July 7th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day (Solomon Islands)
Seven/Seven (England) * (see below)
7/7 (China) * (see below)
Magpie Festival (China)
Tanabata (Shinto and Japan) * CLICK HERE
Parents' Day (Vietnam) * CLICK HERE
Ivan Kupala Day (Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)
Unity Factory Day (Yemen)
Saba Saba Day (Tanzania)
Fiesta de San Fermin Pamplona, Spain - July 6th through the 14th every year (9 Days)
National Strawberry Sundae Day
Tell The Truth Day
Father-Daughter Take A Walk Together Day
Chocolate Day
Feast of Saint Job of Maniava, St. Illidius
Feast of Æthelburg of Faremoutiers
*Seven-seven AKA 7th July, AKA July 7th, AKA 7/7 (pronounced "Seven-seven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London's transport system.
* 7/7 In China, this term is used to denote the Battle of Lugou Bridge started on July 7, 1937, marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Fête de la Cerise Translation: Cherry Day (French Republican) The 19th day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"May all your ups and downs be under the blankets."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Seven and Seven a.k.a. 7&7
1 shot Seagram's 7 whisky
6 oz. 7 Up
Pour whisky into Collins glass filled with ice. Fill to desired level with 7 Up. Stir lightly.
Wine of The Day
Dr. Zenzen (2007) Reserve
Style - Riesling
Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
$20
Beer of The Day
Pripps Bla 3.5%
Brewer - Carlsberg Sverige AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Style - European Style Low Alcohol Lager
Joke of The Day
A couple young ladies decided to go for a swim but forgot their suits. No one was around so they decided to strip of all their cloths and jump in. Pretty soon an old man shows up and starts staring. One of the blonds says, " Hey buddy, if you think were coming out of the water your crazy. We know what you're up to." The old man says, "I'm not here to look at you, I'm here to feed the alligators."
Quote of The Day
"The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid."
- Actual sign In a Yugoslavian hotel
Whiskey 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
Be Nice To New Jersey Week, First Full Week in July
Nude Recreation Weekend, 7 Days Starting First Monday of the first full week in July
Sports Cliché Week, Week of Major League Baseball, All Star Game Second Tuesday in July
Historical Events on July 7th
1124 Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders
1438 French church/King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie of Bourges
1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
1495 King Ferdinand II returns to Naples
1498 Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel
1534 European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
1543 French troops invade Luxembourg
1550 Chocolate introduced
1575 Raid of the Redeswire, the last major battle between England and Scotland.
1585 King Henri III & Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours, abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France, French Huguenots lose all freedoms.
1607 "God Save the King" is 1st sung
1647 People's uprising against high prices & Spanish rule in Naples
1668 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
1713 1st performance of Georg F Handel's "Te Deum" & "Jubilate"
1753 British Museum founded by an Act of Parliament (opens in 1759)
1753 English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship
1754 Kings College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College)
1768 Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel
1770 The Battle of Larga takes place.
1777 Battle of Hubbardton of the American Revolutionary War
1798 The U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the "Quasi-War"
1799 Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore.
1801 Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence
1802 1st comic book "The Wasp," is published
1807 Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars.
1814 Walter Scott's "Waverley" published
1829 Royal Military Chapel forms
1838 Central American federation is dissolved
1846 American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States conquest of California, Mexican-American War.
1850 Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia
1861 Battle of Laurel Hill, VA
1862 Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land
1863 Orders barring Jews from serving under US Grant are revoked
1863 United States begins first military draft, exemptions cost $300.
1864 S Middleton, MD -Early's Washington Raid-
1865 Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
1868 Ed Pooley takes 12 dismissals as keeper in match Surrey v Sussex
1874 27th Postmaster General James W Marshall of NJ takes office
1875 Jesse James robs train in Otterville Missouri
1878 Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam
1891 Travelers checks patents
1892 The Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia (Katipunan).
1898 President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
1900 Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory
1905 127°F (53°C), Parker Ariz (state record)
1908 Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay
1911 28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, D Chambers beats D Boothby (60 60)
1911 Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record
1913 British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law
1914 Balt Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore & Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty
1915 A International Railway (New York Ontario) trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
1915 End of First Battle of the Isonzo in World War I.
1917 Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov forms Provisional Government in Russia after the deposing of the Tsar Nicholas II, the Russian Revolution.
