. 1896)
1859 – Willy Hess, German violinist and educator (d. 1928)
1861 – Kate M. Gordon, American activist (d. 1931)
1862 – Florence Bascom, American geologist and educator (d. 1945)
1862 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and illustrator (d. 1918)
1863 – Arthur Coningham, Australian cricketer (d. 1939)
1865 – Arthur Capper, American journalist and politician, 20th Governor of Kansas (d. 1951)
1866 – Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (d. 1925)
1868 – Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and spy (d. 1926)
1872 – Albert Marque, French sculptor and doll maker (d. 1939)
1874 – Abbas II of Egypt (d. 1944)
1874 – Crawford Vaughan, Australian politician, 27th Premier of South Australia (d. 1947)
1878 – Donald Meek, Scottish actor (d. 1946)
1885 – Sisavang Vong, Laotian king (d. 1959)
1888 – Scipio Slataper, Italian author and critic (d. 1915)
1889 – Marco de Gastyne, French painter and illustrator (d. 1982)
1889 – Ante Pavelić, Croatian fascist dictator during World War II (d. 1959)
1893 – Clarence J. Brown, American publisher and politician, 36th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (d. 1965)
1893 – Garimella Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author (d. 1952)
1894 – Dave Fleischer, American animator, director, and producer (d. 1979)
1896 – Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish soldier and anarchist (d. 1936)
1898 – Happy Chandler, American lawyer and politician, 49th Governor of Kentucky, second Commissioner of Baseball (d. 1991)
1901 – Gerald Finzi, English composer and academic (d. 1956)
1901 – George Tobias, American actor (d. 1980)
1903 – Irving Stone, American author and educator (d. 1989)
1906 – Tom Carvel, Greek-American businessman, founded Carvel (d. 1990)
1906 – William H. Tunner, American general (d. 1983)
1907 – Chico Landi, Brazilian race car driver (d. 1989)
1910 – William Hanna, American animator, director, producer, and actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2001)
1911 – Pavel Prudnikau, Belarusian poet and author (d. 2000)
1912 – Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1967)
1912 – Buddy Moreno, American musician (d. 2015)
1913 – Gerald Ford, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)
1914 – Fred Fox, French musician (d. 2019)
1918 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1918 – Arthur Laurents, American director, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 20110
1918 – Jay Wright Forrester, American computer engineer and systems scientist (d. 2016)
1920 – Shankarrao Chavan, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Finance (d. 2004)
1920 – Marijohn Wilkin, American country and gospel songwriter (d. 2006)
1921 – Sixto Durán Ballén, American-Ecuadorian architect and politician, 48th President of Ecuador (d. 2016)
1921 – Leon Garfield, English author (d. 1996)
1921 – Armand Gaudreault, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013)
1921 – Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1922 – Robin Olds, American general and pilot (d. 2007)
1922 – Elfriede Rinkel, German SS officer (d. 2018)
1922 – Käbi Laretei, Estonian-Swedish concert pianist (d. 2014)
1923 – René Favaloro, Argentine surgeon and cardiologist (d. 2000)
1923 – Dale Robertson, American actor (d. 2013)
1923 – Robert Zildjian, American businessman, founded Sabian (d. 2013)
1924 – Warren Giese, American football player, coach, and politician (d. 2013)
1925 – Bruce L. Douglas, American politician
1926 – Wallace Jones, American basketball player and coach (d. 2014)
1926 – Harry Dean Stanton, American actor, musician, and singer (d. 2017)
1926 – Himayat Ali Shair, Urdu poet (d. 2019)
1927 – John Chancellor, American journalist (d. 1996)
1927 – Mike Esposito, American author and illustrator (d. 2010)
1928 – Nancy Olson, American actress
1928 – William Rees-Mogg, English journalist and public servant (d. 2012)
1930 – Polly Bergen, American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1930 – Benoît Sinzogan, Beninese military officer and politician
1931 – Jacqueline de Ribes, French fashion designer and philanthropist
1931 – E. V. Thompson, English police officer and author (d. 2012)
1932 – Rosey Grier, American football player and actor
1932 – Del Reeves, American country singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
1933 – Robert Bourassa, Canadian lawyer and politician, 22nd Premier of Quebec (d. 1996)
1933 – Dumaagiin Sodnom, Mongolian politician; 13th Prime Minister of Mongolia
1933 – Franz, Duke of Bavaria, head of the House of Wittelsbach
1936 – Robert F. Overmyer, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1996)
1937 – Yoshirō Mori, Japanese journalist and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Japan
1938 – Jerry Rubin, American activist, author, and businessman (d. 1994)
1938 – Tommy Vig, Hungarian vibraphone player, drummer, and composer
1939 – Karel Gott, Czech singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2019)
1939 – George Edgar Slusser, American scholar and author (d. 2014)
1940 – Susan Howatch, English author and academic
1941 – Maulana Karenga, American philosopher, author, and activist, created Kwanzaa
1941 – Andreas Khol, German-Austrian lawyer and politician
1942 – Javier Solana, Spanish physicist and politician, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs
1945 – Jim Gordon, American drummer and songwriter
1946 – Sue Lawley, English journalist
1946 – John Wood, Australian actor and screenwriter
1947 – John Blackman, Australian radio and television presenter
1947 – Claudia J. Kennedy, American general
1947 – Salih Neftçi, Turkish economist and author (d. 2009)
1947 – Navin Ramgoolam, Mauritius physician and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Mauritius
1948 – Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, Zulu king
1948 – Tom Latham, American politician
1948 – Earl Williams, American baseball player (d. 2013)
1949 – Tommy Mottola, American businessman and music publisher
1950 – Bruce Oldfield, English fashion designer
1952 – Bob Casale, American guitarist, keyboard player, and producer (d. 2014)
1952 – Franklin Graham, American evangelist and missionary
1952 – George Lewis, American musician and composer
1952 – Joel Silver, American actor and producer, co-founded Dark Castle Entertainment
1953 – Martha Coakley, American lawyer and politician, 58th Attorney General of Massachusetts
1955 – L. Brent Bozell III, American journalist and activist, founded the Media Research Center
1958 – Mircea Geoană, Romanian politician and diplomat, 97th Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1959 – Aubrey McClendon, American businessman (d. 2016)
1960 – Anna Bligh, Australian politician, 37th Premier of Queensland
1960 – Kyle Gass, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
1960 – Angélique Kidjo, Beninese singer-songwriter, activist, and actor
1960 – Jane Lynch, American actress and game show host
1960 – Mike McPhee, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 – Jackie Earle Haley, American actor
1962 – Vanessa Lawrence, English geographer and civil servant
1963 – Jacques Lacombe, Canadian organist and conductor
1964 – Brett Ogle, Australian golfer
1964 – Igor Shpilband, Russian-American ice dancer and coach
1965 – Urmas Kruuse, Estonian lawyer and politician, 41st Mayor of Tartu
1965 – Collins Nweke, Belgian politician of Nigerian origin, 1st foreign born person elected to political office in West Flanders
1966 – Matthew Fox, American actor
1966 – Matt Hume, American mixed martial artist and trainer
1966 – Brian Selznick, American author and illustrator
1967 – Marios Constantinou, Cypriot footballer and manager
1967 – Jeff Jarrett, American wrestler and promoter, co-founder of Impact Wrestling
1967 – Patrick J. Kennedy, American politician
1967 – Hashan Tillakaratne, Sri Lankan cricketer
1967 – Robin Ventura, American baseball player and manager
1968 – Michael Palmer, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore
1969 – José Hernández, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach
1969 – Sven Sester, Estonian politician
1970 – Jacob Young, Norwegian guitarist
1971 – Howard Webb, English footballer and referee
1973 – Tani Fuga, Samoan rugby player
1973 – Paul Methric, American rapper and producer
1974 – Erick Dampier, American basketball player
1974 – David Mitchell, British comedian
1975 – Derlei, Brazilian footballer
1975 – Tim Hudson, American baseball player
1975 – Jamey Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 – Gordon Cree, Scottish singer-songwriter and pianist
1977 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
1978 – Mattias Ekström, Swedish race car driver
1979 – Bernie Castro, Dominican baseball player
1979 – Axel Teichmann, German skier
1980 – George Smith, Australian rugby player
1981 – Matti Hautamäki, Finnish ski jumper
1981 – Robbie Maddison, Australian motorcycle racer
1982 – Dmitry Chaplin, Russian-American dancer and choreographer
1982 – Achille Coser, Italian footballer
1983 – Igor Andreev, Russian tennis player
1983 – Thomas Howard, American football player (d. 2013)
1983 – Tito Muñoz, American conductor and academic
1984 – Renaldo Balkman, American basketball player
1984 – Erica Blasberg, American golfer (d. 2010)
1984 – Lenka Dlhopolcová, Slovak tennis player
1984 – Mounir El Hamdaoui, Moroccan footballer
1984 – Samir Handanović, Slovenian footballer
1984 – Nilmar, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Billy Celeski, Australian footballer
1985 – Darrelle Revis, American football player
1985 – Chris Wright, English cricketer
1986 – Alexander Gerndt, Swedish footballer
1986 – Nikolay Kulemin, Russian ice hockey player
1986 – Dan Smith, English singer-songwriter
1987 – Aqeel Ahmed, English director, producer, and screenwriter
1987 – Margus Hunt, Estonian-American football player, discus thrower, and shot putter
1987 – Adam Johnson, English footballer
1987 – Dan Reynolds, American singer-songwriter
1987 – Sean Smith, American football player
1987 – Ryan Sweeting, Bahamian-American tennis player
1988 – Conor McGregor, Irish mixed martial artist
1988 – Jérémy Stravius, French swimmer
1988 – James Vaughan, English footballer
1989 – Sakari Mattila, Finnish footballer
1989 – Rolando McClain, American football player
1989 – Cyril Rioli, Australian rules footballer
1991 – Shabazz Napier, American basketball player
1993 – Sayaka Yamamoto, Japanese singer
1995 – Megan Cunningham, Scottish footballer
1995 – Serge Gnabry, German footballer
1995 – Kim Hyo-joo, South Korean golfer
1995 – Federico Mattiello, Italian footballer
1997 – Cengiz Ünder, Turkish footballer

