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July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 180 days remaining until the end of the year. The Aphelion, the point in the year when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, occurs around this date.
Events
- 362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
- 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yielded power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed herself empress (Augusta) of the Eastern Roman Empire.
- 836 – Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, was signed.
- 993 – Saint Ulrich of Augsburg was canonized.
- 1054 – A supernova was seen by Chinese, Arab and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remained bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
- 1120 – Jordan II of Capua was anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.
- 1187 – The Crusades: Battle of Hattin – Saladin defeated Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
- 1253 – Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeated Guy of Dampierre.
- 1359 – Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrendered to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
- 1456 – The Siege of Nándorfeqhérvár (Belgrade) began. (Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe)
- 1534 – Christian III was elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
- 1569 – The King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Sigismund II Augustus, signed the document of union between Poland and Lithuania, creating a new state called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1610 – The Battle of Klushino was fought between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish-Muscovite War.
- 1634 – The city of Trois-Rivières was founded in New France (Quebec, Canada)
- 1636 – Providence, Rhode Island was founded.
- 1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois ceded lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, was signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- 1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrendered Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
- 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions were adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts
- 1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
The United States declared its independence in 1776. - 1778 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark captured Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
- 1802 – At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opened.
- 1803 – The Louisiana Purchase was announced to the American people.
- 1817 – In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal began.
- 1826 – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, died the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- 1827 – Slavery was abolished in New York State.
- 1831 – Samuel Francis Smith wrote My Country, 'Tis of Thee for the Boston, MA July 4th festivities.
- 1837 – Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opened between Birmingham and Liverpool.
- 1838 – The Iowa Territory was organized.
- 1855 – In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, was published.
- 1862 – Lewis Carroll told Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg – Vicksburg, Mississippi surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. 150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army was repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
- 1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdrew from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North.
- 1865 – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published.
- 1878 – Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty ran a match race, recalled in the song Molly and Tenbrooks.
- 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Zululand capital of Ulundi was captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
- 1881 – In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opened.
- 1886 – The people of France offered the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
- 1886 – The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrived in Port Moody, British Columbia.
- 1887 – The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joined Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
- 1892 – Western Samoa changed the International Date Line, so that year it had 367 days, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
- 1894 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii was proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
- 1903 – Philippine–American War officially ended.
- 1903 – Dorothy Levitt was reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'.
- 1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocked out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States.
- 1911 – A massive heat wave struck the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
- 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson addressed American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
- 1914 – The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie took place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
- 1918 – Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascended to the throne.
- 1918 – Bolsheviks killed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
- 1927 – The Lockheed Vega first flew.
- 1934 – Leo Szilard patented the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
- 1939 – Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, told a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considered himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announced his retirement from major league baseball.
- 1941 – Nazi troops massacred Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
- 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, began in Prokhorovka village.
- 1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attained full independence from the United States.
- 1947 – The "Indian Independence Bill" was presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the partition of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries – India and Pakistan.
- 1950 – Radio Free Europe first broadcast.
- 1951 – A court in Czechoslovakia sentenced American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on a charge of espionage.
- 1951 – William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor.
- 1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act).
- 1966 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
- 1969 – The Zodiac Killer attacked two teens (one male, one female) at Blue Rock Springs in California. They were his second known victims. The female died.
- 1976 – Israeli commandos raided Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
- 1977 – The George Jackson Brigade planted a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit
- 1982 – Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982): four Iranian diplomats were kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
- 1987 – In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (aka the "Butcher of Lyon") was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 1993 – Sumitomo Chemical's resin plant in Nihama exploded, killing one worker and injuring three others.
- 1997 – NASA's Pathfinder space probe landed on the surface of Mars.
- 1998 – Japan launched the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
- 2004 – The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower was laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
- 2005 – The Deep Impact collider hit the comet Tempel 1.
- 2009 – The Statue of Liberty's crown reopened to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
- 2009 – The first of four days of bombings began on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao.
- 2012 – The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider was announced at CERN.
