On this day | July 1st

On this day: July 1st

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AD 69 Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Roman emperor.

552 Battle of Taginae: Byzantine Empire forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the Ostrogoth king, Totila, is mortally wounded.

1097 Battle of Dorylaeum (1097): Crusaders led by prince Bohemond I of Antioch defeat a Seljuk Turks army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.

1431 The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista.

1520 Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés La Noche Triste out of Tenochtitlan after nightfall.

1523 Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.

1569 Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.

1643 First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London.

1690 War of the Grand Alliance: François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg triumphs over an Anglo-Dutch army at the Battle of Fleurus (1690).

1690 Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).

1766 François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's ''Dictionnaire philosophique'' nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.

1770 Lexell's Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of .

1782 Raid on Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (1782): American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

1819 Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It is the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.

1823 The five Central American nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica declare independence from the First Mexican Empire after being Central America under Mexican rule the year prior.

1837 A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.

1855 Signing of the Quinault Treaty: The Quinault people and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.

1858 Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London.

1862 The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.

1862 Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.

1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.

1863 Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.

1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.

1867 The Constitution Act, 1867 takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia Canadian Confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.

1870 The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.

1873 Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.

1874 The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.

1878 Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.

1879 Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine ''The Watchtower''.

1881 The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

1881 General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell Reforms and Childers Reforms reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.

1885 The United States terminates reciprocity (Canadian politics) and fishery agreement with Canada.

1885 The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.

1890 Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraphy cable.

1898 Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.

1901 French government enacts its anti-clerical legislation ''Law of Association'' prohibiting the formation of new monastic orders without governmental approval.

1903 Start of 1903 Tour de France bicycle race.

1908 SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.

1911 Germany despatches the gunship to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.

1915 ''Leutnant'' Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German German Army (German Empire) Luftstreitkräfte army air service achieves Kurt Wintgens # First victory using a synchronized gun with a Synchronization gear armed fighter plane, the Fokker E.I ''Eindecker''.

1916 World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.

1917 Chinese General Zhang Xun seizes control of Beijing and Manchu Restoration, installing Puyi, last emperor of the Qing dynasty, to the throne. The restoration is reversed just shy of two weeks later, when Republic of China (1912–1949) troops regain control of the capital.

1921 The Chinese Communist Party is founded by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union # Name, who seized power in Russia after the 1917 October Revolution, and the Far Eastern Secretariat of the Communist International.

1922 The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.

1923 The Parliament of Canada suspends all History of Chinese immigration to Canada.

1931 United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).

1931 Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a Lockheed Vega aircraft.

1932 Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed.

1935 Regina, Saskatchewan, police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.

1942 World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.

1942 The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.

1943 The Tokyo City and the Tokyo Prefecture are both replaced by the Tokyo Metropolis.

1946 Operation Crossroads # Test Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.

1947 The Philippine Air Force is established.

1948 Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.

1949 The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.

1957 The International Geophysical Year begins.

1958 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.

1958 Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.

1959 Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after International yard and pound between the US, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.

1960 The Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) gains its independence from Italy. Concurrently, it unites as scheduled with the five-day-old State of Somaliland (the former British Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic.

1960 Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President of Ghana as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.

1962 Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.

1963 ZIP codes are introduced for United States Postal Service.

1963 The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet Union Espionage.

1966 The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.

1967 Merger Treaty: The European Community is formally created out of a merger between the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the Euratom.

1968 The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.

1968 The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.

1968 Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States.

1972 The first Gay pride march in Pride London takes place.

1976 Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.

1978 The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.

1979 Sony introduces the Walkman.

1980 "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.

1983 A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62 jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea 1983 Chosonminhang Ilyushin Il-62 crash into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.

1983 The Ministry of State Security (China) is established as China's principal intelligence agency

1984 The PG-13 (Motion Picture Association) rating is introduced by the Motion Picture Association of America.

1987 The American radio station WFAN (AM) in New York City is launched as the world's first sports radio station.

1990 German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.

1991 Cold War: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.

1991 The Finnish operator Radiolinja is launched as the world's first GSM.

1997 China Handover of Hong Kong over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonialism rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Charles III of the United Kingdom, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

1997 Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-94, a re-flight of the prematurely-ended STS-83 mission with the same crew.

1999 The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. In Wales, the powers of the Secretary of State for Wales are transferred to the National Assembly for Wales.

2002 The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.

2002 Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, Überlingen mid-air collision over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.

2003 Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 in Hong Kong.

2004 Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini–Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.

2006 The first operation of Qinghai–Tibet Railway is conducted in China.

2007 Smoking in England is Smoking ban in England in all public indoor spaces.

2008 2008 riot in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.

2013 Croatia becomes the Accession of Croatia to the European Union of the European Union.

2020 The United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement replaces NAFTA.

1311 Liu Bowen, Chinese military strategist, statesman and poet (d. 1375)

1464 Clara Gonzaga, Italian noble (d. 1503)

1481 Christian II of Denmark (d. 1559)

1506 Louis II of Hungary (d. 1526)

1534 Frederick II of Denmark (d. 1588)

1553 Peter Street (carpenter), English carpenter and builder (d. 1609)

1574 Joseph Hall (bishop), English bishop and mystic (d. 1656)

1586 Claudio Saracini, Italian lute player and composer (d. 1630)

1633 Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian and author (d. 1698)

1646 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1716)

1663 Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist (d. 1738)

1725 Rhoda Delaval, English painter and aristocrat (d. 1757)

1725 Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (d. 1807)

1726 Acharya Bhikshu (Jain Monk), Jain saint (d. 1803)

1731 Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Scottish-English admiral (d. 1804)

1742 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (d. 1799)

1771 Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1839)

1788 Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1867)

1804 Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist and politician (d. 1886)

1804 George Sand, French author and playwright (d. 1876)

1807 Thomas Green Clemson, American politician and educator, founder of Clemson University (d. 1888)

1808 Ygnacio del Valle, Mexican-American landowner (d. 1880)

1814 Robert Richard Torrens, Irish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of South Australia (d. 1884)

1818 Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian-Austrian physician and obstetrician (d. 1865)

1818 Karl von Vierordt, German physician, psychologist and academic (d. 1884)

1822 Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet and activist (d. 1888)

1834 Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet and author (d. 1908)

1850 Florence Earle Coates, American poet (d. 1927)

1858 Willard Metcalf, American painter (d. 1925)

1858 Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor and writer of prose and poetry (d. 1924)

1859 DeLancey W. Gill, American painter (d. 1940)

1863 William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (d. 1892)

1869 William Strunk Jr., American author and educator (d. 1946)

1872 Louis Blériot, French pilot and engineer (d. 1936)

1872 William Duddell, English physicist and engineer (d. 1917)

1873 Alice Guy-Blaché, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1968)

1873 Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1954)

1875 Joseph Weil, American con man (d. 1976)

1876 T. J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland (d. 1921)

1878 Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian-German architect (d. 1944)

1879 Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1954)

1881 Edward Battersby Bailey, English geologist (d. 1965)

1882 Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 1962)

1883 Arthur Borton, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1933)

1885 Dorothea Mackellar, Australian author and poet (d. 1968)

1887 Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (d. 1981)

1892 James M. Cain, American author and journalist (d. 1977)

1892 László Lajtha, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1963)

1899 Thomas A. Dorsey, American pianist and composer (d. 1993)

1899 Charles Laughton, English-American actor and director (d. 1962)

1899 Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, President of Greece (d. 1987)

1901 Irna Phillips, American screenwriter (d. 1973)

1902 William Wyler, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1981)

1903 Amy Johnson, English pilot (d. 1941)

1903 Beatrix Lehmann, English actress (d. 1979)

1906 Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician and academic (d. 1992)

1906 Estée Lauder (businesswoman), American businesswoman, co-founder of Estée Lauder Companies (d. 2004)

1907 Norman Pirie, Scottish-English biochemist and virologist (d. 1997)

1909 Emmett Toppino, American sprinter (d. 1971)

1910 Glenn Hardin, American hurdler (d. 1975)

1911 Arnold Alas, Estonian landscape architect and artist (d. 1990)

1911 Sergey Sokolov (commander), Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) (d. 2012)

1912 David Brower, American environmentalist, founder of the Sierra Club Foundation (d. 2000)

1912 Sally Kirkland (editor), American journalist (d. 1989)

1913 Frank Barrett (baseball), American baseball player (d. 1998)

1913 Lee Guttero, American basketball player (d. 2004)

1913 Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 1979)

1914 Thomas Pearson (British Army officer, born 1914), British Army officer (d. 2019)

1914 Christl Cranz, German alpine skier (d. 2004)

1914 Bernard B. Wolfe, American politician (d. 2016)

1915 Willie Dixon, American blues singer-songwriter, bass player, guitarist and producer (d. 1992)

1915 Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, British peer (d. 2000)