Deaths on July 14

664 – Eorcenberht, king of Kent
809 – Ōtomo no Otomaro, Japanese general and Shōgun (b. 731)
850 – Wei Fu, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
937 – Arnulf I, duke of Bavaria
1223 – Philip II, king of France (b. 1165)
1242 – Hōjō Yasutoki, regent of Japan (b. 1183)
1262 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (b. 1222)
1486 – Margaret of Denmark, daughter of Christian I of Denmark (b. 1456)
1526 – John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, English peer, landowner, and Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1499)
1575 – Richard Taverner, English translator (b. 1505)
1614 – Camillus de Lellis, Italian priest and saint (b. 1550)
1723 – Claude Fleury, French historian and author (b. 1640)
1742 – Richard Bentley, English scholar and theologian (b. 1662)
1766 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (b. 1674)
1774 – James O’Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley, Irish field marshal (b. 1682)
1780 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher and academic (b. 1713)
1789 – Jacques de Flesselles, French politician (b. 1721)
1789 – Bernard-René de Launay, French politician (b. 1740)
1790 – Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b. 1717)
1809 – Nicodemus the Hagiorite, Greek monk and saint (b. 1749)
1816 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan general (b. 1750)
1817 – Germaine de Staël, French philosopher and author (b. 1766)
1827 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer, reviver of a wave theory of light, inventor of catadioptric lighthouse lens (b. 1788)
1834 – Edmond-Charles Genêt, French-American diplomat (b. 1763)
1850 – August Neander, German historian and theologian (b. 1789)
1856 – Edward Vernon Utterson, English lawyer and historian (b. 1775)
1876 – John Buckley, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1813)
1881 – Billy the Kid, American criminal (b. 1859)
1904 – Paul Kruger, South African politician, 5th President of the South African Republic (b. 1824)
1907 – William Henry Perkin, English chemist and academic (b. 1838)
1910 – Marius Petipa, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1818)
1917 – Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b. 1887)
1918 – Quentin Roosevelt, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
1936 – Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Indian-American author and scholar (b. 1890)
1937 – Julius Meier, American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of Oregon (b. 1874)
1939 – Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1860)
1954 – Jacinto Benavente, Spanish author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1965 – Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier and politician, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1900)
1966 – Julie Manet, French painter and art collector (b. 1878)
1967 – Tudor Arghezi, Romanian author and poet (b. 1880)
1968 – Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian author and poet (b. 1892)
1970 – Preston Foster, American actor (b. 1900)
1973 – Ali Kılıç, Turkish captain and politician (b. 1890)
1974 – Carl Andrew Spaatz, American general (b. 1891)
1975 – Madan Mohan, Iraqi-Indian composer and conductor (b. 1924)
1979 – Walter Keppel, 9th Earl of Albemarle, English nobleman and soldier (b. 1882)
1984 – Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter (b. 1928)
1986 – Raymond Loewy, French-American industrial designer (b. 1893)
1989 – Frank Bell, English linguist and academic (b. 1916)
1991 – Constance Stokes, Australian painter (b. 1906)
1993 – Léo Ferré, Monacan singer-songwriter, pianist, and poet (b. 1916)
1994 – César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1940)
1996 – Jeff Krosnoff, American race car driver (b. 1964)
1998 – Richard McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald’s (b. 1909)
2000 – Pepo, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1911)
2000 – William Roscoe Estep, American historian and academic (b. 1920)
2000 – Meredith MacRae, American actress (b. 1944)
2001 – Guy de Lussigny, French painter (b. 1929)
2002 – Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican lawyer and politician, 41st President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
2002 – Fritz Glatz, Austrian race car driver (b. 1943)
2003 – François-Albert Angers, Canadian economist and academic (b. 1909)
2005 – Joe Harnell, American pianist and composer (b. 1924)
2005 – Cicely Saunders, English hospice founder (b. 1918)
2007 – John Ferguson Sr., Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1938)
2012 – John Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Scottish businessman and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (b. 1924)
2012 – Don Brinkley, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
2012 – Frank R. Burns, American football player and coach (b. 1928)
2012 – King Hill, American football player (b. 1936)
2012 – Sixten Jernberg, Swedish skier (b. 1929)
2012 – Roy Shaw, English businessman and boxer (b. 1936)
2013 – Herbert M. Allison, American lieutenant and businessman (b. 1943)
2013 – Matt Batts, American baseball player and coach (b. 1921)
2013 – Dennis Burkley, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1945)
2013 – Bill Warner, American motorcycle racer (b. 1969)
2013 – Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1946)
2014 – Alice Coachman, American high jumper (b. 1923)
2014 – Vange Leonel, Brazilian singer-songwriter and activist (b. 1963)
2014 – John Victor Parker, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (b. 1928)
2015 – Willer Bordon, Italian businessman, academic, and politician, Italian Minister of the Environment (b. 1949)
2015 – Wolf Gremm, German director and producer (b. 1942)
2015 – Masao Horiba, Japanese businessman, founded Horiba (b. 1924)
2016 – Helena Benitez, Filipino politician, educator and environmentalist (b. 1914)
2017 – Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (b. 1977)

Holidays and observances on July 14

Christian feast day:
- Boniface of Savoy
- Camillus de Lellis (Roman Catholic Church, except in the United States)
- Deusdedit of Canterbury
- Francis Solanus
- Gaspar de Bono
- Idus of Leinster
- Kateri Tekakwitha (United States)
- Samson Occom (Episcopal Church (United States))
- John Keble (Church of England)
- Libert of Saint-Trond
- Ulrich of Zell
- July 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Bastille Day (France and French dependencies)
Birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, an official flag day. (Sweden)
Republic Day (Iraq)
Hondurans’ Day (Honduras)
Black Country Day, (United Kingdom)

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July 11 – History, Events, Births, Deaths Holidays and Observances On This Day

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July 11 in History

472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter’s Basilica and put to death.
813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius).
911 – Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
1174 – Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.
1302 – Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch): A coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France’s royal army.
1346 – Charles IV, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, is elected King of the Romans.
1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
1476 – Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
1576 – Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
1735 – Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France’s Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
1796 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
1833 – Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
1848 – Waterloo railway station in London opens.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
1882 – The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War.
1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
1895 – Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists.
1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
1899 – Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
1906 – Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
1914 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is launched.
1919 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
1920 – In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.
1921 – A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
1921 – The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People’s Republic.
1921 – Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
1924 – Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday.
1934 – Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
1936 – The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
1940 – World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of the French State.
1941 – The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.
1943 – Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
1943 – World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily: German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
1947 – The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
1950 – Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
1957 – Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismai’li worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
1960 – France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina) and Niger.
1960 – Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.
1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
1962 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
1971 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
1973 – Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris, France on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking in airplane lavatories.
1977 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1978 – Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
1979 – America’s first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
1983 – A TAME airline Boeing 737-200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board.
1990 – Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
1991 – Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia killing all 261 passengers and crew on board.
1995 – Yugoslav Wars: Srebrenica massacre begins; lasts until 22 July.
2006 – Mumbai train bombings: Two hundred nine people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
2010 – The Islamist militia group Al-Shabaab carried out multiple suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people and injuring 85 others.
2011 – Ninety-eight containers of explosives self-detonate killing 13 people in Zygi, Cyprus.

