On this day | July 8th

On this day: July 8th

Credit/Source: Wikipedia

1099 Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the Siege of Jerusalem (1099) by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch.

1167 The Byzantines defeat the Hungarian army battle of Sirmium, forcing the Hungarians to sue for peace.

1283 Roger of Lauria, commanding the Crown of Aragon fleet, Battle of Malta an Capetian House of Anjou fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta.

1497 Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.

1579 Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.

1663 Charles II of England grants John Clarke (Baptist minister) a Royal charter to Rhode Island.

1709 Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava, thus effectively ending Sweden's status as a major power in Europe.

1716 The Battle of Dynekilen forces Sweden to abandon its invasion of Norway.

1730 An estimated 1730 Valparaíso earthquake causes a tsunami that damages more than of Chile's coastline.

1741 Reverend Jonathan Edwards (theologian) preaches to his congregation in Enfield, Connecticut his most famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"; an influence for the First Great Awakening.

1758 French forces hold Fort Carillon against the Kingdom of Great Britain at Ticonderoga, New York.

1760 British forces defeat French forces in the Battle of Restigouche in New France.

1775 The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.

1776 Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon (financier) delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.

1808 Promulgation of the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter Joseph Bonaparte intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.

1822 Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.

1853 The Perry Expedition arrives in Edo Bay with a treaty requesting trade.

1859 King Charles XV of Sweden accedes to the throne of Union between Sweden and Norway.

1864 Ikedaya Incident: The Chōshū Domain Shishi (organization)'s planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.

1874 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin their March West.

1876 The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.

1879 Sailing ship departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.

1889 The first issue of ''The Wall Street Journal'' is published.

1892 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.

1898 The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.

1912 Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads Royalist attack on Chaves against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves Municipality, Portugal.

1932 The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.

1933 The first rugby union Test match (rugby union) between the Australia national rugby union team and the South Africa national rugby union team is played at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town.

1937 Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.

1947 Reports are broadcast that a Unidentified flying object crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.

1948 The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called the Women's Air Force (WAF).

1960 Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.

1962 Ne Win 1962 Rangoon University protests the University of Yangon Student Union building to crush the Student activism.

1965 Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 is destroyed by a bomb near 100 Mile House, Canada, killing 52.

1966 List of Kings of Burundi Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Ntare V of Burundi.

1968 The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement begins in Detroit.

1970 Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.

1972 Israeli Mossad assassinate Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani.

1980 The inaugural 1980 State of Origin game is won by Queensland Rugby League team who defeat New South Wales Rugby League team 20–10 at Lang Park.

1980 Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashes near Almaty International Airport in the then Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (present day Kazakhstan) killing all 166 people on board.

1982 A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein results in the Dujail Massacre over the next several months.

1988 The Island Express (train) train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari Peruman railway accident and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, Kerala in India killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more.

1994 Kim Jong Il begins to assume List of leaders of North Korea of North Korea upon the Death and state funeral of Kim Il Sung of his father, Kim Il Sung.

2003 Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan New International Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117 people on board.

2011 Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the STS-135 of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.

2014 Israel launches an 2014 Gaza War on Gaza amid rising tensions following the 2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers.

2014 The worst historical defeat of the Brazil national football team against the Germany national football team with a result of 1-7 in the semi-finals of the 2014 FIFA World Cup that has been dubbed the Mineirazo.

1478 Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian linguist, poet, and playwright (d. 1550)

1528 Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)

1538 Alberto Bolognetti, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1585)

1545 Carlos, Prince of Asturias (d. 1568)

1593 Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)

1621 Jean de La Fontaine, French author and poet (d. 1695)

1760 Christian Kramp, French mathematician and academic (d. 1826)

1766 Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842)

1779 Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (d. 1851)

1819 Francis Leopold McClintock, Irish admiral and explorer (d. 1907)

1830 Frederick W. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915)

1831 John Pemberton, American chemist and pharmacist, invented Coca-Cola (d. 1888)

1836 Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1914)

1838 Eli Lilly, American soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company (d. 1898)

1838 Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin (d. 1917)

1839 John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company (d. 1937)

1851 Arthur Evans, English archaeologist and academic (d. 1941)

1851 John Murray (Victorian politician), Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Victoria (d. 1916)

1857 Alfred Binet, French psychologist and graphologist (d. 1911)

1867 Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (d. 1945)

1876 Alexandros Papanastasiou, Greek sociologist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1936)

1882 Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (d. 1961)

1885 Ernst Bloch, German philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1977)

1885 Hugo Boss (fashion designer), German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss (d. 1948)

1890 Stanton Macdonald-Wright, American painter (d. 1973)

1892 Richard Aldington, English author and poet (d. 1962)

1892 Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967)

1893 R. Carlyle Buley, American historian and author (d. 1968)

1894 Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1984)

