July 6th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day/Republic Day (Malawi)
Independence Day (Comoros), 1975
Statehood Day (Lithuania)
Constitution Day (Cayman Islands)
Day of the Capital (Kazakhstan), holiday est. 2008
Birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama (Tibet)
Fiesta de San Fermin Opening Day Ceremonies (Pamplona, Spain), July 6th through the 14th every year (9 Days)
Saint Valentine's Day (Eastern Orthodox Church) * CLICK HERE
Beer Can Regatta
Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic), 1415
Take Your Webmaster to Lunch Day
National Fried Chicken Day
Ludi Apollinares (Roman), games in honour of Apollo (since 208 BC) began
Feast day of Romulus of Fiesole
Feast day of St Maria Goretti
Fête de la Gesse Translation: Hairy Vetchling Day (French Republican) The 18th day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"May the friends of our youth be the companions of our old age."
- Anonymous
Drink of The Day
Sex On The Beach 4 (Rasperry Syrup)
1 shot vodka
1 shot peach schnapps
6oz Orange juice
6ozcranberry juice
2 shots raspberry syrup
Shake together with ice in a cocktail shaker and serve in a highball glass.
Serve with an ubrella and a mixer stick and a fancy straw and an orange slice on side of glass.
- See 5/18 for Sex on the Beach 1, 5/27 for Sex on the Beach 2, 6/9 for Sex on the Beach 3
Wine of The Day
Rodney Strong (2008) Zinfandel
Style - Zinfandel
Sonoma County
$20
Beer of The Day
Dieu du Ciel! Peche Mortel (Canada)
Style - Midnight-black imperial stout
Attributes - High Alcohol (9.5 percent ABV) Brewed with Coffee
Flavor - Creamy, chocolate-espresso flavor
Joke of The Day
Scenario:
You are driving in a car at a constant speed. On your left side is a valley and on your right side is a fire engine traveling at the same speed as you. In front of you is a galloping pig which is the same size as your car and you cannot overtake it. Behind you is a helicopter flying at ground level. Both the giant pig and the helicopter are also traveling at the same speed as you.
Question:
What must you do to safely get out of this highly dangerous situation?
Answer:
Get off the children's "Merry-Go-Round", you’ve drank too much.
Quote of The Day
"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."
- George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946, New Haven, Conn., U.S.) was the 43rd President of the United States, serving from 2001 to 2009
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"I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them."
- George Walker Bush
Whisky of The Day
$25
July Observances
Air-Conditioning Appreciation Days (7/3 to 8/15)
Bereaved Parents Awareness Month
National Bikini Month
Bioterrorism/Disaster Education and Awareness Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month
Dog Days (7/3 to 8/11)
Doghouse Repairs" Month, Natl
Eggplant and Lettuce Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Family Golf Month
Family Reunion Month
Freedom From Fear of Speaking Month
Herbal/Prescription Awareness Month
Home Inspector Appreciation Month, Natl
International Blondie and Deborah Harry Month
International Group B Strep Awareness Month
International Women with Alopecia Month
International Zine Month
Learn Arabic Month
Mango and Melon Month
National "Doghouse Repairs" Month
National Anti-Boredom Month
National Black Family Month
National Blueberries Month
National Cell Phone Courtesy Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Month
National Culinary Arts Month
National Grilling Month
National Hemochromatosis Screening and Awareness Month
National Horseradish Month
National Hot Dog Month
National Ice Cream Month
National Independent Retailers Month
National Make A Difference to Children Month
National Recreation and Parks Month
National Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month
National Vehicle Theft Protection Month
National Wheelchair Beautification Month
Nectarine and Garlic Month
Purposeful Parenting Month
Roots and Branches Month
Sandwich Generation Month
Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month Link
Skyscraper Month
Smart Irrigation Month
Social Wellness Month
Tour de France Month (Started 6/30 - 7/19)
UV Safety Month
Unlucky Month for weddings
Women's Motorcycle Month
Worldwide Bereaved Parents Month
Observances this Week
National Education Association Week, First Week in July
National Unassisted Homebirth Week, First Week in July
Beans and Bacon Days, July 4th through July 7th
Freedom Week, July 4th through July 10th
International Chicken Wing Week a.k.a. Great International Chicken Wing Society's CHICKEN WING COOK-OFF, First Weekend in July
Be Nice To New Jersey Week, First Full Week in July
Sports Cliché Week, Week of Major League Baseball, All Star Game Second Tuesday in July
Historical Events on July 6th
(371 BC) The Battle of Leuctra, where Epaminondas defeats Cleombrotus I, takes place.