Births on July 11

154 – Bardaisan, Syrian astrologer, scholar, and philosopher (d. 222)
1274 – Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (d. 1329)
1406 – William, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg (d. 1482)
1459 – Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, German nobleman (d. 1527)
1558 – Robert Greene, English author and playwright (d. 1592)
1561 – Luis de Góngora, Spanish cleric and poet (d. 1627)
1603 – Kenelm Digby, English astrologer, courtier, and diplomat (d. 1665)
1628 – Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese daimyō (d. 1701)
1653 – Sarah Good, American woman accused of witchcraft (d. 1692)
1657 – Frederick I of Prussia (d. 1713)
1662 – Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1726)
1709 – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1785)
1723 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (d. 1799)
1751 – Caroline Matilda, British princess, queen consort of Denmark (d. 1775)
1754 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (d. 1825)
1760 – Peggy Shippen, American wife of Benedict Arnold and American Revolutionary War spy (d. 1804)
1767 – John Quincy Adams, American lawyer and politician, 6th President of the United States (d. 1848)
1826 – Alexander Afanasyev, Russian ethnographer and author (d. 1871)
1832 – Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1896)
1834 – James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American-English painter and illustrator (d. 1903)
1836 – Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (d. 1896)
1846 – Léon Bloy, French author and poet (d. 1917)
1849 – N. E. Brown, English plant taxonomist and authority on succulents (d. 1934)
1850 – Annie Armstrong, American missionary (d. 1938)
1866 – Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1953)
1875 – H. M. Brock, British painter and illustrator (d. 1960)
1880 – Friedrich Lahrs, German architect and academic (d. 1964)
1881 – Isabel Martin Lewis, American astronomer and author (d. 1966)
1882 – James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (d. 1946)
1886 – Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1939)
1888 – Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and jurist (d. 1985)
1892 – Thomas Mitchell, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1962)
1894 – Erna Mohr, German zoologist (d. 1968)
1895 – Dorothy Wilde, English author and poet (d. 1941)
1897 – Bull Connor, American police officer (d. 1973)
1899 – Wilfrid Israel, German businessman and philanthropist (d. 1943)
1899 – E. B. White, American essayist and journalist (d. 1985)
1901 – Gwendolyn Lizarraga, Belizean businesswoman, activist, and politician (d. 1975)
1903 – Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel (d. 1971)
1903 – Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (d. 1976)
1904 – Niño Ricardo, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1972)
1905 – Betty Allan, Australian statistician and biometrician (d. 1952)
1906 – Harry von Zell, American actor and announcer (d. 1981)
1906 – Herbert Wehner, German politician, Minister of Intra-German Relations (d. 1990)
1909 – Irene Hervey, American actress (d. 1998)
1909 – Jacques Clemens, Dutch catholic priest (d. 2018)
1910 – Sally Blane, American actress (d. 1997)
1911 – Erna Flegel, German Third Reich nurse (d. 2006)
1912 – Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (d. 1996)
1912 – Peta Taylor, English cricketer (d. 1989)
1912 – William F. Walsh, American captain and politician, 48th Mayor of Syracuse (d. 2011)
1913 – Paul Gibb, English cricketer (d. 1977)
1913 – Cordwainer Smith, American sinologist, author, and academic (d. 1966)
1916 – Mortimer Caplin, American tax attorney, educator, and IRS Commissioner (d. 2019)
1916 – Hans Maier, Dutch water polo player (d. 2018)
1916 – Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
1916 – Reg Varney, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1916 – Gough Whitlam, Australian lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2014)
1918 – Venetia Burney, English educator, who named Pluto (d. 2009)
1920 – Yul Brynner, Russian actor and dancer (d. 1985)
1920 – Zecharia Sitchin, Russian-American author (d. 2010)
1922 – Gene Evans, American actor (d. 1998)
1922 – Fritz Riess, German-Swiss racing driver (d. 1991)
1923 – Richard Pipes, Polish-American historian and academic (d. 2018)
1923 – Tun Tun, Indian actress and comedian (d. 2003)
1924 – César Lattes, Brazilian physicist and academic (d. 2005)
1924 – Brett Somers, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1924 – Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer and manager (d. 1971)
1924 – Oscar Wyatt, American businessman
1925 – Charles Chaynes, French composer (d. 2016)
1925 – Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (d. 2017)
1925 – Peter Kyros, American lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
1925 – Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2004)
1926 – Frederick Buechner, American minister, theologian, and author
1927 – Theodore Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer (d. 2007)
1927 – Chris Leonard, English footballer
1928 – Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, Welsh-English lawyer and politician (d. 2015)
1928 – Bobo Olson, American boxer (d. 2002)
1928 – Andrea Veneracion, Filipina choirmaster (d. 2014)
1929 – Danny Flores, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (d. 2006)
1929 – David Kelly, Irish actor (d. 2012)
1930 – Jack Alabaster, New Zealand cricketer
1930 – Harold Bloom, American literary critic (d. 2019)
1930 – Trevor Storer, English businessman, founded Pukka Pies (d. 2013)
1931 – Dick Gray, American baseball player (d. 2013)
1931 – Thurston Harris, American doo-wop singer (d. 1990)
1931 – Tab Hunter, American actor and singer (d. 2018)
1931 – Tullio Regge, Italian physicist and academic (d. 2014)
1932 – Alex Hassilev, French-born American folk singer and musician
1932 – Jean-Guy Talbot, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1933 – Jim Carlen, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
1933 – Frank Kelso, American admiral and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2013)
1934 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer, founded the Armani Company
1935 – Frederick Hemke, American saxophonist and educator
1935 – Oliver Napier, Northern Irish lawyer and politician (d. 2011)
1937 – Pai Hsien-yung, Chinese-Taiwanese author
1941 – Bill Boggs, American journalist and producer
1941 – Henry Lowther, English trumpet player
1943 – Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (d. 2006)
1943 – Howard Gardner, American psychologist and academic
1943 – Tom Holland, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1943 – Peter Jensen, Australian metropolitan
1943 – Robert Malval, Haitian businessman and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Haiti
1943 – Rolf Stommelen, German racing driver (d. 1983)
1944 – Lou Hudson, American basketball player and coach (d. 2014)
1944 – Michael Levy, Baron Levy, English philanthropist
1944 – Patricia Polacco, American author and illustrator
1946 – Martin Wong, American painter (d. 1999)
1947 – Jeff Hanna, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer
1947 – Norman Lebrecht, English author and critic
1947 – Bo Lundgren, Swedish politician
1950 – Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani physicist and academic
1950 – J. R. Morgan, Welsh author and academic
1950 – Bonnie Pointer, American singer (d. 2020)
1951 – Ed Ott, American baseball player and coach
1952 – Bill Barber, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1952 – Stephen Lang, American actor and playwright
1953 – Piyasvasti Amranand, Thai businessman and politician, Thai Minister of Energy
1953 – Angélica Aragón, Mexican film, television, and stage actress and singer
1953 – Peter Brown, American singer-songwriter and producer
1953 – Suresh Prabhu, Indian accountant and politician, Indian Minister of Railways
1953 – Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Mexican actress, director, and producer
1953 – Leon Spinks, American boxer
1953 – Mindy Sterling, American actress
1953 – Ivan Toms, South African physician and activist (d. 2008)
1953 – Bramwell Tovey, English-Canadian conductor and composer
1953 – Paul Weiland, English director, producer, and screenwriter
1954 – Julia King, English engineer and academic
1955 – Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean neurosurgeon and politician, Singaporean Minister of Health (d. 2010)
1956 – Amitav Ghosh, Indian-American author and academic
1956 – Robin Renucci, French actor and director
1956 – Sela Ward, American actress
1957 – Johann Lamont, Scottish educator and politician
1957 – Peter Murphy, English singer-songwriter
1957 – Michael Rose, Jamaican singer-songwriter
1958 – Mark Lester, English actor
1958 – Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer, coach, and manager
1959 – Richie Sambora, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1959 – Suzanne Vega, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1960 – David Baerwald, American singer-songwriter, composer, and musician
1960 – Caroline Quentin, English actress
1961 – Antony Jenkins, English banker and businessman
1962 – Gaétan Duchesne, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1962 – Pauline McLynn, Irish actress and author
1962 – Fumiya Fujii, Japanese music artist
1963 – Al MacInnis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1963 – Dean Richards, English rugby player and coach
1963 – Lisa Rinna, American actress and talk show host
1965 – Tony Cottee, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster
1965 – Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kick-boxer and sportscaster
1965 – Scott Shriner, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1966 – Nadeem Aslam, Pakistani-English author
1966 – Kentaro Miura, Japanese author and illustrator
1966 – Rod Strickland, American basketball player and coach
1966 – Ricky Warwick, Northern Irish musician
1967 – Andy Ashby, American baseball player and sportscaster
1967 – Jhumpa Lahiri, Indian American novelist and short story writer
1968 – Michael Geist, Canadian journalist and academic
1968 – Daniel MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
1968 – Esera Tuaolo, American football player
1969 – Ned Boulting, British sports journalist and television presenter
1970 – Justin Chambers, American actor
1970 – Sajjad Karim, English lawyer and politician
1970 – Eric Owens, American opera singer
1971 – Leisha Hailey, Japanese-American singer-songwriter and actress
1972 – Cormac Battle, English-Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1973 – Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek runner
1974 – Alanas Chošnau, Lithuanian singer-songwriter
1974 – Hermann Hreiðarsson, Icelandic footballer and manager
1974 – André Ooijer, Dutch footballer and coach
1975 – Willie Anderson, American football player
1975 – Rubén Baraja, Spanish footballer and manager
1975 – Lil’ Kim, American rapper and producer
1976 – Eduardo Nájera, Mexican-American basketball player and coach
1977 – Brandon Short, American football player and sportscaster
1978 – Kathleen Edwards, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978 – Massimiliano Rosolino, Italian swimmer
1979 – Raio Piiroja, Estonian footballer
1980 – Tyson Kidd, Canadian wrestler
1980 – Kevin Powers, American soldier and author
1981 – Andre Johnson, American football player
1982 – Chris Cooley, American football player
1983 – Engin Baytar, German-Turkish footballer
1983 – Peter Cincotti, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1983 – Marie Serneholt, Swedish singer and dancer
1984 – Yorman Bazardo, Venezuelan baseball player
1984 – Tanith Belbin, Canadian-American ice dancer
1984 – Jacoby Jones, American football player
1984 – Joe Pavelski, American ice hockey player
1984 – Morné Steyn, South African rugby player
1985 – Robert Adamson, American actor, director, and producer
1985 – Orestis Karnezis, Greek footballer
1986 – Raúl García, Spanish footballer
1986 – Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer
1986 – Ryan Jarvis, English footballer
1987 – Shigeaki Kato, Japanese singer
1988 – Étienne Capoue, French footballer
1988 – Natalie La Rose, Dutch singer, songwriter and dancer
1989 – Tobias Sana, Swedish footballer
1989 – Travis Waddell, Australian rugby league player
1990 – Mona Barthel, German tennis player
1990 – Connor Paolo, American actor
1990 – Adam Jezierski, Polish-Spanish actor and singer
1990 – Patrick Peterson, American football player
1990 – Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player
1993 – Rebecca Bross, American gymnast
1993 – Heini Salonen, Finnish tennis player
1994 – Bartłomiej Kalinkowski, Polish footballer
1994 – Anthony Milford, Australian rugby league player
1994 – Nina Nesbitt, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1994 – Lucas Ocampos, Argentinian footballer
1995 – Joey Bosa, American football player
1995 – Tyler Medeiros, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer
1996 – Alessia Cara, Canadian singer-songwriter

Deaths on July 11

472 – Anthemius, Roman emperor (b. 420)
937 – Rudolph II of Burgundy (b. 880)
969 – Olga of Kiev (b. 890)
1174 – Amalric I of Jerusalem (b. 1136)
1183 – Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1117)
1302 – Robert II, Count of Artois (b. 1250)
1302 – Pierre Flotte, French politician and lawyer
1344 – Ulrich III, Count of Württemberg (b. c. 1286)
1362 – Anna von Schweidnitz, empress of Charles IV (b. 1339)
1382 – Nicole Oresme, French philosopher (b. 1325)
1451 – Barbara of Cilli, Slovenian noblewoman
1484 – Mino da Fiesole, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1429)
1535 – Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
1581 – Peder Skram, Danish admiral and politician (b. 1503)
1593 – Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (b. 1527)
1599 – Chōsokabe Motochika, Japanese daimyō (b.1539)
1688 – Narai, Thai king (b. 1629)
1774 – Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-English general (b. 1715)
1775 – Simon Boerum, American farmer and politician (b. 1724)
1797 – Ienăchiță Văcărescu, Romanian historian and philologist (b. 1740)
1806 – James Smith, Irish-American lawyer and politician (b. 1719)
1825 – Thomas P. Grosvenor, American soldier and politician (b. 1744)
1844 – Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian philosopher and poet (b. 1800)
1897 – Patrick Jennings, Irish-Australian politician, 11th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1831)
1905 – Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian jurist and scholar (b. 1849)
1908 – Friedrich Traun, German sprinter and tennis player (b. 1876)
1909 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
1929 – Billy Mosforth, English footballer and engraver (b. 1857)
1937 – George Gershwin, American pianist, songwriter, and composer (b. 1898)
1959 – Charlie Parker, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (b. 1882)
1966 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet and short story writer (b. 1913)
1967 – Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 28th Canadian Minister of Justice (b. 1917)
1971 – John W. Campbell, American journalist and author (b. 1910)
1971 – Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1940)
1974 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
1976 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet and educator (b. 1895)
1979 – Claude Wagner, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1925)
1983 – Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian author (b. 1915)
1987 – Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
1987 – Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, American rabbi and scholar (b. 1901)
1989 – Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
1991 – Mokhtar Dahari, Malaysian footballer and coach (b. 1953)
1994 – Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research (b. 1942)
1998 – Panagiotis Kondylis, Greek philosopher and author (b. 1943)
1999 – Helen Forrest, American singer (b. 1917)
1999 – Jan Sloot, Dutch computer scientist and electronics technician (b. 1945)
2000 – Pedro Mir, Dominican lawyer, author, and poet (b. 1913)
2000 – Robert Runcie, English archbishop (b. 1921)
2001 – Herman Brood, Dutch musician and painter (b. 1946)
2003 – Zahra Kazemi, Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer (b. 1948)
2004 – Laurance Rockefeller, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1910)
2004 – Renée Saint-Cyr, French actress and producer (b. 1904)
2005 – Gretchen Franklin, English actress and dancer (b. 1911)
2005 – Jesús Iglesias, Argentinian racing driver (b. 1922)
2005 – Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
2006 – Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)
2006 – Bronwyn Oliver, Australian sculptor (b. 1959)
2006 – John Spencer, English snooker player and sportscaster (b. 1935)
2007 – Glenda Adams, Australian author and academic (b. 1939)
2007 – Lady Bird Johnson, American beautification activist; 43rd First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
2007 – Alfonso López Michelsen, Colombian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Colombia (b. 1913)
2007 – Ed Mirvish, American-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded Honest Ed’s (b. 1914)
2008 – Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon and educator (b. 1908)
2009 – Reg Fleming, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1936)
2009 – Arturo Gatti, Italian-Canadian boxer (b. 1972)
2009 – Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer (b. 1911)
2010 – Walter Hawkins, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and pastor (b. 1949)
2011 – Rob Grill, American singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1943)
2012 – Art Ceccarelli, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)
2012 – Marion Cunningham, American author (b. 1922)
2012 – Richard Scudder, American journalist and publisher, co-founded MediaNews Group (b. 1913)
2012 – Donald J. Sobol, American soldier and author (b. 1924)
2012 – Marvin Traub, American businessman and author (b. 1925)
2013 – Emik Avakian, Iranian-American inventor (b. 1923)
2013 – Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician and academic (b. 1936)
2013 – Eugene P. Wilkinson, American admiral (b. 1918)
2014 – Charlie Haden, American bassist and composer (b. 1937)
2014 – Carin Mannheimer, Swedish author and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2014 – Bill McGill, American basketball player (b. 1939)
2014 – Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer and producer (b. 1949)
2014 – John Seigenthaler, American journalist and academic (b. 1927)
2014 – Randall Stout, American architect, designed the Taubman Museum of Art (b. 1958)
2015 – Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (b. 1928)
2015 – James U. Cross, American general (b. 1925)
2015 – Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (b. 1959)
2015 – Lawrence K. Karlton, American lawyer and judge (b. 1935)
2015 – André Leysen, Belgian businessman (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances on July 11

