July 11th
Holidays and Festivals
Birthday of Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Penang)
China National Maritime Day (China)
First day of Naadam (Mongolia)
Bonfire Night, precursor to The Twelfth (Northern Ireland)
Day of the Flemish Community (Flemish Community of Belgium)
Fiesta de San Fermin (Pamplona, Spain) - July 6th through the 14th every year (9 Days)
Bowdler's Day
Cheer up the Lonely Day
World Population Day
Feast Day of Saint Olga (first Russian Saint)
Feast Day of Saint Benedict (founder of the Benedictine Order)
* Crop Over (Bridgetown, Barbados), 2nd sat in May through the 1st Mon in August (86 Days)
Fête de la Haricot Translation: Bean Day (French Republican) The 23rd day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"We drink to your coffin.
May it be built from the wood of a hundred year old oak tree that I shall plant tomorrow."
- Traditional Irish
- Variation -
"May your coffin have six handles of finest silver!
May your coffin be carried by six fair young maids!
And may your coffin be made of finest wood
from a 100-year-old tree
that I'll go plant tomorrow!"
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Martini 2 (Stirred)
4 -6 cubes (cracked) Ice
3 measures gin
1 tsp dry vermouth
1 olive
Pour gin and vermouth over ice and stir well to mix. Strain into cocktail glass and decorate with olive.
Variations: Gibson, Vadka Martini, Tequini, Dry Martini, Saketini.
- In Honor of Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985), usually known as E. B. White, an American writer who wrote "The Martini is the elixir of quietude".
- see Oct Sep 13th for Martini 1
Wine of The Day
CANA (2008) Estate "Ryland"
Style - Malbec
Contra Costa County
$30
Beer of The Day
Ommegang Abbey Ale
Brewer - Brewery Ommegang
Style - Dubbel
ABV - 8.5%
Joke of The Day
One for the Gals...
Q. What do clouds and men have in common?
A. Occasionally they leave & it turns into a really nice day.
One for the Guys..
Earlier i couldn't find the thingy that peels the carrots and potatoes, so i asked the kids if they'd seen it. Apparently, she'd gone shopping.
Quote of The Day
"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!"
- Amanda Bradley
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
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 11th
472 After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in the Old St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
911 Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
1156 Siege of Shirakawa-den in Japan.
1244 Chwarizneense Turken defeats Jerusalem
1302 Battle of Kortrijk Belgium (France vs Flanders)
1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) a coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's massive army.
1346 Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1347 Bohemia heir to the throne elected German anti-king Charles IV
1376 English "Good Parliament" meets
1405 Chinese Ming fleet commander Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
1423 Arnold van Egmont becomes duke of Gelre
1476 Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
1525 Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague
1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1576 Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
1588 French king Henri III accept demands of Catholic League
1616 Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
1635 Armies of Savoye/Mantua/Parma occupy Milan
1673 Netherlands & Denmark signs defense treaty
1690 Battle of Drogheda Boyne (Willem III (Neth-Engl) beat Jacobus II (Ire)
1708 Battle at Oudenaarde: Great Alliance beats France
1735 Mathematical calculations suggest that it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.
1740 Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne
1750 Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire.
1776 Captain James Cook begins his third voyage
1781 Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of US
1789 Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
1792 Prussia army moves into French territory
1796 The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
1798 The United States Marine Corps is re-established, they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
1801 French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovered another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
1804 Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
1811 Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases.
1812 US invades Canada (Detroit frontier)
1818 Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born," "Lines Written in the Highlands," & "Gadfly"
1848 Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent v England)
1848 Waterloo railway station in London opens.
1859 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published.
1861 Battle of Laurel Mountain VA Gen Morris forces retreat of rebels
1861 Battle of Rich Mountain, VA Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender
1862 Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief
1863 Battle at Green River Ky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)
1863 Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4
1864 Battle of Fort Stevens, DC (Early's Raid, Tennallytown, MD), American Civil War. Confederate forces led by Gen J Early attempt to invade Washington
1882 The British Mediterranean fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
1888 118°F (48°C), Bennett, Colorado (state record)
1888 Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall
1889 Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
1892 US Patent Office says J W Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp
1893 A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
1893 The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
1895 The Lumière brothers (Auguste & Louis) demonstrate film technology to scientists.
1897 Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
1900 Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys & Lincolns
1902 British premier Lord Salisbury resigns
1905 WEB Dubois with Black intellectuals & activists organize Niagara movement
1906 The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
1914 Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major league baseball as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleveland 4-3.
1915 Germany cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam
1916 1st federal grant-in-aid for state roads enacted
1916 Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act
1916 Germany launches final offensive in the Battle of Verdun
1919 Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day/No Sunday work
1919 The eight-hour working day and free Sunday become law in the Netherlands.
1920 In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany
1921 A truce is called in the Irish War of Independence.
1921 Former U.S. President William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
1921 Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day). The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.
1922 The Hollywood Bowl opens.
1923 Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M
1924 Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi
1925 Queen Wilhelmina names H Colijn head of government
1929 The Gillingham Fair fire disaster kills 15 in England.
1930 Bradman scores 309 in a day vs England at Leeds, goes on to 334
1931 NY Giants beat Phillies 23-8
1934 FDR became 1st pres to travel through Panama Canal
1936 The Triborough Bridge in New York City linking, Manhattan, Bronx & Queens, is opened to traffic.
1939 7th All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York NY Yankee/AL maanager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees
1940 British & German dogfight above Lyme Bay
1940 Vichy France regime is formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
1941 German troops attack Dnjepr in World War II
1943 7th day of battle at Kursk
1943 Massacres of Poles in Volhynia.
1943 US 45th Division occupies airport Comiso Sicily
1943 US 82nd Airborne division shot at, by "friendly fire" in Sicily
1943 Allied invasion of Sicily German and Italian troops (Hermann Goering Armour division) launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily during World War II.
1944 12th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States.
1946 Kingman Douglass, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1947 The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
1948 1st air bombing of Jerusalem
1950 17th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 4-3 in 14 at Comiskey Park, Chic Ted Williams breaks his elbow; 1st extra inning All Star Game
1950 Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
1952 Gen Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate
1954 1st White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Miss
1955 Congress authorizes US currency to say "In God We Trust". It is added to all U.S. currency.
1955 New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colo with 300 cadets
1957 Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
1960 28th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC
1960 Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
1960 Independence of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger.
1960 Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence
1960 Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independence
1960 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
1961 30th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Pk, SF
1961 Gene Kiniski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
1962 Brothers Hank & Tommie Aaron homer in same inning
1962 Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight 4 days
1962 First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
1962 Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 South-African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested
1965 Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Midwest Golf Open
1967 38th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 2-1 in 15 at Anaheim Stadium, CA. All star MVP: Tony Perez (Cin Reds)
1967 Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition
1968 Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles
1968 Start of Colin Cowdrey's 100th Test, 1st person to do so
1969 David Bowie releases "Space Oddity"
1969 Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"
1971 Chilean parliament nationalizes US copper mines
1971 Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
1971 Jane Blalock wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1971 Phillies Deron Johnson 3 HRs caps his 4 in a row
1972 The World Chess Championship 1972 first game starts.
1973 A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on-board.
1974 House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
1974 World Football League plays 1st games
1975 Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC
1976 1st US football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American)
1976 31st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner
1976 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1976 In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by Championship Wrestling "Headlocks & Wedlocks"
1977 Martin Luther King Jr. is posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom.
1978 49th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 7-3 at San Diego Stadium. All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers)
1978 Auto with liquid gas crashes & explodes in Spain, 160 killed
1978 Los Alfaques Disaster, A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
1979 America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean near Australia & disintegrates.
1980 American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran
1981 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1981 Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony
1981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets record for 1K (2:12.18)
1982 "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 5 perfs
1982 3rd US Seniors Golf Open, Miller Barber
1982 Hollis Stacy wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
1982 Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid
1983 A Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
1983 Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, of NZ, crowned 32nd Miss Universe
1984 55th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 3-1 at Candlestick Park, SF. All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos)
1984 England's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe
1984 Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989
1984 Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana
1985 Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
1985 Refurbished Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden
1985 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1986 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000 m in world record 30:13.74
1986 Maricica Puica of Romania runs 2,000 m in 5:28.69 (record for women)
1986 Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara
1987 According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) mark.
1987 Heart's "Alone," single goes #1 for 3 weeks
1987 Orioles Cal Ripkin becomes 1st to manage 2 sons, as Billy joins Cal
1988 Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor
1989 60th All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 5-3 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, CA. All star MVP: Bo Jackson (KC Royals). President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game
1990 NYC police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
1990 Oka Crisis, First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
1991 A Nationair DC-8 crashes during an emergency landing at Djeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 261. The Canadian charter flight was ferrying Hajj pilgrims on behalf of Nigeria Airways.
1991 Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy
1991 Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii
1992 Pres candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"
1993 14th US Seniors Golf Open, Jack Nicklaus
1993 Nancy Lopez wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1995 66th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 3-2 at Ballpark at Arlington Tx. All star MVP: Jeff Conine (Fla Marlins)
1995 A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
1995 Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam.
1995 Over 8000 Bosnian men and children (mostly Bosniaks) are killed by Serbian troops commanded by Ratko Mladic in Potocari near Srebrenica Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1999 20th US Seniors Golf Open at Des Moines GC, W Des Moines, Iowa
2006 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
2011 Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846
2012 LeBron James, Brittney Griner win at the 20th ESPY Awards
2012 POlice academy suicide bombing kills 20 in Sana'a, Yemen
2012 Steve Nash is traded by the Phoenix Suns to the Los Angeles Lakers
2012 The fifth moon of Pluto (S/2012 P 1) is discovered
2013 30 people are killed in a wave of bomb and gun attacks across Iraq
2014 The UN Security Council calls for a special meeting to discuss the current Israel–Palestinian conflict; Israel continue attacks on Gaza
2015 Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from Altiplano maximum-security prison west of Mexico City via a specially constructed 1.5 km tunnel from his cell to a nearby house
2015 Serena Williams beats Garbine Muguruza (6-4 6-4) to win the 122nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis Championship
Born on July 11th
154 Bar Daisan (Bardesanes), Syrian theologist, gnostic (d. 222)
1274 Robert Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-29) (d. 1329)
1366 Anne of Bohemia, consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)
1540 Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich/Juliana of Stolberg
1558 Robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist (Friar Bacon)
1561 Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (d. 1627)
1603 Kenelm Digby, English privateer (d. 1665)
1628 Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1657 Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13) (d. 1713)
1662 Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1726)
1694 Charles-Antoine Coypel, French carpet designer
1697 Jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer/cartographer
1709 Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist (d. 1785)
1723 Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (d. 1799)
1738 Albert-Kasimir, duke of Saxon/viceroy of Hungary/Netherlands
1751 Caroline Matilda of Wales, queen consort of Denmark and Norway (d. 1775)
1754 Thomas Bowdler, English physician and censor (Shakespeare) (d. 1825)
1767 John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (1825-1829) (d. 1848)
1810 Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor
1811 Joseph Lanman, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874
1816 French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect
1824 Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, composer
1825 Edward Henry Hobson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
1826 Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist (d. 1871)
1826 Alexander Aphanashev, Russ story teller (Narodnye roesskie skazki)
1832 Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek politician (d. 1896)
1836 Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (d. 1896)
1837 Paul Lacombe, composer
1838 John Wanamaker, merchant (Wanamakers Dept Store)
1841 Daniel de Lange, Dutch composer
1841 William Paul Roberts, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1844 Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia
1846 Leon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917)
1850 Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (d. 1938)
1851 Millie and Christine McCoy, Conjoined twins (d. 1912)
1857 Alfred Binet, French child psychologist
1857 Iacob Moresianu, composer
1860 Johannis J van Laar, Dutch chemist (thermodynamics)
1861 Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer
1861 George William Norris, (Rep/Sen-Neb) (Lame duck-amendement)
1862 Liza Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann, composer
1864 Petar Danov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher (d. 1944)
1866 Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1953)
1866 R Beer-Hofmann, writer
1871 Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Farmers' Party)
1882 Jim White, discoverer of Carlsbad Caverns (d. 1946)
1885 Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter
1886 Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1888 Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and political theorist (Verfassungslehre) (d. 1985)
1888 Lyman Bryson, Valentine Nebr, educator (UN Casebook)
1889 Alfred E Green, Perris CA, director (Copacabana, Jolson Story)
1890 Arthur W Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II)
1890 Georg Annenkov, Russian/French painter
1892 Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer
1892 Thomas Mitchell, American film actor and screenwriter (academy award) (Outlaw, Adventures) (d. 1962)
1893 Jack Durston, cricketer (England fast bowler against Australia 1921)
1894 Walter Wanger (Feuchtwanger), US producer (Stagecoach)
1895 Dolly Wilde, English socialite (d. 1941)
1897 Blind Lemon Jefferson, blues musician
1897 Bull Connor, American law enforcement official (d. 1973)
1898 Hendrik J Pos, Dutch philosopher/CEO (Committee of Watchfulness)
1898 Herman de Man (Salomon H Hamburger), Dutch writer/Radio Orange
1899 E. B. White, American writer (Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style) (d. 1985)
1902 Leo Collard, Belgian minister of Education (1946/54-58)
1902 Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Dutch/US phycist
1903 Rudolf Abel, Soviet intelligence officer (d. 1971)
1903 Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (d. 1976)
1904 Niño Ricardo, Spanish flamenco guitarist (d. 1972)
1906 Harry Von Zell, Indianapolis Ind, TV announcer (Burns & Allen)
1906 Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
1910 Irene Hervey, American actress (Aunt Meg-Honey West) (d. 1998)
1910 John Francis Boyd, journalist
1912 William F. Walsh, American politician
1913 Cordwainer Smith, American writer (d. 1966)
1913 Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, US, sci-fi author (Space Lords)
1914 Ahti Sonninen, composer
1915 Colin Purdie Kelly, US, 1st US air hero (during WW II)
1915 George Ivan Smith, diplomat
1916 Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1916 Gough Whitlam, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (1972-75)
1916 Howard Brubeck, composer
1916 Reg Varney, English actor (d. 2008)
1920 Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
1921 Ilse Werner, Dutch-born actress (d. 2005)
1922 Gene Evans, American actor (My Friend Flicka, Matt Helm, Alamo) (d. 1998)
1924 Brett Somers, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
1924 Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)
1924 Claus Bremer, writer
1924 César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (d. 2005)
1925 Mattiwilda Dobbs, Atlanta, Ga, soprano
1925 Nicolai Gedda, Swedish tenor (Opera Two to Six)
1926 Frederick Buechner, American author
1926 Patrick Wymark, Cleethorpes England, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia)
1926 Ralph D Abernathy, US, president (SCLC)
1926 Rodolfo Arizaga, composer
1927 Herbert Blomstedt, Springfield Mass, conductor (Oslo Phil 1954-61)
1928 Nic Jonk, sculptor/painter (Jonas & the Whale)
1928 Robert Washburn, composer
1929 Chuck Rio, Musician (d.2006)
1929 David Kelly, Irish actor (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fawlty Towers) (d. 2012)
1929 Hermann Prey, German baritone (d. 1998)
1930 Gregory C Bell, Terre Haute Ind, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1930 Harold Bloom, American literary critic
1930 John Alabaster, cricketer (NZ most prolific leg-spinner with 49 wkts)
1931 Hans Klein, politician
1931 Herman de Vries, Dutch sculptor
1931 Tab Hunter, American actor (Damn Yankees, Lust in the Dust, Battle Cry)
1931 Thurston Harris, American singer (Little Bitty Pretty One) (d. 1990)
1931 Tullio Regge, Italian physicist
1932 Alex Hassilev, rocker (Limeliters)
1932 Bob McGrath, American actor
1932 Jean-Guy Talbot, French Canadian ice hockey player
1932 Ron McAnally, horse trainer
1933 Olga Havlova, political activist
1934 Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer (American Gigolo)
1935 Earlene Dennis Brown, Latero Tx, shot putter (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1935 Frederick Hemke, American saxophonist
1935 Oliver Napier, Northern Irish politician
1937 Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer
1938 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, American feminist writer and professor
1938 Terry Garthwaite, US guitarist/singer (Joy of Cooking)
1939 Larry Laoretti, Mahopac NJ, PGA golfer (US Seniors Open 1992)
1939 Seth Gaaikema, Dutch night club performer
1940 Rafael Martinez, horse trainer
1940 Terry Patchett, politician
1940 Yvon Charbonneau, French Canadian union leader and politician
1941 Clive Puzey, Zimbabwean racing driver
1943 Howard Gardner, American Psychologist
1943 Oscar D'León, Venezuelan musician
1943 Peter Jensen, Archbishop of Sydney
1943 Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (d. 1983)
1943 Susan Seaforth Hayes, SF, actress (Days of our Life, Young & Restless)
1944 Bill Boggs, Phila, TV host/producer (Midday, Morton Downey Jr Show)
1944 Myra Gale Brown, former wife of Jerry Lee Lewis
1944 Peter de Savary, English financier/multi-millionaire
1945 Adrienne Barbeau, Sacramento California, actress (Maude)
1945 Patrick Joseph McGrath, Catholic bishop
1945 Robin Muyser, Dutch bassist (Les Baroques)
1946 Beverly Todd American actress (Roots, Having Babies, Redd Foxx Show)
1946 Cuthbert Johnson, Benedictine abbot.
1946 Edward J Markey, (Rep-D-MA, 1976)
1947 Bo Lundgren, Swedish politician
1949 Liona Boyd, English-born musician
1949 Tom Emanski, American baseball instructionalist
1950 Bonnie Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
1950 Bruce McGill, American actor
1950 J. R. Morgan, British classical scholar
1950 Jim Higgs, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner 1978-81)
1950 Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani nuclear physicist
1951 Lawrence J Delucas, Syracuse NY, PhD/astronaut (STS 50)
1951 Robert R. McCammon, American horror novelist
1951 Sridharan Jeganathan, cricketer (two Tests for Sri Lanka v NZ 1983)
1952 Bill Barber, Canadian ice hockey player
1952 John Kettley, English weather forecaster
1952 Stephen Lang, NYC, actor (Another You, Death of a Salesman)
1953 Angélica Aragón, Mexican actress
1953 Bramwell Tovey, English-born conductor and composer.
1953 Ivan Toms, South African physician
1953 Leon Spinks, American former boxer, heavyweight champ (1978, Olympic-gold-1976)
1953 Maureen Cathryn Harriet "Cats" Falck, Swedish television journalist
1953 Mindy Sterling, American actress
1953 Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Mexican actress, director and producer
1953 Peter Bergman, Guantanamo Bay Cuba, actor (Eat or Be Eaten)
1953 Peter Brown, American singer, songwriter and producer
1953 Samuel Russell Hinds, pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers
1953 Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India
1953 Wu Shu-chen, wife of former President Chen Shui-bian of the Republic of China
1954 Benny Defranco, rocker (Defrnco Family)
1954 Butch Reed, American professional wrestler
1955 Sergey Babinov, USSR, ice hockey star (Olympic-gold-1972)
1956 Sela Ward, American actress (Hilary-Emerald Point NAS, Sisters)
1957 Michael Rose, Jamaican musician (Black Uhuru)
1957 Peter Murphy, British musician (Bauhaus)
1957 Vince Williams, actor (Hamp-Guiding Light)
1958 Andrew Gilbert-Scott, British racing driver
1958 Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
1958 Mark Lester, Oxford England, actor (Oliver, Prince & Pauper)
1958 Ray Dodds, rocker (Fairground Attraction-You Send Me)
1959 Dave Bennett, English footballer
1959 Richie Sambora, American musician (Bon Jovi)
1959 Suzanne Vega, American singer (My Name is Luka, Tom's Diner)
1960 David Baerwald American songwriter/composer
1962 Dale Hellestrae, NFLer (Dallas Cowboys)
1962 Gaetan Duchesne, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1962 Pauline McLynn, Irish actress
1963 Al MacInnis, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, St Louis)
1963 Lisa Rinna, American actress
1964 Craig Charles, English actor
1964 Earl Jones, Inkster Mich, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1964 Kyrill, Prince of Preslav, titular Bulgarian royal family
1965 Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kickboxer
1965 Lisa Rinna, Newport Beach California, actress (Billie-Days of Our Life)
1965 Scott Shriner, American musician (Weezer)
1965 Tony Cottee, English footballer
1966 Butch Reid, horse trainer
1966 Debbe Dunning, Burbank CA, actress (Tool Time Girl-Home Improvement)
1966 Greg Grunberg, American actor
1966 Kentaro Miura, Japanese mangaka
