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July 4th

Holidays and Festivals

Fourth of July (U.S.) * CLICK HERE
Filipino-American Friendship Day (Philippines)
Liberation Day (Rwanda)
The Aphelion * (see below)
International Day of Cooperatives

National Country Music Day
Sidewalk Egg Frying Day
Independence From Meat Day
Indivisible Day
Feast of Saint Flavian
Feast of Translation, Ordination of Saint Martin, bishop of Tours, confessor
Feast of Saint Oda, Archbishop of Canterbury
Feast of Saint Procopius, abbot (at Prague), confessor
Feast of Saint Ulric, bishop of Augsburg, confessor (d. 973)
Feast of Saint Bertha, widow, abbess of Blangy in Artois
Feast of Saint Elizabeth Lusitania of Portugal (d. 1336), patron saint of Coimbra (city holiday), known there as Rainha Santa Isabela
* Roskilde Festival Roskilde, Denmark, Europe July 1 – 4 (4of4)

* Independence Day in the United States CLICK HERE.
* The Aphelion, In astronomy, the approximate date of Earth's aphelion. the point in the year when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, occurs around this date.

Fête de la Tabac Translation: Tobacco Day (French Republican) The 16th day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican Calendar

Toast of The Day

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"Life, lift the full goblet...
away with all sorrow..
The circle of friendship what freedom would sever?
To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow...
Here's to the Fourth and our country forever"
- Franklin Pierce Adams
- Alternative -
"Cheers" or "Bottoms Up"
- Traditional USA, In Celebration of Independence Day July 4
- Americans with German roots say "Prost", Irish roots say "Slainte", Italian/Latin Roots say "Salute"

Drink of The Day

Red, White, & Blue Cocktail

2 oz Oval Vodka
3/4 oz Cointreau
3 Tablespoons of Macerated Strawberries
A Splash of Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice
A Splash of Blue Curacao

Sugar the rim of a chilled martini glass. Combine all ingredients except the blue curacao in a shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into the martini glass. Drop in a splash of blue curacao.
- Bonus Drink -

Red, White, and Blue
1/2 oz. Framboise
1/2 oz. Half-Half
1/2 oz. Blue Curacao
In a pony tall shot glass. Layer each successive ingredient on top using the back of a spoon Beginning with the Framboise.

Wine of The Day

Sonoma-Cutrer Chardonnay
Style - Chardonnay
California
$20

Beer of The Day

Patriot Pale
Brewer - RJ Rockers Brewing Co. , South Carolina, United States
Style - American Pale Ale
ABV - 6.00%

- Alternative -
Patriot Ale
Brewery - JoBoy's Brew Pub , Pennsylvania, United States
Style -American Blonde Ale
ABV - 4.40%

Joke of The Day

USA STATE MOTTO'S
Alabama: Now with Electricity
Alaska: 11,623 Eskimos Can't Be Wrong!
Arizona: It's a Dry Heat
Arkansas: Learnin' Ain't Everythin'
California: By 30, Our Women Have More Plastic Than Your Honda.
Colorado: If You Don't Ski, Don't Bother
Connecticut: Like Massachusetts, Only The Kennedys Don't Own It Yet.
Delaware: We Really Do Like The Chemicals In Our Water
Florida: Ask Us About Our Grandkids
Georgia: We Put The "Fun" In Fundamentalist Extremism
Hawaii: Haka Tiki Mou Sha'ami Leeki Toru (Death To Mainland Scum, But Leave Your Money)
Idaho: More Than Just Potatoes...Well Okay, We're Not, But The Potatoes Sure Are Real Good
Illinois: Please Don't Pronounce the "S"
Indiana: 2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free
Iowa: We Do Amazing Things With Corn
Kansas: First Of The Rectangle States
Kentucky: Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names
Louisiana: We're Not ALL Drunk Cajun Wackos, But That's Our Tourism Campaign
Maine: We're Really Cold, But We Have Cheap Lobster
Maryland: If You Can Dream It, We Can Tax It
Massachusetts: Our Taxes Are Lower Than Sweden's (For Most Tax Brackets)
Michigan: First Line Of Defense Against The Canadians
Minnesota: 10,000 Lakes And 10,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes
Mississippi: Come Feel Better About Your Own State
Missouri: Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work
Montana: Land Of The Big Sky, The Unabomber, Right-Wing Crazies,& Very Little Else
Nebraska: (Ask About Our State Motto Contest)
Nevada: Prostitutes and Poker! And that's just breakfast!
New Hampshire: Go Away And Leave Us Alone
New Jersey: Yo, I got your MF-in motto right here!
New Mexico: Lizards Make Excellent Pets
New York: Don't forget your lawyer.
North Carolina: Tobacco IS A Vegetable
North Dakota: One Of The 50 States! ...Yes, Really!
Ohio: At Least We're Not Michigan
Oklahoma: Like The Play, Only No Singing
Oregon: Spotted Owl... It's What's For Dinner
Pennsylvania: Cook With Coal
Rhode Island: We're Not REALLY An Island
South Carolina: Remember The Civil War? We Didn't Actually Surrender
South Dakota: Closer Than North Dakota
Tennessee: The Educashun State
Texas: Si, Hablo Ingles (Yes, I Speak English)
Utah: Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus
Vermont: Yep, syrup!
Virginia: Who Says Government Stiffs And Slackjaw Yokels Don't Mix?
Washington: Help! We're Overrun By Nerds And Slackers!
Washington, D.C.: Wanna Be Mayor?
West Virginia: One Big Happy Family...Really!
Wisconsin: Come Cut The Cheese
Wyoming: Where Men Are Men...and the sheep are scared!
- In Celebration of the fourth of July

