July 2nd
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day (Bahia)
Flag Day (Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles) * CLICK HERE
Palio di Provenzano in Siena (Italy)
Midpoint Day * (see below)
I Forgot Day
World UFO Day
Feast of Aberoh and Atom
Feast of Saint Bernardino Realino (d. 1616)
Feast of Saint John Regis
Feast of Saint Martial
Feast of Saint Otto, bishop of Bamberg (d. 1139)
Feast of Saint Oudoceus, bishop of Llandaff
Feast of Saints Processus and Martinianus, martyrs
Feast of Saint Swithun, bishop of Winchester, confessor
Feast of Saint Monegundes, matron, recluse
Annual pilgrimage at Mariánska hora
* Õllesummer (Estonia) , festival Õllesummer is held every year in July.
* Roskilde Festival Roskilde, Denmark, Europe July 1 – 4 (2of4) (2010)
* Wireless Festival (London, UK) July 2 (2010)
* Il Palio, Siena, Italy (also August 16th)
* Midpoint Day - It is the midpoint of a common year. This is because there are 182 days before and 182 days after (median of the year) in common years, and 183 before and 182 after in leap years. The exact time in the middle of the year is at noon, or 12:00. It falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Day in common years.
Fête de la Lavande Translation: Lavander Day (French Republican) The 14th day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Not drunk is he who from the floor
Can rise alone, and still drink more;
But drunk is he who prostrate lies,
Without the power to drink or rise."
- Traditional
- Variation -
"He is not drunk who from the floor
Can rise alone and drink some more;
But he is drunk who prostrate liles,
And cannot drink or cannot rise"
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Ron Collins
2 Parts Rum
1 Part freshly squeezed Lemon Juice
Drizzle of sugar syrup
Add Chilled Carbonated Water to taste
Wine of The Day
Graffigna (2009) Centario
Style - Pinot Grigio
San Juan
$15
Beer of The Day
Sierra Nevada Summerfest Lager
Brewer - Sierra Nevada Brewing
Style - Czech Pilsener
ABV - 5%
Joke of The Day
A woman says to her girlfriend, "My husband has dandruff."
"So give him Head and Shoulders."
Her friend answers. "OK, how do I give Shoulders?"
Quote of The Day
"Always remember you're unique just like everyone else."
- Anonymous
Whisky of The Day
$20
- In continued celebration of Canada Day (July 1)
July Observances
Air-Conditioning Appreciation Days (7/3 to 8/15)
Bereaved Parents Awareness Month
National Bikini Month
Bioterrorism/Disaster Education and Awareness Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month
Dog Days (7/3 to 8/11)
Doghouse Repairs" Month, Natl
Eggplant and Lettuce Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Family Golf Month
Family Reunion Month
Freedom From Fear of Speaking Month
Herbal/Prescription Awareness Month
Home Inspector Appreciation Month, Natl
International Blondie and Deborah Harry Month
International Group B Strep Awareness Month
International Women with Alopecia Month
International Zine Month
Learn Arabic Month
Mango and Melon Month
National "Doghouse Repairs" Month
National Anti-Boredom Month
National Black Family Month
National Blueberries Month
National Cell Phone Courtesy Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Month
National Culinary Arts Month
National Grilling Month
National Hemochromatosis Screening and Awareness Month
National Horseradish Month
National Hot Dog Month
National Ice Cream Month
National Independent Retailers Month
National Make A Difference to Children Month
National Recreation and Parks Month
National Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month
National Vehicle Theft Protection Month
National Wheelchair Beautification Month
Nectarine and Garlic Month
Purposeful Parenting Month
Roots and Branches Month
Sandwich Generation Month
Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month Link
Skyscraper Month
Smart Irrigation Month
Social Wellness Month
Tour de France Month (Started 6/30 - 7/19)
UV Safety Month
Unlucky Month for weddings
Women's Motorcycle Month
Worldwide Bereaved Parents Month
Observances this Week
National Education Association Week, First Week in July
National Unassisted Homebirth Week, First Week in July
Historical Events on July 2nd
310 Pope Miltiades is elected.
311 St Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope
626 In fear of assassination, Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Incident at Xuanwu Gate. On September 4, Shimin's father abdicates in his favour and Shimin becomes Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China.
706 In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang has the remains of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, his wife and recently-deceased ruling empress Wu Zetian, her son Li Xian, her grandson Li Chongrun, and granddaughter Li Xianhui all interred in a new tomb complex outside Chang'an known as the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang.
