July 10th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day (Bahamas)
Armed Forces Day (Mauritania)
Statehood Day (Wyoming)
Septinu Bralu Diena (Ancient Latvia)
Silence Day (Followers of Meher Baba)
Fiesta de San Fermin Pamplona, Spain, July 6th through the 14th every year (9 Days)
Clerihew Day
Don't Step On A Bee Day
Teddy Bear Picnic Day
Feast of Saint Kanute IV, King of Denmark, martyr
Feast of Translation of Saint Maclovius, bishop of Saint-Malo, confessor
Feast of The Seven Brothers (Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martialis), martyrs
Feast of Saint Amalberga, virgin (d. 690)
Feast of Saint Felicitas of Rome, martyr
Feast of Saints Rufina and Secunda, martyrs
* Crop Over Bridgetown, Barbados, 2nd sat in May through the 1st Mon in August (86 Days)
Fête de la Cumin Translation: Cumin Day (French Republican) The 22nd day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Down your throat,
Into your bladder,
Which end it comes out,
Does it really matter?"
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Stone Sour
1 Part Whiskey
1 Part Orange Juice
1 Part Sweet and Sour Mix
Shake and Strain into Sour Glass
Wine of The Day
Rioja
$45
Beer of The Day
Le Serpent
Brewer - Snake River Brewing Jackson, WY
Style - Belgian-Style
- In celebration of Wyoming's Admission to Union on July 10, 1890
Joke of The Day
A man noticed a woman in the grocery store with a three-year- old girl inher cart. As they passed the cookies section, the little girl asked for cookies and her mother told her no. The little girl immediately began to have a conniption fit, and the mother said quietly, "Now Missy, we just have half of the aisles left to go through--don't be upset. It won't be long."
In the candy aisle, the little girl began to shout for treats. When mom said she couldn't have any, she began to kick her mother and scream. The mother said softly, "There, there, Missy, don't cry--only two more aisles to go and then we'll be checking out."
When they got to the checkout stand, the little brat immediately began to reach for the gum and freaked out when her mom said she couldn't have any. The mother patiently said, "Missy, we'll be through this checkout stand in five minutes and then you can go home and have a bottle and a nice snooze."
The man followed them out to the parking lot and stopped the woman to compliment her. "I couldn't help noticing how patient you were with little Missy," he said.
The mother sighed and replied, "Oh, no, my little girl's name is Francine--I'm Missy."
Quote of The Day
"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living."
- Jean Kerr (July 10th 1922 to January 5th 2003), an American author.
Whisky of The Day
$40 (700ml)
July Observances
Air-Conditioning Appreciation Days (7/3 to 8/15)
Bereaved Parents Awareness Month
National Bikini Month
Bioterrorism/Disaster Education and Awareness Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month
Dog Days (7/3 to 8/11)
Doghouse Repairs" Month, Natl
Eggplant and Lettuce Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Family Golf Month
Family Reunion Month
Freedom From Fear of Speaking Month
Herbal/Prescription Awareness Month
Home Inspector Appreciation Month, Natl
International Blondie and Deborah Harry Month
International Group B Strep Awareness Month
International Women with Alopecia Month
International Zine Month
Learn Arabic Month
Mango and Melon Month
National "Doghouse Repairs" Month
National Anti-Boredom Month
National Black Family Month
National Blueberries Month
National Cell Phone Courtesy Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Month
National Culinary Arts Month
National Grilling Month
National Hemochromatosis Screening and Awareness Month
National Horseradish Month
National Hot Dog Month
National Ice Cream Month
National Independent Retailers Month
National Make A Difference to Children Month
National Recreation and Parks Month
National Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month
National Vehicle Theft Protection Month
National Wheelchair Beautification Month
Nectarine and Garlic Month
Purposeful Parenting Month
Roots and Branches Month
Sandwich Generation Month
Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month Link
Skyscraper Month
Smart Irrigation Month
Social Wellness Month
Tour de France Month (Started 6/30 - 7/19)
UV Safety Month
Unlucky Month for weddings
Women's Motorcycle Month
Worldwide Bereaved Parents Month
Observances this Week
National Farriers Week, Second Week in July
National Therapeutic Recreation Week, Second Week in July
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 10th
(48 BC) Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
552 Origin of Armenian calendar
988 The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes
1212 The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1460 Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton (Wars of Roses).
