July 26th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day (Liberia and Maldives)
Anniversary of the Moncada Barracks Attack A.K.A. Day of the National Rebellion Cuba
Vijay Divas, (India) The end of Kargil War
All or Nothing Day
Aunt and Uncle Day Feast of Saint Bartolomea Capitanio (Roman Catholicism)
Feast of Saint Anne (mother of St. Mary) with Joachim
Feast of Blessed Andrew of Phu Yen
Fiesta de Merengue Santo Domingo, (Dom. Rep) Last week of July (2-7)
Crop Over (Bridgetown, Barbados) - 2nd sat in July - 1st Mon in August (19-22)
Fête de la Carthame Translation: Safflower Day (French Republican) The Eighth day of the Month of Thermidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Let no man thirst for lack of Real Ale."
- Unknown
- Alternative -
"May the path to hell grow green with grass for want of use!"
Drink of The Day
Sex on the beach 5 (shooter)
1/4 shot vodka
1/4 shot chambord
1/4 shot peach schnapps
1/4 shot cranberry juice
Shake together with Ice in a Shaker and are serve in a Highball Glass.
- See 5/18 for Sex on the Beach 1, 5/27 for Sex on the Beach 2, 6/9 for Sex on the Beach 3, 7/6 for Sex on the Beach 4
Wine of The Day
Bonterra (2007) Syrah
Style - Organic Syrah
Mendocino County
Certified Organic
$20
Beer of The Day
Reed's Wee Heavy
Brewer - Pizza Port Carlsbad Carlsbad, CA
Style - Scotch Ale
Joke of The Day
A guy walks into a bar and sits down. He starts dialing numbers like there's a telephone in his hand, then puts his palm up against his cheek and begins talking.
Suspicious, the bartender walks over and tells him this is a very tough neighborhood and he doesn't need any trouble here.
The guy says, "You don't understand. I'm very hi-tech. I had a phone installed in my hand because I was tired of carrying the cellular."
The bartender says "Prove it."
The guy dials up a number and hands his hand to the bartender. The bartender talks into the hand and carries on a conversation. "That's incredible!" says the bartender. "I would never have believed it!" "Yeah", said the guy, "I can keep in touch with my broker, my wife, you name it.
By the way, where is the men's room?" The bartender directs him to the men's room.
The guy goes in and 5, 10, 20 minutes go by and he doesn't return. Fearing the worst given the neighborhood, the bartender goes into the men's room to check on the guy.
The guy is spread-eagled up against the wall. His pants are pulled down and he has a roll of toilet paper up his butt.
"Oh my god!" said the bartender. "Did they rob you? Are you hurt?"
The guy turns and says: "No, no, I'm ok. I'm just waiting for a fax."
Quote of The Day
"Don't drink and drive, you might hit a bump and spill your drink."
- Bumper sticker
Whiskey of The Day
$15
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
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week Third Full Week in July
National Zoo Keeper Week Third Full Week in July
National Parenting Gifted Children Week Third Full Week in July
National Independent Retailers Week Week containing July 21st (birthday of Tom Shay's grandmother)
World Lumberjack Championships Last Thursday through Saturday in July
Garlic Days Last Friday through Sunday in July
World Youth Day Date Varies usually every three years (July 23 - July 28, 2013)
Historical Events on July 26th
657 Battle of Siffin.
811 Battle at Pliska, Bulgarian under monarch Krum beat Byzantine. Byzantine emperor Nicephorus I is slain, his heir Stauracius is seriously wounded.
920 Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
1267 Inquistion forms in Rome under pope Clement IV
1309 Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
1469 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Edgecote Moor Pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of King Edward IV.
1497 "Edward IV's son" Perkin Warbecks army lands in Cork
1499 Alonso dhe Ojeda discovers Curacao Island
1519 Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America
1524 James V declared by Scottish Parliament fit to govern
1529 Francisco Pizarro appointed governor of Peru
1576 Muitende Spanish troops conquer Aalst
1579 Francis Drake leaves SF to cross Pacific Ocean
1581 Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration). The declaration of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.