963 The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas to be Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
1140 Hartbert becomes bishop of Utrecht
1214 Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines (Angers)
1214 English king John begins siege around Lille France
1298 The Battle of Göllheim (Hasenbuhl) is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
1494 The Treaty of Tordesillas is signed by Portugal and Spain.
1555 Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.
1561 Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
1576 Muitende Spanish soldiers conquer Zierik Sea
1578 Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island.
1582 Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
1600 Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army
1613 The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall.
1644 Battle of Marston Moor, Parliamentary forces defeat royalists in the English Civil War.
1679 Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
1681 Earl of Shaftesbury arrested for high-treason
1687 King James II disbands English parliament
1698 Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine
1776 NJ gave all adults who could show a net worth of 50 pounds right to vote
1776 The Continental Congress adopts a resolution "these United Colonies are & of right ought to be Free & Independent States", severing ties with Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4th.
1777 Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
1787 De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered
1794 2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria
1808 Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam
1823 Bahia Independence Day, the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
1839 Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinque take over the slave ship Amistad.
1843 An alligator falls from sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm
1847 Envelope bearing 1st US 10 cent stamps, still exists today
1849 Garibaldi in Rome begins hunger strike
1850 Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus
1858 Partial emancipation of Russian serfs
1861 Battle of Hoke's Run, WV small Union victory
1862 Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges
1863 American Civil War, second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
1863 R Morgan's: Burksville, KY to Salineville, OH
1864 Gen Early & Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Wash DC
1864 Statuary Hall in US Capitol forms
1865 William Booth founds Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation)
1867 1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC
1870 Jules Joseph d'Anethan is elected the tenth Prime Minister of Belgium.
1871 Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after its conquest from the Papal States.
1881 Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19.
1881 Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker
1885 Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear
1890 The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
1894 Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers
1897 Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains patent for radio in London.
1900 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin flies first zeppelin flight (airship LZ-1) on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1900 Sibelius' "Finlandia," premieres in Helsinki
1901 Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner Montana
1902 John J McGraw becomes manager of NY Giants (stays for 30 years)
1903 AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later
1903 Pitcher Jack Doscher, 1 son of a major leaguer debuts with Cubs
1906 Yanks win by forfeit, for their 1st time
1916 Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism
1916 Russian offensive in Armenia
1917 Riots in East St Louis Mo end.
1921 41st Wimbledon Mens Tennis, B Tilden beats B Norton (46 26 61 60 75)
1921 Jack Dempsey KOs George S Carpentier in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1st million dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier)
1926 US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized
1927 40th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 64)
1927 Earthquake hits Palestine
1928 British parliament accept female sufferage
1932 52nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Ellsworth Vines beats H Austin (64 62 60)
1932 FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech
1933 Carl Hubbell shuts-out Cards 1-0 in 18 innings without a walk
1934 General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico
1934 The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
1935 Great Britain boxers beat US team in 1st intl Golden Gloves
1937 57th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Don Budge beats G von Cramm (63 64 62)
1937 Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
1938 51st Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (64 60)
1940 Dutch PM Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory)
1940 Hitler orders invasion of England (Operation Sealion)
1940 Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
1940 Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated
1940 PM Churchill meets gen-mjr B Montgomery
1941 DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56)
1941 Earthquake hits Palestine
1941 Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)
1941 Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," premieres in London
1943 Gulf of Biskaje, Liberator bombers sinks U-126
1943 Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning & beat Yankees 12-0
1943 Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane
1944 Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt
1946 Dutch Beel government forms
1946 Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam & Amsterdam
1947 Military coup discovered in France
1948 62nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Falkenburg beats Bromwich (75 06 62 36 75)
1949 "High Button Shoes" closes at Century Theater NYC after 727 perfs
1949 "Red Barber's Clubhouse" sports show premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1949 56th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, L Brough beats M duPont (10-8 16 10-8)
1950 Henri Queuille is elected the seventh Prime Minister of the Fourth French Republic.
1950 Indian Bob Feller, wins his 200th game, 5-3 over Detroit
1950 Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down.
1950 The Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down.
1951 Bill Veeck buys St Louis Browns from Bill & Charlie DeWitt
1951 Bob & Ray show premieres on NBC radio
1951 Hugo Yarnold stumps 6 at Dundee, Worcester v Scotland
1951 Island advisor of Curacao installed
1951 Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system
1952 Princess Beatrice opens miniature city of Madurodam
1952 Zulu-leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi marries Irene Mzila
1954 68th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, J Drobny beats K Rosewall (13-11 46 62 97)
1954 Denis Compton scores 278 in 290 minutes v Pakistan
1955 "7th Heaven" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 44 performances
1955 "Almost Crazy" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 16 performances
1955 "Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC
1955 10th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Fay Crocker
1955 62nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Louise Brough beats B Fleitz (75 86)
1955 Desmond Tutu marries Leah Nomalizo Shinxani
1956 Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" & "Don't Be Cruel"
1956 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1957 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Le pelerinage De Lourdes
1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1959 "Plan 9 From Outer Space," one of the worse films ever, premieres
1959 Prince Albert marries Princess Paola in Brussels
1960 "Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 perfs
1961 Maris hits 29th & 30th en route to 61 homers
1962 Cubans minister of Foreign affairs Raul Castro arrives in Moscow
1962 The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1963 Giant Willie Mays' HR in 16th inning gives them a 1-0 win over Braves
1963 Juan Marichal (Giants) beats Warren Spahn (Braves), 1-0 in 16 innings
1964 Cilla Black records Beatle's "Its For You," McCartney plays piano
1964 Grand jury indicts Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers
1964 Pres Johnson signs Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act into law
1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
1965 79th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle (62 64 64)
1966 1st France nuclear explosion on Mururoa atoll
1966 73rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Billie J King beats Frasier (63 36 61)
1966 The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
1967 22nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Catherine Lacoste
1967 Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) & 1st amateur to US Women's open golf tournament
1969 Ireland bowl out WI for 25 at Londonderry, win by 9 wkts
1969 Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain
1970 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam & Brussels
1970 NY Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for 3rd time in 28 days
1971 78th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Evonne Goolagong beats M Smith (64 61)
1971 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 3242 perfs
1972 27th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
1972 Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m
1972 India & Pakistan sign peace accord
1973 James R Schlesinger, ends term as 9th director of CIA
1973 Nation Black Network begins operation on radio
1974 Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81)
1976 83rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Chris Evert beats E Goolagong (63 46 86)
1976 Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam
1976 North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1976 Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
1977 91st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Connors (36 62 61 57 64)
1978 Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start
1979 Susan B Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman
1979 The first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, is introduced.
1980 Grateful Dead's Bob Weir & Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement
1980 Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Yr
1982 Larry Walters using lawn chair & 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000'
1982 Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
1983 90th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, M Navratilova beats A Jaeger (60 63)
1985 Andrei Gromyko is appointed the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
1985 European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby)
1986 After 14 wins, Roger Clemens suffer his 1st loss of year
1986 General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile
1986 Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings
1987 Jim Eisenreich, comeback after nervous disorder in 1984
1987 Nilde Iotti is named as the first female President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
1988 95th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Steffi Graf beats Navratilova (57 62 61)
1989 10th US Seniors Golf Open: Orville Moody
1989 17th du Maurier Golf Classic, Tammie Green
1990 Imelda Marcos & Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering
1990 Panic in tunnel of Mecca: 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death
1991 Donald Trump proposes to Marla Maples and gives her a 7½ karat diamond ring
1991 Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St Louis
1992 Braniff Airlines goes out of business
1993 37 participants in an Alevi cultural and literary festival were killed when a mob of demonstrators set fire to their hotel in Sivas during a violent protest.
1993 Boat sinks at Bocaue Philippines, 325 die
1993 F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die
1993 Kansas Royals rename stadium Ewing Kaufman Stadium after founder
1993 Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36
1993 NY Met Anthony Young loses a record 25th straight game (goes to 27)
1993 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test
1994 37 dies in US Air DC-9 crash in NC
1994 101st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: C Martinez beats Navratilova (64 36 63)
1994 John Wayne Bobbitt & Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery
1994 Richard Johnson takes 10-45 for Middlesex against Derbyshire
1994 US Air DC-9 crash in NC, 37 killed
1995 "Rose Tattoo" closes at Circle in the Square NYC after 80 perfs
1995 16th US Seniors Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf
1995 Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1995 Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins election
2000 Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
2001 The AbioCor self contained artificial heart is first implanted.
2002 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
2003 Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, insults German MP Martin Schulz by calling him a "kapo" during a session of the European Parliament.
2004 ASEAN Regional Forum accepts Pakistan as its 24th member.¨
2005 Live 8 takes place in London's Hyde Park and other locations around the world.
2008 Ingrid Betancourt, and 14 other hostages held by FARC guerrillas, are rescued by the Colombian armed forces.
2010 Oil tanker truck explosion in South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people
2012 GlaxoSmithKline settle the largest healthcare fraud case in history for US$3 Billion
2012 Monsoon rain in East India kills at least 79 people and leaves 2.2 million homeless
2013 16 people are killed and 200 are injured in protest clashes at Cairo University against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi
2014 Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is criminally charged with corruption by French prosecutors
2015 62 people are killed after the Kim Nirvana ferry capsizes off the coast of the Philippines
2015 BP agrees to compensate US government & gulf states $18.7 billion for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill
2016 Large lorry bomb in Baghdad kills at least 125 people and wounds 150, Islamic State claims responsibility
Born on July 2nd
419 Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55) (d. 455)
1029 Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (d. 1094)
1262 Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
1363 Mary, Queen of Sicily (d. 1401)
1489 Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)
1492 Elizabeth Tudor, English princess (d. 1495)
1581 Johann Staden, composer
1589 Guillaume van Messaus, composer
1636 Daniel Speer, composer
1644 Abraham a Santa Clara, [Johann Megerle], German court vicar
1647 Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councilor, minister of foreign affairs (d. 1730)
1652 Guillielmus "Willem" Kerricx, Flemish sculptor (Rozenkrans)
1665 Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (d. 1726)
1667 Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (d. 1740)
1698 Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena (d. 1780)
1714 Christoph Willibald von Gluck, Austria composer (Il there pastore) (d. 1787)
1724 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
1737 Francois Leonard Rouwyzer, composer
1746 Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer
1756 Christian G Korner, German lawyer/father of Karl
1763 Peter Ritter, composer
1793 Antoine Prumier, composer
1810 Robert Augustus Toombs, Secy State (Confederacy), died in 1885
1814 Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer
1819 Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (d. 1900)
1820 George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (d. 1878)
1821 Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (1896) (d. 1915)
1822 Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails/trains)
1830 John Bordenave Villepigue, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1834 Hendry P G Quack, lawyer/economist/secr Dutch Bank
1836 Henry Eugene Davies, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1847 Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer (tectonic geology)
1849 Maria Theresia of Austria-Este, queen of Bavaria (d. 1919)
1857 Francesco Spetrino, composer
1862 William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
1865 Lili Braun, Prussian feminist, socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen) (d. 1916)
1867 Herbert Prior, England, actor (Caught Short, Slave of Desire)
1876 Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (1922-23) (d. 1933)
1877 Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, (Steppenwolf) (Nobel laureate 1946) (d. 1962)
1880 Albert Szirmai, composer
1881 Royal H. Weller, American politician (d. 1929)
1882 Edgar Mayne, cricketer (Australian batsman, prolific for Victoria)
1884 Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
1887 Marcel Tabuteau, Compiègne France, oboist (Phila Orch 1915-54)
1888 Selman Waksman, Russ/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951)
1889 Cor Hermus, Dutch actor/director/writer (A Mother)
1890 Earl Roy Curry, religious thinker and Kirtland Temple overseer (d. 1980)
1892 Jack Hylton, English orchestra leader/impresario (Crazy Passage Show)
1893 August Maes, Flemish actor/director (Shylock-Hamlet)
1893 Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center) (d. 1950)
1894 Walter Brennan, Swampscott Mass, actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point)
1896 Lydia Mei, Estonian artist (d. 1965)
1900 Tyrone Guthrie, English actor (d. 1971)
1901 Arthur Rex Alston, sports commentator
1903 Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
1903 Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, (C) British PM (1963-64)
1903 King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