1919 Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game
1923 43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis, William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61)
1923 Cleve Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning
1923 University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
1924 Robert LeGendre of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 5½"
1928 41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 63)
1928 Edward Hamm of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 11"
1928 Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. It is described as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped".
1929 Romania & Vatican sign concord
1930 Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
1932 Bradman scores a cricket double century in Montreal
1934 Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship
1936 4th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston
1937 5th All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash
1937 Battle of Lugou Bridge Japanese forces invade Beijing, China. Japanese & Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), Sino-Japanese War, becomes WW II
1939 52nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60)
1941 Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono Lithuania
1941 US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
1941 Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops, World War II.
1941 U.S. forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by Germany, World War II.
1942 Germany troop march into Woronezj
1942 Milt all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0
1943 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java
1943 3rd day of battle at Kursk, Germans occupy Dubrova
1943 Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk
1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-517
1943 U-951 sunk
1944 Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
1944 Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
1946 Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
1947 Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.
1948 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy
1948 Cleveland Indians sign Leroy "Satchel" Paige at 42yo
1949 "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" opens at Broadway NYC for 76 perfs
1949 "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 & 1967
1950 1st Farnborough airshow held
1950 64th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Budge Patty beats Sedgman (61 8-10 62 63)
1950 79th British Golf Open, Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon
1951 58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (61 60)
1952 SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40
1953 35th PGA Championship, Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Mich
1953 Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
1954 T.A.N.U. party forms in Tanzania
1955 1st LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson
1956 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 buildings
1956 63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61)
1956 Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres
1956 Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
1957 Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast
1958 C A Milton scores 104* on Test Cricket debut, England v NZ Headingley
1958 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.
1958 William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows NY
1959 14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
1959 26th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
1960 Neth-US cemetery Margraten official opens
1960 USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea
1961 75th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64)
1961 James R Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters
1962 69th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (64 64)
1962 Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open
1964 35th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York. All star MVP, John Callison (Philadelphia Phillies)
1965 Otis Redding records "Respect"
1967 81st Wimbledon Mens Tennis, John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61)
1967 Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released
1967 Beginning of the civil war in Biafra.
1967 Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1
1968 23rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
1968 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1968 Rock group "Yardbirds" disband
1969 Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English lang
1969 Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal
1969 In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
1972 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley & Joanne E Pierce)
1972 79th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (63 63)
1972 Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage
1973 1st all-US women's Wimbledon, Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert
1973 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)
1973 80th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Billie Jean King beats C Evert (60 75)
1973 87th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Jan Kodes beats Alex Metreveli (61 98 63)
1973 All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels
1973 Balt Orioles pull their 4th triple play (5-4-3 vs Oakland)
1973 Glenda Reiser (Canada) sets record women's mile (4:34.9)
1973 Shoelace Park in the Bronx named
1974 Brewer Don Money sets record of consec errorless games at 3rd (78)
1974 Sue Roberts wins LPGA Niagara Frontier Golf Classic
1974 West Germany win the 10th FIFA World Cup, beating Netherlands 2-1 in the Final in Munich.
1975 TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres
1976 E Henry Knoche, becomes deputy director of CIA
1976 Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1976 Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars
1977 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City
1978 85th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, M Navratilova beats C Evert (26 64 75)
1978 The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.
1979 93rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Bjorn Borg beats R Tanner (67 61 36 63 64)
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 Az Judge Sandra Day O'Connor 1st female nominated to Supreme Court
1980 Institution of sharia in Iran.
1980 Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
1980 Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Univ) as 29th Miss USA
1980 Larry Holmes TKOs Scott LeDoux in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe
1980 The Safra massacre in Lebanon.
1981 Ben Plucknett of US throws discus 72.34 m, but throw is disqualified
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court
1981 The solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, successfully completes a 163 mile flight across the English Channel
1982 David Moorcroft of UK sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41
1982 Steve Scott of US runs mile in a record 3:47.69
1983 Cold War: Samantha Smith, a 11 year old U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
1984 5 die in a train crash in Williston Vt
1984 91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis, M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62)
1984 Frankie Valli marries Randy Clohessy
1985 92nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis, M Navratilova beats C Evert (46 63 62)
1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
1986 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released
1986 It is reported Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction
1986 Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices
1986 Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
1986 US actress Deborah Hunter marries actor Michael Tylo
1987 Alan & Colin Wells make 303* partnership for Sussex v Kent
1987 Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women
1987 Lt Col Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing
1987 Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 & 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7
1988 Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)
1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 97th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, M Navratilova beats Z Garrison (64 61)
1990 Italy beats England in soccer's World Cup consolation game
1990 NJ Devils sign Russians Viacheslav Fetisov & Sergei Starikov
1991 105th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Michael Stich beats B Becker (64 76 64)
1991 Alice Miller wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1991 Nolan Ryan possible 8th no-hitter ends in the 8th inning
1991 The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Yugoslav Wars.
1993 Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
1993 NY Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game (goes to 27)
1993 Philadelphia Phillies beat SF Giants 7-6 in 20 innings
1993 Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers
1993 Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500
1994 "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo
1994 Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert
1994 North Yemenite troops occupy Aden
1995 Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game (vs BC Lions)
1995 Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), lands
1996 17th US Seniors Golf Open, Dave Stockton
1996 110th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, R Krajicek beats M Washington (63 64 63)
1996 Joan Pitcock wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic
1996 Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), lands
1997 Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open
1997 Tower Minn temps dip to 24°F
1998 69th All Star Baseball Game, at Coors Field, Denver
2002 A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.
2003 The United Communist Party of Armenia is formed.
2005 A series of four Coordinated explosions occurs on London's transport system during the morning rush hour killing 56 people, including four alleged suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.
2005 Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledge to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010.
2006 The Western Black Rhinoceros is declared extinct due to poaching.
2007 Pope Benedict XVI issues the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum, removing restrictions on celebrating the old Tridentine Mass.
2007 Worldwide performances by charity event Live Earth.
2011 Roof of a stand in De Grolsch Veste Stadium in Enschede which was under construction collapsed, one killed and 14 injured
2012 Floods in the Krasnodar region, Russia, kill 140 people
2013 10 people are killed after an air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska
2013 Andy Murray beats Novak Djokovic (6-4 7-5 6-4) to win the 127th Wimbledon Men's Tennis, becoming the first British man to win a Wimbledon tennis title since 1936
2014 Israel launches a "counter-terrorist operation" dubbed Operation Protective Edge against Hamas in Gaza
Born on July 7th
1053 Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
1119 Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
1207 Elisabeth of Hungary (d. 1231)
1528 Anna of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria, daughter of Ferdinand I (d. 1590)
1586 Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (d. 1646)