1044 The Battle of Ménfo takes place.
1189 Richard I (Richard the Lionheart) is crowned King of England.
1253 Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
1348 Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting Jews during the Black Death.
1415 Jan Hus is burned at the stake.
1483 Richard III is crowned King of England.
1484 Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
1491 Opening ceremony of Daitokuji's Shinju at subtemple
1495 Battle of Fornovo, French king Charles VIII defeats the Holy League, but ultimately ends his attempted conquest of Italy in the First Italian War.
1535 Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII.
1560 The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
1573 Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
1573 Pacificatie of Boulogne, new peace treaty with huguenots
1590 English admiral Francis Drake takes Portuguese Forts at Taag
1609 Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of religion
1621 Dutch gov-gen John Pieterszoon Coen takes Banda-islands, 15,000 die
1630 4,000 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus II land in Pomerania, Germany in the Thirty-Years War.
1634 Johan van Walbeecks ships bypass St-Anna Bay, Curacao
1641 Battle at La Marfée Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French government army
1652 Fire on Dutch Dam (Amsterdam's city hall burns)
1669 LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River
1673 French troops conquer Maastricht as part of the Franco-Dutch War
1685 Battle at Sedgemoor: King James II beats duke of Monmouth
1687 Newton publishes "Principia"
1699 Pirate Capt William Kidd is captured in Boston
1751 Pope Benedict XIV suppresses the Patriarchate of Aquileia and establishes from its territory the archdiocese of Udine and Gorizia.
1770 Battle at Cesme: Russian fleet beats Turkish
1775 Congress issues "Declaration of the Causes & Necessity of Taking up Arms," listing grievances but denying intent to be independent
1776 Dec of Ind announced on front page of "PA Evening Gazette"
1777 Siege of Fort Ticonderoga, After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York in the American Revolutionary War.
1782 British-French sea battle at Negapatam (South-Indies)
1785 The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States. Congress resolves US currency named "dollar" & adopts decimal coinage
1787 French government proclaims end to stamp and land tax
1787 Orange troops occupy Area at Duurstede
1798 US law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, ... & removed as alien enemies"
1801 Battle of Algeciras, The French navy are defeated by the Royal Navy.
1809 The second day of the Battle of Wagram sees a French victory over the Austrian army in the largest battle yet of the Napoleonic Wars.
1840 Christian Hebbel's "Judith," premieres in Berlin
1848 Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo
1853 National Black convention meets (Rochester NY)
1853 William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel," 1st novel by black American
1854 In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held.
1858 Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
1862 Skirmish at Devall's Bluff Arkansas (106 casualties)
1863 Battle of Williamsport, MD
1863 Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia
1864 Battle of Chattahoochee River, GA
1869 Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr J H Harris, defeated
1882 14 Russian Jews of Bilu, arrive in Jaffa Palestine
1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
1886 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public
1887 4th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (62 60)
1887 David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of the Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
1892 3,800 striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded.
1892 Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
1892 Dr Jose Rizal forms League Filipina
1892 Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pa fire on scabs, killing 7
1893 British King George V marries princess Victoria of Teck (Queen Mary)
1893 The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
1894 Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike
1903 George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of SF
1905 Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
1908 Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for north pole
1912 Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)
1917 T E Lawrence captures Port of Agaba from Turkey
1917 Arabian troops led by Lawrence of Arabia and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Turks during the Arab Revolt of World War I.
1919 The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship (108 hr).
1919 William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs president
1920 Yankees score 14 in 5th inning & beat Washington Senators, 17-0
1922 Dutch auto/airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy
1923 36th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (62 62)
1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form
1924 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England
1928 1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY)
1928 Worlds largest record hailstone 1.5 lbs (7 inchs in diameter)) at the time falls in Potter Nebraska
1929 St Louis has 2, 10 run innings & beats Phillies 28-6
1931 35th US Golf Open, Billy Burke shoots a 292 at Inverness Club Ohio
1932 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents
1932 Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli
1933 The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeats the National League, 4–2.
1935 48th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Helen Moody beats H Jacobs (63 36 75)
1935 Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens
1936 114°F (46°C), Moorhead, Minnesota (state record)
1936 121°F (49°C), Steele, North Dakota (state record)
1936 A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet into the River Irwell.
1938 6th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 4-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1939 German Nazi's close last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany.