1903 Olav AFEC of Schleswig-Holstein-S-G, King Olav V of Norway (1957-91)
1904 Carl Weinrich, composer
1904 Gerarda "Meik" Rueter, Dutch (sculptress, if that word exists)
1904 René Lacoste, French tennis player (d. 1996)
1905 Jean-Rene Lacoste, France, US Open (1926)/alligator shirt designer
1906 Alan Webb, actor (King Lear, Taming of Shrew, Challenge of Lassie)
1906 Hans Bethe, German-born nuclear physicist (Nobel laureate 1967) (d. 2005)
1906 Robert Levine Sanders, composer
1907 Eppo Doeve, Dutch cartoonist/painter
1907 Leo O'Brien, cricketer (Australian batsman in 5 Tests 1932-36)
1908 Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner
1908 Thurgood Marshall, American Supreme Court Justice, 1st black Supreme Court justice (1967-91) (d. 1993)
1909 Hermann Bengtson, German historian (Greeks Ancient Times)
1910 Earl Hawley Robinson, composer
1910 Hans Gunther Adler, German writer
1910 William Douglas Denny, composer
1911 Diego Fabbri, Italian, playwright/leader (Vatican movie bureau)
1913 Edith Heerdegen, Dresden Germany, actress (Serpent's Egg, Monpti)
1914 Frederick Fennell, American conductor (Time & Winds) (d. 2004)
1914 Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
1915 8th duke of Wellington, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1915 Arthur Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington
1915 Bert Decorte, Flemish poet
1916 Barry Gray, [Bernard Yaroslaw], interviewer (started call-in radio)
1916 Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Combat pilot and highest-decorated German soldier of WWII (d. 1982)
1916 Ken Curtis (Curtis Gates), American actor (Ripcord, Festus-Gunsmoke) and singer (d. 1991)
1917 Murry Wilson, American musician and producer (The Beach Boys) (d. 1973)
1917 Pierre Dubois, Dutch literary
1918 Imam Elissa, singer
1918 Sheikh Iman, player/singer
1918 Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (d. 2005)
1919 Jean Craighead George, American writer
1919 Johnny Bradford, Long Branch NJ, actor (Ransom Sherman Show)
1920 Eliseo Diego, latin American poet
1922 Dan Rowan, Beggs Oklahoma, comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in)
1922 Genrikh Matusovich Vagner, composer
1923 Wislawa Szymborska, Polish writer (Nobel Laureate in Literature 1996) (d. 2012)
1924 Rick Besoyan, composer
1925 Marvin Rainwater, Wichita Ks, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1925 Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
1925 Patrice E Lumumba, First Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1961)
1925 Yasushi Akutagawa, composer
1926 Billy Usselton, saxophonist
1926 Lee Allen, Pittsburg, Ks, tenor sax (Walkin' With Mr Lee)
1926 Octavian Paler, Romanian writer, journalist, (d. 2007)
1927 Brock Peters, American actor (Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird) (d. 2005)
1927 Gene Ray, Founder of the Time Cube website and proponent of Time Cube philosophy
1927 Jerome Meyer, horse trainer
1927 Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director
1928 Estelita Rodriguez, Cuba, actress (Cuban Fireball, Havana Rose)
1928 Pavel Kohout, Czech, director/author (Poor Murderer)
1929 Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines
1929 John A. Cade, American politician
1930 Carlos Saul Menem, president of Argentina (1989)
1931 Robert Ito, Vancouver BC, actor (Sam-Quincy ME)
1932 Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (Wendy's Restaurants) (d. 2002)
1932 Ken McMillan, Bkln NY, actor (Malone, Concrete Beat)
1932 Sammy Turner, Paterson NJ, vocalist (Lavender Blue)
1933 David Benjamin Lewin, composer
1933 Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner
1933 Kenny Wharram, Canadian hockey player
1934 Ivan Madray, WI cricket leg-spin all rounder, 2 Tests 3 runs 0-108)
1934 Tom Springfield, British singer and songwriter (The Springfields)
1935 Dick Dolman, economist/Dutch politician 2nd Chamber
1935 Ed Bullins, Phila, playwright
1935 Gilbert Kalish, Brooklyn NY, pianist/professor (SUNY Stony Brook)
1937 Dick Berardino, baseball player
1937 Polly Holliday, American actress (Flo-Alice, Flo-Flo)
1937 Richard Petty, American race car driver (Daytona 500-1979,81)
1939 Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet
1939 John H. Sununu, White House Chief of Staff under George HW Bush, US Secretary of State (R, 1989-91)
1939 M(ichael) A(nthony) Foster, US, sci-fi author (Gameplayers of Zan)
1939 Michael N Castle, (Rep-R-Delaware)
1939 Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1973)
1939 Valeri Vasilyevich Illarianov, Russia, cosmonaut
1940 Kenneth Harry Clarke, British politician
1941 Stéphane Venne, French Canadian songwriter
1942 Georgi Ivanov, Bulgaria, cosmonaut (Soyuz 33)
1942 Vicente Fox, Former Mexican president
1943 Walter Godefroot, Belgian cyclist
1945 James Orville Fulkerson, composer
1946 Richard Axel, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1946 Ron Silver, American actor (d. 2009)
1947 Ervin Hall, Phila, 100m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 Larry David, American television producer, actor, and writer (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm)
1947 Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, daughter of Pres LBJ
1948 Gene McFadden, American songwriter (d. 2006)
1948 Saul Rubinek, Canadian actor
1949 Hanno Pöschl, Austrian actor
1949 Robert Paquette, French Canadian singer and songwriter
1949 Roy Bittan, American musician (E Street Band)
1950 Johnny Colla, California, rock sax (Huey Lewis & The News-Need a New Drug)
1951 Elisabeth Brooks, Canadian actress (d. 1997)
1951 Joey Puerta, rocker (Ambrosia)
1951 Michele Santoro, Italian TV journalist
1952 Johnny Colla, American musician (Huey Lewis and the News)
1952 Linda M Godwin, Cape Girardeau Mo, PhD/astronaut (STS 37, 59, 76)
1952 Wayne Haner, rock bassist (Axe)
1953 Mark Hart, British musician (Crowded House and Supertramp)
1953 Tony Armas, Venezuelan baseball player
1954 Pete Briquette, Irish musician (The Boomtown Rats)
1954 Wendy Schaal, Chicago Ill, actress (It's a Living, Julie-Fantasy Is)
1955 Andrew Divoff, Venezuelan actor
1955 Kevin Michael Grace, Canadian journalist
1956 Jeffrey Cooper, rock guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1956 Jerry Hall, American actress, model, Mrs Mick Jagger (Batman, Freejack)
1956 Julie Montgomery, KC Mo, actress (Samantha-1 Life to Live, Kindred)
1956 Leslie Reid, Vancouver BC, equestrian dressage (Olympics-96)
1957 Bret "Hitman" Hart, Canadian wrestler
1957 Mike Anger, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1958 Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop
1959 Eduardo Bengoechea, Argentina, tennis star
1959 Hoogie Drexler, jockey
1959 Mike Hallett, English snooker player
1959 Wendy B Lawrence, Jacksonville Fla, astronaut (STS 67, 86, sk:91)
1960 Terry Rossio, American screenwriter
1961 Alba Parietti, Torino Italy, actress (Galagoal, Abbronzatissima)
1961 James McNichol, LA California, actor (Fitzpatricks, California Fever)
1961 Michael Lindsay, Voice actor
1961 Pat Dufficy, Westerly RI, female catcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1961 Samy Naceri, French actor
1962 Brandel Eugene Chamblee, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (1994 Honda-3rd)
1963 Mark Kermode, British film critic
1964 Alan Tait, Scotland rugby player
1964 Andrea Yates, American murderer
1964 Charles Robinson, American wrestling referee
1964 Dave Parsons, rocker (Transvision Vamp, Sham 69-That's Life)
1964 DeAnne Hemmens, SF California, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1964 Hisakatsu Oya, Japanese professional wrestler
1964 Joe Magrane, American baseball player
1964 José Canseco, Cuban-born American baseball player, outfielder (Oak A's, Red Sox, 1988 AL MVP)
1964 Ozzie Canseco, Cuban-born American baseball player
1964 Shannon Ritter, jockey
1966 Blaise Rhodes, Berwyn Heights MD, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1966 Tim Spehr, Excelsior Springs MO, catcher (Montreal Expos)
1967 Debee Ashby, Coventry England, topless model (There's Girl in My Soup)
1968 Mark Tewsksbury, Canada swimmer (world record backstroke)
1968 Mike Lee, Neptune NJ, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Tommy Armour Tour)
1969 Matthew Cox, American convicted felon
1969 Tim Rodber, England rugby player
1970 Colin Edwin, Australian musician (Porcupine Tree)
1970 Derrick Ralph Adkins, Brooklyn NY, 400m hurdler (Olympics-gold-96)
1970 Monie Love, English rapper
1970 Scotty 2 Hotty, American professional wrestler
1970 Steve Morrow, Irish footballer
1970 Yancy Butler, American actress
1971 Bryan Redpath, Scotland rugby player
1971 Evelyn Lau, Canadian author
1971 Jared Palmer, NYC, tennis star
1971 Troy Brown, American football player, NFL wide receiver (NE Patriots)
1972 Darren Shan, Irish children's author
1972 Towanna Stone, Miss USA-Tennessee (1997, 3rd)
1973 Peter Kay, British comedian
1974 Matthew Reilly, Australian author
1974 Moon So-ri, South Korean actress
1974 Natali Sacco, Miss Universe-Peru (1996)
1974 Rocky Gray, American musician
1974 Sean Casey, American baseball player
1974 Tim Christensen, Danish singer
1975 Catalina Cristea, Bucharest Rom, tennis star (1995 quarter Jakarta)
1975 Daniel Kowalski, Singapore, Aust swimmer (Olympics-bronze/silver-96)
1975 Eric Daze, Montreal Quebec, NHL left wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1975 Erik Ohlsson, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