1656 Guru Har Krishan, 8th Guru of Sikhism (d. 1664)
1690 Johann Tobias Krebs, composer
1710 Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer
1746 Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (d. 1826)
1746 Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer
1752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor (programmable loom) (d. 1834)
1766 Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (d. 1815)
1778 Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer
1806 Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education
1813 William Scott Ketchum, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871
1816 Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1824 Alfred Pleasonton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1827 James Murrell Shackelford, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1827 William Montague Browne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1843 Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and cytologist (Nobel laureate 1906) (d. 1926)
1848 Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician (d. 1919)
1851 Charles Tindley, American gospel music composer (d. 1933)
1851 Lillien Jane Martin, psychologist, found gerontology clinic
1853 Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Le Pacha Bonneval)
1855 Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
1856 George Hearne, cricketer (brother of Frank & Alec, Test for England)
1860 Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (Titan) (d. 1911)
1872 Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer
1874 Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
1879 Jacob Weinberg, composer
1882 Zdzislaw Jachimecki, composer
1883 Toivo Kuula, composer
1884 Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
1885 Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer
1887 Dirk Koster, literary (New Noises)
1887 Marc Chagall, Russian painter (I & The Village) (d. 1985)
1887 Raymond Hatton, Red Oak IA, actor (Girls in Prison, Lady Killer)
1890 Tom Powers, Owensboro KY, actor (Station West, Destination Moon)
1891 Virginia Rappe, Silent Film Actress (d. 1921)
1893 Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (d. 1981)
1893 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution)[NS=7/19]
1897 Anna Luther, NJ, silent screen actress (Sinners in Silk)
1898 Hanns Eisler, composer
1899 George Cukor, American director (Adam's Rib, Philadelphia Story) (d. 1983)
1900 Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (d. 1990)
1901 Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film producer (d. 1970)
1901 Gustav Knuth, Braunschweig Germany, actor (Freddy Unter Fremden)
1901 Sam Katzman, American film producer (d. 1973)
1901 Vittorio De Sica, Italian director (Fietsendieven) (d. 1974)
1902 James McCartney, father of Beatle (Paul)
1902 Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1902 Vittorio De Sica, Sora Italy, director/actor (2 Women)
1904 Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991)
1905 Marcel Rubin, composer
1906 Anna Marie Hahn, German-born American serial killer (d. 1938)
1906 Anton Karas, Viennese musician (d. 1985)
1906 Harry Von Zell, sidekick (George Burns Show)
1906 Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1906 William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d. 1970)
1906 (Leroy) Satchel Paige, baseball pitcher, never look back
1907 Helene Johnson, poet
1907 Robert A(nson) Heinlein, American sci-fi author (4 Hugos, Red Planet) (d. 1988)
1908 Evert W Beth, Dutch mathematician/philosopher
1908 Harriette Arnow, Wayne Co, Ky, novelist (Dollmaker)
1908 Revilo P. Oliver, American professor (d. 1994)
1911 Eddie Mayehoff, Balt Md, actor (Hour Glass, How to Murder Your Wife)
1911 Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (Amahl & Night Visitors) (d. 2007)
1911 Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress (Hands of a Stranger)
1912 Tiny Alma (Catharina E J Stam), operetta singer (Vienna Blood)
1913 Pinetop Perkins, American blues musician
1914 Cor de Groot, pianist/conductor/composer (Old-Dutch Suite)
1914 Serafim Sergeyevich Tulikov, composer
1915 Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander, African-American novelist and poet (For My People) (d. 1998)
1916 Luc Peire, Flemish painter/graphic artist
1916 Robert Stevens Baker, composer
1917 Elton Britt, Marshall Ark, country singer (Sat Night Jamboree)
1917 Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadoran politician (d. 2003)
1917 Lawrence F O'Brien, (Watergate conspirators broke into his office)
1919 Jon Pertwee, British actor (Dr Who, Worzel Gummidge) (d. 1996)
1919 William Moses Kunstler, defense attorney (Chicago 8)
1920 Bhaktaraj Maharaj, Indian Saint (d. 1995)
1921 Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
1921 Ezzard Charles, American boxer, world heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51) (d. 1975)
1921 Stanislaw Wislocki, composer
1922 Artie Malvin, US music director (Julie LaRosa/Steve Lawrence)
1922 Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer (Unisex)