1941 NY Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield
1942 10th All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York
1942 Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1942 Von Hoth' IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj
1943 2nd day of battle at Kursk, 25,000 Germans killed
1943 US destroyer William D Porter (Willie Dee) launched
1944 French General De Gaulle arrives in Washington, DC
1944 The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford, Connecticut.
1944 US General Patton lands in France
1945 Harry Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom
1945 Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept UN Charter
1945 Wash Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games
1946 "St Louis Woman" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 perfs
1946 53rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Pauline Betz beats Louise Brough (62 64)
1946 60th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Yvon Petra beats G Brown (62 64 79 57 64)
1947 The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
1949 Cin Red Walker Cooper gets 10 RBIs
1949 Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158°F for 2 minutes
1950 German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland
1951 65th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Dick Savitt beats Ken McGregor (64 64 64)
1952 Last tram ride in London
1954 KMOS TV channel 6 in Sedalia-Warrensburg, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Tunisian government of M'zali, resigns
1956 70th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Lew Hoad beats Ken Rosewall (62 46 75 64)
1956 85th British Golf Open, Peter Thomson shoots a 286 at Hoylake England
1956 Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honor to outstanding pitcher
1956 Indians' Jim Busby hits a grand slam in two consecutive at bats
1957 64th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard (63 62)
1957 Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
1957 Harry S Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri
1958 Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected pres of Mexico
1958 Alaska becomes 49th state
1959 5th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1959 Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic
1959 WENH TV channel 11 in Durham, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC
1961 Portuguese ship explode near Mozambique, kills 300
1962 76th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Rod Laver beats Martin Mulligan (62 62 61)
1962 Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria
1962 Mantle hits his 3rd & 4th consecutive homer
1962 Nuclear test shot Sedan, part of Operation Plowshare.
1963 70th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, M Smith beats Billie J King (63 64)
1963 77th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, C McKinley beats Fred Stolle (97 61 64)
1963 South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1964 Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premieres in London
1964 Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
1965 Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms
1966 Malawi becomes a republic, with Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda as the first President.
1967 The Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade Biafra.
1968 75th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Billie Jean King beats J Tegart (97 75)
1968 Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words"
1969 Filming begins on "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger
1969 Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao
1970 California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law
1970 Italian Rumor government resigns
1971 Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi
1971 White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
1974 88th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Jimmy Connors beats K Rosewall (61 61 64)
1975 Argentine government falls
1975 Comoros declare independence from France (most of them)
1975 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes Sonate for alto opus 147
1975 Susie McAllister wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
1975 The Comoros declare independence from France.
1976 Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station
1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut
1978 The Taunton sleeping car fire occurred in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.
1979 86th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (64 64)
1979 IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp
1980 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1980 France performs nuclear test
1980 Steve Carlton (14-4) pitches most strikeouts by a lefty (2,836)
1983 54th All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 13-3 at Comiskey Park, Chicago
1983 Fred Lynn of Angels hits All Star game 1st grand slam (AL wins 13-3)
1983 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
1986 100th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (64 63 75)
1986 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
1986 Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a game
1986 Davis Phinney became the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
1986 Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in Philippines
1986 Premier Nakasones Liberal Democr Party wins Japan's election
1987 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
1987 Pakistan score their 1st innings win over England, at Leeds
1987 USSR performs nuclear test
1988 Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico
1988 North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die
1988 The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. 167 oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster.
1988 Wrestler Jake Roberts convicted of battery
1989 Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star game
1989 The Israeli 405 Bus slaughter in which 14 bus passengers are killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving by the edge of a cliff.
1989 US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn
1990 "Jetson's the Movie" with Tiffany, premieres
1990 After pitching a no-hitter lose, NY Yankee Andy Hawkins pitches a complete 12 inn game & loses 2-0
1991 98th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Steffi Graf beats G Sabatini (64 36 86)
1992 Fay Vincent realigns NL, putting Cubs, Cards & Rockies in West & Cards, Braves & Marlins in East
1993 Graham Thorpe scores 114 on Test Cricket debut, England v Australia
1993 John F Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan
1994 Irina Privalova runs 100m European Record (10.77)
1994 Lerou Burrell runs world record 100m (9.85)
1994 Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL game (vs Ottawa)
1995 Lottie Dod, 15, beats Blanch Bingley at Wimbledon
1996 103rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis, S Graf beats Aranxta S Vicaro (63, 75)
1996 Yankee John Weteland sets record of 20th cons saves en route to 24
1997 "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," closes at Royale NYC after 109 perfs
1997 111th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Pete Sampras beats C Pioline (64 62 64)
1997 Jamie Farr Kroger Classic
1997 Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Classic
1997 Montreal Expos retire Andre Dawson's uniform #10
1997 Wimbledon Gigi Fernandez & Natasha Zvereva beat N Arendt & M Bollegraf
1998 Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational.
1999 U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams.
2003 The 70-metre Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to 5 stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri, HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris that will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044 and 2049 respectively.
2006 The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
2009 Jadranka Kosor became the first female Prime minister of Croatia
2012 Gunmen kill 18 people in Turbat, Pakistan
2013 3 people are killed and 181 are injured after a Boeing 777 crash lands at San Francisco Airport
2013 14 people are killed after a train runs over a rickshaw in Sheikhupura, Pakistan
2013 42 people are killed and 5 missing after a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and set of fires in Lac-Megantic, Quebec
2013 42 people are killed in an attack on a boarding school in Mamudo, Nigeria
2013 Bob and Mike Bryan defeat Ivan Dogic and Marcelo Melo to win the men's doubles tennis final at Wimbledon
2013 Marion Bartoli beats Sabine Lisicki (6-1 6-4) to win the 120th Wimbledon Women's Tennis Championship
2013 The British Lions defeat Australia 41-16 to win their first rugby Test series since 1997
2014 Israeli Air Force strike kills 7 Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip
2014 Novak Djokovic beats Roger Federer (6-7 6-4 7-6 5-7 6-4) to win the 128th Wimbledon Men's Tennis Championship
2015 Floyd Mayweather Jr. is stripped of his WBO welterweight boxing title after failing to pay his $200,000 & vacate his light middleweight title
2016 African American Alton Sterling is shot by Louisiana police in Baton Rouge, while being restrained on the ground, the killing is filmed
2016 African American Philando Castile is shot by police in St Paul, Minnesota after being pulled over for a broken rear light, killing is filmed
2016 Chilcot Report, UK's Iraqi War Inquiry released; concludes Tony Blair overstated case for war and was unpreparaed
2016 Pokémon Go, the real-world mobile game by Niantic, is first released
2016 South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to 6 years in jail for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013
Born on July 6th
1542 Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Willem/Juliana van Stolberg
1580 Johann Stobaeus, composer
1632 Albert Schop, composer
1632 Pietro Reggio, composer
1638 Gerrit A Berckheyde, Dutch painter
1668 Peter Burmannus, [Pieter Burman], Dutch attorney/classicist
1678 Nicola Francesco Haym, composer
1686 Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758)
1702 Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer
1736 Daniel Morgan, American battlefield tactician (d. 1802)
1739 Freidrich Wilhelm Rust, composer
1747 Coelestin Jungbauer, composer
1747 John Paul Jones, American naval commander ("I have not yet begun to fight") (d. 1792)
1753 John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, baptized
1766 Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born naturalist (d. 1813)
1773 Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer
1781 Sir Stamford Raffles, British statesman (d. 1826)
1782 Luis (Philippus) Brion, Curacao commander of Colombian fleet
1782 Maria Louisa of Spain, queen of Etruria (d. 1824)
1785 William Jackson Hooker, English botanist, director (Kew Gardens) (d. 1865)
1789 Maria Isabella of Spain, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1846)
1793 Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch lawyer/min of Internal Affairs (1848-49)
1796 Nicholas I Pavlovitch, Tsar of Russia (1825-55) (d. 1855)
1800 Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer
1814 Justus McKinstry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1897)
1817 Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (d. 1905)
1818 Adolf Anderssen, Prussian world chess champion (1851-66) (d. 1879)
1821 Edward Winston Pettus, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1907)
1832 Maximilian F J, archduke of Austria/Emperor of Mexico
1837 Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, Indian scholar (d. 1925)
1837 Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer
1838 Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
1852 John Albert Delany, composer
1856 Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail/PTT
1859 Verner von Heidenstam, Sweedish poet and novelist (Charles Men) (Nobel laureate 1916) (d. 1940)
1864 Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazil, composer/conductor (Artemis)
1865 Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (d. 1950)
1868 Petrus A Euwens, Dutch vicar/editor (Amigoe di Curacao)
1868 Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1935)
1873 Paul Keller, German writer (Ferien vom Ich)
1877 David Stanley Smith, composer
1877 Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier/president of Spain (1931-36)
