July 9th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day (Argentina)
Nunavut Day (Nunavut)
Constitution Day (Palau)
Constitutionalist Revolution Day (São Paulo - state)
Day of Remembrance for Unn the Deep-Minded (Asatru)
Arbor Day (Cambodia) * CLICK HERE
Declaration of Independence Day (Argentna), from Spain (1816)
Caprotinia, or feasts of Juno Caprotina (Roman)
National Sugar Cookie Day
Hot Dog Day
Martyrdom of the Báb (Bahá'í Faith)
Feast of Our Lady of Peace; Octave of the Visitation
Feast of Saint Agilulf, bishop of Cologne, martyr
Feast of Saint Cyril, bishop and companions, martyrs
Feast of Saint Ephrem the Deacon, confessor, Doctor of the Church
Feast of Martyrs of Gorkum (d. 1572)
Feast of Translation of Saint Nicholas, bishop, confessor
Feast of Saint Sabinus, bishop, martyr
Feast of Saint Everildis, virgin
Feast of Saint Veronica de Julianis, virgin
Feast of Saint Zeno, martyr
Fête de la Menthe Translation: Mint Day (French Republican) The 21st day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Candy Is Dandy
But liquor Is quicker."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Salty Dog
Salt the Rim of the Glass
1 Part Vodka
Fill with Grapefruit Juice
Wine of The Day
Style - Malbec
Mendoza
$15
Beer of The Day
Quilmes Cristal
Brewer - Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes Quilmes, Argentina
Style - Latin American Light Lager
- In celebration of Argentina's Independence Day on July 9th, 1816
Joke of The Day
There once was a priest who had to spend the night in a hotel and offered hat check girl to come up to his room for dinner.
After a while he started advancing on her when she stopped him and reminded him he was a holy man.
"It's O.K.," he replied, "it's written in the Bible."
So after a wild night of you-know-what the hat check girl asked to see where in the Bible it says it's okay.
The priest picks up the Bible off the dresser opens to the first page where someone wrote "Check girl puts out"
Quote of The Day
"Who does not love beer, wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long."
- Carl Worner
June 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
Obervances this Week
National Farriers Week, Second Week in July
National Therapeutic Recreation Week, Second Week in July
Freedom Week, July 4th through July 10th
Be Nice To New Jersey Week, First Full Week in July
Nude Recreation Weekend, 7 Days Starting First Monday of the first full week in July
Sports Cliché Week, Week of Major League Baseball, All Star Game Second Tuesday in July
Historical Events on July 9th
455 Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
711 Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupies North Spain
1357 Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assists in laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.
1371 Pope Gregory XI names Arnold II of Horne as bishop of Utrecht
1386 Battle at Sempach: Swiss beat duke Leopold III of Austria
1401 Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad
1517 Gelderse crowd robber murders population of Asperen
1536 French navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada
1540 Henry VIII of England annuls his 6-month marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
1541 Estevão da Gama departs Massawa, leaving behind 400 matchlock men and 150 slaves under his brother Christovão da Gama, with orders to help the Emperor of Ethiopia defeat Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi who has invaded his Empire.
1553 Battle at Sievershausen Solingen: van Saksen beats Alcibiades
1572 19 Catholic priests hanged in Gorcum
1595 Johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe
1609 Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemian protestants freedom of religion
1672 Prince Willem III inaugurated as viceroy of Holland/Zealand
1686 Germany, Sweden & Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies "Elisabeth" battles with HMS Lion
1755 Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh), French troops beat British
1755 Braddock Expedition British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat by French and Native American forces during the French and Indian War. Brittish General E Braddock mortally wounded
1766 English premier Rockingham resigns
1776 Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops (NY)
1780 Denmark declares neutrality
1789 In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
1790 Second Battle of Svensksund in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet in the Russo-Swedish War.
1793 The Act Against Slavery is passed in Upper Canada and the importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
1795 James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt
1800 Mt Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theater in US
1807 The Treaties of Tilsit are signed by Napoleon I and Alexander I.
1810 Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
1815 1st natural gas well in US is discovered
1815 Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of France.
