July 1

"July 1st" redirects here. For the Ayumi Hamasaki song, see H (EP).

July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 183 days remaining until the end of the year.
The end of this day marks the halfway point of a leap year. It also falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Day in a leap year.

Events

• 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
• 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy. During the fightings king Totila is mortally wounded.
• 1097 – Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk 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.
• 1523 – Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes 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 – Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
• 1766 – Jean-François 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 passes closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
• 1782 – Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
• 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 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 in 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 final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, 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 British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; Sir 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 the 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 and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
• 1885 – The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
• 1890 – Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
• 1898 – Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
• 1903 – Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
• 1908 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
• 1911 – Germany despatches the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
• 1915 – Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Fliegertruppe air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG 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.
• 1921 – The Communist Party of China is founded.
• 1922 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
• 1923 – The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
• 1931 – United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
• 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 – Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since this date, no city in Japan has the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).
• 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 St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
• 1959 – The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference.
• 1959 – Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
• 1960 – Independence of Somalia.
• 1960 – Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its Head of state.
• 1962 – Independence of Rwanda.
• 1962 – Independence of Burundi.
• 1963 – ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
• 1963 – The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
• 1966 – The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
• 1967 – The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
• 1967 – Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion.
• 1968 – The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
• 1968 – The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty 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.
• 1970 – President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
• 1972 – The first Gay Pride march in England 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.
• 1981 – The Wonderland murders occur in the early morning hours in Los Angeles, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash.
• 1983 – A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
• 1984 – The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
• 1987 – The American radio station WFAN in New York, New York is launched as the world's first all-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 – The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
• 1997 – China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
• 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.
• 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 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board.
• 2003 – Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation 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 in China.
• 2007 – The Concert for Diana is held at the new Wembley Stadium in London and broadcast in 140 countries.
• 2007 – Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
• 2008 – Rioting erupts in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
• 2013 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
• 2013 – The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) begins its operative peacekeeping mandate in Mali.
• 2013 – Neptune's moon S/2004 N 1 is discovered.

Births

• 1481 – Christian II of Denmark (d. 1559)
• 1506 – Louis II of Hungary (d. 1526)
• 1534 – Frederick II of Denmark (d. 1588)
• 1574 – Joseph Hall, 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)
• 1723 – Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish politician (d. 1802)
• 1725 – Rhoda Delaval, British artist (d. 1757)
• 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (d. 1807)
• 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 (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, founded Clemson University (d. 1888)
• 1818 – Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian-Austrian physician (d. 1865)
• 1818 – Karl von Vierordt, German physician (d. 1884)
• 1822 – Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet (d. 1888)
• 1834 – Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet and author (d. 1908)
• 1838 – William Paine Lord, American politician, 9th Governor of Oregon (d. 1911)
• 1858 – Willard Metcalf, American painter (d. 1925)
• 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, British physicist and electrical engineer (d. 1917)
• 1873 – Alice Guy-Blaché, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1968)
• 1875 – Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1954)
• 1878 – Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian-German architect (d. 1944)
• 1879 – Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
• 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)
• 1886 – Gabrielle Robinne, French actress (d. 1980)
• 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 (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 actress and screenwriter (d. 1973)
• 1902 – William Wyler, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
• 1903 – Amy Johnson, English pilot (d. 1941)
• 1906 – Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician and academic (d. 1992)
• 1906 – Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founded the Estée Lauder Companies (d. 2004)
• 1907 – Norman Pirie, British biochemist and virologist (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Peter Anders, German tenor (d. 1954)
• 1908 – Ed Gordon, American long jumper (d. 1971)
• 1909 – Emmett Toppino, American sprinter (d. 1971)
• 1910 – Glenn Hardin, American hurdler (d. 1975)
• 1911 – Arnold Alas, Estonian architect (d. 1990)
• 1911 – Sergey Sokolov, Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (d. 2012)
• 1912 – David Brower, American environmentalist, founded Sierra Club Foundation (d. 2000)
• 1912 – Sally Kirkland, American journalist (d. 1989)
• 1913 – Frank Barrett, American baseball player (d. 1998)
• 1913 – Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 1979)
• 1914 – P. Kandiah, Ceylonese academic and politician (d. 1960)
• 1914 – Earle Warren, American saxophonist and singer (d. 1994)
• 1915 – Willie Dixon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1992)
• 1915 – Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Jean Stafford, American author and academic (d. 1979)
• 1915 – Nguyễn Văn Linh, Vietnamese politician (d. 1998)
• 1916 – Olivia de Havilland, Japanese-American actress
• 1916 – Iosif Shklovsky, Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985)
• 1917 – Humphry Osmond, English-American psychiatrist (d. 2004)
• 1919 – Arnold Meri, Estonian colonel (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Henri Amouroux, French historian and journalist (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Jean-Marie Fortier, Canadian archbishop (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Harold Sakata, American wrestler and actor (d. 1982)
• 1921 – Seretse Khama, Batswana politician, 1st President of Botswana (d. 1980)
• 1921 – Michalina Wisłocka, Polish gynecologist and sexologist, (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Toshi Seeger, German-American activist, co-founded the Clearwater Festival (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Florence Stanley, American actress and director (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011)
• 1926 – Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Carl Hahn, German businessman
• 1926 – Hans Werner Henze, German composer (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Alan J. Charig, English paleontologist and author (d. 1997)
• 1928 – Bobby Day, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (The Hollywood Flames and Bob & Earl) (d. 1990)
• 1929 – Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Ödön Földessy, Hungarian long jumper
• 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 and screenwriter
• 1934 – Jean Marsh, English actress and screenwriter
• 1934 – Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2008)
• 1934 – Lothar Koch, German oboist (d. 2003)
• 1935 – James Cotton, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player
• 1936 – Syl Johnson, American singer, guitarist, and producer
• 1938 – Craig Anderson, American baseball player
• 1938 – Hariprasad Chaurasia, Indian flute player and composer
• 1939 – Karen Black, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Delaney Bramlett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Delaney & Bonnie) (d. 2008)
• 1940 – Craig Brown, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1940 – Ela Gandhi, South African Member of Parliament and peace activist
• 1941 – Rod Gilbert, Canadian-American ice hockey player
• 1941 – Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1941 – Myron Scholes, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1941 – Twyla Tharp, American dancer and choreographer
• 1942 – Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Iraqi field marshal and politician (d. 2015)
• 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 pianist and composer
• 1944 – Lew Rockwell, American author and activist
• 1945 – Debbie Harry, American singer, songwriter and actress (Blondie and The Wind in the Willows)
• 1946 – Mick Aston, English archaeologist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Masaharu Satō, Japanese voice actor
• 1946 – Erkki Tuomioja, Finnish politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs
• 1947 – Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese race car driver
• 1947 – Malcolm Wicks, English academic and politician (d. 2012)
• 1949 – Néjia Ben Mabrouk, Tunisian-Belgian director and screenwriter
• 1949 – John Farnham, English-Australian singer and songwriter (Little River Band)
• 1949 – David Hogan, American composer (d. 1996)
• 1949 – Venkaiah Naidu, Indian politician
• 1950 – David Duke, American activist, author, and politician
• 1951 – Trevor Eve, English actor and producer
• 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 (The B-52's and The Superions)
• 1951 – Victor Willis, American singer, songwriter, pianist, and actor (Village People)
• 1952 – Dan Aykroyd, Canadian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1953 – Lawrence Gonzi, Maltese politician, 12th Prime Minister of Malta
• 1953 – Jadranka Kosor, Croatian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Croatia
• 1955 – Nikolai Demidenko, Russian pianist and educator
• 1955 – Li Keqiang, Chinese economist and politician, 7th Premier of the People's Republic of China
• 1955 – Lisa Scottoline, American author
• 1955 – Keith Whitley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1989)
• 1956 – Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor and director (d. 2009)
• 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
• 1959 – Dale Midkiff, American actor
• 1960 – Lynn Jennings, American runner
• 1960 – Evelyn "Champagne" King, American singer
• 1961 – Malcolm Elliott, English cyclist
• 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
• 1963 – Roddy Bottum, American singer and keyboard player (Faith No More and Imperial Teen)
• 1964 – Bernard Laporte, French rugby player and coach
• 1965 – Carl Fogarty, English motorcycle racer
• 1965 – Harald Zwart, Norwegian director and producer
• 1966 – Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer
• 1966 – Shawn Burr, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2013)
• 1967 – Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American model, actress, and producer
• 1967 – Sansan Chien, Taiwanese composer (d. 2011)
• 1967 – Marisa Monte, Brazilian singer (Tribalistas)
• 1968 – Tim Abell, American actor and producer
• 1968 – Jordi Mollà, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Séamus Egan, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Solas)
• 1970 – Melissa Peterman, American actress and producer
• 1970 – Nikos Samaras, Greek volleyball player (d. 2013)
• 1970 – Henry Simmons, American actor
• 1971 – Missy Elliott, American rapper, producer, dancer, and actress
• 1971 – Julianne Nicholson, American actress
• 1972 – Steffi Nerius, German javelin thrower
• 1974 – Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorian race walker
• 1975 – Sufjan Stevens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Danielson and Marzuki)
• 1976 – Plies, American rapper
• 1976 – Kellie Bright, English actress
• 1976 – Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1976 – Justin Lo, American-Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
• 1976 – Thomas Sadoski, American actor
• 1976 – Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
• 1976 – Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
• 1976 – Szymon Ziółkowski, Polish hammer thrower
• 1977 – Tom Frager, Senegalese-French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1977 – Jarome Iginla, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Greg Pattillo, American flute player (Project Trio)
• 1977 – Birgit Schuurman, Dutch singer and actress
• 1977 – Liv Tyler, American actress and model
• 1979 – Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist and actor
• 1980 – Nelson Cruz, Dominican baseball player
• 1981 – Tadhg Kennelly, Irish-Australian footballer
• 1982 – Hilarie Burton, American actress
• 1982 – Carmella DeCesare, American model and wrestler
• 1982 – Justin Huber, Australian baseball player
• 1982 – Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player
• 1983 – Leeteuk, South Korean singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor (Super Junior)
• 1983 – Marit Larsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and keyboard player (M2M)
• 1984 – Morgane Dubled, French model
• 1984 – Donald Thomas, Bahamian high jumper
• 1985 – Léa Seydoux, French actress
• 1986 – Andrew Lee, Australian footballer
• 1986 – Agnez Mo, Indonesian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1986 – Julian Prochnow, German footballer
• 1987 – Michael Schrader, German decathlete
• 1988 – Dedé, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 – Evan Ellingson, American actor
• 1989 – Kent Bazemore, American basketball player
• 1989 – Mitch Hewer, English actor, singer, and dancer
• 1989 – Hannah Murray, English actress
• 1989 – Daniel Ricciardo, Australian race car driver
• 1990 – Natsuki Sato, Japanese singer (AKB48)
• 1991 – Serenay Sarıkaya, Turkish model and actress, Miss Turkey 2010
• 1991 – Michael Wacha, American baseball player
• 1992 – Hannah Whelan, English gymnast
• 1992 – Aaron Sanchez, American baseball player
• 1993 – Raini Rodriguez, American actress
• 1994 – Montserrat González, Paraguayan tennis player
• 1994 – Anri Okamoto, Japanese model and actress
• 1996 – Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater

Deaths

• 552 – Totila, Ostrogoth king
• 1109 – Alfonso VI of León and Castile (b. 1040)
• 1277 – Baibars, Egyptian sultan (b. 1223)
• 1589 – Lady Saigō, Japanese wife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1552)
• 1592 – Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (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)
• 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 (b. 1715)
• 1819 – Jemima Wilkinson, American evangelist (b. 1752)
• 1839 – Mahmud II, Caliph of Islam and Ottoman sultan (b. 1785)
• 1860 – Charles Goodyear, American 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 aviatrix and screenwriter (b. 1875)
• 1925 – Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (b. 1866)
• 1942 – Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish author and poet (b. 1857)
• 1944 – Carl Mayer, Austrian 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)
• 1958 – Scott Leary, American swimmer (b. 1881)
• 1961 – Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (b. 1894)
• 1962 – Purushottam Das Tandon, Indian 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)
• 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, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1971 – Learie Constantine, Trinidadian-English cricketer and politician (b. 1901)
• 1974 – Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
• 1976 – Anneliese Michel, German woman believed to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
• 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 educator (b. 1904)
• 1991 – Michael Landon, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1936)
• 1992 – Franco Cristaldi, Italian screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Dominic Lucero, Spanish-American actor and dancer (b. 1967)
• 1995 – Wolfman Jack, American radio host (b. 1938)
• 1996 – Margaux Hemingway, American actress and model (b. 1954)
• 1996 – Steve Tesich, Serbian-American author and screenwriter (b. 1942)
• 1997 – Robert Mitchum, American actor and singer (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1908)
• 1999 – Forrest Mars, Sr., American businessman, created M&M's and the Mars bar (b. 1904)
• 1999 – Guy Mitchell, American singer (b. 1927)
• 1999 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Walter Matthau, American actor and singer (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Jean-Louis Rosier, French racing driver (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Herbie Mann, American flute player and saxophonist (b. 1930)
• 2003 – N!xau ǂToma, Namibian actor (b. 1944)
• 2004 – Peter Barnes, English playwright and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 2004 – Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer and conductor (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Gus Bodnar, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Luther Vandross, American singer, songwriter and producer (Change) (b. 1951)
• 2006 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, Japanese politician, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
• 2006 – Robert Lepikson, Estonian race car driver and politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior (b. 1952)
• 2006 – Fred Trueman, English cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (b. 1952)
• 2009 – Karl Malden, American actor (b. 1912)
• 2009 – Onni Palaste, Finnish soldier and author (b. 1917)
• 2009 – Mollie Sugden, English actress (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Arnold Friberg, American painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
• 2010 – Ilene Woods, American actress and singer (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Evelyn Lear, American soprano and actress (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1961)
• 2013 – William H. Gray, American politician (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Anatoly Kornukov, Ukrainian-Russian general (b. 1942)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Aaron (Syriac Christianity)
  • Feast of the Most Precious Blood
  • Blessed Antonio Rosmini-Serbati
  • Blessed Fray Junípero Serra
  • Julius and Aaron
  • Leontius of Autun
  • Servanus
  • July 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Canada Day (formerly Dominion Day, Canada)
• Doctors' Day (India)
• Earliest day on which St Pauls Carnival can fall, while July 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Saturday in July. (Bristol)
• Emancipation Day (Netherlands Antilles)
• Emancipation Day or Keti Koti (Suriname)
• Hong Kong SAR Establishment Day (Hong Kong)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Burundi from Belgium in 1962.
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Rwanda from Belgium in 1962.
• International Tartan Day (Australia and New Zealand)
• July Morning tradition (Bulgaria)
• Madeira Day (Madeira)
• Memorial Day (Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Moving Day (Quebec)
• Republic Day (Ghana)
• Republic Day, celebrates the independence of Somalia from Italy and the unification of British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland to form Somali Republic. (Somalia)
• Sir Seretse Khama Day (Botswana)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada