Events

Pre-1600

• 64 The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.

• 484 Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.

• 711 Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete: Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.

• 803 Bardanes Tourkos is proclaimed emperor by rebellious Byzantine troops.

• 939 Battle of Simancas: King Ramiro II of León defeats the Moorish army under Caliph Abd-al-Rahman III near the city of Simancas.

• 998 Arab–Byzantine wars: Battle of Apamea: Fatimids defeat a Byzantine army near Apamea.

• 1333 Wars of Scottish Independence: The English win a decisive victory over the Scots in the battle of Halidon Hill.

• 1544 Italian War of 1542–46: The first Siege of Boulogne begins.

• 1545 The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.

• 1553 The attempt to install Lady Jane Grey as Queen of England collapses after only nine days.

• 1588 Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.

1601–1900

• 1701 Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.

• 1702 Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.

• 1733 The Ottoman army defeats the Iranian army under Nader Shah in the battle of Baghdad.

• 1817 Unsuccessful in his attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi for the Russian-American Company, Georg Anton Schäffer is forced to admit defeat and leave Kauaʻi.

• 1821 Coronation of George IV of the United Kingdom.

• 1832 The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.

• 1843 Brunel's steamship the is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller, becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.

• 1845 Great New York City Fire of 1845: The last great fire to affect Manhattan begins early in the morning and is subdued that afternoon. The fire kills four firefighters and 26 civilians and destroys 345 buildings.

• 1848 Women's rights: A two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York.

• 1863 American Civil War: Morgan's Raid: At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.

• 1864 Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking: The Qing dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

• 1870 Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.

• 1900 The first line of the Paris Metro opens for operation.

1901–present

• 1903 Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.

• 1916 World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches as part of the Battle of the Somme.

• 1934 The rigid airship surprises the near Clipperton Island with a mail delivery for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, demonstrating its potential for tracking ships at sea.

• 1936 Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain – mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces. People's Olympiad of Barcelona cancelled.

• 1940 World War II: Battle of Cape Spada: The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.

• 1940 Field Marshal Ceremony: First occasion in World War II that Adolf Hitler appoints field marshals due to military achievements.

• 1940 World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.

• 1942 World War II: The Second Happy Time of Hitler's submarines comes to an end, as the increasingly effective American convoy system compels them to return to the central Atlantic.

• 1943 World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.

• 1947 Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.

• 1947 Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.

• 1952 Opening of the Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

• 1957 The largely autobiographical novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh is published.

• 1961 Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.

• 1963 Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.

• 1964 Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.

• 1967 Piedmont Airlines Flight 22, a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727-22, and a twin-engine Cessna 310 collide over Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA. Both aircraft are destroyed and all passengers and crew are killed, including John T. McNaughton, an advisor to Robert McNamara.

• 1969 Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.

• 1972 Dhofar Rebellion: British SAS units help the Omani government against Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman rebels in the Battle of Mirbat.

• 1976 Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.

• 1977 The world's first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal is transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 12:41a.m. Eastern time (ET).

• 1979 The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.

• 1979 The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.

• 1980 Opening of the Summer Olympics in Moscow.

• 1981 In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French President François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.

• 1982 In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.

• 1983 The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.

• 1985 The Val di Stava dam collapses, killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.

• 1989 United Airlines Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa, killing 111.

• 1992 A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort.

• 1994 Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901 is destroyed by a bomb after takeoff from Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Airport in Colón, Panama, killing 21.

• 1997 The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year paramilitary campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.

• 2011 Guinean President Alpha Condé survives an attempted assassination and coup d'état at his residence in Conakry.

• 2012 Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of Kobanî without resistance, starting the Rojava conflict in Northeast Syria.

• 2014 Gunmen in Egypt's western desert province of New Valley Governorate attack a military checkpoint, killing at least 21 soldiers. Egypt reportedly declares a state of emergency on its border with Sudan.

• 2018 The Knesset passes the controversial Nationality Bill, which defines the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.

• 2024 ─ A faulty software update by CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity company, causes global computer outages.

• 2024 ─ The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers a ruling stating that Israel should end its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories. The ICJ identified that all member states of the UN are under an obligation not to recognize the occupation as legal nor "render aid or assistance" toward maintaining Israel's presence in the occupied territories.

• 2025 ─ The tourist boat Wonder Sea capsizes during a thunderstorm in Hạ Long Bay, Vietnam, leaving at least 36 people dead.

• 2026 ─ In East Rutherford, Spain defeat Argentina 1–0 after extra time to win their second FIFA World Cup title.

