Events

Pre-1600

• 180 Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.

• 561 Consecration of Pope John III following the death of Pope Pelagius I earlier that year.

• 1048 Damasus II is elected pope, and dies 23 days later.

• 1048 Four year-old Henry IV is crowned as king of Germany in Aachen.

• 1203 The Fourth Crusade assaults Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.

• 1402 Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming dynasty of China.

• 1429 Hundred Years' War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign by Joan of Arc.

• 1453 Battle of Castillon: The last battle of the Hundred Years' War, the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.

• 1489 Sikandar Lodi succeeds Bahlul Khan Lodi as Sultan of Delhi.

1601–1900

• 1717 King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.

• 1762 Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered.

• 1771 Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.

• 1791 Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.

• 1794 The 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne are executed ten days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.

• 1821 The Kingdom of Spain cedes the territory of Florida to the United States.

• 1850 Vega becomes the first star (other than the Sun) to be photographed.

• 1867 Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.

• 1899 NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.

1901–present

• 1918 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

• 1918 The is sunk off Ireland by the German ; five lives are lost.

• 1919 The form of government in the Republic of Finland is officially confirmed with the enactment of the Constitution of Finland. For this reason, July 17 is known as the Day of Democracy (Kansanvallan päivä) in Finland.

• 1932 Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues.

• 1936 Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.

• 1938 Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.

• 1944 Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.

• 1945 World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, hold the Potsdam Conference in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

• 1953 The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.

• 1954 First Indochina War: Viet Minh troops successfully ambush the armoured French column 'G.M.42' in the Battle of Chu Dreh Pass in the Central Highlands. It is the last battle of the war.

• 1962 Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.

• 1968 Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.

• 1973 King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan, while having surgery in Italy, is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan.

• 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.

• 1976 East Timor is annexed and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.

• 1976 The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of New Zealand's participation. Contrary to rulings by other international sports organizations, the IOC had declined to exclude New Zealand because of their participation in South African sporting events during apartheid.

• 1981 A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.

• 1994 Brazil win their fourth World Cup title, defeating Italy 3–2 on penalties.

• 1996 TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.

• 1997 After takeoff from Husein Sastranegara International Airport, Sempati Air Flight 304 crashes into a residential neighborhood in Bandung, killing 28 people.

• 1998 The 7.0 Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.

• 1998 A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing the permanent international court in The Hague, to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.

• 2000 During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, India, killing 60 people.

• 2006 The 7.7 Pangandaran tsunami earthquake severely affects the Indonesian island of Java, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured.

• 2007 TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.

• 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.

• 2014 A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.

• 2014 Eric Garner is killed by police officer Daniel Pantaleo in New York City, after the latter put him in a prohibited chokehold while arresting him.

• 2015 At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1487 Ismail I of Iran (died 1524)

• 1499 Maria Salviati, Italian noblewoman (died 1543)

• 1531 Antoine de Créqui Canaples, Roman Catholic cardinal (died 1574)

1601–1900

• 1674 Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter and theologian (died 1748)

• 1695 Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim (died 1766)

• 1698 Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician and philosopher (died 1759)

• 1708 Frederick Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (died 1769)

• 1714 Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher and academic (died 1762)

• 1744 Elbridge Gerry, American merchant and politician, 5th Vice President of the United States (died 1814)

• 1763 John Jacob Astor, German-American businessman and philanthropist (died 1848)

• 1774 John Wilbur, American minister and theologian (died 1856)

• 1797 Paul Delaroche, French painter and academic (died 1856)

• 1823 Leander Clark, American businessman, judge, and politician (died 1910)

• 1831 Xianfeng Emperor of China (died 1861)

• 1831 Naser al-Din Shah of Qajar Iran (died 1896)

• 1837 Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 7th Secretary of State for Canada (died 1886)

• 1839 Ephraim Shay, American engineer, invented the Shay locomotive (died 1916)

• 1853 Alexius Meinong, Ukrainian-Austrian philosopher and academic (died 1920)

• 1868 Henri Nathansen, Danish director and playwright (died 1944)

• 1870 Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish soldier and bagpipe player (died 1939)

• 1871 Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator (died 1956)

• 1873 Many Benner, French painter (died 1965)

• 1882 James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (died 1949)

• 1888 Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)

• 1889 Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (died 1970)

• 1894 Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (died 1966)

• 1896 Rupert Atkinson, English RAF officer (died 1919)

• 1898 Berenice Abbott, American photographer (died 1991)

• 1898 Osmond Borradaile, Canadian soldier and cinematographer (died 1999)

• 1899 James Cagney, American actor and dancer (died 1986)