1815 King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France
1816 Argentina declares independence from Spain
1835 St Etienne-Lyons railway opens in France
1842 Notary Stamp Law passes
1846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (SF) for US
1846 The territory of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia through an Act of Congress.
1850 President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States.
1852 Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal Canada & no one die
1853 Adm Perry & US Navy visit Japan
1860 Temperature hits 115°F in Ft Scott & 112°F in Topeka Kansas
1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Ky
1863 The Siege of Port Hudson of the American Civil War ends. Union troops enter.
1864 Battle of Monocacy, MD US1959 CS400
1867 An unsuccessful expedition led by E.D Young sets out to search for Dr David Livingstone (Scottish missionary and explorer).
1868 1st black cabinet member in SC (Francis L Cardozo-sect of state)
1868 The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
1869 Concord pipe, made from small corn kernels, invented
1872 Doughnut cutter patents by John Blondel, Thomaston, Me
1876 Black landowner murdered in Hamburg SC
1877 1st Wimbledon tennis championship is held
1878 An improved corncob pipe patents by Henry Tibbe, Washington, Mo
1891 Irene Coit is 1st woman admitted to Yale University
1893 Daniel Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anesthesia
1900 Australia accepts its constitution. Queen Victoria gives royal assent to an Act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
1904 10th US Golf Open, Willie Anderson shoots a 303 at Glen View Club IL
1908 CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms
1910 Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude
1914 1st US duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, NY
1915 Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa
1916 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in US from Germany
1917 British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804
1918 Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal
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 the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
1926 Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander
1926 Coup under Gen Sinel de Cordes in Portugal
1927 Atty William T Francis named minister to Liberia
1932 The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution
1932 Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) forms
1932 Yanks' Ben Chapman hits 2 inside-the-park HRs, tying record
1933 Frankford Yellowjackets sold, rechristened Philadelphia Eagles
1934 SS-Reichs Fuhrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps
1940 8th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 4-0 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
1940 German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pogroms
1940 RAF bombs Germany
1942 Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family & 4 other Jews
1943 5th day of battle at Kursk, Germans occupy Verchopenje
1943 British air raid sinks U-435
1943 Operation Husky Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily in World War II.
1944 Battle of Saipan In World War II, US troops secure Saipan as Japan fell
1944 U-740 sinks
1944 World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's Barnum & Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford Conn)
1944 Battle of Normandy British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France in World War II.
1944 Battle of Tali-Ihantala Finland wins the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, which is to date largest battle of north Europe. Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into defensive position, which ends the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive of World War II.
1946 13th All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 12-0 at Fenway Park, Boston
1947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth & Lt Philip Mountbatten's engagement
1947 Spain votes for Franco monarchy
1948 Pakistan issues its first set of Postage stamps, bearing images of the Constituent Assembly, the Jinnah International Airport (Quaid-e-Azam International Airport), and the Shahi Fort.
1948 Satchel Paige, 42, debuts in majors pitching 2 scoreless inn for Cleve
1949 Benjamin Britten's Jump Symphony, premieres
1950 13.15" (33.40 cm) of rainfall, York, Nebraska (state 24-hour record)
1951 Pres Harry Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
1953 1st helicopter passenger service (NYC)
1953 Phillies Robin Roberts ends streak of 28 consecutive complete games
1955 Bill Haley & Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops billboards chart
1955 First black executive on White House staff (E Frederic Morrow)
1955 Strike in Belgium for 5 day work week
1955 The Russell-Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London.
1956 Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand
1957 24th All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 6-6 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
1957 Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced
1958 Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock & ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain
1958 Lituya Bay is hit by a mega-tsunami. The wave is recorded at 524 meters high, making it the largest wave in history.
1959 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Open
1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
1962 Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States of America.
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 34th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland. All star MVP: Willie Mays (SF Giants)
1963 Crusher Lisowski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1963 Federation of Malaysia forms
1965 94th British Golf Open, Peter Thomson shoots a 285 at Royal Birkdale
1965 John Edrich completes 310* v NZ in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes
1965 Senators Frank Howard ties record with 7 strikeouts in DH
1966 95th British Golf Open, Jack Nicklaus shoots 282 at Muirfield Gullane
1967 13th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1967 WRET TV channel 36 in Charlotte, NC (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1968 15.68" (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Miss (state 24-hour record)
1968 39th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 1-0 at Astrodome, Houston. All star MVP: Willie Mays (SF Giants)
1969 Tom Seaver's no-hit bid against Cubs ends with 1 out in 9th
1970 In Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn
1971 Henry Kissinger visits China PR
1972 1st tour of Paul McCartney & Wings (France)
1972 86th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, S Smith beats I Nastase (46 63 63 46 75)
1972 Kathy Ahern wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1972 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1973 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel
1974 Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election
1975 The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that paves way for a (albeit highly restricted) multi-party system.