Quote of The Day

"Beer is a wholesome liquor…it abounds with nourishment"
- Dr. Benjamin Rush (January 4th, 1746 to April 19th 1813), a Founding Father of the USA.
- Alternative -
"Everything is created from moment to moment, always new. Like fireworks, this universe is a celebration and you are the spectator contemplating the eternal Fourth of July of your absolute splendor."
- Francis Lucille (1944 in France), a spiritual teacher and author.

Whiskey of The Day

Wild Turkey American Spirit Bourbon
$90
- In celebration of Independence Day (USA)

July Observances

Air-Conditioning Appreciation Days (7/3 to 8/15)
Bereaved Parents Awareness Month
National Bikini Month
Bioterrorism/Disaster Education and Awareness Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month
Dog Days (7/3 to 8/11)
Doghouse Repairs" Month, Natl
Eggplant and Lettuce Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Family Golf Month
Family Reunion Month
Freedom From Fear of Speaking Month
Herbal/Prescription Awareness Month
Home Inspector Appreciation Month, Natl
International Blondie and Deborah Harry Month
International Group B Strep Awareness Month
International Women with Alopecia Month
International Zine Month
Learn Arabic Month
Mango and Melon Month
National "Doghouse Repairs" Month
National Anti-Boredom Month
National Black Family Month
National Blueberries Month
National Cell Phone Courtesy Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Month
National Culinary Arts Month
National Grilling Month
National Hemochromatosis Screening and Awareness Month
National Horseradish Month
National Hot Dog Month
National Ice Cream Month
National Independent Retailers Month
National Make A Difference to Children Month
National Recreation and Parks Month
National Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month
National Vehicle Theft Protection Month
National Wheelchair Beautification Month
Nectarine and Garlic Month
Purposeful Parenting Month
Roots and Branches Month
Sandwich Generation Month
Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month Link
Skyscraper Month
Smart Irrigation Month
Social Wellness Month
Tour de France Month (Started 6/30 - 7/19)
UV Safety Month
Unlucky Month for weddings
Women's Motorcycle Month
Worldwide Bereaved Parents Month

Observances this Week

National Education Association Week, First Week in July
National Unassisted Homebirth Week, First Week in July
Beans and Bacon Days, July 4th through July 7th
Freedom Week, July 4th through July 10th
International Chicken Wing Week a.k.a. Great International Chicken Wing Society's Chicken Wing Cook-Off, First Weekend in July