1923 Richard Lumley, English insurance magnate/multi-millionaire
1923 Roberto Caamano, composer
1924 Dieter Nowka, composer
1924 Mary Ford (Colleen Summer), American singer and actress (Queen of Outer Space) (d. 1977)
1925 Wally Phillips, American radio personality (d. 2008)
1925 Yvonne Mitchell, London England, writer (Johnny Nobody, Genghis Khan)
1927 Alan J Dixon, (Sen-D-IL, 1981)
1927 Charlie Louvin, American country singer (Louvin Brothers)
1927 Doc Severinson (Carl), American composer and bandleader, trumpeter on the Tonight Show
1928 Colleen Summers, Pasadena California, vocal overdubber
1929 Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
1929 Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian
1929 R Baumgart, writer
1930 Henry (Hank) Mobley, American Jazz composer and saxophonist (d. 1986)
1931 David Eddings, American fantasy author (Belgariad, Malloreon) (d. 2009)
1931 Stanley Brock, Bkln, actor (Ivan-He's the Mayor)
1932 Josef Zawinul, Austrian-American jazz keyboardist, composer and musician (d. 2007)
1933 Bruce Wells, British boxer & actor
1933 David McCullough, American historian and author (Huey Long)
1933 Dick Kallman, Brooklyn NY, actor (Borned to Be Loved, Verboten!)
1933 Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner, 5K (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 Vinko Globokar, composer
1936 Friedhelm Dohl, composer
1936 Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver (d. 1971)
1936 Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (d. 1980)
1936 Stuart Ross Dempster, composer
1937 Carroll Hubbard Jr, (Rep-D-KY, 1975)
1937 Tung Chee-Hwa, Hong Kong administrator
1939 Laurie Silvers, horse trainer
1940 James Toner, horse trainer
1940 Richard K Armey, (Rep-R-Texas, 1985)
1940 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), English drummer and singer (The Beatles)
1941 Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
1941 Michael Howard, British politician
1942 Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
1943 Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)
1943 Toto Cutugno, Italian singer
1944 Tony Jacklin, Scunthorpe England, PGA golfer (1970 US Open)
1944 Warren Entner, Boston Mass, rock vocalist/guitarist (Grass Roots)
1945 James Rodford, English rock vocalist/bassist (Kinks-Mr Pleasant)
1945 Matti Salminen, Finnish opera singer, bass player (King Philipp-Don Carlos)
1945 Michael Ancram, British politician
1946 Jean LeClerc, actor (Jeremy Hunter-All My Children)
1946 Jim Day, Canada, equestrian show jumper (Olympic-gold-1968)
1946 Joe Spano, American actor (Henry Goldblume-Hill St Blues)
1947 Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat
1947 Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal
1947 Howard Rheingold, American author
1947 Rob Townsend, English drummer (Family)
1947 Víctor Manuel, Spanish songwriter and singer
1948 Fred Brown, NBAer (Seattle SuperSonic)
1948 Jean Leclerc, French-Canadian actor
1948 Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly) (d. 2012)
1949 Shelley Duvall, American actress (Popeye, Faery Tale Theater)
1951 Roz Ryan, Detroit Mich, actress (Amelia-Amen, Occupied)
1952 Mando Guerrero, Mexican professional wrestler
1953 Lynval Golding, rocker (Fun Boy Three)
1954 Rami Fortis, Influential Israeli rock singer
1955 Len Barker, American baseball player
1956 Bill Lagattuta, NYC, news correspondent (CBS, 48 Hours, Eye to Eye)
1956 Jesus Bazan, jockey
1957 Berry Sakharof, Turkish-born Israeli guitarist (Minimal Compact)
1957 Jonathan Dayton, American film director
1958 Michael Marx, Portland Or, US fencer-epee (Olympic-84, 88, 92, 96)
1959 Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)
1959 Billy Campbell, American actor (Rocketeer)
1959 Jessica Hahn, American model (playboy)
1960 Barbara Bierman, Miami Fla, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1994)
1960 Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut
1960 Ralph Sampson, American basketball player, NBA center (Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets)
1962 Clive "Doctor" Jackson, rocker (Dr & Medics-Laughing at Pieces)
1962 Shawn Paddock, Musician (Red Rockers)
1963 Lance Johnson, Cincinnati OH, outfielder (NY Mets)
1963 Naved Anjum, cricketer (Pakistani all-rounder, two Tests 1989-90)
1963 Perry Richardson, SC, bassist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
1963 Vonda Shepard, American singer
1965 Jeremy Guscott, English rugby player
1965 Jeremy Kyle, English television presenter
1965 Mo Collins, American actress
1965 Paula Devicq, Canadian actress
1966 Gundula Krause, German folk violinist
1966 Hector Burba, Dayton OH, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1966 Jeff Shaw, Washington Ohio, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1966 Jim Gaffigan, American comedian
1966 Neil Tobin, American magician
1967 Alfred Jackson, CFL receiver (BC Lions)
1967 Erik van der More, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1967 Jackie Neal, American singer (d. 2005)
1967 Jason R Rich, Irvington NY, writer (Celebrity Teen Talk)
1967 Tom Kristensen, Danish race car driver
1968 Allen Payne, American actor
1968 Amy Carlson, American actress
1968 Chuck Knoblauch, Houston TX, shortstop (NY Yankees, Minnesota Twins)