Births

Pre-1600

• 810 Muhammad al-Bukhari, Persian scholar (died 870)

• 1223 Baibars, sultan of Egypt (died 1277)

• 1420 William VIII, Marquis of Montferrat (died 1483)

• 1569 Conrad Vorstius, Dutch theologian (died 1622)

1601–1900

• 1670 Richard Leveridge, English singer-songwriter (died 1758)

• 1688 Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary and painter (died 1766)

• 1744 Heinrich Christian Boie, German author and poet (died 1806)

• 1759 Marianna Auenbrugger, Austrian pianist and composer (died 1782)

• 1759 Seraphim of Sarov, Russian monk and saint (died 1833)

• 1771 Thomas Talbot, Irish-Canadian colonel and politician (died 1853)

• 1794 José Justo Corro, Mexican politician and president (died 1864)

• 1789 John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (died 1854)

• 1800 Juan José Flores, Venezuelan general and politician, 1st President of Ecuador (died 1864)

• 1814 Samuel Colt, American businessman, founded the Colt's Manufacturing Company (died 1862)

• 1819 Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet, and playwright (died 1890)

• 1822 Princess Augusta of Cambridge (died 1916)

• 1827 Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (died 1857)

• 1834 Edgar Degas, French painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 1917)

• 1835 Justo Rufino Barrios, Guatemalan president (died 1885)

• 1842 Frederic T. Greenhalge, English-American lawyer and politician, 38th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1896)

• 1846 Edward Charles Pickering, American astronomer and physicist (died 1919)

• 1849 Ferdinand Brunetière, French scholar and critic (died 1906)

• 1860 Lizzie Borden, American woman, tried and acquitted for the murders of her father and step-mother in 1892 (died 1927)

• 1864 Fiammetta Wilson, English astronomer (died 1920)

• 1865 Georges Friedel, French mineralogist and crystallographer (died 1933)

• 1865 Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic (died 1939)

• 1868 Florence Foster Jenkins, American soprano and educator (died 1944)

• 1869 Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister of Transport (died 1927)

• 1875 Alice Dunbar Nelson, American poet and activist (died 1935)

• 1876 Joseph Fielding Smith, American religious leader, 10th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1972)

• 1877 Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (died 1949)

• 1881 Friedrich Dessauer, German physicist and philosopher (died 1963)

• 1883 Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator and producer (died 1972)

• 1884 Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, British-born German nobleman and Nazi politician (died 1954)

• 1886 Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (died 1957)

• 1888 Enno Lolling, German physician (died 1945)

• 1890 George II of Greece (died 1947)

• 1891 Earl Hamilton, American baseball player

• 1892 Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1957)

• 1893 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian actor, playwright, and poet (died 1930)

• 1894 Aleksandr Khinchin, Russian mathematician and academic (died 1959)

• 1894 Khawaja Nazimuddin, Bangladeshi-Pakistani politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (died 1965)

• 1894 Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor of the microwave oven (died 1969)

• 1895 Xu Beihong, Chinese painter and academic (died 1953)

• 1896 Reginald Baker, English film producer (died 1985)

• 1896 A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and novelist (died 1981)

• 1896 Bob Meusel, American baseball player and sailor (died 1977)

• 1898 Herbert Marcuse, German-American sociologist and philosopher (died 1979)

• 1899 Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay, Indian physician, author, poet, and playwright (died 1979)

1901–present

• 1902 Samudrala Sr., Indian singer, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1968)

• 1904 Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, American lawyer and farmer (died 1985)

• 1907 Isabel Jewell, American actress (died 1972)

• 1908 Daniel Fry, American contactee (died 1992)

• 1908 Hans Trippel, German engineer, developed Amphicar (died 2001)

• 1909 Balamani Amma, Indian poet and author (died 2004)

• 1912 Peter Leo Gerety, American prelate (died 2016)

• 1913 Kay Linaker, American actress and screenwriter (died 2008)

• 1914 Marius Russo, American baseball player (died 2005)

• 1915 Åke Hellman, Finnish painter (died 2017)

• 1916 Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player and manager (died 2010)

• 1917 William Scranton, American captain and politician, 13th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 2013)

• 1919 Patricia Medina, English-American actress (died 2012)

• 1919 Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet and author (died 2005)

• 1919 Ron Searle, English-Canadian soldier, publisher, and politician, 4th Mayor of Mississauga (died 2015)

• 1920 Robert Mann, American violinist, composer, and conductor (died 2018)

