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September 29 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

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61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
1011 – Danes capture Canterbury after a siege, taking Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner.
1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
1267 – The Treaty of Montgomery recognises Llywelyn ap Gruffudd as Prince of Wales, but only as a vassal of King Henry III.
1364 – English forces defeat the French in Brittany, ending the War of the Breton Succession.
1578 – Tegucigalpa, capital city of Honduras, is claimed by the Spaniards.
1637 – 42-year-old Lorenzo Ruiz dies.
1717 – An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city’s architecture.
1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1789 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
1848 – The Battle of Pákozd is a stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces, and is the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution.
1850 – The papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae restores the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales.
1855 – The Philippine port of Iloilo is opened to world trade by the Spanish administration.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin’s Farm is fought.
1864 – The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and Portugal and abolishes the Couto Misto microstate.
1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1907 – The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1918 – World War I: Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica.
1918 – The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack.
1918 – Germany’s Supreme Army Command tells the Kaiser and the Chancellor to open negotiations for an armistice.
1923 – The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
1923 – The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon takes effect.
1923 – The First American Track & Field championships for women are held.
1932 – Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia.
1940 – Two Avro Ansons collide in mid-air over New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together, then land safely.
1941 – World War II: German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.
1949 – The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People’s Republic of China.
1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
1957 – The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.
1971 – Oman joins the Arab League.
1972 – China–Japan relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
1975 – WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US.
1979 – The dictator Francisco Macias of Equatorial Guinea is shot by soldiers from Western Sahara.
1988 – NASA launches STS-26, the first mission since the Challenger disaster.
1990 – Construction of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) is completed in Washington, D.C.
1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
1991 – A Haitian coup d’état occurs.
1992 – Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
2004 – Burt Rutan’s Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.
2006 – A Boeing 737 and an Embraer 600 collide in mid-air, killing 154 people and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
2007 – Calder Hall, the world’s first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
2009 – The 8.1 M_w  Samoa earthquake results in a tsunami that kills 189 and injures hundreds.
2011 – The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.
2013 – Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Nigeria.
2016 – Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts “surgical strikes” against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
2019 – Violence and low turnout mar the 2019 Afghan presidential election.
2019 – At least 59 people are reported dead due to monsoon rains in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India. 350 people have died this year due to rain in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

Births on September 29

106 BC – Pompey, Roman general and politician (d. 48 BC)
929 – Qian Chu, Chinese king (Ten Kingdoms) (d. 988)
1240 – Margaret of England, Queen consort of Scots (d. 1275)
1276 – Christopher II of Denmark (d. 1332)
1373 – Margaret of Bohemia, Burgravine of Nuremberg (d. 1410)
1402 – Fernando, the Saint Prince, of Portugal (d. 1443)
1403 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brzeg-Legnica and Cieszyn, German princess (d. 1449)
1460 – Louis II de la Trémoille, French military leader (d. 1525)
1463 – Louis I, Count of Löwenstein, founder of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim (d. 1523)
1511 – Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, cartographer, and theologian (d. 1553)
1527 – John Lesley, Scottish bishop (d. 1596)
1538 – Joan Terès i Borrull, Spanish archbishop and academic (d. 1603)
1547 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (d. 1616)
1548 – William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
1561 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish priest and mathematician (d. 1615)
1574 – Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, Scottish nobleman and politician (d. 1624)
1602 – Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, English military leader (d. 1668)
1636 – Thomas Tenison, English archbishop (d. 1715)
1639 – William Russell, Lord Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
1640 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor and educator (d. 1720)
1674 – Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, French flute player and composer (d. 1763)
1678 – Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1766)
1691 – Richard Challoner, English bishop (d. 1781)
1703 – François Boucher, French painter and set designer (d. 1770)
1718 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier and politician, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1783)
1725 – Robert Clive, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire (d. 1774)
1758 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (d. 1805)
1766 – Charlotte, Princess Royal of England (d. 1828)
1786 – Guadalupe Victoria, Mexican general, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
1803 – Mercator Cooper, American captain and explorer (d. 1872)
1803 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1850)
1808 – Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (d. 1868)
1810 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (d. 1865)
1816 – Paul Féval, père, French author and playwright (d. 1887)
1832 – Joachim Oppenheim, rabbi and author (d. 1891)
1832 – Miguel Miramón, Unconstitutional president of Mexico, 1859-1860 (d. 1867)
1843 – Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)
1844 – Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 10th President of Argentina (d. 1909)
1853 – Luther D. Bradley, American cartoonist (d. 1917)
1863 – Hugo Haase, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (d. 1919)
1864 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher and author (d. 1936)
1866 – Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Ukrainian historian, academic, and politician (d. 1934)
1876 – Charlie Llewellyn, South African cricketer (d. 1964)
1880 – Liberato Pinto, Portuguese colonel and politician, 79th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1949)
1881 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian-American economist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1973)
1882 – Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (d. 1937)
1885 – George Scott, English footballer (d. 1916)
1891 – Ian Fairweather, Scottish-Australian painter (d. 1974)
1895 – Clarence Ashley, American singer, guitarist, and banjo player (d. 1967)
1895 – Joseph Banks Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (d. 1980)
1895 – Roscoe Turner, American pilot (d. 1970)
1897 – Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980)
1898 – Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist (d. 1976)
1899 – László Bíró, Hungarian-Argentinian journalist and inventor, invented the ballpoint pen (d. 1985)
1899 – Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded Butlins (d. 1980)
1901 – Lanza del Vasto, Italian poet, philosopher, and activist (d. 1981)
1901 – Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
1903 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexican lawyer and civilian politician, 46th President of Mexico (1946-1952) (d. 1983)
1903 – Diana Vreeland, American journalist (d. 1989)
1904 – Greer Garson, English-American actress (d. 1996)
1907 – Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and businessman (d. 1998)
1907 – George W. Jenkins, American businessman, founded Publix (d. 1996)
1908 – Eddie Tolan, American sprinter and educator (d. 1967)
1910 – Bill Boyd, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
1910 – Virginia Bruce, American actress (d. 1982)
1911 – Charles Court, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Western Australia (d. 2007)
1912 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1913 – Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
1913 – Stanley Kramer, American director and producer (d. 2001)
1915 – Vincent DeDomenico, American businessman, founded the Napa Valley Wine Train (d. 2007)
1915 – Oscar Handlin, American historian and academic (d. 2011)
1915 – Brenda Marshall, American actress (d. 1992)
1916 – Carl Giles, English cartoonist (d. 1995)
1919 – Kira Zvorykina, Belarusian chess player (d. 2014)
1920 – Peter D. Mitchell, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
1920 – Václav Neumann, Czech violinist and conductor (d. 1995)
1921 – John Ritchie, New Zealand composer and educator (d. 2014)
1921 – Albie Roles, English footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1922 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress (d. 2015)
1923 – Stan Berenstain, American author and illustrator (d. 2005)
1923 – Bum Phillips, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1925 – Steve Forrest, American actor (d. 2013)
1925 – Paul MacCready, American engineer, founded AeroVironment (d. 2007)
1926 – Chuck Cooper, American basketball player (d. 1984)
1926 – Pete Elliott, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1927 – Adhemar da Silva, Brazilian triple jumper and actor (d. 2001)
1927 – Sherwood Johnston, American race car driver (d. 2000)
1927 – Pete McCloskey, American colonel and politician
1927 – Barbara Mertz, American historian and author (d. 2013)
1928 – Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, English lieutenant, engineer, and politician (d. 2016)
1928 – Brajesh Mishra, Indian politician and diplomat, 1st Indian National Security Advisor (d. 2012)
1928 – Nathan Shamuyarira, Zimbabwean journalist and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2014)
1930 – Richard Bonynge, Australian pianist and conductor
1930 – Colin Dexter, English author and educator (d. 2017)
1931 – James Cronin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
1931 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish-Italian model and actress (d. 2015)
1931 – Paul Oestreicher, German-English priest and theologian
1932 – Robert Benton, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1932 – Paul Giel, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2002)
1933 – Samora Machel, Mozambican commander and politician, 1st President of Mozambique (d. 1986)
1934 – Skandor Akbar, American wrestler and manager (d. 2010)
1934 – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hungarian-American psychologist and academic
1934 – Lance Gibbs, Guyanese cricketer and manager
1934 – Stuart M. Kaminsky, American author and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1934 – Lindsay Kline, Australian cricketer (d. 2015)
1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1936 – Silvio Berlusconi, Italian businessman and politician, 50th Prime Minister of Italy
1936 – James Fogle, American author (d. 2012)
1936 – Hal Trosky, Jr., American baseball player (d. 2012)
1938 – Dave Harper, English footballer (d. 2013)
1938 – Wim Kok, Dutch union leader and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2018)
1939 – Fikret Abdić, Bosnian economist and politician
1939 – Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
1939 – Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)
1939 – Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politician, 2nd First Minister of Wales (d. 2017)
1940 – Brute Force, American singer-songwriter
1940 – Carlos Morales Troncoso, Dominican politician, 34th Vice President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2014)
1941 – David Steele, English cricketer
1942 – Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist
1942 – Madeline Kahn, American actress and singer (d. 1999)
1942 – Ian McShane, English actor
1942 – Bill Nelson, American captain and politician
1942 – Jean-Luc Ponty, French violinist and composer
1942 – Janet Powell, Australian educator and politician (d. 2013)
1942 – Steve Tesich, Serbian-American screenwriter and playwright (d. 1996)
1943 – Wolfgang Overath, German footballer
1943 – Lech Wałęsa, Polish electrician and politician, 2nd President of Poland, Nobel Prize laureate
1944 – Mike Post, American composer and producer
1945 – Kyriakos Sfetsas, Greek composer and poet
1945 – Nadezhda Chizhova, Russian shot putter
1946 – Patricia Hodge, English actress
1947 – Ülo Kaevats, Estonian philosopher, academic, and politician (d. 2015)
1947 – S. H. Kapadia, Indian lawyer, judge, and politician, 38th Chief Justice of India (d. 2016)
1947 – Gary Wetzel, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
1948 – Mark Farner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948 – Bryant Gumbel, American journalist and sportscaster
1948 – Theo Jörgensmann, German clarinet player and composer
1948 – Mike Pinera, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1949 – George Dalaras, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
1950 – Ken Macha, American baseball player and manager
1951 – Michelle Bachelet, Chilean physician and politician, 34th President of Chile
1951 – Pier Luigi Bersani, Italian educator and politician, 6th President of Emilia-Romagna
1951 – Andrés Caicedo, Colombian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1977)
1951 – Maureen Caird, Australian-New Zealand hurdler
1951 – Mike Enriquez, Filipino journalist and radio commentator
1952 – Roy Campbell, Jr., American trumpet player (d. 2014)
1952 – Gábor Csupó, Hungarian-American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Klasky Csupo
1952 – Richard Hodges, English archaeologist and academic
1952 – Max Sandlin, American lawyer, judge, and politician
1952 – Takanosato Toshihide, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 59th Yokozuna (d. 2011)
1953 – Warren Cromartie, American baseball player, coach, and radio host
1953 – Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1953 – Lawrence Reed, American economist and author
1954 – Uwe Jahn, German footballer and manager
1954 – Mark Mitchell, Australian actor
1955 – Ann Bancroft, American explorer and author
1955 – Gareth Davies, Welsh rugby player and academic
1955 – Joe Donnelly, American politician and lawyer
1955 – Benoît Ferreux, French actor and director
1955 – Gwen Ifill, American journalist (d. 2016)
1956 – Sebastian Coe, English sprinter and politician
1956 – Jenny Morris, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1956 – Suzzy Roche, American singer-songwriter and actress
1957 – Chris Broad, English cricketer and referee
1957 – Sokratis Malamas, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957 – Mark Nicholas, English cricketer and sportscaster
1960 – Julian Armour, American-Canadian cellist and educator
1960 – Kenneth Hansen, Swedish race car driver
1960 – Alan McGee, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1960 – Hubert Neuper, Austrian ski jumper
1960 – John Paxson, American basketball player and coach
1960 – David Sammartino, American wrestler and trainer
1960 – Andy Slaughter, English politician
1960 – Carol Welsman, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist
1961 – Julia Gillard, Welsh-Australian lawyer and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
1961 – Stephanie Miller, American comedian and radio host
1962 – Roger Bart, American actor
1963 – Dave Andreychuk, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – Les Claypool, American bass player, singer, songwriter, and producer
1964 – Brad Lohaus, American basketball player
1966 – Hersey Hawkins, American basketball player and coach
1966 – Ben Miles, English actor
1967 – Brett Anderson, English singer-songwriter
1967 – Sara Sankey, English badminton player
1968 – Patrick Burns, American paranormal investigator
1968 – Luke Goss, English actor
1968 – Matt Goss, English singer-songwriter
1969 – Erika Eleniak, American model and actress
1969 – DeVante Swing, American singer-songwriter, and producer
1969 – Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer-songwriter and producer
1970 – Russell Peters, Canadian comedian, actor, and producer
1970 – Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese wrestler and trainer
1970 – Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress
1970 – Kushboo, South Indian actress and producer
1971 – Yitzhak Yedid, Israeli-Australian composer & pianist
1971 – Tanoka Beard, American basketball player
1971 – Mackenzie Crook, English actor and screenwriter
1971 – Theodore Shapiro, American composer
1972 – Oliver Gavin, English race car driver
1973 – Foivos Delivorias, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973 – Shannon Larratt, Canadian publisher, founded BMEzine (d. 2013)
1973 – Scout Niblett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – Brian Ash, American screenwriter and producer
1974 – Matt Hullum, American actor, director, and producer, co-founded Rooster Teeth
1974 – James Lance, British actor
1975 – Albert Celades, Spanish footballer and manager
1976 – Darren Byfield, English-Jamaican footballer
1976 – Kelvin Davis, English footballer
1976 – Óscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist
1976 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer and politician
1977 – Eric Barton, American football player
1977 – Wade Brookbank, Canadian ice hockey player and scout
1977 – Debelah Morgan, American singer-songwriter
1977 – Jake Westbrook, American baseball player
1978 – Mohini Bhardwaj, American gymnast and coach
1978 – Gunner McGrath, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978 – Karen Putzer, Italian skier
1978 – Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Orhan Ak, Turkish footballer
1979 – Takumi Beppu, Japanese cyclist and manager
1979 – Artika Sari Devi, Indonesian model and actress
1979 – Shelley Duncan, American baseball player and manager
1979 – Jaime Lozano, Mexican footballer
1980 – Patrick Agyemang, English footballer
1980 – Dallas Green, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1980 – Zachary Levi, American actor and singer
1981 – Aris Galanopoulos, Greek footballer
1981 – Shane Smeltz, German-New Zealand footballer
1982 – Matt Giteau, Australian rugby player
1982 – Amy Williams, English skeleton racer
1983 – Lisette Oropesa, American soprano and actress
1984 – Per Mertesacker, German footballer
1985 – Calvin Johnson, American football player
1985 – Niklas Moisander, Finnish footballer
1985 – Dani Pedrosa, Spanish motorcycle racer
1985 – Magnus Gangstad Jørgensen, Norwegian music producer
1986 – Lisa Foiles, American actress and journalist
1986 – Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Matt Lashoff, American ice hockey player
1986 – Isaac Makwala, Botswanan sprinter
1986 – Benoît Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 – David Del Rio, American actor and director
1988 – Kevin Durant, American basketball player
1988 – Justin Nozuka, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1989 – Theo Adams, English photographer and director
1989 – Adore Delano, American drag queen and singer
1989 – Yevhen Konoplyanka, Ukrainian footballer
1989 – Aaron Martin, English footballer
1989 – Andrea Poli, Italian footballer
1989 – Fatima Lodhi, Pakistani social activist
1990 – Doug Brochu, American voice actor
1990 – Gerphil Flores, Filipina classical crossover singer and Asia’s Got Talent finalist
1990 – Lena Wermelt, German footballer
1991 – Adem Ljajić, Serbian footballer
1991 – Martin Jensen, Danish musician
1993 – Lee Hong-bin, South Korean singer
1993 – Viktor Romanenkov, Estonian figure skater
1993 – Oleg Vernyayev, Ukrainian artistic gymnast
1998 – Vera Lapko, Belarusian tennis player
1999 – Choi Ye-na, South Korean singer and dancer

Deaths on September 29

722 – Leudwinus, Frankish archbishop and saint (b. 660)
855 – Lothair I, Roman emperor (b. 795)
1186 – William of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre (b. c. 1130)
1225 – Arnaud Amalric, Papal legate who allegedly promoted mass murder
1298 – Guido I da Montefeltro, Italian military strategist (b. 1223)
1304 – John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, English general (b. 1231)
1360 – Joanna I of Auvergne, queen consort of France (b. 1326)
1364 – Charles I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319)
1382 – ‘Izz al-Din ibn Rukn al-Din Mahmud, malik of Sistan
1501 – Andrew Stewart, Scottish bishop (b. 1442)
1560 – Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
1622 – Conrad Vorstius, German-Dutch Remonstrant theologian (b. 1569)
1634 – Henry Hyde, English politician and lawyer (b.c. 1563)
1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino martyr and saint (b. 1600)
1642 – René Goupil, French missionary and saint (b. 1608)
1642 – William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire (b. 1561)
1703 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French-English soldier, author, and critic (b. 1610)
1800 – Michael Denis, Austrian poet and author (b. 1729)
1804 – Michael Hillegas, American politician, 1st Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
1833 – Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)
1862 – William “Bull” Nelson, American general (b. 1824)
1887 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon and academic (b. 1810)
1889 – Louis Faidherbe, French general and politician (b. 1818)
1900 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician (b. 1814)
1902 – William McGonagall, Scottish poet and actor (b. 1825)
1902 – Émile Zola, French journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1840)
1908 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1839)
1910 – Winslow Homer, American painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1836)
1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the diesel engine (b. 1858)
1918 – Lawrence Weathers, decorated WWI Australian soldier (b. 1890).
1925 – Léon Bourgeois, French police officer and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1851)
1927 – Arthur Achleitner, German journalist and author (b. 1858)
1927 – Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
1928 – John Devoy, Irish-American Fenian rebel leader (b. 1842)
1930 – Ilya Repin, Ukrainian-Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1844)
1937 – Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková, Czech botanist and zoologist (b. 1877)
1937 – Ray Ewry, American triple jumper (b. 1873)
1937 – Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)
1951 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer player and coach (b. 1864)
1952 – John Cobb, English race car driver and pilot (b. 1899)
1967 – Carson McCullers, American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet (b. 1917)
1970 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
1973 – W. H. Auden, English-American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1907)
1975 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
1981 – Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1913)
1982 – Monty Stratton, American baseball player and coach (b. 1912)
1986 – Prince George Valdemar of Denmark (b. 1920)
1987 – Henry Ford II, American businessman (b. 1917)
1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
1989 – Gussie Busch, American businessman (b. 1899)
1989 – Georges Ulmer, Danish-French singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1919)
1993 – Gordon Douglas, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1907)
1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
1998 – Tom Bradley, American lieutenant and politician, 38th Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
1999 – Jean-Louis Millette, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
2000 – John Grant, English journalist and politician (b. 1932)
2001 – Mabel Fairbanks, American figure skater and coach (b. 1915)
2001 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Vietnamese general and politician, 5th President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
2004 – Richard Sainct, French motorcycle racer (b. 1970)
2004 – Patrick Wormald, English historian (b. 1947)
2005 – Patrick Caulfield, English painter and academic (b. 1936)
2005 – Austin Leslie, American chef and author (b. 1934)
2006 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer and manager (b. 1915)
2006 – Michael A. Monsoor, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1981)
2006 – Louis-Albert Vachon, Canadian cardinal (b. 1912)
2007 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
2007 – Yıldırım Aktuna, Turkish psychiatrist and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1930)
2008 – Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic (b. 1921)
2009 – Pavel Popovich, Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
2010 – Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925)
2010 – Greg Giraldo, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1965)
2011 – Sylvia Robinson, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1936)
2012 – Hathloul bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1942)
2012 – Neil Smith, Scottish geographer and academic (b. 1954)
2012 – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1926)
2012 – Malcolm Wicks, English academic and politician (b. 1947)
2013 – Harold Agnew, American physicist and engineer (b. 1921)
2013 – Anton Benning, German lieutenant (b. 1918)
2013 – Pete T. Cenarrusa, American soldier, pilot, and politician, Secretary of State of Idaho (b. 1917)
2013 – Carl Joachim Classen, German scholar and academic (b. 1928)
2013 – L. C. Greenwood, American football player (b. 1946)
2013 – Bob Kurland, American basketball player and politician (b. 1924)
2014 – Miguel Boyer, Spanish economist and politician (b. 1939)
2014 – Andreas Fransson, Swedish skier (b. 1983)
2014 – Stan Monteith, American surgeon and author (b. 1929)
2014 – Luis Nishizawa, Mexican painter and educator (b. 1918)
2014 – John Ritchie, New Zealand composer and educator (b. 1921)
2014 – George Shuba, American baseball player (b. 1924)
2015 – Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1932)
2015 – Hellmuth Karasek, Czech-German journalist, author, and critic (b. 1934)
2015 – William Kerslake, American wrestler and engineer (b. 1929)
2015 – Jean Ter-Merguerian, French-Armenian violinist (b. 1935)
2015 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1931)
2016 – Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipina politician (b. 1945)
2017 – Tom Alter, Indian actor (b. 1950)
2018 – Otis Rush, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances on September 29

Christian feast day:
- Rhipsime
- September 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- the Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. One of the four quarter days in the Irish calendar. (England and Ireland). Called Michaelmas in some western liturgical traditions
Day of Machine-Building Industry Workers (Russia)
Inventors’ Day (Argentina)
Victory of Boquerón Day (Paraguay)
World Heart Day

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It is the last day of the third quarter, the midway point of the second half of the year.

