the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1848 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, 5th President of Brazil (d. 1919)
1852 - Vera Figner, Russian revolutionary (d. 1942)
1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
1860 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911)
1861 - Nettie Stevens, American geneticist (d. 1912)
1873 - A. Victor Donahey, American politician, 50th Governor of Ohio (d. 1946)
1874 - Wladyslaw Grabski, Polish politician, economist and historian (d. 1938)
1880 - Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer, invented commercially sliced bread (d. 1960)
1882 - Yanka Kupala, Belarussian writer (d. 1942)
1883 - Toivo Kuula, Finnish composer and conductor (d. 1918)
1884 – Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
1887 – Marc Chagall, Belarussian-born painter (d. 1985)
1891 - Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese general (d. 1945)
1891 - Virginia Rappe, American model and actress (d. 1921)
1893 - Herbert Feis, American author (d. 1972)
1893 - Miroslav Krloza, Croatian author, poet and playwright (d. 1981)
1898 - Arnold Horween, American football player (d. 1985)
1898 - Teresa Hsu Chi Sing, Singaporean social worker and supercentenarian (d. 2011)
1899 - George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
1900 - Earle E. Partridge, American general (d. 1990)
1901 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and director (d. 1974)
1901 - Sam Katzman, American director and producer (d. 1973)
1901 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese cinematographer (d. 1970)
1903 - Ralph Tarrant, English supercentenarian (d. 2013)
1906 – Anton Karas, Austrian zither player (d. 1985)
1906 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1906 - William Feller, American mathematician (d. 1970)
1907 – Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (d. 1988)
1911 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (d. 2007)
1911 – Gretchen Franklin, English actress (d. 2005)
1913 – Pinetop Perkins, American musician (d. 2011)
1917 - Iva Withers, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1917 - Fidel Sanchez Hernandez, President of El Salvador (d. 2003)
1919 – Jon Pertwee, British actor (d. 1996)
1921 - Ezzard Charles, American boxer (d. 1975)
1924 - Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (d. 2007)
1927 - Henri Dirickx, Belgian footballer (d. 2018)
1927 - Alan J. Dixon, former United States Senator for Illinois (d. 2014)
1930 - Hamish MacInnes, Scottish mountaineer and author
1930 - Theodore Edgar McCarrick, American cardinal
1930 - Hank Mobley, American jazz composer (d. 1986)
1931 – David Eddings, American writer (d. 2009)
1932 - Joe Zawinul, Austrian-American keyboardist and composer (d. 2007)
1936 - Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician (d. 2013)
1937 – Tung Chee-hwa, Chinese politician
1938 - Jan Assmann, German Egyptologist and cultural theorist
1939 - Elena Obraztsova, Russian soprano and actress (d. 2015)
1940 – Ringo Starr, English drummer (in the Beatles)
1940 – Wolfgang Clement, German politician, former Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
1941 – Michael Howard, British politician
1941 – Bill Oddie, British comedian and ornithologist
1943 - Toto Cutugno, Italian singer-songwriter
1944 - Feleti Sevele, former Prime Minister of Tonga
1944 - Tony Jacklin, English golfer
1944 - Glenys Kinnock, Welsh politician
1945 - Michael Ancram, English-Scottish lawyer and politician
1945 - Manuel Chaves, Spanish politician, former Prime Minister of Andalusia
1945 - Matti Salminen, Finnish opera singer
1947 – Gyanendra, former King of Nepal
1947 - Victor Manuel, Spanish singer-songwriter
1947 - Rob Townsend, English drummer
1948 - Kathy Reichs, American writer and forensic anthropologist
1949 – Shelley Duvall, American actress
1950 - Gerda Hasselfeldt, German politician
1950 - Vaughn Armstrong, American actor
1952 - Mando Guerrero, Mexican-American wrestler and stuntman
1954 - Rami Fortis, Israeli singer
1955 - Rolf Saxon, American actor and voice actor
1957 - Berry Sakharof, Israeli singer
1957 - Jonathan Dayton, American director and producer
1958 - Alexander Svinin, Russian figure skater and coach
1959 – Billy Campbell, American actor
1959 - Jessica Hahn, American model and actress
1959 - Alessandro Nannini, Italian racing driver
1960 - Kevin A. Ford, American colonel and astronaut
1960 - Ralph Sampson, American basketball player and coach
1963 – Vonda Shepard, American singer-songwriter
1963 - Geir Karlstad, Norwegian speed skater
1964 - Jennifer Gibney, Irish actress
1965 – Jeremy Guscott, English rugby player
1965 - Jeremy Kyle, English television presenter
1966 - Gundula Krause, German-American violinist
1968 - Amy Carlson, American actress
1968 – Jorja Fox, American actress
1969 – Sylke Otto, German luger
1969 - Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 - Robia LaMorte, American actress
1970 - Zoe Tyler, English voice coach, singer and performer
1970 – Erik Zabel, German cyclist
1972 – Lisa Leslie, American basketball player
1972 - Kirsten Vangsness, American actress
1973 - Kailash Kher, Indian singer
1973 - Troy Garity, American actor
1973 - Karlis Skrastins, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1973 - Natsuki Takaya, Japanese illustrator
1974 - Jennifer Jones, Canadian curler
1975 – Nina Hoss, German actress
1975 - Richard Arkless, Scottish politician
1976 - Vasily Petrenko, Russian conductor
1976 - Erciment Olgundeniz, Turkish athlete
1976 - Hamish Linklater, American actor
1980 – Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
1981 - Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
1981 - Synyster Gates, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 - George Owu, Ghanaian footballer
1983 - Justin Davies, Australian footballer
1983 - Jakob Poulsen, Danish footballer
1984 – Alberto Aquilani, Italian footballer
1985 - Brandon Rush, American basketball player
1986 - Ana Kasparian, American journalist and producer
1987 - Julianna Guill, American actress
1988 - Iban Rubin, American drummer
1988 - Kaci Brown, American singer
1988 - Jack Whitehall, English comedian and actor
1989 - Kim Bum, South Korean actor and singer
1991 - Alesso, Swedish DJ and producer
1992 - Toni Garrn, German model
1994 - Ashton Irwin, Australian singer, 5 Seconds of Summer.