1976 England all out for 71 v WI at Old Trafford, Holding 14 5-7-17-5
1976 Houston Astro Larry Dierker no-hits Montreal Expos, 6-0
1976 Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe
1977 106th British Golf Open, Tom Watson shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland
1978 "Hello, Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 152 perfs
1978 American Nazi Party, holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago
1978 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1978 Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Wash DC for ERA
1979 A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
1979 Dr Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab
1979 Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter
1980 7 die in a stampede to see Pope in Brazil
1980 Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years
1980 Walt Disney's "Fox & The Hound," released
1981 Jacksons begin a 36-city tour
1982 Botham scores 208 in 225 balls, England v India at The Oval
1982 Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster
1982 Pan Am Boeing 727 Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
1984 12th minster of York Minster is struck by a lightning bolt and the resulting fire ravages most of the building. However the cathedral valuables are rescued by clergymen and the "Rose Window" is not affected.
1984 Yvonne Ryding, of Sweden, crowned 33rd Miss Universe
1985 South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong
1986 Atlanta's Dale Murphy doesn't play ending consecutive streak at 740
1986 Attorney General's Commission on Pornography links hard-core porn to sex crimes
1986 Padres trade pitcher Tim Stoddard to Yankees for pitcher Ed Whitson
1986 The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
1987 1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime
1987 Col Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence
1988 "Facts of Life," Lisa Whelchel weds Steve Cauble
1988 Chris Speier hits for the cycle & Ernest Riles hits 10,000th Giant HR
1988 Jessye Norman begins recording Bizets "Carmen"
1988 Nolan Ryan is 7th to win 100 game on 2 teams, as Astro beat Mets 6-3
1989 96th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, S Graf beats M Navratilova (62 67 61)
1989 103rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis, B Becker beats Stefan Edberg (60 76 64)
1989 Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1989 Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
1990 104th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, S Edberg beats B Becker (62 62 36 36 64)
1990 Richard Hadlee takes 5-53 to end his Test Cricket career with 431 wkts
1991 "Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 7 perfs
1991 62nd All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 4-2 at SkyDome, Toronto. All star MVP: Cal Ripken Jr (Balt Orioles)
1991 South Africa is readmitted into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion.
1992 Kim Basinger gets 1,959th star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992 Space Shuttle STS 50 (Columbia 13) lands
1994 11,000th HR in NY Yankees history (Matt Nokes)
1994 Sonia O'Sullivan runs world record 2k (5:25.36)
1994 Soyuz TM-19 lands
1995 "Play's the Thing" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 75 performances
1995 109th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Pete Sampras beats B Becker (67 62 64 62)
1995 Jack Nicklaus wins Golf's British Open (4th to win all 4 majors)
1995 Kathryn Marshall wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1995 The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lankan Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
1995 US international postage rates rise to 60 cents per ounce
1996 67th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 6-0 at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia. All star MVP: Mike Piazza (LA Dodgers)
1996 US Senate approves 90 cent raise to $4.25 minimum wage
1997 Baseball's triple A American Association (formed in 1902) votes to disband
1997 Mike Tyson is banned from boxing, for biting Holyfield's ear
1999 Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
2000 Pete Sampras wins his 13th Grand Slam tennis title at Wimbledon
2002 The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