• 1920 Richard Oriani, Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (died 2015)

• 1921 Harold Camping, American evangelist, author, radio host (died 2013)

• 1921 André Moynet, French soldier, race car driver, and politician (died 1993)

• 1921 Elizabeth Spencer, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 2019)

• 1921 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)

• 1922 George McGovern, American lieutenant, historian, and politician (died 2012)

• 1922 Rachel Robinson, American professor, registered nurse, and the widow of baseball player Jackie Robinson

• 1923 Theo Barker, English historian (died 2001)

• 1923 Alex Hannum, American basketball player and coach (died 2002)

• 1923 Joseph Hansen, American author and poet (died 2004)

• 1923 William A. Rusher, American lawyer and journalist (died 2011)

• 1923 Lon Simmons, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2015)

• 1924 Stanley K. Hathaway, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (died 2005)

• 1924 Pat Hingle, American actor and producer (died 2009)

• 1924 Arthur Rankin Jr., American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)

• 1925 Sue Thompson, American singer (died 2021)

• 1926 Helen Gallagher, American actress, singer, and dancer (died 2024)

• 1928 Samuel John Hazo, American author

• 1928 Choi Yun-chil, South Korean long-distance runner and a two-time national champion in the marathon (died 2020)

• 1929 Gaston Glock, Austrian engineer and businessman, co-founded Glock Ges.m.b.H. (died 2023)

• 1929 Orville Turnquest, Bahamian politician

• 1932 Buster Benton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1996)

• 1932 Jan Lindblad, Swedish biologist and photographer (died 1987)

• 1932 Szilárd Keresztes, Hungarian Greek Catholic bishop (died 2025)

• 1934 Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 111th Prime Minister of Portugal (died 1980)

• 1935 Nick Koback, American baseball player and golfer (died 2015)

• 1936 David Colquhoun, English pharmacologist and academic

• 1937 George Hamilton IV, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)

• 1937 Karen Dalton, American country blues and folk singer, guitarist, and banjo player (died 1993)

• 1937 Richard Jordan, American actor (died 1993)

• 1938 Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist and astronomer (died 2025)

• 1938 Tom Raworth, English poet and academic (died 2017)

• 1941 Vikki Carr, American singer and actress

• 1941 Carole Jordan, British astrophysicist and the first female president of the Royal Astronomical Society

• 1941 Neelie Kroes, Dutch politician and diplomat, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society

• 1943 Han Sai Por, Singaporean sculptor and academic

• 1943 Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini, Italian journalist and politician

• 1944 Tim McIntire, American actor and singer (died 1986)

• 1944 Andres Vooremaa, Estonian chess player (died 2022)

• 1945 Paule Baillargeon, Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter

• 1945 Edwin Schlossberg, American designer, author, and husband of Carolyn Kennedy

• 1946 Alan Gorrie, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician

• 1946 Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player and politician

• 1947 André Forcier, Canadian director and screenwriter

• 1947 Hans-Jürgen Kreische, German footballer and manager (died 2026)

• 1947 Bernie Leadon, American guitarist and songwriter

• 1947 Brian May, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and astrophysicist

• 1948 Keith Godchaux, American keyboard player and songwriter (died 1980)

• 1949 Kgalema Motlanthe, South African politician, 3rd President of South Africa

• 1950 Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Finance

• 1950 Freddy Moore, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2022)

• 1950 Adrian Noble, English director and screenwriter

• 1951 Abel Ferrara, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1952 Allen Collins, American guitarist and songwriter (died 1990)

• 1952 Jayne Anne Phillips American novelist and short story writer

• 1953 Howard Schultz, American businessman and author

• 1954 Mark O'Donnell, American playwright (died 2012)

• 1954 Steve O'Donnell, American screenwriter and producer

• 1954 Srđa Trifković, Serbian-American journalist and historian

• 1954 – Alvan Adams, American basketball player

• 1955 Roger Binny, Indian cricketer and sportscaster

• 1955 Dalton McGuinty, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Premier of Ontario

• 1956 Mark Crispin, American computer scientist, designed the IMAP (died 2012)

• 1958 Brad Drewett, Australian tennis player and sportscaster (died 2013)

• 1958 Robert Gibson, American wrestler

• 1958 David Robertson, American conductor

• 1959 Juan J. Campanella, Argentinian director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1960 Atom Egoyan, Egyptian-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1960 Kevin Haskins, English drummer and songwriter