1997 - Erina Ikuta, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1998 - Dylan Sprayberry, American actor
2000 - Princess Purnika of Nepal
1162 – Haakon II of Norway (b. 1147)
1304 – Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)
1307 – King Edward I of England (b. 1239)
1537 – Madeleine of Valois, French-born Queen Consort of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
1647 - Thomas Hooker, English Puritan settler in Connecticut (b. 1586)
1718 - Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (b. 1690)
1790 - Francois Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721)
1819 – Sophie Blanchard, French balloonist (b. 1778)
1865 - Conspirators in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln:
George Atzerodt (b. 1853)
David Herold (b. 1842)
Lewis Payne (b. 1844)
Mary Surratt (b. 1823)
1889 - Giovanni Bottesini, Italian composer, conductor and double-bass virtuoso (b. 1821)
1890 – Henri Nestlé, German confectioner and businessman (b. 1814)
1901 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (b. 1827)
1922 - Cathal Brugha, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1874)
1930 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (b. 1859)
1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian author (b. 1880)
1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian and educator (b. 1844)
1939 - Deacon White, American baseball player and manager (b. 1847)
1950 - Fats Navarro, American trumpeter and composer (b. 1923)
1954 - Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter (b. 1874)
1956 - Gottfried Benn, German author and poet (b. 1886)
1964 - Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower (b. 1904)
1965 – Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
1967 – Vivian Leigh, British actress (b. 1913)
1971 – Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b. 1901)
1972 – King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
1972 - Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (b. 1886)
1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
1973 - Veronica Lake, American actress and singer (b. 1919)
1976 - Walter Giesler, American soccer player and referee (b. 1910)
1976 – Gustav Heinemann, President of Germany (b. 1899)
1978 - Francisco Mendes, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1933)
1983 – Herman Kahn, American futurologist (b. 1922)
1984 - Carl Bienish, American BASE jumper and cinematographer (b. 1941)
1987 - Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist (b. 1902)
1990 – Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)
1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1958)
1992 - Josy Barthel, Luxembourgish athlete (b. 1927)
1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
1994 - Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (b. 1924)
1994 - Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
1998 - Lenore Romney, mother of Mitt Romney (b. 1908)
2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian conductor (b. 1924)
2003 - Vlado Kristl, Croatian painter, animator and director (b. 1923)
2006 – Syd Barrett, British musician (b. 1946)
2006 – Rudi Carrell, Dutch singer and entertainer (b. 1934)
2008 - Giovanni Viola, Italian footballer (b. 1926)
2008 - Dorian Leigh, American model (b. 1917)
2012 - Mouss Diouf, French actor (b. 1964)
2012 - Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (b. 1925)
2013 - Anna Wing, English actress (b. 1914)
2014 - Peter Underwood, 27th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1937)
2014 - Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet-Georgian politician, Soviet foreign minister and President of Georgia (b. 1928)
2014 - Andrew Mango, Turkish-British journalist (b. 1926)
2014 - Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer (b. 1926)
2014 - Dick Jones, American actor (b. 1927)
2015 - Maria Barroso, Portuguese actress and politician (b. 1925)
2015 - Fons van Wissen, Dutch footballer (b. 1933)
2016 - Sally Beauman, British writer (b. 1944)
2016 - James Gilbert, Scottish television producer (b. 1923)
2016 - Leonard Lee, Canadian businessman (b. 1938)
2016 - Cinna Lomnitz, German-born Chilean-Mexican geophysicist (b. 1925)
2016 - John O'Rourke, English footballer (b. 1945)
2016 - Wolfram Siebeck, German journalist and food critic (b. 1928)
2017 - Pam McConnell, Canadian politician (b. 1946)
2017 - Egil Monn-Iversen, Norwegian composer (b. 1928)
2017 - Jean-Pierre Bernard, French actor (b. 1933)
2017 - Pierrette Bloch, French-Swiss artist (b. 1928)
2017 - James B. Nutter Sr.,
American mortgage lender, philanthropist and power broker (b. 1928)
2017 - Marina Ratner, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1938)
2017 - Kenneth Silverman, American biographer (b. 1936)
2018 - William Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcyclist (b. 1985)
2018 - Hacène Lalmas, Algerian footballer (b. 1943)
2018 - Levko Lukyanenko, Ukrainian politician (b. 1928)
2018 - Firuz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani politician and former Prime minister of Azerbaijan (b. 1933)
National Holiday of the Solomon Islands
Tanabata Matsuri (Japan)
San Fermín festival in Pamplona, northern Spain: the bull run takes place.