1975 Stefan Terblanche, South African rugby player
1975 Éric Dazé, French Canadian ice hockey player
1976 Ivan Tomić,Croatian buissnesman
1976 Krisztián Lisztes, Hungarian footballer
1976 Tomáš Vokoun, Czech hockey player
1977 Shannan McCray, Miss District of Columbia Teen USA (1996)
1978 Jüri Ratas, Estonian politician
1979 Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer
1979 Joe Thornton, Canadian hockey player
1979 Sam Hornish, Jr., American race car driver
1980 Nicole Manske, American beauty queen and motorsports television commentator
1980 Nyjer Morgan, American baseball player
1981 Aaron Voros, Canadian hockey player
1981 Alex Koroknay-Palicz, American youth rights activist
1981 Angel Pagán, Puerto Rican baseball player
1981 Nathan Ellington, English soccer player
1982 Olivia Munn, American actress, model and television personality.
1983 Michelle Branch, American singer (The Wreckers)
1983 Sammy J, Australian comedian
1984 Johnny Weir, American figure skater
1984 Maarten Martens, Belgian footballer
1984 Thomas Kortegaard, Danish footballer
1984 Vanessa Lee Chester, American actress
1985 Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
1985 Chad Henne, American football player
1985 Corey Bringas, American actor
1985 Rhett Bomar, American football player
1986 Brett Cecil, American baseball player
1986 Lindsay Lohan, American actress (Alli Fowler-Another World) and singer
1987 Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (d. 2008)
1992 Madison Chock, American ice dancer
Died on July 2nd
783 Bert(h)a (Berthrada), mother of Charles the Great
862 St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester(b. 789)
936 Henry I the Vogelaar, German king (919-36)/duke of Saxon 912-36
1298 Adolf of Nassau, Roman Catholic King of Germany (1292-98), dies in battle (b. 1220)
1504 Stefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldova (1457-1504) (b. 1434)
1566 Nostradamus (Michel de Nostre-Dam), French astrologist (b. 1503)
1582 Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (b. 1528)
1591 Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
1619 Olivier de Serres, French farming pioneer (silkworms)
1621 Thomas Harriot, English astronomer
1644 William Gascoigne, introduced telescopic sights
1656 François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b. 1611)
1663 Thomas Selle, composer
1674 Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
1684 John Rogers, president of Harvard University (b. 1630)
1700 Lambert Doomer, painter/cartoonist
1708 Willem of Nassau, mister of Zuylenstein/lt-gen/baron Enfield
1743 Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, second Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1673)
1746 Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656)
1778 Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer (b. 1746)
1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (b. 1712)
1794 Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer
1798 John Fitch, American inventor,
1822 Denmark Vesey, American who planned slave revolt, hanged with 5 aides at Blake's Landing, Charleston, SC (b.c. 1767)
1833 Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1757)
1843 Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755)
1850 Robert "Bobbie" Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, founder London Police (b. 1788)
1857 Carlo Pisacane, Italian patriot (b. 1818)
1861 Peter A de Genestet, vicar/poet
1863 Stephen Hinsdale Weed, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
1878 Francois-Emmanuel-Joseph Bazin, composer
1895 William Rockstro, composer
1903 Ed Delahanty, American Hall of Fame baseball player (b. 1867)
1911 Felix Mottl, composer
1912 Tom Richardson, English cricket player (b. 1870)
1914 Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, Mayor of Birmingham and Father of Neville (b. 1836)
1915 Gen Porfirio [Jose de la Cruz] Diaz, president Mexico
1915 Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (b. 1830)
1917 Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor/director (Hamlet)
1918 Mohammed V Resjad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18)
1920 William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
1921 Edwin Evans, cricketer (6 Tests for Australia)
1926 Émile Coué, French psychologist, pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion) (b. 1857)
1929 Gladys Brockwell, American actress (Oliver Twist) (b. 1893)
1930 Anders Randolf, actor (Love of Sunya, Dangerous Curves)
1932 Manoel II, last king of Portugal (1908-10)
1932 Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
1934 Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (b. 1887)
1935 Alfred Dreyfus, french colonel
1936 Harry Northrup, actor (Who's Knocking at My Door)
1937 Amelia Earhart Putnam, Dutch pilot/1st female to fly Atlantic Ocean
1937 Fred L Noonan, US navigator, disappeared over Pacific Ocean
1939 Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor of Rotterdam (1906-22)
1940 Ben(jamin) Turpin, US comic (Saps at Sea, His New Job)
1940 Bertram Shapleigh, composer
1941 Mohammad Baqa Jilani, cricketer (Test for India)
1946 Anthony Overton, publisher/cosmetics manufacturer/banker
1949 Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria premier (1946-49)
1951 Earnest F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon
1952 Henriette H Bosmans, Dutch cello player/pianist/composer
1955 Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
1961 Ernest Hemingway, American author and Nobel Prize laureate, suicide (b. 1899)
1964 Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver, biggest NASCAR money winner, dies in crash (b. 1929)
1965 Theodora E "Betsy" Ranucci-Beckmann, actress (Klatergoud)
1966 Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
1968 Francis Brennan, US cardinal of Philadelphia
1969 Michael DiBiase, wrestler (b. 1923)
1970 Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist
1971 Edward Ballantine, composer
1972 Joseph F(ielding) Smith Jr, tenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1876)
1973 Betty Grable, American actress (How to Marry a Millionaire) (b. 1916)
1973 Chick Hafey, baseball player (b. 1903)
1973 Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1973 George Macready, US, actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place)
1973 George McBride, baseball player (b. 1880)
1973 Swede Savage, dies of injuries at Indianapolis 500
1975 James Robertson Justice, British actor (DR at Large, Dr om Love) (b. 1907)
1976 Frances Howard, actress (Swan, Shock Punch)
1977 Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (Lolita) (b. 1899)
1978 Aris Alexandrou, Greek novelist, poet and translator (b. 1922)
1981 Robert Emmett Keane, actor (Rookie Cop, Red Dragon)
1982 Poul Rovsing Olsen, composer
1984 Paul Dozois, Quebec politician (b. 1908)
1984 Ramiro Cortes, composer
1985 David Purley, British Formula 1 driver (b. 1945)
1986 Peanuts Lowrey, baseball player (b. 1917)
1987 Karl Linnas, accused Nazi
1987 Michael Bennet, choreographer (Chorus Line)
1989 Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (b. 1909)
1989 Franklin Schaffner, American film director (b. 1920)
1990 Muntu Myeza, S Afr anti-apartheid activist, dies in auto
1990 Snooky Lanson, singer
1991 Lee Remick, American actress (Days of Wine & Roses) (b. 1935)
1992 Borisav Pekic, Serbian writer/politician
1992 Camarón de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1950)
1992 Edith Valckaert, Belgian violinist
1992 Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer/Claudia Cardinale's husband
1992 Jose Monje, [Camaron de la Isla], Spanish flamenco singer
1993 Don Drysdale, pitcher (Dodgers)
1993 Fred Gwynne, American actor (Herman-Munsters) (b. 1926)
1993 Sir Edward Dunlop, Australian war hero (b. 1907)
1994 Andres Escobar, Colombia world cup soccer star, shot for losing to US (b. 1967)
1994 Marion Williams, gospel singer
1994 Maung Maung, premier of Burma (1988)
1994 Ralph C Rinzler, folklorist (Greenbriar Boys)
1995 Gail Gordon, actor (Our Miss Brooks, Lucy Show)
1995 George Seldes, journalist
1995 Gervase F Ashworth Jackson-Stops, architectural adviser
1995 Krissy Taylor, American model (17 Mag) (b. 1978)
1996 Hugh Davson, physiologist/writer, dies at 86
1997 James Stewart, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life) (b. 1908)
1999 Mario Puzo, American author (The Godfather) (b. 1920)
2000 Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
2002 Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2004 John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (b. 1919)
2004 Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese writer (b. 1919)
2005 Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
2005 Norm Prescott, American animation producer (b. 1927)
2006 Jan Murray, American comedian (b. 1916)
2007 Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (b. 1929)
2008 Elizabeth Spriggs, English actress (b. 1929)
2008 Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician (b. 1956)
2010 Beryl Bainbridge, Author (b. 1932)
2011 Itamar Franco, Brazilian politician (b. 1930)
2012 Ben Davidson, American professional footballer and actor
2013 Arlan Stangeland, American politician
2015 Charlie Sanders, American football player (Detroit Lions)
2016 Elie Wiesel, Jewish Auschwitz survivor and author (Night), Nobel Prize winner 1986
2016 Caroline Aherne, British comedienne, writer and actress (The Royale Family)
2016 Michael Cimino, American director (The Deer Hunter)
2016 Michel Rocard, French politician, Prime Minister of France (1988-91)
2016 Patrick Manning, Trinidad and Tobago politician, Prime Minister (1991-95, 2001-10)