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July 4
> • 1359 – Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
• 1456 – The Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade)
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begins. (Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe)
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
• 1534 – Christian III is elected King of Denmark and
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Norway in the town of Rye.
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 • 1569 – The King of Poland and the Grand Duke of
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Lithuania, Sigismund II Augustus finally sign the
31 document of union between Poland and Lithuania,
MMXI creating new country known as Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth.
July 4 in recent years
• 1610 – The Battle of Klushino between forces of the
2011 (Monday) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during
2010 (Sunday) the Polish-Muscovite War.
2009 (Saturday) • 1634 – The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New
2008 (Friday) France (Quebec, Canada)
2007 (Wednesday) • 1636 – City of Providence, Rhode Island forms.
• 1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois
2006 (Tuesday)
ceded lands between the Allegheny Mountains and
2005 (Monday)
the Ohio River to the British colonies, is signed in
2004 (Sunday) Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
2003 (Friday) • 1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington
2002 (Thursday) surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis
July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) Coulon de Villiers.
in the Gregorian calendar. There are 180 days remaining • 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the
until the end of the year. The Aphelion, the point in the Province of New York, one of many protests against
year when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, occurs the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts
around this date.
Events
• 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to
his older sister Aelia Pulcheria who reigns as regent
and proclaimed herself empress (Augusta) of the
Eastern Roman Empire.
• 836 – Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality
of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples.
• 993 – Saint Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized.
• 1054 – A supernova is seen by Chinese, Arab, and
possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta The United States declares its independence in 1776.
Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough
to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the • 1776 – American Revolution: The United States
Crab Nebula. Declaration of Independence is adopted by the
• 1120 – Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after Second Continental Congress.
his infant nephew’s death. • 1778 – American Revolutionary War: American
• 1187 – The Crusades: Battle of Hattin – Saladin forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during
defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem. the Illinois campaign.
• 1253 – Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes • 1802 – At West Point, New York the United States
defeats Guy of Dampierre. Military Academy opens.
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• 1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the • 1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks
American people. out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing
• 1810 – The French occupy Amsterdam. match sparking race riots across the United States.
• 1817 – At Rome, New York, United States, • 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson addresses
construction on the Erie Canal begins. American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of
• 1826 – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the 1913.
United States, dies the same day as John Adams, • 1918 – Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the
second president of the United States, on the fiftieth throne.
anniversary of the adoption of the United States • 1918 – Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and
Declaration of Independence. his family (Julian calendar date).
• 1827 – Slavery is abolished in New York State. • 1927 – First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
• 1831 – Samuel Francis Smith wrote My Country, ’Tis • 1934 – Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design
of Thee for the Boston, MA July 4th festivities. for the atomic bomb.
• 1837 – Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long- • 1939 – Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with
distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tells a crowd at
Liverpool. Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The
• 1838 – The Iowa Territory is organized. luckiest man on the face of the earth" as he
• 1855 – In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of announces his retirement from major league
Walt Whitman’s book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, baseball.
is published. • 1941 – Nazi Germans massacre Polish scientists and
• 1862 – Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
would grow into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and • 1943 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Kursk,
its sequels. the largest full-scale battle in history and the world’s
• 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg – largest tank battle at Prokhorovka village.
Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant • 1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial
after 47 days of siege. 150 miles up the Mississippi rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full
River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of independence from the United States.
Helena, Arkansas. • 1947 – The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented
• 1863 – The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws before British House of Commons, suggesting
from the battlefield after its loss at the Battle of bifurcation of British India into two sovereign
Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern countries – India and Pakistan.
invasion of the North. • 1950 – The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
• 1865 – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published. • 1951 – A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American
• 1878 – Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on a
McCarty run a match race, immortalized in the song charge of espionage.
Molly and Tenbrooks. • 1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission
• 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Zululand capital of of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959,
Ulundi is captured by British troops and burnt to the the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in
ground, thus, ending the war and forcing King Philadelphia, Pennsylvania almost ten and a half
Cetshwayo to flee. months later (see Flag Act).
• 1881 – In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens. • 1966 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the
• 1886 – The people of France offer the Statue of Freedom of Information Act into United States law.
Liberty to the people of the United States. The act goes into effect the next year.