July 07
In a Common year of the Gregorian calendar, this date marks the half-way point of the year.
This would be at 12 noon (or 1 p.m. if Daylight Saving Time is used).
In a Leap year, the half-way point is at midnight between the 1 and 2 July (or 1 a.m. on July 2 if Daylight Saving Time is used).
437 - Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire.
626 - China: Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
706 - In China, Emperor Zhongzhong of Tang inters  the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang, outside Chang'an.
1266 - The Treaty of Perth settles a territorial dispute between Scotland and Norway over the Hebrides and the Isle of Man.
1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.
1555 - The Ottoman admiral Turgut Reis sacks the city of Paola.
1561 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
1578 – Martin Frobisher becomes the first European to reach Baffin Island.
1582 - Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomo Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
1644 - English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
1679 - Europeans visit present-day Minnesota for the first time.
1698 - Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
1767 - Philip Carteret's expedition discovers Pitcairn Island in the Southern Pacific Ocean, naming it after sea cadet Robert Pitcairn, who first sighted it.
1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution, severing ties with Great Britain.
1777 – Vermont abolishes Slavery.
1823 - Bahia Independence Day: End of Portuguese rule in Brazil.
1839 – Near Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves take over the ship, Amistad.
1853 - The Russian Army crosses the Pruth River into the Danubian Principalities - Moldavia and Wallachia - the final spark that set off the Crimean War.
1860 – The Russian city of Vladivostok is founded as a naval post.
1871 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome, having conquered it from the Papal States.
1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots US President James A. Garfield, who dies of an infection on September 19.
1897 – Guglielmo Marconi gets a patent for the radio in London.
1900 - The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen, Southern Germany.
1921 - World War I: US President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox-Porter Resolution, formally ending the US' state of war with Imperial Germany.
1928 – British women over the age of 21 are given the right to vote.
1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's purge of his political rivals, ends with the death of Ernst Roehm.
1937 – Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan go missing while flying over the Pacific Ocean.
No remains are ever found, and many conspiracy theories have come out of their disappearance.
1940 - Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
1950 - The Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan, burns down.
1962 – The first Wal-Mart store opens in Rodgers, Arkansas.
1964 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
1966 – France carries out its first nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific Ocean.
1974 - A magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes Iran, killing 1,200 people.
1976 - Fall of the Republic of Vietnam.
1990 - A mass panic in a pedestrian tunnel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, kills 1,427 people who were there for the Hajj pilgrimage.
1994 – Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer, is shot dead.
The killer's motive was his own goal in the FIFA World Cup.
2000 – Vicente Fox is elected President of Mexico.
2000 - The France national football team wins UEFA Euro 2000, defeating the Italy national football team 2-1 in extra time.
2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to travel solo around the world in a hot-air balloon.
2003 – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insults German MEP Martin Schulz, comparing him to a Concentration camp guard.
2005 – Live 8 concerts take place worldwide.
2008 – After a captivity of more than six years, Ingrid Betancourt is released from FARC Guerrillas in Colombia.
2010 – A tanker explosion in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo kills more than 230 people.
2011 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco marries Charlene Wittstock.
2011 – Petra Kvitova wins the Women's Singles tennis title at Wimbledon, defeating Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-4.
2015 - A ferry capsizes  in Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines, killing 62 people.
2016 - A terrorist attack and hostage taking in Dhaka, Bangladesh, results in the deaths of 20 people, mainly non-Bangladeshi citizens.
2016 - Tennis: In a shock result, multiple Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic is knocked out in the third round at Wimbledon, losing to Sam Querrey in four sets.