1895 Igor Tamm, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1971)

1898 Melville Ruick, American actor (d. 1972)

1900 George Antheil, American pianist, composer, and author (d. 1959)

1904 Henri Cartan, French mathematician and academic (d. 2008)

1905 Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator and director (d. 1997)

1906 Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the IDS Center and PPG Place (d. 2005)

1907 George W. Romney, American businessman and politician, 43rd Governor of Michigan (d. 1995)

1908 Louis Jordan, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and actor (d. 1975)

1908 Nelson Rockefeller, American businessman and politician, 41st Vice President of the United States (d. 1979)

1908 V. K. R. Varadaraja Rao, Indian economist, politician, professor and educator (d. 1991)

1909 Alan Brown (British Army officer), English soldier (d. 1971)

1909 Ike Petersen, American football player (d. 1995)

1910 Carlos Betances Ramírez, Puerto Rican general (d. 2001)

1911 Ken Farnes, English cricketer (d. 1941)

1913 Alejandra Soler, Spanish politician (d. 2017)

1914 Jyoti Basu, Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 2010)

1914 Billy Eckstine, American singer and trumpet player (d. 1993)

1915 Neil D. Van Sickle, American Air Force major general (d. 2019)

1915 Lowell English, United States Marine Corps general (d. 2005)

1916 Jean Rouverol, American author, actress and screenwriter (d. 2017)

1917 Pamela Brown (actress), English actress (d. 1975)

1917 Faye Emerson, American actress (d. 1983)

1917 J. F. Powers, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1999)

1918 Paul B. Fay, American businessman, soldier, and diplomat, 12th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2009)

1918 Irwin Hasen, American illustrator (d. 2015)

1918 Oluf Reed-Olsen, Norwegian resistance member and pilot (d. 2002)

1918 Julia Pirie, British spy working for MI5 (d. 2008)

1918 Edward B. Giller, American Major General (d. 2017)

1918 Craig Stevens (actor), American actor (d. 2000)

1919 Walter Scheel, German soldier and politician, 4th List of German presidents (d. 2016)

1920 Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (d. 1995)

1921 John Money, New Zealand psychologist and sexologist, known for his research on gender identity, and responsible for controversial involuntary Sex reassignment surgery of David Reimer (d. 2006)

1923 Harrison Dillard, American sprinter and hurdler (d. 2019)

1923 Val Bettin, American actor (d. 2021)

1924 Johnnie Johnson (musician), American pianist and songwriter (d. 2005)

1924 Charles C. Droz, American politician

1925 Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)

1925 Arthur Imperatore Sr., Italian-American businessman (d. 2020)

1925 Bill Mackrides, American football quarterback (d. 2019)

1925 Dominique Nohain, French actor, screenwriter and director (d. 2017)

1926 David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher and author (d. 2014)

1926 John Dingell, American lieutenant and politician (d. 2019)

1926 Martin Riesen, Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender (d. 2003)

1926 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and author (d. 2004)

1927 Maurice Hayes, Irish educator and politician (d. 2017)

1927 Khensur Lungri Namgyel, Tibetan religious leader

1927 Bob Beckham, American country singer (d. 2013)

1928 Balakh Sher Mazari, former prime minister of Pakistan (d. 2022)

1930 Jerry Vale, American singer (d. 2014)

1933 Antonio Lamer, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 2007)

1934 Raquel Correa, Chilean journalist (d. 2012)

1934 Marty Feldman, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1982)

1934 Edward D. DiPrete, American politician

1935 John David Crow, American football player and coach (d. 2015)

1935 Steve Lawrence, American actor and singer (d. 2024)

1935 Vitaly Sevastyanov, Russian engineer and cosmonaut (d. 2010)

1938 Diane Clare, English actress (d. 2013)

1939 Ed Lumley, Canadian businessman and politician, 8th Minister of Communications (Canada)

1940 Joe B. Mauldin, American bass player and songwriter (d. 2015)

1941 Dario Gradi, Italian-English footballer, coach, and manager

1942 Phil Gramm, American economist and politician

1944 Jaimoe, American drummer

1944 Jeffrey Tambor, American actor and singer

1945 Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss politician, 91st President of the Swiss Confederation

1947 Kim Darby, American actress

1947 Jenny Diski, English author and screenwriter (d. 2016)

1947 Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian religious leader, founded the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae

1948 Raffi (musician), Egyptian-Canadian singer-songwriter

1948 Ruby Sales, American civil-rights activist

1949 Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-American chef, restaurateur and entrepreneur

1949 Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian politician, 14th List of Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh (d. 2009)

1951 Alan Ashby, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster

1951 Anjelica Huston, American actress and director

1952 Larry Garner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1952 Jack Lambert (American football), American football player and sportscaster

1952 Marianne Williamson, American author and activist

1956 Terry Puhl, Canadian baseball player and coach

1957 Carlos Cavazo, Mexican-American guitarist and songwriter

1957 Aleksandr Gurnov, Russian journalist and author

1958 Kevin Bacon, American actor and musician

1958 Andreas Carlgren, Swedish educator and politician, 8th Minister for the Environment (Sweden)

1958 Tzipi Livni, Israeli lawyer and politician, 18th Justice Minister of Israel

1959 Pauline Quirke, English actress

1960 Mal Meninga, Australian rugby league player and coach

1961 Ces Drilon, Filipino journalist

1961 Andy Fletcher (musician), English keyboard player (d. 2022)

1961 Toby Keith, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2024)

1961 Karl Seglem, Norwegian saxophonist and record producer

1962 Joan Osborne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1963 Mark Christopher (director), American director and screenwriter

1964 Alexei Gusarov, Russian ice hockey player and manager

1965 Dan Levinson, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader

1966 Ralf Altmeyer, German-Chinese virologist and academic

1966 Shadlog Bernicke, Nauruan politician

1966 Michael Hite, American politician

1967 Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer

1967 Charlie Cardona, Colombian singer

1968 Billy Crudup, American actor

1968 Shane Howarth, New Zealand rugby player and coach

1969 Sugizo, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer

1970 Beck, American singer-songwriter and producer

1970 Mark Butler, Australian politician

1970 Sylvain Gaudreault, Canadian educator and politician

1970 Todd Martin, American tennis player and coach

1971 Neil Jenkins, Welsh rugby player and coach

1972 Karl Dykhuis, Canadian ice hockey player

1972 Sourav Ganguly, Indian cricketer

1972 Shōsuke Tanihara, Japanese actor

1973 Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress and writer

1974 Hu Liang, Chinese field hockey player

1976 Talal El Karkouri, Moroccan footballer

1976 Ellen MacArthur, English sailor

1977 Christian Abbiati, Italian footballer

1977 Paolo Tiralongo, Italian cyclist

1977 Milo Ventimiglia, American actor, director, and producer

1977 Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player

1978 Urmas Rooba, Estonian footballer

1979 Mat McBriar, American football player

1979 Ben Jelen, Scottish-American singer-songwriter

1980 Eric Chouinard, American-Canadian ice hockey player

1980 Robbie Keane, Irish footballer

1981 Wolfram Müller, German runner

1981 Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player

1982 Shonette Azore-Bruce, Barbadian netball player

1982 Sophia Bush, American actress and director

1982 Hakim Warrick, American basketball player

1983 John Bowker (baseball), American baseball player

1983 Rich Peverley, Canadian ice hockey player

1986 Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer

1987 Josh Harrison, American baseball player

1988 Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (d. 2012)

1988 Jesse Sergent, New Zealand cyclist

1989 Yarden Gerbi, Israeli Judo champion

1989 Tor Marius Gromstad, Norwegian footballer (d. 2012)

1990 Kevin Trapp, German footballer

1991 Virgil van Dijk, Dutch footballer

1992 Ariel Camacho, Mexican singer-songwriter (d. 2015)

1992 Son Heung-min, Korean footballer

1993 David Corenswet, American actor

1996 Marlon Humphrey, American football player

1997 Bryce Love, American football player

1998 Maya Hawke, American actress

1998 Jaden Smith, American actor and rapper

1999 İpek Öz, Turkish tennis player

689 Saint Kilian, Irish bishop

810 Pepin of Italy, son of Charlemagne (b. 773)

873 Gunther (archbishop of Cologne), archbishop of Cologne

900 Qatr al-Nada, wife of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tadid

901 Grimbald, French-English monk and saint (b. 827)

975 Edgar the Peaceful, English king (b. 943)

1153 Pope Eugene III (b. 1087)

1253 Theobald I of Navarre (b. 1201)

1261 Adolf IV of Holstein, Count of Schauenburg

1390 Albert of Saxony (philosopher), Bishop of Halberstadt and German philosopher (b. circa 1320)

1538 Diego de Almagro, Spanish general and explorer (b. 1475)

1623 Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)

1689 Edward Wooster, English-American settler (b. 1622)

1695 Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1629)

1716 Robert South, English preacher and theologian (b. 1634)

1721 Elihu Yale, American-English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1649)

1784 Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1735)

1794 Richard Mique, French architect (b. 1728)

1820 Octavia Taylor, daughter of Zachary Taylor (b. 1816)

1823 Henry Raeburn, Scottish portrait painter (b. 1756)

1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and playwright (b. 1792)

1850 Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)

1859 Oscar I of Sweden (b. 1799)

1873 Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter and lithographer (b. 1805)

1887 Ben Holladay, American businessman (b. 1819)

1895 Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (b. 1821)

1905 Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (b. 1834)

1913 Louis Hémon, French-Canadian author (b. 1880)

1917 Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)

1921 Ellen Oliver (suffragette), British sufragette and purity activist (b. 1870)

1930 Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)

1933 Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (b. 1863)

1934 Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer and academic (b. 1848)

1939 Havelock Ellis, English psychologist and author (b. 1859)

1941 Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, historian, and politician (b. 1874)

1942 Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Algerian-French general (b. 1856)

1942 Refik Saydam, Turkish physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1881)

1943 Jean Moulin, French soldier (b. 1899)

1950 Othmar Spann, Austrian sociologist, economist, and philosopher (b. 1878)

1952 August Alle, Estonian lawyer, author, and poet (b. 1890)

1956 Giovanni Papini, Italian journalist, author, and critic (b. 1881)

1965 Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American lawyer and author (b. 1881)

1967 Vivien Leigh, British actress (b. 1913)

1968 Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player (b. 1882)

1971 Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (b. 1893)

1972 Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian writer and politician (b. 1936)

1973 Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)

1973 Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Education Minister of Israel (b. 1884)

1973 Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer and coach (b. 1877)

1979 Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1906)

1979 Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)

1979 Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1917)

1981 Joe McDonnell (hunger striker), Irish Republican Army member (b. 1951)

1981 Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (b. 1902)

1985 Phil Foster, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1913)

1985 Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1909)

1986 Skeeter Webb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1909)

1987 Lionel Chevrier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Minister of Justice (Canada) (b. 1903)

1987 Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and author (b. 1896)

1988 Ray Barbuti, American runner and football player (b. 1905)

1990 Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)

1991 James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)

1993 Abul Hasan Jashori, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and freedom fighter (b. 1918)

1994 Christian-Jaque, French director and screenwriter (b. 1904)

1994 Kim Il Sung, North Korean commander and politician, Eternal leaders of North Korea # Presidency of North Korea before 1994 (b. 1912)

1994 Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American businessman and explorer (b. 1927)

1994 Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930)

1996 Irene Prador, Austrian-born actress and writer (b. 1911)

1998 Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist (b. 1905)

1999 Pete Conrad, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)

2001 John O'Shea (director), New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)

2002 Ward Kimball, American animator and trombonist (b. 1914)

2004 Paula Danziger, American author and educator (b. 1944)

2005 Maurice Baquet, French actor and cellist (b. 1911)

2006 June Allyson, American actress and singer (b. 1917)

2007 Chandra Shekhar, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (b. 1927)

2007 Jack B. Sowards, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1929)

2008 John Templeton, American-born British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1912)

2009 Midnight (musician), American singer-songwriter (b. 1962)

2011 Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (b. 1924)

2011 Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (b. 1918)

2012 Muhammed bin Saud Al Saud, Saudi Arabian politician (b. 1934)

2012 Ernest Borgnine, American actor (b. 1917)

2012 Gyang Dalyop Datong, Nigerian physician and politician (b. 1959)

2012 Martin Pakledinaz, American costume designer (b. 1953)

2013 Dick Gray, American baseball player (b. 1931)

2013 Edmund Morgan (historian), American historian and author (b. 1916)

2013 Claudiney Ramos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1980)

2013 Rubby Sherr, American physicist and academic (b. 1913)

2013 Sundri Uttamchandani, Indian author (b. 1924)

2013 Brett Walker, American songwriter and producer (b. 1961)

2014 Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, Brazilian lawyer and politician (b. 1930)

2014 John Evans (Idaho governor), American soldier and politician, 27th Governor of Idaho (b. 1925)

2014 Ben Pangelinan, Guamanian businessman and politician (b. 1956)

2014 Howard Siler, American bobsledder and coach (b. 1945)

2014 Tom Veryzer, American baseball player (b. 1953)

2015 Ken Stabler, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1945)

2015 James Tate (writer), American poet (b. 1943)

2016 Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist (b. 1928)

2018 Tab Hunter, American actor, pop singer, film producer and author (b. 1931)

2020 Naya Rivera, American actress, model and singer (b. 1987)

2020 Alex Pullin, Australian snowboarder (b. 1987)

2022 Shinzo Abe, Japanese politician (b. 1954)

2022 Larry Storch, American actor and comedian (b. 1923)

2022 Luis Echeverría, Mexican lawyer and politician (b. 1922)

2022 Tony Sirico, American actor (b. 1942)

Christian Calendar of saints:

- Abda and Sabas

- Auspicius of Trier

- Grimbald

- Saint Kilian and Saint Totnan

- Peter and Fevronia Day (Russian Orthodox)

- Procopius of Scythopolis

- Sunniva and companions

- Theobald of Marly

- July 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Armed Forces Day # Ukraine (Ukraine)