1966 Mel Appleby, rocker (Mel & Kim-Coming to America)
1966 Mick Molloy, Australian comedian
1966 Rod Strickland, American basketball player, NBA guard (Portland Trail Blazers, Wash Wizards)
1967 Andy Ashby, KC MO, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1967 Donne Wall, Potosi MO, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1967 Jeff Corwin, American naturalist and TV personality
1968 Daniel MacMaster, Canadian singer (Bonham) (d. 2008)
1968 Esera Tuaolo, American football player, NFL defensive tackle (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 Michael Geist, Canadian academic
1969 David Tao, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
1970 Billy Ashley, Taylor MI, outfielder (LA Dodgers)
1970 Justin Chambers, American actor
1970 Pubudu Dissanayake, Sri Lanka cricket wicket-keeper (1993)
1971 Brett Hauer, Edina Minn, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1971 Leisha Hailey, American actress and musician (Uh Huh Her)
1972 Jerrott Willard, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1972 Joe Johnson, NFL defensive end (NO Saints)
1972 Jussi 69, Finnish musician (The 69 Eyes)
1972 Ken Irvin, NFL cornerback (Buffalo Bills)
1972 Michael Rosenbaum, American actor
1972 Steven Richards, Australian racing driver
1973 Albert Guardado Jr, Redlands California, light flyweight boxer (Olymp-96)
1973 Andrew Bird, American musician
1973 Christine Monge, SF California, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1973 Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
1974 Alanas Chošnau, Lithuanian singer and songwriter
1974 Andre Ooyer, soccer player (Ajax/FC Volendam)
1974 André Ooijer, Dutch footballer
1974 Fragiskos Alvertis, Greek basketball player
1974 Hermann Hreiðarsson, Icelandic footballer
1975 Dawn Piepenbrink, wildrose Wis, pairs skater (& Nick Castaneda)
1975 Lil' Kim, American rapper
1975 Nadya Suleman, American mother of octuplets
1975 Riona Hazuki, Japanese actress
1975 Rubén Baraja, Spanish footballer
1975 Samer el Nahhal, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1975 Willie Anderson, American football player
1976 Eduardo Nájera, Mexican-born basketball player
1977 Brandon Short, American football player
1977 Brandy Gold, Northridge California, actress (Annie-Baby Makes 5)
1978 Jeff Rich, Sports Talk Radio Personality
1978 Massimiliano Rosolino, Italian swimmer
1979 Lauris Reiniks, Latvian singer
1979 Raio Piiroja, Estonian footballer
1979 Éric Abidal, French footballer
1980 Im Su-jeong, South Korean model and actress
1980 T.J. Wilson, Canadian professional wrestler
1981 Aaron Proctor, American professional wrestling promoter & politician
1981 Andre Johnson, American football player
1981 Carla Campbell, Jamaican model
1981 Mary Beth Arnold, Reno Nevada, gymnast (World-bronze-95)
1982 Chris Cooley, American football player
1982 Lil' Zane, American rapper
1983 Evan Roberts, American radio broadcaster
1983 Kellie Shirley, British actress
1983 Kelly Poon, Singaporean singer
1983 Marie Serneholt, Swedish musician (A*Teens)
1983 Peter Cincotti, American singer songwriter
1984 Hitomi Hyuga, Japanese actress
1984 Rachael Taylor, Australian actress
1984 Tanith Belbin, Canadian ice dancer
1984 Yorman Bazardo, Venezuelan baseball player
1985 Aki Maeda, Japanese actress
1986 Ryan Jarvis, English footballer
1986 Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer
1987 Matej Gaspar, Yugoslavia, 5,000,000,000th person (UN)
1987 Shigeaki Kato, Japanese idol singer (NEWS)
1989 David Henrie, American actor
1989 Liel Kolet, Israeli singer
1990 Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player
1990 Connor Paolo, American actor
1990 George Craig (musician), English singer (One Night Only)
1993 Rebecca Bross, Gymnast
1996 Adelina Sotnikova, Russian Figure Skater
Died on July 11th
155 Pius I, bishop of Rome (approx 140-155)/saint/martyr
472 Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
937 King Rudolph II of Burgundy
969 Olga of Kiev
1174 Amalrik I (Morri), French King of Jerusalem (b. 1136)
1183 Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1117)
1302 Jacques de Châtillon, count of Saint-Pol/gov of Flaanders
1302 Pierre Flote, French 1st legist/chancellor of king Philip IV
1302 Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250)
1382 Nicholas van Oresme, French philosopher/bishop of Lisieux
1535 Joachim I Nestor, Ruler of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
1540 Jan Szapolyai, anti-king of Hungarian
1553 Mauritius, Duke and Monarch of Saksen (1547-53)
1581 Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero
1593 Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1st surrealist painter, dies (birth date unkn)
1649 Margaret Coventry, 1st English earl of Shaftesbury, dies
1667 John Fox, Amsterdam writer, buried
1679 William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
1686 Michel Anguier, French sculptor, dies at 75
1688 King Narai of Siam (b. 1629)
1690 Friedrich H duke van Schomberg, marshal, dies in battle
1766 Elizabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)
1768 Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer
1774 Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer (b. 1715)
1775 Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1781 Adolph Carl Kunzen, composer
1797 Ienachita Vacarescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
1806 James Smith, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1719)
1825 Thomas P. Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War soldier (b. 1744)
1826 Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer
1844 Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
1847 Joachim G le Sage at Trousers, RC foreman/publicist
1874 Xavier FMG earl Merode, Belgium pontifical defense minister
1876 Ottho G Heldring, vicar (H-gestichten)
1882 Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor
1889 Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet
1896 Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia)
1898 Charles Chanoine, French lt/mass murderer in Senegal
1905 Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian jurist and islamic modernist (b. 1849)
1909 Simon Newcomb, American astronomer and mathematician (celestial mechanics)(b. 1835)
1914 Julius Rodenberg (Levy), German writer (Die Deutsche Rundschau)
1916 Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Doll Virgin)
1920 Eugénie de Montijo, Empress of France (b. 1826)
1921 Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist
1926 Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist
1929 Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
1936 James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
1937 George Gershwin, American composer (American in Paris) (b. 1898)
1942 Simon de la Bella, Dutch president (NVV), dies in Dachau
1944 Wolfgang Redlich, German major/pilot, dies in battle
1948 Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semite theologist
1948 King Baggot, actor (Tish, San Francisco)
1950 Timotei Popovici, composer
1957 Aga Khan III,Pakistani 48th Shia Iman
1958 Karel Wellens, Flemish painter
1959 Charlie (W.L.) Parker, English cricketer (b. 1882)
1964 Maurice Thorez, sec-general French communist party
1965 Ray Collins, actor (Halls of Ivy, Perry Mason)
1966 Delmore Schwartz, American poet (Shenandoah) (b. 1913)
1967 Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer, politician and judge (b. 1917)
1971 Carleton Young, actor (Court of Last Resorts)
1971 John W. Campbell, American sci-fi writer (Space Beyond) and editor (b. 1910)
1971 Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1940)
1973 Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov, Russian composer (Zavod)
1973 Isabel Randolph, actress (Mrs Nester-Our Miss Brooks)
1973 Robert Ryan, US actor (Dirty Dozens, Longest Day)
1974 Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
1975 Kurt Pinthus, writer
1976 León de Greiff, Colombian poet (b. 1895)
1979 Claude Wagner, French Canadian judge and politician (b. 1925)
1980 Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer
1980 Peggy Knudson, actress (April-So This is Hollywood)
1983 Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
1984 Karel Mengelberg, composer
1987 Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
1987 Thomas F Waddell, founder (Gay Olympics)
1987 Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman, American Rosh Yeshiva (b. 1901)
1989 Laurence Olivier, English stage and screen actor (Hamlet) (b. 1907)
1990 Onno Molenkamp, Dutch actor (Ciske the Rat, Lifespan), dies at 67
1991 Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese interpreter (The Satanic Verses), murdered (b. 1947)
1991 James McCallion, actor (PT 109, Big Combo)
1992 Annette Fischer, Danish chairman Amnesty Intl
1992 Antoon J Hubben, mayor of Maasbree/President KVM/Unie BLHP
1993 Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China officia
1993 Denis Tomlinson, South African cricket leg-spinner
1993 Henri van Soede, sub commandant (WW II)
1993 Kelly Ahrendt, 1st death by rabies in NY since 1954
1993 Mario Bauza, Cubans/US jazz musician
1993 Sergey Vozovikov, cosmonaut, dies during underwater test
1994 Alan David Melville, polymath
1994 Bart Scheepens, actor/director
1994 Charles "Lefty" Edwards, saxophonist
1994 Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (b. 1942)
1994 James Topping, author of CP/M
1994 Lex P Humphries, drummer
1994 Savannah, American porn star (b. 1970)
1994 Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman (Werelddambond FMJD)
1995 John Cruickshank, French scholar
1996 Louis Gottlieb, musician
1996 Martin Corbett, gay activist
1999 Helen Forrest, American singer (b. 1917)
2000 Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)
2000 Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
2001 Gaspare di Mercurio, Italian doctor and author (b. 1926)
2001 Herman Brood, Dutch singer and artist (b. 1946)
2004 Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910)
2005 Don Starr, American actor (b. 1917)
2005 Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1914)
2005 Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
2005 Jesús Iglesias, Argentine professional racing driver (b. 1922)
2005 Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1965)
2006 Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)
2006 John Spencer, English snooker player (b. 1935)
2007 Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (b. 1913)
2007 Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1914)
2007 Glenda Adams, Australian author (b. 1939)
2007 Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
2008 Michael DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908)
2009 Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer (b. 1972)
2009 Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer (b.1911)
2010 Bob Sheppard, New York Yankees and New York Giants announcer (b. 1910)
2010 Walter Hawkins, Gospel music singer
2013 Eugene Wilkinson, American naval officer
2014 Tommy Ramone (Erdélyi Tamás), Hungarian-American punk rock drummer/bassist (Ramones)
2015 Satoru Iwata, Japanese CEO of Nintendo (Nintendo DS and Wii)
2015 Claudia Alexander, Canadian-born American NASA Scientist (led Galileo mission to Jupiter)