419 – Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
1262 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
1363 - Maria, Queen of Sicily (d. 1401)
1486 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1570)
1489 – Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)
1644 - Abraham a Santa Clara, German theologian and writer (d. 1709)
1648 - Arp Schnitger, German organ builder (d. 1719)
1667 - Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (d. 1740)
1698 - Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena (d. 1780)
1714 – Christoph Willibald von Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
1724 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
1790 - Leopold, Prince of Salerno (d. 1851)
1807 - Arthur Conolly, British traveler, military and diplomat (d. 1842)
1819 - Charles-Louis Hanon, French pianist and composer (d. 1900)
1819 - Thomas Anderson, Scottish chemist (d. 1874)
1821 – Charles Tupper, shortest-serving Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)
1824 - Juan N. Méndez, President of Mexico (d. 1895)
1841 - Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaitsev, Russian chemist (d. 1910)
1843 - Antonio Labriola, Italian philosopher (d. 1904)
1849 - Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (d. 1919)
1855 - Louis Maxson, American archer (d. 1916)
1862 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist (d. 1942)
1865 - Lily Braun, German author (d. 1916)
1869 - Liane de Pougy, French dancer (d. 1950)
1874 - Pedro Paulet, Peruvian scientist (d. 1945)
1876 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933)
1876 – Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933)
1877 – Hermann Hesse, German writer (d. 1962)
1881 - Royal Hurlburt Weller, American lawyer and politician (d. 1929)
1882 – Marie Bonaparte, French psychoanalyst and writer (d. 1962)
1884 – Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
1896 - Lydia Mei, Estonian painter (d. 1965)
1902 - Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch pianist (d. 1987)
1903 – King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
1903 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
1904 – René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman (d. 1996)
1906 – Hans Bethe, German physicist (d. 2005)
1906 - Séra Martin, French runner (d. 1993)
1908 – Thurgood Marshall, United States Supreme Court Justice (d. 1993)
1911 - Reg Parnell, English racing driver (d. 1964)
1914 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (d. 2004)
1914 - Mario Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
1914 - Alois Andritzki, German priest and martyr (d. 1943)
1915 - Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, English nobleman (d. 2014)
1916 - Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
1916 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German colonel and pilot (d. 1982)
1917 - André Lafargue, French journalist (d. 2017)
1917 – Murry Wilson, American songwriter and record producer (d. 1973)
1922 - Pierre Cardin, Italian-French fashion designer
1923 – Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet (d. 2012)
1925 – Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician (d. 1961)
1925 – Medgar Evans, American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
1927 - Brock Peters, American actor (d. 2005)
1928 - Line Renaud, French singer and actress
1929 – Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines
1930 – Carlos Menem, former President of Argentina (d. 2021)
1930 - Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist
1932 – Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's fast food chain (d. 2002)
1935 - Alain Berbérian, Lebanese-born French film director and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1936 - Omar Suleiman, Vice President of Egypt (d. 2012)
1937 – Polly Holliday, American actress
1937 - Richard Petty, American racing driver
1938 - David Owen, British politician
1939 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet (d. 1976)
1940 - Robert Broberg, Swedish singer and songwriter (d. 2015)
1940 - Christopher Awdry, son of Wilbert Awdry
1940 – Kenneth Clarke, British politician
1942 – Vicente Fox, former President of Mexico
1943 - Iva Eenmaa, Estonian politician
1943 - Walter Godefroot, Belgian singer
1946 – Richard Axel, American neuroscientist
1946 – Ron Silver, American actor (d. 2009)
1947 – Larry David, American television producer
1947 - Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton, English politician
1949 – Roy Bittan, American musician (E Street Band)
1952 – Ahmed Ouyahia, former Prime Minister of Algeria
1953 - Jean-Claude Borelly, French trumpeter and composer
1953 - Mark Hart, American guitarist and keyboardist
1954 - Pete Briquette, Irish bass player, songwriter and producer
1954 – Chris Huhne, British politician
1954 - Wendy Schaal, American actress
1957 - Bret Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
1959 - Mirandinha, Brazilian footballer
1960 - Maria Lourdes Sereno, Filipina lawyer
1961 - Samy Naceri, French actor
1963 - Mark Kermode, English movie critic
1964 – José Canseco, Cuban-American baseball player
1964 – Ozzie Canseco, Cuban-American baseball player
1964 - Doug Benson, American stand-up comedian and actor
1964 - Alan Tait, Scottish rugby player and coach
1966 - Jean-François Richet, French director, producer and screenwriter
1967 - Claudio Biaggio, Argentine footballer
1969 - Jenni Rivera, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress (d. 2012)
1971 - Bryan Redpath, Scottish rugby player and coach
1971 - Samantha Giles, English actress
1972 - Darren Shan, Irish author
1973 – Peter Kay, English comedian
1974 - Rocky Gray, American drummer, guitarist and songwriter
1977 - Carl Froch, English boxer
1978 - Jüri Ratas, Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia
1978 - Owain Yeoman, Welsh actor
1979 - Walter Davis, American triple jumper
1979 – Joe Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Alexander Petersson, Latvian-Icelandic handball player
1980 - Rachel Brown, English footballer
1983 - Michelle Branch, American singer, songwriter and guitarist
1984 - Ryan Keely, American pornographic actress, columnist and model
1984 - Maarten Martens, Belgian footballer
1984 – Johnny Weir, American figure skater
1985 - Corey Bringas, American actor
1985 - Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer (d. 2018)
1985 – Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
1986 – Lindsay Lohan, American actress
1987 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (d. 2008)
1988 – Lee Chung-Yong, South Korean footballer
1988 - Porta, Spanish rapper
1989 - Dev, American singer-songwriter and rapper
1989 - Alex Morgan, American soccer player
1990 – Roman Lob, German singer
1990 - Margot Robbie, Australian actress
1990 - Danny Rose, English footballer
1992 - Madison Chock, American ice dancer
1993 - Deysi Cori, Peruvian chess player
626 - Li Jiancheng, Chinese prince (b. 589)
626 - Li Yuanji, Chinese prince (b. 603)
649 - Li Jing, Chinese general (b. 571)
862 – Swithun, Anglo-Saxon bishop of Winchester (b. 789)
1298 - Adolf, King of Germany (b. 1220)
1504 - Stephen III of Moldavia (b. 1434)
1566 – Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)
1591 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian lute player and composer (b. 1520)
1621 - Thomas Harriot, English astronomer and mathematician (b. 1560)
1743 - Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1673)
1778 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher (b. 1712)
1822 – Denmark Vesey, freed slave (b. 1767) (hanged)
1833 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1757)