2006 At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers on board veers off the runway while landing at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia in wet conditions
2011 South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan
2014 Joko Widodo is elected President of Indonesia
2014 Spokesperson for Medical Aid for Palestinians claims that at least 7 children have been killed by Israeli air strikes
2014 Typhoon Rammasun begins and kills 151 people
2015 48th San Diego Comic-Con begins (till 12th), it includes preview of new Star Wars film by J.J. Abrams
2016 In Dallas Texas, lone gunman shots and kills five police officers, wounding others during a protest march against fatal police shootings of African Americans
2016 Serena Williams beats Angelique Kerber 7-5, 6-3 to win the 123rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis Championship, equalling Steffi Graf's 22 grand slam singles tiles
Born on July 9th
1511 Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1571)
1513 John van Hembyze, Flemish calvinist
1535 Emanuel van Meteren, Southern Neth, merchant/historian
1577 Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Jamestown colonist (d. 1618)
1578 Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (1619-37), King of Bohemia (d. 1637)
1589 Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist
1654 Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732)
1686 Philip Livingston, American businessman and politician (d. 1749)
1689 Alexis Piron, French writer (d. 1773)
1721 Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (d. 1781)
1753 William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1825)
1764 Ann Ward Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (Italian) (d. 1823)
1766 J Schopenhauer, writer
1775 Matthew Lewis, English novelist (d. 1818)
1777 Henry Hallam, British lawyer/historian
1786 Sophie Hélène Béatrix, Princess of France (d. 1787)
1791 Nicolas Ledesma, composer
1800 Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (d. 1885)
1802 Thomas Davenport, invented 1st coml electric motor
1805 Henry John Gauntlett, composer
1808 Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (d. 1887)
1809 Frederick Henle, Germany, pathologist
1819 Elias Howe, American inventor (sewing machine) (d. 1867)
1825 Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters)
1828 Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman (d. 1913)
1831 Johan P van der Kellen, Dutch stamp cutter/lithographer/writer
1836 Camille de Renesse, Belgian count (d. 1904)
1836 Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1908)
1839 Carl Baermann, composer
1841 Carl Christian Lumbye, composer
1848 Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (d. 1907)
1855 Johann P Zilcher, German composer
1856 Daniel Guggenheim, US (Guggenheim Museum)
1857 Frederik II W, grandduke of Baden (1907-18)
1858 Franz Boas, German anthropologist and linguist (Mind of Primitive Man) (d. 1942)
1864 Franz Miller, becomes first Train Murderer
1879 Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (d. 1934)
1879 Friedrich Adler, Austria social-democrat/murderer of premier Storgkh
1879 Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Pines of Rome) (d. 1936)
1882 Richard Hageman, Dutch/US pianist/composer/conductor (Caponsacchi)
1887 Samuel Eliot Morison, historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea)
1889 Leo Dandurand, American-born Canadian hockey executive (d. 1964)
1893 George Geary, English cricketer (d. 1981)
1894 Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1895 Cullen Landis, Nashville TN, actor (Soul of the Beast)
1898 Gerard Walschap, Flemish writer/journalist (Mary, Revolt in Congo)
1898 Marcel Delannoy, composer
1900 Robert Oboussier, composer
1901 Barbara Cartland, romance author (Camfield #69)
1901 Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist (d. 2000)
1901 Jester Hairston, NC, actor (Thats My Mama, Rolly-Amen)
1901 Konstantinos Kallias, Greek politician (d. 2004)
1902 Gerhard Pohl, German writer (Crazy Ferdinand)
1905 Clarence Campbell, Canadian hockey executive, 3rd NHL pres (1946-77) (d. 1984)
1906 Beene Dubbelboer, Dutch writer (Secret Resistance)
1906 Walter Sande, Denver CO, actor (Navy vs Night Monsters)