• 1886 – The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental • 1969 – Two teens (one male, one female) are attacked
train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia. at Blue Rock Springs in California. They are the
• 1887 – The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam second (known) victims of the Zodiac Killer. The
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul- male survives.
Islam, Karachi. • 1976 – Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in
• 1892 – Western Samoa changes the International Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and
Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian
country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4. terrorists.
• 1894 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is • 1977 – The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at
proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole. the main power substation for the Washington state
• 1903 – Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first woman capitol in Olympia in solidarity with a prison strike
in the world to compete in a ’motor race’. at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive
Security Unit
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• 1982 – Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982): four • 1867 – Stephen Mather, American entrepreneur and
Iranian diplomats are kidnapped by Lebanese militia conservationist (d. 1930)
in Lebanon. • 1868 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer
• 1987 – In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (d. 1921)
(aka the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes • 1872 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United
against humanity and is sentenced to life States (d. 1933)
imprisonment. • 1874 – Sir John McPhee, Australian politician,
• 1993 – Sumitomo Chemical’s resin plant in Nihama Premier of Tasmania (d. 1952)
explodes killing one worker and injuring three • 1881 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (d. 1968)
others. • 1882 – Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (d.
• 1997 – NASA’s Pathfinder space probe lands on the 1957)
surface of Mars. • 1883 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (d. 1970)
• 2004 – The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid • 1895 – Irving Caesar, American lyricist and composer
on the site of the World Trade Center in New York (d. 1996)
City. • 1896 – Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981)
• 2005 – The Deep Impact collider hits the comet • 1897 – Alluri Sita Rama Raju, Indian Freedom Fighter
Tempel 1. (d. 1924)
• 2006 – North Korea tests four short-range missiles, • 1898 – Dr. Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian (d.
one medium-range missile, and a long-range 1997)
Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 • 1898 – Gertrude Lawrence, English-born actress (d.
reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan. 1952)
• 2009 – The Statue of Liberty’s crown reopens to the • 1902 – Meyer Lansky, Russian-born American
public after 8 years, due to security reasons gangster (d. 1983)
following the World Trade Center attacks. • 1902 – George Murphy, American entertainer (d.
1992)
Births • 1903 – Flor Peeters, Belgian composer, organist and
teacher (d. 1986)
• 68 – Salonina Matidia, niece of Emperor Trajan (d. • 1904 – Angela Baddeley, English actress (d. 1976)
119) • 1905 – Irving Johnson, American adventurer (d. 1991)
• 1330 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. • 1907 – Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
1367) • 1907 – Howard Taubman, American music and
• 1546 – Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595) theater critic (d. 1996)
• 1694 – Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (d. • 1910 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (d. 2010)
1772) • 1911 – Mitch Miller, American entertainer (d. 2010)
• 1715 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (d. • 1912 – Viviane Romance, French actress (d. 1991)
1769) • 1916 – Iva Toguri D’Aquino, American World War II
• 1719 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. figure (d. 2006)
1797) • 1917 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947)
• 1790 – George Everest, Welsh surveyor (d. 1866) • 1918 – Ann Landers, American advice columnist (d.
• 1799 – King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (d. 1859) 2002)
• 1804 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d. • 1918 – Abigail Van Buren, American advice columnist
1864) • 1918 – King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (d. 2006)
• 1807 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian military and • 1918 – Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d.