1843 – Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755)
1850 – Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788)
1857 - Carlo Pisacane, Italian patriot and philosopher (b. 1818)
1903 – Ed Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1867)
1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician (b. 1836)
1915 – Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (b. 1830)
1916 - Louis Maxson, American archer (b. 1855)
1929 - Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1893)
1931 - Peter Kürten, German serial killer (b. 1883)
1932 – King Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
1934 – Ernst Roehm, Nazi politician (b. 1887)
1934 - Henry Hollis Horton, American politician, 40th Governor of Tennessee (b. 1866)
1937 – Amelia Earhart, American pilot (b. 1897)
1937 – Fred Noonan, American aviator (b. 1893)
1946 - Mary Alden, American actress (b. 1883)
1949 - Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian politician (b. 1882)
1950 - Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer (b. 1872)
1961 – Ernest Hemingway, American writer (b. 1899)
1966 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet and author (b. 1900)
1969 - Michael DiBiase, Italian-American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
1972 - Joseph Fielding Smith, American Mormon Church leader (b. 1876)
1973 – Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
1977 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (b. 1899)
1986 - Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
1989 – Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (b. 1909)
1991 - Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
1994 – Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (b. 1967)
1997 – James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
1999 – Mario Puzo, American writer (b. 1920)
2007 – Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (b. 1929)
2010 – Beryl Bainbridge, British writer (b. 1932)
2010 – Laurent Terzieff, French actor (b. 1935)
2011 – Itamar Franco, 33rd President of Brazil (b. 1930)
2013 - Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
2013 - Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (b. 1921)
2013 - Anthony Llywellyn, Welsh-American astronaut (b. 1933)
2014 - Errie Ball, Welsh-American golfer (b. 1910)
2014 - Chad Brown, American poker player and actor (b. 1961)
2014 - Louis Zamperini, American athlete and writer (b. 1917)
2015 - Jacobo Zabludovsky, Mexican journalist (b. 1928)
2015 - Charlie Sanders, American football player (b. 1946)
2015 - James C. Weaver, American football player (b. 1945)
2015 - Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian composer and musician (b. 1929)
2016 - Caroline Aherne, English actress, comedienne and writer (b. 1963)
2016 - Roscoe Brown, American World War II veteran (b. 1922)
2016 - Michael Cimino, American screenwriter and director (b. 1939)
2016 - Roger Dumas, French comedian and actor (b. 1932)
2016 - Patrick Manning, 4th and 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1946)
2016 - Robert Nye, British poet (b. 1939)
2016 - Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France (b. 1930)
2016 - Jack C. Taylor, American businessman (b. 1922)
2016 - Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American activist and writer (b. 1928)
2017 - Smith Hart, American-Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1948)
2017 - Jack Collom, American poet (b. 1931)
2017 - Vladimir Malaniuk, Ukrainian chess player (b. 1957)
2017 - Chris Roberts, German singer (b. 1944)
2017 - Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Soviet-born Israeli chess player (b. 1935)
2017 - Ataullah Behmanesh, Iranian wrestler and sports journalist (b. 1923)
2017 - Minos Kyriakou, Greek businessman (b. 1942)
2017 - Bert Rossi, English gangster (b. 1922)
2018 - Henry Butler, American jazz musician (b. 1949)
2018 - Bill Watrous, American jazz trombonist (b. 1939)
Canada Day (observed on this date if July 1 is a Sunday)
Bahia Independence Day (Brazil)
July 02
455 – Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
660 - Battle of Hwangsanboel: Korean forces under General Kim Yu-shin of Silla defeat the army of Baekje at Nonsan, present-day South Korea.
869 - A magnitude 8.6 earthquake and tsunami strike the area around Sendai, Northern Honshu, Japan.
1357 5:31 AM – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assisted laying the foundation stone of the Charles Bridge in Prague.
1386 - The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its own territory by decisively defeating the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.
1540 – Henry VIII of England annulled his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
1572 - Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs in the Dutch town of Gorkum.
1609 - Bohemia is given freedom of religion through the Letter of Majesty by Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.
1701 - War of the Spanish Succession: Austrian victory over the French in the Battle of Carpi.
1745 - War of the Austrian Succession: Victory in the Battle of Melle allows the French to capture Ghent in the days after.
1749 – Naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia founded as British answer to Louisbourg.
1755 – French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition – British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat to French and Native American forces.
During the battle, British General Edward Braddock is mortally wounded.
Colonel George Washington survives.
1776 - George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York City.
1789 – In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
1790 – Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund – In the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
1793 – Act Against Slavery passed in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
1810 - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the first French Empire.
1815 – Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of France
1816 – Argentina declares independence from Spain.
1821 - 470 prominent Cypriots are executed in response to Cypriot aid to the Greek War of Independence.
1846 – By an Act of Congress, the Washington, DC area south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia.
1850 – US President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States.
1868 - The 14th Amendment (change) to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States Due Process of Law.
1875 - Outbreak of the Herzegovina Uprising against Ottoman Empire rule.
1877 - The first Wimbledon tennis championships are played.
1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech.
1900 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
1903 - Joseph Stalin, future-Soviet leader, is exiled to Siberia for three years.
1918 – Great train wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
1922 – Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds, breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
1932 - The State of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian federal government.
1942 – Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1943 – World War II: Operation Husky – Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.
1944 - World War II: Battle of Saipan - American forces take Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy – British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.
1945 – A forest fire breaks out in the Tillamook Burn, the third fire in that area since 1933.
1955 – The Russell-Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London.