1588 John Hawkins becomes a knight
1656 Rembrandt declares he is insolvent
1663 France annexes Venaissin
1678 England & Netherlands signs treaty: sending ultimatum to France
1745 The first recorded women's cricket match took place near Guildford, England
1757 Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats duke of Cumberland
1758 Siege of Louisbourg of the French and Indian War ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
1759 French troops vacate Ticonderoga NY
1760 Austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz Silezie
1775 United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) created in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin, It would later become the United States Post Office Department, established by the Second Continental Congress.
1788 New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
1790 US passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts
1803 The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London.
1805 Naples and Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die
1822 José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to Secretly meet with Simón Bolívar.
1826 Vilnus Lithuanian riots cause death of many Jews
1832 HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo
1835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
1847 Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society
1847 Moses Garrish Farmer builds 1st miniature train for children to ride
1848 1st Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)
1858 Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament
1861 George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run in the American Civil War.
1863 Morgan's Raid of the American Civil War ends At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
1863 Battle of Salineville OH, John Hunt Morgan & 364 troops surrender
1864 Riot at McCook's to Lovejoy Station GA, US600 CS---
1864 Riot at Stoneman's to Macon GA, US1000 CS---
1864 Battle at Ezra Chapel (Church), Georgia [Hood's Third Sortie]
1865 Patrick Francis Healy is 1st black awarded PhD (Louvain Belgium)
1866 Canoe Club opens in England
1878 In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.
1881 French marines occupy Tunisian harbor city Sfax
1882 Richard Wagner's opera "Parsifal," premieres in Beirut
1882 The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
1887 Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
1891 France annexes Tahiti.
1891 Henry James' "American," premieres in London
1897 37.5 cm rainfall at Jewell, Maryland (state record)
1902 Australia beat England by 3 runs at Old Trafford
1908 United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
1914 Austrian-Hungary condemns Serbian ultimatum
1914 British Min of Navy Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain
1914 German chief of staff/gen von Moltke states ultimatum on Belgium
1914 Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
1915 International School for Wijsbegeerte forms
1917 J Edgar Hoover gets job on ministry of Justice
1918 Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites & 1 black killed)
1926 National Bar Association incorporates
1926 Philippines government asks US to plebiscite for independence
1928 Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1928 Yanks score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1
1933 Joe Dimaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League
1936 King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicated the throne, officially unveiled the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
1936 The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
1937 End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
1938 1st radio broadcast of "Young Widder Brown" on NBC
1939 Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRs
1941 1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague
1941 US embargo on oil-export to Japan
1941 In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States during World War II.
1942 RAF bombs Hamburg
1942 RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism
1943 120°F (49°C), Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record)
1943 Otto Skorzeny's commando group arrives in Rome
1944 Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam
1944 Russian troops arrive in Weichsel
1944 The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain.
1944 US offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St Gilles
1944 Soviet army enters Lviv, major city of western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jewish survivors left, out of 160,000 Jews in Lviv prior to Nazi occupation in World War II.
1945 After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes PM
1945 The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany. US/Brit/China demands Japanese surrender, Japanese government disregards US ultimatum
1945 The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
1945 The US Navy cruiser Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
1945 Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's PM
1946 Aloha Airlines began service from Honolulu International Airport
1946 President Harry Truman orders desegregation of all US forces
1947 U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
1948 "Babe Ruth Story," premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance
1948 1st black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show
1948 Leo Durocher returns to Ebbets Field as a NY Giant
1948 Pres Harry Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment & opportunity" in armed forces
1948 U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
1949 WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 Dodgers' Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits HRs twice in a game
1950 KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites
1951 Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
1952 King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad (Black Saturday).
1952 Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer
1953 Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.
1953 Cuban pirate radio station's 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba
1953 Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime, leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.