Births
- 68 – Salonina Matidia, Roman daughter of Ulpia Marciana (d. 119)
- 1330 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367)
- 1546 – Murad III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1595)
- 1694 – Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (d. 1772)
- 1715 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (d. 1769)
- 1719 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)
- 1790 – George Everest, Welsh surveyor and geographer (d. 1866)
- 1799 – Oscar I of Sweden (d. 1859)
- 1804 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d. 1864)
- 1807 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian military and politician (d. 1882)
- 1816 – Hiram Walker, American businessman, founded Canadian club whiskey (d. 1899)
- 1826 – Stephen Foster, American songwriter (d. 1864)
- 1845 – Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist and humanitarian (d. 1905)
- 1847 – James Anthony Bailey, American circus ringmaster (d. 1906)
- 1854 – Victor Babeș, Romanian physician and biologist (d. 1926)
- 1854 – Bill Tilghman, American police officer (d. 1924)
- 1867 – Stephen Mather, American entrepreneur and industrialist (d. 1930)
- 1868 – Johannes van Dijk, Dutch rower (d. 1938)
- 1868 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921)
- 1872 – Calvin Coolidge, American politician, 30th President of the United States (d. 1933)
- 1874 – John McPhee, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1952)
- 1881 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (d. 1968)
- 1882 – Louis B. Mayer, Canadian-American film producer (d. 1957)
- 1883 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (d. 1970)
- 1888 – Henry Armetta, Italian-born American character actor (d. 1945)
- 1895 – Irving Caesar, American songwriter and composer (d. 1996)
- 1896 – Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981)
- 1897 – Alluri Sita Rama Raju, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1924)
- 1898 – Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian (d. 1997)
- 1898 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (d. 1952)
- 1902 – Meyer Lansky, Russian-American gangster (d. 1983)
- 1902 – George Murphy, American actor and politician (d. 1992)
- 1903 – Flor Peeters, Belgian composer, organist, and teacher (d. 1986)
- 1904 – Angela Baddeley, English actress (d. 1976)
- 1905 – Irving Johnson, American sailor and author (d. 1991)
- 1905 – Lionel Trilling, American critic, author, and teacher (d.1975)
- 1907 – Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
- 1907 – Howard Taubman, American critic (d. 1996)
- 1910 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1911 – Mitch Miller, American singer, musician, and producer (d. 2010)
- 1912 – Viviane Romance, French actress (d. 1991)
- 1916 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American-Japanese typist and broadcaster (d. 2006)
- 1916 – Fernand Leduc, Canadian abstract expressionnist painter
- 1917 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947)
- 1918 – Ann Landers, American columnist (d. 2002)
- 1918 – Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984)
- 1918 – Pauline Phillips, American columnist and radio host, created Dear Abby (d. 2013)
- 1918 – Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Tongan king (d. 2006)
- 1920 – Norm Drucker, American basketball referee
- 1920 – Leona Helmsley, American businesswoman (d. 2007)
- 1920 – Fritz Wilde, German footballer (d. 1977)
- 1921 – Gérard Debreu, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- 1921 – Philip Rose, American Broadway producer (d. 2011)
- 1921 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (d. 2003)
- 1923 – Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss politician and lawyer
- 1924 – Eva Marie Saint, American actress
- 1926 – Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer
- 1927 – Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
- 1927 – Neil Simon, American playwright
- 1928 – Giampiero Boniperti, Italian footballer
- 1928 – Chuck Tanner, American baseball player (d. 2011)
- 1929 – Peter Angelos, American businessman and politician
- 1929 – Al Davis, American football executive (d. 2011)
- 1929 – Bill Tuttle, American baseball player (d. 1998)
- 1930 – Mher Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor (d. 1993)
- 1930 – George Steinbrenner, American businessman (d. 2010)
- 1930 – Yuri Tyukalov, Russian rower
- 1931 – Stephen Boyd, Irish actor (d. 1977)
- 1931 – Lawrie Dring, British scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts (d. 2012)
- 1931 – Sébastien Japrisot, French author, director, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
- 1932 – Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian runner
- 1934 – Peter Behn, American voice actor
- 1934 – Yvonne B. Miller, American politician (d. 2012)
- 1934 – Colin Welland, British actor
- 1935 – Paul Scoon, Grenadian politician
- 1936 – Zdzisława Donat, Polish soprano
- 1937 – Thomas Nagel, American philosopher
- 1937 – Queen Sonja of Norway
- 1937 – Richard Rhodes, American journalist and historian
- 1938 – Bill Withers, American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1938 – John Sterling, American sportscaster
- 1940 – Karolyn Grimes, American actress
- 1940 – Dave Rowberry, English pianist and organist
- 1940 – Pat Stapleton, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- 1941 – Sam Farr, American politician
- 1941 – Sergio Oliva, Cuban-American bodybuilder (d. 2012)
- 1941 – Pavel Sedláček, Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1941 – Brian Willson, American lawyer and activist
- 1942 – Hal Lanier, American baseball player
- 1942 – Floyd Little, American football player
- 1942 – Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (d. 2008)
- 1942 – Prince Michael of Kent
- 1942 – Peter Rowan, American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (Earth Opera and Old and in the Way)
- 1943 – Conny Bauer, German trombonist
- 1943 – Emerson Boozer, American football player
- 1943 – Milan Máčala, Czech football coach
- 1943 – Geraldo Rivera, American lawyer, journalist, and author
- 1943 – Alan Wilson, American singer-songwriter and musician (Canned Heat) (d. 1970)
- 1944 – Joe Berardo, Portuguese businessman
- 1944 – Jaimy Gordon, American writer
- 1944 – Ray Meagher, Australian actor
- 1945 – Bruce French, American actor
- 1945 – Andre Spitzer, Romanian-Israeli fencer and coach (d. 1972)
- 1946 – Margaret Delisle, Canadian politician
- 1946 – Tish Howard, American model
- 1946 – Ron Kovic, American activist
- 1946 – Michael Milken, American businessman, financier, and philanthropist
- 1946 – Ed O'Ross, American actor
- 1948 – Ed Armbrister, Bahamian baseball player
- 1948 – René Arnoux, French race car driver
- 1948 – Tommy Körberg, Swedish singer and actor
- 1948 – Jeremy Spencer, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
- 1948 – Phil Wheatley, British civil servant
- 1950 – Philip Craven, former British international wheelchair basketball player
- 1950 – David Jensen, Canadian-English disk jockey
- 1950 – Tonio K, American singer-songwriter
- 1951 – Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
- 1951 – Vladimir Tismăneanu, Romanian-American political scientist
- 1952 – Álvaro Uribe, Colombian politician, 39th President of Colombia
- 1952 – John Waite, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Babys and Bad English)
- 1954 – Morganna, American model and dancer
- 1954 – Jim Beattie, American baseball player
- 1956 – Mark Belling, American radio host
- 1957 – Rein Lang, Estonian politician and diplomat
- 1957 – Chulabhorn Walailak Thai princess
- 1958 – Steve Hartman, American sportscaster
- 1958 – Kirk Pengilly, Australian singer and musician (INXS)
- 1958 – Carl Valentine, English-Canadian footballer
- 1959 – Victoria Abril, Spanish actress
- 1960 – Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (d. 1994)
- 1960 – Mark Steel, British columnist and comedian
- 1960 – Sid Vicious, American wrestler
- 1960 – Barry Windham, American wrestler
- 1961 – Richard Garriott, British video game designer
- 1962 – Neil Morrissey, English actor
- 1962 – Pam Shriver, American tennis player
- 1963 – Henri Leconte, French tennis player
- 1963 – Laureano Márquez, Venezuelan humorist and politologist
- 1963 – José Oquendo, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1963 – William Ramallo, Bolivian footballer
- 1963 – Michael Sweet, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Stryper and Boston)
- 1964 – Cle Kooiman, American soccer player
- 1964 – Elie Saab, Lebanese fashion designer
- 1964 – Mark Slaughter, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Slaughter and Vinnie Vincent Invasion)
- 1964 – Mark Whiting, American director, writer, and actor
- 1965 – Harvey Grant, American basketball player
- 1965 – Horace Grant, American basketball player
- 1965 – Jo Whiley, English radio host
- 1966 – Minas Hantzidis, Greek footballer
- 1966 – Lee Reherman, American actor
- 1967 – Vinny Castilla, Mexican baseball player
- 1967 – Andy Walker, Canadian journalist
- 1967 – Rick Wilkins, American baseball player
- 1968 – Ronni Ancona, Scottish actress
- 1968 – Jack Frost, American guitarist (Seven Witches and The Bronx Casket Co.)
- 1969 – Al Golden (American football), college football coach
- 1969 – Todd Marinovich, American football player
- 1969 – Wilfred Mugeyi, Zimbabwean footballer
- 1970 – Christian Giesler, American bassist (Kreator)
- 1970 – Tony Vidmar, Australian footballer
- 1971 – Koko, American sign language gorilla
- 1971 – Andy Creeggan, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies and The Brothers Creeggan)
- 1971 – Brendan Donnelly, American baseball player
- 1971 – Ned Zelić, Australian footballer
- 1972 – Nina Badrić, Croatian singer-songwriter
- 1972 – Stephen Giles, Canadian canoer
- 1972 – William Goldsmith, American drummer (Sunny Day Real Estate, Foo Fighters, and The Fire Theft)
- 1972 – Mike Knuble, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1972 – Vladimir Kozlov, Ukrainian-American wrestler
- 1973 – Gackt, Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor (Malice Mizer and Skin)
- 1973 – Keiko Ihara, Japanese race car driver
- 1973 – Michael Johnson, Jamaican footballer
- 1973 – Jan Magnussen, Danish race car driver
- 1973 – Tony Popovic, Australian footballer
- 1973 – Elton Williams, Montserratian footballer
- 1974 – La'Roi Glover, American football player
- 1974 – Adrian Griffin, American basketball player
- 1974 – Vince Spadea, American tennis player
- 1975 – Tania Davis, English-Australian violist (Bond)
- 1976 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
- 1976 – Yevgeniya Medvedeva, Russian skier
- 1977 – Orri Páll Dýrason, Icelandic musician (Sigur Rós)
- 1977 – Jonas Kjellgren, Swedish singer, musician, and producer (Scar Symmetry, Centinex, Raubtier, and Carnal Forge)
- 1977 – Zoe Naylor, Australian actress, journalist, and producer
- 1978 – Andrea Gabriel, American actress
- 1978 – Vicky Kaya, Greek model and actress
- 1978 – Stephen McNally, English singer-songwriter (BBMak)
- 1978 – Emile Mpenza, Belgian footballer
- 1978 – Becki Newton, American actress
- 1978 – Katia Zygouli, Greek model and actress
- 1979 – Dumas, Canadian singer
- 1979 – Kevin Thoms, American actor
- 1979 – Mark Twitchell, Canadian murderer
- 1979 – Renny Vega, Venezuelan footballer
- 1980 – Max Elliott Slade, American actor
- 1980 – Kwame Steede, Bermudan footballer
- 1981 – Brock Berlin, American footballer
- 1981 – Francisco Cruceta, Dominican baseball player
- 1981 – Adérito Waldemar Alves Carvalho, Angolan footballer
- 1981 – Tahar Rahim, French actor
- 1981 – Will Smith, American football player
- 1982 – Hannah Harper, English porn actress and director
- 1982 – The Situation, American model and author
- 1983 – Melanie Fiona, Canadian singer
- 1983 – Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian model
- 1983 – Ben Jorgensen, American singer-songwriter and musician (Armor for Sleep)
- 1983 – Amantle Montsho, Botswana sprinter
- 1983 – Andrew Mrotek, American singer and drummer (The Academy Is...)
- 1983 – Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Spanish actor and singer
- 1983 – Miguel Pinto, Chilean footballer
- 1983 – Mattia Serafini, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Jin Akanishi, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (KAT-TUN and Lands)
- 1984 – Gina Glocksen, American singer
- 1984 – Miguel Santos Soares, Timorese footballer
- 1985 – Kane Tenace, Australian footballer
- 1986 – Takahisa Masuda, Japanese singer and actor (NEWS and Tegomass)
- 1986 – Nguyen Ngoc Duy, Vietnamese footballer
- 1986 – Mía Taveras, Dominican model and actress
- 1986 – Fanny Valette, French actress
- 1986 – Holly Wellin, English porn actress and model
- 1987 – Guram Kashia, Georgian footballer
- 1988 – Angelique Boyer, French-Mexican actress, model and singer
- 1989 – Yoon Doo-joon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Beast)
- 1989 – Rodgers Kola, Zambian footballer
- 1989 – Benjamin Büchel, Liechtensteiner footballer
- 1990 – Backer Aloenouvo, Togolese footballer
- 1990 – Kelsi Crain, American model, Miss Louisiana 2010
- 1990 – Rishadi Fauzi, Indonesian footballer
- 1990 – Jake Gardiner, American ice hockey player
- 1990 – David Kross, German actor
- 1990 – Alyssa Miller, American model
- 1990 – Richard Mpong, Ghanaian footballer
- 1990 – Naoki Yamada, Japanese footballer
- 1990 – Ihar Yasinski, Belarusian footballer
- 1991 – Ak Hafiy Tajuddin Rositi, Bruneian runner
- 1992 – Basim, Danish singer-songwriter
- 1992 – Nick Hissom, British model and singer
- 1993 – Thomas Barkhuizen, English footballer
Deaths
- 907 – Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria
- 943 – Taejo of Goryeo (b. 877)
- 965 – Pope Benedict V
- 973 – Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890)
- 1187 – Raynald of Châtillon, French knight (b. 1125)
- 1541 – Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish explorer (b. 1495)
- 1546 – Hayreddin Barbarossa, Greek-Turkish navy officer (b. 1478)
- 1551 – Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell (b. 1514)
- 1603 – Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (b. 1521)
- 1623 – William Byrd, English composer (b. 1540)
- 1641 – Pedro Teixeira, Portuguese explorer
- 1648 – Antoine Daniel, French missionary (b. 1601)
- 1742 – Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
- 1754 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author (b. 1680)
- 1761 – Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
- 1780 – Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (b. 1712)
- 1787 – Charles, Prince of Soubise (b. 1715)
- 1821 – Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
- 1826 – John Adams, American politician, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
- 1826 – Thomas Jefferson, American politician, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
- 1831 – James Monroe, American politician, 5th President of the United States (b. 1758)
- 1848 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer (b. 1768)
- 1850 – William Kirby, English entomologist (b. 1759)
- 1854 – Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (b. 1781)
- 1857 – William L. Marcy, American politician, 21st United States Secretary of State (b. 1786)
- 1881 – Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish philosopher and statesman (b. 1806)
- 1882 – Joseph Brackett, American composer (b. 1797)
- 1891 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, 15th Vice President of the United States (b. 1809)
- 1901 – Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (b. 1843)
- 1902 – Swami Vivekananda, Indian monk (b. 1863)
- 1905 – Élisée Reclus, French geographer, writer, and anarchist (b. 1830)
- 1910 – Melville Weston Fuller, American jurist (b. 1833)
- 1910 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835)
- 1916 – Alan Seeger, American poet (b. 1888)
- 1918 – Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868)
- 1922 – Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1894)
- 1926 – Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian activist and saint (b. 1901)
- 1931 – Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta (b. 1869)
- 1931 – Buddie Petit, American cornettist (b. 1895)
- 1934 – Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1867)
- 1938 – Otto Bauer, Austrian politician (b. 1881)
- 1938 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. 1899)
- 1941 – Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
- 1946 – Gerda Steinhoff, German concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
- 1948 – Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
- 1949 – François Brandt, Dutch rower (b. 1874)
- 1963 – Bernard Freyberg, New Zealander soldier and statesman (b. 1889)
- 1964 – Gaby Morlay, French actress (b. 1893)
- 1964 – Henry (Hank) Sylvern, American organist (b. 1908)
- 1969 – Henri Decoin, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1890)
- 1970 – Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905)
- 1970 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American industrialist (b. 1884)
- 1971 – August Derleth, American writer and editor (b. 1909)
