July 17th
Holidays and Festivals
Constitution Day (South Korea)
Gion Matsuri (Kyoto, Japan)
World Day for International Justice (International)
Flag Day (Norway) * CLICK HERE
Wrong Way Corrigan Day
Peach Ice Cream Day
Yellow Pig Day
Christian Feast Day of Alexius of Rome (Western Church)
Feast of Cynehelm
Feast of Cynllo
Feast of Magnus Felix Ennodius
Feast of Marcellina
Feast of Piatus of Tournai
Feast of Romanov sainthood (Russian Orthodox Church)
Feast of Speratus and companions
* Crop Over (Bridgetown, Barbados) Second saturday in May through the First Monday in August (86 Days)
* Calgary Stampede (mid july) (2-10)
Fête de la Blé Translation: Wheat Day (French Republican) The 29th day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Make new friends, but keep the old;
These are silver, those are gold.
New-made friends, like new wine,
Age will mellow and refine.
Brow may furrow, hair turn gray,
But friendship never knows Decemberay."
- Art Linkletter (July 17th, 1912 - May 26th, 2010), a Canadian radio and television personality.
Drink of The Day
Blackbeard's Ghost
1 oz. Rum, coconut
1 oz. Rum, dark
1 oz. Rum, light
1 oz. Grapefruit Juice
1 oz. Orange Juice
1 oz. Syrup, mango
1/4 oz. Molasses
Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a highball glass over ice and garnish with a cherry.
Wine of The Day
Style - Pinot Gris
Anderson Valley
$20
Beer of The Day
Trappistes Rochefort 8
Brewer - Brasserie de Rochefort
Style - Belgian Strong Dark Ale
ABV - 9.2%
Joke of The Day
It seems a gentleman had too much alcohol at a party, was heading home, and was pulled over by a state trooper. Upon being tested, the fellow couldn't walk a straight line any more than he could drive one, so the trooper wrote out a ticket and had just given it to the driver before an accident in the opposite lane took his attention to more important matters.
The inebriated driver, figuring that the trooper wasn't coming back to him, drove home and went to bed. he was awakened in the morning by a knock at the door, created by two more state troopers.
"Are you Mr. Johnson?" the asked? He admitted that he was.
"Were you pulled over at 173 Main Street last night for driving under the influence?" Again, the man admitted that was he.
"And what did you do then," the troopers asked." The man replied that he drove his car home and went to bed.
"Where is your car now?" the troopers enquired. The man answered that it was in the garage.
"May we see the car?" asked the troopers. The man answered, "Sure," and opened the garage.
Inside the garage was the state troopers car.
Quote of The Day
“When the sun gets hot and the moon gets hazy, good girls go bad, and it gets crazy!”
- Unknown
Whisky of The Day
The Dalmore "MacKenzie" 17 Year Old Single Highland Malt Scotch Whisky
$175
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
Captive Nations Week Third Week of July (USA)Rabbit Week (Melvin Rabbits) Date Varies Mid-July (July 15-21 2013)
Comic Con International Wednesday through Sunday of the Second Full Week in July
National Baby Food Week Wednesday through Saturday of the Third Week in July
National Ventriloquism Week Wednesday through Saturday of the Third Week in July
Historical Events on July 17th
180 Christenen Cittinus, Donatus, Natzalus, Secunda, Speratus, Vestia sentenced to death in Carthago
180 Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
561 John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I
855 St Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1054 Emperor Henry III crowns his son Henry IV king
1070 Arnulf III the Hapless becomes earl of Flanders
1203 The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault (Venetianen). The Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile.
1245 Pope bans emperor Frederik II Hohenstaufen for 3rd time
1393 Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria
1402 Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming Dynasty of China.
1429 Dauphin crowned king of France
1453 The First Battle of Castillon in the Hundred Years' War, The French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.
1473 Charles the Stout conquerors Nijmegen
1509 Venice recaptures Padua
1549 Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium
1552 Siena drives Spanish troops out of Verdun
1583 Spanish & Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk
1585 English secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against queen Elizabeth I
1586 A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defence, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League.
1596 At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya
1603 Sir Walter Ralegh arrested
1686 A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defence, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League.
1712 England, Portugal & France sign ceasefire [or 19th]
1717 King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
1727 Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor
1740 Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV
1762 Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia.
1771 Bloody Falls Massacre, Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, travelling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
1774 Capt Cook arrives at New Hebrides (Vanuata)
1775 1st military hospital approved
1788 Russian fleet destroys Swedish
1791 Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.
1794 Richard Allen organizes African Methedist Episcopal Church of St Thomas in Philadelphia.
1794 The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
1815 In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces (Napoleonic Wars).
1821 Spain cedes Florida to US
1841 British humor magazine "Punch" 1st published
1850 Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
1856 Sunday school excursion train collides killing 46 children (Phila)
1856 The Great Train Wreck of 1856 occurs in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania killing over 60 people.
1861 Congress authorizes paper money
1861 Manassas, VA Gen Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, Gen Johnston is ordered to Manassas
1862 Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS, USS Potomac Expedition
1862 Skirmish at Columbia, TN - Cynthiana, KY
1862 US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers
1862 United army officially divides corps
1863 Battle of Honey Springs largest battle in Indian Territory
1864 CSA President Davis replaces Gen Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
1866 Italian fleet under adm Persano capture Austrian Fort Lissa
1867 Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston. It was the first dental school in the U.S.
1879 1st railroad opens in Hawaii
1890 Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape colony
1893 Arthur Shrewsbury is 1st to score 1,000 runs in Test Cricket
1897 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon
1898 Spanish American War-Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba
1899 NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
1900 NY Giant Christy Mathewson begins career losing to Bkln Superbas
1902 Orioles forfeit to St Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL
1911 Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army
1912 IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
1914 Giants outfielder Red Murray is knocked unconscious by lightning after catching a flyball, ending 21 inning game, Giants win 3-1
1915 Italian offensive at Isonzo
1917 King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor rather than Hanover.
1918 Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings
1918 On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
1918 The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; 5 lives are lost.
1919 Finland adopts constitution
1919 Yanks 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play
1922 Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
1922 Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year
1923 Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
1924 St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1925 Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
1926 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4)
1929 USSR drops diplomatic relations with China
1933 After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
1934 Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland
1935 Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix"
1936 Carl Hubbell begins winning streak, beating Pittsburgh 6-0
1936 Armed Forces rebellion under General Franco against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government ofSpain begins Spanish Civil War.
1938 Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn destined for Los Angeles, only to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
1939 22nd PGA Championship, Henry Picard at Pomonok CC Flushing NY
1941 NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland
1942 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15, Estimated 34.5" (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pa (state record)
1942 Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942 The Battle of Stalingrad commences in modern-day Volgograd, World War II.
1943 RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde, World War II.
1944 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322
1944 Port Chicago disaster, Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
1944 Russian troops cross river Bug, march into Poland, World War II.
1944 Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France, World War II..
1945 Potsdam Conference at Potsdam, U.S. President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the three main Allied leaders, begin their final summit of the war. The meeting would end on August 2, World War II.
1948 Israeli army captures Nazareth
1948 Proclamation of constitution of Republic of (South) Korea
1948 The South Korean constitution is proclaimed.
1950 Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka
1951 King Leopold III of Belgium gives up throne to son Boudouin I
1951 Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts is chartered.
1952 Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh premier
1954 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
1954 Construction begins on Disneyland.
1954 Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany
1955 Arco Idaho becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
1955 Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
1958 King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan/Iraqi federation
1958 Peter Shaffer's "Five Finger Exercise," premieres in London
1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak
1959 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis
1959 Dr Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old)
1959 River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)
1959 Tibet abolishes serfdom
1961 John Chancellor becomes news anchor of Today Show
1961 Roger Maris loses a HR (of his 61) due to a rain-out in 5th
1962 East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall
1962 The "Small Boy" Nulear test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
1962 Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)
1962 Senate rejects medicare for aged
1962 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Telstar soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
1964 Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph)
1964 Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1965 WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (ABC) begins
1966 "It's a Bird... It's Superman" closes at Alvin NYC after 129 perfs
1966 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1966 Indians set club record by hitting 7 HR in 15-2 win over Detroit
1966 Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
1966 Pioneer 7 launched
1967 Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act
1967 Race riots in Cairo Illinois
1968 A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
1968 Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London
1970 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC
1971 Kathy Whitworth/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Four-Ball Golf Championship
1972 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico
1973 King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
1974 1st quadrophonic studio in UK is open by Moody Blues
1974 Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 (Cesar Geronimo)
1974 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 John Lennon is ordered to leave US in 60 days
1975 An American Apollo 18 and a Soviet Soyuz 19 spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
1975 Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce
1976 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal. The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
1976 Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
1977 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1978 Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend him, they fight in the dug out.
1979 50th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 7-6 at Kingdome, Seattle. All star MVP: Dave Parker (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1979 David Gower 200* in England score of 5-633 v India at Edgbaston
1979 Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
1979 Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo
1979 Simone Veil becomes chairman of European Parliament
1980 Bolivian military coup, general Garcia Meza becomes president
1980 Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president
1980 Zenko Suzuki becomes premier of Japan
1981 "This is Burlesque" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 28 perfs
1981 A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
1981 Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23 year old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
1981 Humbar Estuary Bridge, UK, world's longest span (1.4 km), opens. The opening by HM The Queen in England.
1981 Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut
1981 Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse 114 die, 200 injured
1981 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Phila Stars 24-22)
1983 112th British Golf Open, Tom Watson shoots a 275 at Royal Birkdale
1983 Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic
1984 Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France
1984 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
1986 Emmy 13th Daytime Award presentation Susan Lucci loses for 7th time
1987 "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo
1987 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx)
1987 Don Mattingly is 2nd to hit HRs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8)
1987 Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for 1st time
1987 Iran & France breaks diplomatic relations
1988 4 Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute
1988 117th British Golf Open, Seve Ballesteros shoots 273 at Royal Lytham
1988 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1988 Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 100m woman's record (10.49)
1988 Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103°F (39°C)
1989 1st Test flight of US stealth-bomber
1989 First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
1989 Paul McCartney releases "This One"
1989 Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires after 1,070 appearances
1990 Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
1990 Minnesota Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red Sox 1-0
1990 NY Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside park homer
1990 PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis
1992 Slovak parliament asks for self rule
1993 Graeme Obree bicycles world record time, 51,596 km
1994 123rd British Golf Open, Nick Price shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland
1994 Beth Daniel wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1994 Brazil beats Italy in a shoot out, for their 4th soccer world cup
1994 French youngster (4) becomes Buddhist Lama Tulkou Kalou Rinpoche
1994 Hulk Hogan beats Ric Flair to win WCW wrestling championship
1995 Forbes Mag announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world ($12.9B)
1996 230 people die when TWA 800 crashes outside of NYC
1996 Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 (TWA Flight 800) explodes, killing all 230 on board.
1996 Yankee John Weteland blows save after record 24 consecutive saves
1997 STS 94 (Columbia 23), lands
1997 The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
1998 A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crime against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake, A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 3,183, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
1998 Russia buries tsar Nicholas II & family, 80 years after they died
1999 The popular kid's animated television show Spongebob Squarepants makes its official series premiere on Nickelodeon.
2002 Apple Inc. premiers iCal at Macworld Expo, therefore the date that appears default on Dock
2005 Tiger Woods wins his 10th major winning The British Open Championship by 5 strokes. Woods becomes only the second golfer, after Jack Nicklaus, to win each major more than once
2007 TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. This is Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths.br>
2009 Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4 foreigners
2011 140th British Golf Open: Darren Clarke shoots a 275 at Royal St George's Golf Club
2012 17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Jasper, Alabama
2013 7 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria
2013 58 people are killed in floods in Sichuan Province, China
2013 LeBron James, Serena Williams win at the 21st ESPY Awards
2013 U2 singer Bono is made a Commandeur of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
2014 5 hour humanitarian ceasefire, proposed by the UN, takes place between Israel and Hamas
2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashes (presumed shot down by either pro-Russian separatists or the Ukrainian militia), killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board
2015 Scientists solve mystery of sleeping sickness in two villages in northern Kazakhstan, uranium mining had caused increase in carbon monoxide
2015 Suicide bomber in Khan Bani Saad, Iraq, kills 120, ISIS claims responsibilty
Born on July 17th
1487 Ismail I, Shah of Persia, converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah (d. 1524)
1674 Isaac Watts, English hymn writer and preacher (Horae Lyrican) (d. 1748)
1698 Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759)
1702 Johann Schneider, composer
1744 Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the United States (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering (d. 1814)
1745 Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826)
1763 Johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education
1763 John Jacob Astor, American businessman, banker, fur trader (d. 1848)
1775 August Harder, composer
1797 Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856)
1817 Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer
1827 Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet)
1830 Eelco Refer, linguist (Dictionary for the Dutch translator)
1831 Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
1832 Johan August Soderman, composer
1839 Ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916)
1839 Friedrich Gernsheim, composer
1853 Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher (d. 1920)
1853 Francesco Fanciulli, composer
1859 Luis Munoz Rivera, Puerto Rico, journalist (founded Federalist Party)
1870 Charles Davidson Dunbar, British military piper (d. 1939)
1871 Lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter
1873 Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto)
1875 Donald Francis Tovey, Eton England, musicologist/composer
1876 Maxim M Litvinov (Meyer H Wallach), Russian diplomat
1876 Rosa Jackson Lumpkin, Georgia, lived to be 115 (died in 1991)
1876 Vittorio Gnecchi, composer
1878 Henri Zagwijn, composer
1883 Bart de Ligt, anti militarist theologist (Acting Peace)
1883 Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Erotikon)
1885 Benjamin James Dale, composer
1888 Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer (Day Before Yesterday) (Nobel Prize laureate 1966) (d. 1970)
1889 Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (Perry Mason) (d. 1970)
1894 Mary Clare, London England, actress (Evil Mind, Young & Innocent)
1897 Elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge
1898 Berenice Abbott, American photographer (World of Atget) (d. 1991)
1898 George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (d. 1985)
1898 Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cinematographer (d. 1999)
1899 James Cagney, American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy) (d. 1986)
1900 Marcel Dalio, French actor (d. 1983)
1901 Bruno Jasienski, Polish poet (d. 1938)
1901 Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and NART team owner (d. 1994)
1902 Christina Stead, Australian novelist (Man Who Loved Children) (d. 1983)
1903 Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer
1904 Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor
1905 Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan
1905 William Gargan, Bkln NY, actor (Dynamite, Ellery Queen)
1906 John Carroll (Julian LaFaye), New Orleans LA, actor (Wolf Call)
1908 Rudolf Petzold, composer
1909 Hardy Amies, London England, royal dressmaker (Queen Elizabeth II)
1911 Ted Anderson, English footballer (d. 1979)
1912 Art Linkletter, Canadian television host (People are Funny)
1912 Erwin Bauer, German racing driver (d. 1958)
1913 Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d. 1997)
1913 Everett Helm, composer
1913 Roger Garaudy, French philosopher
1914 James Purdy, Hicksville, Ohio, writer (The House of the Solitary Maggot), (disputed birthdate, 1923), (d. 2009)
1914 Lucille Benson, Scottsboro Ala, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies)
1915 Cass Daley, Philadelphia PA, actress (Red Garters)
1915 Dorothy Poynton-Hill, US, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1932)
1915 Esther Williamson Ballou, composer
1915 Fred Ball, American movie studio executive, actor, and the brother of comedienne Lucille Ball (d. 2007)
1916 Eleanor Steber, Wheeling WV, soprano (Metropolitan Opera-1940)
1917 Lou Boudreau, Major League baseball player (1948 AP Athlete of Year) and manager (d. 2001)
1917 Phyllis Diller, American comedian (Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number) (d. 2012)
1917 Red Sovine, American country music singer (d. 1980)
1918 Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
1919 Alex Moir, cricketer (New Zealand leg-spinner in 17 Tests 1950-59)
1920 Bill Monroe, New Orleans La, newscaster (NBC-TV, Congressional Report)
1920 Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (d. 2005)
1920 Helen Walker, Worcester MA, actress (Brewster's Million)
1920 Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish chairman of the International Olympic Committee (d. 2010)
1920 Kenneth Wolstenholme, English sports commentator (d. 2002)
1920 Rudolf Karpati, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1921 Acquanetta (Mildred Davenport), Wyo, actress (Tarzan & Leopard Woman)
1921 František Zvarík, Slovakian actor
1921 George Barnes, Chicago Hgts, guitarist (Skip Farrell Show)
1922 Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic
1923 John Cooper, English race car designer (d. 2000)
1925 Jimmy Scott, American jazz singer
1926 Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer
1926 Édouard Carpentier, French-born professional wrestler
1928 Jean Elizabeth Leuckert Muir, designer dressmaker
1928 Vince Guaraldi, American musician and composer (d. 1976)
1929 Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician
1930 Ryohei Hirose, composer
1932 Hal Riney, American advertising executive (d. 2008)
1932 Johnny "Red" Kerr, American basketball player, coach, and longtime Chicago Bulls color commentator (d. 2009)
1932 Niccolo Castiglioni, composer
1932 Vince Guaraldi, jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV specials)
1932 Wojciech Kilar, composer
1933 Bruce Wells, British boxer & actor
1933 Tony Pithey, South African Cricketer (d. 2006)
1934 Pat McCormick, comedian (Don Rickles Show)
1934 Philippe Capdenat, composer
1934 Rainer Kisch, writer
1935 Diahann Carroll, American actor (Julia, Claudine, Dominique-Dynasty)
1935 Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor (M*A*S*H, Body Snatchers)
1935 P D Q Bach (Peter Schickele), American author, composer and radio host (5th of Beethoven)
1937 Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer
1938 Stan Bronstein, rocker
1939 Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
1939 Andrée Champagne, French Canadian actress and politician
1939 Spencer Davis, British singer and guitarist (Spencer Davis Group)
1939 Warwick Hutton, artist
1940 Phyllis Davis, Port Arthur Tx, actress (Love American Style, Vega$)
1940 Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian
1941 Achim Warmbold, German rally driver
1941 Bob Taylor, Former English Cricketer
1941 Daryle Lamonica, American football player, QB (Oakland Raiders), AFL leading passer (1967)
1942 Connie Hawkins, American basketball player, NBA (Phoenix Suns, ABA MVP 1968), Harlem Globetrotter
1942 Don Kessinger, American baseball player
1942 Gale Garnett, Canadian singer (We'll Sing in the Sunshine)
1942 Peter Sissons, British newsreader
1944 Carlos Alberto, Brazilian football player
1944 Catherine Schell, Hungarian born British actress
1944 Mark Burgess, Former New Zealand Cricketer
1945 Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
1945 Fenneken Fockema Andreae, Dutch actress (Sea Gull)
1946 Alun Armstrong, English actor
1947 Camilla Parker Bowles (Duchess of Cornwall), London England, wife of Prince Charles
1947 Wolfgang Flür, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1948 Brian Glascock, rock drummer (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1948 Cathy Ferguson, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1964)
1948 Jan Gangelhoff, American whistleblower (d. 2005)
1948 Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and opera director
1948 Phillip Harris, rocker
1948 Ron Asheton, American musician and composer (Iggy Pop & The Stooges) (d. 2009)
1949 Charlie Steiner, American sports broadcaster
1949 Geezer Butler, Birmingham, rocker (Black Sabbath)
1949 Mick Tucker, London, rock drummer (Sweet Harlesden)
1949 Mike Vale, rock bassist (Tommy James & The Shondells)
1949 Terence "Geezer" Butler, British musician and lyricist (Black Sabbath)
1950 Derek de Lint, Dutch actor
1950 P.J. Soles, German-born American actress
1951 Lucie Arnaz, American actress (Kim-Here's Lucy, Jazz Singer)
1952 Chet McCracken, Seattle Wash, rocker (Doobie Brothers)
1952 David Hasselhoff, American actor and musician (Night Rider, Mitch-Baywatch)