1901–present

• 1901 Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver (died 1994)

• 1901 Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet and author (died 1938)

• 1901 Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (died 1982)

• 1902 Christina Stead, Australian author and academic (died 1983)

• 1905 William Gargan, American actor (died 1979)

• 1910 James Coyne, Canadian lawyer and banker, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada (died 2012)

• 1910 Frank Olson, American chemist and microbiologist (died 1953)

• 1911 Lionel Ferbos, American trumpet player (died 2014)

• 1911 Heinz Lehmann, German-Canadian psychiatrist and academic (died 1999)

• 1912 Erwin Bauer, German race car driver (died 1958)

• 1912 Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television host (died 2010)

• 1913 Bertrand Goldberg, American architect, designed the Marina City Building (died 1997)

• 1914 Eleanor Steber, American soprano and educator (died 1990)

• 1915 Bijon Bhattacharya, Indian actor, singer, and screenwriter (died 1978)

• 1915 Arthur Rothstein, American photographer and educator (died 1985)

• 1916 Eleanor Hadley, American economist and policymaker (died 2007)

• 1917 Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (died 2001)

• 1917 Phyllis Diller, American actress, comedian, and voice artist (died 2012)

• 1917 Kenan Evren, Turkish general and politician, 7th President of Turkey (died 2015)

• 1917 Christiane Rochefort, French author (died 1998)

• 1918 Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Guatemalan soldier and politician, President of Guatemala (died 2003)

• 1919 Albert Stubbins, English footballer (died 2002)

• 1920 Gordon Gould, American physicist and academic, invented the laser (died 2005)

• 1920 Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish businessman, 7th President of the International Olympic Committee (died 2010)

• 1921 George Barnes, American guitarist, producer, and songwriter (died 1977)

• 1921 Louis Lachenal, French mountaineer (died 1955)

• 1921 Mary Osborne, American guitarist (died 1992)

• 1921 Toni Stone, American baseball player (died 1996)

• 1921 František Zvarík, Slovak actor (died 2008)

• 1923 Jeanne Block, American psychologist (died 1981)

• 1923 John Cooper, English car designer, co-founded the Cooper Car Company (died 2000)

• 1924 Garde Gardom, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (died 2013)

• 1925 Jimmy Scott, American singer and actor (died 2014)

• 1925 Mohammad Hasan Sharq, Afghan politician

• 1926 Édouard Carpentier, French-Canadian wrestler (died 2010)

• 1926 Willis Carto, American activist and theorist (died 2015)

• 1928 Vince Guaraldi, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1976)

• 1928 Joe Morello, American jazz drummer (Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Blue Rondo à la Turk") (died 2011)

• 1929 Arthur Frommer, American travel writer (died 2024)

• 1929 Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician and academic (died 2023)

• 1932 Niccolò Castiglioni, Italian composer (died 1996)

• 1932 Red Kerr, American basketball player and coach (died 2009)

• 1932 Wojciech Kilar, Polish pianist and composer (died 2013)

• 1932 Karla Kuskin, American author and illustrator (died 2009)

• 1932 Slick Leonard, American basketball player and coach (died 2021)

• 1932 Ian Moir, Australian rugby league player (died 1990)

• 1932 Quino, Spanish-Argentinian cartoonist (died 2020)

• 1932 Hal Riney, American businessman, founded Publicis & Hal Riney (died 2008)

• 1933 Keiko Awaji, Japanese actress (died 2014)

• 1933 Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, Maltese politician, 9th Prime Minister of Malta (died 2022)

• 1933 Mimi Hines, Canadian singer and comedian (died 2024)

• 1933 Tony Pithey, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (died 2006)

• 1934 Lucio Tan, Chinese-Filipino billionaire businessman and educator

• 1935 Diahann Carroll, American actress and singer (died 2019)

• 1935 Peter Schickele, American composer and educator (died 2024)

• 1935 Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor and producer (died 2024)

• 1938 Hermann Huppen, Belgian author and illustrator (died 2026)

• 1939 Andrée Champagne, Canadian actress and politician (died 2020)

• 1939 Spencer Davis, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)

• 1940 Tim Brooke-Taylor, English actor and screenwriter (died 2020)

• 1940 Verne Lundquist, American sportscaster

• 1941 Daryle Lamonica, American football player (died 2022)

• 1941 Bob Taylor, English cricketer

• 1941 Achim Warmbold, German race car driver and manager

• 1942 Gale Garnett, New Zealand–born Canadian singer

• 1942 Connie Hawkins, American basketball player (died 2017)

• 1942 Don Kessinger, American baseball player and manager

• 1942 Zoot Money, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2024)

• 1943 LaVyrle Spencer, American author and educator

• 1944 Mark Burgess, New Zealand cricketer and footballer

• 1944 Catherine Schell, Hungarian-English actress

• 1944 Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer and manager (died 2016)

• 1945 Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia

• 1945 John Patten, Baron Patten, English politician, Secretary of State for Education

• 1946 Chris Crutcher, American novelist and short story writer

• 1946 Ted Sampley, American POW/MIA activist (died 2009)

• 1947 Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St John's, English educator and politician

• 1947 Robert Begerau, German footballer and manager

• 1947 Queen Camilla, Queen Consort of King Charles III of the United Kingdom

• 1947 Wolfgang Flür, German musician (Kraftwerk)

• 1947 Mick Tucker, English rock drummer (Sweet) (died 2002)

• 1948 Ron Asheton, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2009)

• 1948 Luc Bondy, Swiss director and producer (died 2015)

• 1949 Geezer Butler, English bass player and songwriter

• 1949 Charley Steiner, American journalist and sportscaster

• 1950 Sadhan Chandra Majumder, Bangladeshi politician

• 1950 Tengku Sulaiman Shah, Malaysian corporate figure

• 1950 Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)

• 1951 Lucie Arnaz, American actress and singer

• 1951 Mark Bowden, American journalist and author

• 1951 Andrew Robathan, English soldier and politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces

• 1952 David Hasselhoff, American actor, singer, and producer

• 1952 Nicolette Larson, American singer-songwriter (died 1997)

• 1952 Thé Lau, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)

• 1952 Robert R. McCammon, American author

• 1954 Angela Merkel, German chemist and politician, Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021.

• 1954 Edward Natapei, Vanuatuan politician, 6th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (died 2015)

• 1954 J. Michael Straczynski, American author, screenwriter, and producer

• 1955 Sylvie Léonard, Canadian actress and screenwriter

• 1955 Paul Stamets, American mycologist and author

• 1956 Julie Bishop, Australian lawyer and politician, 38th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs

• 1956 Bryan Trottier, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach

• 1957 Bruce Crump, American drummer and songwriter (died 2015)

• 1957 Wendy Freedman, Canadian-American cosmologist and astronomer

• 1958 Wong Kar-wai, Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1958 Suzanne Moore, English journalist

• 1958 Thérèse Rein, Australian businesswoman, founded Ingeus

• 1958 Susan Silver, American music manager

• 1959 Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin, Bangladeshi-English politician

• 1960 Kim Barnett, English cricketer and coach

• 1960 Mark Burnett, English-American screenwriter and producer

• 1960 Nancy Giles, American journalist and actress

• 1960 Robin Shou, Hong Kong martial artist and actor

• 1960 Dawn Upshaw, American soprano

• 1960 Jan Wouters, Dutch footballer and manager

• 1961 António Costa, Portuguese politician, 119th Prime Minister of Portugal

• 1961 Jeremy Hardy, English comedian and actor (died 2019)

• 1963 Regina Belle, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

• 1963 Letsie III of Lesotho

• 1963 Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper and singer (died 2019)

• 1964 Heather Langenkamp, American actress and producer

• 1965 – Alex Winter, British-American actor

• 1966 Sten Tolgfors, Swedish lawyer and politician, 30th Swedish Minister of Defence

• 1969 Jason Clarke, Australian actor

• 1969 Scott Johnson, American cartoonist

• 1969 Jaan Kirsipuu, Estonian cyclist

• 1971 Calbert Cheaney, American basketball player and coach

• 1971 Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist

• 1971 Nico Mattan, Belgian cyclist

• 1972 Donny Marshall, American basketball player and sportscaster

• 1972 Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer and manager

• 1972 Eric Williams, American basketball player

• 1973 Eric Moulds, American football player

• 1974 Claudio López, Argentine footballer

• 1975 Andre Adams, New Zealand cricketer

• 1975 Elena Anaya, Spanish actress

• 1975 Darude, Finnish DJ and producer

• 1975 Loretta Harrop, Australian triathlete

• 1975 Konnie Huq, English television presenter

• 1975 Terence Tao, Australian-American mathematician

• 1975 – Carey Hart, American freestyle motorcycle racer

• 1976 Luke Bryan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1976 Gino D'Acampo, Italian chef and author