- 1971 – Thomas C. Hart, American admiral (b. 1877)
- 1974 – Georgette Heyer, British author (b. 1902)
- 1974 – Haj Amin al-Husseini, Palestinian Muslim nationalist
- 1976 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier and commander (b. 1946)
- 1976 – Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895)
- 1977 – Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918)
- 1979 – Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer (b. 1905)
- 1980 – Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1895)
- 1982 – Terry Higgins, British AIDS victim (b. 1945)
- 1984 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1949)
- 1986 – Flor Peeters, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1903)
- 1986 – Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899)
- 1988 – Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (b. 1954)
- 1989 – Jack Haig, British actor (b. 1913)
- 1990 – Olive Ann Burns, American author (b. 1924)
- 1991 – Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
- 1991 – Art Sansom, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
- 1992 – Ástor Piazzolla, Argentinian composer (b. 1921)
- 1993 – Bona Arsenault, French-Canadian politician and historian (b. 1903)
- 1994 – Joey Marella, American wrestling referee (b. 1964)
- 1995 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (b. 1919)
- 1995 – Bob Ross, American painter (b. 1942)
- 1997 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (b. 1934)
- 1997 – John Zachary Young, British zoologist (b. 1907)
- 1999 – Leo Garel, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
- 2000 – Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Polish writer (b. 1919)
- 2001 – Keenan Milton, American skateboarder (b. 1974)
- 2002 – Gerald Bales, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1919)
- 2002 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American Air Force general (b. 1912)
- 2002 – Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (b. 1951)
- 2002 – Winnifred Quick, American RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
- 2003 – André Claveau, French singer (b. 1915)
- 2003 – Barry White, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1944)
- 2003 – Larry Burkett, American author and radio host (b. 1939)
- 2004 – Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (b. 1920)
- 2004 – Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), English street entertainer (b. 1932)
- 2005 – Cliff Goupille, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1915)
- 2005 – Hank Stram, American football coach (b. 1923)
- 2007 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer, guitarist, and actor (b. 1979)
- 2007 – Bill Pinkney, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1925)
- 2008 – Thomas M. Disch, American science fiction author (b. 1940)
- 2008 – Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
- 2008 – Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
- 2008 – Terrence Kiel, American football player (b. 1980)
- 2008 – Charles Wheeler, British journalist (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Brenda Joyce, American actress (b. 1917)
- 2009 – Allen Klein, American businessman and talent agent (b. 1931)
- 2009 – Drake Levin, American guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders) (b. 1946)
- 2009 – Steve McNair, American football player (b. 1973)
- 2009 – Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish writer (b. 1935)
- 2009 – Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese politician (b. 1938)
- 2009 – Jim Chapin, American drummer (b. 1919)
- 2010 – Robert Neil Butler, American physician and author (b. 1927)
- 2010 – Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-Lebanese Shiite Muslim cleric and Hezbollah mentor (b. 1935)
- 2011 – Otto von Habsburg, Austrian-Hungarian prince (b. 1912)
- 2012 – Scamper, American rodeo horse (b. 1977)
- 2012 – Peter Bennett, Australian footballer (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Hiren Bhattacharyya, Indian poet (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Jimmy Bivins, American boxer (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Vinzenz Guggenberger, German bishop (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Jeong Min-Hyeong, South Korean footballer (b. 1987)
- 2012 – Eric Sykes, English actor, writer, and director (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Bernie Nolan, Irish actress and singer (b. 1960)
Holidays and observances
- Christian Feast Day:
- Andrew of Crete
- Bertha of Artois
- Blessed Catherine Jarrige
- Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
- Elizabeth of Portugal, patron saint of Coimbra (city holiday), known there as Rainha Santa Isabel.
- Oda of Canterbury
- Ulrich of Augsburg
- July 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Independence Day, celebrates the Declaration of Independence of the United States from Great Britain in 1776. (United States and its dependencies)
- Liberation Day (Rwanda)
- Liberation Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
- Republic Day (Philippines)
External links
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