July 13th
Holidays and Festivals
Statehood Day (Montenegro)
Third day of Naadam (Mongolia)
Fiesta de San Fermin (Pamplona, Spain) July 6th through the 14th every year (9 Days)
Feast of Kalimát, First day of the seventh month of the Bahá'í calendar (Bahá'í Faith)
Barbershop Music Appreciation Day
Embrace Your Geekness Day
Fool's Paradise Day
Gruntled Workers Day
Feast of Abd-al-Masih, Christian saint and martyr
Feast of Abel of Tacla Haimonot in the Coptic Church
Feast of Saint Anacletus, pope, martyr (Roman Catholic Church)
Feast of Saint Clelia Barbieri Catholic saint
Feast of Saint Eugenius, bishop of Carthage, and companions, confessors
Feast of Saint Silas, apostle northern France
Feast of Saint Teresa of the Andes, nun carmelite Chilean
Crop Over (Bridgetown, Barbados), Second saturday in May through the First Monday in August (86 Days)
* First day of Bon Festival (date varies) - Parts of Japan
Fête de la Pintade Translation: Guinea fowl Day (French Republican) The 25th day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Here’s to the four hinges of Friendship...
Swearing, Lying, Stealing, and Drinking.
When you swear, swear by your country.
When you lie, lie for a pretty woman.
When you steal, steal away from bad company.
And when you drink, drink with me."
- Anonymous
Drink of The Day
Sloe Comfortable Screw
1 Part Southern Comfort
1 Part Sloe Gin
Fill with Orange Juice
- Variation -
Sloe Comfortable Screw up Against the Wall
1 Part Vodka
1 Part Southern Comfort
1 Part Sloe Gin
Fill With Orange Juice
Float Galliano
Wine of The Day
Midnight Cellars (2006) "Nebula"
Style - Cabernet Sauvignon
Paso Robles
$30
Beer of The Day
Stone Imperial Russian Stout
Brewer - Stone Brewing
Style - Russian Imperial Stout
ABV - 10.5%
Joke of The Day
Q. What do your boss and a slinky have in common?
A. They're both fun to watch tumble down the stairs.
Quote of The Day
"Oh, lager beer! It makes good cheer, And proves the poor man's worth; It cools the body through and through, and regulates the health."
- Anonymous
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 Farriers Week, Second Week in July
National Therapeutic Recreation Week, Second Week in July
Nude Recreation Weekend, 7 Days Starting First Monday of the first full week in July
Historical Events on July 13th
574 John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1174 William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
1522 Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht
1558 Battle of Gravelines, In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
1568 Dean of St Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer
1573 The Siege of Haarlem (Eighty Years' War) ends after seven months. Haarlem surrenders to the Spanish army
1643 Battle of Roundway Down In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller, English Civil War.
1645 Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar of Russia
1657 Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
1668 Van Marco Cesti's opera "Il Pomo d'Oro," premieres in Vienna
1700 Russian-Turkish peace
1772 Capt James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas
1787 The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery. A territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop
1794 Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria
1830 The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
1832 Source of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft)
1836 US patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels
1837 Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace
1851 John F Loudon discovers tin on East Indian Island of Billiton
1854 In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.
1854 US forces shell & burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
1861 Battle of Corrick's Ford, VA (Carrick's Ford) Union army takes total control of western Virginia CS20 US53
1862 Battle of Murfreesboro, TN (Forrest's Raid) US895 CS150
1863 Battle of Bayou La Fourche, LA
1863 Battle of Tupelo, MS (Harrisburg)
1863 New York Draft Riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history. Rioters Lynch blacks, about 1,000 die
1863 Rebellion at Morgan's, Ohio
1864 Early retreats from Washington City back to Shenandoah Valley
1865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man"
1865 P T Barnum's museum burns down
1868 Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana
1870 King Wilhelm of Prussia sends "Emser Depeche" on Bismarck
1876 29th Postmaster General, James N Tyner of Ind takes office
1878 Treaty of Berlin amended terms of Treaty of San Stefano, The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman empire.