1878 Eino Leino, Finnish poet (d. 1926)
1881 Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Quadriga, Pumpernickel)
1882 Ralph Morgan (Wupperman), American actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London)
1884 Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter/cartoonist
1884 Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Sailer (America Cup 1930,34,37), inventor (contract bridge) (d. 1970)
1884 Willem Dudok, Dutch architect (town hall Hilversum/Beehive Rotterdam)
1885 Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1887 Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (Million Dollar Mermaid) (d. 1975)
1890 Andrew Sandham, cricketer (Test cricket's 1st triple centurion)
1892 Baron Willy Coppens de Houthulst, Belgian WW I pilot
1893 Wilton St Hill, WI cricketer (3 Tests 1928-30)
1896 Thomas W McKnew, president (National Geographic Society)
1897 Richard Krautheimer, German-American art historian (d. 1994)
1898 Hanns Eisler, German composer, German minister for propaganda (d. 1962)
1900 Emil Barth, writer
1900 Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright and screen writer (d. 2012)
1903 Axel Theorell, Sweden, biochemist, studied enzymes (Nobel 1955)
1903 Hugo Theorell, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)
1904 Erik Wickberg, Salvation Army general (d. 1996)
1904 Robert Whitney, Newcastle-on-Tyne England, conductor (Sospiro do Roma)
1906 Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, composer
1907 Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
1907 George Stanley, Canadian politician and designer of Canada's Flag (d. 2002)
1907 M C Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter/wife of Diego Rivera
1908 Leonce Grass, Flemish singer/conductor
1912 Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2006)
1914 Jens Rohiner, composer
1915 Dorothy Kirsten, Montclair NJ, soprano (Time to Sing, Chevy Show)
1915 Laverne Andrews, Minneapolis MN, singer (Andrews Sisters)
1915 Marcel Quinet, Belgian pianist/composer (Vague et Sillon)
1916 Harold Norse, American writer (d. 2009)
1916 Unica Zorn, writer
1917 Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (d. 2004)
1917 Hugo Cole, composer
1917 Hugo Yarnold, cricketer (Worcestershire keeper & Test umpire)
1918 Bert (Lambertus H) Voeten, Dutch journalist/poet (Crossing)
1918 Eugene List, Phila Penn, pianist/prof (Eastman School of Music)
1918 Sebastian Cabot, English actor (Mr French-Family Affair, Time Machine) (d. 1977)
1919 Dorothy Kirsten, opera singer/Alzheimer disease activist
1919 Ernst Haefliger, Swiss singer (d. 2007)
1920 William Worthington, horse trainer
1921 Nancy Davis Reagan (Anne Francis Robbins), First Lady of the United States (1981-89)
1922 Francisco Moncion, dancer
1922 William Schallert, LA California, actor (Patty Duke Show, Get Smart)
1923 Cathy O'Donnell, Siluria AL, actress (Miniver Story, Man from Laramie)
1923 Marie McDonald, Burgin KY, singer/actress (Promises Promises)
1923 Wojciech Jaruzelski, President of Poland (1989-90), general
1924 Robert Michael White, NYC, test pilot (X-15)
1925 Bill Haley, American singer (Rock Around the Clock) (d. 1981)
1925 Huub H Jacobse, member of Dutch 2nd chamber (Liberal)
1925 Merv Griffin, American television show host (Merv Griffin Show) (d. 2007)
1926 Nicky Hilton, 1st husband of Elizabeth Taylor
1927 Alan Freeman, British DJ known by his nickname 'Fluff' (d. 2006)
1927 Charles Whittenberg, composer
1927 Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player (d. 1988)
1927 Janet Leigh (Jeanetta Morrison), American actress (Psycho) (d. 2004)
1927 Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (d. 2004)
1927 Pat Paulsen, American comedian (Smothers Bros Show), Presidential candidate (d. 1997)
1927 Susan Cabot, Boston, actress (Carnival Rock)
1927 (Jan) Hein Donner, Dutch chess master
1929 Gerd Zacher, composer
1930 Francoise Mallet-Joris (F Lilar), Belgian writer (Signs & Wonders)
1930 H J Heise, writer
1931 Della Reese, American singer
1931 Donal Donnelly, Bradford Yorkshire England, actor (Dead)
1931 Jean Campeau, French Canadian businessman and politician
1931 Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader
1932 Della Reese, Detroit, singer/actress (Della Reese Show, Royal Family)
1933 Frank Austin, English footballer
1935 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet, spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists
1935 Candy Barr, American stripper and actress (d. 2005)
1935 Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
1936 Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005)
1937 Gene Chandler (Eugene Dixon), American singer (Duke of Earl)
1937 Ned Beatty, American actor (Deliverance, Repossed, Network)
1937 Tony Lewis, cricketer (England batsman, captain 1972-73)
1937 Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian-born pianist and conductor (Tchakowsky-1961)
1938 Franco, Zaire, composer/guitarist/leader (Masumbuku)
1938 Luana Patten, American Actress (d. 1996)
1939 Helena Dupont, US, equestrian 3-day even (Olympic-33rd place-1964)
1939 Jet Harris (Terence Harris), English bass guitarist (Drifters)
1939 Man Mohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India)
1939 Mary Peters, England, pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1972)
1940 Jeannie Seely, American singer
1940 Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
1940 Viktor Kuzkin, USSR, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1944 Byron Berline, rocker
1944 Gunhild Hoffmeister, German FR, 800m/1500m runner (Oly-silver-72)
1945 Burt Ward (Gervis), American actor (Robin-Batman)
1945 Rik Elswit, rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show-In the Right Place)
1945 Rodney Matthews, English fantasy artist and illustrator
1946 Fred Dryer, American NFL football player (NY Giants, LA Rams) and actor (Hunter)
1946 George W. Bush Jr, 43rd President of the United States (2001-09) and 46th Governor of Texas (1995-2000) (R-TX)
1946 James Naughton, US, actor (Trauma center) [or June 12, 1945]
1946 Jamie Wyeth, Penn, artist (An American Vision-Boston)
1946 Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
1946 Rick Hunter, actor
1946 Sylvester Stallone, American actor (Rocky, Rambo, Cobra)
1947 Lance Clemons, baseball player (d. 2008)
1947 Richard Beckinsale, English actor (Porridge, Doing Time) (d. 1979)
1948 Brad Park, Canadian hockey player, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers, Boston Bruins)
1948 Jean-Pierre Blackburn, French Canadian politician
1948 Nathalie Baye, French actress (Beau Pere, Honeymoon)
1948 Tom Curley, American media executive
1948 Wadih Saadeh, Lebanese-Australian poet
1949 Phyllis Hyman, American singer (d. 1995)
1949 Shelley Hack, Greenwich Ct, actress (Tiffany Welles-Charlie's Angel)
1950 Hélène Scherrer, Canadian politician
1950 John Byrne, American comic book author & artist
1950 Phyllis Hyman, jazz Singer
1950 Ramon Guzman, jockey
1950 Sultan Rakhmanov, Super heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1980)
1951 Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
1952 Grant Goodeve, Middlebury CT, actor (Northern Exposure)
1952 Jesse Harms, musician, of REO Speedwagon
1953 Nanci Griffith, American singer (Poet in My Window)
1954 Allyce Beasley, American actress (Agnes Dipesto-Moonlighting)
1954 James Kiberd, actor (Trevor Dillon-Loving, All My Children)
1954 Willie Randolph, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and manager (New York Mets)
1955 Frank Sontag, American radio personality
1955 William Wall, Irish writer
1956 Casey Sander, American actor
1956 John Jorgenson, Madison Wisc, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1956 Matt Bahr, NFL kicker (NE Patriots, NY Giants)
1957 Mario Martinez, Salinas Ca, US Olympic weightlifter (Olympic-4th-1988)
1957 Ron Duguay, Canadian ice hockey player (NY Rangers, Detroit Red Wings)
1958 Jennifer Saunders, English actress, comediene and screenwriter (Absolutely Fabulous)
1958 Mark Benson, cricketer (played Test England v India 1986, 30 & 21)
1958 Ossie Moore, Murwillumbah NSW, Australasia golfer
1959 John Keeble, London, rock drummer (Spandau Ballet-True)
1959 Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
1959 Tahir Naqqash, cricketer (Pakistani pace-bowler in 15 Tests 1982-85)
1960 Caroll-Ann Alie, Ottawa Ontario, yachter (Olympics-14-92, 96)
1960 Jozef (Josef) Pribilinec, Czech, speed walker (world record 10K)
1960 Lauri Merten, Waukesha WI, LPGA golfer (1993 US Women's Open)
1960 Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Greenwood Ms, 200m/400m runner (Olympic-gold-84)
1961 Benita Fitzgerald-Brown, Virg, 100m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1984)
1961 Kimberly Foster, actress (It Takes Two)
1961 Rick Price, singer/songwriter
1961 Robin Antin, Reality television, personality & model
1963 Edwin Gorter, soccer player (Lommel/FC Utrecht)
1963 Lance Johnson, American baseball player
1963 Todd Burns, baseball player
1964 Cristina D'Avena, Italian singer & actress
1964 Lillie Leatherwood, Northport Ala, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1965 Glenn Scarpelli, Staten Is NY, actor (Alex-One Day At a Time, Fantasy)
1965 Tim Camargo, jockey
1966 Brian Posehn, American comedian and actor (Mr. Show, Sarah Silverman Show)
1967 David Whitmore, NFL strong safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 Heather Nova, Bermudian singer
1967 James Hannon, Bronx filmmaker
1967 Omar Olivares, Puerto Rican baseball player, MLB pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1968 Alvin Harper, NFL wide receiver (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1968 Anthony Kershler, cricketer (NSW left-arm spinner 1994-95)
