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July 20 is the 201st day (202nd in
leap years ) of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar , with 164 days remaining.
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Events
To 1900
King Edward I (1304)
514 -
Roman Catholic Church :
Pope Hormisdas assumes the papacy.
1304 -
Great Britain :
Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold in the
Wars of Scottish Independence ,
Stirling Castle .
1712 -
United Kingdom : The
Riot Act takes effect.
1738 -
North America : French explorer
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of
Lake Michigan .
1810 -
History of Colombia : Citizens of
Bogotá ,
New Granada declare independence from
Spain .
1833 -
United States : An
Anti-Mormon mob in
Independence, Missouri , destroys the
printing press for the
Book of Commandments , now among the most valuable 19th century books.
1861 -
American Civil War : The
Congress of the
Confederate States of America begins sitting in
Richmond, Virginia .
1864 -
American Civil War :
Battle of Peachtree Creek - Near
Atlanta, Georgia ,
Confederate forces led by
General
John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack
Union
troops under
General
William T. Sherman .
1866 -
Austro-Prussian War :
Battle of Lissa - The
Austrian navy, led by
Admiral
Wilhelm von Tegetthoff , defeats the
Italian navy near the island of
Vis .
1871 -
North America :
British Columbia joins the confederation of
Canada .
Chief Sitting Bull (1881)
Twentieth Century
1900-1919
Alexander Kerensky (1917)
1920-1930
1920 -
Europe : The
funeral of
Empress Eugenie of
France is held in
St. Michael's Abbey near
Farnborough ,
England .
1920 -
United States :
Democratic presidential candidate
James M. Cox denounces the campaign fundraising of the
Republicans .
1920 -
United States : Boxer
Jack Johnson is arrested near
San Diego, California as he crosses the border from
Tijuana, Mexico after being on the run for five years after his conviction under the
Mann Act .
1921 -
Illinois :
Governor
Len Small and
Lieutenant Governor
Fred E. Sterling are indicted by the
Sangamon County
grand jury for
embezzlement and defrauding the state of $2,000,000.
1921 -
Massachusetts : The commonwealth's
attorney general issues an opinion that, while the
Nineteenth Amendment gave women the vote, they are barred from running for office under the state
constitution .
1921 -
United States : A
United States Senate committee chaired by
Kenneth McKellar (
D -
Tennessee ) hears testimony of how mine operators hired
private detectives to infiltrate and spy on the
United Mine Workers .
1921 -
Mexico : The Amatian oil fields 129 km south of
Tampico burn, causing millions of dollars in damage.
1921 -
United States :
Air mail service begins between
New York City and
San Francisco .
1921-
Air mail service begins between
New York City and
San Francisco .
1922 -
Africa : The
League of Nations awards mandates of
Togoland to
France and
Tanganyika to the
United Kingdom .
1923 -
United States : In
New York City , the
Ku Klux Klan sues
William Randolph Hearst's International Magazine to stop it from publishing
Ku Klux Klan information from files that the Klan says were stolen.
1923 -
New York State :
New York City
Mayor
"Red Mike" Hylan , in a speech in
Ogdensburg , says both the
Republican and
Democratic Parties are "corrupt manipulators" and urges the public to abandon both of them.
1923 -
Pacific Ocean :
Japan presents a report to the
League of Nations on the
Mandated Islands that presents its administration as liberal and progressive.
1924 -
Persia :
Teheran is under
martial law after the American vice
consul ,
Robert Imbrie , is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people.
1924 -
Olympics : Americans
Helen Wills and
Vincent Richards win the Olympic tennis championships in
Paris .
1924 -
New York State : On a sweltering day,
Coney Island breaks its attendance record as over 600,000 try to escape the heat.
William Jennings Bryan (1925)
Mount Washington, New Hampshire (1929)
1930-1939
Paul von Hindenburg (1932)
1932 -
Germany : President
Paul von Hindenburg signs a decree ordering
Franz von Papen to take control of the
Prussian state government and declares
martial law .
1932 -
United States : In
Washington, D.C. , police fire
tear gas on
World War I veterans part of the
Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the
White House .
1932 -
South America : Crowds in the capitals of
Bolivia and
Paraguay demand their governments declare war on the other after fighting on their border.
1932 -
United States : The
AFL votes to ask President
Herbert Hoover to help it secure a five-day work week.
1933 -
Vice-Chancellor of Germany
Franz von Papen and
Vatican Cardinal
Eugenio Pacelli sign a
concordat on behalf of their respective nations.
1933 -
United Kingdom : 500,000 march against
anti-Semitism in
London .
1933 -
United States :
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt orders new regulations on the trading of grain in order to curb speculators.
1933 -
Germany : Two-hundred
Jewish merchants are arrested in
Nuremberg and paraded through the streets.
1933 -
Tennessee : The state becomes the nineteenth to approve the
Twenty-first Amendment to repeal
Prohibition .
1933 -
Aviation : Aviator
Wiley Post damages his plane as he lands in
Flat, Alaska , on his first round-the-world flight.
1934 -
Minnesota : Police in
Minneaspolis fire upon striking
truck drivers , wounding fifty.
1934 -
Washington : In
Seattle , Mayor
Charles L. Smith leads police in firing
tear gas on and clubbing 2,000 striking
longshoremen .
1934 -
Oregon :
Governor
Julius Meier calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the
Portland docks.
1934 -
Maine : Three murderers serving life sentences escape from the state prison in
Thomaston .
1934 -
Iowa : The state experiences its hottest day on record as the temperature hits 118°F in
Keokuk .
1934 -
United States :
Postmaster General
James A. Farley announces that the
United States Post Office Department turned a $5 million profit in the fiscal year ended
June 30 , the first annual profit since
1919 .
1934 -
United States : President
Franklin D. Roosevelt heads to
Hawaii aboard the cruiser
USS Houston (CA-30) .
1934 -
Andorra :
Spain arrests a man who proclaimed himself the ruler of the tiny principality under the name "Boris I".
1935 -
New York State :
Lightning kills four on the shore at
Brighton Beach .
1935 -
Switzerland : A
Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from
Milan to
Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
1935 -
Ethiopia : Emperor
Hailie Selassie demands
Italy cease its demands on his country.
The Bosphorus from space (1936)
U.S.S. Massachusetts (1939)
1940-1949
1941 -
Soviet Union :
Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the
NKVD and names
Lavrenti Beria its chief.
1941 -
South America : In
Bolivia , the government makes arrests, including the former finance minister
Victor Paz Estenssoro , and shuts down newspapers, claiming a
Nazi coup is in the works.
1941 -
Baseball : In
Detroit, Michigan , the
New York Yankees beat the
Tigers 12-6 in a marathon seventeen inning game.
1942 -
World War II :
Red Army troops take
bridgeheads over the
Don River near
Voronezh .
1942 -
World War II : The first unit of the
Women's Army Corps begins training in
Des Moines, Iowa .
1942 -
World War II : The
Royal Air Force attacks
Fuka
1942 -
United States : The
House of Representatives by a vote of 392-2 passes the largest tax increase in American history, $6.3 billion, and raises corporate tax rates to 90 percent.
1943 -
World War II : American and Canadian troops conquer
Enna on
Sicily .
1943 -
World War II : Axis leaders
Adolf Hitler and
Benito Mussolini confer in northern
Italy
1943 -
World War II : Three
Japanese Navy ships are sunk by American planes near
Vila in the
Solomon Islands .
1943 -
World War II : In
Washington, D.C. , Admiral
Frederick Horne , Vice
Chief of Naval Operations says the
U.S. Navy is planning for the war to last until
1949 .
File:Adolf Hitler Bigger.jpg Adolf Hitler (1944)
Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province (1947)
1950-1959
King Abdullah I (1951)
Quemoy and Matsu, highlighted in pink (1955)
1955 -
Far East :
China shells
Taiwan 's islands
Quemoy and
Matsu .
1955 -
Cold War : The summit between leaders of the
United States ,
Soviet Union ,
France , and the
United Kingdom continues at
Geneva, Switzerland .
1955 -
Michigan : The
United Auto Workers is indicted under the
Federal Corrupt Practices Act for its activities in
Michigan in the
1954 elections.
1955 -
United States : The committee working on the merger of America's two largest labor federations, the
American Federation of Labor and the
Congress of Industrial Organizations , agrees to call the combined organization the "
AFL-CIO "
1956 -
Middle East : The
British Foreign Office announces it was cancelling funding for
Egypt 's
Aswan High Dam
1956 -
United States : A nationwide
civil defense drill, "Operation Alert", is held, simulating a Soviet nuclear strike on seventy-five American cities. As part of the exercise, 10,000 bureaucrats and officials leave
Washington, D.C. , for bunkers around the capital.
Pu Yi (1956)
1960-1969
U.S.S. George Washington (1960)
1960 -
Asia :
Ceylon elects
Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
1960 -
United States : The
Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the
USS George Washington , for the first time.
1960 -
Africa :
Belgium defends its intervention in the
Congo to the
United Nations Security Council while the government of the Congo appeals to the
Soviet Union to send troops to push back the Belgians. The governments of the
United States and
France and the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization warn the Soviets to stay out of the dispute.
1960 -
Africa : In
Salisbury, Rhodesia , 20,000 protest over police brutality.
1960 -
Middle East : In
Lebanon ,
Saeb Salem is named Prime Minister.
1960 -
United States : The
Treasury Department reports the government had a budget surplus of $1,068,101,353 in the fiscal year that ended
June 30 .
1960 -
Israel : The head of the
Physics Department at the
Israel Institute of Technology ,
Kurt Sitte , is arrested for
espionage .
1960 -
South Asia :
King Mahendra of
Nepal arrives in
New Delhi ,
India , for a state visit, the first stop on a three month world tour that will include a visit to the
United States .
1961 -
United States : The
United States House of Representatives rejects President
John F. Kennedy 's proposal to reform the
National Labor Relations Board .
1961 -
United States : President
John F. Kennedy transfers authority for
civil defense planning to the
Defense Department .
1961 -
Middle East : The
Arab League admits
Kuwait to membership.
1961 -
Africa -
French military forces break the
Tunisian
siege of
Bizerte .
Maxwell Taylor (1962)
Abe Fortas (1965)
Buzz Aldrin on the Moon (1969)
1970-1979
Picture of Mars from Viking 1 (1976)
1980-1989
The F-16 fighter (1981)
1981 -
Middle East : The
United States suspends sales of
F-16 fighter jets to
Israel .
1982 -
United Kingdom : The
Provisional IRA detonates two
bombs in
Hyde Park and
Regents Park in central
London , killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.
1982 -
United Kingdom : Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher faces an angry
House of Commons when she refuses to answer questions about
Geoffrey Arthur Prince , an employee of
GCHQ accused of spying for the
Soviet Union .
1983 -
United States : The
United States House of Representatives censures two of its members,
Gerry Studds (
D -
Massachusetts ) and
Daniel B. Crane (
R -
Illinois ), for having sex with congressional pages. Studds was censured, 420-3, for having sex with a sixteen year old male page in
1973 . Crane was censured, 338-87, for having sex with a seventeen year old female page in
1980 .
1983 -
Middle East : The
Israeli cabinet votes to withdraw troops from
Beirut but to remain in southern
Lebanon .
1983 -
United States : The
U.S. House of Representatives voted 220-207 to continue funding for the
MX missile .
1984 -
United States : Officials of the
Miss America pageant ask
Vanessa Lynn Williams to quit after
Penthouse published nude photos of her.
1985 -
Oceanography : The main
ship wreck site of the
Spanish galleon
Nuestra Señora de Atocha (which sank in
1622 ) is found 40 miles off the coast of
Key West, Florida by treasure hunters who soon begin to raise $400 million in
coins and
silver .
1985 -
Africa : The
Organization of African Unity ends its annual meeting in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by declaring that most of the continent's nations are on the brink of economic collapse and blames the developed world for the situation.
1985 -
South Africa : The government declares a state of emergency because of unrest in the black townships.
1985 -
Austria : 120
Polish pilgrims on their way to
Rome ask for
political asylum .
1985-
Caribbean : The government of
Aruba passes legislation to secede from the
Netherlands Antilles .
1986 -
South Africa : Police fire
tear gas into a church service for families of those held under the government's emergency decrees. Near
Johannesburg ,
AFL-CIO chief
Lane Kirkland is detained by police.
1986 -
Massachusetts : In
Cambridge ,
Gerald Amirault of the
Fell Acres Day School is convicted of
molesting nine children.
1986 -
Pennsylvania :
Municipal employees in
Philadelphia vote to return to work after a twenty day strike.
1987 -
Europe :
Morocco announces it will apply for membership in the
European Community .
1987 -
Middle East : The
United Nations Security Council demands a
ceasefire in the
Iran-Iraq War .
1987 -
Arizona : A recall drive is begun against Governor
Evan Mecham .
1987 -
United States : President
Ronald Reagan appoints
Larry Kramer , co-founder of
Gay Men's Health Crisis , to a federal panel on
AIDS .
1987 -
Special Olympics : President
Ronald Reagan signs legislation, Public Law 100-75, designating
August 3 "International Special Olympics Day".
1988 -
United States : The
Democrats nominate Governor
Michael Dukakis of
Massachusetts for President.
1988 -
Cold War : The
United States Department of State rejects a
Soviet offer to dismantle the
Krasnoyarsk radar in exchange for concessions regarding the
ABM Treaty .
1989 -
Space exploration : President
George H.W. Bush calls for a manned mission to
Mars .
The Smithsonian (1989)
1990-1999
William Brennan (1990)
Comet Shoemaker-Levy (1994)
File:Biljana-plav.jpg Biljana Plavšić
21st Century
File:2002 wolympics logo.jpg Salt Lake games logo (2000)
right|thumb|Idi Amin (2003)
Sandy Berger (2004)
File:DelubioSoares-1.jpeg Delubio Soares (2005)
Births
Before 1900
Petrarch (1304)
1304 - Francesco
Petrarch , Italian poet (d.
1374 )
1519 -
Pope Innocent IX
1537 -
Arnaud d'Ossat , French diplomat and writer (d.
1604 )
1620 -
Nikolaes Heinsius , Dutch scholar (d.
1681 )
1659 -
Hyacinthe Rigaud , French painter (d.
1743 )
1661 -
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville , French founder of the colony of Louisiana (d.
1706 )
1673 -
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair , Scottish soldier and diplomat (d.
1747 )
1754 -
Destutt de Tracy , French philosopher (d.
1836 )
1774 -
Auguste Marmont , French marshal (d.
1852 )
1797 -
Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki , Polish explorer and geologist (d.
1873 )
1838 -
Augustin Daly , American playwright (d.
1899 )
1838 -
George Otto Trevelyan , British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
1847 -
Max Liebermann , German artist (d.
1935 )
1849 -
Robert Anderson Van Wyck , Mayor of New York City (d.
1918 )
1858 -
Ivan Vucetic , Croatian anthropologist (d.
1925 )
1864 -
Erik Axel Karlfeldt , Swedish writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1931 )
1865 -
Carlos Avril , French actor (d.
1940 )
1868 -
Miron Cristea , first patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (d. 1939)
1873 -
Alberto Santos-Dumont , Brazilian aviator (d. 1932)
1877 -
William Colman , American actor (d.
1930 )
1881 -
Clyde Benson , American actor (d.
1947 )
1881 -
Hugh Sothern , American actor (d.
1947 )
1884 -
Hellwig F. Rimmen , Danish actor
1889 -
Erich Pommer , German actor (d.
1966 )
1889 -
John Reith , British broadcast executive (d.
1971 )
1889 -
Ruth Weijden (d. 1956)
Theda Bara (1890)
1890 -
Theda Bara , American actress (d.
1955 )
1890 - King
George II of Greece (d.
1947 )
1890 -
Gonzalo Roig , Cuban composer (d. 1970)
1890 -
Richard Billinger , Austrian writer (d. 1965)
1890 -
Freeman H. Owens , American cinematographer
1891 -
Ralph Faukner , American actor and fight choreographer for films (d.
1987 )
1894 -
Errett Cord , automobile entrepreneur
1895 -
László Moholy-Nagy , Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d.
1946 )
1897 -
Tadeus Reichstein , Polish chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1996 )
1897 -
Clifford Braughton , American actor (d.
1979 )
1898 -
Stepan Kayukov , Russian actor (d.
1960 )
1899 -
Melville De Lay , American actor (d.
1947 )
20th Century
1900-1919
Edmund Hillary (1919)
1907 -
Leon Pietraskiewicz , Polish actor (d. 1987)
1909 -
Clint Sharp , American stuntman in films (d. 1989)
1910 -
Louise Rousseau , American screenwriter (d. 1981)
1910 -
Henri Calef , Belgian filmmaker (d. 1994)
1910 -
Muriel Evans , American actress (d. 2000)
1911 -
Mirelle Balin , French actress (d. 1968)
1912 -
Tom McDermott , American actor (d. 1996)
1913 -
Elmer Lahti , Finnish actor
1913 -
Irma Cordoba , Argentine actress
1914 -
Masa Niemi , Finnish actor (d. 1960)
1916 -
Claude Vernier , French actor (d. 1996)
1917 -
Paul Hubschmid , German actor (d. 2001)
1918 -
Cindy Walker , American singer
1919 - Sir
Edmund Hillary , New Zealand mountain climber
1920-1940
1920 -
Elliot Richardson , American politician (d.
1999 )
1920 -
Tommy Prothro , American football coach
1920 -
Dick Lucas , American animator (d. 1997)
1921 - The
Doña Concepcion , descendant of the Austrian rulers of Mexico.
1921 -
Hall Daniels , American composer (d. 1984)
1921 -
Takanobu Hozumi , Japanese actor
1923 -
Stanisław Albinowski , Polish economist and journalist (d.
2005 )
1924 -
Thomas Berger , American novelist
1924 -
Mort Garson , Canadian composer
1924 -
Tor Isedal , Swedish actor (d. 1990)
1924 -
Bob Nichols , American actor
File:Jacques Delors Janez Drnovsek.jpg Jacques Delors (right) (1925)
1925 -
Jacques Delors , French
President of the European Commission
1926 -
Lola Albright , American actress
1926 -
Ilija Ivezic , Yugoslav actor
1926 -
Patricia Cutts , British actress (Coronation Street )(d. 1974)
1927 -
Leon Sinden , British actor
1927 -
Heather Chasen , British actress
1927 -
Paul Marin , American actor
1928 -
Terence Feely , British screenwriter
1928 -
Pavel Kohout , Czech writer
1929 -
Mike Ilitch , American businessman (Little Caesar's Pizza), sports executive, and philanthropist
1929 -
Rajendra Kumar , Indian actor (d. 1999)
1929 -
Zlatko Sudovic , Yugoslav director
1930 -
Oleg Anofriyev , Russian actor
1930 -
James Kenney , British actor (d. 1982)
1932 -
Otto Schily , German politician
1932 -
Ove Verner Hansen , Danish actor
1932 -
Otto Schily , German politician
1933 -
Chuck Daly , American basketball coach
1933 -
Nelson Doubleday , American publisher and baseball executive
1933 -
Cormac McCarthy , American author
1933 -
Rex Williams , English snooker player
Barbara Mikulski (1936)
1934 -
Uwe Johnson , German writer
1934 -
Aliki Vougiouklaki , Greek actress
1934 -
Adriano Reys , Brazilian actor
1935 -
Henson Cargill , American country music singer
1935 -
Sleepy LaBeef , American country music singer
1935 -
Raleigh Bond , American actor (d. 1989)
1936 -
Barbara Mikulski , U.S. Senator from Maryland
1936 -
Ken Johnson , American sound editor in motion pictures
1936 -
Christian Rode , German actor
1936 -
Andrzej Kondratiuk , Polish filmmaker
1937 -
Ken Ogata , Japanese actor
1938 - Dame
Diana Rigg , British actress
1938 -
Natalie Wood , American actress (d.
1981 ))
1938 -
Timothy Scott , American actor (d. 1995)
1939 -
Judy Chicago , American artist
1940-1959
1940 -
Tony Oliva , Cuban-born
Major League Baseball player
1940 -
David Tukhmanov , Russian composer
1941 -
Kurt Raab , German actor (d. 1988)
1941 -
Lyudmila Chursina , Russian actress
1941 -
Koji Ishizaka , Japanese actor
1942 -
Pete Hamilton , American race car driver
1942 -
Yves Mourousi , French television news anchor (d. 1998)
1943 -
Wendy Richard , British television actress (
Are You Being Served? ,
EastEnders )
1943 -
John Lodge , American singer (The
Moody Blues )
1943 -
Ernie Gehr , American film director
1943 -
Chris Murney , American actor
1943 -
Chris Aman , New Zealand race car driver
1944 -
T. G. Sheppard , American country music singer
1945 -
Kim Carnes , American singer and songwriter ("Bette Davis Eyes")
Larry Craig (1945)
1945 -
Larry Craig , U.S. Senator from Idaho
1945 -
Harrison Ellenshaw , American special effects artist in motion pictures
1946 -
Peter Simons , Belgian director
1946 -
Randal Kleiser , American film director (Grease )
1947 -
Gerd Binnig , German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
1947 -
Carlos Santana , Mexican guitarist
1947 -
Judi Connelli , Australian opera singer
1948 -
Niki Haris , American dancer
1948 -
Muse Watson , American actor
1950 -
Tantoo Cardinal , Canadian actress
1950 -
Naseeruddin Shah , Indian actor
1951 -
Anne Dymna , Polish actress
1951 -
Hans Royards , Belgian actor
1951 -
Jeff Rawle , English actor
1952 -
Keiko Maysuzako , Japanese actress
1953 -
Marcia Hines , American-born Australian singer
1954 -
Moira Harris , American actress
1956 -
Paul Cook , English musician (
The Sex Pistols )
1956 -
Donna Dixon , American actress (
Spies Like Us ), wife of
Dan Aykroyd
1958 -
Michael MacNeil , American musician (
Simple Minds )
1959 -
Radney Foster , American singer
1960-1969
1961 -
Robert Peters , American actor
1961 -
Cheryl Rusa , American wrestler (
Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling ) and motion picture stuntwoman
1962 -
Carols Alazraqui , American actor
1963 -
Alexander Zhulin , Russian ice skater
1963 -
Dino Espisito , American singer
1963 -
Frank Whaley , American actor
1963 -
Amir Derakh , American guitarist (
Orgy
1964 -
Chris Cornell , American musician
1964 -
Terri Irwin , American television personality, wife of
Steve Irwin
1964 -
Michael Richard Plowman , British-born Canadian composer
1964 -
Kool G. Rap , American musician
1965 -
Laurent Lucas , French actor
1966 -
Steve Gossard , American musician (
Pearl Jam )
1967 -
Reed Diamond , American actor (
Judging Amy )
1968 -
Michael Park , American actor (
As the World Turns )
1968 -
Jimmy Carson , American hockey player
1968 -
Julian Rhind-Tutt , English actor (
Keen Eddie )
1969 -
Josh Holloway , American actor (
Lost )
1970-1979
File:WI-SRex-C 2x3 240.jpg Simon Rex (1974)
1974 -
Simon Rex , American actor
1974 -
Bengie Molina , American baseball player
1975 -
Erik Hagen , Norwegian footballer
1975 -
Judy Evans Greer , American actress
1975 -
Jason Raize , American actor (
The Lion King ) (d. 2004)
1976 -
Florian Panzer , German actor
1977 -
Kiki Musampa , Congo footballer
1977 -
Dora Lipoucan , German actress
1977 -
Susana Werner , Brazilian actress
1977 -
Bert Ratundo , American actor
1978 -
Tamsyn Lewis , Australian athlete
1978 -
Charlie Korsmo , American actor (
Dick Tracy )
1978 -
Denny Mendez , Italian model and former Miss Italy
1979 -
Claudine Barretto , Filipino actor
1980 to date
Deaths
To 1900
985 -
Pope Boniface VII
1031 - King
Robert II of France (b.
972 )
1156 -
Emperor Toba of Japan (
1103 )
1160 -
Peter Lombard , French theologian
1320 - King
Oshin of Armenia (b.
1282 )
1387 -
Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (b.
1356 )
1398 -
Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March , heir to the throne of England (b.
1374 )
1453 -
Enguerrand de Monstrelet , French chronicler
1454 - King
John II of Castile (b.
1405 )
1524 -
Claude of France , queen of
Louis XII of France (b.
1499 )
1616 -
Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone , English soldier
1704 -
Peregrine White , first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b.
1620 )
1752 -
Johann Christoph Pepusch , German composer (b.
1667 )
1816 -
Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin , Russian poet (b.
1743 )
1866 -
Bernhard Riemann , German mathematician (b.
1826 )
1870 -
Jules de Goncourt , French writer (b.
1830 )
1897 -
Jean Ingelow , English poet (b.
1820 )
Twentieth Century
File:Pope0256c.jpg Leo XIII (1903)
1903 -
Pope Leo XIII (b.
1810 )
1908 -
Demetrius Vikelas , Greek International Olympic Committee president (b.
1835 )
1922 -
Andrey Markov , Russian mathematician (b.
1856 )
1923 -
Pancho Villa , Mexican revolutionary (b.
1878 )
1926 -
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy , head of the Soviet secret police (b.
1877 )
1927 - King
Ferdinand of Romania (b.
1865 )
1937 -
Guglielmo Marconi , Italian inventor, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physics (b.
1874 )
1941 -
Lew Fields , American vaudeville performer (b.
1867 )
1944 -
Mildred Harris , American actress (b.
1901 )
1945 -
Paul Valéry , French author and poet (b.
1871 )
1951 - King
Abdullah I of Jordan (b.
1882 )
1951 -
Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern , Crown Prince of Germany (b.
1882 )
1953 -
Dumarsaid Estime ,
President of Haiti (b. 1900)
1953 -
Jan Struther , British author (b.
1901 )
William D. Leahy (1959)
1959 -
William D. Leahy , American admiral (b.
1875 )
1967 -
Albert Lutuli , South African civil rights leader, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
1973 -
Bruce Lee , American actor and martial artist (b.
1940 )
1982 -
Okot p'Bitek , Ugandan poet (b.
1931 )
1983 -
Frank Reynolds , American television news anchor (b.
1923 )
1990 -
Herbert T. Jenkins , American policeman, former police chief of
Atlanta, Georgia (1947-1973)
1991 -
Earl Robinson , American singer and composer
1992 -
John Bratby , British painter
1993 -
Vincent Foster Jr. , White House deputy counsel (b.
1945 )
1996 -
Colin Mitchell , British Member of Parliament
1997 -
John Akii-Bua , Ugandan hurdler (b.
1949 )
1999 -
Sandra Gould , American actress (
Bewitched ) (b.
1916 )
Twenty-first Century
James Doohan (2005)
Holidays and observances
International
chess day
Colombia -
Independence Day
Japan -
Marine Day (Umi-no-hi, currently it falls on the third
Monday in
July .)
Northern Cyprus - Peace and Freedom Day
Argentina - Friendship Day
Feast day for at least thirteen saints in the Roman Catholic Church: Ss.
Aurelius ,
Margaret of Antioch ,
Wilgefortis ,
Elias ,
Barhadbesciabas ,
Wulmar ,
Sabinus ,
Severa (two of this name) ,
Flavian ,
John of Pulsano ,
Joseph of Barsabas ,
Margaret , and
Paul of St. Zoilus .
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