political figure (d. 1882) 1984)
• 1816 – Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller • 1920 – Norm Drucker, American basketball referee
(d. 1899) • 1920 – Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and
• 1826 – Stephen Foster, American songwriter (d. 1864) real estate investor (d. 2007)
• 1845 – Thomas Barnardo, Irish humanitarian (d. • 1920 – Fritz Wilde, German footballer (d. 1977)
1905) • 1921 – Gerard Debreu, French economist, Nobel
• 1847 – James Anthony Bailey, American circus laureate (d. 2004)
impresario (d. 1906) • 1921 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist (d. 2003)
• 1854 – Victor Babeş, Romanian bacteriologist (d. • 1923 – Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor
1926) • 1924 – Eva Marie Saint, American actress
• 1854 – Bill Tilghman, American peace officer (d. • 1926 – Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish
1924) footballer
• 1927 – Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
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• 1927 – Neil Simon, American playwright • 1952 – Álvaro Uribe, President of Colombia
• 1928 – Giampiero Boniperti, Italian footballer • 1954 – Jim Beattie, American baseball player
• 1928 – Chuck Tanner, American baseball player (d. • 1954 – Morganna Roberts, American entertainer
2011) • 1955 – John Waite, English singer
• 1929 – Peter Angelos, majority owner of the • 1956 – Mark Belling, American radio talkshow host
Baltimore Orioles baseball team • 1957 – Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand
• 1929 – Al Davis, American businessman • 1957 – Rein Lang, Estonian politician and diplomat
• 1929 – Bill Tuttle, American baseball player (d. 1998) • 1958 – Kirk Pengilly, Australian musician
• 1930 – Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor (d. 1993) • 1958 – Carl Valentine, English-born Canadian former
• 1930 – George Steinbrenner, American businessman footballer
(d. 2010) • 1958 – Steve Hartman, American sports radio host
• 1930 – Yuri Tyukalov, Soviet Olympic rower • 1959 – Victoria Abril, Spanish actress
• 1931 – Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (d. 1977) • 1960 – Sid Eudy, American professional wrestler
• 1931 – Sébastien Japrisot, French author, film • 1960 – Barry Windham, American professional
director and screenwriter (d. 2003) wrestler
• 1932 – Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian athlete • 1960 – Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian racing driver
• 1934 – Peter Behn, American voice actor (d. 1994)
• 1934 – Colin Welland, English actor • 1960 – Mark Steel, British socialist columnist and
• 1935 – Paul Scoon, Governor General of Grenada comedian
• 1936 – Zdzisława Donat, Polish coloratura soprano • 1961 – Richard Garriott, English video game designer
• 1937 – Sonja Haraldsen, Queen of Norway (spouse of • 1962 – Neil Morrissey, English actor
King Harald V of Norway) • 1962 – Pam Shriver, American former tennis player
• 1937 – Thomas Nagel, American philosopher • 1963 – Henri Leconte, French former tennis player
• 1938 – Bill Withers, American singer and songwriter • 1963 – José Oquendo, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1938 – Sergio Oliva, Cuban born American • 1963 – William Ramallo, former Bolivian footballer
bodybuilder • 1964 – Cle Kooiman, American soccer player
• 1940 – Karolyn Grimes, American actress • 1964 – Mark Slaughter, American singer
• 1941 – Brian Willson, American peace activist • 1964 – Mark Whiting, American filmmaker and actor
• 1941 – Sam Farr, American politician • 1965 – Horace Grant, American basketball player
• 1942 – Hal Lanier, American baseball player • 1965 – Harvey Grant, American basketball player
• 1942 – Floyd Little, American football player • 1965 – Jo Whiley, English radio DJ
• 1942 – Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (d. 2008) • 1966 – Minas Hantzidis, Greek footballer
• 1943 – Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German musician • 1966 – Lee Reherman, American actor
• 1943 – Geraldo Rivera, American reporter • 1967 – Vinny Castilla, Mexican baseball player
• 1943 – Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician • 1967 – Andy Walker (journalist), Canadian television
(d. 1970) personality
• 1943 – Emerson Boozer, American football player • 1967 – Rick Wilkins, American baseball player
• 1943 – Milan Máčala, Czech football coach • 1968 – Jack Frost, American musician
• 1944 – Joe Berardo, Portuguese millionaire • 1968 – Ronni Ancona, Scottish actress and
• 1944 – Ray Meagher, Australian actor impressionist
• 1945 – Bruce French, American actor • 1969 – Todd Marinovich, American football player
• 1946 – Tish Howard, American model • 1969 – Wilfred Mugeyi, Zimbabwean soccer player
• 1946 – Ron Kovic, American peace activist • 1970 – Christian Giesler, American bassist (Kreator)
• 1946 – Michael Milken, American financier • 1970 – Tony Vidmar, Australian former footballer
• 1946 – Ed O’Ross, American actor • 1971 – Andy Creeggan, Canadian musician
• 1948 – Ed Armbrister, baseball player • 1971 – Brendan Donnelly, American baseball player
• 1948 – René Arnoux, French race car driver • 1971 – Koko, sign-language gorilla
• 1948 – Tommy Körberg, Swedish singer and actor • 1971 – Ned Zelic, Australian soccer player
• 1948 – Jeremy Spencer, English musician • 1972 – Nina Badrić, Croatian singer
• 1948 – Phil Wheatley, Director-General of the • 1972 – Stephen Giles, Canadian canoer
National Offender Management Service • 1972 – William Goldsmith, American drummer
• 1950 – Philip Craven, British International (Sunny Day Real Estate, Foo Fighters)
Paralympic Committee president • 1972 – Mike Knuble, Canadian hockey player
• 1950 – David Jensen, Canadian-born British radio DJ • 1972 – Oleg Prudius, Ukrainian professional wrestler
• 1951 – Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American • 1973 – Gackt, Japanese musician
politician • 1973 – Keiko Ihara, Japanese racing driver
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• 1973 – Michael Johnson, English-born Jamaican • 1546 – Hayreddin Barbarossa, Greek-born Turkish
footballer naval officer (b. 1478)
• 1973 – Jan Magnussen, Danish racing driver • 1551 – Gregory Cromwell, English nobleman (b. 1514)
• 1973 – Tony Popovic, Australian soccer player • 1603 – Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (b.