Christian Feast Day:
- Benedict of Nursia
- Olga of Kiev
- Pope Pius I
- July 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
China National Maritime Day (China)
Day of the Bandoneón (Argentina)
Day of the Flemish Community (Flemish Community of Belgium)
Eleventh Night (Northern Ireland)
Free Slurpee Day (Participating stores of the 7-Eleven chain in North America)
National Day of Remembrance of Victims of Genocide by Ukrainian Nationalists on Citizens of the Second Republic of Poland (Poland)
Gospel Day (Kiribati)
Imamat Day (Isma’ilism)
National Day of Commemoration, held on the nearest Sunday to this date (Ireland)
The first day of Naadam (July 11–15) (Mongolia)
World Population Day (International)

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491 – Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theoderic the Great in Ad Pinetam. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but in the end Theodoric forces Odoacer back into Ravenna.
551 – A major earthquake strikes Beirut, triggering a devastating tsunami that affected the coastal towns of Byzantine Phoenicia, causing thousands of deaths.
660 – Korean forces under general Kim Yu-sin of Silla defeat the army of Baekje in the Battle of Hwangsanbeol.
869 – The 8.4–9.0 M_w  Sanriku earthquake strikes the area around Sendai in northern Honshu, Japan. Inundation from the tsunami extended several kilometers inland.
969 – The Fatimid general Jawhar leads the Friday prayer in Fustat in the name of Caliph al-Mu’izz li-Din Allah, thereby symbolically completing the Fatimid conquest of Egypt.
1357 – Emperor Charles IV assists in laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.
1386 – The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its territory by soundly defeating the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.
1401 – Timur attacks the Jalairid Sultanate and destroys Baghdad.
1540 – King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
1572 – Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs in the Dutch town of Gorkum.
1609 – Bohemia is granted freedom of religion through the Letter of Majesty by the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II.
1701 – A Bourbon force under Nicolas Catinat withdraws from a smaller Habsburg force under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the Battle of Carpi.
1745 – French victory in the Battle of Melle allows them to capture Ghent in the days after.
1755 – The Braddock Expedition is soundly defeated by a smaller French and Native American force in its attempt to capture Fort Duquesne in what is now downtown Pittsburgh.
1762 – Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the coup against her husband, Peter III.
1776 – George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan, while thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepare for the Battle of Long Island.
1789 – In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
1790 – The Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian Baltic fleet.
1793 – The Act Against Slavery in Upper Canada bans the importation of slaves and will free those who are born into slavery after the passage of the Act at 25 years of age.
1807 – The Treaties of Tilsit are signed by Napoleon I of France and Alexander I of Russia.
1810 – Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
1811 – Explorer David Thompson posts a sign near what is now Sacajawea State Park in Washington state, claiming the Columbia District for the United Kingdom.
1815 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord becomes the first Prime Minister of France.
1816 – Argentina declares independence from Spain.
1821 – Four hundred and seventy prominent Cypriots including Archbishop Kyprianos are executed in response to Cypriot aid to the Greek War of Independence.
1850 – U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies after eating raw fruit and iced milk; he is succeeded in office by Vice President Millard Fillmore.
1850 – Persian prophet Báb is executed in Tabriz, Persia.
1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Port Hudson ends, giving the Union complete control of the Mississippi River.
1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
1875 – The Herzegovina Uprising against Ottoman rule begins, which would last until 1878 and have far-reaching implications throughout the Balkans.
1877 – The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
1893 – Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1900 – The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
1900 – The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
1918 – In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
1922 – Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the ‘minute barrier’.
1932 – The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution.
1937 – The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
1943 – World War II: The Allied invasion of Sicily soon causes the downfall of Mussolini and forces Hitler to break off the Battle of Kursk.
1944 – World War II: American forces take Saipan, bringing the Japanese archipelago within range of B-29 raids, and causing the downfall of the Tojo government.
1944 – World War II: Continuation War: Finland wins the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into a defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive.
1955 – The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.
1956 – The 7.7 M_w  Amorgos earthquake shakes the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The shaking and the destructive tsunami that followed left fifty-three people dead. A damaging M7.2 aftershock occurred minutes after the mainshock.
1958 – A 7.8 M_w  strike-slip earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525 m (1,722 ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay; five people were killed.
1962 – Starfish Prime tests the effects of a nuclear test at orbital altitudes.
1979 – A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by “Nazi hunters” Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
1982 – Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
1986 – The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
1993 – The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act leading to the 1999 creation of Nunavut, dividing the Northwest Territories into arctic (Inuit) and sub-arctic (Dene) lands based on a plebiscite.
1995 – The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
1999 – Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
2002 – The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, replacing the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The organization’s first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
2006 – One hundred and twenty-five people are killed when S7 Airlines Flight 778, an Airbus A310 passenger jet, veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.
2011 – South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.

Births on July 9

1249 – Emperor Kameyama of Japan (d. 1305)
1455 – Frederick IV of Baden, Dutch bishop (d. 1517)
1511 – Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1571)
1526 – Elizabeth of Austria, Polish noble (d. 1545)
1577 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English-American soldier and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1618)
1578 – Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1637)
1654 – Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732)
1686 – Philip Livingston, American merchant and politician (d. 1749)
1689 – Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist and playwright (d. 1773)
1721 – Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet and author (d. 1781)
1753 – William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, English admiral and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1825)
1764 – Ann Ward, English author and poet (d. 1823)
1775 – Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (d. 1818)
1800 – Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (d. 1885)
1808 – Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and colonel (d. 1887)
1819 – Elias Howe, American inventor, invented the sewing machine (d. 1867)
1825 – A. C. Gibbs, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Oregon (d. 1886)
1828 – Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (d. 1913)
1834 – Jan Neruda, Czech journalist and poet (d. 1891)
1836 – Camille of Renesse-Breidbach (d. 1904)
1848 – Robert I, Duke of Parma (d. 1907)
1853 – William Turner Dannat, American painter (d. 1929)
1856 – John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (d. 1932)
1858 – Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist and linguist (d. 1942)
1867 – Georges Lecomte, French author and playwright (d. 1958)
1879 – Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician and parasitologist (d. 1934)
1879 – Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1936)
1887 – James Ormsbee Chapin, American-Canadian painter and illustrator (d. 1975)
1887 – Saturnino Herrán, Mexican painter (d. 1918)
1887 – Samuel Eliot Morison, American admiral and historian (d. 1976)
1889 – Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (d. 1964)
1893 – George Geary, English cricketer and coach (d. 1981)
1901 – Barbara Cartland, prolific English author (d. 2000)
1902 – Peter Acland, English soldier (d. 1993)
1905 – Clarence Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 1984)
1907 – Eddie Dean, American singer-songwriter (d. 1999)
1908 – Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani philosopher and scholar (d. 1973)
1908 – Minor White, American photographer, critic, and educator (d. 1976)
1909 – Basil Wolverton, American author and illustrator (d. 1978)
1910 – Govan Mbeki, South African anti-apartheid and ANC leader and activist (d. 2001)
1911 – Mervyn Peake, English author and illustrator (d. 1968)
1911 – John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist and author (d. 2008)
1914 – Willi Stoph, German engineer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of East Germany (d. 1999)
1914 – Mac Wilson, Australian rules footballer (d. 2017)
1915 – David Diamond, American composer and educator (d. 2005)
1915 – Lee Embree, American sergeant and photographer (d. 2008)
1916 – Dean Goffin, New Zealand composer (d. 1984)
1916 – Edward Heath, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
1917 – Krystyna Dańko, Polish orphan, survivor of Holocaust (d. 2019)
1918 – Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Dutch mathematician and academic (d. 2012)
1918 – Jarl Wahlström, Finnish 12th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1999)
1921 – David C. Jones, American general (d. 2013)
1922 – Angelines Fernández, Spanish-Mexican actress (d. 1994)
1922 – Jim Pollard, American basketball player and coach (d. 1993)
1924 – Pierre Cochereau, French organist and composer (d. 1984)
1925 – Guru Dutt, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 1964)
1925 – Charles E. Wicks, American engineer, author, and academic (d. 2010)
1925 – Ronald I. Spiers, American ambassador
1926 – Murphy Anderson, American illustrator (d. 2015)
1926 – Ben Roy Mottelson, American-Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1926 – Pedro Dellacha, Argentine football defender and coach (d. 2010)
1926 – Mathilde Krim, Italian-American medical researcher and health educator (d. 2018)
1927 – Ed Ames, American singer and actor
1927 – Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and politician (d. 2019)
1928 – Federico Bahamontes, Spanish cyclist
1928 – Vince Edwards, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1996)
1929 – Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2007)
1929 – Jesse McReynolds, American singer and mandolin player
1929 – Chi Haotian, Chinese general
1929 – Hassan II of Morocco (d. 1999)
1930 – K. Balachander, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1930 – Buddy Bregman, American composer and conductor (d. 2017)
1930 – Janice Lourie, American computer scientist and graphic artist
1930 – Elsa Lystad, Norwegian actress
1930 – Roy McLean, South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 2007)
1931 – Haynes Johnson, American journalist and author (d. 2013)
1931 – Sylvia Bacon, American judge
1932 – Donald Rumsfeld, American captain and politician, 13th United States Secretary of Defense
1932 – Amitzur Shapira, Israeli sprinter and long jumper (d. 1972)
1933 – Oliver Sacks, English-American neurologist, author, and academic (d. 2015)
1934 – Michael Graves, American architect, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (d. 2015)
1935 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Finance (d. 2005)
1935 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentinian singer and activist (d. 2009)
1935 – Michael Williams, English actor (d. 2001)
1936 – June Jordan, American poet and educator (d. 2002)
1936 – David Zinman, American violinist and conductor
1937 – David Hockney, English painter and photographer
1938 – Brian Dennehy, American actor (d. 2020)
1938 – Sanjeev Kumar, Indian film actor (d. 1985)
1940 – David B. Frohnmayer, American lawyer and politician, 12th Oregon Attorney General (d. 2015)
1940 – Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, American psychoanalyst and theorist (d. 2010)
1941 – Mac MacLeod, English musician
1942 – David Chidgey, Baron Chidgey, English engineer and politician
1942 – Richard Roundtree, American actor
1943 – John Casper, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1944 – Judith M. Brown, Indian-English historian and academic
1944 – John Cunniff, American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2002)
1945 – Dean Koontz, American author and screenwriter
1945 – Root Boy Slim, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
1946 – Bon Scott, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
1947 – Haruomi Hosono, Japanese singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1947 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (d. 2008)
1947 – O. J. Simpson, American football player and actor
1947 – Patrick Wormald, English historian (d. 2004)
1948 – Hassan Wirajuda, Indonesian lawyer and politician, 15th Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1949 – Raoul Cédras, Haitian military officer and politician
1950 – Amal ibn Idris al-Alami, Moroccan physician and neurosurgeon
1950 – Adriano Panatta, Italian tennis player and sailor
1950 – Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian engineer and politician, 4th President of Ukraine
1951 – Chris Cooper, American actor
1951 – Māris Gailis, Latvian politician, businessman, and former Prime Minister of Latvia
1952 – John Tesh, American pianist, composer, and radio and television host
1953 – Margie Gillis, Canadian dancer and choreographer
1953 – Thomas Ligotti, American author
1954 – Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician (d. 2012)
1954 – Kevin O’Leary, Canadian journalist and businessman
1955 – Steve Coppell, English footballer and manager
1955 – Lindsey Graham, American colonel, lawyer, and politician
1955 – Jimmy Smits, American actor and producer
1955 – Willie Wilson, American baseball player and manager
1956 – Tom Hanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1956 – Michael Lederer, American author, poet, and playwright
1957 – Marc Almond, English singer-songwriter
1957 – Tim Kring, American screenwriter and producer
1957 – Kelly McGillis, American actress
1957 – Paul Merton, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1958 – Abdul Latiff Ahmad, Malaysian politician
1958 – Jacob Joseph, Malaysian football coach
1959 – Jim Kerr, Scottish singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1959 – Kevin Nash, American wrestler
1959 – Clive Stafford Smith, English lawyer and author
1960 – Yūko Asano, Japanese actress and singer
1960 – Wally Fullerton Smith, Australian rugby league player
1960 – Eduardo Montes-Bradley, Argentinian journalist, photographer, and author
1963 – Klaus Theiss, German footballer
1964 – Courtney Love, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1964 – Gianluca Vialli, Italian footballer and coach
1965 – Frank Bello, American bass player
1965 – Thomas Jahn, German director and screenwriter
1965 – Jason Rhoades, American sculptor (d. 2006)
1966 – Pamela Adlon, American actress and voice artist
1966 – Zheng Cao, Chinese-American soprano and actress (d. 2013)
1966 – Gary Glasberg, American television writer and producer (d. 2016)
1966 – Marco Pennette, American screenwriter and producer
1967 – Gunnar Axén, Swedish politician
1967 – Yordan Letchkov, Bulgarian footballer
1967 – Mark Stoops, American football player and coach
1968 – Paolo Di Canio, Italian footballer and manager
1968 – Lars Gyllenhaal, Swedish historian and author
1969 – Nicklas Barker, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969 – Jason Kearton, Australian footballer and coach
1970 – Trent Green, American football player and sportscaster
1970 – Masami Tsuda, Japanese author and illustrator
1971 – Marc Andreessen, American software developer, co-founded Netscape
1972 – Ara Babajian, American drummer and songwriter
1973 – Kelly Holcomb, American football player and sportscaster
1974 – Siân Berry, English environmentalist and politician
1974 – Ian Bradshaw, Barbadian cricketer
1974 – Gary Kelly, Irish footballer
1974 – Nikola Šarčević, Swedish singer-songwriter and bass player
1975 – Shelton Benjamin, American wrestler
1975 – Isaac Brock, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 – Robert Koenig, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1975 – Craig Quinnell, Welsh rugby player
1975 – Jack White, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1976 – Thomas Cichon, Polish-German footballer and manager
1976 – Fred Savage, American actor, director, and producer
1976 – Radike Samo, Fijian-Australian rugby player
1978 – Kara Goucher, American runner
1978 – Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer
1979 – Gary Chaw, Malaysian Chinese singer-songwriter
1981 – Lee Chun-soo, South Korean footballer
1981 – Junauda Petrus, American author and performance artist
1982 – Alecko Eskandarian, American soccer player and manager
1982 – Sakon Yamamoto, Japanese race car driver
1984 – Chris Campoli, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Gianni Fabiano, Italian footballer
1984 – Jacob Hoggard, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1984 – Ave Pajo, Estonian footballer
1984 – Piia Suomalainen, Finnish tennis player
1984 – LA Tenorio, Filipino basketball player
1985 – Paweł Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer
1985 – Ashley Young, English footballer
1986 – Sébastien Bassong, Cameroonian footballer
1986 – Simon Dumont, American skier
1986 – Kiely Williams, American singer-songwriter and dancer
1987 – Gert Jõeäär, Estonian cyclist
1987 – Rebecca Sugar, American animator, composer, and screenwriter
1988 – Raul Rusescu, Romanian footballer
1990 – Earl Bamber, New Zealand race car driver
1990 – Fábio, Brazilian footballer
1990 – Rafael, Brazilian footballer
1991 – Mitchel Musso, American actor and singer
1993 – Mitch Larkin, Australian swimmer
1993 – DeAndre Yedlin, American footballer
1999 – Claire Corlett, American voice actress

Deaths on July 9

230 – Empress Dowager Bian, Cao Cao’s wife (b. 159)
518 – Anastasius I Dicorus, Byzantine emperor (b. 430)
715 – Naga, Japanese prince
880 – Ariwara no Narihira, Japanese poet (b. 825)
981 – Ramiro Garcés, king of Viguera
1169 – Guido of Ravenna, Italian cartographer, entomologist and historian
1228 – Stephen Langton, English cardinal and theologian (b. 1150)
1270 – Stephen Báncsa, Hungarian cardinal (b. c. 1205)
1386 – Leopold III, Duke of Austria (b. 1351)
1441 – Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter
1546 – Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell, Scottish statesman (b. c. 1493)
1553 – Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)
1654 – Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (b. 1633)
1706 – Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville, Canadian captain and explorer (b. 1661)
1737 – Gian Gastone de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1671)
1742 – John Oldmixon, English historian, poet, and playwright (b. 1673)
1746 – Philip V of Spain (b. 1683)
1747 – Giovanni Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (b. 1670)
1766 – Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (b. 1720)
1795 – Henry Seymour Conway, English general and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (b. 1721)
1797 – Edmund Burke, Irish-English philosopher, academic, and politician (b. 1729)
1828 – Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress (b. 1789)
1850 – Báb, Persian religious leader, founded Bábism (b. 1819)
1850 – Zachary Taylor, American general and politician, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784)
1852 – Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1794)
1856 – Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1776)
1856 – James Strang, American religious leader and politician (b. 1813)
1880 – Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)
1882 – Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean captain (b. 1848)
1903 – Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist and photographer (b. 1842)
1927 – John Drew, Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
1932 – King Camp Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company (b. 1855)
1937 – Oliver Law, American commander (b. 1899)
1938 – Benjamin N. Cardozo, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1870)
1947 – Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish-Lithuanian general and politician (b. 1865)
1949 – Fritz Hart, English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1874)
1951 – Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1894)
1955 – Don Beauman, English race car driver (b. 1928)
1955 – Adolfo de la Huerta, Mexican politician and provisional president, 1920 (b. 1881)
1959 – Ferenc Talányi, Slovene journalist and painter (b. 1883)
1962 – Georges Bataille, French philosopher, novelist, and poet (b. 1897)
1961 – Whittaker Chambers, American spy and witness in Hiss case(b. 1901)
1967 – Eugen Fischer, German physician and academic (b. 1874)
1967 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani dentist and politician (b. 1893)
1970 – Sigrid Holmquist, Swedish actress (b. 1899)
1971 – Karl Ast, Estonian author and politician (b. 1886)
1972 – Robert Weede, American opera singer (b. 1903)
1974 – Earl Warren, American jurist and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1891)
1977 – Alice Paul, American activist (b. 1885)
1979 – Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and author (b. 1899)
1980 – Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet, playwright, and composer (b. 1913)
1984 – Edna Ernestine Kramer, American mathematician (b. 1902)
1985 – Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
1985 – Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish-American activist, founded Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
1986 – Patriarch Nicholas VI of Alexandria (b. 1915)
1992 – Kelvin Coe, Australian ballet dancer (b. 1946)
1992 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (b. 1912)
1993 – Metin Altıok, Turkish poet and educator (b. 1940)
1994 – Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
1996 – Melvin Belli, American lawyer (b. 1907)
1999 – Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician, 56th Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1944)
2000 – Doug Fisher, English actor (b. 1941)
2002 – Mayo Kaan, American bodybuilder (b. 1914)
2002 – Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
2004 – Paul Klebnikov, American journalist and historian (b. 1963)
2004 – Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917)
2005 – Chuck Cadman, Canadian engineer and politician (b. 1948)
2005 – Yevgeny Grishin, Russian speed skater (b. 1931)
2005 – Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
2006 – Milan Williams, American keyboard player and producer (b. 1948)
2007 – Charles Lane, American actor (b. 1905)
2008 – Séamus Brennan, Irish accountant and politician, Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (b. 1948)
2010 – Jessica Anderson, Australian author and playwright (b. 1916)
2011 – Don Ackerman, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2011 – Facundo Cabral, Argentinian singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
2012 – Shin Jae-chul, South Korean-American martial artist (b. 1936)
2012 – Chick King, American baseball player (b. 1930)
2012 – Terepai Maoate, Cook Islander physician and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1934)
2012 – Eugênio Sales, Brazilian cardinal (b. 1920)
2013 – Markus Büchel, Liechtensteiner politician, 9th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (b. 1959)
2013 – Andrew Nori, Solomon lawyer and politician (b. 1952)
2013 – Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan (b. 1954)
2013 – Barbara Robinson, American author and poet (b. 1927)
2013 – Toshi Seeger, American activist, co-founded the Clearwater Festival (b. 1922)
2014 – Lorenzo Álvarez Florentín, Paraguayan violinist and composer (b. 1926)
2014 – David Azrieli, Polish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1922)
2014 – Eileen Ford, American businesswoman, co-founded Ford Models (b. 1922)
2014 – John Spinks, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1953)
2015 – Christian Audigier, French fashion designer (b. 1958)
2015 – Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian economist and politician, Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1940)
2019 – William E. Dannemeyer, American politician (b. 1929)
2019 – Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (b. 1930)
2019 – Fernando de la Rúa, 43rd President of Argentina (b. 1937)
2019 – Rip Torn, American actor (b. 1931)
2019 – Freddie Jones, English actor (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances on July 9

Arbor Day (Cambodia)
Christian Feast Day:
- Agilulfus of Cologne
- Amandina of Schakkebroek (one of Martyrs of Southern Hunan)
- Blessed Marija Petković
- Everilda
- Gregorio Grassi (one of Martyrs of Shanxi)
- Martyr Saints of China
- Martyrs of Gorkum
- Our Lady of Itatí
- Our Lady of Peace, Octave of the Visitation
- Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá
- Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus
- Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (Anglican commemoration)
- Veronica Giuliani
- July 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Australia)
Constitution Day (Palau)
Constitutionalist Revolution Day (São Paulo)
Day of the Employees of the Diplomatic Service (Azerbaijan)
Earliest day on which Martyrdom of the Báb can fall, while July 10 is the latest; observed on the 17th of Raḥmat (Bahá’í Faith)
Independence Day, celebrates the declaration of independence of the United Provinces of South America by the Congress of Tucumán in 1816. (Argentina)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of South Sudan from Sudan in 2011.
Nunavut Day (Nunavut)

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July 8 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

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1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch.
1283 – Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet, defeats an Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta.
1497 – Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.
1579 – Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
1663 – Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal charter to Rhode Island.
1709 – Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava, thus effectively ending Sweden’s status as a major power in Europe.
1716 – The Battle of Dynekilen forces Sweden to abandon its invasion of Norway.
1730 – An estimated magnitude 8.7 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages more than 1,000 km (620 mi) of Chile’s coastline.
1758 – French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
1760 – British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
1775 – The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
1776 – Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
1808 – Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.
1822 – Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
1853 – The Perry Expedition arrives in Edo Bay with a treaty requesting trade.
1859 – King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
1864 – Ikedaya Incident: The Choshu Han shishi’s planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.
1874 – The Mounties begin their March West.
1876 – The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
1879 – Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
1892 – St. John’s, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
1898 – The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
1912 – Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
1932 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
1933 – The first rugby union test match between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa is played at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town.
1937 – Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
1948 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
1962 – Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement.
1966 – King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
1968 – The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
1972 – Israeli Mossad assassinate Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani.
1980 – The inaugural 1980 State of Origin game is won by Queensland who defeat New South Wales 20–10 at Lang Park.
1982 – A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein results in the Dujail Massacre over the next several months.
1988 – The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more.
1994 – Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
2003 – Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117 people on board.
2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
2014 – Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amid rising tensions following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers.

Births on July 8

1478 – Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian linguist, poet, and playwright (d. 1550)
1528 – Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)
1538 – Alberto Bolognetti, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1585)
1545 – Carlos, Prince of Asturias (d. 1568)
1593 – Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
1621 – Jean de La Fontaine, French author and poet (d. 1695)
1760 – Christian Kramp, French mathematician and academic (d. 1826)
1766 – Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842)
1779 – Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (d. 1851)
1819 – Francis Leopold McClintock, Irish admiral and explorer (d. 1907)
1830 – Frederick W. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915)
1831 – John Pemberton, American chemist and pharmacist, invented Coca-Cola (d. 1888)
1836 – Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1914)
1838 – Eli Lilly, American soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company (d. 1898)
1838 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company (d. 1917)
1839 – John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company (d. 1937)
1851 – Arthur Evans, English archaeologist and academic (d. 1941)
1851 – John Murray, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Victoria (d. 1916)
1857 – Alfred Binet, French psychologist and graphologist (d. 1911)
1867 – Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (d. 1945)
1876 – Alexandros Papanastasiou, Greek sociologist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1936)
1882 – Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (d. 1961)
1885 – Ernst Bloch, German philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1977)
1885 – Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss (d. 1948)
1890 – Stanton Macdonald-Wright, American painter (d. 1973)
1892 – Richard Aldington, English author and poet (d. 1962)
1892 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967)
1893 – R. Carlyle Buley, American historian and author (d. 1968)
1894 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1895 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
1898 – Melville Ruick, American actor (d. 1972)
1900 – George Antheil, American pianist, composer, and author (d. 1959)
1904 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician and academic (d. 2008)
1905 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator and director (d. 1997)
1906 – Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the IDS Center and PPG Place (d. 2005)
1907 – George W. Romney, American businessman and politician, 43rd Governor of Michigan (d. 1995)
1908 – Louis Jordan, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and actor (d. 1975)
1908 – Nelson Rockefeller, American businessman and politician, 41st Vice President of the United States (d. 1979)
1908 – V. K. R. Varadaraja Rao, Indian economist, politician, professor and educator (d. 1991)
1909 – Alan Brown, English soldier (d. 1971)
1909 – Ike Petersen, American football back (d. 1995)
1910 – Carlos Betances Ramírez, Puerto Rican general (d. 2001)
1911 – Ken Farnes, English cricketer (d. 1941)
1913 – Alejandra Soler, Spanish politician (d. 2017)
1914 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 2010)
1914 – Billy Eckstine, American singer and trumpet player (d. 1993)
1915 – Neil D. Van Sickle, American Air Force major general (d. 2019)
1915 – Lowell English, United States Marine Corps general (d. 2005)
1916 – Jean Rouverol, American author, actress and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1917 – Pamela Brown, English actress (d. 1975)
1917 – Faye Emerson, American actress (d. 1983)
1917 – J. F. Powers, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1999)
1918 – Paul B. Fay, American businessman, soldier, and diplomat, 12th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2009)
1918 – Irwin Hasen, American illustrator (d. 2015)
1918 – Oluf Reed-Olsen, Norwegian resistance member and pilot (d. 2002)
1918 – Julia Pirie, British spy working for MI5 (d. 2008)
1918 – Edward B. Giller, U.S Major General (d. 2017)
1918 – Craig Stevens, American actor (d. 2000)
1919 – Walter Scheel, German soldier and politician, 4th President of West Germany (d. 2016)
1920 – Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (d. 1995)
1921 – John Money, New Zealand psychologist and sexologist, responsible for controversial sexual identity study on David Reimer (d. 2006)
1923 – Harrison Dillard, American sprinter and hurdler (d. 2019)
1924 – Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and songwriter (d. 2005)
1924 – Charles C. Droz, American politician
1925 – Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
1925 – Arthur Imperatore Sr., Italian-American businessman from New Jersey
1925 – Bill Mackrides, American football quarterback (d. 2019)
1925 – Dominique Nohain, French actor, screenwriter and director (d. 2017)
1926 – David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher and author (d. 2014)
1926 – John Dingell, American lieutenant and politician (d. 2019)
1926 – Martin Riesen, Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender
1926 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and author (d. 2004)
1927 – Maurice Hayes, Irish educator and politician (d. 2017)
1927 – Khensur Lungri Namgyel, Tibetan religious leader
1927 – Bob Beckham, American country singer (d. 2013)
1928 – Balakh Sher Mazari, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
1930 – Jerry Vale, American singer (d. 2014)
1933 – Antonio Lamer, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 2007)
1934 – Raquel Correa, Chilean journalist (d. 2012)
1934 – Marty Feldman, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1982)
1934 – Edward D. DiPrete, American politician
1935 – John David Crow, American football player and coach (d. 2015)
1935 – Steve Lawrence, American actor and singer
1935 – Vitaly Sevastyanov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2010)
1938 – Diane Clare, English actress (d. 2013)
1939 – Ed Lumley, Canadian businessman and politician, 8th Canadian Minister of Communications
1940 – Joe B. Mauldin, American bass player and songwriter (d. 2015)
1941 – Dario Gradi, Italian-English footballer, coach, and manager
1942 – Phil Gramm, American economist and politician
1944 – Jaimoe, American drummer
1944 – Jeffrey Tambor, American actor and singer
1945 – Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss politician, 91st President of the Swiss Confederation
1947 – Kim Darby, American actress
1947 – Jenny Diski, English author and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1947 – Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian religious leader, founded the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae
1948 – Raffi, Egyptian-Canadian singer-songwriter
1948 – Ruby Sales, American civil-rights activist
1949 – Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-American chef, restaurateur and entrepreneur
1949 – Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (d. 2009)
1951 – Alan Ashby, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
1951 – Anjelica Huston, American actress and director
1952 – Larry Garner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 – Jack Lambert, American football player and sportscaster
1952 – Marianne Williamson, American author and activist
1956 – Terry Puhl, Canadian baseball player and coach
1957 – Carlos Cavazo, Mexican-American guitarist and songwriter
1957 – Aleksandr Gurnov, Russian journalist and author
1958 – Kevin Bacon, American actor and musician
1958 – Andreas Carlgren, Swedish educator and politician, 8th Swedish Minister for the Environment
1958 – Tzipi Livni, Israeli lawyer and politician, 18th Justice Minister of Israel
1959 – Pauline Quirke, English actress
1960 – Mal Meninga, Australian rugby league player and coach
1961 – Ces Drilon, Filipino journalist
1961 – Andrew Fletcher, English keyboard player
1961 – Toby Keith, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1961 – Karl Seglem, Norwegian saxophonist and record producer
1962 – Joan Osborne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 – Mark Christopher, American director and screenwriter
1964 – Alexei Gusarov, Russian ice hockey player and manager
1965 – Dan Levinson, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader
1966 – Ralf Altmeyer, German-Chinese virologist and academic
1966 – Shadlog Bernicke, Nauruan politician
1967 – Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
1968 – Billy Crudup, American actor
1968 – Shane Howarth, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1969 – Sugizo, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1970 – Beck, American singer-songwriter and producer
1970 – Sylvain Gaudreault, Canadian educator and politician
1970 – Todd Martin, American tennis player and coach
1971 – Neil Jenkins, Welsh rugby player and coach
1972 – Karl Dykhuis, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 – Sourav Ganguly, Indian cricketer
1972 – Shōsuke Tanihara, Japanese actor
1974 – Hu Liang, Chinese field hockey player
1976 – Talal El Karkouri, Moroccan footballer
1976 – David Kennedy, American guitarist and songwriter
1976 – Ellen MacArthur, English sailor
1977 – Christian Abbiati, Italian footballer
1977 – Paolo Tiralongo, Italian cyclist
1977 – Milo Ventimiglia, American actor, director, and producer
1977 – Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
1978 – Urmas Rooba, Estonian footballer
1979 – Mat McBriar, American football player
1979 – Ben Jelen, Scottish-American singer-songwriter
1980 – Eric Chouinard, American-Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
1981 – Wolfram Müller, German runner
1981 – Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
1982 – Sophia Bush, American actress and director
1982 – Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
1983 – John Bowker, American baseball player
1983 – Rich Peverley, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Jaime Garcia, Mexican baseball player
1986 – Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer
1988 – Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (d. 2012)
1988 – Jesse Sergent, New Zealand cyclist
1988 – Dave Taylor, Australian rugby league player
1989 – Yarden Gerbi, Israeli Judo champion
1989 – Tor Marius Gromstad, Norwegian footballer (d. 2012)
1991 – Virgil van Dijk, Dutch footballer
1992 – Ariel Camacho, Mexican singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1992 – Son Heung-min, Korean footballer
1992 – Xander Mobus, American voice actor
1997 – Bryce Love, American football player
1997 – Lauran Hibberd, English singer-songwriter
1998 – Jaden Smith, American actor and rapper