1952 Nicolette Larson, American singer (Twins, Lotta Love) (d. 1997)
1952 Phoebe Laub, American singer and songwriter
1952 Phoebe Snow, singer (Theme from "It's a Different World")
1952 Robert R(ick) McCammon, US, sci-fi author (Baal, Mystery Walk)
1954 Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
1954 J. Michael Straczynski, American author
1955 Christopher Chappell, Former Canadian Cricketer
1955 Paul Stamets, American mycologist and environmentalist
1956 Bryan Trottier, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL Center (NY Islanders)
1956 Robert Romanus, American actor
1957 Bruce Crump, rock drummer (Molly Hatchet)
1957 Fern Britton, British television presenter
1958 Wong Kar-wai, Chinese film director
1959 Janet Lynn Kavandi, Springfield Mo, PhD/astronaut (sk:STS 91)
1960 Dawn Upshaw, American soprano
1960 Jan Wouters, Dutch football player and manager (Ajax, Bayern Munich, PSV)
1960 Karen Elaine Price, Pasadena California, playmate (January, 1981)
1960 Kim Barnett, English cricketer
1960 Mark Burnett, English-born television producer
1960 Nancy Giles, American actress (Connie-Delta, Off Beat, Big, Angie)
1960 Robin Shou, Hong Kong martial arts actor (Mortal Kombat, Beverly Hills Ninja)
1960 Scott Norwood, NFL kicker (Buffalo Bills-Superbowl XXV goat)
1961 Jonathan Potts, Canadian actor
1961 Roy Pienaar, former South African cricketer
1962 Bill Sage, American actor
1962 Jay Barrs, Jacksonville Fla, archer (Olympics-gold-1988, 92, 96)
1963 Denise Miller, Bkln NY, actress (Billie-Archie Bunker's Place)
1963 John Ventimiglia, American actor
1963 Letsie III, King of Lesotho
1963 Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper
1963 Regina Belle, Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter
1964 Heather Langenkamp, actress (Marie-Just the 10 of Us)
1965 Alex Winter, English film director, actor (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
1965 Craig Morgan, American singer
1965 Ken Evraire, CFL slot back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1965 Santiago Segura, Spanish film director and actor
1966 Guru, American rapper (Gang Starr) (d. 2010)
1966 Lou Barlow, American alternative rock singer and musician (Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh)
1966 Michael John Bradley, Largo FL, PGA golfer (1993 Kemper Open-3rd)
1966 Sten Tolgfors, Swedish politician
1967 Kevin Pritchard, NBA guard (Washington Bullets)
1967 Pearl Sinn, Seoul Korea, LPGA golfer (1995 LPGA Corning Classic-35th)
1967 Susan Ashton, Christian singer
1968 Andre Royo, American actor
1968 Beth Littleford, American comedian
1968 Bitty Schram, American actress
1969 F. Gary Gray, American music video director
1969 Scott Johnson (cartoonist), American Cartoonist
1969 Tommy Soderstrom, Stockholm SWE, NHL goalie (Sweden, NY Islanders)
1970 Bronwyn Roye, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1970 Mandy Smith, English model and singer (I Just Can't Wait), wife of Bill Wyman
1971 Calbert Cheaney, American basketball player, NBA forward, guard (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1971 Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist
1971 Daniel Kunce, Sumperk GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1971 Nico Mattan, Belgian cyclist
1972 Donny Marshall, American basketball player, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1972 Eric Williams, American basketball player, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets, Boston Celtics)
1972 Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer
1972 Jason Rullo, American drummer (Symphony X, Redemption)
1972 Melissa "Missy" Schwen, Bloomington Ind, rower (Olympics-silver-96)
1972 Michael Lampert, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1973 Eric Moulds, American football player
1973 Horacio Llamas, NBA center (Phoenix Suns)
1973 Liam Kyle Sullivan, American comedian and actor
1973 Tony Dovolani, Albanian ballroom dancer
1974 Laura Macdonald, Scottish jazz musician
1975 Andre Adams, Former New Zealand Cricketer
1975 Cécile de France, Belgian actress
1975 Darude, Finnish trance DJ
1975 Elena Anaya, Spanish actress
1975 Gino D'Acampo, Italian celebrity chef
1975 Konnie Huq, English television presenter
1975 Paul Hinojos, American guitarist (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
1975 Terence Tao, Australian-Chinese mathematician
1975 Troy Amos Ross, Georgetown Guyana, Canadian boxer (Olympics-96)
1976 Dagmara Dominczyk, Polish actress
1976 Eric Winter, American actor
1976 Luke Bryan, American musician
1976 Matthew Holmes, Australian actor
1977 Lehmber Hussainpuri, Famous Indian Singer
1977 Leif Hoste, Belgian cyclist
1977 M.I.A., British rapper
1977 Marc Savard, Canadian hockey player
1977 Tiffany Taylor, American model
1978 Katharine Towne, American actress
1978 Mike Hettinga, American professional wrestler
1978 Noah Lennox, American musician
1978 Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1978 Émilie Simon, French singer
1979 Mike Vogel, American actor
1980 Javier Camuñas, Spanish footballer
1980 Ryan Miller, American hockey player, Goaltender (Buffalo Sabres, Team USA)