1961 - Turkish voters approve the Turkish Constitution of 1961 in a referendum.
1962 - The United States detonates atom bomb Starfish Prime over Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1962 - Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibit opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, California.
1968 – Official opening of Hayward Gallery on London's South Bank.
1972 - In Belfast, Northern Ireland, British army snipers shoot and kill 5 civilians in the Springhill massacre.
1979 – A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France.
A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
1981 - Donkey Kong, a video game created by Nintendo, is released.
It is also Super Mario's first appearance.
1982 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 people on board and eight others on the ground.
1986 - Homosexuality is legalized in New Zealand.
1989 – Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
1989 - Boris Becker and Steffi Graf win the Men's and Women's Singles titles at Wimbledon respectively, making it the first occasion that two German tennis players win these titles at the same time.
1991 – International Human Rights Federation cites human rights violations committed by police and military personnel during Oka crisis in Quebec, Canada.
1991 – South Africa is reintroduced into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion.
1992 – Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton announces that Tennessee Senator Al Gore will be his running mate.
1993 - The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act, allowing the creation of the territory of Nunavut on April 1, 1999 out of part of the Northwest Territories.
1995 - The Sri Lankan air force bombs a church in the town of Navaly, killing more than 125 people.
1997 – Mike Tyson's boxing license is suspended for at least a year and he is fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield's ear in a televised match.
1999 – Days of student protests begins after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory of University of Tehran.
2002 – The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
2004 – After José Manuel Durão Barroso's appointment to the European Commission, Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio announces that he will invite the second-in-line leader of PSD, Pedro Santana Lopes to form a government.
2006 – A plane crash in Irkutsk, Siberia kills 122 people.
2006 – 2006 FIFA World Cup: Italy wins the FIFA World Cup for a fourth time, by beating France on penalties at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
The game is most remembered for Zinedine Zidane's headbut on Marco Materazzi.
2007 – Argentina's capital city Buenos Aires is hit by its first snowfall since 1918.
2011 – South Sudan declares independence from Sudan, after a majority of 'yes' votes in a referendum the previous January.
Salva Kiir Mayardit becomes the new nation's President.
2016 - Over 100 people are killed in violent clashes in Juba, South Sudan, on the fifth anniversary of the country's independence.
2016 - Tennis: Serena Williams equals the Open Era record of 22 Grand Slam singles titles, defeating Angelique Kerber in the Wimbledon championships final.
2018 - Boris Johnson resigns as the British Foreign Secretary; he is replaced with Jeremy Hunt.
2018 - The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea sign an agreement ending their border war.
1249 - Emperor Kameyama 90th Emperor of Japan (d. 1305)
1511 - Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1571)
1578 – Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1637)
1654 – Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732)
1689 - Alexis Piron, French playwright (d. 1773)
1764 - Ann Radcliffe, English author (d. 1823)
1766 - Johanna Schopenhauer, German author (d. 1838)
1775 - Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1818)
1777 - Henry Hallam, English writer and historian (d. 1859)
1800 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist and anatomist (d. 1885)
1801 - Zénaïde Bonaparte, Princess of Spain (d. 1854)
1815 - Oran Milo Roberts, American politician, 18th Governor of Texas (d. 1898)
1819 – Elias Howe, American inventor (d. 1867)
1825 - Addison Crandall Gibbs, American politician, 2nd Governor of Oregon (d. 1886)
1828 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (d. 1913)
1834 – Jan Neruda, Czech poet (d. 1891)
1835 - William D. Bloxham, American politician, 13th and 17th Governor of Florida (d. 1911)
1847 - Wong Fei-hung, Chinese physician and martial artist (d. 1924)
1848 - Robert I, Duke of Parma (d. 1907)
1850 - Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian historian, writer and politician (d. 1921)
1853 - William Turner Dannat, American painter (d. 1929)
1856 - John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (d. 1932)
1858 – Franz Boas, German anthropologist (d. 1942)
1867 - Georges Lecomte, French author and playwright (d. 1958)
1879 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician and parasitologist (d. 1934)
1879 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1934)
1887 - James Ormsbee Chapin, American-Canadian painter and illustrator (d. 1975)
1889 - Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian ice hockey player, coach and referee (d. 1964)
1894 – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist (d. 1984)
1896 – Maria Gomes Valentim, Brazilian supercentenarian (d. 2011)
1897 - Friedrich Adler, Austrian politician and assassin (d. 1960)
1898 - Petar Grabovski, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1945)
1901 – Barbara Cartland, British novelist (d. 2000)
1905 - Clarence Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 1984)
1907 - Eddie Dean, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
1910 – Govan Mbeki, South African anti-Apartheid activist (d. 2001)
1911 – John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist (d. 2008)
1911 – Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (d. 1968)
1914 – Willi Stoph, East German politician (d. 1999)
1915 - David Diamond, American composer (d. 2005)
1916 – Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
1924 - Leonard Pennario, American classical pianist and composer (d. 2008)