• 1976 Dagmara Domińczyk, Polish-American actress

• 1976 Marcos Senna, Brazilian-Spanish footballer

• 1976 Anders Svensson, Swedish footballer and sportscaster

• 1976 Brian K. Vaughan, American comic book and television writer

• 1976 Eric Winter, American actor

• 1977 Andrew Downton, Australian cricketer

• 1977 Leif Hoste, Belgian cyclist

• 1977 Marc Savard, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1978 Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist

• 1978 Jason Jennings, American baseball player

• 1978 Justine Triet, French film director and screenwriter

• 1979 Mike Vogel, American actor

• 1980 Javier Camuñas, Spanish footballer

• 1980 Brett Goldstein, British actor, comedian and writer

• 1980 Ryan Miller, American ice hockey player

• 1981 Hely Ollarves, Venezuelan runner

• 1982 Omari Banks, Anguillan cricketer

• 1982 – Stefania Spampinato, Italian actress

• 1983 Adam Lind, American baseball player

• 1985 Loui Eriksson, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1985 Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer

• 1985 – Tom Cullen, Welsh actor and director

• 1986 DeAngelo Smith, American football player

• 1987 Darius Boyd, Australian rugby league player

• 1987 Jeremih, American singer, songwriter, and record producer

• 1991 Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1992 Billie Lourd, American actress

• 1992 Tatu Sinisalo, Finnish actor

• 1992 – Nick Bjugstad, American ice hockey player

• 1994 Kali Uchis, American singer-songwriter

• 1996 Wonwoo, South Korean rapper and singer

• 1996 – Grace Caroline Currey, American actress

• 1997 OG Anunoby, British basketball player

• 1998 Rosana Serrano, Cuban rower

• 2002 Jordan Lawlar, American baseball player

• 2005 Connor Bedard, Canadian ice hockey player

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 521 Magnus Felix Ennodius, Gallo-Roman bishop

• 855 Leo IV, pope of the Catholic Church (born 790)

• 952 Wu Hanyue, Chinese noblewoman (born 913)

• 961 Du, empress dowager of the Song dynasty

• 1070 Baldwin VI, count of Flanders (born 1030)

• 1085 Robert Guiscard, Norman adventurer

• 1119 Baldwin VII, count of Flanders (born 1093)

• 1210 Sverker II, king of Sweden (born before 1167)

• 1304 Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer (born 1251)

• 1399 Jadwiga, queen of Poland (born 1374)

• 1453 Dmitry Shemyaka, Grand Prince of Moscow

• 1453 John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English commander and politician (born 1387)

• 1531 Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese commander (born 1484)

• 1571 Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (born 1516)

• 1588 Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect and engineer, designed the Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque and Süleymaniye Mosque (born 1489)

1601–1900

• 1603 Mózes Székely, Hungarian noble (born 1553)

• 1642 William, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count, field marshal of the Dutch State Army (born 1592)

• 1645 Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, English-Scottish politician, Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom (born 1587)

• 1704 Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer (born 1657)

• 1709 Robert Bolling, English planter and merchant (born 1646)

• 1725 Thomas King, English and British soldier, MP for Queenborough, lieutenant-governor of Sheerness (born before 1660?).

• 1762 Peter III of Russia (born 1728)

• 1790 Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (born 1723)

• 1791 Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian missionary and author (born 1717)

• 1793 Charlotte Corday, French murderer (born 1768)

• 1794 John Roebuck, English chemist and businessman (born 1718)

• 1845 Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1764)

• 1871 Karl Tausig, Polish virtuoso pianist, arranger and composer (born 1841)

• 1878 Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet and politician (born 1812)

• 1879 Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian-Polish painter (born 1856)

• 1881 Jim Bridger, American scout and explorer (born 1804)

• 1883 Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (born 1829)

• 1885 Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian farmer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Agriculture (born 1811)

• 1894 Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (born 1818)

• 1894 Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (born 1810)

• 1900 Thomas McIlwraith, Scottish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Queensland (born 1835)

1901–present

• 1907 Hector Malot, French author and critic (born 1830)

• 1912 Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (born 1854)

1918 Victims of the Shooting of the Romanov family:

• Nicholas II of Russia (born 1868)

• Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia (born 1872)

• Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (born 1895)

• Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (born 1897)

• Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (born 1899)

• Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (born 1901)

• Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (born 1904)

• Anna Demidova (born 1878)

• Ivan Kharitonov (born 1872)

• Alexei Trupp (born 1858)

• Yevgeny Botkin (born 1865)

• 1925 Lovis Corinth, German painter (born 1858)

• 1928 Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1842)

• 1928 Álvaro Obregón, Mexican general and politician, 39th President of Mexico (born 1880)

• 1932 Rasmus Rasmussen, Norwegian actor, singer, and director (born 1862)