1908 Allama Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani scholar, orator and philosopher (d. 1973)
1910 Harold C Fox, fashion designer/musician
1911 Clan Fraser of Lovat, soldier/landowner
1911 John A. Wheeler, American physicist (d. 2008)
1911 Lord Lovat (Shimi), Scottish cattle breeder/leader of clan Fraser
1911 Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (d. 1968)
1914 Bill Tallon, cricketer (brother of Don, Queensland leggie)
1914 Willi Stoph, president German DR
1915 David Leo Diamond, American composer (Paderewski Prize-1943) (d. 2005)
1916 Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970-74) (d. 2005)
1916 Joe Liggins, US composer (Pink Champagne)
1916 Sir Dean Goffin, New Zealand composer (d. 1984)
1917 Ted Steele, Hartford Ct, orchestra leader (Cavalcade of Stars)
1918 Herbert Brun, composer
1918 Jarl Wahlström, the 12th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1999)
1918 Rowley I Arenstein, South African attorney/communist/ANC'er
1919 Peggy Braithwaite, lighthouse-keeper
1921 Jacob J Hage, Dutch farmer/WW II resistance fighter
1922 Rey Hassan, Morroco, King of Morocco (1961)
1924 Leonard Pennario, Buffalo NY, pianist (LA Philharmonic)
1924 Pierre Cochereau, composer
1925 Alan Dale, Bkln NY, singer (Alan Dale Show)
1925 Charles E. Wicks, Professor, co-author of Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer
1925 Guru Dutt, Bollywood director, producer and actor (d. 1964)
1925 Peter Ludwig, businessman/art collector
1925 Thomas A Luken, (Rep-D-OH, 1973-74, 77)
1926 Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 Ed Ames, American singer and actor (Mingo-Daniel Boone)
1927 Leonard Patrick "Red" Kelly, NHL hall of famer (Norris trophy)
1927 Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player
1927 Susan Cabot, American actress (d. 1986)
1928 Federico Bahamontes, Spanish cyclist
1928 Vince Edwards, American actor, director and singer (Ben Casey, Matt Lincoln, Firehouse) (d. 1996)
1929 Jesse McReynolds, American singer and mandolinist
1929 King Hassan II of Morocco, (d. 1999)
1929 Lee Hazlewood, American country singer, songwriter and producer (Summer Wine, Jackson) (d. 2007)
1929 Mawlai al-Hassan II, King of Morocco (1961)
1930 Buddy Bregman, American musical arranger and conductor (Eddie Fisher Show)
1930 Roy McLean, South African cricketer (d. 2007)
1932 Donald Rumsfeld, politician (involved in Watergate), 13th & 21st United States Secretary of Defense
1932 John Paul Getty II, US/British oil magnate/billionaire (Getty Oil)
1933 Nodar Kalistratovich Gabuniya, composer
1933 Oliver Sacks, British neurologist and author
1934 Michael Graves, American architect
1935 Mercedes Sosa (La Negra), Argentinan singer
1935 Michael Williams, English actor (d. 2001)
1935 Ronnie Burns, Evanston Ill, adopted son of George Burns
1935 Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and minister of Finance (PvdA), president (Nethche Bank) (d. 2005)
1936 André Pronovost, French Canadian ice hockey player
1936 David Joel Zinman, NYC, composer/conductor (Balt Symphony-1983)
1936 Floyd Abrams, American attorney and advocate
1936 James Hampton, Oklahoma City OK, actor (Bugler Dobbs-F Troop, Teen Wolf)
1936 June Jordan, American poet (His Own Where), writer and teacher (d. 2002)
1936 Richard Wilson, Scottish actor and director
1937 Clemon Daniels, AFL player of year 1963, halfback (Oak, Dallas SF)
1937 David Hockney, English artist (Pop Art)
1937 Marty Springstead, Nyack, New York, American Major League baseball umpire and umpire supervisor
1937 Richard Roundtree, New Rochelle NY, actor (Getting Even, Shaft)
1938 Brian Dennehy, American actor (Check is in the Mail, F/X, Cocoon, Ants)
1938 Paul Seiko Chihara, Seattle Washington, US/Japanese composer
1938 Sanjeev Kumar, Bollywood film actor (d.1985)
1940 John Salvito, rocker (Duprees)
1941 Don McPherson, rocker
1941 James Scott, director (Strike it Rich)
1941 Karin von Aroldingen, Germany, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet Co)
1941 Scotty Baesler, (Rep-D-Kentucky)
1941 Takehide Nakatani, Japan, lightweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1942 Edy Williams, American actress (Dr Minx)
1942 Hermann Burger, writer
1942 Paul B Henry, (Rep-R-Michigan, 1985)
1942 Richard Roundtree, American actor
1942 Robert Frankel, horse trainer