1878 Congress of Berlin discusses division of African colonization ends.
1882 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
1896 Ed Delahanty, becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 4 HRs in a game
1898 SF Ferry Building at foot of Market St opens
1900 Phillies beat Pittsburgh 23-8
1917 Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal
1919 Chic White Sox pitcher Carl Mays walks off mound blaming teammates for lack of support afield
1919 Race riots in Longview & Gregg counties Texas
1919 The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
1923 Draft law passes
1923 The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
1924 Albin Stenroos wins Olympic marathon (2:41:22.6)
1925 French occupation force begins evacuating country
1926 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:20.4)
1930 1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay
1930 Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
1934 Babe Ruth hits HR #700 (against Detroit)
1935 Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichskulturkammer
1935 US-Russian commerce treaty takes effect
1936 112°F (44°C), Mio, Michigan (state record)
1936 114°F (46°C), Wisconsin Dells, Wisc (state record)
1938 Kroller-Muller museum opens in Holland
1939 Frank Sinatra made his recording debut
1941 24th PGA Championship, Vic Ghezzi at Cherry Hills CC Denver
1941 Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder
1941 Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak), World War II.
1942 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis
1942 German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages
1942 SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland
1943 11th All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
1943 Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany
1944 Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated
1946 "Tidbits of 1946" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 8 performances
1948 15th All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 5-2 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
1949 Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics
1950 Doctors remove 7 bone fragments from Ted Williams elbow
1950 René Pleven forms French government
1954 21st All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
1954 Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a batter, he threw out Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9
1956 WCBI TV channel 4 in Columbus, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 13th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1958 87th British Golf Open, Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham
1958 Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1960 29th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
1960 KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA
1960 US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate
1962 91st British Golf Open, Arnold Palmer shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
1962 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Early Wynn, wins his 300th & last game at 43
1965 36th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minn. All star MVP: Juan Marichal (SF Giant)
1966 Richard Speck, murders 8 nurses in Chicago
1967 Gerard Gilmour is born the second son of Michael and Mary Gilmour in Chagford Villas.
1967 Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die
1968 97th British Golf Open, Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland
1968 French government-Couve de Murville forms
1969 Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
1969 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Ladies' Supertest Golf Open
1970 Building begins of Amsterdam metro
1971 42nd All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 6-4 at Tiger Stadium, Detroit. All star MVP: Frank Robinson (Baltimore Orioles)
1972 LA Rams (Irsay) & Baltimore Colts (Rosenbloom) swap owners
1973 Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
1973 Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating KC 5-0
1973 Hector de Campora resigns as pres of Argentina
1974 103rd British Golf Open, Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham
1974 India's 1st one-day international (v England, Headingley)
1975 8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record)
1975 Carol Mann wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1976 47th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia. All star MVP: George Foster (Cin Reds)
1976 Court martial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct)
1976 Last day of Test Cricket for Brian Close, aged 45
1977 NYC experiences 25 hr black-out
1978 Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR
1978 Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years
1978 BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"
1978 Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor Pres by chairman Henry Ford II
1978 Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp
1978 Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida
1979 Calif's Nolan Ryan & Boston's Steve Renko each lose no-hitters in 9th
1979 George Harrison releases "Faster"
1980 35th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1980 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 53rd All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Montreal. All star MVP: Dave Conception (Cin Reds)
1982 Train crash at Aalter Belgium, 5 killed
1984 Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert
1984 Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows
1984 Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m
1985 "Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief
1985 NY Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) & Elston Howard (32) uniforms
1985 The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow.
1985 United States Vice President George H.W. Bush became the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan underwent surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
1987 Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials
1988 9th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1988 Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan
1988 Sting performs his 1st Rain Forest benefit concert
1991 Bob Milacki & 3 other Balt Oriole pitchers no-hit A's 2-0
1993 64th All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 9-3 at Camden Yards, Baltimore. All star MVP: Kirby Puckett (Minnesota Twins)
1994 Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1994 OJ Simpson (charged with murder) gives hair samples for testing
1995 Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), launches
1996 Cigar wins record 16th straight win, (ties Citation in 1940)
1997 15th Seniors Players Golf Championship, Larry Gilbert
1997 52nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Alison Nicholas
1997 David Toms wins Quad City Golf Classic at 265
1997 Ford Senior Players Golf Championship
1997 Indonesian ferry sinks, killing at least 77
2011 Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.
2012 19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa
2012 China's economic growth drops to 7.6%, its lowest level for three years
2012 Financially troubled Scottish football club, Rangers, is voted into the third division
2013 Ten people are killed after a bus crash in Minas Gerais, Brazil
2013 18 people are killed and 40 are injured after a gravel truck collides with a bus in Podolsk, Russia
2014 Germany beats Argentina 1-0 in extra time to win football's 20th FIFA World Cup in Rio de Janeiro
2014 Lionel Messi (golden ball), James Rodriguez (golden boot) and Manuel Neuer (Golden gloves) win at the FIFA World Cup Awards
2015 Eurozone agrees conditional deal to lend €86bn over 3 years if Greece passes reforms
2015 Sandra Bland is found dead in Waller County jail, Texas after spending weekend in jail after a traffic offence. Her family disputes her supposed suicide
Born on July 13th
(100 BC) Julius Caesar, Roman military and political leader (d. 44 BC)
40 Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (d. 93)
1396 Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
1527 John Dee, English alchemist, astrologer, and mathematician (d. 1609)
1579 Arthur Dee, English physician (d. 1651)
1590 Clement X (Emilio Altieri), Italian Pope (1670-76) (d. 1676)
1607 Václav Hollar, Bohemian-born artist (d. 1677)
1608 Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Bohemia, and Germany (1637-57) (d. 1657)
1745 Robert Calder, British naval officer (d. 1818)
1770 Alexander Balashov, Russian general (d. 1837)
1773 Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies about Art)
1776 Caroline of Baden, queen of Bavaria (d. 1841)
1793 John Clare, English peasant poet (Shepard's Calendar) (d. 1864)
1798 Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1860)
1815 James Alexander Seddon, Secy War (Confederacy) (d. 1880)
1816 Gustav Freytag, writer
1821 Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate cavalry officer, and founder of the original Ku Klux Klan (d. 1877)
1826 Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (Reaction of Cannizzaro)
1841 Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (d. 1918)
1850 Hipolito Irigoyen, president Argentina (1916-22, 1928-30)
1858 Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)
1859 Sidney Webb, British writer, husband of Beatrice Potter (d. 1947)
1863 Emma Mary Wooley, educator (Mary Anna Wells)
1864 John Jacob Astor IV, American entrepreneur (d. 1912)
1872 Alfons van de Perre, Flemish physician/MP
1877 Karl Erb, German tenor
1883 (Louis C) Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Potasch & Perlemoer)
1884 Francis B Young, British physician/writer (White Ladies)
1884 John Francis Larchet, composer
1888 Fernando A N de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet (Mensagem)
1888 Jean Murat, Pergneux France, actor (Eternal Rain, Carnival Flanders)
1889 Louise of Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden (d. 1965)
1891 Franco Casavola, composer
1894 Isaac Babel, Soviet Jewish writer, dramatist (Red Calvary) (d. 1940)
1895 Sidney Blackmer, American actor (Ted Roosevelt in 12 movies) (d. 1973)
1896 Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992)
1898 Julius Schreck, member of the Nazi party (d. 1936)
1898 Martin David, German/Neth law historian
1900 George Lewis, American musician (d. 1969)
1900 JH Scheps, Dutch 2nd-Member of parliament (social democratic)
1901 Eric Portman, English stage and film actor (Naked Edge, Canterbury Tale) (d. 1969)
1901 Mickey "Toy Bulldog" Walker, welterweight boxing champ (1922-26)
1901 Tillie Ehrlich Lewin, leading industrialist (tomato queen)
1903 Kenneth Clark, English art historian (d. 1983)
1905 Alfredo M. Santos, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (d. 1990)
1906 Harry Sosnik, Chicago, orchestra leader (Jack Carter Show, Your Hit Parade)
1909 David Branson, composer
1909 Paul Constantinescu, composer
1909 Washington Castro, composer
1913 Carolina Gisolf, Holland, high jumper (Olympic-silver-1928)
1913 Dave Garroway, American television host (Today Show) (d. 1982)
1913 Ladislav Holoubek, composer
1913 Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish shipping magnate, (d. 2012)
1913 Walter Landor, designer
1918 Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver, and two-time F1 world champion (d. 1955)
1920 Bill Towers, English footballer (d. 2000)
1920 Hans Blumenberg, philosopher
1921 Charles Scribner Jr, music publisher (Scribner)
1921 Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (d. 1999)
1921 Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (d. 2005)
1921 Git Gay, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2007)
1922 Anker Jørgensen, Danish Prime Minister (1972-82)
1922 Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
1922 Lois Kibbee, actress (Edge of Night)
1923 Sudie Bond, Louisville Ky, actress (Flo, Temperature Rising)
1924 Carlo Bergonzi, Italian singer
1924 George Handy, horse trainer
1924 Michel Constantin, French film actor (d. 2003)
1925 Hilary Grover Barratt Brown, conservationist
1926 Meyer Kupferman, NYC, composer (In Fimi Tres)
1927 Karl I Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor
1927 Simone Veil, French politician, President European parliament (France)
1928 Bob Crane, American actor (Col Hogan-Hogan's Heroes, Donna Reed) (d. 1978)
1928 Donal Michalsky, composer
1928 Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz bassist
1928 Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (d. 2000)
1929 Red Terrill Jr, horse trainer
1929 Sofia Muratova, Soviet gymnast (d. 2006)
1931 Bill Moor, Toledo Oh, actor (Hanky Panky)
1931 Frank Ramsey, American basketball player
1932 Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist
1932 Per Norgard, composer
1933 David M Storey, British rugby player/playwright (Home)
1933 Patsy Byrne, English actress (Stealing Heaven)
1934 Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 8, 10)
1934 Gordon Lee, English footballer and manager
1934 Ivor Mendonca, WI cricket wicket-keeper (2 Tests 1962)
1934 Roger Reynolds, composer
1934 Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer (Road, Kongi's Harvest) (Nobel laureate 1986)
1935 Jack Kemp, American football player and politician (Rep-R-NY), US Secretary of Housing (1989-93) (d. 2009)
1935 Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist
1936 Albert Ayler, American musician (d. 1970)
1937 Charles Coody, Stamford TX, PGA golfer (1971 Masters)
1940 Patrick Stewart, English actor (Picard-Star Trek Next Generation)
1940 Paul Prudhomme, Cajun chef (K-Paul)
1941 Graeme Corling, Australian cricket fast bowler (1964 England tour)
1941 Jacques Perrin, French actor and filmmaker (Cinema Paradiso, 317th Platoon)
1941 Lut(guard) Tomsin, actress/director (Knock on the Door)
1941 Robert Forster, American actor (Lady in Red, Alligator)
1942 Giancarlo Giannini, Spezia Italy,actor (NY Stories, Sensual Man)
1942 Harrison Ford, American Actor (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Frantic)
1942 Jay Uzzell, rocker (Corsairs)
1942 Jim McGuinn, rocker
1942 Rod Chandler, (Rep-R-WA, 1983)