Deaths on July 8

689 – Kilian, Irish bishop
810 – Pepin of Italy, son of Charlemagne (b. 773)
873 – Gunther, archbishop of Cologne
900 – Qatr al-Nada, wife of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu’tadid
901 – Grimbald, French-English monk and saint (b. 827)
975 – Edgar the Peaceful, English king (b. 943)
1153 – Pope Eugene III (b. 1087)
1253 – Theobald I of Navarre (b. 1201)
1261 – Adolf IV of Holstein, Count of Schauenburg
1390 – Albert of Saxony, Bishop of Halberstadt and German philosopher (b. circa 1320)
1538 – Diego de Almagro, Spanish general and explorer (b. 1475)
1623 – Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
1689 – Edward Wooster, English-American settler (b. 1622)
1695 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1629)
1716 – Robert South, English preacher and theologian (b. 1634)
1721 – Elihu Yale, American-English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1649)
1784 – Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1735)
1794 – Richard Mique, French architect (b. 1728)
1820 – Octavia Taylor, daughter of Zachary Taylor (b. 1816)
1822 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and playwright (b. 1792)
1850 – Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
1859 – Oscar I of Sweden (b. 1799)
1873 – Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter and lithographer (b. 1805)
1887 – Ben Holladay, American businessman (b. 1819)
1895 – Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (b. 1821)
1905 – Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (b. 1834)
1913 – Louis Hémon, French-Canadian author (b. 1880)
1917 – Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
1930 – Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
1933 – Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (b. 1863)
1934 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer and academic (b. 1848)
1939 – Havelock Ellis, English psychologist and author (b. 1859)
1941 – Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, historian, and politician (b. 1874)
1942 – Louis Franchet d’Espèrey, Algerian-French general (b. 1856)
1942 – Refik Saydam, Turkish physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1881)
1943 – Jean Moulin, French soldier (b. 1899)
1950 – Othmar Spann, Austrian sociologist, economist, and philosopher (b. 1878)
1952 – August Alle, Estonian lawyer, author, and poet (b. 1890)
1956 – Giovanni Papini, Italian journalist, author, and critic (b. 1881)
1965 – Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American lawyer and author (b. 1881)
1968 – Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player (b. 1882)
1971 – Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (b. 1893)
1972 – Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian writer and politician (b. 1936)
1973 – Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
1973 – Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Education Minister of Israel (b. 1884)
1973 – Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer and coach (b. 1877)
1979 – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1979 – Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
1979 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
1981 – Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (b. 1902)
1985 – Phil Foster, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1913)
1985 – Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
1986 – Skeeter Webb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1909)
1987 – Lionel Chevrier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Canadian Minister of Justice (b. 1903)
1987 – Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and author (b. 1896)
1988 – Ray Barbuti, American runner and football player (b. 1905)
1990 – Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)
1991 – James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)
1994 – Christian-Jaque, French director and screenwriter (b. 1904)
1994 – Kim Il-sung, North Korean commander and politician, President of North Korea (b. 1912)
1994 – Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American businessman and explorer (b. 1927)
1994 – Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930)
1996 – Irene Prador, Austrian-born actress and writer (b. 1911)
1998 – Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist (b. 1905)
1999 – Pete Conrad, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
2001 – John O’Shea, New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2002 – Ward Kimball, American animator and trombonist (b. 1914)
2004 – Paula Danziger, American author and educator (b. 1944)
2005 – Maurice Baquet, French actor and cellist (b. 1911)
2006 – June Allyson, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
2007 – Chandra Shekhar, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (b. 1927)
2007 – Jack B. Sowards, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1929)
2008 – John Templeton, American-born British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1912)
2009 – Midnight, American singer-songwriter (b. 1962)
2011 – Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (b. 1924)
2011 – Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (b. 1918)
2012 – Muhammed bin Saud Al Saud, Saudi Arabian politician (b. 1934)
2012 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor (b. 1917)
2012 – Gyang Dalyop Datong, Nigerian physician and politician (b. 1959)
2012 – Martin Pakledinaz, American costume designer (b. 1953)
2013 – Dick Gray, American baseball player (b. 1931)
2013 – Edmund Morgan, American historian and author (b. 1916)
2013 – Claudiney Ramos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1980)
2013 – Rubby Sherr, American physicist and academic (b. 1913)
2013 – Sundri Uttamchandani, Indian author (b. 1924)
2013 – Brett Walker, American songwriter and producer (b. 1961)
2014 – Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, Brazilian lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
2014 – John V. Evans, American soldier and politician, 27th Governor of Idaho (b. 1925)
2014 – Ben Pangelinan, Guamanian businessman and politician (b. 1956)
2014 – Howard Siler, American bobsledder and coach (b. 1945)
2014 – Tom Veryzer, American baseball player (b. 1953)
2015 – Ken Stabler, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1945)
2015 – James Tate, American poet (b. 1943)
2016 – Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist (b. 1928)
2018 – Tab Hunter, American actor, pop singer, film producer and author (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances on July 8

Christian Feast Day:
- Abda and Sabas
- Auspicius of Trier
- Grimbald
- Kilian, Totnan, and Colman
- Peter and Fevronia Day (Russian Orthodox)
- Procopius of Scythopolis
- Sunniva and companions
- Theobald of Marly
- July 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Air Force and Air Defense Forces Day (Ukraine)

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July 7 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

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The terms 7th July, July 7th, and 7/7 (pronounced “Seven-seven“) have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London’s transport system. In the Chinese language, this term is used to denote the Battle of Lugou Bridge started on July 7, 1937, marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

July 7 in History

1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
1520 – Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
1534 – Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
1575 – The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.
1585 – The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
1770 – The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
1777 – American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
1798 – As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the “Quasi-War”.
1807 – The Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1834 – In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
1846 – US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California.
1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
1865 – Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
1892 – The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
1898 – US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
1911 – The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
1915 – The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
1915 – Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
1916 – The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor’s 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
1937 – The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1937 – The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
1941 – The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK’s occupation.
1944 – World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
1946 – Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
1946 – Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
1952 – The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
1953 – Ernesto “Che” Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
1954 – Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, “That’s All Right”.
1958 – US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
1963 – Buddhist crisis: The police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President Ngo Dinh Diem, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.
1978 – The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1980 – Institution of sharia law in Iran.
1980 – During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
1981 – US President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1983 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
1985 – Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.
1991 – Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1992 – The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
1997 – The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
2003 – NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London’s transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.
2007 – The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
2012 – At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
2013 – A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
2016 – Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.