• 1973 – Elton Williams, Montserratian footballer 1521)
• 1974 – La’Roi Glover, American football player • 1623 – William Byrd, English composer
• 1974 – Adrian Griffin, American basketball player • 1642 – Marie de’ Medici, wife of Henry IV of France
• 1974 – Vince Spadea, American tennis player (b. 1573)
• 1975 – Tania Davis, Australian violist • 1648 – Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary (b.
• 1976 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 1601)
2003) • 1742 – Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
• 1976 – Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova, Russian • 1754 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French
cross-country skier dramatist and author (b. 1680)
• 1977 – Jonas Kjellgren, Swedish musician (Scar • 1761 – Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
Symmetry) • 1780 – Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine,
• 1978 – Vicky Kaya, Greek model and actress Austrian military leader (b. 1712)
• 1978 – Stephen McNally, British singer and • 1787 – Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, Marshal
songwriter (BBMak) of France (b. 1715)
• 1978 – Emile Mpenza, Belgian footballer • 1821 – Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
• 1978 – Becki Newton, American actress • 1826 – John Adams, 2nd President of the United
• 1978 – Katia Zygouli, Greek model States (b. 1735)
• 1979 – Renny Vega, Venezuelan soccer player • 1826 – Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United
• 1980 – Max Elliott Slade, American film actor States (b. 1743)
• 1980 – Kwame Steede, Bermudan footballer • 1831 – James Monroe, 5th President of the United
• 1981 – Francisco Cruceta, Dominican baseball player States (b. 1758)
• 1981 – Dédé, Angolan soccer player • 1848 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French
• 1982 – Hannah Harper, English porn star writer (b. 1768)
• 1983 – Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian model • 1850 – William Kirby, English entomologist (b. 1759)
• 1983 – Ben Jorgensen, American musician • 1854 – Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (b.
• 1983 – Andy Mrotek, American musician 1781)
• 1983 – Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Spanish actor and singer • 1857 – William L. Marcy, American statesman (b.
• 1983 – Miguel Pinto, Chilean footballer 1786)
• 1983 – Mattia Serafini, Italian footballer • 1881 – Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman
• 1984 – Gina Glocksen, American singer (b. 1806)
• 1984 – Akanishi Jin, Japanese singer • 1882 – Joseph Brackett, American composer (b. 1797)
• 1984 – Miguel Santos Soares, Timorese footballer • 1891 – Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809)
• 1985 – Kane Tenace, Australian rules footballer • 1901 – Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (b. 1843)
• 1986 – Takahisa Masuda, Japanese singer • 1902 – Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader
• 1986 – Nguyen Ngoc Duy, Vietnamese soccer player (b. 1863)
• 1987 – Guram Kashia, Georgian footballer • 1905 – Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
• 1990 – Backer Aloenouvo, Togolese football player • 1910 – Melville Weston Fuller, American jurist (b.
• 1990 – David Kross, German actor 1833)
• 1990 – Naoki Yamada, Japanese footballer • 1910 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b.