1943 John H Casper, American astronaut (STS 36, 54, 62, 77)
1944 Glen (Charles) Cook, US, sci-fi author (Shadowline, Star's End)
1945 Dean (Ray) Koontz, American author (Star Quest, Beastchild)
1945 Lewis F Payne Jr, (Rep-D-Virginia)
1945 Root Boy Slim, American entertainer (d. 1993)
1946 Bon Scott (Ronald Belford), Australian singer (AC/DC) (d. 1980)
1946 Joe Micelli, rocker
1946 Natasha Pyne, English actress
1947 Haruomi Hosono, Japanese musician
1947 Jerney Kaagman, Dutch singer (Earth & Fire)
1947 Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience) (d. 2008)
1947 O(renthal) J(ames) Simpson, American football player, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills) and convicted murderer
1948 Hassan Wirajuda, Indonesian current foreign minister
1949 Jesse Duplantis, Evangelist, Author, and Inspirational Speaker
1950 Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine
1951 Chris Cooper, American actor (Thousand Pieces of Gold, Matewan)
1952 John Tesh, American composer, New age pianist, TV host (ET)
1952 Rod Boll, Fillmore Saskatchwan, trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1953 Dave Camp, (Rep-R-Michigan)
1953 Irina D Latysheva, Russian cosmonaut
1953 Margie Gillis, Canadian dancer and choreographer
1953 Thomas Ligotti, American author
1954 Debbie Sledge, Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family)
1955 Fred Norris, American radio personality (Howard Stern Show)
1955 Jimmy Smits, American actor (Victor-LA Law, Running Scared, NYPD Blue)
1955 Lindsey Graham, American politician
1955 Lisa Banes, Chagrin Falls OH, actress (Cocktail, Look Back in Anger)
1955 Sergei Vladimirovich Krichevsky, Russia, lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1955 Steve Coppell, English footballer and manager
1955 Willie Wilson, American baseball player
1956 Marc Almond, British singer
1956 Tom Hanks, American actor (Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Philadelphia)
1957 Jim Paxson, American basketball player
1957 Kelly McGillis, American actress (Top Gun, Accused, Witness)
1957 Paul Merton, British comedian
1957 Tim Kring, American writer and producer
1957 (Peter) Marc Almond, Merseyside England, vocalist (Soft Cell)
1958 Bob Crudgington, Australian softball head coach (Olympics-bronze-96)
1959 Clive Stafford Smith, British human-rights lawyer
1959 Jim Kerr, Scottish singer (Simple Minds)
1959 Kevin Nash, American professional wrestler
1960 Christopher J "Gus" Loria, Newton Mass, Major USMC/astronaut
1960 Marc Mero, American professional wrestler
1961 Mohammad Aslam, UAE cricketer batsman (1996 World Cup)
1963 Pamela Annette Sanders, Miami Florida, playmate (November, 1985)
1964 Courtney Love, American musician, vocalist (Hole), and actress (People vs Larry Flynt)
1964 Gianluca Vialli, Italian football player
1964 Ronnie Grandison, NBA forward (NY Knicks)
1964 Scott Rachal Verplank, Dallas TX, PGA golfer (1985 Western Open)
1965 Bob Hess Jr, horse trainer
1965 David O'Hara, Irish-Scottish actor
1965 Frank Bello, American heavy metal musician (Anthrax)
1965 Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (d. 2006)
1965 Thomas Jahn, German actor and director
1966 Pamela Adlon, American voice actress
1967 Gunnar Axén, Swedish politician
1967 Mark Stoops, American football coach
1968 Lars Gyllenhaal, Swedish author
1968 Paolo Di Canio, Italian football player
1968 Shawn Harper, NFL tackle (Indianapolis Colts, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 Vardis A Fisher, US writer (Darkness & Deep), dies at 73
1969 Jason Kearton, Australian former footballer
1969 Jerry Drake, NFL defensive linesman (Arizona Cardinals)
1969 Mark Lui, Hong Kong composer and producer
1969 Robert Gordon, CFL receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1969 Venkatapathy Raju, cricketer (Indian slow left-armer)
1970 Masami Tsuda, Japanese manga author
1970 Steve Dubinsky, Montreal, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1970 Trent Green, American footballer, NFL quarterback (Washington Redskins)
1971 Anthony Fieldings, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1971 Bobby Leslie, TV rocker (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You)
1971 Chadrick Brown, NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 Danalee Bragado, Honolulu, WPVA volleyballer (Best of Beach-9th-1995)