1942 Roger McGuinn, American musician (The Byrds)
1942 Stephen Jo Bladd, Boston Ma, rocker (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1944 Eric Freeman, Australian cricket pace bowler (late 60's)
1944 Erno Rubik, Hungarian inventor (Rubik's cube)
1945 Ashley "Rowdy" Mallett, Australian cricket off-spinner (1968-80)
1945 Jean-Pierre E Plooij, Dutch writer (Duvelsmoer)
1946 Cheech Marin (Richard), American actor, comedian (Cheech & Chong)
1946 Michael Shea, US, sci-fi author (Fat Face, Polyphemus)
1948 Alf Hansen, Norway, double sculls (Olympic-gold-1976)
1948 Catherine Breillat, French director and screenwriter
1948 Daphne Maxwell Reid, American actress (Frank's Place)
1948 Don Sweet, Vancouver, CFL, NFL place kicker (Montreal, Green Bay)
1948 Linda Ann Simon, airline capt
1948 Robert Underwood, (Rep-D-Guam)
1948 Ronald K Machtley, (Rep-R-Rhode Island)
1948 Tony Kornheiser, American sports journalist
1949 Helena Fibingerova, Czech, shot putter (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1950 George D "Pinky" Nelson, American astronaut (STS 41C, STS 61-C, STS-26)
1950 Ma Ying-jeou, President of the Republic of China, former mayor of Taipei, former chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT)
1951 Didi Conn (Bernstein), American actress (Denise-Benson, Grease)
1951 Rob Bishop, American politician
1953 Larry Gomes, dependable WI cricket left-handed batsman (1976-87)
1953 Mila Mulroney, wife of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney
1954 David Thompson, American basketball player, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Seattle Supersonics)
1954 Louise Mandrell, American musician, country singer (Mandrell Sisters)
1954 Ray "Candles" Bright, Australian cricket slow-left armer (1977-86)
1954 Rick Chartraw, American ice hockey player
1954 Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer
1956 Claude Giroux, Canadian midget wrestler
1956 Mark "Animal" Mendoza, Musician (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It)
1956 Michael Spinks, American former boxer
1957 Cameron Crowe, American film director (Jerry Maguire, Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
1957 Phil Margera, father of Bam Margera
1957 Thierry Boutsen, Belgian racing driver
1958 Joy Scott, jockey
1959 Danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL, Little Man Tate, Limit Up)
1959 Richard Leman, English field hockey player
1960 Ian Hislop, English writer, editor of Private Eye
1961 Anders Jarryd, Lidkoping Sweden, tennis star
1961 Lawrence Donegan, rock bassist
1961 Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager
1961 Tim Watson, Australian rules footballer
1962 Rhonda Vincent, American singer
1962 Tom Kenny, American voice actor
1963 Anthony Webb, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1963 Bob Carpenter, Beverly, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)
1963 Bobby Rock, Houston Tx, rock drummer (Nelson-Love & Affection)
1963 Martin Meza, jockey
1963 Neal Foulds, English snooker player
1963 Spud Webb, American basketball player, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1964 Utpal Chatterjee, cricketer (Bengal slow left-arm bowler)
1966 Gerald Levert, American singer (d. 2006)
1966 Gil Birmingham, American actor
1966 Myong Hui Choe, North Korea, gymnist (Olympic-1980)
1966 Natalia Luis-Bassa, Venezuelan Orchestral Conductor
1967 Benny Benassi, Italian disc jockey
1967 Dean Barnett, American Conservative blogger (d. 2008)
1967 Pat Rapp, Jennings LA, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1967 Tony Massenburg, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1968 Christian Taylor, British screenwriter
1968 Kai Bjorn, CFL offensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 Robert Gant, American actor
1968 Silke Meier, Wiesbaden Germany, tennis star (1994 Futures-Bad Gogging)
1969 Ewan Beaton, Winnipeg Manitoba, 60 kg judoka (Olympics-9-92, 96)
1969 Jamie Walter, actor (Pirate Island)
1969 Kakhi Kakhiashvili, Georgian-born Greek weightlifter
1969 Kim Braatz, Santa Ana California, female outfielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1969 Mark Greenway, British vocalist
1969 Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan politician and political scientist
1969 Richard Roelofsen, soccer player (Vitesse/MVV)
1970 Barry Pinches, English snooker player
1970 Steven J Brown, Hackensack NJ, guitarist (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