• 1990 – Ihar Yasinski, Belarusian soccer player 1835)
• 1990 – Rishadi Fauzi, Indonesian soccer player • 1916 – Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
• 1993 – Thomas Barkhuizen, English footballer • 1918 – Tsar Nicholas II, last Emperor of Russia before
the 1917 Russian Revolution (b. 1868)
Deaths • 1922 – Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1894)
• 1926 – Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint (b. 1901)
• 907 – Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria • 1931 – Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian
• 943 – Taejo of Goryeo, of Korea (b. 877) aristocrat (b. 1869)
• 965 – Pope Benedict V (b. unknown) • 1931 – Buddie Petit, American jazz musician (b. 1895)
• 973 – Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890) • 1934 – Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Nobel Prize in
• 1187 – Raynald of Chatillon, French Second Crusade Chemistry and Physics (b. 1867)
figure (b.c. 1125) • 1938 – Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic
• 1541 – Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish explorer (b. 1495) politician (b. 1881)
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• 1938 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. • 2001 – Keenan Milton, American skateboarder (b.
1899) 1974)
• 1941 – Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. • 2002 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American Air Force
1881) general (b. 1912)
• 1946 – Gerda Steinhoff, Polish-born German • 2002 – Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (b. 1951)
concentration camp overseer (b. 1922) • 2002 – Winnifred Quick, American Titanic survivor
• 1948 – Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882) (b. 1904)
• 1963 – Bernard Freyberg, New Zealander statesman • 2003 – André Claveau, French singer (b. 1915)
(b. 1889) • 2003 – Barry White, American singer (b. 1944)
• 1964 – Henry (Hank) Sylvern, American radio • 2004 – Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (b.
personality (b. 1908) 1920)
• 1970 – Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905) • 2004 – Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), British
• 1970 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American street entertainer (b. 1932)
industrialist (b. 1884) • 2005 – Hank Stram, American football coach (b. 1923)
• 1971 – August Derleth, American writer and editor • 2007 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish rock musician (b. 1979)
(b. 1909) • 2007 – Bill Pinkney, American singer and performer
• 1975 – Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902) (b. 1925)
• 1974 – Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, Palestinian • 2008 – Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
Muslim nationalist (b. 1895 or 1897) • 2008 – Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
• 1976 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier and • 2008 – Terrence Kiel, American football player (b.
Entebbe rescue commander (b. 1946) 1980)
• 1976 – Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895) • 2008 – Charles Wheeler, British journalist (b. 1923)
• 1977 – Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918) • 2009 – Brenda Joyce, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1979 – Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer (b. 1905) • 2009 – Allen Klein, American music executive (b.
• 1980 – Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1931)
1895) • 2009 – Drake Levin, American rock musician (b. 1946)
• 1982 – Terry Higgins, British AIDS victim (b. 1945) • 2009 – Steve McNair, American football player (b.
• 1984 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter 1973)
(b. 1949) • 2009 – Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish writer (b. 1935)
• 1986 – Flor Peeters, Belgian composer and organist • 2009 – Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese
(b. 1903) politician (b. 1938)
• 1986 – Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899) • 2009 – Jim Chapin, American drummer (b. 1919)
• 1988 – Adrian Adonis, American professional • 2010 – Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-born
wrestler (b. 1954) Lebanese Shiite Muslim cleric and Hezbollah mentor
• 1989 – Jack Haig, British actor (b. 1913) (b. 1935)
• 1991 – Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936) • 2011 – Otto von Habsburg, last crown prince of
• 1991 – Art Sansom, American cartoonist (The Born Austria-Hungary and MEP (1979–1999) (b. 1912)
Loser) (b. 1920)
• 1992 – Ástor Piazzolla, Argentinian composer (b.
1921)
Holidays and observances
• 1993 – Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician • Christian Feast Day:
and historian (b. 1903) • Andrew of Crete
• 1994 – Joey Marella, American professional wrestling • Bertha of Artois
referee (b. 1964) • Bl Catherine Jarrige
• 1995 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (b. 1919) • Elizabeth of Portugal, patron saint of Coimbra
• 1995 – Bob Ross, American artist and television host (city holiday), known there as Rainha Santa
(b. 1942) Isabela.
• 1997 – Charles Kuralt, American television presenter • Oda of Canterbury
(b. 1934) • Bl Pier Giorgio Frassati
• 1997 – John Zachary Young, English zoologist (b. • Ulrich of Augsburg
1907) • July 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• 1999 – Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b. • Filipino-American Friendship Day (Philippines)
1917) • Independence Day, celebrates the Declaration of
• 2000 – Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Polish writer (b. Independence of the United States from Great
1919) Britain in 1776. (United States and its dependencies)
• Liberation Day (Rwanda)
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