489 – The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time.
737 – The Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus, and capture their baggage train.
1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed king of England.
1520 – Suleiman the Magnificent is proclaimed sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
1551 – A coup by the military establishment of Japan’s Ōuchi clan forces their lord to commit suicide, and their city is burned.
1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell’Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia anyway.
1791 – The first performance of Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
1791 – France’s National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly
1882 – Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1906 – The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language’s biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
1907 – The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
1909 – The Cunard Line’s RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
1915 – World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
1922 – The University of Alabama opens the American football season with a 110–0 victory over the Marion Military Institute, which still stands as Alabama’s record for largest margin of victory and as their only 100 point game.
1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1931 – Start of “Die Voortrekkers” youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 – Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws “intentional bombings of civilian populations”.
1939 – World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.
1941 – World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.
1943 – The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by President Roosevelt.
1945 – The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
1947 – The 1947 World Series is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
1947 – Pakistan joins the United Nations.
1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.
1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world’s first nuclear-powered vessel.
1962 – Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association.
1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
1965 – The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
1965 – In Indonesia, a coup by the 30 September Movement is crushed, leading to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
1966 – Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
1967 – The BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched.
1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
1970 – Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson’s Field hijackings.
1972 – Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
1975 – The AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. Eight years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line.
1977 – Because of NASA budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1990 – The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa.
1993 – The 6.2 M_w  Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.
1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.
1994 – Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from central London, closes.
1999 – The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan’s second-worst nuclear accident.
2000 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
2004 – The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat itself is retired.
2005 – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper.
2009 – The 7.6 M_w  Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.
2016 – Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.
2016 – Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.

Births on September 30

1207 – Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
1227 – Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
1530 – Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)
1550 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1631)
1622 – Johann Sebastiani, German composer (d. 1683)
1689 – Jacques Aubert, French violinist and composer (d. 1753)
1700 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish monk, poet, and playwright (d. 1773)
1710 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1771)
1714 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French epistemologist and philosopher (d. 1780)
1732 – Jacques Necker, Swiss-French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1804)
1743 – Christian Ehregott Weinlig, German cantor and composer (d. 1813)
1765 – José María Morelos, Mexican priest and general (d. 1815)
1800 – Decimus Burton, English architect, designed the Pharos Lighthouse (d. 1881)
1813 – John Rae, Scottish physician and explorer (d. 1893)
1814 – Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, American feminist, educator, and philanthropist (d. 1900)
1827 – Ellis H. Roberts, American journalist and politician, 20th Treasurer of the United States (d. 1918)
1832 – Ann Jarvis, American activist, co-founded Mother’s Day (d. 1905)
1836 – Remigio Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian politician, 56th President of Peru (d. 1894)
1852 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1924)
1861 – William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded Wrigley Company (d. 1932)
1863 – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (d. 1928)
1870 – Thomas W. Lamont, American banker and philanthropist (d. 1948)
1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
1882 – Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic (d. 1945)
1883 – Bernhard Rust, German educator and politician (d. 1945)
1883 – Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist (d. 1971)
1887 – Lil Dagover, Indonesian-German actress (d. 1980)
1893 – Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (d. 1964)
1895 – Lewis Milestone, Moldovan-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1980)
1897 – Gaspar Cassadó, Spanish cellist and composer (d. 1966)
1897 – Alfred Wintle, Russian-English soldier and politician (d. 1966)
1897 – Charlotte Wolff, German-English physician and psychotherapist (d. 1986)
1898 – Renée Adorée, French-American actress (d. 1933)
1898 – Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois (d. 1977)
1898 – Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, German-American author and illustrator (d. 1986)
1901 – Thelma Terry, American bassist and bandleader (d. 1966)
1904 – Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (d. 1971)
1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1905 – Michael Powell, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1906 – Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1996)
1908 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (d. 1974)
1910 – Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish captain (d. 1962)
1911 – Gustave Gilbert, American psychologist (d. 1977)
1912 – Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985)
1913 – Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1975)
1915 – Lester Maddox, American businessman and politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)
1917 – Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (d. 2014)
1917 – Buddy Rich, American drummer, bandleader, and actor (d. 1987)
1918 – Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army captain (d. 1995)
1918 – René Rémond, French historian and economist (d. 2007)
1919 – Roberto Bonomi, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1992)
1919 – Elizabeth Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (d. 2008)
1919 – William L. Guy, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of North Dakota (d. 2013)
1919 – Patricia Neway, American soprano and actress (d. 2012)
1921 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish-English actress (d. 2007)
1921 – Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American cellist and educator (d. 2018)
1922 – Lamont Johnson, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2010)
1922 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1923 – Donald Swann, Welsh-English pianist and composer (d. 1994)
1924 – Truman Capote, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1925 – Arkady Ostashev, Russian engineer and educator (d. 1998)
1926 – Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
1926 – Robin Roberts, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2010)
1927 – W. S. Merwin, American poet and translator (d. 2019)
1928 – Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
1928 – Ray Willsey, Canadian-American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1929 – Carol Fenner, American author and illustrator (d. 2002)
1929 – Vassilis Papazachos, Greek seismologist and academic
1929 – Leticia Ramos-Shahani, Filipino politician, diplomat and writer (d. 2017)
1929 – Dorothee Sölle, German theologian and author (d. 2003)
1931 – Angie Dickinson, American actress
1931 – Teresa Gorman, English educator and politician (d. 2015)
1932 – Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author, playwright, and politician, Governor of Tokyo
1932 – Johnny Podres, American baseball player and coach (d. 2008)
1933 – Michel Aoun, Lebanese general and politician, President of Lebanon
1933 – Cissy Houston, American singer
1934 – Alan A’Court, English footballer and manager (d. 2009)
1934 – Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2014)
1934 – Anna Kashfi, Indian-American actress (d. 2015)
1935 – Johnny Mathis, American singer and actor
1936 – Jim Sasser, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to China
1936 – Sevgi Soysal, Turkish author (d. 1976)
1937 – Jurek Becker, Polish-German author (d. 1997)
1937 – Valentyn Sylvestrov, Ukrainian pianist and composer
1937 – Gary Hocking, Rhodesian motorcycle racer (d. 1962)
1938 – Alan Hacker, English clarinet player and educator (d. 2012)
1939 – Len Cariou, Canadian actor
1939 – Anthony Green, English painter and academic
1939 – Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 – Claudia Card, American philosopher and academic (d. 2015)
1940 – Harry Jerome, Canadian sprinter (d. 1982)
1940 – Dewey Martin, Canadian-American drummer (d. 2009)
1941 – Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., American author and educator
1941 – Kamalesh Sharma, Indian academic and diplomat, 5th Commonwealth Secretary General
1941 – Reine Wisell, Swedish race car driver
1942 – Gus Dudgeon, English record producer (d. 2002)
1942 – Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (d. 1968)
1943 – Johann Deisenhofer, German-American biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 – Marilyn McCoo, American singer
1943 – Philip Moore, English organist and composer
1943 – Ian Ogilvy, English-American actor, playwright, and author
1944 – Diane Dufresne, Canadian singer and painter
1944 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
1944 – Red Robbins, American basketball player (d. 2009)
1945 – Richard Edwin Hills, English astronomer and academic
1945 – Ehud Olmert, Israeli lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Israel
1946 – Fran Brill, American actress, singer, and puppeteer
1946 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Leader of the House of Lords
1946 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (d. 1993)
1946 – Jochen Mass, German race car driver
1946 – Paul Sheahan, Australian cricketer and educator
1946 – Claude Vorilhon, French journalist, founded Raëlism
1947 – Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977)
1947 – Rula Lenska, English actress
1948 – Craig Kusick, American baseball player and coach (d. 2006)
1950 – Laura Esquivel, Mexican author and screenwriter
1950 – Victoria Tennant, English actress and dancer
1951 – John Lloyd, English screenwriter and producer
1951 – Barry Marshall, Australian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1951 – Simon White, English astrophysicist and academic
1952 – John Lombardo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 – Matt Abts, American drummer
1953 – Deborah Allen, American country music singer-songwriter, author, and actress
1954 – Basia, Polish singer-songwriter and record producer
1954 – Scott Fields, American guitarist and composer
1954 – Patrice Rushen, American singer-songwriter and producer
1955 – Andy Bechtolsheim, German engineer, co-founded Sun Microsystems
1955 – Frankie Kennedy, Northern Irish flute player (d. 1994)
1956 – Trevor Morgan, English footballer and manager
1957 – Fran Drescher, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1958 – Marty Stuart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1959 – Ettore Messina, Italian basketball player and coach
1960 – Julia Adamson, Canadian-English keyboard player, composer, and producer
1960 – Nicola Griffith, English-American author
1960 – Miki Howard, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1960 – Blanche Lincoln, American politician
1961 – Gary Coyne, Australian rugby league player
1961 – Eric Stoltz, American actor, director, and producer
1961 – Mel Stride, English politician
1961 – Eric van de Poele, Belgian race car driver
1963 – David Barbe, American bass player and producer
1964 – Trey Anastasio, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer
1964 – Monica Bellucci, Italian actress and fashion model
1965 – Omid Djalili, English comedian, actor, and producer
1966 – Gary Armstrong, Scottish rugby player
1966 – Markus Burger, German pianist, composer, and educator
1967 – Emmanuelle Houdart, Swiss-French author and illustrator
1969 – Gintaras Einikis, Lithuanian basketball player
1969 – Chris von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1991)
1970 – Tony Hale, American actor and producer
1970 – Damian Mori, Australian footballer and manager
1971 – Jenna Elfman, American actress and producer
1972 – Jamal Anderson, American football player and sportscaster
1972 – Ari Behn, Danish-Norwegian author and playwright (d. 2019)
1972 – John Campbell, American bass player and songwriter
1972 – Mayumi Kojima, Japanese singer-songwriter
1972 – José Lima, Dominican-American baseball player (d. 2010)
1974 – Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player
1974 – Tom Greatrex, English politician
1974 – Ben Phillips, English cricketer
1974 – Daniel Wu, American–born Hong Kong actor, director, and producer
1975 – Jay Asher, American author
1975 – Marion Cotillard, French-American actress and singer
1975 – Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 – Laure Pequegnot, French skier
1975 – Christopher Jackson, American actor, singer, musician, and composer
1976 – Georgie Bingham, British radio and television presenter
1977 – Roy Carroll, Northern Irish goalkeeper and manager
1977 – Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2012)
1978 – Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale, Polish female volleyball player
1979 – Cameron Bruce, Australian footballer and coach
1979 – Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer
1980 – Martina Hingis, Czechoslovakia-born Swiss tennis player
1980 – Milagros Sequera, Venezuelan tennis player
1981 – Cecelia Ahern, Irish author
1981 – Dominique Moceanu, American gymnast
1982 – Lacey Chabert, American actress
1982 – Ryane Clowe, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Yan Stastny, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Dmytro Boyko, Ukrainian footballer
1983 – Boniek Forbes, Guinea-Bissau footballer
1983 – Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast
1984 – Georgios Eleftheriou, Greek footballer
1985 – Adam Cooney, Australian footballer
1985 – David Gower, Australian rugby league player
1985 – Téa Obreht, Serbian-American author
1985 – Cristian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer
1985 – T-Pain, American rapper, producer, and actor
1986 – Olivier Giroud, French footballer
1986 – Martin Guptill, New Zealand cricketer
1986 – Ben Lovett, Welsh musician and songwriter
1986 – Cristián Zapata, Colombian footballer
1987 – Aida Garifullina, Russian operatic soprano
1988 – Eglė Staišiūnaitė, Lithuanian hurdler
1989 – André Weis, German footballer
1991 – Thomas Röhler, German javelin thrower
1992 – Ezra Miller, American actor and singer
1994 – Aliya Mustafina, Russian gymnast
1996 – Jacob Host, Australian rugby league player
1997 – Yana Kudryavtseva, Russian gymnast
1997 – Max Verstappen, Dutch Formula One driver
1998 – Trevor Moran, American youtuber and singer
2002 – Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress
2002 – Levi Miller, Australian actor and model

Deaths on September 30

420 – Jerome, Roman priest, theologian, and saint (b. 347)
653 – Honorius of Canterbury, Italian archbishop and saint
940 – Fan Yanguang, Chinese general
954 – Louis IV of France (b. 920)
1101 – Anselm IV, Italian archbishop
1246 – Yaroslav II of Vladimir (b. 1191)
1288 – Leszek II the Black, Polish prince, Duke of Łęczyca, Sieradz, Kraków, Sandomierz (b. 1241)
1440 – Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, Welsh soldier and politician (b. 1362)
1487 – John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
1551 – Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese daimyō (b. 1507)
1560 – Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
1572 – Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Spanish priest and saint, 3rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1510)
1581 – Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
1626 – Nurhaci, Chinese emperor (b. 1559)
1628 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1554)
1770 – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1695)
1770 – George Whitefield, English-American priest and theologian (b. 1714)
1865 – Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar (b. 1800)
1891 – Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general and politician, French Minister of War (b. 1837)
1897 – Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (b. 1873)
1910 – Maurice Lévy, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1838)
1942 – Hans-Joachim Marseille, German captain and pilot (b. 1919)
1943 – Franz Oppenheimer, German-American sociologist and economist (b. 1864)
1946 – Takashi Sakai, Japanese general and politician, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1887)
1955 – James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)
1959 – Henry Barwell, Australian politician, 28th Premier of South Australia (b. 1877)
1961 – Onésime Gagnon, Canadian scholar and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1888)
1973 – Peter Pitseolak, Canadian photographer and author (b. 1902)
1974 – Carlos Prats, Chilean general and politician, Chilean Minister of Defense (b. 1915)
1977 – Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (b. 1924)
1978 – Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)
1985 – Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (b. 1900)
1985 – Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
1986 – Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-British economist (b. 1908)
1987 – Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter (b. 1913)
1988 – Al Holbert, American race car driver (b. 1946)
1989 – Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic (b. 1896)
1990 – Rob Moroso, American race car driver (b. 1968)
1990 – Alice Parizeau, Polish-Canadian journalist and author (b. 1930)
1990 – Patrick White, Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
1991 – Toma Zdravković, Serbian singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
1994 – André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1998 – Marius Goring, English actor (b. 1912)
1998 – Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player and poet (b. 1953)
1998 – Robert Lewis Taylor, American soldier and author (b. 1912)
2002 – Göran Kropp, Swedish race car driver and mountaineer (b. 1966)
2002 – Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss lawyer and politician, 63rd President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1913)
2003 – Yusuf Bey, American activist, founded Your Black Muslim Bakery (b. 1935)
2003 – Ronnie Dawson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
2003 – Robert Kardashian, American lawyer and businessman (b. 1944)
2004 – Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor, director, and politician (b. 1936)
2004 – Jacques Levy, American director and songwriter (b. 1935)
2004 – Michael Relph, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1915)
2008 – J. B. Jeyaretnam, Singaporean lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
2010 – Stephen J. Cannell, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1941)
2011 – Anwar al-Awlaki, American-Yemeni terrorist (b. 1971)
2011 – Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian-American immunologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
2012 – Turhan Bey, Austrian actor and producer (b. 1922)
2012 – Barry Commoner, American biologist, academic, and politician (b. 1917)
2012 – Bobby Jaggers, American wrestler and engineer (b. 1948)
2012 – Clara Stanton Jones, American librarian (b. 1913)
2012 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian-American figure skater (b. 1928)
2012 – Boris Šprem, Croatian lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament (b. 1956)
2013 – Janet Powell, Australian educator and politician (b. 1942)
2014 – Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Indian cleric and politician (b. 1940)
2014 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
2015 – Guido Altarelli, Italian-Swiss physicist and academic (b. 1941)
2015 – Claude Dauphin, French businessman (b. 1951)
2015 – Göran Hägg, Swedish author and critic (b. 1947)
2017 – Monty Hall, American game show host (b. 1921)
2018 – Kim Larsen, Danish rock musician (b. 1945)
2018 – Geoffrey Hayes, British television presenter and actor (b. 1942)
2018 – Sonia Orbuch, Polish resistance fighter during the Second World War and Holocaust educator. (b. 1925)
2019 – Victoria Braithwaite, British research scientist who proved fish feel pain (b. 1967)

Holidays and observances on September 30

Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
Birth of Morelos (Mexico)
Boy’s Day (Poland)
Christian feast day:
- Gregory the Illuminator
- Honorius of Canterbury
- Jerome
- September 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence Day (Botswana) or Botswana Day, celebrates the independence of Botswana from United Kingdom in 1966.
International Translation Day (International Federation of Translators)
Orange Shirt Day (Canada)

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1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
1571 – La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines is founded by the Spaniards as one of the oldest encomiendas (provinces) in the country.
1635 – In the Eighty Years’ War the Spanish capture the strategic Dutch fortress of Schenkenschans.
1656 – Second Northern War: Battle of Warsaw begins.
1778 – Constitution of the province of Cantabria ratified at the Assembly Hall in Bárcena la Puente, Reocín, Spain.
1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France.
1808 – Mahmud II became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
1809 – Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera: Sir Arthur Wellesley’s British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
1821 – José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
1854 – USS Constellation (1854), the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy, is commissioned.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
1866 – At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream becomes the first and youngest female artist to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue (of Abraham Lincoln).
1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is certified, establishing African American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
1914 – In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
1915 – The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
1917 – The Silent Parade took place in New York City, in protest to murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans.
1932 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
1935 – First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
1938 – Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
1939 – The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered.
1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.
1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
1957 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.
1960 – The German Volkswagen Act came into force.
1965 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
1973 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: Nearly 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
1974 – Spetsgruppa A, Russia’s elite special force, was formed.
1976 – The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People’s Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
1984 – The Summer Olympics officially known as the games of the XXIII were opened in Los Angeles.
1996 – The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
2001 – Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship.
2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
2002 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 crashes after takeoff from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing 14 of the 16 people on board.
2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
2010 – Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an Airbus A321.
2011 – While flying from Seoul, South Korea to Shanghai, China, Asiana Airlines Flight 991 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold. The Boeing 747-400F freighter attempts to divert to Jeju International Airport, but crashes into the sea South-West of Jeju island, killing both crew members on board.
2017 – Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif was disqualified for lifetime by Supreme Court of Pakistan founding him guilty of corruption charges.
2018 – Australian Wendy Tuck becomes the first woman skipper to win the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.