1968 Jeff VanderMeer, American writer
1968 Jorja Fox, American Actress
1968 Reggie Cobb, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 Amy Carlson, Elmhurst Il, actress (Josie-Another World) [1969-Approx]
1969 Cree Summer, American voice actress (Freddie-Different World)
1969 Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche, Canada 1998)
1969 Nathalie Simard, French Canadian singer
1969 Robin Weigert, American actress
1969 Sylke Otto, German luger
1970 Erik Zabel, German cyclist
1970 Michael McCrary, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 Min Patel, cricketer (in Mumbai England left-arm spinner v India 1996)
1970 Robia LaMorte, American actress and dancer
1970 Wayne McCullough, Irish boxer
1971 Alistair Potts, British rower
1971 Christian Camargo, American actor
1971 Darren Krein, WLAF defensive end (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 Aldi Henry, CFL defensive back (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 Darnay Scott, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1972 Lisa Leslie, American basketball player, WNBA center (LA Sparks)/foward (Oly-gold-1996)
1972 Manfred Stohl, Austrian rally driver
1972 Michael Westbrook, NFL wide receiver (Washington Redskins)
1972 Stoney Case, NFL quarterback (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 José Jiménez, Dominican baseball player
1973 Karlis Skrastinš, Latvian ice hockey player
1973 Matt Mantei, American baseball player
1973 Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga-ka
1973 Troy Garity, American actor
1974 Patrick Lalime, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL goalie (Pitts Penguins)
1975 Michael Voss, Australian rules footballer
1975 Tony Benshoof, American luger
1976 Dominic Foley, Irish footballer
1977 Felix Vasquez, American municipal employee (New York City Housing Authority)
1978 Chris Andersen, American basketball player
1979 America Martin, model (Not macaroni & cheese, cheese & macaroni)
1979 Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter
1979 Carl Breeze, British racing driver
1980 Dan Whitesides, American drummer (The Used)
1980 Deidre Downs, American beauty queen
1980 John Buck, American baseball player
1980 Kaisa Jouhki, Indonesian singer (Battlelore)
1980 Michelle Kwan, American figure skater (Oly-94, Oly-silver-98)
1981 Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
1981 Synyster Gates, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 Cassidy (Barry Adrian Reese), American rapper
1982 George Owu, Ghanaian footballer
1982 Mike Glita, American bassist (Senses Fail)
1982 Nick Karner, American filmmaker
1983 Ciara Newell, Irish singer
1983 D. Woods, American singer (Danity Kane)
1983 Justin Davies, Australian rules footballer
1984 Marie-Mai, Canadian singer
1984 Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler
1984 Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer
1986 Ana Kasparian, American Radio Talk Show Host (The Young Turks)
1987 Lena Ma, Canadian beauty pageant contestant (Miss World 4th runner-up)
1988 Ilan Rubin, American Drummer, (Nine Inch Nails)
1988 Kaci Brown, American singer
1989 Giannoulis Fakinos, Greek footballer
1989 Kim Bum, South Korean actor
Died on July 7th
1129 Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (1072-86)/budhist monk
1304 Benedict XI (Niccolo Boccasini), Pope (1303-04) (b. 1240)
1307 Edward I, King of England (1272-1307) (b. 1239)
1348 John Andreae, Italian canonist
1537 Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
1572 Sigismund II August, last Jagellonen king of Poland (b. 1520)
1573 Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507)
1647 Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist, father of American democracy (b. 1586)
1656 Michelangelo Rossi, Italian opera composer
1663 Thomas Baltzar, German violinist
1694 Dokusho, Zen teacher, Obaku line
1701 William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)
1713 Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)
1730 Olivier Levasseur, French pirate
1764 William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
1771 Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy)
1773 Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer
1774 Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer
1776 Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693)
1790 Franciscus "Frans" Hemsterhuis, Frisian philosopher (b. 1721)
1794 Pascal Boyer, composer
1799 William Curtis, English botanist (Botanical Magazine)
1814 Robert Jasper van der Capellen, Dutch politician
1816 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)
1826 Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer
1855 Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)
1861 John Willis Ellis, US governor of NC (1858-61)
1865 David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842)
1865 George Atzerodt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1833)
1865 Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844)
1865 Mary Surratt, & 3 other Lincoln conspirators, hanged (b. 1823)
1878 Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
1885 Nicola De Giosa, composer
1889 Giovanni Bottesini, composer
1890 Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A. (b. 1814)
1893 Guy de Maupassant, writer