1915 Boots Poffenberger, American baseball pitcher (d. 1999)

1915 Joseph Ransohoff, American soldier and neurosurgeon (d. 2001)

1915 Nguyễn Văn Linh, Vietnamese politician (d. 1998)

1916 Olivia de Havilland, British-American actress (d. 2020)

1916 Iosif Shklovsky, Ukrainian astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985)

1916 George C. Stoney, American director and producer (d. 2012)

1917 Humphry Osmond, English-American lieutenant and psychiatrist (d. 2004)

1917 Álvaro Domecq y Díez, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2005)

1918 Ralph Young (singer), American singer and actor (d. 2008)

1918 Ahmed Deedat, South African writer and public speaker (d. 2005)

1918 Pedro Yap, Filipino lawyer (d. 2003)

1919 Arnold Meri, Estonian colonel (d. 2009)

1919 Malik Dohan al-Hassan, Iraqi politician (d. 2021)

1919 Gerald E. Miller, American vice admiral (d. 2014)

1920 Henri Amouroux, French historian and journalist (d. 2007)

1920 Harold Sakata, Japanese-American wrestler and actor (d. 1982)

1920 George I. Fujimoto, American-Japanese chemist (d. 2023)

1921 Seretse Khama, Batswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (d. 1980)

1921 Michalina Wisłocka, Polish gynecologist and sexologist (d. 2005)

1921 Arthur Johnson (canoeist), Canadian canoeist (d. 2003)

1922 Toshi Seeger, German-American activist, co-founder of the Clearwater Festival (d. 2013)

1922 Mordechai Bibi, Israeli politician (d. 2023)

1923 Scotty Bowers, American marine, author and pimp (d. 2019)

1924 Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 2013)

1924 Florence Stanley, American actress (d. 2003)

1924 Georges Rivière, French actor (d. 2011)

1925 Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011)

1925 Art McNally, American football referee (d. 2023)

1926 Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize in Economics laureate (d. 2013)

1926 Carl Hahn, German businessman (d. 2023)

1926 Mohamed Abshir Muse, Somali general (d. 2017)

1926 Hans Werner Henze, German composer and educator (d. 2012)

1927 Alan J. Charig, English paleontologist and author (d. 1997)

1927 Winfield Dunn, American politician, 43rd Governor of Tennessee

1927 Joseph Martin Sartoris, American bishop

1927 Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India (d. 2007)

1929 Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 2014)

1930 Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American director and producer (d. 2005)

1930 Carol Chomsky, American linguist and academic (d. 2008)

1931 Leslie Caron, French actress and dancer

1932 Ze'ev Schiff, French-Israeli journalist and author (d. 2007)

1933 C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (d. 2010)

1934 Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2009)

1934 Jamie Farr, American actor

1934 Jean Marsh, English actress and screenwriter

1934 Sydney Pollack, American actor, director and producer (d. 2008)

1935 James Cotton, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 2017)

1935 David Prowse, English actor (d. 2020)

1936 Wally Amos, American entrepreneur, founder of Famous Amos

1938 Craig Anderson (right-handed pitcher), American baseball player and coach

1938 Hariprasad Chaurasia, Indian flute player and composer

1939 Karen Black, American actress (d. 2013)

1939 Delaney Bramlett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (d. 2008)

1940 Craig Brown (footballer, born 1940), Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2023)

1940 Ela Gandhi, South African activist and politician

1940 Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (d. 1987)

1941 Rod Gilbert, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2021)

1941 Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 2015)

1941 Nicolae Saramandu, Romanian linguist and philologist

1941 Myron Scholes, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate

1941 Twyla Tharp, American dancer and choreographer

1942 Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Iraqi field marshal and politician (d. 2020)

1942 Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress

1942 Andraé Crouch, American singer-songwriter, producer and pastor (d. 2015)

1942 Julia Higgins, English chemist and academic

1943 Philip Brunelle, American conductor and organist

1943 Peeter Lepp, Estonian politician, 37th Mayor of Tallinn

1943 Jeff Wayne, American composer, musician and lyricist

1944 Nurul Haque Miah, Bangladeshi professor and writer (d. 2021)

1945 Mike Burstyn, American actor and singer

1945 Debbie Harry, American singer-songwriter and actress

1946 Mick Aston, English archaeologist and academic (d. 2013)

1946 Erkki Tuomioja, Finnish sergeant and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (Finland)

1946 Kojo Laing, Ghanaian novelist and poet (d. 2017)

1947 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese race car driver

1947 Malcolm Wicks, English academic and politician (d. 2012)

1948 John Ford (musician), English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1949 Néjia Ben Mabrouk, Tunisian-Belgian director and screenwriter

1949 John Farnham, English-Australian singer-songwriter

1949 David Hogan (composer), American composer and educator (d. 1996)

1949 Venkaiah Naidu, Indian lawyer and politician

1950 David Duke, American white supremacist, politician and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard

1951 Trevor Eve, English actor and producer

1951 Anne Feeney, American singer-songwriter and activist (d. 2021)

1951 Julia Goodfellow, English physicist and academic

1951 Klaus-Peter Justus, German runner

1951 Tom Kozelko, American basketball player

1951 Terrence Mann, American actor, singer and dancer

1951 Fred Schneider, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player

1951 Victor Willis, American singer-songwriter, pianist and actor

1952 Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor, producer and screenwriter

1952 David Arkenstone, American composer and performer

1952 David Lane (oncologist), English oncologist and academic

1952 Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

1952 Timothy J. Tobias, American pianist and composer (d. 2006)

1953 Lawrence Gonzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Malta

1953 Mike Haynes (cornerback), American football player

1953 Jadranka Kosor, Croatian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Croatia

1954 Keith Whitley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1989)

1954 Hossein Nuri, Iranian artist and director

1955 Nikolai Demidenko, Russian pianist and educator

1955 Li Keqiang, Chinese economist and politician, 7th Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 2023)

1955 Lisa Scottoline, American lawyer and author

1955 Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi, Tongan politician and military officer, Deputy Prime Minister (d. 2021)

1956 Alan Ruck, American actor

1957 Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (d. 2010)

1957 Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player

1957 Sean O'Driscoll, English footballer and manager

1958 Jack Dyer Crouch II, American diplomat, Deputy National Security Advisor (United States)

1960 Michael Beattie (rugby league), Australian rugby league player and coach

1960 Lynn Jennings, American runner

1960 Evelyn "Champagne" King, American soul/disco singer

1960 Kevin Swords, American rugby player

1961 Malcolm Elliott, English cyclist

1961 Ivan Kaye, English actor

1961 Carl Lewis, American long jumper and runner

1961 Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 1997)

1961 Michelle Wright, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1962 Andre Braugher, American actor (d. 2023)

1962 Mokhzani Mahathir, Malaysian businessman

1963 Roddy Bottum, American singer and keyboard player

1963 Nick Giannopoulos, Australian actor

1963 David Wood (environmental campaigner), American lawyer and environmentalist (d. 2006)

1964 Bernard Laporte, French rugby player and coach

1965 Carl Fogarty, English motorcycle racer

1965 Garry Schofield, English rugby player and coach

1965 Harald Zwart, Norwegian director and producer

1966 Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer and coach

1966 Shawn Burr, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2013)

1967 Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American model and actress

1969 Séamus Egan, American-Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist

1971 Missy Elliott, American rapper, producer, dancer and actress

1971 Julianne Nicholson, American actress

1974 Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorian race walker

1975 Sean Colson, American basketball player and coach

1975 Sufjan Stevens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1976 Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer and coach

1976 Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer

1976 Albert Torrens, Australian rugby league player

1976 Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer and manager

1976 Szymon Ziółkowski, Polish hammer thrower

1977 Tom Frager, Senegalese-French singer-songwriter and guitarist

1977 Keigo Hayashi, Japanese musician

1977 Jarome Iginla, Canadian ice hockey player

1977 Liv Tyler, American actress

1979 Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist and actor

1980 Nelson Cruz, Dominican-American baseball player

1981 Carlo Del Fava, South African-Italian rugby player

1981 Tadhg Kennelly, Irish-Australian footballer

1982 Justin Huber, Australian baseball player

1982 Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player

1982 Adrian Ward (American football), American football player

1982 Fedi Nuril, Indonesian actor, model, and musician

1982 Hilarie Burton, American actress

1983 Leeteuk, South Korean singer and entertainer

1984 Donald Thomas (athlete), Bahamian high jumper

1985 Chris Perez (baseball), American baseball player

1985 Léa Seydoux, French actor

1986 Charlie Blackmon, American baseball player

1986 Andrew Lee (Australian footballer), Australian footballer

1986 Julian Prochnow, German footballer

1987 Michael Schrader, German decathlete

1988 Dedé (footballer, born 1988), Brazilian footballer

1988 Aleksander Lesun, Russian modern pentathlete

1989 Kent Bazemore, American basketball player

1989 Hannah Murray, English actress

1989 Daniel Ricciardo, Australian race car driver

1991 Lucas Vázquez, Spanish footballer

1991 Michael Wacha, American baseball player

1992 Aaron Sanchez (baseball), American baseball player

1994 Chloé Paquet, French tennis player

1995 Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo, Belgian footballer

1995 Savvy Shields, Miss America 2017

1996 Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater

1998 Chloe Bailey, American singer-songwriter and actress

1998 Susan Bandecchi, Swiss tennis player

1998 Aleksandra Golovkina, Lithuanian figure skater

2000 Lalu Muhammad Zohri, Indonesian sprinter

2001 Chosen Jacobs, American actor and singer

2003 Tate McRae, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer

2003 Storm Reid, American actress

552 Totila, Ostrogoth king

992 Queen Heonjeong, Korean queen (b. 966)

1109 Alfonso VI of León and Castile, king of León and Castile (b. 1040)

1224 Hōjō Yoshitoki, regent of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan (b. 1163)

1242 Chagatai Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1183)

1277 Baibars, Egyptian sultan (b. 1223)

1287 Narathihapate, Burmese king (b. 1238)

1321 María de Molina, queen of Castile and León

1348 Joan of England (1335–1348), English princess

1555 John Bradford, English English Reformation, prebendary of Old St Paul's Cathedral (b. 1510)

1589 Lady Saigō, Japanese concubine (b. 1552)

1592 Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer and educator (b. 1535)

1614 Isaac Casaubon, French philologist and scholar (b. 1559)

1622 William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, English politician (b. 1575)

1681 Oliver Plunkett, Irish archbishop and saint (b. 1629)

1736 Ahmed III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1673)

1749 William Jones (mathematician), Welsh mathematician and academic (b. 1675)

1774 Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1705)

1782 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1730)

1784 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)

1787 Charles, Prince of Soubise, French marshal (b. 1715)

1819 The Public Universal Friend, American evangelist (b. 1752)

1839 Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1785)

1860 Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (b. 1800)

1863 John F. Reynolds, American general (b. 1820)

1884 Allan Pinkerton, Scottish-American detective and spy (b. 1819)

1896 Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (b. 1811)

1905 John Hay, American journalist and politician, 37th United States Secretary of State (b. 1838)

1912 Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (b. 1875)

1925 Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (b. 1866)

1934 Ernst Röhm, German paramilitary commander (b. 1887)

1942 Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish writer (b. 1857)

1943 Willem Arondeus, Dutch artist, author and anti-Nazi resistance fighter (b. 1894)

1944 Carl Mayer, Austrian-English screenwriter (b. 1894)

1944 Tanya Savicheva, Russian author (b. 1930)

1948 Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (b. 1904)

1950 Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and educator (b. 1865)

1950 Eliel Saarinen, Finnish-American architect, co-designed the National Museum of Finland (b. 1873)

1951 Tadeusz Borowski, Polish poet, novelist and journalist (b. 1922)

1961 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (b. 1894)

1962 Purushottam Das Tandon, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1882)

1962 Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1882)

1964 Pierre Monteux, French-American viola player and conductor (b. 1875)

1965 Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)

1965 Robert Ruark, American journalist and author (b. 1915)

1966 Frank Verner, American runner (b. 1883)

1967 Gerhard Ritter, German historian and academic (b. 1888)

1968 Fritz Bauer, German judge and politician (b. 1903)

1971 William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1890)

1971 Learie Constantine, Trinidadian-English cricketer, lawyer and politician (b. 1901)

1974 Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, President of Argentina (b. 1895)

1978 Kurt Student, German general and pilot (b. 1890)

1981 Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese author and poet (b. 1921)

1983 Buckminster Fuller, American architect, designed the Montreal Biosphère (b. 1895)

1984 Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (b. 1904)

1990 Jurriaan Schrofer, Dutch sculptor, designer and educator (b. 1926)

1991 Michael Landon, American actor, director and producer (b. 1936)

1992 Franco Cristaldi, Italian screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)

1994 Merriam Modell, American author (b. 1908)

1995 Wolfman Jack, American radio host (b. 1938)

1995 Ian Parkin, English guitarist (Be-Bop Deluxe) (b. 1950)

1996 William T. Cahill, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1904)

1996 Margaux Hemingway, American model and actress (b. 1954)

1996 Steve Tesich, Serbian-American author and screenwriter (b. 1942)

1997 Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)

1997 Charles Werner, American cartoonist (b. 1909)

1999 Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1908)

1999 Forrest Mars Sr., American businessman, creator of M&M's and the Mars (chocolate bar) (b. 1904)

1999 Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)

1999 Sola Sierra, Chilean human rights activist (b. 1935)

2000 Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)

2001 Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1922)

2001 Jean-Louis Rosier, French race car driver (b. 1925)

2003 Herbie Mann, American flute player and saxophonist (b. 1930)

2004 Peter Barnes (playwright), English playwright and screenwriter (b. 1931)

2004 Marlon Brando, American actor and director (b. 1924)

2004 Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer and conductor (b. 1909)

2005 Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter (Four Tops) (b. 1936)

2005 Gus Bodnar, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1923)

2005 Luther Vandross, American singer-songwriter and producer (Change (band)) (b. 1951)

2006 Ryutaro Hashimoto, Japanese politician, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)

2006 Robert Lepikson, Estonian race car driver and politician, Minister of the Interior (Estonia) (b. 1952)

2006 Fred Trueman, English cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1931)

2008 Mel Galley, English guitarist (b. 1948)

2009 Karl Malden, American actor (b. 1912)

2009 Onni Palaste, Finnish soldier and author (b. 1917)

2009 Mollie Sugden, English actress (b. 1922)

2010 Don Coryell, American football player and coach (b. 1924)

2010 Arnold Friberg, American painter and illustrator (b. 1913)

2010 Ilene Woods, American actress and singer (b. 1929)

2012 Peter E. Gillquist, American priest and author (b. 1938)

2012 Ossie Hibbert, Jamaican-American keyboard player and producer (b. 1950)

2012 Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano (b. 1926)

2012 Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot and astronaut (b. 1961)

2012 Jack Richardson (writer), American author and playwright (b. 1934)

2013 Sidney Bryan Berry, American general (b. 1926)

2013 Charles Foley (inventor), American game designer, co-creator of Twister (game) (b. 1930)

2013 William H. Gray (Pennsylvania politician), American minister and politician (b. 1941)

2014 Jean Garon, Canadian economist, lawyer and politician (b. 1938)

2014 Stephen Gaskin, American activist, co-founder of The Farm (Tennessee) (b. 1935)

2014 Bob Jones (police commissioner), English lawyer and politician (b. 1955)

2014 Anatoly Kornukov, Ukrainian-Russian general (b. 1942)

2014 Walter Dean Myers, American author and poet (b. 1937)

2015 Val Doonican, Irish singer and television host (b. 1927)

2015 Czesław Olech, Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1931)

2015 Nicholas Winton, English lieutenant and humanitarian (b. 1909)

2016 Robin Hardy (film director), English author and film director (b. 1929)

2019 Bogusław Schaeffer, Polish composer (b. 1929)

2021 Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (b. 1939)

2023 Dilano van 't Hoff, Dutch race car driver (b. 2004)

Christian feast day:

- Aaron (Syriac Christianity)

- Beatification Antonio Rosmini-Serbati

- Felix of Como

- Junípero Serra

- Julius and Aaron

- Leontius of Autun

- Saint Serf

- Saint Veep

- July 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

- Feast of the Most Precious Blood (removed from official Roman Catholic calendar since 1969)

Armed Forces Day (Singapore)

Bobby Bonilla Day (United States)

Canada Day, formerly Dominion Day (Canada)

Children's Day (Pakistan)

Chinese Communist Party (China)

Day of Officials and Civil Servants (Hungary)

Doctors' Day (India)

Emancipation Day (Sint Maarten and Sint Eustatius)

Engineer's Day (Bahrain, Mexico)

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day (Hong Kong, China)

Independence Day (Burundi), celebrates the independence of Burundi from Belgium in 1962.

Independence Day (Rwanda)

Independence Day (Somalia)

International Tartan Day

July Morning (Bulgaria)

Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) (Suriname)

Madeira Day (Madeira, Portugal)

Moving Day (Quebec) (Canada)

Newfoundland and Labrador Memorial Day

Republic Day (Ghana)

RONPhos Handover Day (Nauru)

Sir Seretse Khama Day (Botswana)

Territory Day (British Virgin Islands)

Territory Day (Northern Territory)

The first day of Van Mahotsav, celebrated until July 7. (India)