Births on July 28

1347 – Margaret of Durazzo, Queen of Naples and Hungary (d. 1412)
1516 – William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, German nobleman (d. 1592)
1609 – Judith Leyster, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
1635 – Robert Hooke, English physicist and chemist (d. 1703)
1645 – Marguerite Louise d’Orléans, French princess (d. 1721)
1659 – Charles Ancillon, French jurist and diplomat (d. 1715)
1746 – Thomas Heyward, Jr., American judge and politician (d. 1809)
1750 – Fabre d’Églantine, French actor, playwright, and politician (d. 1794)
1783 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, German army officer and writer (d. 1860)
1796 – Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian businessman, founded the Bösendorfer Company (d. 1859)
1804 – Ludwig Feuerbach, German anthropologist and philosopher (d. 1872)
1815 – Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel (d. 1889)
1844 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
1857 – Ballington Booth, English-American activist, co-founded Volunteers of America (d. 1940)
1860 – Elias M. Ammons, American businessman and politician, 19th Governor of Colorado (d. 1925)
1860 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
1863 – Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
1866 – Beatrix Potter, English children’s book writer and illustrator (d. 1943)
1866 – Albertson Van Zo Post, American fencer (d. 1938)
1867 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American-Argentinian astronomer (d. 1951)
1872 – Albert Sarraut, French journalist and politician, 106th Prime Minister of France (d. 1962)
1874 – Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic (d. 1945)
1879 – Lucy Burns, American activist, co-founded the National Woman’s Party (d. 1966)
1879 – Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter (d. 1944)
1887 – Marcel Duchamp, French-American painter and sculptor (d. 1968)
1887 – Willard Price, Canadian-American journalist and author (d. 1983)
1893 – Rued Langgaard, Danish organist and composer (d. 1952)
1896 – Barbara La Marr, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1926)
1898 – Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970)
1901 – Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1979)
1901 – Rudy Vallée, American actor, singer, and saxophonist (d. 1986)
1902 – Albert Namatjira, Australian painter (d. 1959)
1902 – Sir Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (d. 1994)
1907 – Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded Tupperware Brands (d. 1983)
1909 – Aenne Burda, German publisher (d. 2005)
1909 – Malcolm Lowry, English novelist and poet (d. 1957)
1914 – Carmen Dragon, American conductor and composer (d. 1984)
1915 – Charles Hard Townes, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1915 – Dick Sprang, American illustrator (d. 2000)
1915 – Frankie Yankovic, American polka musician (d. 1998)
1916 – David Brown, American journalist and producer (d. 2010)
1920 – Andrew V. McLaglen, English-American director and producer (d. 2014)
1922 – Jacques Piccard, Belgian-Swiss oceanographer and engineer (d. 2008)
1923 – Ray Ellis, American conductor and producer (d. 2008)
1924 – Luigi Musso, Italian race car driver (d. 1958)
1924 – C. T. Vivian, American minister, author, and activist
1925 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
1926 – Charlie Biddle, American-Canadian bassist (d. 2003)
1927 – John Ashbery, American poet (d. 2017)
1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist and socialite, 37th First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
1929 – Shirley Ann Grau, American novelist and short story writer
1930 – Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer (d. 2014)
1930 – Junior Kimbrough, American singer and guitarist (d. 1998)
1930 – Jean Roba, Belgian author and illustrator (d. 2006)
1930 – Ramsey Muir Withers, Canadian general (d. 2014)
1931 – Alan Brownjohn, English poet and author
1931 – Johnny Martin, Australian cricketer (d. 1992)
1932 – Natalie Babbitt, American author and illustrator (d. 2016)
1932 – Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, Brazilian colonel (d. 2015)
1933 – Charlie Hodge, Canadian ice hockey player and scout (d. 2016)
1934 – Jacques d’Amboise, American dancer and choreographer
1935 – Neil McKendrick, English historian and academic
1936 – Russ Jackson, Canadian football player and coach
1936 – Garfield Sobers, Barbadian cricketer
1937 – Francis Veber, French director and screenwriter
1938 – Luis Aragonés, Spanish footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
1938 – Arsen Dedić, Croatian singer-songwriter and poet (d. 2015)
1938 – Alberto Fujimori, Peruvian engineer, academic, and politician, 90th President of Peru
1938 – Chuan Leekpai, Thai lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Thailand
1939 – Richard Johns, English air marshal
1940 – Philip Proctor, American voice actor and screenwriter
1941 – Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor and educator
1941 – Susan Roces, Filipino actress and producer
1942 – Marty Brennaman, American sportscaster
1942 – Tonia Marketaki, Greek director and screenwriter (d. 1994)
1943 – Mike Bloomfield, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1981)
1943 – Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
1943 – Richard Wright, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 2008)
1945 – Jim Davis, American cartoonist, created Garfield
1946 – Jonathan Edwards, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1946 – Linda Kelsey, American actress
1946 – Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani poet and activist
1947 – Peter Cosgrove, Australian general and politician, 26th Governor General of Australia
1947 – Sally Struthers, American actress
1948 – Gerald Casale, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and director
1948 – Eiichi Ohtaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)
1949 – Vida Blue, American baseball player and sportscaster
1949 – Peter Doyle, Australian singer and guitarist (d. 2001)
1949 – Simon Kirke, English drummer
1949 – Steve Peregrin Took, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1980)
1949 – Randall Wallace, American screenwriter and producer
1950 – Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian singer-songwriter
1950 – Tapley Seaton, Kittitian politician, 4th Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis
1951 – Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect and engineer, designed the Athens Olympic Sports Complex
1951 – Doug Collins, American basketball player and coach
1951 – Gregg Giuffria, American rock musician and businessman
1951 – Ray Kennedy, English footballer
1952 – Vajiralongkorn, King of Thailand
1954 – Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (d. 2013)
1954 – Gerd Faltings, German mathematician and academic
1954 – Steve Morse, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1954 – Mikey Sheehy, Irish footballer
1955 – Nikolay Zimyatov, Russian skier
1956 – John Feinstein, American journalist and author
1956 – Robert Swan, English explorer
1958 – Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist (d. 1981)
1958 – Michael Hitchcock, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1959 – William T. Vollmann, American novelist, short story writer and journalist
1960 – Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
1960 – Jon J. Muth, American author and illustrator
1960 – Yōichi Takahashi, Japanese illustrator
1961 – Yannick Dalmas, French race car driver
1962 – Rachel Sweet, American singer, television writer, and actress
1964 – Lori Loughlin, American actress
1965 – Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
1966 – Sossina M. Haile, Ethiopian American chemist
1966 – Miguel Ángel Nadal, Spanish footballer
1966 – Jimmy Pardo, American stand-up comedian, actor, and host
1966 – Shikao Suga, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967 – Taka Hirose, Japanese bass player
1969 – Garth Snow, American ice hockey player and manager
1969 – Alexis Arquette, American actress (d. 2016)
1970 – Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
1970 – Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian figure skater
1970 – Paul Strang, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
1971 – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
1971 – Ludmilla Lacueva Canut, Andorran writer
1971 – Stephen Lynch, American singer-songwriter and actor
1971 – Annie Perreault, Canadian speed skater
1972 – Robert Chapman, English cricketer
1973 – Marc Dupré, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973 – Steve Staios, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Alexis Tsipras, Greek engineer and politician, 186th Prime Minister of Greece
1974 – Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
1975 – Leonor Watling, Spanish actress
1976 – Jacoby Shaddix, American singer-songwriter
1977 – Aki Berg, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Manu Ginóbili, Argentinian basketball player
1977 – Miyabiyama Tetsushi, Japanese sumo wrestler
1978 – Kārlis Vērdiņš, Latvian poet
1978 – Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Henrik Hansen, Danish footballer
1979 – Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer-songwriter and producer
1979 – Lee Min-woo, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
1979 – Alena Popchanka, Belarusian-French swimmer and coach
1980 – Stephen Christian, American singer-songwriter
1980 – Anthony Weaver, American football player
1981 – Michael Carrick, English footballer
1983 – Sam Dastyari, Iranian-Australian politician
1983 – Cody Hay, Canadian figure skater
1984 – Zach Parise, American ice hockey player
1985 – Mathieu Debuchy, French footballer
1985 – Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1985 – Darren Murphy, Irish footballer
1986 – Alexandra Chando, American actress
1986 – Lauri Korpikoski, Finnish ice hockey player
1986 – Dulquer Salmaan, Indian actor
1987 – Yasser Corona, Mexican footballer
1987 – Yevhen Khacheridi, Ukrainian-Greek footballer
1987 – Pedro, Spanish footballer
1988 – Greg Hardy, American football player
1989 – Felipe Kitadai, Brazilian martial artist
1990 – Soulja Boy, American rapper, producer, and actor
1990 – Simone Pizzuti, Italian footballer
1993 – Harry Kane, English footballer
1993 – Moses Odubajo, English footballer
1993 – Cher Lloyd, English singer-songwriter
1995 – Josh Addo-Carr, Australian rugby league player

Deaths on July 28

450 – Theodosius II, Roman emperor (b. 401)
938 – Thankmar, half-brother of Otto I (during Siege of Eresburg) (b. c. 908)
942 – Shi Jingtang, emperor of Later Jin (b. 892)
1057 – Victor II, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1018)
1128 – William Clito, English son of Sybilla of Conversano (b. 1102)
1230 – Leopold VI, Duke of Austria (b. 1176)
1271 – Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster (b. 1220)
1285 – Keran, Queen of Armenia
1333 – Guy VIII of Viennois, Dauphin of Vienne (b. 1309)
1345 – Sancia of Majorca, queen regent of Naples (b. c. 1285)
1458 – John II, king of Cyprus and Armenia
1488 – Edward Woodville, Lord Scales (at the Battle of St. Aubin-du-Cormier)
1508 – Robert Blackadder, bishop of Glasgow
1527 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish explorer, founded the city of Santa Marta (b. 1460)
1540 – Thomas Cromwell, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1495)
1585 – Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford (b. 1527)
1631 – Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish playwright (b. 1569)
1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet and playwright (b. 1619)
1667 – Abraham Cowley, English poet and author (b. 1618)
1675 – Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer and politician (b. 1605)
1685 – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English politician and diplomat, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1618)
1718 – Étienne Baluze, French scholar and academic (b. 1630)
1741 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1678)
1750 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German organist and composer (b. 1685)
1762 – George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1691)
1794 – Maximilien Robespierre, French lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the Committee of Public Safety (b. 1758)
1794 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French soldier and politician (b. 1767)
1808 – Selim III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1761)
1809 – Richard Beckett, English cricketer and captain (b.1772)
1818 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1746)
1835 – Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise, French general and politician, 15th Prime Minister of France (b. 1768)
1836 – Nathan Mayer Rothschild, German-English banker and financier (b. 1777)
1842 – Clemens Brentano, German author and poet (b. 1778)
1844 – Joseph Bonaparte, French diplomat and brother of Napoleon (b. 1768)
1849 – Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
1869 – Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist and physiologist (b. 1787)
1878 – George Law Curry, American publisher and politician (b. 1820)
1885 – Moses Montefiore, British philanthropist, sheriff and banker (b. 1784)
1895 – Edward Beecher, American minister and theologian (b. 1803)
1930 – John DeWitt, American hammer thrower (b. 1881)
1930 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1933 – Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, 30th yokozuna (b. 1890)
1934 – Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1868)
1934 – Louis Tancred, South African cricketer and pilot (b. 1876)
1935 – Meletius IV of Constantinople (b. 1871)
1942 – Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist and academic (b. 1853)
1946 – Saint Alphonsa, first woman of Indian origin to be Canonization as a saint by the Catholic Church (b. 1910)
1957 – Edith Abbott, American economist, social worker, and educator (b. 1876)
1957 – Isaac Heinemann, German-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1876)
1965 – Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic (b. 1894)
1965 – Attallah Suheimat, Jordanian politician (b. 1875)
1967 – Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1942)
1968 – Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
1969 – Ramón Grau, Cuban physician and politician, 6th President of Cuba (b. 1882)
1969 – Frank Loesser, American composer (b. 1910)
1971 – Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, Canadian colonel and diplomat (b. 1890)
1971 – Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
1971 – Charles E. Pont, French-American minister and painter (b. 1898)
1972 – Helen Traubel, American soprano and actress (b. 1903)
1979 – Don Miller, American football player and coach (b. 1902)
1979 – Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
1980 – Rose Rand, Austrian-born American logician and philosopher (b. 1903)
1981 – Stanley Rother, American priest and missionary (b. 1935)
1982 – Keith Green, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1953)
1987 – Jack Renshaw, Australian politician, 31st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1909)
1990 – Jill Esmond, English actress (b. 1908)
1992 – Sulev Nõmmik, Estonian actor and director (b. 1931)
1993 – Stanley Woods, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1903)
1996 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and academic (b. 1908)
1997 – Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (b. 1920)
1997 – Seni Pramoj, Thai lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1905)
1998 – Zbigniew Herbert, Polish poet and author (b. 1924)
1998 – Lenny McLean, English boxer, actor, and author (b. 1949)
1998 – Consalvo Sanesi, Italian race car driver (b. 1911)
1999 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2000 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
2001 – Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi poet, author, and critic (b. 1943)
2002 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
2003 – Valerie Goulding, Irish activist and politician (b. 1918)
2004 – Francis Crick, English biologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
2004 – Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and author (b. 1938)
2006 – David Gemmell, English author (b. 1948)
2007 – Karl Gotch, Belgian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1924)
2007 – Jim LeRoy, American soldier and pilot (b. 1961)
2009 – Jim Johnson, American football player and coach (b. 1941)
2011 – Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan general (b. 1944)
2012 – Colin Horsley, New Zealand-English pianist and educator (b. 1920)
2012 – Sepp Mayerl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1937)
2012 – William F. Milliken Jr., American race car driver and engineer (b. 1911)
2013 – Mustafa Adrisi, Ugandan general and politician, 3rd Vice President of Uganda (b. 1922)
2013 – Eileen Brennan, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
2013. – Rita Reys, Dutch jazz singer (b. 1924)
2013 – William Scranton, American captain and politician, 13th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1917)
2013 – Ersilio Tonini, Italian cardinal (b. 1914)
2014 – Margot Adler, American journalist and author (b. 1946)
2014 – Alex Forbes, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1925)
2014 – Alakbar Mammadov, Azerbaijani footballer and manager (b. 1930)
2014 – Theodore Van Kirk, American soldier, pilot, and navigator (b. 1921)
2015 – Jan Kulczyk, Polish businessman (b. 1950)
2015 – Edward Natapei, Vanuatuan politician, 6th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (b. 1954)
2015 – Clive Rice, South African cricketer and coach (b. 1949)
2016 – Émile Derlin Zinsou, Beninese politician (b. 1918)
2016 – Mahasweta Devi, Indian Bengali fiction writer and socio-political activist (b. 1926)
2018 – Wanny van Gils, Dutch footballer (b. 1959)

Holidays and observances on July 28

Christian feast day:
- Alphonsa Muttathupadathu (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)
- Botvid
- Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederick Handel, Henry Purcell (Episcopal Church commemoration)
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Heinrich Schütz, George Frederick Handel (Lutheran commemoration)
- Nazarius and Celsus
- Pedro Poveda Castroverde
- Pope Innocent I
- Pope Victor I
- Samson of Dol
- July 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval (Canada)
Earliest day on which Emancipation Day can fall, while August 3 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday before the first Monday in August (Bermuda)
Fiestas Patrias, celebrates the independence of Peru from Spain by General José de San Martín in 1821.
Liberation Day (San Marino)
Ólavsøka Eve (Faroe Islands)
World Hepatitis Day

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July 26 – History, Events, Births, Deaths Holidays and Observances On This Day

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“Mordad 5th”—day 129th in the Iranian official calendar (236 days – 237 days in leap years – till the end of the year)

July 26 in History

657 – First Fitna: In the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I.
811 – Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I is killed and his heir Staurakios is seriously wounded.
920 – Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at the Battle of Valdejunquera.
1309 – Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
1469 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Edgecote Moor, pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England, takes place.
1509 – The Emperor Krishnadevaraya ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
1529 – Francisco Pizarro González, Spanish conquistador, is appointed governor of Peru.
1581 – Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): The northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.
1703 – During the Bavarian Rummel the rural population of Tyrol drove the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II Emanuel out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the Bavarian Army, which was allied with France, from marching as planned on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession.
1745 – The first recorded women’s cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
1758 – French and Indian War: The Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
1775 – The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.
1788 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
1803 – The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world’s first public railway, opens in south London, United Kingdom.
1814 – The Swedish–Norwegian War begins.
1822 – José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
1822 – First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis.
1847 – Liberia declares its independence.
1861 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
1863 – American Civil War: Morgan’s Raid ends; At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
1882 – Premiere of Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
1882 – The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
1887 – Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
1890 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman’s resignation.
1891 – France annexes Tahiti.
1892 – Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
1899 – Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
1918 – Emmy Noether’s paper, which became known as Noether’s theorem was presented at Göttingen, Germany, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy.
1936 – Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction.
1936 – King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
1941 – World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments.
1944 – World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
1945 – The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
1945 – World War II: The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
1945 – World War II: HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the war.
1945 – World War II: The USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with components and enriched uranium for the Little Boy nuclear bomb.
1946 – Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport.
1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
1948 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981, desegregating the military of the United States.
1951 – Walt Disney’s 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
1952 – King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
1953 – Cold War: Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement
1953 – Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
1953 – Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.
1956 – Following the World Bank’s refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal, sparking international condemnation.
1957 – Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
1963 – Syncom 2, the world’s first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
1963 – An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
1963 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan.
1968 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
1971 – Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo “J-Mission”, and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
1974 – Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country’s first civil government after seven years of military rule.
1977 – The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
1979 (1358 SH) – Holding the first Friday Prayer in Iran led by Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani
1986 (1365 SH) – Aerial bombardment of citizens of Arak by Ba’athist Iraq regime at 9:13 a.m. (local time):
1988 (1367 SH) – Mersad Operation part of Iran-Iraq war
1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
1990 – The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.
1993 – Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea. Sixty-eight of the 116 people onboard are killed.
1999 – Celebrated as Kargil Vijay Diwas. Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA’s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
2005 – Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.
2008 – Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India.
2009 – The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.
2016 – The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.
2016 – Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for President of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
2016 – Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.

Births on July 26

1030 – Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Polish bishop and saint (d. 1079)
1400 – Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester, English noble (d. 1439)
1502 – Christian Egenolff, German printer (d. 1555)
1612 – Murad IV, Ottoman sultan (d. 1640)
1678 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711)
1711 – Lorenz Christoph Mizler, German physician, mathematician, and historian (d. 1778)
1739 – George Clinton, American general and politician, 4th Vice President of the United States (d. 1812)
1782 – John Field, Irish pianist and composer (d. 1837)
1791 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1844)
1796 – George Catlin, American painter, author, and traveler (d. 1872)
1802 – Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 42nd President of Mexico (d. 1855)
1819 – Justin Holland, American guitarist and educator (d. 1887)
1829 – Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1912)
1841 – Carl Robert Jakobson, Estonian journalist and politician (d. 1882)
1842 – Alfred Marshall, English economist and academic (d. 1924)
1844 – Stefan Drzewiecki, Ukrainian-Polish engineer and journalist (d. 1938)
1854 – Philippe Gaucher, French dermatologist and academic (d. 1918)
1855 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1936)
1856 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
1858 – Tom Garrett, Australian cricketer and lawyer (d. 1943)
1863 – Jāzeps Vītols, Latvian composer (d. 1948)
1865 – Philipp Scheidemann, German journalist and politician, 10th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1939)
1865 – Rajanikanta Sen, Indian poet and composer (d. 1910)
1874 – Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-American bassist, composer, and conductor (d. 1951)
1875 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (d. 1961)
1875 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet and academic (d. 1939)
1877 – Jesse Lauriston Livermore, American investor and security analyst, “Great Bear of Wall Street” (d. 1940)
1878 – Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer and water polo player (d. 1937)
1879 – Shunroku Hata, Japanese field marshal and politician, 48th Japanese Minister of War (d. 1962)
1880 – Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian playwright and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Ukrainian People’s Republic (d. 1951)
1882 – Albert Dunstan, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of Victoria (d. 1950)
1885 – Roy Castleton, Major League Baseball player (d.1967)
1885 – André Maurois, French soldier and author (d. 1967)
1886 – Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (d. 1965)
1888 – Reginald Hands, South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1918)
1890 – Daniel J. Callaghan, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1942)
1892 – Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player and manager (d. 1966)
1893 – George Grosz, German painter and illustrator (d. 1959)
1894 – Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher (d. 1963)
1895 – Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (d. 1964)
1896 – Tim Birkin, English soldier and race car driver (d. 1933)
1897 – Harold D. Cooley, American lawyer and politician (d. 1974)
1897 – Paul Gallico, American journalist and author (d. 1976)
1900 – Sarah Kafrit, Israeli politician and teacher (d. 1983)
1903 – Estes Kefauver, American lawyer and politician (d. 1963)
1904 – Edwin Albert Link, American industrialist and entrepreneur, invented the flight simulator (d. 1981)
1906 – Irena Iłłakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (d. 1943)
1908 – Lucien Wercollier, Luxembourger sculptor (d. 2002)
1909 – Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1994)
1909 – Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (d. 1979)
1913 – Kan Yuet-keung, Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012)
1914 – C. Farris Bryant, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 34th Governor of Florida (d. 2002)
1914 – Erskine Hawkins, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1993)
1914 – Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1916 – Dean Brooks, American physician and actor (d. 2013)
1916 – Jaime Luiz Coelho, Brazilian archbishop (d. 2013)
1918 – Marjorie Lord, American actress (d. 2015)
1919 – Virginia Gilmore, American actress (d. 1986)
1919 – James Lovelock, English biologist and chemist
1920 – Bob Waterfield, American football player and coach (d. 1983)
1921 – Tom Saffell, American baseball player and manager (d. 2012)
1921 – Jean Shepherd, American radio host, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1922 – Blake Edwards, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1922 – Jim Foglesong, American record producer (d. 2013)
1922 – Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000)
1923 – Jan Berenstain, American author and illustrator (d. 2012)
1923 – Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player and coach (d. 2002)
1925 – Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish physician and politician (d. 2000)
1925 – Joseph Engelberger, American physicist and engineer (d. 2015)
1925 – Gene Gutowski, Polish-American producer (d. 2016)
1925 – Ana María Matute, Spanish author and academic (d. 2014)
1926 – James Best, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1926 (1305 SH) – Sadeq Khalkhali, Shia cleric and a religious ruler in the Islamic Republic of Iran (d. 2003)
1926 – Dorothy E. Smith, Canadian sociologist
1927 – Gulabrai Ramchand, Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
1928 – Don Beauman, English race car driver (d. 1955)
1928 – Francesco Cossiga, Italian academic and politician, 8th President of Italy (d. 2010)
1928 – Elliott Erwitt, French-American photographer and director
1928 – Ibn-e-Safi, Indian-Pakistani author and poet (d. 1980)
1928 – Joe Jackson, American talent manager, father of Michael Jackson (d. 2018)
1928 – Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 1999)
1928 – Peter Lougheed, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Alberta (d. 2012)
1928 – Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes, Irish-born English politician
1928 – Bernice Rubens, Welsh author (d. 2004)
1929 – Marc Lalonde, Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th Canadian Minister of Justice
1929 – Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-French pianist and educator (d. 2012)
1930 – Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, Brazilian lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1930 – Barbara Jefford, English actress
1931 – Telê Santana, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2006)
1934 – Tommy McDonald, American football player (d. 2018)
1936 – Tsutomu Koyama, Japanese volleyball player and coach (d. 2012)
1936 – Lawrie McMenemy, English footballer and manager
1938 – Bobby Hebb, American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
1938 – Keith Peters, Welsh physician and academic
1939 – Jun Henmi, Japanese author and poet (d. 2011)
1939 – John Howard, Australian lawyer and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Australia
1939 – Bob Lilly, American football player and photographer
1939 – Richard Marlow, English organist and conductor (d. 2013)
1940 – Dobie Gray, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2011)
1940 – Brian Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney, Northern Irish-British academic and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
1940 – Bobby Rousseau, Canadian ice hockey player
1941 – Jean Baubérot, French historian and sociologist
1941 – Darlene Love, American singer and actress
1941 – Brenton Wood, American R&B singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1942 – Vladimír Mečiar, Slovak politician, 1st Prime Minister of Slovakia
1942 (1321 SH) – Bahman Mofid, Iranian actor
1942 – Teddy Pilette, Belgian race car driver
1943 – Peter Hyams, American director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
1943 – Mick Jagger, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1944 (1323 SH) – Dariush Arjmand, Iranian actor
1945 – Betty Davis, American singer-songwriter
1945 – Helen Mirren, English actress
1946 – Emilio de Villota, Spanish race car driver
1948 – Luboš Andršt, Czech guitarist and songwriter
1948 – Herbert Wiesinger, German figure skater
1949 – Thaksin Shinawatra, Thai businessman and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Thailand
1949 – Roger Taylor, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
1950 – Nelinho, Brazilian footballer and manager
1950 – Nicholas Evans, English journalist, screenwriter, and producer
1950 – Susan George, English actress and producer
1950 – Anne Rafferty, English lawyer and judge
1950 – Rich Vogler, American race car driver (d. 1990)
1951 – Rick Martin, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1952 – Glynis Breakwell, English psychologist and academic
1953 – Felix Magath, German footballer and manager
1953 – Robert Phillips, American guitarist
1953 – Henk Bleker, Dutch politician
1953 – Earl Tatum, American professional basketball player
1954 – Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player and coach (d. 1994)
1955 – Aleksandrs Starkovs, Latvian footballer and coach
1955 – Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistani businessman and politician, 11th President of Pakistan
1956 – Peter Fincham, English screenwriter and producer
1956 – Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater
1956 – Tommy Rich, American wrestler
1956 – Tim Tremlett, English cricketer and coach
1957 – Norman Baker, Scottish politician
1957 – Nana Visitor, American actress
1958 – Monti Davis, American basketball player (d. 2013)
1958 – Angela Hewitt, Canadian-English pianist
1959 – Rick Bragg, American author and journalist
1959 – Kevin Spacey, American actor and director
1960 (1339 SH) – Mohsen Vezvaei, Iranian commander killed in Iran-Iraq war
1961 – Gary Cherone, American singer-songwriter
1961 – Andy Connell, English keyboard player and songwriter
1961 – Felix Dexter, Caribbean-English comedian and actor (d. 2013)
1963 – Jeff Stoughton, Canadian curler
1964 – Sandra Bullock, American actress and producer
1964 – Ralf Metzenmacher, German painter and designer
1964 – Anne Provoost, Belgian author
1965 – Jeremy Piven, American actor and producer
1965 – Jim Lindberg, American singer and guitarist
1966 – Angelo di Livio, Italian footballer
1967 – Martin Baker, English organist and conductor
1967 – Tim Schafer, American video game designer, founded Double Fine Productions
1967 – Jason Statham, English actor
1968 – Frédéric Diefenthal, French actor and director
1968 – Jim Naismith, Scottish biologist and academic
1968 – Olivia Williams, English actress
1969 – Greg Colbrunn, American baseball player and coach
1969 – Tanni Grey-Thompson, Welsh baroness and wheelchair racer
1971 – Khaled Mahmud, Bangladeshi cricketer and coach
1971 – Chris Harrison, America television personality
1972 – Nathan Buckley, Australian footballer and coach
1973 – Kate Beckinsale, English actress
1973 – Mariano Raffo, Argentinian director and producer
1974 – Iron & Wine, American singer-songwriter
1974 – Kees Meeuws, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1974 – Dean Sturridge, English footballer and sportscaster
1975 – Ingo Schultz, German sprinter
1975 – Joe Smith, American basketball player
1975 – Elizabeth Truss, English accountant and politician, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
1976 – Elena Kustarova, Russian ice dancer and coach
1976 – Darius Labanauskas, Lithuanian darts player
1977 – Joaquín Benoit, Dominican baseball player
1977 – Martin Laursen, Danish footballer and manager
1977 – Tanja Szewczenko, German figure skater
1979 – Friedrich Michau, German rugby player
1979 – Derek Paravicini, English pianist
1979 – Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Erik Westrum, American ice hockey player
1979 – Juliet Rylance, English actress
1980 – Jacinda Ardern, 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand
1980 – Dave Baksh, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1980 – Robert Gallery, American football player
1981 – Abe Forsythe, Australian actor, director, and screenwriter
1981 (1360 SH) Mehdi Seyed-Salehi, Iranian soccer player
1981 – Maicon Sisenando, Brazilian footballer
1982 – Gilad Hochman, Israeli composer
1982 – Christopher Kane, Scottish fashion designer
1983 – Kelly Clark, American snowboarder
1983 – Stephen Makinwa, Nigerian footballer
1983 – Roderick Strong, American wrestler
1983 – Naomi van As, Dutch field hockey player
1983 – Ken Wallace, Australian kayaker
1983 – Delonte West, American basketball player
1984 – Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
1984 – Benjamin Kayser, French rugby player
1984 – Sabri Sarıoğlu, Turkish footballer
1985 – Marcus Benard, American football player
1985 – Gaël Clichy, French footballer
1985 – Audrey De Montigny, Canadian singer-songwriter
1985 – Mat Gamel, American baseball player
1986 – Leonardo Ulloa, Argentinian footballer
1986 – John White, English footballer
1987 – Panagiotis Kone, Greek footballer
1987 – Jordie Benn, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 – Fredy Montero, Colombian footballer
1988 – Yurie Omi, Japanese female announcer
1988 – Sayaka Akimoto, Filipino–Japanese actress and singer
1991 – Tyson Barrie, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 – Marika Koroibete, Fijian rugby player
1993 – Raymond Faitala-Mariner, New Zealand rugby league player
1994 – Ella Leivo, Finnish tennis player
1996 – Olivia Breen, British sprinter

Deaths on July 26

342 – Cheng of Jin, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 321)
432 – Celestine I, pope of the Catholic Church
811 – Nikephoros I, Byzantine emperor
899 – Li Hanzhi, Chinese warlord (b. 842)
943 – Motoyoshi, Japanese nobleman and poet (b. 890)
990 – Fujiwara no Kaneie, Japanese statesman (b. 929)
1380 – Kōmyō, emperor of Japan (b. 1322)
1450 – Cecily Neville, duchess of Warwick (b. 1424)
1471 – Paul II, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1417)
1533 – Atahualpa, Inca emperor abducted and murdered by Francisco Pizarro (b. ca. 1500)
1592 – Armand de Gontant, French marshal (b. 1524)
1605 – Miguel de Benavides, Spanish archbishop and sinologist (b. 1552)
1611 – Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese daimyō (b. 1542)
1630 – Charles Emmanual I, duke of Savoy (b. 1562)
1659 – Mary Frith, English female criminal (b. 1584)
1680 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet and courtier (b. 1647)
1684 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1646)
1693 – Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, queen of Sweden (b. 1656)
1712 – Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1631)
1723 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1660)
1801 – Maximilian Francis, archduke of Austria (b. 1756)
1863 – Sam Houston, American general and politician, 7th Governor of Texas (b. 1793)
1867 – Otto, king of Greece (b. 1815)
1899 – Ulises Heureaux, 22nd, 26th, and 27th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1845)
1915 – James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist (b. 1837)
1919 – Edward Poynter, English painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
1921 – Howard Vernon, Australian actor (b. 1848)
1925 – Antonio Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1888)
1925 – Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1848)
1925 – William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 41st United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
1926 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War, son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1843)
1930 – Pavlos Karolidis, Greek historian and academic (b. 1849)
1932 – Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Company (b. 1876)
1934 – Winsor McCay, American cartoonist, animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1871)
1941 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician and academic (b. 1875)
1942 – Roberto Arlt, Argentinian author and playwright (b. 1900)
1951 – James Mitchell, Australian politician, 13th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1866)
1952 – Eva Perón, Argentinian politician, 25th First Lady of Argentina (b. 1919)
1953 – Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician, 135th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
1957 – Carlos Castillo Armas, Authoritarian ruler of Guatemala (1954-1957)
1960 – Cedric Gibbons, British art director and production designer (b. 1893)
1964 – Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, English race car driver and politician (b. 1884)
1968 – Cemal Tollu, Turkish lieutenant and painter (b. 1899)
1970 – Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896)
1971 – Diane Arbus, American photographer and academic (b. 1923)
1980 (1359 SH) – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the second shah (king) of Pahlavi dynasty
1984 – George Gallup, American mathematician and statistician, founded the Gallup Company (b. 1901)
1984 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
1986 – W. Averell Harriman, American politician and diplomat, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1891)
1988 – Fazlur Rahman Malik, Pakistani philosopher, scholar, and academic (b. 1919)
1992 – Mary Wells, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
1993 – Matthew Ridgway, American general (b. 1895)
1994 – James Luther Adams, American theologian and academic (b. 1901)
1995 – Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian-American guitarist and composer (b. 1917)
1995 – Raymond Mailloux, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
1995 – George W. Romney, American businessman and politician, 43rd Governor of Michigan (b. 1907)
1996 – Max Winter, American businessman and sports executive (b. 1903)
1999 – Walter Jackson Bate, American author and critic (b. 1918)
1999 – Phaedon Gizikis, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (b. 1917)
2000 – John Tukey, American mathematician and academic (b. 1915)
2001 – Rex T. Barber, American colonel and pilot (b. 1917)
2001 – Peter von Zahn, German journalist and author (b. 1913)
2004 – William A. Mitchell, American chemist, created Pop Rocks and Cool Whip (b. 1911)
2005 – Alexander Golitzen, Russian-born American production designer and art director (b. 1908)
2005 – Jack Hirshleifer, American economist and academic (b. 1925)
2005 – Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
2007 – Lars Forssell, Swedish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1928)
2007 – Skip Prosser, American basketball player and coach (b. 1950)
2009 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919)
2010 – Sivakant Tiwari, Indian-Singaporean politician (b. 1945)
2011 – Joe Arroyo, Colombian singer-songwriter and composer (b. 1955)
2011 – Richard Harris, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1948)
2011 – Sakyo Komatsu, Japanese author and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2011 – Margaret Olley, Australian painter and philanthropist (b. 1923)
2012 – Don Bagley, American bassist and composer (b. 1927)
2012 – Karl Benjamin, American painter and educator (b. 1925)
2012 – Miriam Ben-Porat, Russian-Israeli lawyer and jurist (b. 1918)
2012 – Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (b. 1942)
2012 – James D. Watkins, American admiral and politician, 6th United States Secretary of Energy (b. 1927)
2013 – Luther F. Cole, American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
2013 – Harley Flanders, American mathematician and academic (b. 1925)
2013 – Sung Jae-gi, South Korean philosopher and activist (b. 1967)
2013 – George P. Mitchell, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1919)
2014 – Oleh Babayev, Ukrainian businessman and politician (b. 1965)
2014 – Charles R. Larson, American admiral (b. 1936)
2014 – Richard MacCormac, English architect, founded MJP Architects (b. 1938)
2014 – Sergei O. Prokofieff, Russian anthropologist and author (b. 1954)
2014 – Roland Verhavert, Belgian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2015 – Bijoy Krishna Handique, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Mines (b. 1934)
2015 – Flora MacDonald, Canadian banker and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Communications (b. 1926)
2015 – Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
2015 – Ann Rule, American police officer and author (b. 1931)
2017 – June Foray, American voice actress (b. 1917)
2017 – Patti Deutsch, American voice artist and comedic actress (b. 1943)
2017 – Ronald Phillips, American criminal (b. 1973)
2018 – Adem Demaci, Kosovo Albanian politician and writer (b. 1936)
2018 – John Kline, American basketball player (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances on July 26

Christian feast day:
- Andrew of Phú Yên
- Anne (Western Christianity)
- Bartolomea Capitanio
- Blessed Maria Pierina
- Joachim (Western Christianity)
- Paraskevi of Rome (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Venera
- July 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of National Significance (Barbados)
Day of the National Rebellion (Cuba)
Esperanto Day
Independence Day (Liberia), celebrates the independence of Liberia from the American Colonization Society in 1847.
Independence Day (Maldives), celebrates the independence of Maldives from the United Kingdom in 1965.
Kargil Victory Day or Kargil Vijay Diwas (India)

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July 24 – History, Events, Births, Deaths Holidays and Observances On This Day

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1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle: King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.
1411 – Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
1412 – Behnam Hadloyo becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin.
1487 – Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign beer.
1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.
1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
1783 – The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
1814 – War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown’s American invaders.
1823 – Afro-Chileans are emancipated.
1823 – In Maracaibo, Venezuela, the naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo takes place, where Admiral José Prudencio Padilla defeats the Spanish Navy, thus culminating the independence for the Gran Colombia.
1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
1847 – Richard March Hoe, American inventor, patented the rotary-type printing press.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown: Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1866 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1910 – The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas”.
1915 – The passenger ship SS Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
1922 – The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.
1923 – The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
1924 – Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1927 – The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
1929 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
1935 – The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (43 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee.
1937 – Alabama drops rape charges against the “Scottsboro Boys”.
1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a “Kitchen Debate”.
1963 – The ship Bluenose II was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The schooner is a major Canadian symbol.
1966 – Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
1967 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (“Long live free Quebec!”); the statement angered the Canadian government and many Anglophone Canadians.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974 – Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1977 – End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
1980 – The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men’s 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
1982 – Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
1983 – The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the “Pine Tar Incident”.
1987 – US supertanker SS Bridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.
1987 – Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan’s highest peak.
1998 – Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
2001 – The Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos. Eleven civilian and military aircraft are destroyed and 15 are damaged. All 14 commandos are shot dead, while seven soldiers from the Sri Lanka Air Force are killed. In addition, three civilians and an engineer die. This incident slowed the Sri Lankan economy.
2013 – A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed limit at 190 km/h (120 mph), killing 78 passengers.
2014 – Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers. The wreckage is later found in Mali. All 116 people onboard are killed.

Births on July 24

1242 – Christina von Stommeln, German Roman Catholic mystic, ecstatic, and stigmatic (d. 1312)
1468 – Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1524)
1529 – Charles II, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (d. 1577)
1561 – Maria of the Palatinate-Simmern (d. 1589)
1574 – Thomas Platter the Younger, Swiss physician and author (d. 1628)
1660 – Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1718)
1689 – Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, son of Queen Anne of Great Britain and Prince George of Denmark (d. 1700)
1725 – John Newton, English sailor and priest (d. 1807)
1757 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Ukrainian-Russian painter (d. 1825)
1783 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan commander and politician, 2nd President of Venezuela (d. 1830)
1786 – Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)
1794 – Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish mineralogist and geologist (d. 1865)
1802 – Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (d. 1870)
1803 – Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (d. 1856)
1803 – Alexander J. Davis, American architect (d. 1892)
1821 – William Poole, American boxer and gangster (d. 1855)
1826 – Jan Gotlib Bloch, Polish theorist and activist (d. 1902)
1851 – Friedrich Schottky, Polish-German mathematician and theorist (d. 1935)
1856 – Émile Picard, French mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
1857 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
1857 – Juan Vicente Gómez, Venezuelan general and politician, 27th President of Venezuela (d. 1935)
1860 – Princess Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1919)
1860 – Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1939)
1864 – Frank Wedekind, German actor and playwright (d. 1918)
1867 – Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran journalist and poet (d. 1908)
1867 – E. F. Benson, English archaeologist and author (d. 1940)
1867 – Fred Tate, English cricketer and coach (d. 1943)
1874 – Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and author (d. 1917)
1877 – Calogero Vizzini, Italian mob boss (d. 1954)
1878 – Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1957)
1880 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss-American composer and educator (d. 1959)
1884 – Maria Caserini, Italian actress (d. 1969)
1886 – Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author (d. 1965)
1888 – Arthur Richardson, Australian cricketer and coach (d. 1973)
1889 – Agnes Meyer Driscoll, American cryptanalyst (d. 1971)
1895 – Robert Graves, English poet, novelist, critic (d. 1985)
1897 – Amelia Earhart, American pilot and author (d. 1937)
1899 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (d. 1981)
1900 – Zelda Fitzgerald, American author and poet (d. 1948)
1904 – Leo Arnaud, French-American trombonist, composer, and conductor (d. 1991)
1904 – Richard B. Morris, American historian and academic (d. 1989)
1904 – Delmer Daves, American screenwriter, director and producer (d. 1977)
1909 – John William Finn, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2010)
1910 – Harry Horner, American director and production designer (d. 1994)
1912 – Essie Summers, New Zealand author (d. 1998)
1913 – Britton Chance, American biologist and sailor (d. 2010)
1914 – Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian pharmacologist and physician (d. 2015)
1914 – Ed Mirvish, American-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2007)
1914 – Alan Waddell, Australian walker (d. 2008)
1915 – Enrique Fernando, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (d. 2004)
1916 – John D. MacDonald, American colonel and author (d. 1986)
1917 – Robert Farnon, Canadian trumpet player, composer, and conductor (d. 2005)
1917 – Jack Moroney, Australian cricketer (d. 1999)
1918 – Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist and educator (d. 2012)
1919 – Robert Marsden Hope, Australian lawyer and judge (d. 1999)
1919 – Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, NASA manager (d. 2007)
1919 – John Winkin, American baseball player, coach, and journalist (d. 2014)
1920 – Bella Abzug, American lawyer and politician (d. 1998)
1920 – Constance Dowling, American model and actress (d. 1969)
1921 – Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian tenor and actor (d. 2008)
1921 – Billy Taylor, American pianist and composer (d. 2010)
1922 – Madeleine Ferron, Canadian radio host and author (d. 2010)
1924 – Wilfred Josephs, English composer (d. 1997)
1924 – Aris Poulianos, Greek anthropologist and archaeologist
1927 – Alex Katz, American painter and sculptor
1927 – Zara Mints, Russian-Estonian philologist and academic (d. 1990)
1930 – Alfred Balk, American journalist and author (d. 2010)
1930 – Keshubhai Patel, Indian politician, 10th Chief Minister of Gujarat
1931 – Ermanno Olmi, Italian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 2018)
1931 – Éric Tabarly, French commander (d. 1998)
1932 – Gustav Andreas Tammann, German astronomer and academic (d. 2019)
1933 – Doug Sanders, American golfer (d. 2020)
1934 – P. S. Soosaithasan, Sri Lankan accountant and politician (d. 2017)
1935 – Aaron Elkins, American author and academic
1935 – Pat Oliphant, Australian cartoonist
1935 – Mel Ramos, American painter, illustrator, and academic (d. 2018)
1935 – Les Reed, English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2019)
1935 – Derek Varnals, South African cricketer
1936 – Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian
1936 – Mark Goddard, American actor
1937 – Manoj Kumar, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1937 – Quinlan Terry, English architect, designed the Brentwood Cathedral
1938 – Alexis Jacquemin, Belgian economist and academic (d. 2004)
1938 – Eugene J. Martin, American painter (d. 2005)
1938 – John Sparling, New Zealand cricketer
1939 – Walt Bellamy, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
1939 – David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury, English businessman and politician
1940 – Dan Hedaya, American actor
1941 – John Bond, English banker and businessman
1942 – Heinz, German-English singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2000)
1942 – David Miner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1942 – Chris Sarandon, American actor
1944 – Jim Armstrong, Northern Irish guitarist
1945 – Frank Close, English physicist and academic
1945 – Azim Premji, Indian businessman and philanthropist
1945 – Hugh Ross, Canadian-American astrophysicist and astronomer
1945 – Anthony Watts, English geologist, geophysicist, and academic
1946 – Gallagher, American comedian and actor
1946 – Friedhelm Haebermann, German footballer and manager
1946 – Hervé Vilard, French singer-songwriter
1947 – Zaheer Abbas, Pakistani cricketer and manager
1947 – Geoff McQueen, English screenwriter and producer (d. 1994)
1947 – Peter Serkin, American pianist and educator
1949 – Michael Richards, American actor and comedian
1950 – Jadranka Stojaković, Yugoslav singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
1951 – Lynda Carter, American actress
1951 – Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, English politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
1952 – Ian Cairns, Australian surfer
1952 – Gus Van Sant, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1953 – Julian Brazier, English captain and politician
1953 – Jon Faddis, American trumpet player, composer, and conductor
1953 – Tadashi Kawamata, Japanese contemporary artist
1953 – Claire McCaskill, American lawyer and politician
1953 – James Newcome, English bishop
1954 – Erdoğan Arıca, Turkish footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1954 – Jorge Jesus, Portuguese footballer and manager
1955 – Brad Watson, American author and academic
1956 – Charlie Crist, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of Florida
1957 – Pam Tillis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1958 – Jim Leighton, Scottish footballer and coach
1960 – Catherine Destivelle, French rock climber and mountaineer
1961 – Kerry Dixon, English footballer and manager
1962 – Johnny O’Connell, American race car driver and sportscaster
1963 – Louis Armary, French rugby player
1963 – Karl Malone, American basketball player and coach
1964 – Barry Bonds, American baseball player
1964 – Pedro Passos Coelho, Portuguese economist and politician, 118th Prime Minister of Portugal
1964 – Urmas Kaljend, Estonian footballer
1964 – John Rosengren, American journalist and author
1965 – Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player and sportscaster
1965 – Kadeem Hardison, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1965 – Doug Liman, American director and producer
1966 – Mo-Do, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1966 – Aminatou Haidar, Sahrawi human rights activist
1966 – Martin Keown, English footballer and coach
1968 – Kristin Chenoweth, American actress and singer
1968 – Colleen Doran, American author and illustrator
1968 – Malcolm Ingram, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Laura Leighton, American actress
1969 – Rick Fox, Bahamian basketball player
1969 – Jennifer Lopez, American actress, singer, and dancer
1971 – Dino Baggio, Italian footballer
1971 – Patty Jenkins, American film director and screenwriter
1972 – Kaiō Hiroyuki, Japanese sumo wrestler
1973 – Russell Bawden, Australian rugby league player
1973 – Ana Cristina Oliveira, Portuguese model and actress
1973 – Amanda Stretton, English race car driver and journalist
1974 – Andy Gomarsall, English rugby player
1975 – Tracey Crouch, English politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
1975 – Jamie Langenbrunner, American ice hockey player
1975 – Torrie Wilson, American model, fitness competitor, actress and professional wrestler
1975 – Eric Szmanda, American actor
1976 – Rafer Alston, American basketball player
1976 – Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese race car driver and manager
1978 – Andy Irons, American surfer (d. 2010)
1979 – Rose Byrne, Australian actress
1979 – Jerrod Niemann, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Valerio Scassellati, Italian race car driver
1979 – Anne-Gaëlle Sidot, French tennis player
1979 – Mark Andrew Smith, American author
1979 – Ryan Speier, American baseball player
1980 – Joel Stroetzel, American guitarist
1981 – Doug Bollinger, Australian cricketer
1981 – Summer Glau, American actress
1981 – Mark Robinson, English footballer
1982 – Trevor Matthews, Canadian actor and producer, founded Brookstreet Pictures
1982 – Thiago Medeiros, Brazilian race car driver
1982 – Mewelde Moore, American football player
1982 – Elisabeth Moss, American actress
1982 – Anna Paquin, Canadian-New Zealand actress
1982 – Michael Poppmeier, South African-German rugby player
1983 – Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer
1983 – Asami Mizukawa, Japanese actress
1984 – Patrick Harvey, Australian actor
1984 – Tyler Kyte, Canadian singer and drummer
1985 – Patrice Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Aries Merritt, American hurdler
1985 – Lukáš Rosol, Czech tennis player
1985 – Eric Wright, American football player
1986 – Natalie Tran, Australian actress, online producer
1987 – Filipe Francisco dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
1987 – Nathan Gerbe, American ice hockey player
1987 – Zack Sabre Jr., English wrestler
1988 – Han Seung-yeon, South Korean singer and dancer
1988 – Nichkhun, Thai-American singer-songwriter and actor
1988 – Ricky Petterd, Australian footballer
1989 – Maurkice Pouncey, American football player
1989 – Kim Tae-hwan, South Korean footballer
1990 – Daveigh Chase, American actress
1990 – Travis Mahoney, Australian swimmer
1991 – Manuel Fischnaller, Italian footballer
1991 – Emily Bett Rickards, Canadian actress
1992 – Mikaël Kingsbury, Canadian skier
1992 – Mitch Grassi, American singer and songwriter
1994 – Alejandra Álvarez, Ecuadorian tennis player
1994 – Phillip Lindsay, American football player
1995 – Valentine Holmes, Australian rugby league player
1995 – Kyle Kuzma, American basketball player
1995 – Meisei Chikara, Japanese sumo wrestler
1997 – Emre Mor, Turkish football player
2002 – Nicole Pircio, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast

Deaths on July 24

759 – Oswulf, king of Northumbria
811 – Gao Ying, Chinese politician (b. 740)
946 – Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid, Egyptian ruler (b. 882)
1115 – Matilda of Tuscany (b. 1046)
1129 – Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1053)
1198 – Berthold of Hanover, Bishop of Livonia
1345 – Jacob van Artevelde, Flemish statesman (b. 1290)
1568 – Carlos, Prince of Asturias (b. 1545)
1594 – John Boste, English martyr and saint (b. 1544)
1601 – Joris Hoefnagel, Flemish painter (b. 1542)
1612 – John Salusbury, Welsh politician and poet (b. 1567)
1739 – Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer and educator (b. 1686)
1768 – Nathaniel Lardner, English theologian and author (b. 1684)
1862 – Martin Van Buren, American lawyer and politician, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782)
1891 – Hermann Raster, German-American journalist and politician (b. 1827)
1908 – Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran journalist and poet (b. 1867)
1910 – Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ukrainian-Russian painter (b. 1841)
1927 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author (b. 1892)
1957 – Sacha Guitry, French actor and director (b. 1885)
1962 – Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (b. 1917)
1965 – Constance Bennett, American actress and producer (b. 1904)
1966 – Tony Lema, American golfer (b. 1934)
1969 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author and playwright (b. 1904)
1970 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman, philanthropist, and civil servant (b. 1897)
1974 – James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
1980 – Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian (b. 1925)
1985 – Ezechiele Ramin, Italian missionary and martyr (b. 1953)
1986 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1986 – Qudrat Ullah Shahab, Pakistani civil servant and author (b. 1917)
1991 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1992 – Arletty, French actress and singer (b. 1898)
1992 – Sam Berger, Canadian lawyer and businessman (b. 1900)
1994 – Helen Cordero, Cochiti Pueblo (Native American) Pueblo potter (b. 1915)
1995 – George Rodger, English photographer and journalist (b. 1908)
1996 – Alphonso Theodore Roberts, Vincentian cricketer and activist (b. 1937)
1997 – William J. Brennan Jr., American colonel and jurist (b. 1906)
1997 – Saw Maung, Burmese general and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1928)
2000 – Ahmad Shamloo, Iranian poet and journalist (b. 1925)
2001 – Georges Dor, Canadian author, playwright, and composer (b. 1931)
2005 – Richard Doll, English physiologist and epidemiologist (b. 1912)
2007 – Albert Ellis, American psychologist and author (b. 1913)
2007 – Nicola Zaccaria, Greek opera singer (b. 1923)
2008 – Norman Dello Joio, American pianist and composer (b. 1913)
2011 – Frank Dietrich, German politician (b. 1966)
2011 – Dan Peek, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
2011 – Harald Johnsen, Norwegian bassist and composer (b. 1970)
2011 – David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author (b. 1961)
2011 – Skip Thomas, American football player (b. 1950)
2012 – Chad Everett, American actor and director (b. 1937)
2012 – Sherman Hemsley, American actor and singer (b. 1938)
2012 – Larry Hoppen, American singer and guitarist (b. 1951)
2012 – Robert Ledley, American physiologist and physicist, invented the CT scanner (b. 1926)
2012 – Themo Lobos, Chilean author and illustrator (b. 1928)
2012 – John Atta Mills, Ghanaian lawyer and politician, a President of Ghana (b. 1944)
2012 – Gregorio Peces-Barba, Spanish jurist and politician (b. 1938)
2013 – Garry Davis, American pilot and activist, created the World Passport (b. 1921)
2013 – Fred Dretske, American philosopher and academic (b. 1932)
2013 – Virginia E. Johnson, American psychologist and sexologist (b. 1925)
2013 – Pius Langa, South African lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1939)
2014 – Ik-Hwan Bae, Korean-American violinist and educator (b. 1956)
2014 – Dale Schlueter, American basketball player (b. 1945)
2014 – Hans-Hermann Sprado, German journalist and author (b. 1956)
2015 – Peg Lynch, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1916)
2015 – Ingrid Sischy, South African-American journalist and critic (b. 1952)
2016 – Marni Nixon, American actress and singer (b. 1930)
2017 – Harshida Raval, Indian Gujarati playback singer

Holidays and observances on July 24

Carnival of Awussu (Tunisia)
Children’s Day (Vanuatu)
Christian feast day:
- Charbel (Maronite Church/Catholic Church)
- Christina the Astonishing
- Christina of Bolsena
- Declán of Ardmore
- John Boste
- Kinga (or Cunegunda) of Poland
- Martyrs of Daimiel
- Menefrida of Cornwall
- Sigolena of Albi
- July 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Pioneer Day (Utah)
Police Day (Poland)
Simón Bolívar Day (Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Bolivia)
- Navy Day (Venezuela)

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On This Day

July 22- History, Events, Births, Deaths Holidays and Observances On This Day

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838 – Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1209 – Massacre at Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
1298 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
1342 – St. Mary Magdalene’s flood is the worst such event on record for central Europe.
1443 – Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl in the Old Zürich War.
1456 – Ottoman wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade: John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire.
1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany’s brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
1499 – Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeat the army of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
1587 – Roanoke Colony: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
1598 – William Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice, is entered on the Stationers’ Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers’ Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material.
1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
1706 – The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries’ Parliaments, led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America.
1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio “Cleveland” after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1797 – Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated.
1802 – Emperor Gia Long conquers Hanoi and unified Viet Nam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Cape Finisterre: An inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War: Battle of Salamanca: British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
1893 – Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the ‘official’ victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot.
1916 – Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.
1921 – Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
1933 – Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
1937 – New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
1942 – The Holocaust in Poland: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins.
1943 – World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily.
1943 – World War II: Axis occupation forces violently disperse a massive protest in Athens, killing 22.
1944 – The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland.
1946 – King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
1963 – Crown Colony of Sarawak gains self-governance.
1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan’s conquest of the country in the Second World War.
1977 – Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1983 – Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
1990 – Greg LeMond, an American road racing cyclist, wins his third Tour de France after leading the majority of the race. It was LeMond’s second consecutive Tour de France victory.
1992 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
1993 – Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay’s 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.
2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
2011 – 2011 Norway attacks: first a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
2013 – 2013 Dingxi earthquakes, a series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others.

Births on July 22

1210 – Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (d. 1238)
1437 – John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, English Baron (d. 1498)
1476 – Zhu Youyuan, Ming Dynasty politician (d. 1519)
1478 – Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
1531 – Leonhard Thurneysser, scholar and elector of Brandenburg (d. 1595)
1535 – Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
1552 – Anthony Browne, Sheriff of Surrey and Kent (d. 1592)
1552 – Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton, Lady of English peer and others (d. 1607)
1559 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian priest and saint (d. 1619)
1615 – Marguerite of Lorraine, princess of Lorraine, duchess of Orléans (d. 1672)
1618 – Johan Nieuhof, Dutch traveler (d. 1672)
1621 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (d. 1683)
1630 – Madame de Brinvilliers, French aristocrat (d. 1676)
1647 – Margaret Mary Alacoque, French nun, mystic and saint (d. 1690)
1651 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1711)
1711 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German-Russian physicist and academic (d. 1753)
1713 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, designed the Panthéon (d. 1780)
1733 – Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and historian (d. 1790)
1755 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1839)
1784 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
1839 – Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist (d. 1907)
1844 – William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (d. 1930)
1848 – Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
1849 – Emma Lazarus, American poet and educator (d. 1887)
1856 – Octave Hamelin, French philosopher (d. 1907)
1862 – Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Scottish fencer (d. 1931)
1863 – Alec Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1952)
1878 – Janusz Korczak, Polish pediatrician and author (d. 1942)
1881 – Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (d. 1966)
1882 – Edward Hopper, American painter and etcher (d. 1967)
1884 – Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (d. 1967)
1886 – Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author (d. 1954)
1887 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
1888 – Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (d. 1950)
1888 – Selman Waksman, Jewish-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
1889 – James Whale, English director (d. 1957)
1890 – Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist (d. 1995)
1892 – Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player (d. 1983)
1893 – Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach (d. 1978)
1893 – Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (d. 1990)
1895 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet, journalist, and diplomat (d. 1976)
1898 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet, short story writer, and novelist (d. 1943)
1899 – Sobhuza II of Swaziland (d. 1982)
1908 – Amy Vanderbilt, American author (d. 1974)
1909 – Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano and actress (d. 2014)
1909 – Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (d. 2000)
1910 – Ruthie Tompson, American animator and artist
1913 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bassist, songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1995)
1915 – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Indian-Pakistani politician and diplomat (d. 2000)
1916 – Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984)
1916 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
1921 – William Roth, American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
1923 – Bob Dole, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
1923 – César Fernández Ardavín, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1924 – Margaret Whiting, American singer (d. 2011)
1925 – Jack Matthews, American author, playwright, and academic (d. 2013)
1925 – Joseph Sargent, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
1926 – Bryan Forbes, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1926 – Wolfgang Iser, German scholar, literary theorist (d. 2007)
1927 – Johan Ferner, Norwegian sailor (d. 2015)
1928 – Orson Bean, American actor (d. 2020)
1928 – Jimmy Hill, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2015)
1929 – John Barber, English racing driver (d. 2015)
1929 – Leonid Stolovich, Russian-Estonian philosopher and academic (d. 2013)
1929 – Neil Welliver, American painter (d. 2005)
1929 – Baselios Thomas I, Indian bishop
1931 – Leo Labine, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1932 – Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (d. 2014)
1932 – Tom Robbins, American novelist
1934 – Junior Cook, American saxophonist (d. 1992)
1934 – Louise Fletcher, American actress
1934 – Leon Rotman, Romanian canoeist
1935 – Tom Cartwright, English-Welsh cricketer and coach (d. 2007)
1936 – Don Patterson, American organist (d. 1988)
1936 – Harold Rhodes, English cricketer
1936 – Geraldine Claudette Darden, American mathematician
1937 – Chuck Jackson, American R&B singer and songwriter
1937 – Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese-American wrestler and manager (d. 1999)
1937 – John Price, English cricketer
1937 – Vasant Ranjane, Indian cricketer (d. 2011)
1938 – Terence Stamp, English actor
1940 – Judith Walzer Leavitt, American historian and academic
1940 – Alex Trebek, Canadian-American game show host and producer
1941 – Estelle Bennett, American singer (d. 2009)
1941 – Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (d. 1975)
1941 – George Clinton, American singer-songwriter and producer
1941 – David M. Kennedy, American historian and author
1942 – Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, English-Australian politician (d. 2012)
1942 – Peter Habeler, Austrian mountaineer and skier
1942 – Les Johns, Australian rugby league player and coach
1943 – Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (d. 2014)
1943 – Kay Bailey Hutchison, American lawyer and politician
1943 – Bobby Sherman, American singer-songwriter and actor
1944 – Rick Davies, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1944 – Sparky Lyle, American baseball player and manager
1944 – Anand Satyanand, New Zealand lawyer, judge, and politician, 19th Governor-General of New Zealand
1945 – Philip Cohen, English biochemist and academic
1946 – Danny Glover, American actor, director, and producer
1946 – Paul Schrader, American director and screenwriter
1946 – Rolando Joven Tria Tirona, Filipino archbishop
1946 – Johnson Toribiong, Palauan lawyer and politician, 7th President of Palau
1947 – Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
1947 – Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
1947 – Don Henley, American singer-songwriter and drummer
1949 – Alan Menken, American pianist and composer
1949 – Lasse Virén, Finnish runner and police officer
1950 – S. E. Hinton, American author
1951 – Richard Bennett, American guitarist and producer
1951 – J. V. Cain, American football player (d. 1979)
1951 – Patriarch Daniel of Romania
1953 – Brian Howe, English singer-songwriter
1954 – Al Di Meola, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1954 – Steve LaTourette, American lawyer and politician (d. 2016)
1954 – Lonette McKee, American actress and singer
1954 – Ingrid Daubechies, Belgian physicist and mathematician
1955 – Richard J. Corman, American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (d. 2013)
1955 – Willem Dafoe, American actor
1956 – Mick Pointer, English neo-progressive rock drummer (Marillion; Arena)
1956 – Scott Sanderson, American baseball player and sportscaster
1957 – Dave Stieb, American baseball player
1958 – Tatsunori Hara, Japanese baseball player and coach
1958 – David Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1984)
1960 – Jon Oliva, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1961 – Calvin Fish, English racing driver and sportscaster
1961 – Keith Sweat, American singer-songwriter and producer
1962 – Alvin Robertson, American basketball player
1962 – Martine St. Clair, Canadian singer and actress
1963 – Emilio Butragueño, Spanish footballer
1963 – Emily Saliers, American singer-songwriter and musician
1964 – Will Calhoun, American rock drummer (Living Colour)
1964 – Bonnie Langford, English actress and dancer
1964 – John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1964 – David Spade, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1965 – Derrick Dalley, Canadian educator and politician
1965 – Shawn Michaels, American wrestler, trainer, and actor
1965 – Richard B. Poore, New Zealand humanitarian
1965 – Doug Riesenberg, American football player and coach
1966 – Tim Brown, American football player and manager
1967 – Lauren Booth, English journalist and activist
1967 – Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor
1969 – Despina Vandi, German-Greek singer and actress
1970 – Jason Becker, American guitarist and songwriter
1970 – Steve Carter, Australian rugby league player
1970 – Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player and coach
1972 – Franco Battaini, Italian Motor Cycle racer
1972 – Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor, director, and producer
1972 – Seth Fisher, American illustrator (d. 2006)
1972 – Keyshawn Johnson, American football player and sportscaster
1973 – Brian Chippendale, American singer and drummer
1973 – Mike Sweeney, American baseball player and sportscaster
1973 – Ece Temelkuran, Turkish journalist and author
1973 – Rufus Wainwright, American-Canadian singer-songwriter
1974 – Franka Potente, German actress
1977 – Ezio Galon, Italian rugby player
1977 – Ingo Hertzsch, German footballer
1977 – Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer
1978 – Runako Morton, Nevisian cricketer (d. 2012)
1978 – Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
1979 – Lucas Luhr, German racing driver
1979 – Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player
1980 – Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
1980 – Kate Ryan, Belgian singer-songwriter
1980 – Tablo, South Korean-Canadian rapper
1982 – Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri Lankan cricketer
1983 – Aldo de Nigris, Mexican footballer
1983 – Dries Devenyns, Belgian cyclist
1983 – Steven Jackson, American football player
1983 – Andreas Ulvo, Norwegian pianist
1984 – Stewart Downing, English footballer
1985 – Jessica Abbott, Australian swimmer
1985 – Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player
1985 – Akira Tozawa, Japanese wrestler
1986 – Stevie Johnson, American football player
1987 – Denis Gargaud Chanut, French slalom canoeist
1987 – Charlotte Kalla, Swedish skier
1988 – William Buick, Norwegian-British flat jockey
1988 – Paul Coutts, Scottish footballer
1988 – Thomas Kraft, German footballer
1988 – Sercan Temizyürek, Turkish footballer
1989 – Keegan Allen, American actor, photographer and musician
1991 – Matty James, English footballer
1992 – Anja Aguilar, Filipino actress and singer
1992 – Selena Gomez, American singer and actress
1992 – Carolin Schnarre, German Paralympic equestrian
1993 – Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Kyrgyzstani-American terrorist
1994 – Jaz Sinclair, American film and television actress
1995 – Ezekiel Elliott, American football player
1995 – Armaan Malik, Indian playback singer, composer and songwriter
1996 – Skyler Gisondo, American actor
2002 – Prince Felix of Denmark
2013 – Prince George of Cambridge

Deaths on July 22

698 – Wu Chengsi, nephew of Chinese sovereign Wu Zetian
1258 – Meinhard I, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol (b. c. 1200)
1274 – Henry I of Navarre, Count of Champagne and Brie and King of Navarre
1298 – Sir John de Graham, Scottish soldier at the Battle of Falkirk
1362 – Louis, Count of Gravina (b. 1324)
1376 – Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1310)
1387 – Frans Ackerman, Flemish politician (b. 1330)
1461 – Charles VII of France (b. 1403)
1525 – Richard Wingfield, English courtier and diplomat, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1426)
1540 – John Zápolya, Hungarian king (b. 1487)
1550 – Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (b. 1481)
1581 – Richard Cox, English bishop (b. 1500)
1619 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian priest and saint (b. 1559)
1645 – Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (b. 1587)
1676 – Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
1726 – Hugh Drysdale, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia
1734 – Peter King, 1st Baron King, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1669)
1789 – Joseph Foullon de Doué, French politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1715)
1802 – Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (b. 1771)
1824 – Thomas Macnamara Russell, English admiral
1826 – Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1746)
1832 – Napoleon II, French emperor (b. 1811)
1833 – Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon (b. 1757)
1864 – James B. McPherson, American general (b. 1828)
1869 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (b. 1806)
1902 – Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, Polish cardinal (b. 1822)
1903 – Cassius Marcellus Clay, American publisher, lawyer, and politician, United States Ambassador to Russia (b. 1810)
1904 – Wilson Barrett, English actor and playwright (b. 1846)
1906 – William Snodgrass, Canadian minister and academic (b. 1827)
1908 – Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
1915 – Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (b. 1827)
1916 – James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (b. 1849)
1918 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian lieutenant and first Indian fighter aircraft pilot (b. 1898)
1920 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1849)
1922 – Jōkichi Takamine, Japanese-American chemist and academic (b. 1854)
1932 – J. Meade Falkner, English author and poet (b. 1858)
1932 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and academic (b. 1866)
1932 – Errico Malatesta, Italian activist and author (b. 1853)
1932 – Flo Ziegfeld, American actor and producer (b. 1867)
1934 – John Dillinger, American gangster (b. 1903)
1937 – Ted McDonald, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1891)
1940 – George Fuller, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1861)
1940 – Albert Young, American boxer and promoter (b. 1877)
1948 – Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player (b. 1909)
1950 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
1958 – Mikhail Zoshchenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and author (b. 1895)
1967 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (b. 1878)
1968 – Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist and cartoonist (b. 1908)
1969 – Judy Garland, american actress, singer, dancer, and vaudevillian (b. 1922)
1970 – George Johnston, Australian journalist and author (b. 1912)
1974 – Wayne Morse, American lawyer and politician (b. 1900)
1979 – J. V. Cain, American football player (b. 1951)
1979 – Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1929)
1986 – Floyd Gottfredson, American author and illustrator (b. 1905)
1986 – Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
1987 – Fahrettin Kerim Gökay, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1900)
1990 – Manuel Puig, Argentinian author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
1990 – Eduard Streltsov, Soviet footballer (b. 1937)
1992 – David Wojnarowicz, American painter, photographer, and activist (b. 1954)
1995 – Harold Larwood, English-Australian cricketer (b. 1904)
1996 – Rob Collins, English keyboard player (b. 1956)
1998 – Fritz Buchloh, German footballer and coach (b. 1909)
2000 – Eric Christmas, English-born Canadian actor (b. 1916)
2000 – Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1925)
2000 – Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic (b. 1920)
2000 – Claude Sautet, French director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
2001 – Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
2004 – Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (b. 1933)
2004 – Illinois Jacquet, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1922)
2005 – Eugene Record, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
2006 – Dika Newlin, American composer, singer-songwriter, and pianist (d. 1923)
2006 – José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountaineer (b. 1965)
2007 – Mike Coolbaugh, American baseball player and coach (b. 1972)
2007 – Jarrod Cunningham, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1968)
2007 – László Kovács, Hungarian-American director and cinematographer (b. 1933)
2007 – Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (b. 1906)
2008 – Estelle Getty, American actress (b. 1923)
2009 – Richard M. Givan, American lawyer and judge (b. 1921)
2009 – Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947)
2010 – Kenny Guinn, American banker and politician, 27th Governor of Nevada (b. 1936)
2011 – Linda Christian, Mexican-American actress (b. 1923)
2011 – Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (b. 1945)
2012 – Ding Guangen, Chinese engineer and politician (b. 1929)
2012 – George Armitage Miller, American psychologist and academic (b. 1920)
2012 – Frank Pierson, American director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2013 – Natalie de Blois, American architect, co-designed the Lever House (b. 1921)
2013 – Dennis Farina, American policeman and actor (b. 1944)
2013 – Lawrie Reilly, Scottish footballer (b. 1928)
2013 – Rosalie E. Wahl, American lawyer and judge (b. 1924)
2014 – Johann Breyer, German SS officer (b. 1925)
2014 – Louis Lentin, Irish director and producer (b. 1933)
2014 – Nitzan Shirazi, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1971)
2018 – Frank Havens, American canoeist (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances on July 22

Birthday of the Late King Sobhuza (Swaziland)
Christian feast day:
- Abd-al-Masih
- Joseph of Tiberias (or of Palestine)
- Markella
- Mary Magdalene
- Nohra (Maronite Church)
- July 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which Parents’ Day can fall, while 28 July is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Sunday in July. (United States)
National Press Day (Azerbaijan)
Pi Approximation Day, see also March 14
Ratcatcher’s Day
Revolution Day (The Gambia)
Sarawak Self-government Day (Sarawak, Malaysia)

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July 21- History, Events, Births, Deaths Holidays and Observances On This Day

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356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
230 – Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope.
285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
365 – The 365 Crete earthquake affects the Greek island of Crete with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing a destructive tsunami that affects the coasts of Libya and Egypt, especially Alexandria. Many thousands were killed.
905 – King Berengar I of Italy and a hired Hungarian army defeats the Frankish forces at Verona. King Louis III is captured and blinded for breaking his oath (see 902).
1242 – Battle of Taillebourg: Louis IX of France puts an end to the revolt of his vassals Henry III of England and Hugh X of Lusignan.
1403 – Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
1545 – The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight.
1568 – Eighty Years’ War: Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
1645 – Qing dynasty regent Dorgon issues an edict ordering all Han Chinese men to shave their forehead and braid the rest of their hair into a queue identical to those of the Manchus.
1656 – The Raid on Málaga takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1718 – The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
1774 – Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
1798 – French campaign in Egypt and Syria: Napoleon’s forces defeat an Ottoman-Mamluk army near Cairo in the Battle of the Pyramids.
1831 – Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
1861 – American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run: At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
1877 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
1904 – Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
1907 – The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
1919 – The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
1925 – Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).
1944 – World War II: Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam, starting a battle that will end on August 10.
1944 – World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are tortured and executed in Berlin, Germany, for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
1949 – The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
1952 – The 7.3 M_w  Kern County earthquake strikes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 12 and injuring hundreds.
1954 – First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
1959 – NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” initiative.
1959 – Elijah Jerry “Pumpsie” Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
1960 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, becoming the world’s first female head of government
1961 – Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
1969 – Apollo program: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon.
1970 – After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
1972 – The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130.
1973 – In Lillehammer, Norway, Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.
1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
1977 – The start of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
1979 – Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, becomes the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1983 – The world’s lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).
1990 – Taiwan’s military police forces mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5540 for repatriation to Fujian, causing 25 people to die from suffocation.
1995 – Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People’s Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
2001 – At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
2005 – July 2005 London bombings occur.
2008 – Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first president of Nepal.
2011 – NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
2012 – Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.

Births on July 21

541 – Emperor Wen of Sui, emperor of the Sui Dynasty (d. 604)
1030 – Kyansittha, King of Burma (d. 1112)
1414 – Pope Sixtus IV (d. 1484)
1462 – Queen Jeonghyeon, Korean royal consort (d. 1530)
1476 – Alfonso I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara (d. 1534)
1476 – Anna Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1497)
1515 – Philip Neri, Italian Roman Catholic saint (d. 1595)
1535 – García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete, Royal Governor of Chile (d. 1609)
1616 – Anna de’ Medici, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1676)
1620 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)
1648 – John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee, Scottish general (d. 1689)
1654 – Pedro Calungsod, Filipino catechist and sacristan; later canonized (d. 1672)
1664 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (d. 1721)
1693 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1768)
1710 – Paul Möhring, German physician, botanist, and zoologist (d. 1792)
1783 – Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon, French general (d. 1853)
1808 – Simion Bărnuțiu, Romanian historian, academic, and politician (d. 1864)
1810 – Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist and physicist (d. 1878)
1811 – Robert Mackenzie, Scottish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Queensland (d. 1873)
1816 – Paul Reuter, German-English journalist, founded Reuters (d. 1899)
1858 – Maria Christina of Austria (d. 1929)
1858 – Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
1858 – Alfred Henry O’Keeffe, New Zealand painter and educator (d. 1941)
1863 – C. Aubrey Smith, English-American cricketer and actor (d. 1948)
1866 – Carlos Schwabe, Swiss Symbolist painter and printmaker (d. 1926)
1870 – Emil Orlík, Czech painter, etcher, and lithographer (d. 1932)
1875 – Charles Gondouin, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (d. 1947)
1880 – Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak astronomer, general, and politician (d. 1919)
1882 – David Burliuk, Ukrainian author and illustrator (d. 1967)
1885 – Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1948)
1891 – Julius Saaristo, Finnish javelin thrower and soldier (d. 1969)
1893 – Hans Fallada, German author (d. 1947)
1896 – Sophie Bledsoe Aberle, Native American anthropologist, physician and nutritionist (d. 1996)
1898 – Sara Carter, American singer-songwriter (d. 1979)
1899 – Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
1899 – Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
1900 – Isadora Bennett, American theatre manager and modern dance publicity agent (d. 1980)
1903 – Russell Lee, American photographer and journalist (d. 1986)
1903 – Roy Neuberger, American businessman and financier, co-founded Neuberger Berman (d. 2010)
1908 – Jug McSpaden, American golfer and architect (d. 1996)
1911 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and theorist (d. 1980)
1911 – Umashankar Joshi, Indian author, poet, and scholar (d. 1988)
1914 – Aleksander Kreek, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1977)
1917 – Alan B. Gold, Canadian lawyer and jurist (d. 2005)
1920 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 2005)
1920 – Isaac Stern, Polish violinist and conductor (d. 2001)
1920 – Jean Daniel, Algerian-French-Jewish journalist and author (d. 2020)
1921 – James Cooke Brown, American sociologist and author (d. 2000)
1921 – John Horsley, English actor (d. 2014)
1921 – Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, Zulu sangoma (d. 2020)
1922 – Kay Starr, American singer (d. 2016)
1922 – Mollie Sugden, English actress (d. 2009)
1923 – Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1923 – Queenie Watts, English actress and singer (d. 1980)
1924 – Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 7th Governor of Balochistan
1924 – Don Knotts, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1926 – Paul Burke, American actor (d. 2009)
1925 – Johnny Peirson, Canadian hockey player
1926 – Norman Jewison, Canadian actor, director, and producer
1926 – Bill Pertwee, English actor (d. 2013)
1926 – Karel Reisz, Czech-English director and producer (d. 2002)
1928 – Sky Low Low, Canadian wrestler (d. 1998)
1929 – Bob Orton, American wrestler (d. 2006)
1930 – Anand Bakshi, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 2002)
1930 – Helen Merrill, American singer
1931 – Sonny Clark, American pianist and composer (d. 1963)
1931 – Plas Johnson, American saxophonist
1931 – Leon Schidlowsky, Chilean-Israeli painter and composer
1932 – Kaye Stevens, American singer and actress (d. 2011)
1933 – John Gardner, American novelist, essayist, and critic (d. 1982)
1934 – Chandu Borde, Indian cricketer and manager
1934 – Jonathan Miller, English actor, director, and author (d. 2019)
1935 – Norbert Blüm, German businessman and politician
1935 – Moe Drabowsky, Polish-American baseball player and coach (d. 2006)
1937 – Eduard Streltsov, Soviet footballer (d. 1990)
1938 – Les Aspin, American captain and politician, 18th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 1995)
1938 – Anton Kuerti, Austrian-Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor
1938 – Janet Reno, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General (d. 2016)
1939 – Jamey Aebersold, American saxophonist and educator
1939 – Kim Fowley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and manager (d. 2015)
1939 – John Negroponte, English-American diplomat, 23rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1943 – Fritz Glatz, Austrian race car driver (d. 2002)
1943 – Edward Herrmann, American actor (d. 2014)
1943 – Henry McCullough, Northern Irish guitarist, singer and songwriter (d. 2016)
1944 – John Atta Mills, Ghanaian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Ghana (d. 2012)
1944 – Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian author and academic (d. 2017)
1944 – Paul Wellstone, American academic and politician (d. 2002)
1945 – Wendy Cope, English poet, critic, and educator
1945 – Geoff Dymock, Australian cricketer
1945 – Barry Richards, South African cricketer
1946 – Ken Starr, American lawyer and judge, 39th Solicitor General of the United States
1946 – Timothy Harris, American author, screenwriter and producer
1947 – Chetan Chauhan, Indian cricketer and politician
1948 – Art Hindle, Canadian actor and director
1948 – Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948 – Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
1949 – Christina Hart, American playwright and actress
1949 – Hirini Melbourne, New Zealand singer-songwriter and poet (d. 2003)
1950 – Ubaldo Fillol, Argentinian footballer and coach
1950 – Susan Kramer, Baroness Kramer, English politician, Minister of State for Transport
1951 – Richard Gozney, English politician and diplomat, 30th Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, 139th Governor of Bermuda
1951 – Robin Williams, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2014)
1952 – John Barrasso, American physician and politician
1952 – Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah, Malaysian economist
1953 – Eric Bazilian, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and producer (The Hooters)
1953 – Jeff Fatt, Australian keyboard player and actor
1953 – Bernie Fraser, New Zealand rugby player
1953 – Brian Talbot, English footballer and manager
1955 – Howie Epstein, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (d. 2003)
1955 – Dannel Malloy, American lawyer and politician, 88th Governor of Connecticut
1955 – Henry Priestman, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
1955 – Taco, Indonesian-born Dutch singer and entertainer
1955 – Béla Tarr, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter
1956 – Michael Connelly, American author
1957 – Stefan Löfven, Swedish trade union leader and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Sweden
1957 – Jon Lovitz, American comedian, actor, and producer
1958 – Dave Henderson, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2015)
1959 – Gene Miles, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1959 – Reha Muhtar, Turkish journalist
1959 – Paul Vautin, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
1960 – Amar Singh Chamkila, Indian singer-songwriter (d. 1988)
1960 – Veselin Matić, Serbian basketball player and coach
1960 – Fritz Walter, German footballer
1961 – Morris Iemma, Australian politician, 40th Premier of New South Wales
1961 – Jim Martin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 – Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale, English businessman
1963 – Kevin Poole, English footballer and manager
1963 – Giant Silva, Brazilian basketball player, mixed martial artist, and wrestler
1964 – Steve Collins, Irish boxer and actor
1964 – Ross Kemp, English actor and producer
1964 – Jens Weißflog, German ski jumper and journalist
1965 – Guðni Bergsson, Icelandic footballer and lawyer
1965 – Mike Bordick, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
1966 – Arija Bareikis, American actress
1966 – Sarah Waters, Welsh author and academic
1968 – Brandi Chastain, American soccer player and sportscaster
1968 – Aditya Srivastava, Indian actor
1968 – Lyle Odelein, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Godfrey, American comedian and actor
1969 – Klaus Graf, German race car driver
1969 – Emerson Hart, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1969 – Isabell Werth, German equestrian
1970 – Michael Fitzpatrick, American singer-songwriter
1971 – Emmanuel Bangué, French long jumper
1971 – Charlotte Gainsbourg, English-French actress and singer
1971 – Nitzan Shirazi, Israeli footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1972 – Korey Cooper, American singer and guitarist
1972 – Catherine Ndereba, Kenyan marathon runner
1974 – Geoff Jenkins, American baseball player and coach
1974 – René Reinumägi, Estonian actor, director, and screenwriter
1975 – Christopher Barzak, American author and educator
1975 – Cara Dillon, Irish singer-songwriter
1975 – Ravindra Pushpakumara, Sri Lankan cricketer
1975 – Mike Sellers, American football player
1976 – Jaime Murray, English actress
1977 – Paul Casey, English golfer
1978 – Justin Bartha, American actor
1978 – Anderson da Silva Gibin, Brazilian footballer
1978 – Josh Hartnett, American actor
1978 – Julian Huppert, English academic and politician
1978 – Damian Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer
1978 – Gary Teale, Scottish footballer
1979 – David Carr, American football player
1979 – Tamika Catchings, American basketball player
1979 – Luis Ernesto Michel, Mexican footballer
1979 – Andriy Voronin, Ukrainian footballer
1980 – Justin Griffith, American football player
1980 – Sandra Laoura, French skier
1980 – CC Sabathia, American baseball player
1980 – Yvonne Sampson, Australian journalist and sportscaster
1981 – Paloma Faith, English singer-songwriter and actress
1981 – Anabelle Langlois, Canadian figure skater
1981 – Joaquín, Spanish footballer
1981 – Romeo Santos, American singer-songwriter
1981 – Stefan Schumacher, German cyclist
1982 – Jason Cram, Australian swimmer
1982 – Mao Kobayashi, Japanese newscaster and actress (d. 2017)
1984 – Jurrick Juliana, Dutch footballer
1984 – Liam Ridgewell, English footballer
1985 – Mati Lember, Estonian footballer
1985 – Von Wafer, American basketball player
1986 – Anthony Annan, Ghanaian footballer
1986 – Rebecca Ferguson, American-English singer-songwriter
1986 – Jason Thompson, American basketball player
1987 – Bilel Mohsni, French footballer
1987 – Jesús Zavala, Mexican footballer
1988 – KB, American rapper
1988 – DeAndre Jordan, American basketball player
1988 – Chris Mitchell, Scottish footballer (d. 2016)
1989 – Marco Fabián, Mexican footballer
1989 – Juno Temple, English actress
1990 – Chris Martin, English footballer
1990 – Jason Roy, English cricketer
1990 – Erislandy Savón, Cuban amateur heavyweight boxer
1990 – Franck Elemba, Congolese athlete
1991 – Sara Sampaio, Portuguese model
1992 – Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
1996 – Mikael Ingebrigtsen, Norwegian footballer
1998 – Thomas Preining, Austrian racing driver

Deaths on July 21

658 – K’an II, Mayan ruler (b. 588)
710 – Li Guo’er, princess of the Tang dynasty
710 – Wei, empress of the Tang Dynasty
710 – Shangguan Wan’er, Chinese poet (b. 664)
987 – Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou
1259 – Gojong of Goryeo
1403 – Henry Percy, English soldier (b. 1364)
1403 – Sir Walter Blount, English soldier, standard-bearer of Henry IV
1403 – Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford, English soldier
1425 – Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1350)
1552 – Antonio de Mendoza, Spanish politician, 1st Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1495)
1688 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1610)
1793 – Antoine Bruni d’Entrecasteaux, French admiral, explorer, and politician (b. 1739)
1796 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter (b. 1759)
1798 – François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
1798 – Anthony Perry, Irish rebel leader (b. ca. 1760)
1868 – William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician (b. 1789)
1878 – Sam Bass, American outlaw (b. 1851)
1880 – Hiram Walden, American general and politician (b. 1800)
1889 – Nelson Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
1899 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1833)
1920 – Fiammetta Wilson, English astronomer and educator (b. 1864)
1932 – Bill Gleason, American baseball player (b. 1858)
1934 – Hubert Lyautey, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (b. 1854)
1938 – Owen Wister, American lawyer and author (b. 1860)
1941 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian poet and scholar (b. 1872)
1943 – Charley Paddock, American runner and actor (b. 1900)
1943 – Louis Vauxcelles, French Jewish art critic (b. 1870)
1944 – Claus von Stauffenberg, German soldier (b. 1907)
1946 – Gualberto Villarroel, Bolivian soldier and politician, 45th President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
1948 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1904)
1952 – Pedro Lascuráin, Mexican politician, president for 45 minutes on February 13, 1913. (b. 1856)
1966 – Philipp Frank, Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, Vienna Circle member (b. 1884)
1967 – Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1907)
1967 – Albert Lutuli, South African academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
1967 – Basil Rathbone, South African-American actor and singer (b. 1892)
1968 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
1970 – Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
1970 – Bob Kalsu, American football player and lieutenant (b. 1945)
1972 – Ralph Craig, American sprinter and sailor (b. 1889)
1972 – Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Bhutanese king (b. 1928)
1977 – Lee Miller, American model and photographer (b. 1907)
1982 – Dave Garroway, American journalist and actor (b. 1913)
1991 – Paul Warwick, English race car driver (b. 1969)
1994 – Marijac, French author and illustrator (b. 1908)
1997 – Olaf Kopvillem, Estonian-Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1926)
1998 – Alan Shepard, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1923)
1998 – Robert Young, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
2000 – Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (b. 1948)
2002 – Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (b. 1908)
2003 – John Davies, English-New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1938)
2004 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (b. 1929)
2004 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2005 – Long John Baldry, English-Canadian singer and actor (b. 1941)
2005 – Lord Alfred Hayes, English-American wrestler and manager (b. 1928)
2006 – Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-American actor and singer (b. 1933)
2006 – Ta Mok, Cambodian soldier and monk (b. 1926)
2007 – Dubravko Škiljan, Croatian linguist and academic (b. 1949)
2008 – Donald Stokes, English businessman (b. 1914)
2010 – Luis Corvalán, Chilean educator and politician (b. 1916)
2010 – Ralph Houk, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1919)
2010 – John E. Irving, Canadian businessman (b. 1932)
2012 – Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-American journalist and author (b. 1941)
2012 – Marie Kruckel, American baseball player (b. 1924)
2012 – Ali Podrimja, Albanian poet and author (b. 1942)
2012 – James D. Ramage, American admiral and pilot (b. 1916)
2012 – Angharad Rees, English-born Welsh actress (b. 1944)
2012 – Don Wilson, English cricketer and coach (b. 1937)
2013 – Andrea Antonelli, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1988)
2013 – Lourembam Brojeshori Devi, Indian martial artist (b. 1981)
2013 – Det de Beus, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1958)
2013 – Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom, Colombian-French composer and educator (b. 1971)
2013 – Fred Taylor, American football player and coach (b. 1920)
2014 – Louise Abeita, Isleta Pueblo (Native American) writer, poet, and educator (b. 1926)
2014 – Dan Borislow, American businessman, invented the magicJack (b. 1961)
2014 – Lettice Curtis, English engineer and pilot (b. 1915)
2014 – Hans-Peter Kaul, German lawyer and judge (b. 1943)
2014 – Rilwanu Lukman, Nigerian engineer and politician (b. 1938)
2014 – Kevin Skinner, New Zealand rugby player and boxer (b. 1927)
2015 – Robert Broberg, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
2015 – E. L. Doctorow, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1931)
2015 – Nicholas Gonzalez, American physician (b. 1947)
2015 – Czesław Marchaj, Polish-English sailor and academic (b. 1918)
2015 – Dick Nanninga, Dutch footballer (b. 1949)
2016 – Dennis Green, American football player and coach (b. 1949)
2017 – John Heard, American film and television actor (b. 1946)
2018 – Alene Duerk, U.S. Navy first female admiral (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances on July 21