1898 Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader
1901 Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)
1903 Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer
1903 Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, composer
1907 James McGranahan, composer
1913 Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b. 1841)
1919 Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft)
1922 Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b. 1874)
1925 Clarence Hudson White American photographer (b. 1871)
1927 Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
1930 Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (Sherlock Holmes) (b. 1859)
1931 Johannes Jacobus "Kodgee" Kotze, cricketer (South Africa 1902-07)
1932 Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
1932 Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
1933 John M Acket, literary (New Friends)
1934 Doodles Tapscott, cricketer (South African batsman 1922-23)
1939 James Deacon White, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi)
1944 Erich Salomon, German photographer
1944 Georges Mandel (Louis Rothschild), French foreign min (-1940)
1945 Salomeja Neris (S Bacinskaite-Buciene), Latvian poet
1949 Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
1955 Franco Casavola, composer
1956 Gottfried Benn, German poet (b. 1886)
1958 Raymond Hackett
1964 Lillian Copeland, American athlete (b. 1904)
1965 Bill Hitch, England cricket fast-bowler (7 Tests 1911-21)
1965 Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
1966 Carmelita Geraghty
1967 Jo Schlesser, French Formula One racing driver (b. 1928)
1967 Vivien Leigh, English actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind) (b. 1913)
1968 Jo Schlesser, French Formula One racing driver (b. 1928)
1968 Leo Sowerby, composer (Pulitzer Prize)
1969 Erskine Sanford
1969 Gladys Swarthout, US mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda
1970 Allen Lane (Williams), English publisher (Penguin Books)
1970 Louise Harrison, mother of Beatle George
1970 Marjorie Rambeau, actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song)
1970 Sylvester Wiere, comedian (Wiere Brothers-Ford Festival)
1971 Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
1971 Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b. 1901)
1972 Athenagoras, 268th Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1886)
1972 King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
1973 Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
1973 Veronica Lake (Constance Ockleman), American actress (Ramrod) (b. 1919)
1975 Barbara Brown
1975 Ruffian, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1972)
1975 Vito Frazzi, composer
1976 Gustav Heinemann, German president
1976 Norman Foster
1976 Walter Giesler, American soccer coach (b. 1910)
1979 D P Conyngham, cricketer (one Test for South Africa)
1980 Dore Schary, American film producer and writer (b. 1905)
1980 Reginald Gardiner, actor (Great Dictator)
1981 Keefe Brasselle, actor (Be Our Guest)
1981 Mildred Lisette Norman a.k.a. Peace Pilgrim, American pacifist and activist (b. 1908)
1982 Bep (Elisa H) Bakhuis, soccer player, writer
1982 Fred Stuthman, actor (Henry Adler-Hello Larry)
1983 George Cukor, director (My Fair Lady), dies on 84th birthday
1983 Herman Kahn, US futurist/nuclear strategist
1983 Vicki Morgan, mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl), murdered
1984 Alexander Fu Sheng, Hong Kong actor (b. 1954)
1984 Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (b. 1941)
1984 Flora Robson, actress (Great Day, Frieda)
1985 Patti McCarty, actress (Gangster of the Frontier)
1988 Jimmy Edwards, actor (Plank, Bottoms Up, Late Mr H)
1990 Bill Cullen, American game show host (Price is Right) (b. 1920)
1990 Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. 1958)
1990 Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Jes priest/apprentice Zen teacher
1992 Ruurd Faber, mayor of Aalten (1971-75)
1993 Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965)
1994 Anita Garvin, US actress (Sailors Beware)
1994 Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (b. 1924)
1994 Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (b. 1907)
1994 Rosa Chacel, spanish Novelist
1995 Gabor Ormai, viola Player
1995 Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer
1996 Albrecht Luitpold Michael Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria
1997 Jerry Doggett, sportscaster (Bkln/LA Dodgers)
1999 Captain Vikram Batra, Indian Army officer, awarded Param Vir Chakra (b. 1974)
2000 Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
2001 Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
2002 Bison Dele, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2002 Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian business tycoon (b. 1933)
2003 Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)
2006 John Money, Sexologist (b. 1921)
2006 Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
2006 Syd Barrett, original guitarist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd (b. 1946)
2008 Bruce Conner, American artist (b. 1933)
2008 Dorian Leigh, American supermodel (b. 1917)
2013 Donald Irwin, American politician
2014 Dick Jones, American actor