1981 Elpida Romantzi, Greek archer
1981 Hely Ollarves, Venezuelan track and field athlete
1982 Natasha Hamilton, British singer (Atomic Kitten)
1982 Omari Banks, West Indian Cricketer
1983 Adam Lind, American baseball player
1983 Brooke Kinsella, British actress
1983 Ryan Guettler, professional Australian BMX rider
1983 Sarah Jones, American actress
1984 Asami Kimura, Japanese singer (Country Musume)
1984 Mark Goodwin, American musician, Drummer in Sick Puppies
1984 Sotiris Leontiou, Greek footballer
1985 Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
1985 Tom Fletcher, British singer (McFly)
1986 Dana, Korean singer and actress (TSZX)
1987 Darius Boyd, Australian rugby player
1987 Jan Charouz, Czech racing driver
1987 Moussa Dembélé, Belgian footballer
1988 Summer Bishil, American actress
1989 Josie Lopez, American actress
1989 Marko Todorović, Swiss swimmer
1998 Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y de Borbón, Spanish royal
Died on July 17th
521 Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474)
656 Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated.
924 Edward, the Older, English speaking king (899-924)
924 King Edward the Elder of England
1025 Boleslaw I Chobry, [the brave], duke/king of Poland
1070 Baldwin (Boudouin) VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030)
1345 Jacob Van Artevelde, [Manner Man], Flemish broker, lynched
1453 Dmitry Shemyaka, Grand Prince of Moscow 1445, 1446-1447, poisoned in Veliky Novgorod by Vasily Tyomny's agents
1453 John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader
1510 Tree of Commonwealth, beheaded at about 48
1531 Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
1566 Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484)
1571 Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
1588 Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)
1588 Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)
1627 Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal)
1645 Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician
1682 Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer
1704 Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer
1709 Pascal Collasse, composer
1709 Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
1746 Anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46)
1753 Andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant
1762 Peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762)
1763 Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer
1764 Johann Mattheson, German composer
1790 Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)
1791 Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)
1793 Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat and murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), guillotined (b. 1768)
1794 Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer
1794 John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
1804 Christian Ernst Graf, composer
1826 Joseph Graetz, composer
1838 John Whites, hydraulic engineer
1845 Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
1851 Beni Egressy, composer
1863 James Johnston Pettigrew, US attorney/Confederate
1864 Daniel McCook Jr, US Union-brig-gen
1864 Dirk Dark Curtius, attorney/liberal minister of Justice
1871 Karl Tausig, composer
1875 Gabor Matray, composer
1878 Aleardo (Gaetano) Aleardi, Italian poet (Tre Fiumi) (b. 1812)
1879 Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (b. 1856)
1881 Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804)
1885 Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811)
1887 Dorothea Dix, American social activist (b. 1802)
1893 Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
1894 Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet (b. 1818)
1894 Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810)
1901 John Farmer, composer
1903 James A McNeill Whistler, US/Brit writer (Bride Tomorrow)
1907 Hector Malot, French writer (b. 1830)
1912 J-Henri Poincaré, French mine engineer, mathematician (b. 1854)
1915 Francesco Fanciulli, composer
1918 Aleksei N Romanov, Russian Tsarevich, son of tsar Nicolas II, executed (b. 1904)
1918 Alexandra Fjodorova, Russian Empress, wife of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death (b. 1872)
1918 Anastasia N Romanova, Russian Grand Duchess, daughter of tsar Nicholas, executed (b. 1901)
1918 Botkin, personal physician of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Charitonov, cook of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Demidova, lady in waiting of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 Family of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna, Grand Duchess Anastasia, Grand Duchess Maria, Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana, Tsarevich Alexei
1918 Maria Romanova, Russian Grand Duchess daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death (b. 1899)
1918 Nicolas II Aleksandrovitch, Last Tsar of Russia, executed (b. 1868)
1918 Olga Romanova, Russian Grand Duchess, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death (b. 1895)
1918 Tatyana Romanova, Russian Grand Duchess, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death (b. 1897)
1918 Trupp, lackey of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1922 Heinrich Rubens, German physicist
1928 Alvaro Obregon, general/pres of Mexico, assassinated
1928 Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman, 5x premier of Italy (189 -1921) (b. 1842)
1935 George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867)
1937 Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne, composer
1944 Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32)
1944 William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (b. 1898)
1945 Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885)
1946 Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, General commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland, executed (b. 1893)
1947 Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved Jews)
1950 Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
1953 Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer
1953 Maude K Adams, US actress (Little Minister)
1954 Dirk B Nanninga, painter
1955 Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer
1959 Billie Holiday, American singer, dies of drug OD (b. 1915)
1959 Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (b. 1875)
1959 Henri Pourrat, French writer (Le chasseur de la nuit)
1961 Ty Cobb, baseball great (Det Tigers) (b. 1886)
1965 Luiz Cosme, composer
1966 August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi-suite)
1967 Cyril Ring, actor (Duffy's Tavern, Red Hot & Blue)
1967 Gertrude McCoy, silent screen actress (Blue Bird)
1967 John Coltrane, American musician (Round Midnight) (b. 1926)
1970 Juano Hernandez, actor (St Louis Blues, Two Loves)
1971 Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue)
1974 Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, Major League baseball pitcher (St Louis Cards) (b. 1910)
1975 Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
1975 Modoc, the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal)
1978 Thayer David, actor (Rocky, Roots, Savages)
1979 Doug Meintjes, South African cricket pace bowler (v England 1922-23)
1980 Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
1980 Donald Barry, actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak)
1984 J Delos Jewkes, singer/actor (Stars & Stripes Forever)
1985 Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer
1985 Margo, actress (Rumba, Viva Zapata)
1987 Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
1988 Bruiser Brody (Frank Goodish), professional wrestler, stabbed to death
1988 Frank Goodish, professional wrestler (b. 1946)
1989 Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (b. 1922)
1990 Bernard Cowan, TV announcer
1993 Ineke Shutter, choreography (Black Girl Goes to School)
1993 Scott Salmon, US choreographer (La Cage aux Folles)
1993 Vladimir Barmyn, Russian inventor (Stalinorgel)
1994 Jean Borotra (Flying Basque), Fr tennis star (Davis Cup)
1995 Herbert Hippauf, baseball player
1995 Joe Hutton, northumbrian piper/shepherd
1995 Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
1996 Alan McGilvray, Australian cricketer (NSW 1933-37) and radio commentator (1935-85)
1996 Amancio D'Silva, musician
1996 Bryan Chas Chandler, musician/manager
1996 Chas Chandler, bass guitarist (The Animals), record producer and manager (b. 1938)
1996 Chris Komar, dancer
1996 Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect
1996 John William Fozard, aircraft designer
1996 Paul Touvier, French WW II criminal
1996 Sid Sussman, beauty pageant organizer, dies of heart attack
2001 Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917)
2003 David Kelly, Welsh UN weapons inspector (b. 1944)
2003 Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
2004 Pat Roach, British professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
2005 Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
2005 Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (b. 1924)
2005 Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (b. 1913)
2005 Joe Vialls, Australian writer (b. 1944)
2005 Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (b. 1927)
2006 Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918)
2006 Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (b. 1936)
2007 Júlio Redecker, Brazilian Politician (b. 1956)
2008 Larry Haines, American actor (b. 1918)
2009 Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1927)
2009 Walter Cronkite, American broadcast journalist (b. 1916)
2011 David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (b. 1967)
2012 William Raspberry, American journalist
2013 Peter Appleyard, British-born Canadian musician
2014 Henry Hartsfield Jr, American astronaut
2014 Elaine Stritch, American actress (30 Rock, Two's Company), singer and member of the American Theater Hall of Fame
2015 Jules Bianchi, French Formula One racing driver, dies from injuries during accident at Japanese Grand Prix in 2014
2015 Rev Owen Chadwick, English historian, priest and university chancellor
2016 Gary S. Paxton, American musician and songwriter (Monster Mash)