Historical Events on July 4th

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836 Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
993 Saint Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized.
1054 A supernova is observed by the Chinese, the Arabs and possibly Amerindians near the star Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
1120 Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.
1187 Battle of Hittin (Tiberias) of The Crusades, Saladin defeats Reinoud of Châtillon, Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem
1253 Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
1301 Battle at Breukelen: Holland vs Lichtenberg
1359 Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
1415 Angelo Correr renounces his claim to the Papacy as Pope Gregory XII
1453 41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau
1456 The Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) begins. (Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe)
1534 Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
1569 The King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Sigismund II Augustus finally sign the document of union between Poland and Lithuania, creating new country known as Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1609 Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York setting the tone of French-Iroquois relations for the next 150 years
1610 Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russian & Sweden
1634 The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France, later to become the Canadian province of Quebec.
1636 City of Providence, Rhode Island forms.
1652 Prince of Condé starts blood bath in Paris
1653 British Barebones Parliament goes into session
1672 States of Holland declares "Eternal Edict" void
1693 Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army
1708 Swedish King Karel XII beats Russians
1744 The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iriquois ceded lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, is signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1754 George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers, French and Indian War.
1774 Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts
1776 The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress, The United States becomes a nation, gains independence from Britain
1778 Forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign, American Revolutionary War.
1779 French fleet occupies Grenada
1789 1st US tariff act
1796 1st Independence Day celebration is held
1802 At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
1803 The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
1810 French troops occupy Amsterdam
1817 At Rome, New York, United States, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
1819 William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
1827 Slavery is abolished in New York State.
1828 Construction begins on B & O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
1829 Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)
1831 "America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" is 1st sung publicly in Boston
1836 Wisconsin Territory forms
1837 Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
1838 The Iowa Territory is organized.
1840 The Cunard Line's 700 ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the first transatlantic crossing with a scheduled end.
1845 Near Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau embarks on a two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond (see Walden).
1845 Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
1855 In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.
1859 Austro-Sardinian War, the Battle of Magenta.
1861 In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops
1861 Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, WV
1862 Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
1862 Lewis Carroll tells Alice P Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
1862 R Morgan's: Tomkinsville, KY to Somerset, KY
1863 Siege of Vicksburg Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. 150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas in the American Civil War.
1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
1863 Failed Confederate assault on Helena Arkansas (640 casualties)
1863 General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg
1863 Skirmish at Smithburg, TN
1864 Battle at Chattahoochee River, Georgia
1865 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published
1866 Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying half of Portland, Maine, US
1868 Battle at Ueno, last Tokugawa armies defeated
1873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
1874 Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
1875 White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
1876 Batholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty
1879 Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony
1879 The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burnt to the ground, thus, ending the Anglo-Zulu War and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
1881 Booker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF
1883 Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr
1884 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
1886 The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
1886 The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
1887 The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
1888 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Arizona
1889 Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
1892 James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
1892 Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH
1894 Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as president
1895 Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
1898 French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die
1898 US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
1903 Dorothy Levitt was reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'.
1903 Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message
1905 Phila A's beat Boston Red Sox 4-2 in 20 inning game
1906 Gr Brit, France & Italy grant Independence to Ethiopia
1907 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1908 NY Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn
1910 African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match in 15 for heavyweight boxing title sparking race riots across the United States.
1911 105°F (41°C) at Vernon, Vermont (state record)
1911 106°F (41°C) at Nashua, New Hampshire (state record)
1911 Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 & ends a 40 game hit streak
1911 White Sox Ed Walsh stops Ty Cobb's 40-game hitting streak
1912 Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0
1912 Jack Johnson TKOs Jim Flynn in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1913 37th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, A F Wilding beats McLoughlin (86 63 10-8)
1913 President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1914 1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
1918 Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa
1918 Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
1918 Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
1919 ADGB (Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund) party forms
1919 Cincinnati Reds are 10½ games back in NL, & win World Series
1919 Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship
1923 Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbon in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1925 44 die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses
1925 45th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Rene Lacoste beats J Borotra (63 63 46 86)
1925 A's Lefty Grove beats Yanks Herb Pennock 1-0 in 15 innings
1926 Baronie soccer team forms in Breda Neth
1926 NSDAP-party forms in Weimar
1927 First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
1927 Ir Sukarno forms PNI (Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia) in Batavia
1929 AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down
1930 43rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Helen Moody beats Elizabeth Ryan (62 62)
1931 1st fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium
1931 1st trailside museum opens in Cleveland Metroparks
1932 Bradman scores 260, a North American record, v Western Ontario
1933 Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
1934 Jordanians revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment
1934 Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
1936 49th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Hull Jacobs beats H Sperling (62 46 75)
1936 League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy
1938 1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5
1938 France-Turkish friendship treaty
1939 Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth" as he announces his retirement from major league baseball.
1939 Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game
1939 Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day
1940 British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die
1940 German occupiers forbids anti-nazis speeches
1941 Howard Florey & Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin
1941 Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead
1941 Nazi Germans massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Polish city of Lwów.
1941 Politburo of Yugoslav communist party reorganizes
1942 US air offensive against nazi-Germany begins, 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