1971 Scott Brodie, St Catharines Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Clint Sodowsky, Ponca City OK, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1972 Sean Waltman, American wrestler
1973 Ariel Silvio Zárate, Argentine footballer
1973 Gavin Hassett, Saint John New Brunswick, rower (Olympics-96)
1974 Deborah Cox, Canadian R&B singer
1974 Jarno Trulli, Italian race car driver
1974 Jean, Miss Suriname 1993
1975 Danielle Boatwright, Kansas, Miss USA (Kansas-2nd-1996)
1975 Danni Boatwright, American model, sports caster, and Survivor contestant
1976 Al Santos, American model and actor
1976 Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 Ashley Scott, American actress
1978 Ryan Ludwick, American baseball player
1979 Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer
1980 Lori Fredrickson, Aurora Ill, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
1981 Agnes Kovacs, Hungarian swimmer
1982 Christopher Bauman, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1982 Dominic Isaacs, South African footballer
1982 Joost van den Broek, Dutch keyboard player (After Forever)
1982 Shin-Soo Choo, South Korean baseball player
1982 Simon Clist, English footballer
1982 Yadier Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
1983 Kristof Beyens, Belgian athlete
1983 Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdling athlete
1985 Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
1987 Tulisa Contostavlos, British singer (N-Dubz)
1988 Steven R. McQueen, American actor (Vampire Diaries)
1989 Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1990 Matt Weinberg, American actor
1992 Dylan Patton, American actor
1992 Elise Matthysen, Belgian swimmer
1994 Hayley Erin, American actress
1994 Ridge Canipe, American actor
1997 Leo Howard, American actor
2305 Jean Loc Picard, fictional capt on Star Trek Next Generation
Died on July 13th
574 John III, Italian Pope (561-74)
678 Aisha bint Abu Bakr, Wife of the Prophet Muhammad.
939 Leo VII, Italian Pope (936-39)
1024 Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, German King (1002-24)
1105 Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzaki), Jewish intellectual
1189 Matilda of Saxony, Daughter of Henry II of England (b. 1156)
1205 Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England
1309 Jan I van Nassau, bishop of Utrecht
1357 Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian jurist (b. 1313)
1380 Bertrand du Guesclin, French King of Granada
1399 Peter Parler, German architect (b. 1330)
1402 Jianwen Emperor of China (b. 1377)
1551 John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)
1621 Albrecht (Albertus), Archduke of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (b. 1559)
1626 Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (b. 1563)
1628 Robert Shirley, English adventurer (b. 1581)
1629 Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
1645 Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. 1596)
1683 Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
1693 Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1636)
1705 Titus Oates, English Protestant conspirator (b. 1649)
1755 Edward Braddock, British general, dies in battle (b. 1695)
1760 Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (b. 1696)
1761 Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)
1762 James Bradley, 3rd English Astronomer Royal (b. 1693)
1777 Guillaume Coustou Jr, French sculptor (Apollo/Mars/Venus)
1785 Stephen Hopkins, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence)
1789 Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715)
1793 Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday (b. 1743)
1807 Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)
1813 Johann Friedrich Peter, composer
1844 Johann Gansbacher, composer
1860 John Ackersdijk, Dutch state house builder
1861 Robert Selden Garnett, US Confederate brig-general
1863 John S Bowen, US architect/Confederate gen-major
1877 Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German bishop of Mainz
1882 Johnny Ringo, American Gunfighter (b. 1850)
1889 Carli Zoeller, composer
1889 Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (b. 1830)
1890 John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (b. 1813)
1894 Juventino Rosas, composer
1896 Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)