• 1961 Harsha Bhogle, Indian journalist and author

• 1961 Maria Filatova, Russian gymnast

• 1961 Lisa Lampanelli, American comedian, actress, and author

• 1961 Benoît Mariage, Belgian director and screenwriter

• 1961 Hideo Nakata, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1961 Campbell Scott, American actor, director, and producer

• 1962 Anthony Edwards, American actor and director

• 1962 Craig Muni, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1963 Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Swiss musician

• 1963 Garth Nix, Australian author

• 1964 Teresa Edwards, American basketball player

• 1964 Masahiko Kondō, Japanese singer-songwriter and race car driver

• 1965 Evelyn Glennie, Scottish musician

• 1965 Claus-Dieter Wollitz, German footballer and manager

• 1965 – Stuart Scott, American sportscaster (died 2015)

• 1965 – Clea Lewis, American actress

• 1966 – David Segui, American baseball player

• 1967 Yael Abecassis, Israeli model and actress

• 1967 Jean-François Mercier, Canadian comedian, screenwriter, and television host

• 1968 Robb Flynn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1968 Pavel Kuka, Czech footballer and manager

• 1968 Jim Norton, American comedian, actor, and author

• 1969 Matthew Libatique, American cinematographer

• 1970 Bill Chen, American poker player and software designer

• 1970 Christopher Luxon, New Zealand politician, 42nd Prime Minister of New Zealand

• 1970 Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish lawyer and politician, First Minister of Scotland

• 1971 Rene Busch, Estonian tennis player and coach

• 1971 Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer and politician, Mayor of Kyiv

• 1971 Michael Modest, American wrestler

• 1971 Catriona Rowntree, Australian television host

• 1971 Lesroy Weekes, Montserratian cricketer

• 1972 Ebbe Sand, Danish footballer and manager

• 1972 – Tully Bevilaqua, Australian basketball player

• 1973 Martin Powell, English keyboard player and songwriter

• 1973 Scott Walker, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1974 Rey Bucanero, Mexican wrestler

• 1974 Francisco Copado, German footballer and manager

• 1974 Josée Piché, Canadian ice dancer

• 1974 Vince Spadea, American tennis player

• 1974 Preston Wilson, American baseball player and sportscaster

• 1974 Jason McGerr, American drummer

• 1975 Luca Castellazzi, Italian footballer

• 1976 Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor

• 1976 Gonzalo de los Santos, Uruguayan footballer and manager

• 1976 – Vinessa Shaw, American actress

• 1977 Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1977 Tony Mamaluke, American wrestler and manager

• 1977 Ed Smith, English cricketer and journalist

• 1979 Rick Ankiel, American baseball player

• 1979 Josué Anunciado de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer

• 1979 Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer

• 1979 Luke Young, English footballer

• 1980 Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player

• 1980 Giorgio Mondini, Italian race car driver

• 1980 Chris Sullivan, American actor

• 1981 Nenê, Brazilian footballer

• 1981 David Bernard, Jamaican cricketer

• 1981 Mark Gasnier, Australian rugby player and sportscaster

• 1981 Jimmy Gobble, American baseball player

• 1981 Grégory Vignal, French footballer

• 1982 Christopher Bear, American drummer

• 1982 Phil Coke, American baseball player

• 1982 Jared Padalecki, American actor

• 1982 Jess Vanstrattan, Australian footballer

• 1983 Helen Skelton, English television host and actress

• 1983 Fedor Tyutin, Russian ice hockey player

• 1984 Andrea Libman, Canadian voice actress

• 1984 Adam Morrison, American basketball player

• 1984 Ryan O'Byrne, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1984 Lewis Price, Welsh footballer

• 1985 LaMarcus Aldridge, American basketball player

• 1985 Zhou Haibin, Chinese footballer

• 1985 Marina Kuzina, Russian basketball player

• 1985 Hadi Norouzi, Iranian footballer (died 2015)

• 1986 Leandro Greco, Italian footballer

• 1986 Jinder Mahal, Canadian wrestler

• 1987 Yan Gomes, Brazilian-American baseball player

• 1987 Jon Jones, American mixed martial artist

• 1987 Marc Murphy, Australian footballer

• 1988 Shane Dawson, American comedian and actor

• 1988 Kevin Großkreutz, German footballer

• 1988 Jakub Kovář, Czech ice hockey player

• 1988 Cherami Leigh, American actress

• 1988 Trent Williams, American football player

• 1989 Patrick Corbin, American baseball player

• 1989 Sam McKendry, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player

• 1989 James Austin Johnson, American actor and comedian

• 1991 Eray İşcan, Turkish footballer

• 1992 Jake Nicholson, English footballer

• 1994 Christian Welch, Australian rugby league player

• 1995 Romee Strijd, Dutch model

• 1996 Paul Momirovski, Australian rugby league player

• 1997 – Zach Werenski, American ice hockey player

• 1998 Erin Cuthbert, Scottish footballer

• 1998 Karl Jacobs, American YouTuber and streamer

• 1998 Ronaldo Vieira, Bissau-Guinean footballer

• 1999 Kim So-hye, South Korean actress and singer

• 2003 Tyler Downs, American diver

• 2006 Dani Muñoz, Spanish footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 514 Symmachus, pope of the Catholic Church

• 806 Li Shigu, Chinese general (born 778)

• 973 Kyunyeo, Korean monk and poet (born 917)

• 998 Damian Dalassenos, Byzantine general (born 940)

• 1030 Adalberon, French bishop

• 1234 Floris IV, Dutch nobleman (born 1210)

• 1249 Jacopo Tiepolo, doge of Venice

• 1333 John Campbell, Scottish nobleman

• 1333 Alexander Bruce, Scottish nobleman

• 1333 Sir Archibald Douglas, Scottish nobleman

• 1333 Maol Choluim II, Scottish nobleman

• 1333 Kenneth de Moravia, 4th Earl of Sutherland

• 1374 Petrarch, Italian poet and scholar (born 1304)

• 1415 Philippa of Lancaster, Portuguese queen (born 1360)

• 1543 Mary Boleyn, English daughter of Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (born 1499)

1601–1900

• 1631 Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher and academic (born 1550)

• 1742 William Somervile, English poet and author (born 1675)

• 1810 Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Prussian queen (born 1776)

• 1814 Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (born 1774)

• 1824 Agustín de Iturbide, Mexican general and emperor (born 1783)

• 1838 Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemist (born 1785)

• 1850 Margaret Fuller, American journalist and critic (born 1810)

• 1855 Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet and translator (born 1787)

• 1857 Stefano Franscini, Swiss statistician and politician (born 1796)

• 1878 Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1847)

• 1882 John William Bean, English criminal and failed regicide (born 1824)

• 1896 Abraham H. Cannon, American publisher and religious leader (born 1859)

1901–present

• 1913 Clímaco Calderón, Colombian lawyer and politician, 15th President of Colombia (born 1852)

• 1925 John Indermaur, British lawyer (born 1851)

• 1930 Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1844)

• 1933 Kaarle Krohn, Finnish historian and academic (born 1863)

• 1939 Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet and author (born 1850)

• 1941 Špiro Bocarić, Serbian painter, victim of Genocide of Serbs

• 1943 Yekaterina Budanova, Russian captain and pilot (born 1916)

• 1943 Carlo Zangarini, Italian poet and opera librettist (born 1873)

• 1947 U Razak, Burmese educator and politician (born 1898)

• 1947 Aung San, Burmese general and politician (born 1915)

• 1947 Lyuh Woon-hyung, South Korean politician (born 1886)

• 1963 William Andrew, English priest (born 1884)

• 1965 Syngman Rhee, South Korean journalist and politician, 1st President of South Korea (born 1875)

• 1967 John T. McNaughton, United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and an advisor to Robert McNamara (born 1921)

• 1967 Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (born 1884)

• 1969 Stratis Myrivilis, Greek soldier and author (born 1890)

• 1974 Ernő Schwarz, Hungarian-American soccer player and coach (born 1904)

• 1975 Lefty Frizzell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1928)

• 1975 John Alan Coey, American mercenary and medic in the Rhodesian Bush War

• 1977 Karl Ristikivi, Estonian geographer, author, and poet (born 1912)

• 1980 Margaret Craven, American journalist and author (born 1901)

• 1980 Nihat Erim, Turkish jurist and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1912)

• 1980 Hans Morgenthau, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (born 1904)

• 1981 Roger Doucet, Canadian tenor (born 1919)

• 1982 Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (born 1930)

• 1984 Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (born 1896)

• 1984 Aziz Sami, Iraqi writer and translator (born 1895)

• 1985 Janusz Zajdel, Polish author (born 1938)

• 1989 Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish businessman and politician, President of the Republic of Poland (born 1913)

• 1990 Eddie Quillan, American actor (born 1907)

• 1992 Paolo Borsellino, Italian lawyer and judge (born 1940)

• 1994 Victor Barbeau, Canadian author and academic (born 1896)