1925 - Guru Dutt, Indian actor, director and producer (d. 1964)
1926 – Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist
1926 - Pedro Dellacha, Argentine footballer (d. 2010)
1927 – Ed Ames, American singer and actor
1927 - Susan Cabot, American actress (d. 1986)
1927 - Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and politician
1928 - Federico Bahamontes, Spanish cyclist
1928 - Vince Edwards, American actor, singer and director (d. 1996)
1929 – Lee Hazlewood, American singer and songwriter (d. 2007)
1929 – King Hassan II of Morocco (d. 1999)
1929 - Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress (d. 2019)
1930 - Yu So-chow, Chinese actress and singer (d. 2017)
1930 - Robert Demarco, Scottish artist
1930 - K. Balachander, Indian actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1932 – Donald Rumsfeld, American politician (d. 2021)
1932 - Amitzur Shapira, Israeli runner (d. 1972)
1933 – Oliver Sacks, British-American neurologist and writer (d. 2015)
1934 - Michael Graves, American architect (d. 2015)
1935 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician (d. 2005)
1935 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (d. 2009)
1936 - Richard Wilson, Scottish actor
1936 - David Zinman, American conductor and violinist
1937 – David Hockney, English artist and photographer
1938 - Brian Dennehy, American actor, director and producer
1938 - Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1985)
1940 - Jair da Costa, Brazilian footballer
1940 - David B. Frohnmayer, American attorney and politician (d. 2015)
1942 - Richard Roundtree, American actor
1943 - John Casper, American colonel, pilot and astronaut
1943 - Soledad Miranda, Spanish actress (d. 1970)
1944 - Judith M. Brown, English historian and academic
1944 - John Cunniff, American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2002)
1945 – Dean Koontz, American writer
1945 - Root Boy Slim, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
1946 - Natasha Pyne, English actress
1946 - Bon Scott, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
1947 - Haruomi Hosono, Japanese singer-songwriter, bass player and producer
1947 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (d. 2008)
1947 – O. J. Simpson, American football player, actor and criminal
1948 - Hassan Wirajuda, Indonesian politician
1950 - Adriano Panatta, Italian tennis player and sailor
1950 – Viktor Yanukovych, former President of Ukraine
1951 - Chris Cooper, American actor
1952 - John Tesh, American pianist, composer and radio host
1955 – Steve Coppell, English football manager
1955 - Lindsey Graham, American colonel, lawyer and politician
1956 – Tom Hanks, American actor
1957 - Marc Almond, English singer-songwriter (Soft Cell)
1957 – Paul Merton, English comedian
1959 – Jim Kerr, Scottish singer (Simple Minds)
1959 - Kevin Nash, American wrestler and actor
1960 - Marc Mero, American wrestler and boxer
1960 - Eduardo Montes-Bradley, Argentine journalist, photographer and author
1962 - Aloyzas Kveinys, Lithuanian chess player (d. 2018)
1964 – Courtney Love, American musician, singer and actress
1964 – Gianluca Vialli, Italian footballer
1966 - Pamela Adlon, American actress
1968 – Paolo Di Canio, Italian footballer
1970 - Masami Tsuda, Japanese author and illustrator
1971 - Marc Andreessen, American software developer
1971 - Scott Grimes, American singer-songwriter and actor
1972 - Ara Babajian, American drummer and songwriter
1974 - Ian Bradshaw, Barbadian cricketer
1975 – Jack White, American singer (The White Stripes)
1976 – Fred Savage, American actor
1978 - Linda Park, Korean-American actress
1982 - Alecko Eskandarian, American soccer player and manager
1982 - Maggie Ma, Canadian actress, singer and dancer
1984 - Chris Campoli, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Hanna R. Hall, American actress
1985 – Ashley Young, English footballer
1986 - Sébastien Bassong, Cameroonian footballer
1986 - Kiely Williams, American singer-songwriter, dancer and actress
1987 - Rebecca Sugar, American animator, screenwriter, producer and screenwriter
1987 - Amanda Knox, American murder suspect
1988 - Paul Rusescu, Romanian footballer
1990 - Rafael Pereira da Silva, Brazilian footballer
1991 - Mitchel Musso, American actor and singer
1991 - Kyle Smith, Scottish curler
1993 - Mitch Larkin, Australian swimmer
1993 - DeAndre Yedlin, American soccer player
1993 - Jake Vargas, Filipino actor and singer
1994 - Akiane Kramarik, American poet and artist
1995 – Georgie Henley, English actress
1998 - Robert Capron, American actor
1999 - Claire Corlett, Canadian actress and singer
518 - Anastasius I Dicorus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 430)
1228 - Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1150)
1386 - Leopold III, Duke of Austria (b. 1351)
1553 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)
1654 - Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (b. 1633)
1677 - Angelus Silesius, German poet (b. 1624)
1706 - Pierre Lemoyne d'Iberville, Canadian captain and explorer (b. 1661)
1737 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1671)
1746 – King Philip V of Spain (b. 1683)
1766 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (b. 1720)
1797 – Edmund Burke, Irish-English writer, philosopher and politician (b. 1729)
1828 - Gilbert Stuart, American painter (b. 1755)
1850 – The Bab, founder of the Baha'i religion (b. 1819)
1850 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784)
1852 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1794)
1856 – Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (b. 1776)
1880 - Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)
1903 - Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist and photographer (b. 1842)
1932 - King C. Gillette, American businessman (b. 1855)
1947 - Lucjan Zeligowski, Polish-Lithuanian general and politician (b. 1865)
1949 - Fritz Hart, English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1874)
1951 - Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1894)
1955 - Don Beaumon, English racing driver (b. 1928)
1955 - Adolfo de la Huerta, President of Mexico (b. 1881)
1962 - Georges Bataille, French philosopher (b. 1897)
1974 – Earl Warren, American jurist (b. 1891)
1977 – Alice Paul, American activist (b. 1885)
1979 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and author (b. 1899)
1980 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet, playwright and composer (b. 1913)
1985 – Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
1986 - Patriarch Nicholas VI of Alexandria (b. 1915)
1992 - Eric Sevareid, American journalist (b. 1912)
2002 – Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
2004 - Paul Klebnikov, American journalist and historian (b. 1963)
2004 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (b. 1919)
2004 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917)
2005 – Yevgeny Grishin, Russian figure skater (b. 1931)
2011 - Würzel, English guitarist (Motorhead) (b. 1949)
2012 - Terepai Maoate, 6th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1934)
2012 - Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress (b. 1917)
2013 - Markus Büchel, 9th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (b. 1959)
2014 - David Azrieli, Polish-born Canadian-Israeli real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect and philanthropist (b. 1922)
2014 - Eileen Ford, American executive and businesswoman (b. 1922)
2014 - Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes, Brazilian geologist and mineralogist (b. 1950)
2014 - Don Lenhardt, American baseball player and coach (b. 1922)
2015 - Saud bin Faisal, Saudi royal and politician (b. 1940)
2015 - Christian Audigier, French fashion designer (b. 1958)
2015 - Jim Bede, American aircraft designer (b. 1933)
2015 - Caspar Bowden, British privacy advocate (b. 1961)
2016 - Johnny Barnes, Bermudian entertainer (b. 1923)
2016 - Erny Brenner, Luxembourgish footballer (b. 1931)
2016 - Geneviève Castrée, Canadian musician and comic book artist (b. 1981)
2016 - Vaughn Harper, American DJ (b. 1945)
2016 - Hugo Niebeling, German filmmaker (b. 1931)
2016 - Silvano Piovanelli, Italian cardinal (b. 1924)
2016 - Sydney Schanberg, American journalist (b. 1934)
2017 - Naresh Chandra, Indian politician (b. 1934)
2017 - Ilya Glazunov, Russian painter (b. 1930)
2017 - Anton Nossik, Israeli-Russian journalist and social media activist (b. 1966)
2017 - Paquita Rico, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1929)
2018 - Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, British politician (b. 1919)
2018 - Stefan Demert, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1939)
2018 - Hans Günter Winkler, German equestrian (b. 1926)
2019 - Philip Freelon, American architect (b. 1953)
2019 - Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (b. 1930)
2019 - Fernando de la Rúa, President of Argentina (b. 1937)
2019 - Rip Torn, American actor (b. 1931)
Independence Day in Argentina and South Sudan
Constitution Day in Australia and Palau
1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
1283 - War of the Sicilian Vespers: Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet, defeats an Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta in the Battle of Malta.
1497 – Vasco da Gama sets sail for his first voyage to India.
1579 - Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
1663 - Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
1709 - Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava - Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XIII of Sweden at Poltava, ending Sweden's role as a major European power.
1716 - Great Northern War: The naval Battle of Dynekilen takes place.
1730 - A magnitude 7.8 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages 1,000 kilometers of Chile's coastline.
1760 - French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche - British forces defeat the French in the last battle in New France.
1776 – The Declaration of Independence is read out for the first time and the Liberty Bell is rung, in Philadelphia.
1808 - Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as King of Spain.
1822 - Chippewas turn over a large section of land in present-day Ontario over to the United Kingdom.
1853 - US Commodore Matthew C. Perry arrives at Edo Bay (present-day Tokyo) with a treaty requesting trade.
1859 - Charles XV of Sweden/IV of Norway becomes King of Sweden-Norway.
1879 - Sailing ship USS Jeannette leaves San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
1889 – The Wall Street Journal is first published.
1892 - The city of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador is largely damaged by fire.
1898 – Crime boss Soapy Smith is killed in Skagway, Alaska.
1927 - Heavy rain in the night to July 9 causes major flooding in Saxony, Germany, killing 160 people.
1932 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, at 41.22.
1937 - Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
1948 - The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a programme called Women In the Air Force.
1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
1966 - King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is removed from power by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
1982 - Assassination attempt on Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
1986 - Kurt Waldheim becomes President of Austria.
1989 - Carlos Menem becomes President of Argentina.
1990 – Germany wins the FIFA World Cup, defeating Argentina 1-0.
1992 - Thomas Klestil becomes President of Austria.
1994 – Kim Il-Sung dies.
His son Kim Jong-Il takes over the role of supreme leader.
1997 – NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland to join.
2001 - Goran Ivanisevic, as a rank outsider, wins the Men's Singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Patrick Rafter in the final.
2003 - The first attempted separation of conjoined twins, carried in Singapore, fails, as Ladan and Laleh Bijani die of complications from the operation to separate them.
2004 – Heinz Fischer becomes President of Austria, two days after the death of his predecessor, Thomas Klestil.
2005 – The G-8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, concludes, with promises of aid to developing countries.
2007 – Roger Federer wins his fifth consecutive Wimbledon Men's Singles tennis title, defeating Rafael Nadal in five sets.
2011 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches in the last launch of the Space Shuttle programme.