1944 1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy
1944 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima
1944 Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen
1944 Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber
1946 After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
1946 Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die
1947 61st Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Jack Kramer beats Tom P Brown (61 63 62)
1947 The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before British House of Commons, suggesting bifurcation of British India into two sovereign countries India and Pakistan.
1950 Braves Sid Gordon ties season grand slam record with 4
1950 Harry Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
1950 The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
1952 66th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Frank Sedgman beats J Drobny (46 62 63 62)
1952 Canadain Currency, Mint & Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted
1953 60th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Maureen Connolly beats D Hart (86 75)
1953 Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas Rákosi as premier of Hungary
1954 WMSL (WYUR, now WAFF) TV channel 48 in Huntsville, AL (ABC) begins
1954 West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern
1956 Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia
1956 US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland
1957 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase
1958 72nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis, A Cooper beats N Fraser (36 63 64 13-11)
1959 66th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Maria Fraser beats Darlene Hard (64 63)
1959 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
1959 With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1960 6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
1960 Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act).
1960 Mickey Mantle is 18th to hit 300 HRs
1961 Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on the Independence Day in The Rebuild Hills at Skørping in Denmark
1962 Island Records begins
1962 KIKU (now KHNL) TV channel 13 in Honolulu, HI (IND) 1st broadcast
1964 71st Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Maria Fraser beats M Court (64 79 63)
1964 Beachboy's "I Get Around" reaches #1
1965 20th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Carol Mann
1965 Homophile activists picket at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the first in a series of Annual Reminders of the second-class status of LGBT people in the United States.
1966 Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos
1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act goes into effect the next year.
1967 Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
1967 Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader
1968 Arthur Kopit's "Indians," premieres in London
1968 Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched
1969 "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in UK
1969 76th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Ann Jones beats Billie J King (36 63 62)
1969 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin
1969 Italian Rumor government resigns
1969 The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie.
1969 Two teens (one male, one female) are attacked at Blue Rock Springs in California. They are the second (known) victims of the Zodiac Killer. The male survives.
1969 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 84th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Newcombe beats K Rosewall (57 63 62 36 61)
1970 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ
1970 Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio
1970 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
1971 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 Alan Ayckbourne's "Absurd Person Singular," premieres in London
1973 CARICOM Caribbean Community & Common Market, forms
1973 In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth"
1974 Mike Marshall goes 9-0 with 3 saves in 20 appearances in 30 days
1975 82nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (60 61)
1975 Fictional wedding date of Coneheads
1975 Ted Bundy victim Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah
1976 Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers (229) and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
1976 Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt NY
1976 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Bloomington Golf Classic Bicentennial
1977 Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher
1977 Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
1977 Red Sox wallop a major league-record 8 HRs beating Toronto 9-6
1978 Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order
1979 Algerian ex-president Ben Bella freed
1980 Nolan Ryan is 4th to strikeout 3,000
1981 95th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, John McEnroe beats B Borg (46 76 76 64)
1981 Clive Rice 105* out of 143 all out, Notts v Hants at Bournemouth
1982 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB
1982 10th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Sandra Haynie
1982 96th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, J Connors beats J McEnroe (36 63 67 76 64)
1982 Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982), four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
1982 Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico
1982 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 Yankees bat out of order against Indians in 1st inning
1983 NY Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox
1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki
1984 Kallicharran gets 206 & 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game
1984 NY Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000
1984 Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m
1985 Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
1987 94th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, M Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (75 63)
1987 Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission
1987 Imran Khan takes 300th Test Cricket wicket, only Pakistani to do so
1987 In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (aka the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and is sentenced to life imprisonment in France.
1988 102nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Stefan Edberg beats Becker (46 76 64 62)
1988 KC releases pitcher Dan Quisenberry, whose 238 saves are the 4th most
1988 US navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
1989 14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide
1989 Red's Tom Browning is 3 outs away from his 2nd career perfect game when Phillie Dickie Thon doubles
1989 Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)
1990 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner & Gettysburg Address
1990 400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in Minn
1990 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1990 Wrestler Brutus Beefcake injured during para-sailing
1992 99th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (62 61)
1992 John Phillips, rocker (Mamas & Papas), undergoes a liver transplant
1992 US actress Bobbie Eakes marries author David Stone
1993 107th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Pete Sampras beats Courier (76 76 36 63)
1993 Brandie Burton wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1993 Dave Winfield hits 442nd HR to move into 19th place
1993 Pilar Fort, crowned 25th Miss Black America
1993 Pizza Hut blimp deflates & lands safely on W 56th street in NYC
1993 Sumitomo Chemical's resin plant in Nihama explodes killing one worker and injuring three others.
1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, lands
1994 Rwandese Patriot Front occupies Kigali
1994 US loses to Brazil 1-0 in 1994 World Cup quarter finals
1995 Birmingham Barracudas play 1st CFL game (vs Winnipeg)
1996 Hot Mail, a free internet E-mail service begins
1997 NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface (Ares Vallis) of Mars.
2004 The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. (This was largely a symbolic event; actual construction would not start for several weeks)
2005 The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
2006 North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan/East Sea.
2006 Space Shuttle program: STS-121 Mission Space Shuttle Discovery launches at 18:37:55 UTC.
2008 Cross-strait charter direct flight between mainland China and Taiwan started
2009 The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after 8 years, due to security reasons following the World Trade Center attacks
2010 Rafael Nadal beats Tomáš Berdych (6-3 7-5 6-4) to win the 124th Wimbledon Men's Tennis Championship
2010 Serena Williams beats Vera Zvonareva (6-3 6-2) to win the 117th Wimbledon Women's Tennis Championship
2013 12 people are killed and 60 are injured in a wave of shootings across Chicago
2014 Rolf Harris is sentenced to 5 years and 9 months for indecently assaulting female minors
2015 Chile win football's Copa America for the first time
2015 Matt "Megatoad" Stonie, in an upset, defeats 8x hot dog eating champion Joey "Jaws" Chestnut at Nathan's Famous, Coney Island with 62 hot dogs
2015 Otago Highlanders beat Wellington Hurricanes 21-14 to win the 20th Super Rugby Championship
2015 Unesco grants World Heritage Status to vineyards in Champagne, France along with Singapore's Botanical Gardens, Diyarbakir Fortress (Turkey) and Maymand Caves (Iran)
2015 US golfer Bubba Watson announces he will paint over Confederate flag on Dukes of Hazard car General Lee

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Born on The Fourth of July

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1330 Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367)
1546 Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (1574-95) (d. 1595)
1610 Cornelis Evertsen, the Elder, Dutch/Swiss vice-admiral
1610 Paul Scarron, French playwright (Virgile Travesti)
1669 Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor
1694 Louis-Claude Daquin (d'Acquin), French organist and composer (La Rose) (d. 1772)
1715 Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (Fables & Tales) (d. 1769)
1719 Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)
1753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US
1762 Marco Santucci, composer
1769 Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer
1790 George Everest, Welsh surveyor (d. 1866)
1793 Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer
1799 F J Oscar I, King of Sweden and Norway (1844-59), French general (d. 1859)
1804 Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader
1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (House of 7 Gables, Scarlet Letter) (d. 1864)
1807 Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian freedom fighter (Risorgimento), unified Italy (d. 1882)
1810 Phineas T Barnum, circus magnate
1816 Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
1819 Reuben Eaton Fenton, Governor (Union), died in 1885
1826 Green Clay Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1826 Stephen Foster, American songwriter (Oh! Susanna, Swanee River) (d. 1864)
1828 James Johnston Pettigrew, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1828 Theodor W Ahlwardt, German orientalist
1829 Hermann Kotzchmar, composer
1840 James McGranahan, composer
1841 Edward Gailliard, Flemish linguist/archaeologicalist
1841 Marie von Wied, Princess of Orange Nassau
1842 Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria, sociologist/judge/fieldmarshal
1842 Gyula Erkel, composer
1845 Thomas John Barnardo, Irish humanitarian, social worker (d. 1905)
1847 James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (Barnum & Bailey) (d. 1906)
1850 Ole Olsen, composer
1854 Heinrich Zollner, composer
1854 Victor Babes, Romanian bacteriologist (d. 1926)
1867 Stephen Mather, American entrepreneur and conservationist, organized US National Park Service (d. 1930)
1868 Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921)
1869 Karl Seitz, president of Austria
1870 Pieter van der Lijn, Dutch geologist (Dutch boulders)
1872 Calvin Coolidge (Silent Cal), 30th President of the United States (1923-29) (d. 1933)
1875 Giovanni & Giacomo Tocci, Italy, siamese twins
1876 William Farnum, Boston MA, actor (Spoilers, Man who Fights Alone)
1880 George Mullin, pitcher (Detroit Tigers-no-hitter on 7/4/1912)
1880 Pat Rooney, vaudevillian/actor (Night Club)
1881 Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (d. 1968)
1882 Cornelis van der Lugt Melsert, Dutch actor/dir (Willem van Oranje)
1882 Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (d. 1957)
1883 Alan Brooke, English general [or Jul 23]
1883 Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer
1883 Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (who made the easy outrageously difficult) (d. 1970)
1884 Alexander Byvanck, Dutch art historian/archaeologist
1886 Heinrich Kaminski, composer
1888 Henry Armetta, Italian/US actor (Bell for Adano, Big Store)
1894 Henry Carlson, basketball coach (originated figure 8 play)
1895 Irving Caesar, American lyricist and composer (d. 1996)
1895 Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator
1895 Walderman Marx, cricketer (S Af, 240 on FC debut (then world record))
1896 Adolf Hallis, composer
1896 Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981)
1898 Dr. Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian (d. 1997)
1898 Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (Mimi, Rembrandt) (d. 1952)
1898 Johnny Lee, Missouri, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy)
1902 George Murphy, American entertainer (MGM Parade), Politiician (Sen-R-California) (d. 1992)
1902 Meyer Lansky, Russian-born American gangster (Started numbers) (d. 1983)
1902 Vince Barnett, Pittsburgh, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle)
1903 Flor Peeters, Belgian composer, organist and teacher (Lied Symphony) (d. 1986)
1904 Angela Baddeley, English actress (Ghost Train, Tom Jones) (d. 1976)
1904 Artur Malawski, composer
1904 Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist
1905 Dante Fiorillo, composer
1905 Irving Johnson, American adventurer (d. 1991)
1905 Lionel Trilling, author (1969 Poses Award, Liberal Imagination)
1907 Elliott Sullivan, San Antonio TX, actor (Sergeant)
1907 Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
1907 Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (d. 1996)
1908 Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/chairman (Club of Rome)
1909 Alec Templeton, Cardiff Wales, pianist/composer (Concertino Lirico)
1909 Lynette Roberts, poet
1909 Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine
1910 Francis D Foley, US lt adm (WW II, Guadalcanal)