1954 WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 37th PGA Championship, Doug Ford at Meadowbrook CC Detroit
1955 Last day as Test Cricket umpire for Frank Chester
1955 Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers
1956 Egypt seizes Suez Canal
1956 Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.
1957 Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated
1957 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200
1957 USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
1958 Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV
1958 Explorer 4 is launched.
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1960 Italian government of Fanfani forms
1962 Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba
1962 Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher
1963 Earthquake in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (republic of southern Yugoslavia) 1100 dead
1963 The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.
1963 US Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open
1964 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy
1964 Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die
1965 Republic of Maldives gains Full independence from Britain (Natl Day)
1966 Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent.
1966 WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, NH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1967 Twins beat Yanks 3-2 in 18
1968 South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the Vietnam War.
1969 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific
1970 Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive HRs of Phillies Steve Carlton
1971 Apollo 15 launched (Scott & Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon
1973 Peter Shaffers "Equus," premieres in London
1974 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 Greek Prime Minister Constantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
1974 USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3
1975 Formation of a military triumvirate in Portugal.
1975 Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
1977 The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
1977 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1978 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1978 Johnny Bench hits his 300th career home run
1979 Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, TX (national record)
1981 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela
1981 36th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley
1981 NY Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant
1982 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket
1982 Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada, crowned 31st Miss Universe
1983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8
1983 Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czech sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28)
1983 Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io
1984 Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single
1984 Pitcher Vida Blue suspended for rest of 1984 due to drug use (cocaine conviction)
1986 Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco
1987 Catfish Hunter Billy Williams & Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball HOF
1987 Stephen Roche wins Tour de France
1988 Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies & NY Mets end that game at 2:13 AM
1989 A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
1990 General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode
1990 The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.
1990 US beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games
1991 CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders
1991 Expo's Mark Gardner no hits Dodgers for 9 innings, but loses in 10th
1991 Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie theater
1992 "Man of La Mancha" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 108 perfs
1992 47th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1992 England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Is war
1992 Kiss Guitarist Paul Stanley weds Pamela Bowen
1992 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for 23rd consecutive seasons
1993 Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed
1993 Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km
1994 Cambodia's Red Khmer surprise attack on train, kills 13
1994 Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders the removal of Russian troops from Estonia.
1994 Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed
1998 19th US Senior Golf Open ends at Riviera CC, Pacific Palisades, Calif
1999 Cessation of combat activities after the Kargil War; Celebrated as Kargil Vijay Diwas in India.
2005 Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.
2005 Samir Geagea, the Lebanese Forces (LF) leader, is released after spending 11 years in a solitary confinement. His release came after the end of the Syrian occupation to Lebanon.
2005 Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
2012 At least 200 people are killed in a day of violence in Syria
2012 Insurgent attack kills 19 people and destroys a helicopter at Baqubah, Iraq
2012 North Korea is hit by Tropical Storm Khanun, killing 88 people and leaving 60,000 people homeless
2013 57 people are killed in a market bombing in Parachinar, Pakistan
2014 Taghrooda wins the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
2014 While Israel reject long-term ceasefire that does not include destroying the Hamas tunnels, they agree to 12 hour ceasefire, Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip now exceeds 1000
2014 The Chinese government suspendes the operations of a Shanghai meat dealer and has makes arrests after the company sold out-of-date meat to fast food chains, including McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken
2015 Chris Froome of Great Britain wins the 102nd Tour de France
Born on July 26th
1030 Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)
1467 Ferdinand II, King of Naples
1678 Joseph I Habsburg, German King, Holy Roman Emperor (1705-11) (d. 1711)
1694 Johann Samuel Endler, composer
1739 George Clinton, 4th vice president of the USA (1805-12) (d. 1812)
1782 John Field, Irish composer (Nocturnes) (d. 1837)
1791 Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer, 6th child of Mozart (d. 1844)
1796 George Catlin, US, author and painter (American Indian scenes)
1799 Isaac Babbitt, invented babbitt's metal for bearings
1801 John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Comm (Union Navy) (d. 1867)
1802 Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
1802 Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet and politician
1805 Constantine Brumidi, artist (Myrtle Murdock)
1820 John Marshall Jones, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1864)
1829 Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94) (Nobel Laureate 1909) (d. 1912)
1842 Alfred Marshall, London, economist
1846 Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. 1880)
1854 Philippe Gaucher, French dermatologist (d. 1918)
1855 Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
1856 George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (Pygmalion) (Nobel Laureate 1925) (d. 1950)
1858 Tom Garrett, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1943)
1858 Tommy Garrett, cricketer (original Australian Test player)
1860 Philippe J Bunau-Varilla, French engineer (Colombia-Panama)
1863 Jazeps Witols, composer
1865 Philipp Scheidemann, First Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, Mayor of Kassel (d. 1939)
1866 Francesco Cilea, composer
1872 George Louis Beer, historian (authority on British colonies)
1874 Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (Boston Symp) (d. 1951)
1875 Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
1875 Carl (Gustav) Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (founded analytic psychology) (d. 1961)
1876 Ernest Schelling, Belvidere NJ, composer/conductor (Victory Ball)
1877 Hubert Ahaus, missionary (Harvest Fields)
1880 Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1951)
1881 Alexander J Kropholler, architect
1885 André Maurois, French author (d. 1967)
1886 Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (d. 1965)
1888 M Jouhandeau, writer
1888 Reginald Hands, Former South African cricketer (d. 1918)
1891 Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian
1892 Philipp Jarnach, composer
1892 Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1966)
1893 George Grosz, German painter (Gott mit uns) (d. 1959)
1894 Aldous Huxley, English-born author (Brave New World) (d. 1963)
1894 Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian (Henric van Veldeken)
1895 Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (d. 1964)
1895 Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person (d. 1922)
1895 Jerry Verno, London England, actor (River of Unrest, Sweeney Todd)
1895 Robert Graves, London England, writer/poet (I Claudius) [or 6/26]
1896 Charles Butterworth, US, lawyer/actor (Mad Genius)