1971 Dani Behr, Model & TV Presenter
1971 Ger Senden, soccer player (Roda JC)
1971 Jill Simon, Miss Iowa USA (1996)
1971 Marc Andreessen, American software developer
1971 Scott Grimes, Lowell Mass, actor (Together We Stand)
1972 Derek Mills, Wash DC, 400m runner
1972 Pete Kendall, NFL guard (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 Enrique Murciano, American actor
1973 Katasha Artis, WNBA forward (Charlotte Sting)
1973 Kelly Holcomb, American football player, NFL/WLAF quarterback (Buccaneers, Barcelona Dragons)
1974 Gary Kelly, Irish football player
1974 Nikola Sarcevic, Swedish bassist and singer (Millencolin)
1974 Sian Berry, British politician
1975 Craig Quinnell, Welsh rugby player
1975 Isaac Brock, American musician
1975 Jack White, American musician (The White Stripes)
1975 Shelton Benjamin, American professional wrestler
1976 Fred Savage, American actor (Kevin-Wonder Years, Vice Versa) and producer (It's Always Sunny...)
1976 Jochem Uytdehaage, Dutch speed skater
1977 Isaac Brock, American musician
1978 Kara Goucher, American Athlete
1978 Linda Park, Korean-born actress
1978 Mark Medlock, German singer
1979 Ella Koon, Hong Kong singer and actress
1979 Suzanne Stokes American model, (Playmate of the Month February 2000)
1981 Kimveer Gill, Canadian spree shooter (Dawson College shooting) (d. 2006)
1982 Alecko Eskandarian, Armenian-American footballer
1982 Ashly DelGrosso, American ballroom dancer
1982 Maggie Ma, Canadian actress
1982 Sakon Yamamoto, Japanese race-car driver
1982 Toby Kebbell, English actor
1983 Lucia Micarelli, American musician
1984 Jacob Hoggard, Canadian singer (Hedley)
1985 Ashley Young, English footballer
1985 Pawel Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer
1986 Dominic Cervi, American footballer
1986 Kiely Williams, American singer and actress
1986 Simon Dumont, American freestyle skier
1990 Fábio Pereira da Silva, Brazilian footballer
1990 Rafael Pereira da Silva, Brazilian footballer
1991 Mitchel Musso, American actor
1991 Spencer Elden, American model (Model on Nirvana's Nevermind album)
1995 Georgie Henley, English actress
Died on July 9th
518 Anastasius I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 430)
1228 Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
1386 Leopold III of Austria (b. 1351)
1441 Jan/Johannes van Eyck, Flemish painter (Lamb Gods)
1553 Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)
1639 Entonius Walaeus, calvinist theologist
1654 Ferdinand IV of Germany, son of RC emperor Ferdinand III (b. 1633)
1677 Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffer], German medical/mystic poet
1696 Waclaw Potocki, Polish poet (Wojna Chocimska)
1706 Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French Canadian sailor and explorer (b. 1661)
1716 Joseph Sauveur, French sound engineer
1737 Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1671)
1742 John Oldmixon, English historian (b. 1673)
1746 Philip V, French King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46) (b. 1683)
1747 Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian opera-composer (b. 1670)
1755 Gottlob Harrer, composer
1755 James Braddock, English general, dies in battle at Fort Duquesne during French & Indian War
1756 Pieter Langendijk, Dutch dramatist and poet (b. 1683)
1766 Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (b. 1720)
1771 Michail Baknanas, Greek trader
1795 Henry Seymour Conway, British general and statesman (b. 1721)
1797 Edmund Burke, British philosopher, parliament leader, and author (Reflections) (b. 1729)
1805 Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian
1821 Tommaso Sogner, composer
1843 Washington Allston, US painter/author
1845 Jacob earl of Rechteren/Appeltern, gov of Gelderland
1850 Sajjid Ali Mohammed Bab, Persian founder of Babism (the Bábi Faith) (b. 1819)
1850 Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (1849-50), dies in the White House (b. 1784)
1852 Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (b. 1794)
1855 Lord Raglan, British Military Commander (Crimean War) (b. 1788)
1856 Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (b. 1776)
1856 James Strang, American religious figure, Mormon splinter group leader (b. 1813)
1875 Francis Preston Blair Jr, famed St Louis lawyer
1880 Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)
1882 Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero(b. 1848)
1883 Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer
1893 William Scotton, cricketer (wicket in 15 Tests for Eng), suicide
1903 Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist (b. 1842)
1909 Kasimir Felix Badeni, Premier of Polish/Austria (1895-97)
1927 John Drew Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
1932 Henry Howell, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests 1920-24)
1932 King C. Gillette, American inventor (b. 1855)
1934 Otakar Zich, composer
1937 Oliver Law, first African-American commander of U.S. troops (b. 1899)
1938 Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (b. 1870)
1947 Lucjan Zeligowski, Polish general (b. 1865)
1949 Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born Australian composer (b. 1874)
1951 Harry Heilmann, American baseball player, hall of fame outfielder (Detroit) (b. 1894)
1951 Jorgen Bentzon, composer
1955 Don Beauman, British racing driver (b. 1928)
1957 Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer
1957 Manfred Julius Susskind, South African cricketer (1924 Test series)
1960 Edward Burlingame Hill, composer
1960 Vallance Jupp, cricketer (28 wkts in 8 Tests for England 1921-28)
1961 Alan Marshal, actor (Lydia, Irene, Exile Express)
1962 Louis A van Gasteren, Dutch actor (Willem van Oranje)
1963 Frank Mayo, actor (Santa Fe Trail)
1967 Douglas MacLean, silent film comedian turned producer
1967 Eugen Fischer, German Nazi physician (b. 1874)
1968 Allyn Edwards, host (One Minute Please, Mr Citizen)
1968 John Indrisano, actor (OK Crackerby)
1968 Vardis A Fisher, US writer (Passion Spin the Plot)
1969 Gertrude Dixon, compiler of Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind
1969 Gladys Swarthout, US mezzo-soprano/alt (La Gioconda)
1969 Pierre Capdevielle, composer
1969 Rob de Vries, actor/director (Ciske de Rat, Silent Raid)
1972 Kwame Nkrumah, re-buried in Nkroful Ghana
1972 Robert Weede, American baritone (b. 1903)
1974 Earl Warren, American jurist (b. 1891)
1974 Sonia Gaskell, Russian/Neth choreographer (Diaghilev)
1974 Ted Bowley, cricketer (England batsman in 5 Tests 1929-30)
1977 Alice Paul, American suffragist figure (b. 1885)
1977 Loren C Eiseley, US anthropologist/writer (Animal Secrets)
1978 Abdul Razak al-Naif, premier of Iraq, murdered
1978 Aladar Zoltan, composer
1979 Betty Evans Grayson, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1959)
1979 Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and author (b. 1899)
1979 Janardhan Gnanoba Navle, cricketer (2 Tests for India)
1980 Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist (b. 1913)
1981 Allen Ludden, TV show host (Password)
1981 Oscar van Hemel, composer
1981 Wilhelm H C Tenhaeff, para-psychologist
1983 Keith Wickenden, British Politician (b. 1932)
1984 Randall Thompson, US composer (Trip to Nahant)
1985 Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
1985 Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish-born American founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
1985 Rafael Campos, actor (Ramon-Rhoda, Sancho-V)
1986 Karl-Heinz Beckurts, West german Siemens manager, murdered
1986 Le Duan, Vietnamese politician
1988 Anthony Holland, AIDS sufferer committed suicide
1988 Barbara Woodhouse, dog trainer
1990 Brigitte D'Ortschy, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line
1990 Howard Duff, actor (Kramer vs Kramer)
1992 Eric Savareid, American News correspondent (CBS) (b. 1912)
1992 Kelvin Coe, Australian ballerina (A'sch Ballet/Bolshoi Ballet)
1993 Cut Meijer (Saul Messel), historian and rabbi to Paramaribo
1993 Will Rogers Jr, American Politition (Rep-D) and actor (Boy from Okla), commits suicide
1994 Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
1994 Cornelius Boyson, bassist
1994 William "Sabby" Lewis, jazz Pianist/Arranger
1995 Jacques Molicard, translator/Navigator
1995 James Cameron Tudor, politician
1995 John Eric Tieman, production Manager (Guardian)
1995 Julian Graham Theodore Hough, actor (Deathwatch, Shout)
1995 W Fenton Morley, preacher
1996 Christopher Casson, actor (Educating Rita, Zardoz)
1996 Douglas G Chapman, biomathematical statistician
1996 Melvin Mouron Belli, American attorney and actor (Star Trek) (b. 1907)
1996 Peter Martini, British journalist
1996 Susan Cowdy, British ornithologist
1999 Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician (b. 1944)
2000 Doug Fisher, English actor (b. 1941)
2002 Laurence Janifer, American writer (b. 1933)
2002 Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
2004 Chuck Cadman, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
2004 Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917)
2004 Paul Klebnikov, American journalist (b. 1963)
2004 Riley Dobi Noel, American convicted murderer (b. 1972)
2005 Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
2005 Chuck Cadman, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
2005 Kevin Hagen, American actor (b. 1928)
2005 Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater (b. 1931)
2006 Milan Williams, American musician (The Commodores) (b. 1948)
2007 Charles Lane, American actor (b. 1905)
2008 Séamus Brennan, Irish politicain (b. 1948)
2010 Jessica Anderson, Australian novelist (b. 1916)
2011 Don Ackerman, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2011 Facundo Cabral, Argentine musician (b. 1937)
2012 Terepai Maoate, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands
2014 Eileen Ford, American modelling agency executive and co-founder (Ford Modelling Agency)
2016 Robert Nye, British novelist and poet (Falstaff)