1910 Gloria Stuart, American actress (Rose-Titanic), founder (Screen Actors Guild) (d. 2010)
1910 William T "Champion Jack" Dupree, US boxer/slaughterhouse pianist
1911 Mitch Miller, American entertainer, sing along with Mitch (Yellow Rose of Tx)
1912 Virginia Graham, Chicago Ill, TV personality (Girl Talk, Where Was I)
1912 Viviane Romance, French actress (d. 1991)
1914 Giuseppe 'Nuccio' Bertone, car designer
1915 Christine Lavant, writer
1915 Jimmie Rogers, Detroit Mich, singer (Sugar Hill Time)
1916 Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose), American World War II propagandist (WW II) (d. 2006)
1917 Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947)
1918 Abigail Van Buren, American advice columnist, Mrs Morton Phillips
1918 Alec Bedser, cricketer (mighty post-war England medium-pacer)
1918 Ann Landers, American advice columnist, twin sister (d. 2002)
1918 Buster Davis, Johnstown Pa, choral director (Garry Moore Show)
1918 Eric Bedser, cricketer (bro of Alec, Surrey bowler but not England)
1918 Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984)
1918 Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (1965) (d. 2006)
1920 Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (wife of Harry) (d. 2007)
1920 Norm Drucker, American basketball referee
1921 Gerard Debreu, France, economist (Nobel laureate 1983) (d. 2004)
1921 Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist, orchestra leader (Ripley's Game) (d. 2003)
1922 Ghulam Ahmed, Indian cricketer
1923 Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor
1924 Eva Marie Saint, American actress (On the Waterfront, North by Northwest)
1926 Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer
1926 Mary Stuart, Miami Fla, actress (Jo-Search for Tomorrow)
1927 Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress (Trapeze, Falcon Crest)
1927 Neil Simon, American playwright (Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues)
1928 Cathy Berberian, Armenia, US singer
1928 Giampiero Boniperti, Italian former soccer player
1928 Lloyd Lambert, bassist
1928 Patrick Tilley, UK, sci-fi author (1st Family, Blood River)
1928 Paul de Wispelaere, Flemish writer/essayist/critic
1928 Stephen Boyd (William Millar), Irish actor (Fantastic Voyage, Ben-Hur) (d. 1977)
1928 Sylvius G M "Boy" Rozendal, premier (Netherland's Antilles)
1929 Al Davis, American businessman and NFL team owner (LA Raiders)
1929 Bill Tuttle, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1929 Chuck Tanner, American baseball player
1930 Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor (d. 1993)
1930 George Steinbrenner, American businessman, owner (NY Yankees) (d. 2010)
1930 Yuri Tyukalov, Soviet Olympic rower
1931 Peter Richardson, cricketer (England batsman mid-50's)
1931 Sébastien Japrisot, French author, film director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1932 Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian athlete
1934 Colin Welland, English actor (Straw Dogs, Sweeney)
1935 Paul Scoon, Governor-general of Grenada (1978-92)
1936 Zdzislawa Donat, Polish coloratura soprano
1937 Hector Palma, horse trainer
1937 Sonja Haraldsen, Queen of Norway (spouse of King Harald V of Norway)
1937 Thomas Nagel, American philosopher
1938 Bill Withers, American singer and songwriter (Lean on Me)
1938 Cyril Mitchley, cricket wicket-keeper (Transvaal, later Test umpire)
1938 Sergio Oliva, Cuban born American bodybuilder
1939 Ed Bernard, Phila, actor (Joe-Police Woman, Jim-White Shadow)
1940 Joost P van Iersel, Dutch MP (CDA)
1940 Karolyn Grimes, American actress
1940 Walter Greenman, horse trainer
1941 Brian Willson, American peace activist
1942 Floyd Little, American football player
1942 Hal Lanier, American baseball player
1942 Michael G C F, English prince of Kent
1942 Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (d. 2008)
1943 Al(an) "Blind Owl" Wilson, American guitarist and vocalist (Canned Heat) (d. 1970)
1943 Dave Rowberry, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1943 Emerson Boozer, American football player, NFL running back (NY Jets), sportscaster
1943 Geraldo Rivera, American reporter
1943 Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German musician
1943 Milan Mácala, Czech football coach
1944 Joe Berardo, Portuguese millionaire
1944 Ray Meagher, Australian actor
1945 Bruce French, American actor
1946 Ed O'Ross, American actor
1946 Michael Milken, American financier (Intl Capital Access Group)
1946 Ron Kovic, American peace activist, disabled vietnam vet (Born on 4th of July)
1946 Tish Howard, American model, playmate (July, 1966)
1947 Morganna Roberts, American entertainer (Baseball's kissing bandit)
1948 Ed Armbrister, baseball player
1948 Jeremy Spencer, English musician (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well)
1948 Phil Wheatley, Director-General of the National Offender Management Service
1948 René Arnoux, France, formula-1 race car driver (6th place-1980)
1948 Tommy Körberg, Swedish singer and actor
1949 Georgios Voulgarakis, Greek politician
1949 Tonio K, American singer
1950 David Jensen, Canadian-born British radio DJ
1951 Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American politician
1951 Ralph Johnson, rock drummer (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star)
1952 Álvaro Uribe, President of Colombia
1954 Jim Beattie, American baseball player (NY Yankees)
1955 John Waite, English singer (Babies/Bad English-Forget Me Not, Missing You)
1956 Mark Belling, American radio talkshow host
1957 Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand
1957 Rein Lang, Estonian politician and diplomat
1958 Kirk Pengilly, Australian musician (Inxs)
1959 Bill McCorvey, Montgomery Ala, singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake)
1959 Victoria Abril (Victoria Rojas), Spanish actress (Libertarias)
1960 Barry Windham, American professional wrestler
1960 Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1994)
1960 Sid Eudy, American professional wrestler
1961 Connie Paraskevin-Young, Detroit, sprint cyclist (Olymp-br-88, 92, 96)
1961 Richard Allen Garriott, English video game designer (Origin)
1962 Neil Morrissey, English actor
1962 Pam Shriver, American tennis player (1991 US Open doubles/Oly-gold-88)
1962 Roland Ratzenberger, driver
1963 Henri Leconte, France, tennis player (French finalist 1988)
1963 José Oquendo, Puerto Rican baseball player
1963 Matt Malley, American musician
1964 Cle Kooiman, American soccer player
1964 Kevin Sutherland, Sacramento CA, Nike golfer (1992 Hawkeye Open-2nd)
1964 Mark (Allen) Slaughter, American singer and guitarist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1964 Mark Whiting, American filmmaker and actor
1965 Eva Dahllof, Ornskoldsvik Sweden, golfer (1995 McCall's Classic-18th)
1965 Harvey Grant, American basketball player, NBA forward (Trail Blazers, Orlando Magic, Wizards)
1965 Horace Grant, American basketball player
1965 Jo Whiley, English radio DJ
1965 John Frawley, Australia, tennis star
1965 Shelley Oates, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1965 Suzanne Peta Strudwick, Knutsford England, golfer (1995 Brit Open-7th)
1966 Adrian Caldwell, NBA forward/center (Indiana Pacers)
1966 Lee Reherman, American actor
1966 Minas Hantzidis, Greek footballer
1967 Andy Walker, Canadian television personality
1967 Rick Wilkins, American baseball player
1967 Vinny Castilla, Mexican baseball player, infielder (Colorado Rockies)
1968 Derek Loville, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
1968 Jack Frost, American musician
1968 Loville Derek, NFL running back (Denver Broncos, Superbowl 32)
1968 Mark Lenzi, Huntsville Ala, diver (Olympics-Gold-92, bronze-96), (d. 2012)
1969 David Wittman, Buffalo, NY, 1.5k runner
1969 Tim Jackson, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-96)
1969 Todd Marinovich, American football player
1969 Wilfred Mugeyi, Zimbabwean soccer player
1970 Andrei Cherkasov, USSR, tennis star
1970 Christian Giesler, American bassist (Kreator)
1970 Louise Van Voorhis, Rochester NY, 470 yachter (Olympics-4th-1992, 96)
1970 Tony Vidmar, Australian former footballer
1971 Andrew Murray, English entrepreneur
1971 Andy Creeggan, Canadian musician
1971 Brendan Donnelly, American baseball player
1971 Koko, sign-language gorilla
1971 Ned Zelic, Australian soccer player
1971 Steve Rucchin, Thunder Bay, NHL center (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1972 Mike Knuble, Canadian hockey player
1972 Nina Badric, Croatian singer
1972 Oleg Prudius, Ukrainian professional wrestler
1972 Stephen Giles, Canadian canoeist (Olympics-6-92, 96)
1972 William Goldsmith, American drummer
1973 Gackt, Japanese singer
1973 Jan Magnussen, Danish racing driver
1973 Justin Ring, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1973 Keiko Ihara, Japanese racing driver
1973 Michael Johnson, English-born Jamaican footballer
1973 Tony Popovic, Australian soccer player
1974 Adrian Griffin, American basketball player
1974 Kellee Nicole Kattleman, Miss Wyoming USA (1996)
1974 La'Roi Glover, American football player
1974 Vince Spadea, American tennis player
1975 Reinhard Davis, hockey goaltender (Team Austria 1998)
1975 Tania Davis, Australian violist
1976 Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
1976 Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova, Russian cross-country skier
1977 Jonas Kjellgren, Swedish musician (Scar Symmetry)
1977 Katia Zygouli, Greek supermodel
1978 Becki Newton, American actress
1978 Emile Mpenza, Belgian footballer
1978 Katia Zygouli, Greek supermodel
1978 Stephen McNally, British singer and songwriter (BBMak)
1978 Tatyana Jecmenica, Novi Sad Yugo, tennis star (1995 Futures-Novi Sad)
1978 Vicky Kaya, Greek supermodel and actress
1980 Max Elliott Slade, American film actor
1980 Muhammad Ali Hasan, American filmmaker
1981 Dédé, Angolan soccer player
1981 Francisco Cruceta, Dominican baseball player
1982 Hannah Harper, English porn star
1983 Andy Mrotek, American musician
1983 Ben Jorgensen, American musician
1983 Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian model
1983 Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Spanish actor and singer
1984 Akanishi Jin, Japanese singer
1984 Gina Glocksen, American singer
1985 Kane Tenace, Australian rules footballer
1986 Takahisa Masuda, Japanese singer
1990 Backer Aloenouvo, Togolese Soccer Player
1990 David Kross, German actor
2003 Alessia di Matteo, Italian medical figure (d. 2005)