1903 August Reissmann, composer
1921 Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg scientist (b. 1845)
1922 Martin Dies Sr., American politician (b. 1870)
1923 Asger Hamerik (Hammerich), German composer
1925 Gerben Postma (Ids), Fries writer (Lytse Fryske Spraekleare)
1927 James E K Aggrey, Ghana/US theologist
1936 Izydor Lotto, composer
1936 Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance, murdered
1943 Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter
1946 Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and art dealer (Camera Work) (b. 1864)
1947 Warwick Armstrong, cricketer (50 Tests 1901-21, 2863 runs)
1951 Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (Verklärte Nacht) (b. 1874)
1954 Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)
1954 Irving Pichel
1954 M C Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter/wife of Diego Rivera
1955 Beulah Ecton Woodard, US sculptor
1955 Ruth Ellis, British murderer, last woman to get the death sentence in Britain, executed by hanging (b. 1926)
1956 Vladimir Grigor'yevich Zakharov, composer
1958 Karl Erb, German tenor
1960 Anna Blaman, Dutch writer (Life & Death)
1960 Joy Gresham, American writer (b. 1915)
1965 Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (b. 1895)
1967 Cornelis A Eman, chairman (State of Aruba Peoples Party)
1967 Tom Simpson, British cyclist (b. 1937)
1967 Tommy Lucchese, Sicilian-American mobsters (b. 1899)
1973 Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
1973 Martian Negrea, composer
1973 Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon) (b. 1901)
1974 Patrick Blackett, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1974 Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76
1975 Owen Wynne, cricketer (6 Tests for South Africa 1948-50), lost at sea
1976 Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1884)
1976 Joachim Peiper, German military leader, SS, by assassination (b. 1915)
1976 Max Butting, composer
1978 Antonio Veretti, composer
1979 Corine Griffith
1979 Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (b. 1913)
1980 Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana (b. 1921)
1982 Edith Heerdegen
1982 John Alexander, actor (Alien PI)
1983 Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909)
1987 Patience Collier
1988 Huub Bals, Dutch film promotor
1988 Samuel L Mendel, oldest US war veteran
1989 Abdul Rahman Qassemlu, Iran Kurds leader, murdered
1989 Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, Cubans general, executed
1990 Lois Moran Young
1991 Cor Ria Leeman, Flemish (youth)writer
1992 Alex Wojciechowicz, NFLer (Philadelphia Eagles)
1992 Carla van Neste, Belgian violinist
1993 Davey Allison, American race car driver, dies in a plane crash (b. 1961)
1993 Edwin "Rick" Bakker, author (Rick's Report/AIDS Diary)
1994 Eddie Boyd, blues vocal/pianist
1994 Robert Michael Payton, pizza magnate
1995 Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish toy manufacturer (Lego Group) (b. 1920)
1996 Joyce Buck, actress/interior designer
1996 Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (b. 1905)
1996 Walter Hassan, engineer
1997 Alexandra Danilova, ballet great
1997 Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)
2002 Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born Armenian photographer (b. 1908)
2003 Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (b. 1907)
2004 Arthur Kane, American musician (b. 1949)
2004 Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)
2006 Red Buttons, American comedian (b. 1919)
2007 Michael Reardon, Americian free climber
2008 Bronislaw Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (b. 1932)
2010 George Steinbrenner, American businessman and owner of the New York Yankees
2010 Manohari Singh, Indian saxophonist and part of R.D. Burman's band (b. 1931)
2011 Allan Jeans, Australian football player and coach (b. 1933)
2012 Jerzy Kulej, Polish light welterweight boxer and politician
2012 Richard Darryl Zanuck, American Academy Award winning film producer
2013 Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and musician, dies of heroin and alcohol overdose
2014 Thomas Berger, American novelist
2014 Nadine Gordimer, South African author & Nobel laureate
2016 Héctor Babenco, film director (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
2016 Bernardo Provenzano, Mafia Boss (Cosa Nostra), dies in a prison hospital