1896 Evelyn Preer, US actress (Homesteader, Spider's Webs)
1896 Henry Birkin, British racing driver (d. 1933)
1897 Paul Gallico, American author (d. 1976)
1899 Carel C van Essen, Dutch archaeologist (Italian & Roman art)
1899 Danton Walker, Mariette Ga, columnist (Broadway Spotlight)
1901 John Bleifer, Zawiercie Poland, actor (Highway to Heaven)
1902 Gracie Allen, SF California, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen)
1903 Donald Voorhees, Allentown Pa, conductor (Bell Telephone Hour)
1903 Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (d. 1963)
1904 Jack Allan Westrup, composer
1906 Armando Jose Fernandes, composer
1906 Irena Illakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence (d. 1943)
1907 Gioconda de Vito, violinist
1907 Istvan Pelle, Hungarian gymnist (Olympic-gold-1932)
1908 Lucien Wercollier, Luxembourgish sculptor (d. 2002)
1908 Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile's last elected president (1970-73)
1909 Gerardina I "Diny" van Amstel, Dutch actress (Dijntje & Trijntje)
1909 Peter Thorneycroft, British politician (d. 1994)
1909 Vivian Vance, American actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy) (d. 1979)
1912 Derek Riches, diplomat
1913 Lou Salica, US, flyweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1914 Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1914 Erskine Hawkins, American musician and bandleader (d. 1993)
1914 Ralph Hunsecker Blane, songwriter
1917 Bertil Nordahl, Sweden, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1948)
1917 Richard Desborough Burnell, England, double sculls (Olympic-gold-1948)
1918 Marjorie Lord, American actress
1919 James Lovelock, scientist
1919 Kenneth Snowman, antiquarian
1919 Virginia Gilmore, American actress (d. 1986)
1920 Bob Waterfield, American football player, NFL QB (Rams) (d. 1983)
1921 Jean Shepherd, American writer (d. 1999)
1922 Andrzej Koszewski, composer
1922 Blake Edwards, American film director (10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany's)
1922 Frank Price, CEO (British Waterways Board)
1922 Jason Robards, American actor (A Thousand Clowns, Any Wednesday) (d. 2000)
1922 Marjorie Lord, SF California, actress (Kathy-Danny Thomas Show)
1923 Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1923 Jan Berenstain, American author, (d. 2012)
1923 Peter Carey, permanent secretary (DTI)
1923 (James) Hoyt Wilhelm, knuckleball pitcher (Orioles)
1924 Elias Motsoaledi, South African Umkhonto we Sizwe-commandant
1924 John Kilgour, director of prison medical services (Home Office)
1924 Louis Bellson, Rock Falls Ill, orchestra leader (Pearl Bailey Show)
1925 Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (d. 2000)
1926 Ana María Matute, Spanish author
1926 Barbara Jefford, actress (Saint, Reunion, Ulysses)
1926 Don Carter, bowling great (1st PBA president)
1926 James Best, American actor (Savages, Sounder, Rolling Thunder)
1927 G S Ramchand, cricketer (valuable all-rounder in 33 Tests for India)
1927 Gulabrai Ramchand, Former Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
1927 M H W Wells, CEO (Charterhouse Japhet)
1928 Don Beauman, British racing driver (d. 1955)
1928 Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of the Italian Republic
1928 Hans Haselbock, composer
1928 Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (d. 1980)
1928 Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician
1928 Stanley Kubrick, American film director (2001, Dr Strangelove, Lolita) (d. 1999)
1928 Tadeusz Baird, Polish composer (Giocosa)
1929 Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-born French pianist (Levintritt-1948)
1929 Jean Shepherd, humorist (Playboy satire Award 1966, 1967, 1969)
1929 Joseph Jackson, American manager, former boxer and former musician
1929 Marc Lalonde, French Canadian politician
1930 Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes
1931 A M F (Sandy) Ross, managing-director (Mary Quant)
1931 Takashi Ono, Japanese gymnast (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1931 Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager and former player (d. 2006)
1933 Lance Percival, actor/singer (Darling Lili, Our Miss Fred)
1934 Anthony Gilbert, composer
1936 Antonio Mastrogiovanni, composer
1936 Kathryn Hays, NYC, actress (Kim Hughes-As the World Turns)
1936 Mary Millar, English actress (d. 1998)
1938 Bobby Hebb, Nashville Tn, country singer/songwriter (Sunny)
1938 Darlene Love, American singer
1938 Keith Peters, physician
1938 Peter Hall, diplomat
1939 Bob Lilly, American football player
1939 J(ohn) W Howard, 25th Prime Minister of Australia
1940 Bobby Rousseau, Quebec ice hockey player
1940 Brian Mawhinney, chairman (British Conservative Party)
1940 Dobie Gray, American singer
1940 Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1969)
1940 Tolis Voskopoulos, Greek singer
1941 Bobby Hebb, American musician
1941 Brenton Wood, American singer-songwriter (Gimme Little Sign)
1941 Darlene Love, singer/actress (Lethal Weapon)
1941 Jean Baubérot, French historian and sociologist
1942 Dobie Gray, Brookshire Tx, singer (In Crowd)
1942 Teddy Pilette, Belgian racing driver
1942 Vladimír Meciar, Slovak prime minister
1943 Mick Jagger, English singer (The Rolling Stones)
1943 Peter Hyams, American film director (2010, Capricorn 1, Relic, Timecop)
1943 Roger Smalley, composer
1944 Kiel Martin, American actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues) (d. 1990)
1944 Micki J King, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1972)
1944 Rimantas Antanas-Antonovich Stankiavichus, Russian cosmonaut
1945 Helen Mirren, English actress
1945 Linda Harrison, Berlin Md, actress (Bracken's World, Planet of Apes)
1946 Anne Wright, Vice-Chancellor (Sunderland U)
1946 Helen Mirren (Eleni Mironova), England, actress (Cook Thief Wife, Madness of King George)
1947 Pauline Clare, Chief Constable (Lancashire)
1948 Norair Nurikian, Bulgari, bantam weight (Olympic-gold-1972, 76)
1949 Roger Taylor, English musician (Queen)
1949 Thaksin Shinawatra, ex-Prime Minister of Thailand
1949 William M Shepherd, Oak Ridge Tn, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 27, 41, 52)
1950 Nelinho, Brazilian footballer
1950 Paul McHale, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
1950 Rich Vogler, American race car driver (d. 1990)
1950 Susan George, English actress (Straw Dogs, Mandingo)
1951 Rick Martin, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 Robert Edwin Wadkins, Richmond VA, PGA golfer (1994 Kemper Open-2nd)
1951 William Surles "Bill" McArthur Jr, NC, astro (STS 58, 74, sk: 92)
1952 Ludmila Maslakova, USSR, relay runner (Olympic-silver-1980)
1952 Scott David Cook, Glendale Ca, CEO (Intuit-Quicken)
1953 Edie Mirman, American voice actress
1953 Robert Phillips, classical guitarist
1954 Lawrence Watt-Evans, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Sword of Bheleu)
1954 Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (Australia 1987) (d. 1994)
1955 Nicholas Walker, Bogota Col, actor (Capitol, Jimmy-General Hospital)
1956 Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 Tommy Rich, American professional wrestler
1957 Hart Hanson, American television writer and producer
1957 Jeff Blatnick, Schenectady NY, wrestling (Oly-gold-1984)
1957 Nana Visitor (Tucker), American actress (Deep Space 9)
1957 Wayne Desmond Grady, Australasia golfer, PGA tour (1990 PGA)
1957 Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor
1958 Angela Hewitt, Canadian classical pianist
1958 Ramona Neubert, German DR, long jumper/pentathlete (Oly-4th-80)
1959 Kevin Spacey, American actor (Usual Suspects, Henry & June, Darrow)
1959 Michael Ross, American serial killer (d. 2005)
1959 Rick Bragg, American writer
1960 LaTaunya Pollard, East Chic Ind, (Olympics-1980, 84)
1960 Mitch Kahn, San Clemente California, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1961 Andy Connell, English musician (Swing Out Sister, A Certain Ratio)
1961 Dimitris Saravakos, Greek footballer
1961 Gary Cherone, American musician, vocalist (Extreme)
1961 Keiko Matsui, Japanese musician and composer
1961 Terri Nunn, rock vocalist (Berlin-Takes My Breath Away)
1961 Yolanda Chen, Moscow Russia, triple jumper (indoor record)
1962 Galina Chistyakova, Russian jumper (world record 1988)
1962 Jody Reed, Tampa FL, infielder (San Diego Padres)
1962 Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Irish musician
1963 Andrew C Timmons, Scottsdale Az, guitarist (Danger Danger-Screw It)
1963 Marianne Berglund, Sweden, cyclist (1983 Ruffles Tour of Texas)
1964 Anne Provoost, Belgian author (In the Shadow of the Ark)
1964 Danny Woodburn, American actor
1964 Jeremy Piven, NYC, actor (Spence-Ellen, Grosse Pointe Blank)
1964 Ralf Metzenmacher, German painter and designer
1964 Sandra Bullock, American actress (Speed, Net, Love & War)
1965 Jennifer Ashe, actress (As the World Turns)
1965 Jeremy Piven, American actor
1965 Jim Lindberg, American musician (Pennywise)
1967 Anthony Durante, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1967 David McKenzie, Footscray VIC, Australasia golfer
1967 Tim Schafer, American computer game designer
1968 Frédéric Diefenthal, French actor and director
1968 Laura Leighton, Iowa City IA, actress (Sydney-Melrose Place)
1968 Mike Mohler, Dayton OH, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1968 Olivia Williams, English actress
1969 Greg Colbrunn, American baseball player, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1969 Jonty Rhodes, South African cricket batsman (brilliant fielder)
1969 Marc Boutte, NFL defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1969 Patrick Alfred Bates, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (1994 NIKE Dakota Open)
1970 Joan Wasser, American singer and musician
1970 Kenny Wilhite, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 Phil Alley, cricketer (NSW left-arm pace bowler)
1971 Khaled Mahmud, Former Bangladeshi cricketer
1971 Neus Avila, Lerida Spain, tennis star (Futures-Valencia-ESP 1995)
1971 Reggie Carthon, CFL defensive back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 Nathan Buckley, Former Australian Rules Footballer
1972 Ryan Christopherson, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 Sean Graham, CFL slot back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 Tydus Winans, NFL/CFL wide receiver (Washington Redskins, Roughriders)
1973 Chris Pirillo, American TV host, blogger
1973 Jean Francois Bergeron, St Jerome Quebec, boxer (Olympics-96)
1973 Kate Beckinsale, British actress
1973 Lenka Šarounová, Czech astronomer
1973 Peter Heijsteek, soccer player (DFC/Dordrecht '90)
1974 Bubba Wells, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
1974 Dan Konopka, American musician (OK Go)
1974 Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player
1974 Dean Sturridge, English Footballer
1975 Joe Smith, American basketball player, NBA forward (Golden State Warriors)
1976 Brad Wilkins, American architect
1977 Martin Laursen, Danish footballer
1977 Rebecca St. James, Australian-born singer
1979 Derek Paravicini, British autistic savant
1979 Erik Westrum, American ice hockey player
1979 Mageina Tovah, American actress
1979 Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist (Sum 41)
1980 Lee Dong-gun, South Korean actor
1981 Abe Forsythe, Australian actor/director
1982 Chez Starbuck, American actor
1982 Mugdha Godse, Indian Actress and Model
1983 Delonte West, American basketball player
1983 Roderick Strong, American professional wrestler
1984 Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
1985 Audrey De Montigny, Quebec singer
1985 Gaël Clichy, French footballer
1987 Fredy Montero, Colombian soccer player
1987 Miriam McDonald, Canadian actress
1988 Francia Almendárez, American actress
1989 Areti Ketime, Greek singer and musician
1993 Taylor Momsen, American actress
Died on July 26th
796 Offa, king of Mercia (75.-796)
811 Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), dies in battle
1342 Charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42)
1380 Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)
1471 Paul II (Pietro Barbo), Italian Pope (1464-71) (b. 1417)
1533 Atahualpo, Inca ruler
1592 Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
1611 Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
1630 Charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon)
1677 Michael Franck, composer
1680 John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English writer (b. 1647)
1684 Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)
1712 Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English Prime Minister (1690-94), (b. 1631)
1719 Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer
1723 Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
1728 John Friend, physician/politician
1770 Michael Schevenstuhl, composer
1801 Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria (b. 1756)
1801 Daniel Dal Barba, composer
1826 Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer
1836 Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer
1863 Sam(uel) Houston, First President of the Republic of Texas (1836-38, 41-44) (b. 1793)
1867 King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
1872 Michele Carafa, composer
1881 George Borrow, writer
1910 Philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist
1915 James Murray, philologist
1916 Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer
1918 Eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross)
1919 Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
1920 Carlos Troyer, composer
1925 Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (b. 1888)
1925 Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (b. 1848)
1925 William Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), American politician (b. 1860)
1932 Frederick S. Duesenberg automotive pioneer (b. 1876)
1934 Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)
1941 Benjamin Whorf, anthropologist
1941 Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b. 1875)
1941 Marx Dormoy, French socialist, killed by a time bomb
1942 Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b. 1900)
1942 Titus Brandsma (Anno Sjoerd), Dutch Roman Catholic priest and philosopher (Dachau)
1944 Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], cossack officer/shah of Persia
1946 Morris Hirshfield, Polish/US painter
1948 Charles Mills, South African cricketer (Test v England 1891-92)
1952 Eva Peron-Duarte, Argentina's 1st lady
1952 Eva Perón, Argentine First Lady (b. 1919)
1953 Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and premier (1945-50, 51-2) (b. 1883)
1954 Hans Lodeizen (Johan Frederik), poet (Travel to Congo)
1956 Miguel Bernal Jiminez, composer
1957 Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, murdered
1959 Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (Amor)
1960 Cedric Gibbons, American art director (b. 1893)
1960 Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (b. 1879)
1964 Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (b. 1884)
1967 Matthijs Vermeulen, Dutch composer/critic
1968 Lilian Harvey, British actress (Congress Dances)
1969 Frank Loesser, American composer (b. 1910)
1969 Raymond Walburn, actor (Spoilers, Dixie)
1970 Claud Allister, actor (Kiss Me Kate, Quartet)
1970 Robert Taschereau, French Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896)
1971 Diane Arbus, American photographer (b. 1923)
1973 Mike Burke, Pres (NY Yankees)/dir (Madison Sq Garden)
1974 Arthur K Watson, US businessman (IBM)
1974 Charlotte MT "Lotte" Bartschart, actress (Dolle Lola)
1975 Leigh Whipper, actor (Hidden Eye, Jungle Queen)
1977 Gena Branscombe, composer
1977 Hans-Otto Borgmann, composer
1977 Karac Plant, son of Robert Plant
1980 Alan Hoskins
1980 Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928)
1981 Donald Lybbert, composer
1982 Betty Walker, actress (Steve Lawrence Show)
1984 Ed "Psycho" Gein, mass murderer (Psycho based on him) (b. 1906)
1984 George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (Gallup Poll) (b. 1901)
1986 Averell Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1891)
1987 Joe Liggins, US composer (I've a Right to Cry)
1988 Fazlur Rahman Malik, Pakistani scholar (b. 1919)
1990 Brent Mydland, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots) (b. 1952)
1992 Mary Wells, American singer (My Guy) (b. 1943)
1992 Ron Webber
1993 Daniel Fuchs, US, screenwriter (Hard Way)
1993 Matthew Ridgeway, American army general, US Army Chief of Staff (1953-55) (b. 1895)
1994 Christy Henrich, American gymnast (b. 1972)
1994 James Luther Adams, American theologian (b. 1901)
1994 Marino Iandioro, canned tomato pioneer
1994 Terry Scott, British actor (b. 1927)
1994 Thomas Davis, US movie editor/son of MGM-chief Frank D
1994 Tonia Marketaki, Greek film director and screenwriter (b. 1942)
1995 Eleanore Griffin, screenwriter
1995 George W. Romney, American businessman and politician (b. 1907)
1995 Jaime de Mora y Aragon, actor/publicist (Last Judgement)
1995 Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1917)
1995 Raymond Mailloux, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
1996 Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot
1996 Evelyn Levine, composer
2000 John Tukey, American statistician (b. 1915)
2001 Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
2001 Rex Barber, American WWII aviator (b. 1917)
2004 William A. Mitchell, American food chemist (b. 1911)
2005 Alexander Golitzen, American art director (b. 1908)
2005 Betty Astell, British actress (b. 1912)
2005 Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
2005 Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925)
2007 John Normington, English actor (b. 1937)
2007 Lars Forssell, Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy (b. 1928)
2007 Skip Prosser, American basketball coach (b. 1950)
2009 Marcey Jacobson, American photographer (b. 1911)
2010 Sivakant Tiwari, senior legal officer of the Singapore Legal Service (b. 1945)
2011 Margaret Olley, Australian artist (b.1923)
2012 Franz West, Austrian artist
2013 JJ Cale, American rock guitarist
2013 Rolf Haufs, German writer
2015 Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, dies in a coma at 22
2016 Forrest E. Mars Jr., American Candy Manufacturer (Mars)
2016 Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (Kaivos)