1499 Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
1520 King Charles V & King Henry VIII signs treaty of Calais
1553 Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
1568 Battle on Eems: Dutch Water garrison beats Spanish
1584 Spanish army leader Richebourg conquerors Liefkenshoek, Belgium
1584 William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
1598 Spanish theater plays "Moros y Los Cristianos" in Rio Grande
1609 Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League
1627 English fleet under George Villiers reach La Rochelle [NS=June 20]
1629 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in US founded (Salem, MA)
1645 Battle at Langport Somerset of the English Civil War, Cromwell's New Model-army beats Royalists
1652 England declares war on Netherlands
1690 Battle of Beachy Head (Cornelis Evertsen), French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye
1762 Roubiliacs monument for Handel unveiled at Westminster Abbey
1775 Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
1778 Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain during the American Revolution.
1789 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
1796 Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.
1797 1st US frigate, the "United States," is launched in Phila
1800 The British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent.
1806 The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
1810 Emperor Napoleon corpse leaves Netherlands for France
1821 The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
1832 U.S.President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1847 Urbain J J Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel
1850 Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.
1859 Big Ben rings for the first time.
1861 Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia & says Union troops will not enter that state
1862 US begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad
1863 Battle of Charleston, SC (Morris Island)
1863 Battle of Jackson, MS captured by federals
1866 Indelible pencil patents by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass
1873 French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol
1877 The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
1884 1st Test Cricket to be played at Old Trafford 1st day washed out
1886 Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand)
1886 George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company
1890 Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage)
1892 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
1898 Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo
1905 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court
1908 H Kamerlingh Onnes makes helium liquid (-269°C)
1910 Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0
1911 105°F (41°C) at North Bridgton, Maine (state record)
1912 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6)
1913 134°F (57°C),
1913 Death Valley, California (Greenland Ranch) hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
1913 Romania declares war on Bulgaria
1914 Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles
1915 British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa
1917 Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing draft
1918 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms
1919 Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage
1919 Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
1920 Tris Speaker is stopped at 11 consecutive hits by Tom Zachary
1923 2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle (Rostov, Russia)
1923 All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy
1924 Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim
1924 Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam
1925 Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
1925 In Dayton, Tennessee, the Scopes Trials or so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
1925 USSR's official news agency TASS forms
1926 30th US Golf Open, Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto CC in Ohio
1926 Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
1928 Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout
1929 In game between Pirates & Phillies 9 HRs hit 1 in each inning
1929 US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
1932 Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job
1933 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY
1934 1st sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
1934 2nd All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, New York. Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig & Foxx in All star game
1936 109°F (43°C) Cumberland & Frederick, Maryland (state record)
1936 110°F (43°C) at Runyon, New Jersey (state record)
1936 111°F (44°C) Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record)
1936 112°F (44°C) at Martinsburg, West Virginia (state record)
1936 New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles
1936 Phillies Chuck Klein becomes 4th to hit 4 HRs in a game
1937 Dutch Django Reinhardts "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club"
1938 "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic
1938 Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
1940 Battle of Britain The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle, World War II (Date contested) (114 days)
1940 The Vichy government is established in France.
1941 Jedwabne Pogrom, the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
1942 Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
1942 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp
1942 Netherland's government in exile (London) recognizes Soviet Union
1943 6th day of battle at Kursk
1943 US, British and Canadian forces invade Sicily in WW II (Operation Husky)
1943 The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign of World War II.
1944 U-821 sinks
1945 Lt-adm Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff
1946 Belgian government of Acker, resigns
1947 200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China
1947 Cleveland Indian Don Black no-hits Phila A's, 3-0
1947 Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee.
1948 "Allegro" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 318 performances
1948 "Ballet Ballads" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 62 performances
1948 "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 188 perfs
1948 Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army
1949 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh
1949 WJAR TV channel 10 in Providence, RI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 "Your Hit Parade" premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV
1951 18th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
1951 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
1953 82nd British Golf Open, Ben Hogan shoots a 282 at Carnoustie Dai Rees
1953 Pravda reports arrest of Beria (affiliate of imperialist)
1956 23rd All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 7-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash DC
1956 650,000 US steel workers go on strike
1956 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1958 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
1958 Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia
1960 Belgium sends troops to Congo
1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Youngstown Kitchens (Trumball Golf Open)
1962 32nd All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 3-1 at D.C. Stadium, Washington. All star MVP: Maury Wills (LA Dodgers)
1962 Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia
1962 Telstar, the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1964 Jesus Alou is 1st Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game
1964 Moise Tsjombe becomes premier of Congo
1965 Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1965 Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
1966 The Chicago Freedom Movement, lead by Martin Luther King, holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people came to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
1966 US launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon
1967 Bobbie Gentry records "Ode to Billie Joe"
1967 Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1968 Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France.
1968 NL votes to split into 2 divisions for 1969
1969 Chilean Association of Librarians created
1971 100th British Golf Open, Lee Trevino shoots a 278 at Royal Birkdale
1971 King Hassan II Shirat of Morocco survives an attempted coup d'etat, which lasts until June 11, 101 killed.
1972 Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida (McGovern)
1972 Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
1973 Bahamas declares Independence from UK & adopts constitution
1973 National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
1973 The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1974 OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands
1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 Cher files for divorce from Gregg Allman, 10 days after they married
1975 Gladys Knight & Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV
1975 Test Cricket debut of Graham Gooch, v Australia, out for a pair
1976 105th British Golf Open, Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale
1976 Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud)
1976 One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
1976 The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
1977 "Happy End" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 75 performances
1977 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic
1978 Bloodless military coup in Mauritania
1978 Military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees
1978 President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
1978 World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
1979 Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion
1980 Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
1980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen
1980 Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5°C temp
1981 CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)
1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze
1982 Rangers Larry Parrish hits his 3rd grand slam of the week
1982 Samuel Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" sells for $3,250,000
1982 Zimbabwe beats Bermuda by 5 wickets to win ICC Trophy
1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
1985 French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in NZ
1985 Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbor by French DGSE agents.
1985 Playboy publishes full frontal nude pictures of Madonna
1988 Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1989 Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61)
1990 61st All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago. All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers)
1990 Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall Show
1990 Last day of Test Cricket for Richard Hadlee
1991 Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russian Republic.
1991 L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13
1991 The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
1992 In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
1992 John Ellis becomes CEO of Seattle Mariners
1992 Spaceship Giotto (Halley 1986) approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup
1992 SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival
1992 US Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons
1993 Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi president - Sylvie Kinigi, PM
1993 Yobes Ondieki runs world record 10km (26:58.38)
1994 "Hedda Gabler" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 33 performances
1994 Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian weds Debbie Leavitt
1994 Fred Norris (from the Howard Stern Show) marries Allison Furman
1994 Kelly Robbins wins Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic by Owens-Corning
1994 Nepal premier Girija Prasadkoirala resigns
1994 Sonia O'Sullivan runs female world record 2K (5:25.36)
1997 Hideki Irabu makes his debut as a NY Yankee, he beats Tigers 10-3
1997 In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neandertal skeleton which support the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1997 Louise Woodward's trial begins in Mass, Nanny murder trial