• 1935 George William Russell, Irish poet and painter (born 1867)

• 1942 Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (born 1861)

• 1944 William James Sidis, American mathematician and anthropologist (born 1898)

• 1945 Ernst Busch, German field marshal (born 1885)

• 1946 Florence Fuller, South African-born Australian artist (born 1867)

• 1946 Dragoljub Mihailović, Serbian and Yugoslav general, leader of the Yugoslav army in the fatherland (born 1893)

• 1950 Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (born 1865)

• 1950 Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (born 1885)

• 1959 Billie Holiday, American singer (born 1915)

• 1959 Eugene Meyer, American businessman and publisher (born 1875)

• 1960 Maud Menten, Canadian physician and biochemist (born 1879)

• 1961 Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (born 1886)

• 1961 Emin Halid Onat, Turkish architect and academic (born 1908)

• 1967 John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (born 1926)

• 1974 Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1910)

• 1975 Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (born 1893)

• 1980 Don "Red" Barry, American actor and screenwriter (born 1912)

• 1980 Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1890)

• 1988 Bruiser Brody, American football player and wrestler (born 1946)

• 1989 Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (born 1922)

• 1994 Jean Borotra, French tennis player (born 1898)

• 1994 Paul Tiulana, Iñupiat artist and dancer (born 1921)

• 1995 Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (born 1911)

• 1996 Chas Chandler, English bass player and producer (born 1938)

• 1998 Lillian Hoban, American author and illustrator (born 1925)

• 2001 Katharine Graham, American publisher (born 1917)

• 2002 Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1911)

• 2003 David Kelly, Welsh weapons inspector (born 1944)

• 2003 Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichord player (born 1914)

• 2003 Walter Zapp, Latvian-Swiss inventor, invented the Minox (born 1905)

• 2005 Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (born 1913)

• 2005 Edward Heath, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1916)

• 2006 Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (born 1918)

• 2007 Júlio Redecker, Brazilian politician (born 1956)

• 2009 Walter Cronkite, American journalist and actor (born 1916)

• 2009 Leszek Kołakowski, Polish historian and philosopher (born 1927)

• 2011 David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (born 1967)

• 2011 Taiji Sawada, Japanese musician (born 1966)

• 2012 İlhan Mimaroğlu, Turkish-American composer and producer (born 1926)

• 2012 Marsha Singh, Indian-English politician (born 1954)

• 2013 Henri Alleg, English-French journalist and author (born 1921)

• 2013 Vincenzo Cerami, Italian screenwriter and producer (born 1940)

• 2013 David White, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1933)

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 victims:

• Liam Davison, Australian author and critic (born 1957)

• Shuba Jay, Malaysian actress (born 1976)

• Joep Lange, Dutch physician and academic (born 1954)

• Willem Witteveen, Dutch scholar and politician (born 1952)

• 2014 Henry Hartsfield, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (born 1933)

• 2014 Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (born 1928)

• 2014 Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer (born 1925)

• 2015 Jules Bianchi, French racing driver (born 1989)

• 2015 Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, and academic (born 1916)

• 2019 Marie Sophie Hingst, German historian and blogger who falsely claimed to be descended from Holocaust survivors

• 2020 John Lewis, American civil rights activist and politician (born 1940)

• 2020 Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya, Russian-Australian pair skater (born 2000)

• 2024 Cheng Pei-pei, Chinese actress (born 1946)

• 2024 Mary Gibby, British botanist and professor (born 1949)

• 2024 Bernice Johnson Reagon, American singer, songwriter and scholar (born 1942)

• 2024 Pat Williams, American basketball player (born 1940)

• 2025 Felix Baumgartner, Austrian daredevil (born 1969)

• 2025 Alan Bergman, American songwriter (born 1925)

• 2025 Joanna Kołaczkowska, Polish cabaret performer (born 1966)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Alexius of Rome (Western Church)

• Andrew Zorard

• Cynehelm

• Cynllo

• Inácio de Azevedo

• Jadwiga of Poland

• Magnus Felix Ennodius

• Marcellina

• Martyrs of Compiègne

• Blessed Pavel Peter Gojdič (Greek Catholic Church)

• Pope Leo IV

• Romanov sainthood (Russian Orthodox Church)

• Speratus and companions

• William White (Episcopal Church)

• July 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Constitution Day (South Korea)

• Gion Matsuri (Yasaka Shrine, Kyoto)

• Independence Day (Slovakia)

• International Firgun Day (International)

• King's Birthday (Lesotho)

• U Tirot Sing Day (Meghalaya, India)

• World Day for International Justice (International)

• World Emoji Day (International)

References

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