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907 Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria
943 Taejo of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (b. 877)
965 Pope Benedict V, Italian Roman Catholic Pope (5/22-6/23 964)
973 Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890)
1187 Raynald of Chatillon, French Prince of Antioch
1301 Willem II Berthout van Mechelen, bishop of Utrecht, dies in battle
1307 Rudolf III, Duke of Austria/King of Bohemia
1336 Elisabeth van Portugal, queen of Portugal/saint
1498 Filips van Burgundy, admiral-general of Netherlands
1541 Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish explorer (b. 1495)
1546 Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the Ottoman Navy (b. 1478)
1578 Charles de Berlaymont, baron of Hierges, gov/viceroy of Names
1603 Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (b. 1521)
1623 William Byrd, English composer (Ave verum corpus)
1627 Thomas Middleton, Elizabethan dramatist (Women Beware Women)
1648 Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1601)
1672 Ambrosius Reiner, composer
1672 Govert D Camphuysen, (court) painter
1742 Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
1754 Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author (b. 1680)
1757 Jean-Joseph Vade, composer
1761 Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
1768 Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide)
1780 Charles Alexander, Duke of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (b. 1712)
1787 Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise, Marshal of France (b. 1715)
1789 Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian conductor
1821 Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
1826 John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (1797-1801) (b. 1735)
1826 Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States (1801-09) (b. 1743)
1831 James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (1817-25) (b. 1758)
1840 Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, German surgeon who helped create modern plastic surgery
1845 Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500
1848 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala), diplomat (b. 1768)
1850 William Kirby, English entomologist (b. 1759)
1851 Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer
1854 Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist, Law historian (b. 1781)
1856 Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor
1857 William L. Marcy, American statesman (b. 1786)
1863 Paul Joseph Revere, US grandson of Paul Revere/Union brig-gen
1881 Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (b. 1806)
1882 Joseph Brackett, American composer (b. 1797)
1888 Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Schimmelreiter)
1889 Auguste Mermet, composer
1891 Frederic Louis Ritter, composer
1891 Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809)
1901 Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (b. 1843)
1901 John Fiske (Edmund Fisk Green), US historian/philosopher
1902 Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1863)
1905 Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
1910 Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars) (b. 1835)
1910 Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer
1910 Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1833)
1916 Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
1917 Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskreet)
1922 Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1894)
1923 Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw)
1926 Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint (b. 1901)
1929 Otto Taubmann, composer
1931 Buddie Petit, American jazz musician (b. 1895)
1931 Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat, WW I-general (fascist) (b. 1869)
1931 Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24)
1934 Chaim Nachman Bialik, zionist poet
1934 Maria Sklodowska-Curie, French-Polish Physicist and Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics (b. 1867)
1938 Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic politician (b. 1881)
1938 Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player, 6 time Wimbledon champ (b. 1899)
1941 Antoni Lomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
1943 Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/PM of Poland in exile (1939-43)
1946 Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
1946 Othenio Able, Austria paleontology
1948 Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
1952 Walter Long
1957 Judy Tyler, actress (Princess-Howdy Doody), dies in car crash
1958 Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam)
1961 Franklyn Farnum
1962 Rex Bell, actor/lt-gov (Nevada)
1963 Bernard Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
1963 Fritz Reuter, composer
1963 Grant Richards, actor (Doug-Doorway to Danger)
1964 Henry (Hank) Sylvern, U.S. radio personality (b. 1908)
1970 Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905)
1970 Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37) (b. 1884)
1971 August Derleth, American writer and editor (b. 1909)
1971 Don McPherson, rocker
1971 Joe Cox, cricketer (4 wickets in 3 Tests for South Africa)
1971 Thomas C Hart, US admiral/commander (Pacific Fleet)
1973 Leonid Stein, Russian chess player
1974 Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/pres Com Palestine
1975 Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902)
1976 Antoni Slonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895)
1977 Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918)
1979 Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer (b. 1905)
1980 Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1895)
1982 Sylvestre A Guzman Fernandez, pres Dominican Rep, commits suicide
1982 Terry Higgins, early British AIDS death (b. 1945)
1983 Claus Adam, composer
1984 Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
1985 John de Quay, Dutch premier (1959-63)
1986 Flor Peeters, Belgian composer, organist, and teacher (b. 1903)
1986 Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899)
1988 Adrian Adonis (Keith Franke), American professional WWF wrestler, killed in auto accident (b. 1954)
1989 Jack Haig, British actor (b. 1913)
1991 Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
1992 Astor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (Tango Nuevo)
1992 Joe Newman, US jazz trumpetist (Count Basie)
1992 Ástor Piazzolla, Argentinian composer (b. 1921)
1993 Anne Shirley, actress (Stella Dallas)
1993 Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician and historian (b. 1903)
1993 Charles Crain, actor
1993 Felix White, choreographer (Black Vibrations Theatre)
1994 Arthur Berry, artist
1994 Joey Marella, American professional wrestling referee (b. 1964)
1994 Juan Gil Poet-Albert
1994 Liesbeth Struppert, actress (Pipo the Clown, Anne Frank)
1994 Rupert Davies, methodist scholar
1994 Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth
1995 Bob Ross, American artist and television host (b. 1942)
1995 Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (Green Acres) (b. 1919)
1995 Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar
1995 Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez, tennis great
1996 Clay Jones, gardener
1996 Leo Avery, abbot of Quarr
1997 Charles Kuralt, American television presenter, news anchor (CBS Sunday Morning) (b. 1934)
1997 John Zachary Young, English zoologist (b. 1907)
1999 Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b. 1917)
2000 Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Polish writer (b. 1919)
2001 Keenan Milton, American skateboarder (b. 1974)
2002 Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American general (b. 1912)
2002 Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (b. 1951)
2002 Winnifred Quick, American Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
2003 André Claveau, French singer (b. 1915)
2003 Barry White, American singer (b. 1944)
2004 Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), British street entertainer (b. 1932)
2004 Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (b. 1920)
2005 Hank Stram, American football coach (b. 1923)
2007 Baris Akarsu, Turkish rock musician (b. 1979)
2007 Bill Pinkney, American singer and performer (b. 1925)
2008 Charles Wheeler, British journalist (b. 1923)
2008 Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
2008 Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
2008 Terrence Kiel, American Football Player (b. 1980)
2008 Thomas M. Disch, American science fiction author (b. 1940)
2009 Allen Klein, American record label executive (b. 1931)
2009 Brenda Joyce, American actress (b. 1917)
2009 Drake Levin, American rock musician (b. 1946)
2009 Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese politician (b. 1938)
2009 Jim Chapin, American drummer (b. 1919)
2009 Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish writer (b. 1935)
2009 Steve McNair, American football player (b. 1973)
2010 Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-born Lebanese Shiite Muslim cleric and Hezbollah mentor (b. 1935)
2011 Otto von Habsburg, last crown prince of Austria-Hungary and MEP (1979-1999) (b. 1912)
2012 Jimmy Bivins (James), American Hall of Fame boxer
2016 Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian author/director (Taste of Cherry)

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