1997 Partido Popular (Spain) member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
1997 RJR Nabisco announces it will replace Joe Camel in new ads
1998 Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
2000 A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
2000 EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
2002 At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Kenneth, Lord Thomson.
2003 A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
2005 Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
2006 Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan, shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
2008 Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
2011 British tabloid News of the World publishes its last edition after 168 years in the wake of a phone hacking scandal
2012 NL wins the 83rd All Star Baseball Game 8-0 at Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City
2012 The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages
2013 40 people are buried in landslides in Sichuan Province, China
2014 Yair Lapid warns of Israeli Defense Force ground operation if Gazan rocket fire do not stop
2015 23 people are killed & 50 are injured in a stampede at a free clothing drive in Mymensingh, Bangladesh
2015 The Confederate flag is taken down for the last time from South Carolina Capitol grounds 1 day after the state legislature ordered it removed
2016 Andy Murray beats Milos Raonic 6-4 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-2) to win the 130th Wimbledon Men's Tennis Championship
2016 Portugal defeat France 1-0 in extra time to win the UEFA European Championship at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis
Born on July 10th
1419 Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
1452 King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
1509 John Calvin, French Protestant religious reformer (d. 1564)
1517 Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant bishop (d. 1571)
1526 Philip III van Croij, duke of Aarschot/earl of Porcien
1592 Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)
1614 Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
1625 Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)
1638 David Teniers III, Flemish painter (carpet cartons) (d. 1685)
1666 John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)
1682 Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719)
1682 Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
1697 Francois Hanot, composer
1711 Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain (d. 1783)
1723 William Blackstone, English jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries) (d. 1780)
1736 Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807)
1759 Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer
1778 Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master
1779 Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer
1792 George Mifflin Dallas, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the 11th Vice President of the United States (1845-49) (d. 1864)
1797 Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull)
1802 Robert Chambers, Scottish author and naturalist (d. 1871)
1804 Emma Smith Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1879)
1809 Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)
1818 John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1820 Andrew Porter, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1872
1821 Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General (Union volunteers)
1824 Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician
1826 Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer
1830 Camille Pissarro, French painter (impressionism) (d. 1903)
1832 Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
1833 Lucius Eugene Polk, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1834 James A McNeill Whistler, US/British painter (Whistler's Mother)
1835 Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (Souv de Moscou) (d. 1880)
1839 Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
1852 Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister
1856 Nikola Tesla, Croatian physicist, electrical engineer and inventor, developed alternating current and the Tesla Coil (d. 1943)
1858 Karl Flodin, composer
1864 Austin Chapman, Australian policitian (d. 1926)
1865 Jan "Pa" van der Steur, Dutch philanthropist (Steurtjes)
1867 Finley Peter Dunne, US, journalist/humorist (Mr Dooley)
1867 Max Prinz von Baden, German chancellor (Oct-Nov 1918)
1867 Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1870 Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism)
1871 Marcel Proust, French writer (Remembrance of Things Past) (d. 1922)
1874 Austin Diamond, cricket non-Test capt (NSW batsman 1899-1919, Aust)
1874 Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
1875 Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (Bethune-Cookman College) (d. 1955)
1879 Harry Nicholls Holmes, Penn, Dr (crystallized vitamin A)
1882 Ima Hogg, Texas art patron/founder of Houston Symphony
1882 Riccadro Pick-Mangiagalli, composer
1883 Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (d. 1948)
1883 Sam Wood, US, communist fighter/director (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
1886 John SSPV Gort, viscount of Limerick/fieldmarshal of Palestine
1887 Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer
1888 Giorgio De Chirico, Greek Metaphysical painter (Soothsayer) (d. 1978)
1888 Graham McNamee, sportscaster (1st Rose Bowl)
1888 Toyohiko Kagawa, Kobe, Japan, Christian social reformer
1889 Robert (Harriot) Barrat, NYC, actor (Go West, Distant Drums)
1890 Andre Souris, composer
1892 George "Slim" Summerville, US actor (Keystone Cops)
1894 Jimmy Francis McHugh, composer
1895 Carl Orff, German composer (Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969) (d. 1982)
1895 John Gilbert (Pringle), American actor (Heart o' the Hills)
1895 Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/member High Court
1895 Nahum Goldmann, Switz, pres Zionist World Organization
1896 Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator (d. 1981)
1897 Jack "Legs" Diamond", American bootlegger (d. 1931)
1897 Karl Plagge, German officer (d. 1957)
1897 Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director
1899 Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
1899 John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
1900 Bob Catterall, cricketer (dashing South African batsman of 20's)
1900 Elsie Evelyn Laye, English singer/actress (Bitter Sweet, Merry Widow)
1900 Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993)
1900 Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk, priest and wonder-worker (d. 1979)
1902 G Weisenborn, writer
1902 Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel Prize laureate 1950) (d. 1958)
1903 John Wyndham, British sci-fi author (Day of the Triffids) (d. 1969)
1903 Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (d. 1989)
1904 Isa Krejci, composer
1905 Thomas Gomez, American actor (Force of Evil, Key Largo, Kim, Sellout) (d. 1971)
1905 Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
1909 Donald Sinclair, British hotel manager, inspiration for Fawlty Towers (d. 1981)
1910 Ronald Fletcher, broadcaster
1911 Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier of Indonesia
1912 Francis Showering, brewer
1913 Ljuba Welitsch, Borisovo, Bulgaria, opera soprano (Nedda-Pagliacci)
1913 Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (d. 1985)
1914 Joe Shuster, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1992)
1914 Saul Bellow, Quebec, novelist (Nobel 1976-Mr Samler's Planet)
1916 Dick Cary, jazz Musician
1917 Don Herbert, American television host (Watch Mr Wizard), scientist (d. 2007)
1917 Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (d. 2000)
1917 Reg Smyth, English cartoonist (Andy Capp)
1919 Rusty Gill, St Louis Mo, singer (Polka Time)
1920 David Brinkley, American television reporter, NBC news anchor (Huntley-Brinkley) (d. 2003)
1920 Owen Chamberlain, American physicist (Antiproton) (Nobel Prize laureate 1959) (d. 2006)
1921 Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist (d. 2009)
1921 Eunice Shriver, founder (Special Olympics)
1921 Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
1921 Jake LaMotta, American boxer, middleweight champ (1949-51) (Raging Bull)
1921 Jeff Donnell, South Windham Maine, actor (Gidget Goes to Rome)
1921 Revaz Il'yich Lagidze, composer
1922 Derek Prouse, writer actor/film festival director (Le Scandale)
1922 Herb McKenley, Jamaica, 4 X 400m relay runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1923 Earl Hamner Jr., American author and television producer
1923 G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (d. 1987)
1923 Jean Kerr, American author (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) (d. 2003)
1923 John Bradley, United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt. Suribachi(see Iwo Jima) (d. 1994)
1924 Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (d. 1998)
1924 Johnny Bach, American basketball coach
1925 Dorothea Hochletiner, Austria, giant slalom (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1926 Carleton Carpenter, Bennington Vt, actor (Up Periscope, Summer Stock)
1926 Fred Gwynne, American actor (Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters) (d. 1993)
1927 David Norman Dinkins, New York City Mayor (1990-1993), First black Mayor
1927 Don Revie, English soccer coach (Leeds, National team)
1927 Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician
1927 Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian film actor (d. 2003)
1927 William Smithers, Richmond Va, actor (Witness, Peyton Place, Attack!)
1928 Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (d. 2003)
1928 Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
1928 Jack Nel, cricketer (South African opening bat in 6 Tests 1949-57)
1928 Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar
1929 Moe Norman, Kitchener Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1966 Quebec Open)
1929 Winnie Ewing, Scottish politician
1930 Bruce Boa, Canadian actor (d. 2004)
1930 Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist
1931 Alice Munro, Canadian writer (Dance of the Happy Shades)
1931 Del Insko, harness racer (toothpick in mouth, 1969 money leader)
1931 Julian May, US, sci-fi author (Golden Torc, Magnificat)
1931 Nick Adams, American actor (Johnny Yuma-Rebel) (d. 1968)
1932 Carlo Mario Abate, Italian racing driver
1932 Jorgen Becker, writer
1933 Chuan-Kwang Yang, Taiwan, decathlete (Olympic-silver-1960)
1933 Jerry Herman, Broadway composer (Hello Dolly)
1934 Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer, (d. 2012)
1934 Munir Malik, Pakistani cricket pace bowler (3 Tests 1959-62)
1935 Tura Satana, American actress
1936 Barbara B Kennelly, (Rep-D-Connecticut, 1982)
1936 Jan Wincenty Hawel, composer
1937 Sandy Stewart, American singer (Sing Along With Mitch, Mr President)
1938 Lee Morgan, American hard-bop trumpeter
1938 Paul Andreu, French architect
1939 Ahmet Taner Kislali, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
1939 Lawrence Pressman, Ky, actor (Man From Atlantis, Hellstrom Chronicle)
1940 Dawid J "Dawie" de Villiers, South African minister of energy (1989)
1940 Helen Donath, American soprano
1940 Keith Stackpole, cricketer (aggressive Australian opener 1966-74)
1940 Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, British economist
1940 Mills Watson, Oakland California, actor (Harper Valley PTA, BJ & Bear)
1940 Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur
1941 David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist
1941 Ian Whitcomb, English songwriter, entertainer and producer (You Turn Me On)
1941 Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk, Polish cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18B, 30)
1941 Robert Pine, Scarsdale NY, actor (Joe Getraer-CHiPs)
1942 Ronnie James Dio, American musician (Dio-Holy Diver, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath)
1943 Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (1968 US Open, 1975 Wimbledon) (d. 1993)
1943 Jerry Miller, Tacoma Wa, rock guitarist (Moby Grape)
1944 Beaky, rocker
1945 Jean-Marie Poiré, French film director
1945 John Motson, British sports (football) commentator
1945 Peter Michalica, Slovak violinist
1945 Ron Glass, American actor (Harris-Barney Miller, Frank's Place)
1945 (Sarah) Virginia Wade, English tennis player (Wimbledon 1977)
1946 Sue Lyon, American actress (Lolita, Night of the Iguana)
1947 Arlo Guthrie, American musician, singer-songwriter (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans)
1947 Jeff Hanna, Detroit, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) [or 8/11]
1947 John Trevor Key, photographer
1949 Dave Smally, rocker (Raspberries)
1949 Greg Kihn U.S. pop musician & radio personality.
1949 John Whitehead, American singer and record producer
1949 Mark Shera, Bayonne NJ, actor (SWAT, Barnaby Jones)
1949 Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer
1949 Wally Bryson, NC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Fotomaker, Raspberries)
1950 Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Greek politician
1950 Willie Ford, US R&B-singer (Dramatics-Me & Mrs Jones)
1951 Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
1951 Phyllis Smith, American actress
1952 Kim Mitchell, Canadian guitarist/singer
1952 Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast
1952 Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician
1953 Rik "The Rocket" Emmett, Canadian musician, vocalist (Triumph)
1953 Zoogz Rift, singer/songwriter and wrestling booker
1954 Andre Dawson, American baseball player, outfielder (Expos, Cubs, 1987 NL MVP)
1954 Gene Holder, rocker
1954 Neil Francis Tennant, British musician (Pet Shop Boys)
1955 Pamela Theresa Jiles, NO LA, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silver-1976)
1956 Tom McClintock, American politician
1957 Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war/political activist
1958 Béla Fleck, American musician
1958 Fiona Shaw, Irish actress
1959 Ellen Kuras, American cinematographer
1960 Roger Craig, NFL reciever (SF 49ers)
1961 Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
1962 Mike Saxon, NFL punter (Minnesota Vikings)
1964 Felipe Martinez, jockey
1964 Urban Meyer, American football coach
1964 Wilfried Peeters, Belgian cyclist
1965 Alec Mapa, Filipino-American actor and comedian
1965 Buddy Groom, Dallas TX, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1965 Ken Mellons, American singer
1965 Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
1965 Scott Michael McCarron, American professional golfer, PGA tour (1995 Las Vegas-3rd)
1966 Alvoid Mays, NFL cornerback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1966 Johnny Grunge, wrestler (d. 2006)
1967 Alfred Jackson, NFL cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1967 Silvetty Montilla, Brazilian drag queen
1967 Tom Meents, American monster truck driver
1967 Virgil Breedveld, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1968 Hassisba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete, 1500m (Olympics-gold-92)
1968 Jonathan Gilbert, American actor
1969 Alexandra Hedison, American actress
1969 Gale Harold, American actor
1969 Jamie Glover, British actor
1969 Marty Cordova, Las Vegas NV, outfielder (Minnesota Twins)
1970 Adam Hills, Australian comedian
1970 Gary LeVox, American singer (Rascal Flatts)
1970 Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer and actress
1970 Jason Orange, UK pop singer and dancer (Take That)
1970 John Simm, British actor
1970 Klaas Van Noortwijk, cricketer (Holland batsman 1996 World Cup)
1971 Adam Foote, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche, Team Canada)
1971 Brent Alexander, NFL defensive back (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 Gregory Goodridge, Barbadian footballer
1972 Damon Sharpe, Cleveland Ohio, actor/musician (Guys Next Door)
1972 Peter Serafinowicz, British comedian and actor
1972 Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress
1972 Tilo Wolff, German musician (Lacrimosa)
1973 Annie Mumolo, American actress
1973 Claudius Wright, WLAF CB (London Monarchs)
1974 Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
1974 Idalmis Marina Vidal, Miss Florida USA (1996)
1974 Jennifer Montica Curry, Muscatine Iowa, Miss America-Iowa (1996)
1975 Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor
1976 Adrian Grenier, American actor
1976 Brendon Lade, Australian rules footballer
1976 Edmílson Gomes, Brazilian footballer
1976 Elijah Blue Allman, American musician (Deadsy)
1976 Lars Ricken, German footballer
1976 Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
1977 Gwendoline Yeo, American actress
1977 Schapelle Corby, Australian convicted drug smuggler
1978 Jesse Lacey, American musician (Brand New)
1979 Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer
1980 Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
1980 Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer and songwriter
1980 Han Eun-jeong, South Korean actress
1980 Jessica Simpson, American singer ("I Wanna Love You Forever," "I Think I'm In Love," and "Where You Are.")
1980 Orlando Jordan, American wrestler
1980 Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor (Radio Flyer, Rookie of the Year)
1981 Aleksandar Tunchev, Bulgarian footballer
1982 Alex Arrowsmith, American musician
1982 Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
1983 Kim Heechul, Korean Singer
1983 Matthew Egan, Australian rules footballer
1984 Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, Miss World 2004
1985 B.J. Crombeen, American ice hockey player
1985 Mario Gómez, German footballer
Died on July 10th
138 Publius A Hadrian, Roman emperor (117-138) (b. 76)
518 Anastasius I Dikoros, [Dyrrhachium/Durazzo], Byzantine emperor
649 Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b. 599)
983 Benedict VI, Italian Pope (974-83)
1086 Knut IV, the Saint, king of Denmark (1080-86), murdered
1099 El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)
1103 Erik I Ejegod, the good hearted, King of Denmark (1095-1103)
1290 King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
1460 Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
1480 King René I of Naples (b. 1410)
1480 René, last heir of house of Anjou
1535 Jacob Van Campen, Reconstruction bishop, beheaded
1559 Henry II, King of France (1547-59) (b. 1519)
1573 Willem van Bronkhorst, Brattenburg/Stein/army leader
1584 William I "the Silent" (William of Orange), Earl of Nassau, assassinated (b. 1533)
1590 Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
1594 Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554)
1621 Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, French soldier in Habsburg service (b. 1571)
1653 Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
1668 Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer
1680 Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
1683 François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
1686 Ercole Ferrata, Italian sculptor/restauranteur
1686 John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
1690 Domenico Gabrielli, composer
1690 Jan van Brakel, Dutch vice admiral (Chatham), dies in battle
1692 Bridget Bishop, First Salem witch hanged
1762 Johann F Gronovius, physician/botany
1776 Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
1806 George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
1838 Willem earl van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial governor
1839 Fernando Joseph Maria Sor, composer,
1848 Karoline Jagemann, German actor (b. 1777)
1851 Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (b. 1787)
1863 Clement Clarke Moore, ('Twas the Night Before Xmas)
1863 Paul Jones Semmes, US businessman/Confederate brig-general
1868 Carlo Conti, composer
1881 Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812)
1884 Paul Charles Morphy, American chess player and Lawyer (b. 1837)
1888 Rafael Hernando, composer
1902 Albert FA, king of Saxon (1873-1902)
1908 Eliza Laurillard, vicar/poet/writer
1908 Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
1909 Flooi Du Toit, cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892)
1910 Johann G Galle, German discoverer of Neptune by telescope
1915 Hendrik W Mesdag, painter (Panorama Mesdag)
1920 Eugenie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Emperor of France
1920 Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
1920 John A "Jacky" Kilverston, adm/designer (dreadnought)
1924 Johannes B van Heutsz, gov-gen of Dutch Indies (1904-09)
1927 Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State VP, assassinated
1937 Attilio Brugnoli, composer
1937 Johan(nes) B Schepers, Fries writer (Braga)
1940 Donald Francis Tovey, English musicologist/composer
1941 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, American musician, pioneer jazz pianist (b. 1890)
1943 Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer
1945 Robert Goddard, Rocket pioneer
1952 Rued Immanuel Langgaard, composer
1953 Sidney Homer, composer
1954 Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1877)
1955 Henry W Methorst, Dutch director (Central Bureau of Statistic)
1956 Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1957 Sholem Asch, Polish/Israeli writer (East River)
1962 Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and government minister (b. 1875)
1963 John Sutton, actor (Of Human Bondage)
1963 Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)
1965 Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Le cavalier seul)
1970 Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (b. 1908)
1971 Harry M O'Connor
1971 Laurent Dauthuille, French boxer (b. 1924)
1971 Mohamed Madbouh, Moroccan general/putschist, shot to death
1972 Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
1975 Achiel H van Acker, Belgian premier (1945-46, 1954-58)
1977 Norman Paris, orchestra leader (For Your Pleasure)
1978 Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
1978 John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)
1978 Michel Gusikoff, composer
1979 Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (Boston Pops) (b. 1894)
1980 Joseph Krumgold, American writer (b. 1908)
1981 Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (b. 1936)
1982 Gustav MR von Koenigswald, German/Dutch paleontologist
1982 Maria Jeritza (Jedlicka), Aust/US, singer (Metropolitan Opera)
1983 Werner Egk, German composer (Die Zaubergeige)
1985 Fernando Pereira, military activist, murdered
1987 John H. Hammond, American record producer and Jazz reviewer (Melody Maker) (b. 1910)
1988 Errol John, playwright, dies at 63
1989 Mel Blanc, American voice actor (Warner Bros cartoons) (b. 1908)
1989 Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English comic (Bitter Springs)
1990 Hans Faverey, poet
1990 Irene Champlin
1991 Gerome Ragal, author (Hair)
1993 Masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)
1993 Ruth Krauss, author (Carrot Seed)
1993 Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
1994 Earl Strum, referee (NBA)
1994 Otto Bonsema, soccer star/trainer (GVAV, Veendam)
1995 Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman
1996 Eladio Rusconi, writer/publisher/businessman
2000 Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
2000 Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
2002 Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
2003 Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician
2003 Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
2003 Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
2004 Pati Behrs, Russian-born American actress, grandniece of Leo Tolstoy and first wife of American actor John Derek (b. 1922)
2005 A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)
2005 Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
2005 Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
2005 Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin, airshow performers
2006 Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
2007 Abdul Rashid Ghazi, radical Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
2007 Doug Marlette, American cartoonist (b. 1949)
2007 Zheng Xiaoyu, director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China (b. 1944)
2008 Hiroaki Aoki, founder of Benihana (b. 1938)
2008 Mike Souchak, professional golfer (b. 1927)
2011 Pierrette Alarie, Canadian operatic soprano (b. 1921)
2011 Roland Petit, French choreographer and dancer (b. 1924)
2015 Omar Sharif, [Michael Shalhoub], Egyptian actor (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia)
2015 Roger Rees, Welsh Tony winning stage and screen actor (Cheers)
2015 Jon (Jonathan Stewart) Vickers, Canadian operatic tenor