Births on July 7

611 – Eudoxia Epiphania, daughter of Byzantine emperor Heraclius
1053 – Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
1119 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
1207 – Elizabeth of Hungary (d. 1231)
1482 – Andrzej Krzycki, Polish archbishop (d. 1537)
1528 – Archduchess Anna of Austria (d. 1590)
1540 – John Sigismund Zápolya, King of Hungary (d. 1571)
1586 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland (d. 1646)
1616 – John Leverett, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1679)
1752 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French merchant, invented the Jacquard loom (d. 1834)
1766 – Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (d. 1815)
1831 – Jane Elizabeth Conklin, American poet and religious writer (d. 1914)
1833 – Félicien Rops, Belgian painter and illustrator (d. 1898)
1843 – Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
1846 – Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian physician and author (d. 1916)
1848 – Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician, 5th President of Brazil (d. 1919)
1851 – Charles Albert Tindley, American minister and composer (d. 1933)
1855 – Ludwig Ganghofer, German author and playwright (d. 1920)
1859 – Rettamalai Srinivasan, Indian politician (d. 1911)
1860 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1911)
1861 – Nettie Stevens, American geneticist (d. 1912)
1869 – Rachel Caroline Eaton, American academic (d. 1938)
1869 – Fernande Sadler (d.1949), French painter and mayor
1874 – Erwin Bumke, German lawyer and jurist (d. 1945)
1880 – Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer, invented sliced bread (d. 1960)
1882 – Yanka Kupala, Belarusian poet and writer (d. 1941)
1884 – Toivo Kuula, Finnish conductor and composer (d. 1918)
1884 – Lion Feuchtwanger, German author and playwright (d. 1958)
1891 – Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese general and poet (d. 1945)
1891 – Virginia Rappe, American model and actress (d. 1921)
1893 – Herbert Feis, American historian and author (d. 1972)
1893 – Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1981)
1898 – Arnold Horween, American football player and coach (d. 1985)
1899 – George Cukor, American director and producer (d. 1983)
1900 – Maria Bard, German stage and silent film actress (d. 1944)
1900 – Earle E. Partridge, American general (d. 1990)
1901 – Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and director (d. 1974)
1901 – Sam Katzman, American director and producer (d. 1973)
1901 – Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese cinematographer and producer (d. 1970)
1902 – Ted Radcliffe, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
1904 – Simone Beck, French chef and author (d. 1991)
1905 – Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, French mathematician (d. 1972)
1906 – William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1970)
1906 – Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (d. 1985)
1906 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player and coach (d. 1982)
1907 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (d. 1988)
1908 – Revilo P. Oliver, American author and academic (d. 1994)
1909 – Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis player (d. 1976)
1910 – Doris McCarthy, Canadian painter and author (d. 2010)
1911 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-American composer (d. 2007)
1913 – Pinetop Perkins, American singer and pianist (d. 2011)
1915 – Margaret Walker, American novelist and poet (d. 1998)
1917 – Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadoran general and politician, President of El Salvador (d. 2003)
1917 – Iva Withers, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1918 – Bob Vanatta, American head basketball coach (d. 2016)
1918 – Jing Shuping, Chinese businessman (d. 2009)
1919 – Jon Pertwee, English actor (d. 1996)
1921 – Ezzard Charles, American boxer (d. 1975)
1921 – Adolf von Thadden, German lieutenant and politician (d. 1996)
1922 – Alan Armer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1922 – James D. Hughes, American Air Force lieutenant general
1923 – Liviu Ciulei, Romanian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
1923 – Whitney North Seymour Jr., American politician (d. 2019)
1923 – Eduardo Falú, Argentinian guitarist and composer (d. 2013)
1924 – Natalia Bekhtereva, Russian neuroscientist and psychologist (d. 2008)
1924 – Karim Olowu, Nigerian sprinter and long jumper (d. 2019)
1924 – Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
1924 – Eddie Romero, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1925 – Wally Phillips, American radio host (d. 2008)
1926 – Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician (d. 2019)
1926 – Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi, Urdu poet (d. 2020)
1927 – Alan J. Dixon, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 34th Illinois Secretary of State (d. 2014)
1927 – Charlie Louvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
1927 – Doc Severinsen, American trumpet player and conductor
1928 – Patricia Hitchcock, English actress
1928 – Kapelwa Sikota Zambian nurse and health official (d. 2006)
1929 – Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
1929 – Sergio Romano, Italian writer, journalist, and historian
1930 – Biljana Plavšić, 2nd President of Republika Srpska
1930 – Hamish MacInnes, Scottish mountaineer and author
1930 – Theodore Edgar McCarrick, American cardinal
1930 – Hank Mobley, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1986)
1931 – David Eddings, American author and academic (d. 2009)
1932 – T. J. Bass, American physician and author (d. 2011)
1932 – Joe Zawinul, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer (d. 2007)
1933 – David McCullough, American historian and author
1934 – Robert McNeill Alexander, British zoologist (d. 2016)
1935 – Gian Carlo Michelini, Italian-Taiwanese Roman Catholic priest
1936 – Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
1936 – Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver (d. 1971)
1936 – Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
1937 – Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong businessman and politician, 1st Chief Executive of Hong Kong
1938 – James Montgomery Boice, American pastor and theologian (d. 2000)
1939 – Elena Obraztsova, Russian soprano and actress (d. 2015)
1940 – Ringo Starr, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor
1941 – Marco Bollesan, Italian rugby player and coach
1941 – John Fru Ndi, Cameroonian politician
1941 – Michael Howard, Welsh lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for the Environment
1941 – Bill Oddie, English comedian, actor, and singer
1941 – Jim Rodford, English bass player (d. 2018)
1942 – Carmen Duncan, Australian actress (d. 2019)
1943 – Joel Siegel, American journalist and critic (d. 2007)
1944 – Feleti Sevele, Tongan politician; Prime Minister of Tonga
1944 – Tony Jacklin, English golfer and sportscaster
1944 – Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, English educator and politician, Minister of State for Europe
1944 – Emanuel Steward, American boxer and trainer (d. 2012)
1944 – Ian Wilmut, English-Scottish embryologist and academic
1945 – Michael Ancram, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
1945 – Adele Goldberg, American computer scientist and academic
1945 – Helô Pinheiro, inspiration for the song “The Girl from Ipanema”
1947 – Gyanendra, King of Nepal
1947 – Howard Rheingold, American author and critic
1949 – Shelley Duvall, American actress, writer, and producer
1954 – Simon Anderson, Australian surfer
1955 – Len Barker, American baseball player and coach
1957 – Jonathan Dayton, American director and producer
1957 – Berry Sakharof, Turkish-Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
1958 – Alexander Svinin, Russian figure skater and coach
1959 – Billy Campbell, American actor
1960 – Kevin A. Ford, American colonel and astronaut
1960 – Ralph Sampson, American basketball player and coach
1963 – Vonda Shepard, American singer-songwriter and actress
1964 – Dominik Henzel, Czech-Swedish actor and comedian
1965 – Mo Collins, American actress, comedian and screenwriter
1965 – Jeremy Kyle, English talk show host
1966 – Jim Gaffigan, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1967 – Tom Kristensen, Danish race car driver
1968 – Jorja Fox, American actress
1969 – Sylke Otto, German luger
1969 – Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Cree Summer, American-Canadian actress
1970 – Wayne McCullough, Northern Irish boxer
1970 – Min Patel, Indian-English cricketer
1970 – Erik Zabel, German cyclist and coach
1971 – Christian Camargo, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1972 – Lisa Leslie, American basketball player and actress
1972 – Manfred Stohl, Austrian race car driver
1972 – Kirsten Vangsness, American actress and writer
1973 – José Jiménez, Dominican baseball player
1973 – Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1974 – Patrick Lalime, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1975 – Tony Benshoof, American luger
1975 – Louis Koen, South African rugby player
1975 – Adam Nelson, American shot putter
1976 – Bérénice Bejo, Argentinian-French actress
1976 – Dominic Foley, Irish footballer
1976 – Vasily Petrenko, Russian conductor
1976 – Ercüment Olgundeniz, Turkish discus thrower and shot putter
1978 – Chris Andersen, American basketball player
1978 – Davor Kraljević, Croatian footballer
1979 – Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh, Saudi Arabian terrorist (d. 2015)
1979 – Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter
1979 – Douglas Hondo, Zimbabwean cricketer
1980 – John Buck, American baseball player
1980 – Serdar Kulbilge, Turkish footballer
1980 – Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
1981 – Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
1982 – Jan Laštůvka, Czech footballer
1982 – George Owu, Ghanaian footballer
1983 – Justin Davies, Australian footballer
1984 – Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler
1984 – Alberto Aquilani, Italian footballer
1984 – Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer
1985 – Marc Stein, German footballer
1986 – Ana Kasparian, American journalist and producer
1986 – Udo Schwarz, German rugby player
1986 – Sevyn Streeter, American singer-songwriter
1988 – Kaci Brown, American singer-songwriter
1988 – Lukas Rosenthal, German rugby player
1989 – Landon Cassill, American race car driver
1989 – Miina Kallas, Estonian footballer
1989 – Karl-August Tiirmaa, Estonian skier
1990 – Lee Addy, Ghanaian footballer
1990 – Pascal Stöger, Austrian footballer
1991 – Alesso, Swedish DJ, record producer and musician
1992 – Ellina Anissimova, Estonian hammer thrower
1992 – Dominik Furman, Polish footballer
1994 – Timothy Cathcart, Northern Irish race car driver (d. 2014)

Deaths on July 7

984 – Crescentius the Elder, Italian politician and aristocrat
1021 – Fujiwara no Akimitsu, Japanese bureaucrat (b. 944)
1162 – Haakon II Sigurdsson, king of Norway (b. 1147)
1285 – Tile Kolup, German impostor claiming to be Frederick II
1304 – Benedict XI, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1240)
1307 – Edward I, king of England (b. 1239)
1345 – Momchil, Bulgarian brigand and ruler
1531 – Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor (b. 1460)
1568 – William Turner, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1508)
1572 – Sigismund II Augustus, Polish king (b. 1520)
1573 – Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect, designed the Church of the Gesù and Villa Farnese (b. 1507)
1593 – Mohammed Bagayogo, Malian scholar and academic (b. 1523)
1600 – Thomas Lucy, English politician (b. 1532)
1607 – Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire, English noblewoman (b. 1563)
1647 – Thomas Hooker, English minister, founded the Colony of Connecticut (b. 1586)
1701 – William Stoughton, American judge and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1631)
1713 – Henry Compton, English bishop (b. 1632)
1718 – Alexei Petrovich, Russian tsar (b. 1690)
1730 – Olivier Levasseur, French pirate (b. 1690)
1758 – Marthanda Varma, Rani of Attingal (b. 1706)
1764 – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician, Secretary at War (b. 1683)
1776 – Jeremiah Markland, English scholar and academic (b. 1693)
1790 – François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher and author (b. 1721)
1816 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1751)
1863 – William Mulready, Irish genre painter (b. 1786)
1865 – George Atzerodt (b. 1833)
1865 – David Herold (b. 1842)
1865 – Lewis Payne (b. 1844)
1865 – Mary Surratt (b. 1823)
1890 – Henri Nestlé, German businessman, founded Nestlé (b. 1814)
1901 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)
1913 – Edward Burd Grubb Jr., American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Spain (b. 1841)
1922 – Cathal Brugha, Irish revolutionary and politician, active in the Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence; first Ceann Comhairle and first President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1874)
1925 – Clarence Hudson White, American photographer and educator (b. 1871)
1927 – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician and academic (b. 1846)
1930 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (b. 1859)
1932 – Alexander Grin, Russian author (b. 1880)
1932 – Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian and educator (b. 1844)
1939 – Deacon White, American baseball player and manager (b. 1847)
1950 – Fats Navarro, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1923)
1955 – Ali Naci Karacan, Turkish journalist and publisher (b. 1896)
1956 – Gottfried Benn, German author and poet (b. 1886)
1960 – Francis Browne, Irish priest and photographer (b. 1880)
1964 – Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower and shot putter (b. 1904)
1965 – Moshe Sharett, Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
1968 – Jo Schlesser, French race car driver (b. 1928)
1971 – Claude Gauvreau, Canadian poet and playwright (b. 1925)
1972 – Athenagoras I of Constantinople (b. 1886)
1973 – Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
1973 – Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1922)
1976 – Walter Giesler, American soccer player and referee (b. 1910)
1978 – Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1933)
1980 – Dore Schary, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
1982 – Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious writer (b. 1901)
1984 – George Oppen, American poet and author (b. 1908)
1987 – Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist (b. 1902)
1990 – Bill Cullen, American television panelist and game show host (b. 1920)
1990 – Cazuza, Brazilian singer and songwriter (b. 1958)
1993 – Rıfat Ilgaz, Turkish author, poet, and educator (b. 1911)
1994 – Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (b. 1924)
1994 – Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
1994 – Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German general (b. 1907)
1998 – Moshood Abiola, Nigerian businessman and politician (b. 1937)
1999 – Julie Campbell Tatham, American author (b. 1908)
1999 – Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra, Indian Army personnel (b. 1974)
2000 – Kenny Irwin Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
2001 – Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
2003 – Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian trumpet player and conductor (b. 1924)
2006 – Syd Barrett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
2006 – Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
2006 – John Money, New Zealand-American psychologist and author (b. 1921)
2008 – Bruce Conner, American sculptor, painter, and photographer (b. 1933)
2008 – Dorian Leigh, American model (b. 1917)
2011 – Allan W. Eckert, American historian and author (b. 1931)
2011 – Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1929)
2012 – Ronaldo Cunha Lima, Brazilian poet and politician (b. 1936)
2012 – Dennis Flemion, American drummer (b. 1955)
2012 – Doris Neal, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2012 – Jerry Norman, American sinologist and linguist (b. 1936)
2012 – Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (b. 1927)
2013 – Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer (b. 1962)
2013 – Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, theologian, and author (b. 1938)
2013 – Donald J. Irwin, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (b. 1926)
2013 – Ben Pucci, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1925)
2014 – Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1926)
2014 – Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia (b. 1928)
2014 – Peter Underwood, Australian lawyer and politician, 27th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1937)
2015 – Maria Barroso, Portuguese actress and politician (b. 1925)
2015 – Bob MacKinnon, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances on July 7

Christian feast day:
- Æthelburh of Faremoutiers
- Felix of Nantes
- Illidius
- The job of Manyava (Ukrainian Orthodox Church)
- Willibald (Catholic Church)
- July 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Solomon Islands from the United Kingdom in 1978.
Ivan Kupala Day (Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)
Saba Saba Day (Tanzania)
Tanabata (Japan)
World Chocolate Day

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