• 1998 Elmer Valo, Polish-American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1921)

• 2002 Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1952)

• 2002 Alan Lomax, American historian, scholar, and activist (born 1915)

• 2003 Bill Bright, American evangelist and author, founded the Campus Crusade for Christ (born 1921)

• 2003 Pierre Graber, Swiss politician, President of the Swiss National Council (born 1908)

• 2004 Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (born 1902)

• 2004 J. Gordon Edwards, American entomologist, mountaineer, and DDT advocate (born 1919)

• 2004 Francis A. Marzen, American priest and journalist (born 1924)

• 2004 Zenkō Suzuki, Japanese politician, 70th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1911)

• 2005 Edward Bunker, American author and screenwriter (born 1933)

• 2006 Jack Warden, American actor (born 1920)

• 2007 A. K. Faezul Huq, Bangladeshi journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1945)

• 2007 Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentinian cartoonist (born 1944)

• 2008 Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedian and actress (born 1907)

• 2009 Frank McCourt, American author and educator (born 1930)

• 2009 Henry Surtees, English race car driver (born 1991)

• 2010 Cécile Aubry, French actress, author, television screenwriter and director (born 1928)

• 2010 Jon Cleary, Australian author and playwright (born 1917)

• 2012 Humayun Ahmed, Bangladeshi director and playwright (born 1948)

• 2012 Tom Davis, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1952)

• 2012 Mohammad Hassan Ganji, Iranian meteorologist and academic (born 1912)

• 2012 Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general and politician, 16th Vice President of Egypt (born 1935)

• 2012 Sylvia Woods, American businesswoman, co-founded Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem (born 1926)

• 2012 Valiulla Yakupov, Islamic cleric (born 1963)

• 2013 Mikhail Gorsheniov, Russian singer-songwriter (born 1973)

• 2013 Geeto Mongol, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (born 1931)

• 2013 Mel Smith, English actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1952)

• 2013 Bert Trautmann, German footballer and manager (born 1923)

• 2013 Phil Woosnam, Welsh-American soccer player and manager (born 1932)

• 2013 Peter Ziegler, Swiss geologist and academic (born 1928)

• 2013 Leyla Erbil, Turkish author (born 1931)

• 2014 Rubem Alves, Brazilian theologian (born 1933)

• 2014 Skye McCole Bartusiak, American child actress and child model (born 1992)

• 2014 David Easton, Canadian-American political scientist and academic (born 1917)

• 2014 Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician and author (born 1933)

• 2014 James Garner, American actor (born 1928)

• 2014 Jerzy Jurka, Polish biologist (born 1950)

• 2014 Ray King, English footballer and manager (born 1924)

• 2014 Ingemar Odlander, Swedish journalist (born 1936)

• 2014 Harry Pougher, English cricketer (born 1941)

• 2014 Leen Vleggeert, Dutch politician (born 1931)

• 2014 John Winkin, American baseball player, coach, and journalist (born 1919)

• 2015 Van Alexander, American composer and conductor (born 1915)

• 2015 Galina Prozumenshchikova, Ukrainian-Russian swimmer and journalist (born 1948)

• 2015 Carmino Ravosa, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1930)

• 2015 Gennadiy Seleznyov, Russian journalist and politician, 2nd Speaker of the Duma (born 1947)

• 2016 Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer (born 1934)

• 2018 Jon Schnepp, American producer, director, voice actor, editor, writer, cartoonist, animator, and cinematographer (born 1967)

• 2018 Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (born 1993)

• 2019 Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor, director, and producer (born 1944)

• 2024 Toumani Diabaté, Malian musician (born 1965)

• 2024 Iryna Farion, Ukrainian linguist and politician (born 1964)

• 2024 Kevan Gosper, Australian athlete and administrator (born 1933)

• 2024 Sheila Jackson Lee, American lawyer and politician (born 1950)

• 2024 Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Vietnamese politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (born 1944)

• 2024 Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player and police officer (born 1932)

• 2024 James C. Scott, American political scientist and anthropologist (born 1936)

• 2024 Esta TerBlanche, South African actress (born 1973)

Holidays and observances

• Palace Day

Christian feast day:

• Aurea of Córdoba

• Bernold, Bishop of Utrecht

• John Plessington

• Justa and Rufina

• Kirdjun (or Abakerazum)

• Macrina the Younger, Sister of St. Basil the Great

• Symmachus

• July 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Martyrs' Day (Myanmar)

• Sandinista Day or Liberation Day (Nicaragua)

References

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