Christian feast day:
- Albert John Luthuli (Episcopal Church)
- Arbogast
- Barhadbesciabas
- Carlos of Brazil (Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church)
- Daniel (Catholic Church)
- Lawrence of Brindisi
- Praxedes
- Victor of Marseilles
- July 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Liberation Day in 1944 (Guam)
Belgian National Day (Belgium)
Racial Harmony Day (Singapore)
Summer Kazanskaya (Russia)

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July 20 – History, Events, Births, Deaths Holidays and Observances On This Day

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AD 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defeats Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI at the Battle of Marcellae.
911 – Rollo lays siege to Chartres.
1189 – Richard I of England officially invested as Duke of Normandy.
1225 – Treaty of San Germano is signed at San Germano between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Pope Gregory IX. A Dominican named Guala is responsible for the negotiations.
1398 – The Battle of Kellistown was fought on this day between the forces of the English led by Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March against the O’Byrnes and O’Tooles under the command of Art Óg mac Murchadha Caomhánach, the most powerful Chieftain in Leinster.
1402 – Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara: Timur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I.
1592 – During the first Japanese invasion of Korea, Japanese forces led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi captured Pyongyang, although they were ultimately unable to hold it.
1715 – Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Empire captures Nauplia, the capital of the Republic of Venice’s “Kingdom of the Morea”, thereby opening the way to the swift Ottoman reconquest of the Morea.
1738 – Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
1799 – Tekle Giyorgis I begins his first of six reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia.
1807 – Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world’s first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
1810 – Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
1831 – Seneca and Shawnee people agree to relinquish their land in western Ohio for 60,000 acres west of the Mississippi River.
1848 – The first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, a two-day event, concludes.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek: Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
1866 – Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Lissa: The Austrian Navy, led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea.
1871 – British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
1885 – The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
1917 – World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
1920 – The Greek Army takes control of Silivri after Greece is awarded the city by the Paris Peace Conference; by 1923 Greece effectively lost control to the Turks.
1922 – The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
1932 – In the Preußenschlag (“Prussian coup”), German President Paul von Hindenburg dissolves the government of Prussia
1934 – Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
1934 – West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
1935 – Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
1936 – The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
1938 – The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
1940 – Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
1940 – California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
1941 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrentiy Beria its chief.
1944 – World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
1949 – Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war.
1950 – Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
1951 – King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
1954 – Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany’s secret service, defects to East Germany.
1960 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world’s first elected female head of government.
1960 – The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
1961 – French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
1964 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attack the capital of Định Tường Province, Cái Bè, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of whom are children).
1968 – The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11’s crew successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later.
1969 – A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, six days after the beginning of the “Football War”.
1974 – Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d’état, organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.
1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
1977 – The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.
1977 – The Johnstown flood of 1977 kills 84 people and causes millions of dollars in damages.
1982 – Hyde Park and Regent’s Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent’s Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.
1985 – The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
1989 – Burma’s ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
1992 – Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
1997 – The fully restored USS Constitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
1999 – The Chinese Communist Party begins a persecution campaign against Falun Gong, arresting thousands nationwide.
2005 – The Civil Marriage Act legalizes same-sex marriage in Canada.
2012 – James Holmes opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 70 others.
2013 – Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.
2015 – A huge explosion in the mostly Kurdish border town of Suruç, Turkey, targeting the Socialist Youth Associations Federation, kills at least 31 people and injures over 100.
2015 – The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.
2017 – O. J. Simpson is granted parole to be released from prison after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence after being convicted of armed robbery in Las Vegas.

Births on July 20

356 BC – Alexander the Great, Macedonian king (d. 323 BC)
647 – Yazid I, Arabian caliph (d. 683)
682 – Taichō, Japanese monk and scholar (d. 767)
1304 – Petrarch, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1374)
1313 – John Tiptoft, 2nd Baron Tibetot (d. 1367)
1346 – Margaret, Countess of Pembroke, daughter of King Edward III of England (d. 1361)
1470 – John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath, English noble (d. 1539)
1519 – Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
1537 – Arnaud d’Ossat, French cardinal (d. 1604)
1583 – Alban Roe, English Benedictine martyr (d. 1642)
1591 – Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (d. 1643)
1592 – Johan Björnsson Printz, governor of New Sweden (d. 1663)
1601 – Robert Wallop, English politician (d. 1667)
1620 – Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder, Dutch poet and scholar (d. 1681)
1649 – William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (d. 1709)
1754 – Antoine Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher and academic (d. 1836)
1757 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian politician and diplomat (d. 1811)
1762 – Jakob Haibel, Austrian tenor and composer (d. 1826)
1774 – Auguste de Marmont, French general (d. 1852)
1789 – Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1839)
1804 – Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (d. 1892)
1822 – Gregor Mendel, Austro-German monk, geneticist and botanist (d. 1884)
1838 – Augustin Daly, American playwright and manager (d. 1899)
1838 – William Paine Lord, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of Oregon (d. 1911)
1838 – Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, English civil servant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 1928)
1847 – Max Liebermann, German painter and academic (d. 1935)
1849 – Robert Anderson Van Wyck, American lawyer and politician, 91st Mayor of New York City (d. 1918)
1852 – Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1932)
1854 – Philomène Belliveau, Canadian artist (d. 1940)
1864 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
1864 – Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist (d. 1913)
1868 – Miron Cristea, Romanian cleric and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1939)
1873 – Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian pilot (d. 1932)
1876 – Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician and academic (d. 1944)
1877 – Tom Crean, Irish sailor and explorer (d. 1938)
1882 – Olga Hahn-Neurath, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1937)
1889 – John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, Scottish broadcaster, co-founded BBC (d. 1971)
1890 – Verna Felton, American actress (d. 1966)
1890 – Julie Vinter Hansen, Danish-Swiss astronomer and academic (d. 1960)
1890 – Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter (d. 1964)
1893 – George Llewelyn Davies, English soldier (d. 1915)
1895 – László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)
1897 – Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1900 – Maurice Leyland, English cricketer and coach (d. 1967)
1901 – Vehbi Koç, Turkish businessman and philanthropist, founded Koç Holding (d. 1996)
1901 – Eugenio Lopez Sr., Filipino businessman and founder of the Lopez Group of Companies (d. 1975)
1901 – Heinie Manush, American baseball player and manager (d. 1971)
1902 – Leonidas Berry, American gastroenterologist (d. 1995)
1905 – Joseph Levis, American foil fencer (d. 2005)
1909 – Eric Rowan, South African cricketer (d. 1993)
1910 – Vilém Tauský, Czech-English conductor and composer (d. 2004)
1911 – Baqa Jilani, Indian cricketer (d. 1941)
1911 – José Zabala-Santos, Filipino author and illustrator (d. 1985)
1912 – George Johnston, Australian journalist and author (d. 1970)
1914 – Dobri Dobrev, Bulgarian philanthropist (d. 2018)
1914 – Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (d. 2005)
1914 – Ersilio Tonini, Italian cardinal (d. 2013)
1918 – Cindy Walker, American singer-songwriter and dancer (d. 2006)
1919 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (d. 2008)
1919 – Jacquemine Charrott Lodwidge, English writer (d. 2012)
1920 – Elliot Richardson, American lieutenant and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 1999)
1921 – Henri Alleg, English-French journalist and author (d. 2013)
1922 – Alan Stephenson Boyd, American lawyer and politician, 1st United States Secretary of Transportation
1923 – Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005)
1924 – Lola Albright, American actress and singer (d. 2017)
1924 – Thomas Berger, American author and playwright (d. 2014)
1924 – Mort Garson, Canadian-American songwriter and composer (d. 2008)
1925 – Jacques Delors, French economist and politician, 8th President of the European Commission
1925 – Frantz Fanon, French–Algerian psychiatrist and philosopher (d. 1961)
1927 – Barbara Bergmann, American economist and academic (d. 2015)
1927 – Heather Chasen, English actress (d. 2020)
1927 – Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor and composer (d. 2019)
1927 – Ian P. Howard, English-Canadian psychologist and academic (d. 2013)
1928 – Józef Czyrek, Polish economist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2013)
1928 – Belaid Abdessalam, Prime Minister of Algeria
1929 – Hazel Hawke, Australian social worker and pianist, 23rd Spouse of the Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2013)
1929 – Mike Ilitch, American businessman, co-founded Little Caesars (d. 2017)
1929 – Rajendra Kumar, Pakistani-Indian actor and producer (d. 1999)
1929 – David Tonkin, Australian politician, 38th Premier of South Australia (d. 2000)
1930 – Giannis Agouris, Greek journalist and author (d. 2006)
1930 – Chuck Daly, American basketball player and coach (d. 2009)
1930 – William H. Goetzmann, American historian and author (d. 2010)
1930 – Sally Ann Howes, English-American singer and actress
1931 – Tony Marsh, English race car driver (d. 2009)
1932 – Nam June Paik, American artist (d. 2006)
1932 – Otto Schily, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of the Interior
1933 – Buddy Knox, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
1933 – Cormac McCarthy, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
1933 – Rex Williams, English snooker player
1935 – Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo, English businessman and art collector
1935 – Sleepy LaBeef, American rockabilly singer and musician (d. 2019)
1936 – Alistair MacLeod, Canadian novelist and short story writer (d. 2014)
1936 – Barbara Mikulski, American social worker and politician
1938 – Deniz Baykal, Turkish lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
1938 – Roger Hunt, English footballer
1938 – Tony Oliva, Cuban-American baseball player and coach
1938 – Diana Rigg, English actress
1938 – Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981)
1939 – Judy Chicago, American painter and sculptor
1941 – Don Chuy, American football player (d. 2014)
1941 – Periklis Korovesis, Greek author and journalist
1941 – Kurt Raab, German actor, screenwriter, and production designer (d. 1988)
1942 – Pete Hamilton, American race car driver
1943 – Chris Amon, New Zealand race car driver (d. 2016)
1943 – Bob McNab, English footballer
1943 – Adrian Păunescu, Romanian poet, journalist, and politician (d. 2010)
1943 – Wendy Richard, English actress (d. 2009)
1944 – Mel Daniels, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
1944 – W. Cary Edwards, American politician (d. 2010)
1944 – Olivier de Kersauson, French sailor
1944 – T. G. Sheppard, American country music singer-songwriter
1945 – Kim Carnes, American singer-songwriter
1945 – Larry Craig, American soldier and politician
1945 – John Lodge, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1945 – Bo Rein, American football player and coach (d. 1980)
1946 – Randal Kleiser, American actor, director, and producer
1947 – Gerd Binnig, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1947 – Carlos Santana, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948 – Muse Watson, American actor and producer
1950 – Edward Leigh, English lawyer and politician
1950 – Lucille Lemay, Canadian archer
1951 – Jeff Rawle, English actor and screenwriter
1953 – Dave Evans, Welsh-Australian singer-songwriter
1953 – Thomas Friedman, American journalist and author
1953 – Marcia Hines, American-Australian singer and actress
1954 – Moira Harris, American actress
1954 – Jay Jay French, American guitarist and producer
1955 – Desmond Douglas, Jamaican-English table tennis player
1955 – René-Daniel Dubois, Canadian actor and playwright
1955 – Jem Finer, English banjo player and songwriter
1956 – Paul Cook, English drummer
1956 – Thomas N’Kono, Cameroonian footballer
1956 – Jim Prentice, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Alberta (d. 2016)
1958 – Mick MacNeil, Scottish keyboard player and songwriter
1959 – Radney Foster, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1960 – Claudio Langes, Italian race car driver
1960 – Prvoslav Vujčić, Serbian-Canadian poet and philosopher
1960 – Sudesh Berry, Indian actor
1961 – Óscar Elías Biscet, Cuban physician and activist, founded the Lawton Foundation
1962 – Carlos Alazraqui, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1962 – Giovanna Amati, Italian race car driver
1962 – Julie Bindel, English journalist, author, and academic
1963 – Frank Whaley, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1964 – Chris Cornell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
1964 – Terri Irwin, American-Australian zoologist and author
1964 – Sebastiano Rossi, Italian footballer
1964 – Bernd Schneider, German race car driver
1965 – Jess Walter, American journalist and author
1966 – Stone Gossard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 – Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexican lawyer and politician, 57th President of Mexico
1967 – Courtney Taylor-Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968 – Jimmy Carson, American ice hockey player
1968 – Hami Mandıralı, Turkish footballer and manager
1968 – Kool G Rap, American hip-hop artist
1969 – Josh Holloway, American actor
1969 – Kreso Kovacec, Croatian-German footballer
1969 – Giovanni Lombardi, Italian cyclist
1969 – Joon Park, South Korean-American singer
1969 – Tobi Vail, American singer and guitarist
1971 – Charles Johnson, American baseball player
1971 – Sandra Oh, Canadian actress
1972 – Jamie Ainscough, Australian rugby league player
1972 – Jozef Stümpel, Slovak ice hockey player
1972 – Erik Ullenhag, Swedish jurist and politician
1972 – Vitamin C, American singer-songwriter
1973 – Omar Epps, American actor
1973 – Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway
1973 – Peter Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player and manager
1973 – Nixon McLean, Caribbean cricketer
1973 – Roberto Orci, Mexican-American screenwriter and producer
1973 – Claudio Reyna, American soccer player
1975 – Ray Allen, American basketball player and actor
1975 – Judy Greer, American actress and producer
1975 – Erik Hagen, Norwegian footballer
1975 – Birgitta Ohlsson, Swedish journalist and politician, 5th Swedish Minister for European Union Affairs
1975 – Jason Raize, American singer and actor
1975 – Yusuf Şimşek, Turkish footballer and manager
1976 – Erica Hill, American journalist
1976 – Debashish Mohanty, Indian cricketer and coach
1976 – Andrew Stockdale, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 – Alex Yoong, Malaysian race car driver
1977 – Kiki Musampa, Congolese footballer
1977 – Yves Niaré, French shot putter (d. 2012)
1977 – Alessandro Santos, Brazilian-Japanese footballer
1978 – Pavel Datsyuk, Russian ice hockey player
1978 – Will Solomon, American basketball player
1978 – Elliott Yamin, American singer-songwriter
1978 – Ieva Zunda, Latvian runner and hurdler
1979 – Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (d. 2004)
1979 – Charlotte Hatherley, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – David Ortega, Spanish swimmer
1980 – Tesfaye Bramble, English-Montserratian footballer
1980 – Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian model, fashionista, and businesswoman
1981 – Viktoria Ladõnskaja, Estonian journalist and politician
1982 – Antoine Vermette, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Alexi Casilla, Dominican baseball player
1984 – Matt Gilroy, American ice hockey player
1985 – John Francis Daley, American actor and screenwriter
1985 – Harley Morenstein, Canadian actor and YouTube personality
1985 – David Mundy, Australian footballer
1986 – Osric Chau, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1987 – Nicola Benedetti, Scottish violinist
1987 – Niall McGinn, Irish footballer
1988 – Julianne Hough, American singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer
1988 – Stephen Strasburg, American baseball player
1988 – Shahram Mahmoudi, Iranian volleyball player
1989 – Javier Cortés, Mexican footballer
1989 – Cristian Pasquato, Italian footballer
1990 – Lars Unnerstall, German footballer
1991 – Chiyoshōma Fujio, Mongolian sumo wrestler
1991 – Ryan James, Australian rugby league player
1991 – Kira Kazantsev, Miss America 2015
1991 – Philipp Reiter, German mountaineer and runner
1993 – Steven Adams, New Zealand basketball player
1995 – Moses Leota, New Zealand rugby league player
1996 – Ben Simmons, Australian basketball player

Deaths on July 20

518 – Amantius, Byzantine grand chamberlain and Monophysite martyr
833 – Ansegisus, Frankish abbot and saint
985 – Boniface VII, antipope of Rome
1031 – Robert II, king of France (b. 972)
1156 – Toba, emperor of Japan (b. 1103)
1320 – Oshin, king of Armenia (b. 1282)
1332 – Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland
1387 – Robert IV, French nobleman (b. 1356)
1398 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, Welsh nobleman (b. 1374)
1453 – Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French historian and author (b. 1400)
1454 – John II, king of Castile and León (b. 1405)
1514 – György Dózsa, Transylvanian peasant revolt leader (b. 1470)
1524 – Claude, queen consort of France (b. 1499)
1526 – García Jofre de Loaísa, Spanish explorer (b. 1490)
1600 – William More, English courtier (b. 1520)
1616 – Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, Irish nobleman and rebel soldier (b. 1550)
1704 – Peregrine White, English-American farmer and soldier (b. 1620)
1752 – Johann Christoph Pepusch, German-English composer and theorist (b. 1667)
1816 – Gavrila Derzhavin, Russian poet and politician (b. 1743)
1866 – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician and academic (b. 1826)
1897 – Jean Ingelow, English poet and author (b. 1820)
1901 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
1903 – Leo XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1810)
1908 – Demetrius Vikelas, Greek businessman and author (b. 1835)
1908 – Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (b. 1881)
1910 – Anderson Dawson, Australian politician, 14th Premier of Queensland (b. 1863)
1922 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1856)
1923 – Pancho Villa, Mexican general and politician, Governor of Chihuahua (b. 1878)
1926 – Felix Dzerzhinsky, Russian educator and politician (b. 1877)
1927 – Ferdinand I, king of Romania (b. 1865)
1928 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet and author (b. 1896)
1932 – René Bazin, French author and academic (b. 1853)
1937 – Olga Hahn-Neurath, Austrian mathematician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1882)
1937 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
1941 – Lew Fields, American actor and producer (b. 1867)
1944 – Ludwig Beck, German general (b. 1880)
1945 – Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
1951 – Abdullah I, king of Jordan (b. 1882)
1953 – Dumarsais Estimé, Haitian lawyer and politician, 33rd President of Haiti (b. 1900)
1953 – Jan Struther, English author and hymn-writer (b. 1901)
1955 – Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1869)
1956 – James Alexander Calder, Canadian educator and politician, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence (b. 1868)
1959 – William D. Leahy, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to France (b. 1875)
1965 – Batukeshwar Dutt, Indian activist (b. 1910)
1968 – Bray Hammond, American historian and author (b. 1886)
1970 – Iain Macleod, English journalist and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1913)
1972 – Geeta Dutt, Indian singer and actress (b. 1930)
1973 – Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
1973 – Robert Smithson, American photographer and sculptor (b. 1938)
1974 – Allen Jenkins, American actor and singer (b. 1900)
1974 – Kamal Dasgupta, Bengali music director, composer and folk artist. (b. 1912)
1976 – Joseph Rochefort, American captain and cryptanalyst (b. 1900)
1977 – Gary Kellgren, American record producer, co-founded Record Plant (b. 1939)
1980 – Maria Martinez, San Ildefonso Pueblo (Native American) potter (b. 1887)
1981 – Kostas Choumis, Greek-Romanian footballer (b. 1913)
1983 – Frank Reynolds, American soldier and journalist (b. 1923)
1987 – Richard Egan, American soldier and actor (b. 1921)
1989 – Forrest H. Anderson, American judge and politician, 17th Governor of Montana (b. 1913)
1990 – Herbert Turner Jenkins, American police officer (b. 1907)
1993 – Vince Foster, American lawyer and political figure (b. 1945)
1994 – Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (b. 1897)
1997 – M. E. H. Maharoof, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1939)
1998 – June Byers, American wrestler (b. 1922)
1999 – Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
2002 – Michalis Kritikopoulos, Greek footballer (b. 1946)
2003 – Nicolas Freeling, English author (b. 1927)
2004 – Lala Mara, Fijian politician (b. 1931)
2004 – Valdemaras Martinkėnas, Lithuanian footballer and coach (b. 1965)
2005 – James Doohan, Canadian-American actor (b. 1920)
2005 – Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian journalist and politician (b. 1926)
2005 – Kayo Hatta, American director and cinematographer (b. 1958)
2006 – Ted Grant, South African-English theorist and activist (b. 1913)
2006 – Gérard Oury, French actor, director, and producer (b. 1919)
2007 – Tammy Faye Messner, American Christian evangelist and talk show host (b. 1942)
2008 – Artie Traum, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1943)
2008 – Dinko Šakić, Croatian concentration camp commander (b. 1921)
2009 – Vedat Okyar, Turkish footballer (b. 1945)
2009 – Mark Rosenzweig, American psychologist and academic (b. 1922)
2011 – Lucian Freud, German-English painter and illustrator (b. 1922)
2012 – Alastair Burnet, English journalist (b. 1928)
2012 – Jack Davis, American hurdler (b. 1930)
2012 – José Hermano Saraiva, Portuguese historian, jurist, and politician, Portuguese Minister of Education (b. 1919)
2013 – Pierre Fabre, French pharmacist and businessman, founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre (b. 1926)
2013 – Khurshed Alam Khan, Indian politician, 2nd Governor of Goa (b. 1919)
2013 – Augustus Rowe, Canadian physician and politician (b. 1920)
2013 – Helen Thomas, American journalist and author (b. 1920)
2014 – Victor G. Atiyeh, American businessman and politician, 32nd Governor of Oregon (b. 1923)
2014 – Constantin Lucaci, Romanian sculptor and educator (b. 1923)
2014 – Bob McNamara, American football player (b. 1931)
2014 – Klaus Schmidt, German archaeologist and academic (b. 1953)
2015 – Wayne Carson, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1943)
2015 – Fred Else, English footballer and manager (b. 1933)
2015 – Dieter Moebius, Swiss-German keyboard player and producer (b. 1944)
2016 – Radu Beligan, Romanian actor, director, and essayist (b. 1918)
2017 – Chester Bennington, American singer (b. 1976)

Holidays and observances on July 20

Birthday of Crown Prince Haakon Magnus (Norway)
Christian feast day:
- Ansegisus
- Apollinaris of Ravenna
- Aurelius
- Ealhswith (or Elswith)
- Elijah
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Ross Tubman (Episcopal Church (USA))
- John Baptist Yi (one of The Korean Martyrs)
- Margaret the Virgin
- Thorlac (relic translation)
- Wilgefortis (cult suppressed)
- July 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Día del Amigo (Argentina, Brazil)
Engineer’s Day (Costa Rica)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence declaration of Colombia from Spain in 1810.
International Chess Day
Lempira Day (Honduras)
Tree Planting Day (Central African Republic)

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

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587 BC – Babylon’s siege of Jerusalem ends following the destruction of Solomon’s Temple.
1174 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–74, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
1249 – Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
1260 – The Livonian Order suffers its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the Battle of Durbe against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1558 – Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.
1573 – Eighty Years’ War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
1643 – English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down: In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.
1787 – The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
1793 – Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
1794 – The Battle of Trippstadt is fought between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria.
1814 – The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, is established.
1830 – The General Assembly’s Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengali Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
1831 – Regulamentul Organic, a quasi-constitutional organic law is adopted in Wallachia, one of the two Danubian Principalities that were to become the basis of Romania.
1854 – In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General José María Yáñez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon.
1863 – New York City draft riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
1878 – Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
1919 – The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
1941 – World War II: Montenegrins begin a popular uprising against the Axis powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).
1956 – The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
1962 – In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.
1973 – Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee.
1977 – Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ogaden War.
1977 – New York City: Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.
1985 – The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.
1985 – Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
2003 – French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.
2008 – Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.
2011 – Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.
2011 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of the United Nations.
2013 – Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan.
2016 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron resigns, and is succeeded by Theresa May.

Births on July 13

100 BC – Julius Caesar, Roman general and statesman (d. 44 BC)
1426 – Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (d. 1492)
1478 – Giulio d’Este, illegitimate son of Italian noble (d. 1561)
1470 – Francesco Armellini Pantalassi de’ Medici, Catholic cardinal (d. 1528)
1527 – John Dee, English-Welsh mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer (d. 1609)
1579 – Arthur Dee, English physician and chemist (d. 1651)
1590 – Pope Clement X (d. 1676)
1606 – Roland Fréart de Chambray (d. 1676)
1607 – Wenceslaus Hollar, Czech-English painter and illustrator (d. 1677)
1608 – Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657)
1745 – Robert Calder, Scottish-English admiral (d. 1818)
1756 – Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist (d. 1827)
1760 – István Pauli, Hungarian-Slovene priest and poet (d. 1829)
1770 – Alexander Balashov, Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Police (d. 1837)
1793 – John Clare, English poet and author (d. 1864)
1821 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general and first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 1877)
1831 – Arthur Böttcher, German pathologist and anatomist (d. 1889)
1841 – Otto Wagner, Austrian architect, designed the Austrian Postal Savings Bank and Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station (d. 1918)
1858 – Stewart Culin, American ethnographer and author (d. 1929)
1859 – Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, English economist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1947)
1863 – Margaret Murray, British archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist (d. 1963)
1864 – John Jacob Astor IV, American colonel and businessman (d. 1912)
1877 – Robert Henry Mathews, Australian linguist and missionary (d. 1970)
1884 – Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler and coach (d. 1951)
1889 – Emma Asson, Estonian educator and politician (d. 1965)
1889 – Stan Coveleski, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1892 – Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1941)
1892 – Jonni Myyrä, Finnish-American discus and javelin thrower (d. 1955)
1894 – Isaac Babel, Russian short story writer, journalist, and playwright (d. 1940)
1895 – Sidney Blackmer, American actor (d. 1973)
1896 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter and educator (d. 1992)
1898 – Julius Schreck, German commander (d. 1936)
1898 – Ivan Triesault, Estonian-born American actor (d. 1980)
1900 – George Lewis, American clarinet player and songwriter (d. 1969)
1901 – Eric Portman, English actor (d. 1969)
1903 – Kenneth Clark, English historian and author (d. 1983)
1905 – Alfredo M. Santos, Filipino general (d. 1990)
1905 – Eugenio Pagnini, Italian modern pentathlete (d. 1993)
1905 – Magda Foy, American child actress (d. 2000)
1907 – George Weller, American author, playwright, and journalist (d. 2002)
1908 – Dorothy Round, English tennis player (d. 1982)
1908 – Tim Spencer, American country & western singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1974)
1910 – Lien Gisolf, Dutch high jumper (d. 1993)
1910 – Loren Pope, American journalist and author (d. 2008)
1911 – Bob Steele (broadcaster), American radio personality (d. 2002)
1913 – Dave Garroway, American journalist and television personality (d. 1982)
1913 – Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish businessman (d. 2012)
1913 – Kay Linaker, American actress and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1915 – Kaoru Ishikawa, Japanese author and educator (d. 1989)
1918 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955)
1918 – Ronald Bladen, American painter and sculptor (d. 1988)
1918 – Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator (d. 2015)
1919 – Hau Pei-tsun, 13th Premier of the Republic of China (d. 2020)
1919 – William F. Quinn, American lawyer (d. 2006)
1921 – Ernest Gold, Austrian-American composer and conductor (d. 1999)
1922 – Leslie Brooks, American actress (d. 2011)
1922 – Anker Jørgensen, Danish trade union leader and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 2016)
1922 – Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar, Egyptian military commander (d. 2011)
1922 – Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
1923 – Ashley Bryan, American children’s book author and illustrator
1924 – Johnny Gilbert, American game show host and announcer
1925 – Suzanne Zimmerman, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist
1925 – Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and writer
1926 – Robert H. Justman, American director, producer, and production manager (d. 2008)
1926 – T. Loren Christianson, American politician (d. 2019)
1926 – Thomas Clark, American politician (d. 2020)
1927 – Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician, President of the European Parliament (d. 2017)
1927 – Ian Reed, Australian discus thrower
1928 – Bob Crane, American actor (d. 1978)
1928 – Sven Davidson, Swedish-American tennis player (d. 2008)
1928 – Al Rex, American musician (d. 2020)
1929 – Sofia Muratova, Russian gymnast (d. 2006)
1929 – Svein Ellingsen, Norwegian visual artist and hymnist (d. 2020)
1930 – Sam Greenlee, American author and poet (d. 2014)
1930 – Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
1931 – Frank Ramsey, American basketball player and coach (d. 2018)
1932 – Hubert Reeves, Canadian-French astrophysicist and author
1933 – David Storey, English author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1933 – Piero Manzoni, Italian artist (d. 1963)
1934 – Peter Gzowski, Canadian journalist and academic (d. 2002)
1934 – Gordon Lee, English footballer and manager
1934 – Wole Soyinka, Nigerian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
1934 – Aleksei Yeliseyev, Russian engineer and astronaut
1935 – Jack Kemp, American football player and politician, 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (d. 2009)
1935 – Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian journalist, author, and playwright
1935 – Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist
1936 – Albert Ayler, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1970)
1937 – Ghillean Prance, English botanist and ecologist
1939 – Lambert Jackson Woodburne, South African admiral (d. 2013)
1940 – Tom Lichtenberg, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1940 – Paul Prudhomme, American chef and author (d. 2015)
1940 – Patrick Stewart, English actor, director, and producer
1941 – Grahame Corling, Australian cricketer
1941 – Robert Forster, American actor and producer (d. 2019)
1941 – Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter and translator (d. 2005)
1941 – Jacques Perrin, French actor, director, and producer
1942 – Harrison Ford, American actor and producer
1942 – Roger McGuinn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Chris Serle, English journalist and actor
1944 – Eric Freeman, Australian cricketer
1944 – Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (d. 1991)
1944 – Erno Rubik, Hungarian game designer, architect, and educator, invented the Rubik’s Cube
1945 – Ashley Mallett, Australian cricketer and author
1946 – Bob Kauffman, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
1946 – Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian
1948 – Catherine Breillat, French director and screenwriter
1949 – Bryan Murray, Irish actor
1950 – George Nelson, American astronomer and astronaut
1950 – Ma Ying-jeou, Hong Kong-Taiwanese commander and politician, 12th President of the Republic of China
1950 – Jurelang Zedkaia, Marshallese politician, 5th President of the Marshall Islands (d. 2015)
1951 – Rob Bishop, American educator and politician
1951 – Didi Conn, American actress and singer
1953 – David Thompson, American basketball player
1954 – Ray Bright, Australian cricketer
1954 – Louise Mandrell, American singer-songwriter and actress
1956 – Mark Mendoza, American bass player and songwriter
1956 – Michael Spinks, American boxer
1957 – Thierry Boutsen, Belgian race car driver and businessman
1957 – Cameron Crowe, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1959 – Richard Leman, English field hockey player
1959 – Fuziah Salleh, Malaysian politician
1960 – Robert Abraham, American football player
1960 – Ian Hislop, Welsh-English journalist and screenwriter
1960 – Curtis Rouse, American football player (d. 2013)
1961 – Tahira Asif, Pakistani politician (d. 2014)
1961 – Anders Jarryd, Swedish tennis player
1961 – Khalid Mahmood, Pakistani-English engineer and politician
1961 – Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager
1961 – Tim Watson, Australian footballer, coach, and journalist
1962 – Tom Kenny, American voice actor and screenwriter
1962 – Rhonda Vincent, American singer-songwriter and mandolin player
1963 – Neal Foulds, English snooker player and sportscaster
1963 – Kenny Johnson, American actor, producer, and model
1964 – Charlie Hides, American drag queen and comedian
1964 – Paul Thorn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Eileen Ivers, American fiddler
1965 – Colin van der Voort, Australian rugby league player
1966 – Gerald Levert, American R&B singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006)
1966 – Natalia Luis-Bassa, Venezuelan-English conductor and educator
1967 – Richard Marles, Australian lawyer and politician, 50th Australian Minister for Trade and Investment
1967 – Mark McGowan, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Western Australia
1969 – Brad Godden, Australian rugby league player
1969 – Ken Jeong, American actor, comedian, and physician
1969 – Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan political scientist and politician
1970 – Andrei Tivontchik, German pole vaulter and trainer
1971 – Mark Neeld, Australian footballer and coach
1972 – Sean Waltman, American professional wrestler
1974 – Deborah Cox, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
1974 – Jarno Trulli, Italian race car driver
1975 – Diego Spotorno, Ecuadorian actor
1975 – Mariada Pieridi, Cypriot singer-songwriter
1976 – Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Chris Horn, American football player
1978 – Ryan Ludwick, American baseball player
1978 – Prodromos Nikolaidis, Greek basketball player
1979 – Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer
1979 – Daniel Díaz, Argentinian footballer
1979 – Libuše Průšová, Czech tennis player
1979 – Lucinda Ruh, Swiss figure skater and coach
1981 – Ágnes Kovács, Hungarian swimmer
1981 – Mirco Lorenzetto, Italian cyclist
1982 – Shin-Soo Choo, South Korean baseball player
1982 – Simon Clist, English footballer
1982 – Dominic Isaacs, South African footballer
1982 – Nick Kenny, Australian rugby league player
1982 – Yadier Molina, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1983 – Kristof Beyens, Belgian sprinter
1983 – Marco Pomante, Italian footballer
1983 – Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdler
1984 – Ida Maria, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1985 – Trell Kimmons, American sprinter
1985 – Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
1985 – Charlotte Dujardin, English equestrian
1988 – Marcos Paulo Gelmini Gomes, Brazilian-Italian footballer
1988 – Colton Haynes, American actor, model and singer
1988 – Steven R. McQueen, American actor and model
1988 – Raúl Spank, German high jumper
1988 – Tulisa, English singer-songwriter and actress
1989 – Leon Bridges, American soul singer, songwriter and record producer
1989 – Charis Giannopoulos, Greek basketball player
1990 – Kieran Foran, New Zealand rugby league player
1990 – Eduardo Salvio, Argentinian footballer
1992 – Elise Matthysen, Belgian swimmer
1993 – Daniel Bentley, English footballer
1995 – Cody Bellinger, American baseball player
1995 – Dante Exum, Australian basketball player
2002 – Deborah Medrado, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast
2003 – Wyatt Oleff, American child actor
2005 – Kyle Harrison Breitkopf, Canadian child actor

Deaths on July 13

574 – John III, pope of the Catholic Church
716 – Rui Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 662)
815 – Wu Yuanheng, Chinese poet and politician (b. 758)
884 – Huang Chao, Chinese rebel leader (b. 835)
939 – Leo VII, pope of the Catholic Church
982 – Gunther, margrave of Merseburg
982 – Henry I, bishop of Augsburg
982 – Pandulf II, Lombard prince
982 – Landulf IV, Lombard prince
982 – Abu’l-Qasim, Kalbid emir of Sicily
1024 – Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 973)
1105 – Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (b. 1040)
1205 – Hubert Walter, English archbishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of The United Kingdom (b. 1160)
1357 – Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian academic and jurist (b. 1313)
1380 – Bertrand du Guesclin, French nobleman and knight (b. 1320)
1399 – Peter Parler, German architect, designed St. Vitus Cathedral and Charles Bridge (b. 1330)
1399 – Jadwiga, queen of Poland (b. 1399)
1402 – Jianwen, Chinese emperor (b. 1377)
1491 – Afonso, Portuguese prince (b. 1475)
1551 – John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)
1617 – Adam Wenceslaus, duke of Cieszyn (b. 1574)
1621 – Albert VII, archduke of Austria (b. 1559)
1626 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1563)
1628 – Robert Shirley, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1581)
1629 – Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
1683 – Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1631)
1755 – Edward Braddock, Scottish general (b. 1695)
1762 – James Bradley, English priest and astronomer (b. 1693)
1789 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist and academic (b. 1715)
1793 – Jean-Paul Marat, French physician and theorist (b. 1743)
1807 – Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian cardinal (b. 1725)
1881 – John C. Pemberton, American general (b. 1814)
1889 – Robert Hamerling, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1830)
1890 – John C. Frémont, American general and politician, 5th Territorial Governor of Arizona (b. 1813)
1890 – Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet (b. 1819)
1893 – Young Man Afraid of His Horses, American tribal chief (b. 1836)
1896 – August Kekulé, German chemist and academic (b. 1829)
1907 – Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter and jurist (b. 1866)
1911 – Allan McLean, Scottish-Australian politician, 19th Premier of Victoria (b. 1840)
1921 – Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
1922 – Martin Dies, Sr., American journalist and politician (b. 1870)
1927 – Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, Turkish architect and academic, designed the Tayyare Apartments (b. 1870)
1934 – Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and academic (b. 1849)
1936 – Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and politician (b. 1887)
1941 – Ilmar Raud, Estonian chess player (b. 1913)
1945 – Alla Nazimova, Russian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
1946 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator (b. 1864)
1949 – Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (b. 1877)
1951 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-American composer and painter (b. 1874)
1954 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and educator (b. 1907)
1960 – Joy Davidman, American-English poet and author (b. 1915)
1965 – Photis Kontoglou, Greek painter and illustrator (b. 1895)
1967 – Tom Simpson, English cyclist (b. 1937)
1970 – Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (b. 1896)
1970 – Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (b. 1895)
1973 – Willy Fritsch, German actor and screenwriter (b. 1901)
1974 – Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1976 – Frederick Hawksworth, English engineer (b. 1884)
1976 – Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (b. 1915)
1979 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
1980 – Seretse Khama, Botswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (b. 1921)
1983 – Gabrielle Roy, Canadian engineer and author (b. 1909)
1993 – Davey Allison, American race car driver (b. 1961)
1995 – Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (b. 1920)
1996 – Pandro S. Berman, American director, producer, and production manager (b. 1905)
1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)
1999 – Konstantinos Kollias, Greek general and politician, 168th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1901)
2000 – Jan Karski, Polish-American activist and academic (b. 1914)
2003 – Compay Segundo, Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1907)
2005 – Robert E. Ogren, American zoologist (b. 1922)
2006 – Red Buttons, American actor (b. 1919)
2007 – Michael Reardon, American mountaineer (b. 1965)
2008 – Bronisław Geremek, Polish historian and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1932)
2010 – Manohari Singh, Indian saxophonist and composer (b. 1931)
2010 – George Steinbrenner, American businessman (b. 1930)
2011 – Allan Jeans, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1933)
2012 – Warren Jabali, American basketball player (b. 1946)
2012 – Jerzy Kulej, Polish boxer and politician (b. 1940)
2012 – Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer (b. 1934)
2013 – Leonard Garment, American lawyer and public servant, 14th White House Counsel (b. 1924)
2013 – Henri Julien, French race car driver (b. 1927)
2013 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1982)
2013 – Ottavio Quattrocchi, Italian businessman (b. 1938)
2013 – Vernon B. Romney, American lawyer and politician, 14th Attorney General of Utah (b. 1924)
2013 – Marc Simont, French-American author and illustrator (b. 1915)
2014 – Thomas Berger, American author and playwright (b. 1924)
2014 – Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist, author, and academic (b. 1919)
2014 – Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
2014 – Jeff Leiding, American football player (b. 1961)
2014 – Lorin Maazel, French-American violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1930)
2015 – Philipp Mißfelder, German historian and politician (b. 1979)
2015 – Martin Litchfield West, English scholar, author, and academic (b. 1927)
2017 – Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic, human rights activist (b. 1955)

Holidays and observances on July 13

Christian feast day:
- Abd-al-Masih
- Abel of Tacla Haimonot (Coptic Church)
- Clelia Barbieri
- Conrad Weiser (Episcopal Church (USA))
- Eugenius of Carthage
- Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Mildrith of Thanet
- Rosa Mystica
- Silas (Catholic Church)
- Teresa of the Andes
- July 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feast of Kalimát, first day of the seventh month of the Bahá’í calendar. (Bahá’í Faith)
Statehood Day (Montenegro)
The last day of Naadam (Mongolia)
Kashmir Martyrs’ Day (Pakistan)

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