1969 Brian Van Holt, American actor
1969 Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer
1969 Michael Grant, vocalist (Musical Youth)
1969 Sophia Witherspoon, WNBA guard (NY Liberty)
1970 Antonio Harvey, NBA center/forward (LA Clippers)
1970 Frank Salvato II, Italian-American Sound Engineer and Composer
1970 Inspectah Deck, American rapper
1970 Martin Smith, English singer (Delirious?)
1971 Adam Laurent, Santa Cruz California, pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
1971 Kari Kupcinet, Chicago, actress (Julie Sanderson-Young & Restless)
1971 Kenya D. Williamson, American actress
1971 Owen Lance Bill Hughes, Palmerston North NZ, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1972 Billy Davis, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 D-Styles, American scratch DJ
1972 Greg Norton, American baseball player
1972 Isabelle Boulay, French-Canadian singer
1972 Mark Gasser, British pianist
1973 Karl Ballard, WLAF linebacker (London Monarchs)
1974 Babi Xavier, Brazilian presenter and actress
1974 Steve Sullivan, Timmins, NHL center (NJ Devils)
1974 Zé Roberto, Brazilian footballer
1975 50 Cent, American rapper
1975 Amir-Abbas Fakhravar, Iranian journalist and activist
1975 Sebastián Rulli, Argentine actor
1976 Michelle Stanley, Littleton Colorado, Miss America-Colorado (1997)
1976 Nikki Mott, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1977 Con Blatsis, Australian footballer
1977 Craig Handley, British film director
1977 Makhaya Ntini, South African cricketer
1978 Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby player
1978 Rachel Rochelli, Houston TX, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1978 Tamera Mowry, American twin actress
1978 Tia Mowry, American twin actress
1979 Nic Cester, Australian musician (Jet)
1979 Nicolas Daniel Maricio, Prince of Netherlands
1980 Joell Ortiz, American hip hop artist
1980 Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
1981 Nicole Kantek, NSW Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player
1982 Brandon Jacobs, American football player
1982 Tay Zonday, American singer and keyboardist
1983 Gregory Smith, Canadian actor
1984 James Henderson, American model
1984 Lauren Harris, British rock singer
1986 Anthony Gerrard, English football player
1986 Derrick Williams, American football player
1987 Caroline Trentini, Brazilian model
1987 Kate Nash, English singer-songwriter
1987 Matt O'Leary, American actor
1990 Ajoo, South Korean singer
1990 Jamal Idris, Rugby League player
1990 Jeremy Suarez, American actor
1994 Camilla Rosso, English actress
1994 Rebecca Rosso, English actress
Died on July 6th
918 William I, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 875)
966 Berengar II, King of Italy (b. 900)
1017 Genshin, Japanese scholar (b. 942)
1189 Henry II, King of England (1154-89) (b. 1133)
1218 Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
1249 King Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198)
1415 Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer, burned for heresy by the Church (b. 1369)
1476 Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller of Königsberg) (b. 1436)
1480 Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416)
1533 Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (Orlando Furioso) (b. 1474)
1535 Thomas More, English philosopher (Utopia), executed for treason (b. 1478)
1553 Edward VI Tudor, King of England (1547-53) (b. 1537)
1568 Johann Oporinus, Swiss book publisher/publisher
1583 Edmund Grindal, English Archbishop of Canterbury
1585 Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (b. 1552)
1587 Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed
1684 Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
1734 Nicolas Bernier, composer
1758 George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general
1762 Peter III Feodorovich, Tsar of Russia (1761-62), murdered (b. 1728)
1765 Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
1768 Conrad (Johann Conrad) Beissel, German-born religious leader (b. 1690)
1795 Georg Gottfried Petri, composer
1802 Daniel Morgan, American Revolutionary general and politician (b. 1736)
1809 Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (b. 1775)
1813 Granville Sharp, British abolitionist (b. 1735)
1816 Philipp Meissner, composer, dies at 67
1835 John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1755)
1854 Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)
1858 Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer
1860 Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer
1863 Strong Vincent, US Union brig-general
1864 Samuel Allen Rice, US Union brig-gen
1868 Samuel Lover, composer
1868 Sanosuke Harada, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840)
1871 Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro)
1879 Henry Thomas Smart, compose
1883 Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer (b. 1853)
1893 Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)
1896 Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer
1901 Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
1902 Leopoldo Miguez, composer
1902 St. Maria Goretti, Italian saint (b. 1890)
1904 Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
1907 August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German Linguist, Theologian (b. 1826)
1914 Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet, murdered
1916 Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
1918 Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Moscow
1922 Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (b. 1863)
1932 Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
1933 Robert Kajanus, composer
1934 Warden Uncle (Edward Vermeulen), Flemish landlord/writer
1950 Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1923)
1951 Josef Huttel, composer
1952 Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French Canadian politician (b. 1867)
1954 Dirk Verbeek, actor/director (Hofstad Stage)
1955 Paolo Gallico, composer
1959 George Grosz, German cartoonist, painter (Ecce Homo) (b. 1893)
1960 Aneurin Bevan, British politician (b. 1897)
1961 Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter,
1961 Enrique Larreta (E Rodriguez Maza), Argentine diplomat/writer
1961 Scott LaFaro, American musician (b. 1936)
1961 Woodall Rodgers, American politician (b. 1890)
1962 Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1872)
1962 William Faulkner, American writer (Nobel laureate 1949) (b. 1897)
1963 Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1899)
1964 Claude V. Ricketts, United States naval admiral (b. 1906)
1966 Anne Nagel
1966 Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
1968 Johnny Indrisano, American boxer and actor (b. 1906)
1970 Marjorie Rambeau
1971 Horst Lange, writer
1971 Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer (Hello Dolly) (b. 1901)
1971 Thomas C Heart, US admiral/commander (Asiatic fleet)
1972 Brandon De Wilde, American actor (Jamie), dies in a car crash (b. 1942)
1972 Sam de Grasse
1972 Vincent Valentine, WI cricket pace bowler (England 1933)
1973 Joe E Brown, comedian
1973 Otto Klemperer, German conductor (b. 1885)
1973 Patrick McVey, actor (Manhunt, Big Town)
1974 Carlos Isamitt, composer
1975 Otto Skorzeny, WWII German SS commando (Mussolini, Ardennen) (b. 1908)
1975 Ruffian, American racehorse (b. 1972)
1976 Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (b. 1887)
1976 Zhu De, Chinese Communist military leader and statesman (b. 1886)
1977 Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer (b. 1907)
1979 Van McCoy, American music producer, musician, songwriter (Hey Mr DJ, Hustle) and orchestra leader (b. 1940)
1980 Gail Patrick, actress (My Man Godfrey)
1982 Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905)
1982 Russell Thorson, actor (One Man's Family)
1986 Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
1989 János Kádár, Hungarian politician, premier (1956-58) (b. 1912)
1990 Jim Samuels, comedian
1990 Paul Wynne, KGO-TV SF reporter
1991 Muda Lawal, Nigerian footballer (b. 1954)
1991 Thorley Walters, actor (Trog, Edwardians, Daisy)
1992 Edgardo Pallero, Argentina producer (Los hijos de fierro)
1993 Ruth Lady Fermoy, maternal grandmother of Princess Diane
1994 Cameron Mitchell, American actor (High Chapparral) (b. 1918)
1994 Geoffrey McQueen, British television screenwriter (b. 1947)
1995 Aziz Nesin, Turkish humorist and author (b. 1915)
1995 Helene Johnson, poet
1995 Ivor Keys, musician/teacher
1996 John Sturdy, scholar
1996 Kathy Ahern, American golfer (b. 1949)
1998 Roy Rogers, American actor (b. 1911)
1999 Barry Winchell, American soldier (b. 1977)
1999 Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938)
1999 Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
2000 Wladyslaw Szpilman, Polish pianist and memoirist (b. 1911), basis of the the movie The Pianist
2002 Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932)
2002 John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930)
2003 Buddy Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908)
2004 Syreeta Wright, American singer (b. 1946)
2004 Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)
2005 Bruno Augenstein, German-born mathematician (b. 1923)
2005 Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
2005 Evan Hunter, American novelist (b. 1926)
2005 L. Patrick Gray III, American FBI director (b. 1916)
2005 Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
2006 Billy Preston, African American Musician
2006 Kasey Rogers, American actress (b. 1926)
2006 Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster (b. 1914)
2007 Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American novelist (b.1939)
2008 Bobby Durham, American jazz drummer (b. 1937)
2009 Johnny Collins, British folk and maritime music singer (b. 1938)
2009 Leo Mol, Ukrainian Canadian artist and sculptor (b. 1915)
2009 Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1916)
2009 Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (b. 1932)
2012 Charles David Ganao, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo
