History of Today 03 July: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 03 July in History

03 Jul 2013: President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is removed from office by the military after four days of protests all over the country calling for his resignation, to which he did not respond. The president of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt, Adly Mansour, is declared acting president until further elections are held. Read more
03 Jul 2006: The Valencia Metro derailment kills 41 people. Read more
03 Jul 1996: British Prime Minister John Major announced the Stone of Scone would be returned to Scotland. Read more
03 Jul 1988: United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard. Read more
03 Jul 1988: The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus. Read more
03 Jul 1979: U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. Read more
03 Jul 1973: David Bowie retires his stage persona Ziggy Stardust with the surprise announcement that it is "the last show that we'll ever do" on the last day of the Ziggy Stardust Tour. Read more
03 Jul 1970: The Troubles: The "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Read more
03 Jul 1970: Dan-Air Flight 1903 crashes into the Les Agudes mountain in the Montseny Massif near the village of Arbúcies in Catalonia, Spain, killing all 112 people aboard. Read more
03 Jul 1967: The Aden Emergency: The Battle of the Crater in which the British Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders retake the Crater district following the Arab Police mutiny. Read more
03 Jul 1952: The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the United States Congress. Read more
03 Jul 1952: The SS United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary. Read more
03 Jul 1944: World War II: The Minsk Offensive clears German troops from the city. Read more
03 Jul 1940: World War II: The Royal Navy attacks the French naval squadron in Algeria, to ensure that it will not fall under German control. Of the four French battleships present, one is sunk, two are damaged, and one escapes back to France. Read more
03 Jul 1938: World speed record for a steam locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58 km/h). Read more
03 Jul 1938: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield. Read more
03 Jul 1913: Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors. Read more
03 Jul 1908: Start of the Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire, forcing Sultan Abdul Hamid II leads to restore the Constitution of 1876 and reconvene the parliament. Read more
03 Jul 1898: A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba. Read more
03 Jul 1890: Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state. Read more
03 Jul 1886: Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile. Read more
03 Jul 1886: The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand. Read more
03 Jul 1884: Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average. Read more
03 Jul 1866: Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgrätz, enabling Prussia to exclude Austria from German affairs. Read more
03 Jul 1863: American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge. Read more
03 Jul 1852: Congress establishes the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco. Read more
03 Jul 1849: France invades the Roman Republic and restores the Papal States. Read more
03 Jul 1848: Governor-General Peter von Scholten emancipates all remaining slaves in the Danish West Indies. Read more
03 Jul 1839: The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State University, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with three students. Read more
03 Jul 1819: The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings bank in the United States, opens. Read more
03 Jul 1814: War of 1812: American forces capture Fort Erie from British troops in Upper Canada. Read more

Famous Births on 03 July

03 Jul 1999: Nefisa Berberović, Bosnian tennis player Nefisa Berberović is a Bosnian inactive tennis player. Read more
03 Jul 1998: Kim Dong-han, South Korean singer Kim Dong-han, also known mononymously as Donghan, is a South Korean singer, songwriter and actor. He first became known for competing in the reality survival show Produce 101 Season 2, and later debuted in the boy band JBJ. Kim made his solo debut with the release of his EP D-Day in June 2018. He is currently a member of South Korean boy band WEi. Read more
03 Jul 1997: T. J. Hockenson, American football player Thomas James Hockenson is an American professional football tight end for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes, where he earned the John Mackey Award, as the nation's top tight end in college football. Hockenson was selected in the first round of the 2019 NFL draft by the Detroit Lions. Read more
03 Jul 1996: Cole Tucker, American baseball player Cole Bryson Tucker is an American former professional baseball shortstop and outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado Rockies, and Los Angeles Angels. Read more
03 Jul 1996: Alex Twal, Australian-Lebanese rugby league player Alex Twal is an Australian-Lebanese international rugby league footballer who plays as a prop and lock for the Wests Tigers. Read more
03 Jul 1994: Chris Jones, American football player Christopher Deshun Jones is an American professional football defensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Mississippi State Bulldogs and was selected by the Chiefs in the second round of the 2016 NFL draft. Jones is a three-time Super Bowl champion, a six-time All-Pro member, and a seven-time Pro Bowler. Read more
03 Jul 1993: PartyNextDoor, Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer Jahron Anthony Brathwaite, known professionally as PartyNextDoor, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was the first artist to sign with Drake's record label OVO Sound, an imprint of Warner Records, in 2013. His self-titled debut mixtape was released through the label in July that year, and met with critical praise. Read more
03 Jul 1992: Crystal Dunn, American soccer player Crystal Alyssia Soubrier is an American former professional soccer player. A versatile player, she played primarily as an attacking midfielder or forward for club and left back for country. Read more
03 Jul 1991: Alison Howie, Scottish field hockey player Alison Howie is a Scottish female field hockey player who plays as a midfielder for the Scotland women's national field hockey team. She has represented Scotland in few international competitions including the 2013 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship, 2015 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship, 2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship, and 2018 Commonwealth Games. Read more
03 Jul 1991: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russian tennis player Anastasia Sergeyevna "Nastia" Pavlyuchenkova is a Russian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 11 on 8 November 2021. Pavlyuchenkova has won twelve singles titles on the WTA Tour, and contested a major final at the 2021 French Open. Read more
03 Jul 1990: Nathan Gardner, Australian rugby league player Nathan Gardner, also known by the nickname of "Gards", is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who has played in the 2000s and 2010s. He has played for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, usually as a fullback, but also as a wing. He previously played for the Parramatta Eels Toyota Cup (Under-20s) team and Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. He made his National Rugby League (NRL) premiership début in the 2010 season against the Penrith Panthers. Read more
03 Jul 1990: Bobby Hopkinson, English footballer Bobby Thomas Hopkinson is a professional English footballer. Read more
03 Jul 1990: Lucas Mendes, Brazilian footballer Lucas Michel Mendes is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or left-back for Qatari club Al-Wakrah. Born in Brazil, he plays for the Qatar national team. Read more
03 Jul 1990: Alison Riske-Amritraj, American tennis player Alison Riske-Amritraj is an inactive American tennis player. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in November 2019 and won her first WTA Tour title in October 2014, at the Tianjin Open. Read more
03 Jul 1989: Danilo Cavalcante, Brazilian convicted murderer Danilo Souza Cavalcante is a Brazilian national accused of murder in the Brazilian state of Tocantins and a convicted murderer in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. After originally being wanted by Brazilian authorities for his alleged role in the shooting death of Valter Júnior Moreira dos Reis in 2017, Cavalcante fled to the United States. Four years later, in April 2021, Cavalcante was arrested for fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend, Deborah Brandão. Read more
03 Jul 1989: Mitchell Dodds, Australian rugby league player Mitchell Dodds is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a prop for the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL and the Warrington Wolves in the Super League. Read more
03 Jul 1989: Elle King, American singer, songwriter, and actress Tanner Elle Schneider, known professionally as Elle King, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Her musical style is influenced by country, rock, and blues. She signed with RCA Records to release her debut extended play, The Elle King EP (2012); one of its tracks, "Playing for Keeps", became the theme song for VH1's Mob Wives Chicago series. Read more
03 Jul 1988: Winston Reid, New Zealand-Danish footballer Winston Wiremu Reid is a New Zealand former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Read more
03 Jul 1988: Vladislav Sesganov, Russian figure skater Vladislav Dmitriyevich Sezganov or Sesganov is a Russian former competitive figure skater. He is the 2012 Golden Spin of Zagreb and 2011 Gardena Spring Trophy champion. Read more
03 Jul 1988: James Troisi, Australian footballer James Troisi is a former Australian professional soccer player who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger. Read more
03 Jul 1987: Sebastian Vettel, German race car driver Sebastian Vettel is a German former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 2007 to 2022. Vettel won four Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won consecutively from 2010 to 2013 with Red Bull, and remains the youngest-ever World Drivers' Champion; he won 53 Grands Prix across 16 seasons. Read more
03 Jul 1986: Marco Antônio de Mattos Filho, Brazilian footballer Marco Antonio de Mattos Filho, commonly known as Marquinho, is a former Brazilian professional footballer. Mainly an attacking midfielder, he also played as a left wingback. Read more
03 Jul 1986: Kisenosato Yutaka, Japanese sumo wrestler Kisenosato Yutaka is a Japanese sumo elder from Ibaraki. As a wrestler, he made his professional debut in 2002 and reached the top makuuchi division in 2004 at the age of just 18. After many years in the junior san'yaku ranks, he reached the second highest rank of ōzeki in January 2012. He earned three kinboshi or gold stars by defeating yokozuna in his career leading up to ōzeki and nine special prizes. He scored more than 20 double-digit winning records at the ōzeki rank. In 2016, he secured the most wins in the calendar year, the first wrestler to do so without winning a tournament in that year. Read more
03 Jul 1984: Manny Lawson, American football player Manny Lawson is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the NC State Wolfpack, and was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the first round of the 2006 NFL draft. Lawson also played for the Cincinnati Bengals and Buffalo Bills. Read more
03 Jul 1984: Churandy Martina, Dutch sprinter Churandy Thomas Martina is a retired Dutch sprinter. He originally placed second in the 200 metres at the 2008 Beijing Olympics but was later disqualified due to a lane violation. Martina secured four and two individual top-five finishes at the Summer Olympics and World Athletics Championships respectively. He was the 100 metres 2007 Pan American Games champion representing the Netherlands Antilles and claimed three individual titles at the Central American and Caribbean Games. He won gold medals in the 200 m and 100 m at the 2012 and 2016 European Athletics Championships respectively. Read more
03 Jul 1984: Corey Sevier, Canadian actor and producer Corey Daniel Sevier is a Canadian actor, known for his role on the Fox television series North Shore as Gabriel McKay, as Timmy Cabot in Lassie and as Jay Barry Lee in Summer of the Monkeys. Read more
03 Jul 1983: Edinson Vólquez, Dominican baseball player Edinson Vólquez is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Royals, and Miami Marlins. Read more
03 Jul 1980: Mazharul Haque, Bangladeshi cricketer (died 2013) Mohammad Mazharul Haque Chowdhuri was a Bangladeshi cricketer who played in one One Day International in 2002. He was born in Narayanganj, Dhaka, and also died there, aged only 32, of a heart attack. Read more
03 Jul 1980: Olivia Munn, American actress and television host Lisa Olivia Munn is an American actress. After an internship at a news station in Tulsa, she moved to Los Angeles where she began her professional career as a television host for the gaming network G4, and on the series Attack of the Show! (2006–2010) before appearing as a recurring correspondent on the Comedy Central late night series The Daily Show from 2010 to 2011. Read more
03 Jul 1980: Roland Schoeman, South African swimmer Roland Mark Schoeman OIS is a South African and American former swimmer was a world record holder in multiple events, and was a member of the South African swimming team at the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. He won a gold medal representing South Africa in the 4×100 freestyle relay at the 2004 Athens Olympics and between 2000-2014 won numerous medals including seven golds in freestyle, and butterfly events at the World Championships, Pan American, and Commonwealth games. Read more
03 Jul 1980: Harbhajan Singh, Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh is an Indian politician and former cricketer. He currently serves as a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha. Harbhajan played on the teams that won the 2007 T20 World Cup, 2011 Cricket World Cup, and 2002 ICC Champions Trophy, along with Sri Lanka. Read more
03 Jul 1979: Jamie Grove, English cricketer Jamie Oliver Grove is an English former first-class cricketer who played for Essex, Somerset and Leicestershire during his career which spanned from 1998 to 2003. Read more
03 Jul 1978: Mizuki Noguchi, Japanese runner Mizuki Noguchi is a Japanese professional long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon event. She is an Olympic champion over the distance. Read more
03 Jul 1977: David Bowens, American football player David Walter Bowens is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Denver Broncos in the fifth round of the 1999 NFL draft. He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines. He now is Archbishop Carroll High School’s Defensive Coordinator in Riverside Ohio. Read more
03 Jul 1976: Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2011) Wade William Belak was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward and defenceman. He was drafted 12th overall by the Quebec Nordiques in the 1994 NHL entry draft. He played for the Colorado Avalanche, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, Florida Panthers, and the Nashville Predators in the National Hockey League (NHL). Belak was best known for his role as an enforcer. Read more
03 Jul 1976: Henry Olonga, Zimbabwean cricketer and sportscaster Henry Khaaba Olonga is a Zimbabwean former cricketer who played Test and One Day International cricket for Zimbabwe. In domestic first-class cricket in Zimbabwe, Olonga played for Matabeleland, Mashonaland and Manicaland. When he made his Test debut in January 1995, he was the first black cricketer and the youngest person to play for Zimbabwe. He was a regular member of the Zimbabwe team from 1996 to 2003, playing in the World Cup in 1996, 1999 and 2003. During his playing days, he formed a rivalry against former Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar whenever Zimbabwe and India played against each other in international cricket. Read more
03 Jul 1976: Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian-American mixed martial artist Wanderlei César da Silva is a Brazilian former mixed martial artist who competed in Japan's Pride Fighting Championships and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He holds the record for the most wins, knockouts, title defenses and longest winning streak in PRIDE history. He is the former PRIDE Middleweight Champion and the 2003 PRIDE Middleweight Grand Prix Tournament Champion. He most recently competed for Bellator MMA in the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions. In February 2024, Silva was announced as the next inductee in the "pioneer wing" of the UFC Hall of Fame. Read more
03 Jul 1976: Bobby Skinstad, Zimbabwean-South African rugby union player Robert Brian Skinstad is a former professional rugby union player. Born in Rhodesia, he represented the South Africa national team, the Springboks, winning 42 caps. He played in the positions of flanker and number eight. Read more
03 Jul 1975: Matt Haig, British author and journalist Matt Haig is an English author and journalist. He has written both fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults, often in the speculative fiction genre. Read more
03 Jul 1973: Paul Rauhihi, New Zealand rugby league player Paul Rauhihi is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand. Rauhihi played in both the National Rugby League (NRL) and Super League as a prop. Read more
03 Jul 1973: Ólafur Stefánsson, Icelandic handball player Ólafur Indriði Stefánsson is an Icelandic former handball player who, for many years was the captain of the Iceland men's national handball team but announced his international retirement after the 2012 London Olympics. His position was right back. At his peak he was considered to be one of the very best handball players in the world. Read more
03 Jul 1973: Fyodor Tuvin, Russian footballer (died 2013) Fyodor Vladimirovich Tuvin was a Russian football midfielder. Read more
03 Jul 1973: Patrick Wilson, American actor Patrick Joseph Wilson is an American actor. He began his career in 1995, starring in Broadway musicals. He received nominations for three Tony Awards, two for his roles in The Full Monty (2000–2001) and Oklahoma! (2002) and the third one as a producer of the musical The Lost Boys (2026). He co-starred in the HBO miniseries Angels in America (2003), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. Read more
03 Jul 1971: Julian Assange, Australian journalist, publisher, and activist, founded WikiLeaks Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor, programmer, and publisher who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from Chelsea Manning, a United States Army intelligence analyst: footage of a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad showing war crimes committed by the U.S. Army, U.S. military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and U.S. diplomatic cables. Assange has won over two dozen awards for publishing and journalism. Read more
03 Jul 1971: Benedict Wong, English actor Benedict Wong is an English actor. He began his career on stage before starring in the film Dirty Pretty Things (2002), which earned him a British Independent Film Award nomination, and the BBC sitcom 15 Storeys High (2002–2004). This was followed by roles in the films On a Clear Day (2005), Sunshine, Grow Your Own and Moon (2009), and the CBBC series Spirit Warriors (2010). Read more
03 Jul 1970: Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist Serhiy Gonchar is a Ukrainian former professional road racing cyclist. He won the World Time Trial Championship in 2000.
Due to a temporary spelling error in his passport, he is often incorrectly called Honchar. Read more
03 Jul 1970: Audra McDonald, American actress and singer Audra Ann McDonald is an American actress and singer. Known primarily for her work on the Broadway stage, she has won six Tony Awards, more performance wins than any other actor, and is the only person to win in all four acting categories. As of the 78th Tony Awards, she has earned a record-breaking eleven nominations. Read more
03 Jul 1970: Teemu Selänne, Finnish ice hockey player Teemu Ilmari Selänne is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. Playing as a right winger, he began his professional career in 1989–90 with Jokerit of the SM-liiga and later played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Winnipeg Jets, Anaheim Ducks, San Jose Sharks, and Colorado Avalanche. Nicknamed "the Finnish Flash", Selänne is the highest-scoring Finn in NHL history, and one of the highest overall; he retired in 2014 11th all-time with 684 goals and 15th with 1,457 points. He holds numerous team scoring records for both the Winnipeg/Arizona franchise and the Anaheim Ducks. His jersey number 8 was retired by the Ducks in 2015. In 2017, Selänne was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history. On June 26, 2017, Selänne was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as the second Finn after Jari Kurri. Read more
03 Jul 1968: Ramush Haradinaj, Kosovo-Albanian soldier and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj is a Kosovar politician who served as prime minister of Kosovo from 2004 to 2005 and from 2017 to 2020. He was the leader of the AAK party from its founding in 2000 until May 2026, and is a former officer and leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Read more
03 Jul 1967: Katy Clark, Scottish lawyer and politician Katy Clark, Baroness Clark of Kilwinning, is a British politician and life peer who has served as Deputy Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament, alongside Clare Adamson, since May 2026, and as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the West Scotland region since the 2021 Scottish Parliament election. A member of the Labour Party, she was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Ayrshire and Arran from 2005 to 2015. Read more
03 Jul 1966: Moisés Alou, American baseball player Moisés Rojas-Alou Beltré is an American former professional baseball outfielder who has played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1990 to 2008. He played in MLB for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Expos, Florida Marlins, Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, and New York Mets. Read more
03 Jul 1965: Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (died 2005) Shinya Hashimoto was a Japanese professional wrestler, promoter and actor. Along with Masahiro Chono and Keiji Mutoh, Hashimoto was dubbed one of the "Three Musketeers" that began competing in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in the mid-1980s and dominated the promotion in the 1990s. Read more
03 Jul 1965: Connie Nielsen, Danish-American actress Connie Inge-Lise Nielsen is a Danish actress. She has starred as Lucilla in the films Gladiator (2000) and Gladiator II (2024) and as Queen Hippolyta in the DC Extended Universe (2017–2021). She has also starred in films such as Soldier (1998), Mission to Mars (2000), One Hour Photo (2002), Basic (2003), The Hunted (2003), The Ice Harvest (2005), Nymphomaniac (2013), 3 Days to Kill (2014), Inheritance (2020), Nobody (2021) and its sequel Nobody 2 (2025). Read more
03 Jul 1965: Komsan Pohkong, Thai lawyer and academic Komsan Pohkong is a lawyer from Thailand. He teach in faculty of law at Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University. In 2007, he was a member of Thai Constitution Drafting Committee 2007. He is also a member of Siam Prachapiwat in Thailand. Read more
03 Jul 1965: Christophe Ruer, French pentathlete (died 2007) Christophe Ruer was a French modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. He was killed in a motorcycle accident. Read more
03 Jul 1964: Yeardley Smith, American actress, voice actress, comedian and writer Martha Maria Yeardley Smith is an American actress. She stars as the voice of Lisa Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons. Read more
03 Jul 1963: Tracey Emin, British Artist Dame Tracey Karima Emin is an English artist known for autobiographical and confessional artwork. She produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and sewn appliqué. Once the "enfant terrible" of the Young British Artists in the 1980s, Emin was elected as a Royal Academician in 2016. Read more
03 Jul 1962: Scott Borchetta, American record executive and entrepreneur Scott Borchetta is an American record executive and founder of the Big Machine Label Group. He started the label in 2005 with Taylor Swift as its first signed artist and 13 employees. He served as its president/CEO, encompassing four imprints: Big Machine Records, Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment, The Valory Music Co. and Nash Icon Records. In 2015, he became an in-house mentor on American Idol in the program's 14th and 15th seasons. He is also a sports car racing driver in the Trans-Am Series and owner of NASCAR Xfinity Series team Big Machine Racing. Read more
03 Jul 1962: Tom Cruise, American actor and producer Thomas Cruise Mapother IV is an American actor and film producer. Regarded as a Hollywood icon, he has received various accolades, including an Honorary Palme d'Or, an Academy Honorary Award, and three Golden Globes, in addition to nominations for four competitive Academy Awards. As of 2026, his films have grossed more than $13.3 billion worldwide, placing him among the highest-grossing actors of all time. One of Hollywood's most bankable stars, he is consistently one of the world's highest-paid actors. Read more
03 Jul 1962: Thomas Gibson, American actor and director Thomas Ellis Gibson is an American actor and director best known for his roles as Aaron Hotchner on Criminal Minds (2005–16), Greg Montgomery on Dharma & Greg (1997–2002) and Daniel Nyland on Chicago Hope (1994–97). Read more
03 Jul 1960: Vince Clarke, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer Vincent John Martin, known professionally as Vince Clarke, is a British synth-pop musician and songwriter. Clarke has been the main composer and musician of the band Erasure since its inception in 1985, and was previously the main songwriter for several groups, including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and the Assembly. In Erasure, he is known for his deadpan and low-key onstage demeanour, often remaining motionless over his keyboard, in sharp contrast to lead vocalist Andy Bell's animated and hyperactive frontman antics. Read more
03 Jul 1959: Julie Burchill, English journalist and author Julie Burchill is an English writer. Beginning as a staff writer at the New Musical Express at the age of 17, she has since contributed to newspapers such as The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times and The Guardian. Her writing, which was described by John Arlidge in The Observer in 2002 as "outrageously outspoken" and "usually offensive", has been the subject of legal action. Burchill is also a novelist, and her 2004 novel Sugar Rush was adapted for television. Read more
03 Jul 1959: Ian Maxtone-Graham, American screenwriter and producer Ian Maxtone-Graham is an American television writer and producer. He has formerly written for Saturday Night Live (1992–1995) and The Simpsons (1995–2012), as well as serving as a co-executive producer and consulting producer for the latter from its seventh to its twenty-fourth seasons. Read more
03 Jul 1959: Stephen Pearcy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Stephen Eric Pearcy is an American musician who is the founder, singer and songwriter of the heavy metal band Ratt. He has also created the bands Firedome, Crystal Pystal, Arcade, Vicious Delite and Vertex. He has also recorded seven albums as a solo artist. Read more
03 Jul 1959: David Shore, Canadian screenwriter and producer David Ian Shore is a Canadian television writer. Shore worked on Family Law, NYPD Blue and Due South. He created the series House and more recently, Battle Creek and developed The Good Doctor, an American adaptation of the South Korean series of the same name. Read more
03 Jul 1958: Matthew Fraser, Canadian-English journalist and academic Matthew William Fraser is a British-Canadian academic, author and journalist. Read more
03 Jul 1958: Charlie Higson, English actor, singer, and author Charles Murray Higson is an English actor, comedian, author and former singer. He has also written and produced for television and is the author of the young adult post-apocalyptic book series The Enemy, as well as the first five novels in the Young Bond series. Read more
03 Jul 1958: Siân Lloyd, Welsh meteorologist and journalist Siân Mary Lloyd is a Welsh television presenter and meteorologist from Maesteg. She was the United Kingdom's longest-serving female weather forecaster, having appeared on ITV Weather for 24 years, from 1990 until 2014. Read more
03 Jul 1958: Didier Mouron, Swiss-Canadian painter Didier Mouron is a Swiss artist. He was born in Vevey. Didier Mouron has been called "The king of the pencil". Read more
03 Jul 1958: Aaron Tippin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Aaron Dupree Tippin is an American country music singer, songwriter and record producer. Initially a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music, he gained a recording contract with RCA Nashville in 1990. His debut single, "You've Got to Stand for Something" became a popular anthem for American soldiers fighting in the Gulf War and helped to establish him as a neotraditionalist country act with songs that catered primarily to the American working class. Under RCA's tenure, he recorded five studio albums and a Greatest Hits package. Tippin switched to Lyric Street Records in 1998, where he recorded four more studio albums, counting a compilation of Christmas music. After leaving Lyric Street in 2006, he founded a personal label known as Nippit Records, on which he issued the compilation album Now & Then. A concept album, In Overdrive, was released in 2009. Read more
03 Jul 1957: Poly Styrene, British musician (died 2011) Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, known by the stage name Poly Styrene, was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex. She is considered a pioneer for the feminist punk movement. Read more
03 Jul 1956: Montel Williams, American talk show host and television personality Montel Brian Anthony Williams is an American television host and actor. He is known for hosting the daytime tabloid talk show The Montel Williams Show, which ran in syndication from 1991 to 2008. He currently hosts The Balancing Act and Military Makeover with Montel airing on Lifetime. Williams founded the Montel Williams MS Foundation after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999. He is noted for his service in both the United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy, from which he retired after 22 years of service. Read more
03 Jul 1955: Claude Rajotte, Canadian radio and television host Claude Rajotte is a well-known Canadian DJ/VJ/music critic from Montreal, Quebec. Read more
03 Jul 1954: Les Cusworth, English rugby player Les Cusworth is a former English rugby union footballer, coach of the winning 1993 England rugby 7s team, former assistant coach of England national rugby team and former Director of Rugby for Worcester and the national team of Argentina. Read more
03 Jul 1953: Lotta Sollander, Swedish alpine skier Lotta Sollander is a Swedish former alpine skier, who competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics. She is the daughter of Stig Sollander. Read more
03 Jul 1952: Dugan Basham, American stock racing driver Dugan Basham is an American former professional stock car racing driver who has competed in the ARCA Re/Max Series. He is the younger brother of longtime ARCA competitor Darrell Basham. Read more
03 Jul 1952: Laura Branigan, American singer-songwriter (died 2004) Laura Ann Kruteck was an American singer. Her signature song, the platinum-certified 1982 cover of Umberto Tozzi's single "Gloria", stayed on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for 36 weeks, then a record for a female artist, peaking at No. 2. It also reached number one in Australia and Canada. In 1984, she reached number one in Canada and Germany and No. 4 in the U.S. with "Self Control". "Gloria" and "Self Control" were also successful in the United Kingdom, each hitting the top 10 on the UK singles chart. Read more
03 Jul 1952: Lu Colombo, Italian singer Lu Colombo, best known as Lou Colombo, pseudonym of Maria Luisa Colombo, is an Italian singer-songwriter, producer and publisher, widely known for the song Maracaibo. Read more
03 Jul 1952: Andy Fraser, English singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2015) Andrew McIan Fraser was an English musician and songwriter, best known as the bassist and co-composer for the rock band Free, which he helped found in 1968 when he was 15. He is known for writing the hit songs "All Right Now" and "Every Kinda People". He also founded the rock band Sharks after leaving Free in 1972. Read more
03 Jul 1952: Carla Olson, American singer-songwriter and music producer Carla Olson is an American, Los Angeles-based songwriter, performer and record producer. Read more
03 Jul 1952: Wasim Raja, Pakistani cricketer (died 2006) Wasim Hasan Raja was a Pakistani schoolteacher, match referee, cricket coach and cricketer who played in 57 Test matches and 54 One Day Internationals for the Pakistan national cricket team from 1973 to 1985. Read more
03 Jul 1952: Amit Kumar, Indian film playback singer, actor, director, music director and musician Amit Kumar is an Indian playback singer, music composer and actor. Kumar launched his own music production company, named Kumar Brothers Music. He has predominantly worked in Bollywood and regional film songs since the 1970s, including 150 Hindi and Bengali compositions by R. D. Burman and Bappi Lahiri. After Burman's death in 1994, citing a lack of quality music composition, Kumar withdrew from playback singing and concentrated on live orchestra shows. In addition to singing in Hindi, has also performed in Bengali, Bhojpuri, Odia, Assamese, Marathi and Konkani. He is the eldest son of singer-actor Kishore Kumar. Read more
03 Jul 1951: Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (died 2014) Jean-Claude Duvalier, nicknamed "Baby Doc", was a Haitian dictator who held the presidency of Haiti from 1971 until he was overthrown by a popular uprising in February 1986. He succeeded his father François "Papa Doc" Duvalier as the ruler of Haiti after his death in 1971. After assuming power, he introduced cosmetic changes to his father's regime and delegated much authority to his advisors. Thousands of Haitians were tortured and killed, and hundreds of thousands fled the country during his presidency. He maintained a notoriously lavish lifestyle while poverty among his people remained the most widespread of any country in the Western Hemisphere. Read more
03 Jul 1951: Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer Sir Richard John Hadlee is a New Zealand former cricketer. Hadlee is widely regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders in cricket history, and amongst the very finest fast bowlers. Read more
03 Jul 1950: Ewen Chatfield, New Zealand cricketer Ewen John Chatfield is a former New Zealand cricketer. A medium-pace bowler, though Chatfield played 43 Tests and 114 One Day Internationals for his country. He is also remembered for having been hit in the head by a ball while batting, causing him to collapse and need resuscitation. Read more
03 Jul 1950: James Hahn, American judge and politician, 40th Mayor of Los Angeles James Kenneth Hahn is a Los Angeles Superior Court judge and an American former lawyer and politician. A Democrat, Hahn was elected the 40th mayor of Los Angeles in 2001. He served until 2005, at which time he was defeated in his bid for re-election. Prior to his term as Mayor, Hahn served in several other capacities for the city of Los Angeles, including deputy city attorney (1975–1979), city controller (1981–1985) and city attorney (1985–2001). Hahn is the only individual in the city's history to have been elected to all three citywide offices. He is currently a sitting judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Read more
03 Jul 1949: Susan Penhaligon, English actress Susan Penhaligon is a British actress and writer known for her role in the drama series Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1976), and for playing Helen Barker in the sitcom A Fine Romance (1981–1984). Read more
03 Jul 1949: John Verity, English guitarist John Verity is an English guitarist and singer. He is best known as a member of Argent, a band formed by Zombies keyboardist Rod Argent. He joined the band alongside John Grimaldi, replacing Russ Ballard. Read more
03 Jul 1949: Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (died 2006) Johnnie James Wilder Jr. was an American musician, co-founder and vocalist of the R&B/funk group Heatwave. The group were popular during the late 1970s with hits such as "Boogie Nights", "Mind Blowing Decisions", "Always and Forever", and "The Groove Line". Read more
03 Jul 1949: Bo Xilai, Chinese politician, Chinese Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai is a Chinese former politician who was convicted on bribery and embezzlement charges. He came to prominence through his tenures as Mayor of Dalian and then Governor of Liaoning. From 2004 to 2007, he served as Minister of Commerce. Between 2007 and 2012, he served as a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Party Secretary of Chongqing, a direct-administered municipality under the central government. Read more
03 Jul 1948: Paul Barrere, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019) Paul Barrere was an American musician most prominent as a member of the band Little Feat, which he joined in 1972 some three years after the band was created by Lowell George. Read more
03 Jul 1948: Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish author and illustrator Tarmo Koivisto is a Finnish comics artist and writer, cartoonist, and graphic artist. Read more
03 Jul 1947: Dave Barry, American journalist and author David McAlister Barry is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels and children's novels. Barry's honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1988) and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism (2005). Read more
03 Jul 1947: Betty Buckley, American actress and singer Betty Buckley is an American actress and singer. Buckley is the winner of a Tony Award, and was nominated for an additional Tony Award, two Daytime Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Olivier Award. In 2012, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Read more
03 Jul 1947: Mike Burton, American swimmer Michael Jay Burton is an American swimmer who competed for the University of California at Los Angeles, a three-time Olympic champion, and a former world record-holder in two freestyle distance events. He would later have a career as a swimming coach. Read more
03 Jul 1946: Johnny Lee, American singer and guitarist Johnny Lee is an American country music singer. His 1980 single "Lookin' for Love" became a crossover hit, spending three weeks at number 1 on the Billboard country singles chart while also appearing in the top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and top 10 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. He racked up 17 top 40 country hits in the early and mid-1980s. Read more
03 Jul 1946: Leszek Miller, Polish political scientist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Poland Leszek Cezary Miller is a Polish politician who served as prime minister of Poland from 2001 to 2004. He served a single term in the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024. Read more
03 Jul 1946: Michael Shea, American author (died 2014) Michael Shea was an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction author. His novel Nifft the Lean won the World Fantasy Award, as did his novella Growlimb. Read more
03 Jul 1945: Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, Scottish politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (died 2018) Michael John Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, was a Scottish politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 2000 and 2009. A member of the Labour Party prior to becoming speaker, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Springburn from 1979 to 2005 and for Glasgow North East until 2009. He was elected as Speaker of the House of Commons in 2000, remaining in the office for nine years until his involuntary resignation in 2009. Read more
03 Jul 1943: Gary Waldhorn, British actor (died 2022) Gary Peter Waldhorn was an English actor and comedian known for his roles in British television and theatre. He is particularly remembered for his work in the main casts of several British sitcoms. Notable roles and characters played by him included Councillor David Horton in The Vicar of Dibley and Lionel Bainbridge in Brush Strokes. Read more
03 Jul 1943: Judith Durham, Australian folk-pop singer-songwriter and musician (died 2022) Judith Durham was an Australian singer, songwriter and musician who became the lead singer of the Australian folk music group the Seekers in 1962. Read more
03 Jul 1943: Kurtwood Smith, American actor Kurtwood Larson Smith is an American actor. He is known for playing Clarence Boddicker in RoboCop (1987), Robert Griggs in Rambo III (1988), Thomas Perry in Dead Poets Society (1989), Stump Sisson in A Time to Kill (1996), as well as Red Forman in That '70s Show (1998–2006) and That '90s Show (2023–2024), along with his many appearances in science fiction films and television programs. He also starred in the seventh season of 24. He voiced Gene on Regular Show (2012–2017), portrayed Leslie Claret on Patriot (2015–2018), and Old Man Peterson on The Ranch (2017–2020). Read more
03 Jul 1943: Norman E. Thagard, American astronaut Norman Earl Thagard is an American scientist and former U.S. Marine Corps officer and naval aviator and NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five space flights and on March 14, 1995, he became the first American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle, the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft for the Russian Mir-18 mission. Read more
03 Jul 1942: Kevin Johnson, Australian singer-songwriter Kevin Stephen Johnson is an Australian singer-songwriter. Popular in the 1970s, his biggest hit is "Rock and Roll ", which peaked at No. 4 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart in 1973. He also had a top 20 hit with "Bonnie Please Don't Go" in 1971. "Rock and Roll" is one of the most covered songs written by an Australian with 27 different artists recording the song in 1975 alone. Covers of "Rock and Roll " came from fellow Australians, Col Joye and Dig Richards, and from international artists, Mac Davis, Terry Jacks, Gary Glitter, Joe Dassin, The Cats and Tom Jones. Davis' rendition became the highest charting version on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 15 in 1975. Read more
03 Jul 1942: Eddy Mitchell, French singer-songwriter Claude Moine, known professionally as Eddy Mitchell, is a French singer and actor. He began his career in the late 1950s, with the group Les Chaussettes Noires. He took the name Eddy from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine, and chose Mitchell as his last name simply because it sounds American. The band performed at the Parisian nightclub Golf-Drouot before signing to Barclay Records and finding almost instant success; in 1961 it sold two million records. Read more
03 Jul 1942: Dr. Lonnie Smith, American jazz Hammond B-3 organist (died 2021) Lonnie Smith, styled as Dr. Lonnie Smith, was an American jazz Hammond B3 organist who was a member of the George Benson quartet in the 1960s. He recorded albums with saxophonist Lou Donaldson for Blue Note before being signed as a solo act. He owned the label Pilgrimage, and was named the year's best organist by the Jazz Journalists Association nine times. Read more
03 Jul 1941: Gloria Allred, American lawyer and activist Gloria Rachel Allred is an American attorney known for taking high-profile and often controversial cases, particularly those involving feminist causes. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Read more
03 Jul 1941: Liamine Zéroual, Algerian politician, 6th President of Algeria (died 2026) Liamine Zéroual was an Algerian politician who served as the sixth president of Algeria from 31 January 1994 to 27 April 1999. Read more
03 Jul 1940: Lamar Alexander, American lawyer and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Education Andrew Lamar Alexander Jr. is an American politician, academic administrator, and attorney who served as a U.S. senator from Tennessee from 2003 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he was previously the 45th governor of Tennessee from 1979 to 1987 and the 5th United States Secretary of Education under President George H. W. Bush, serving from 1991 to 1993. During his tenure at the Department of Education, he supported the implementation of the "America 2000" education reform initiative. Read more
03 Jul 1940: Fontella Bass, American R&B and soul singer (died 2012) Fontella Marie Bass was an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter best known for her number-one R&B hit "Rescue Me" in 1965. She also collaborated with artists like the Art Ensemble of Chicago, The Cinematic Orchestra, and her husband, jazz trumpeter Lester Bowie. Bass received two Grammy nominations and was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Read more
03 Jul 1940: Jerzy Buzek, Polish engineer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Poland Jerzy Karol Buzek is a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001. Since being elected to the European Parliament in 2004, he served as President of the European Parliament between 2009 and 2012. He is married to Ludgarda Buzek and is the father of Polish actress Agata Buzek. Read more
03 Jul 1940: Michael Cole, American actor (died 2024) Michael Cole was an American actor best known for his role as Pete Cochran on the television crime drama The Mod Squad (1968–1973). Read more
03 Jul 1940: Lance Larson, American swimmer (died 2024) Lance Melvin Larson was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in four events. Read more
03 Jul 1940: César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (died 1994) César Leonardo Tovar, nicknamed "Pepito" and "Mr. Versatility", was a Venezuelan professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1965 to 1976, most notably as the leadoff hitter for the Minnesota Twins teams that won two consecutive American League Western Division titles in 1969 and 1970. He later played for the Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, and New York Yankees. Read more
03 Jul 1939: Brigitte Fassbaender, German soprano and director Brigitte Fassbaender, is a German mezzo-soprano opera singer and a stage director. From 1999 to 2012 she was intendant of the Tyrolean State Theatre in Innsbruck, Austria. She holds the title Kammersängerin from the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Vienna Staatsoper. Read more
03 Jul 1939: László Kovács, Hungarian politician and diplomat, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs László Kovács is a Hungarian politician and diplomat, former European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union. He was the foreign minister of Hungary twice, from 1994 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2004. He also served as chairman of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) from 1998 to 2004. Read more
03 Jul 1939: Coco Laboy, Puerto Rican baseball player José Alberto "Coco" Laboy is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball third baseman who played five seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was signed by the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent in 1959 but remained mired in the minor leagues, playing for a while in North Carolina with the Raleigh Cardinals, until the 1969 expansion of major league baseball, which added two teams to both leagues. The expansion Montreal Expos drafted Laboy from the St. Louis Cardinals organization. Read more
03 Jul 1938: Jean Aitchison, English linguist and academic Jean Margaret Aitchison is a Professor Emerita of Language and Communication in the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. Her main areas of interest include socio-historical linguistics; language and the mind; and language and the media. Read more
03 Jul 1938: Rhoda Scott, American soul and jazz Hammond organist Rhoda Scott is an American soul jazz organist and singer. She is nicknamed "The Barefoot Lady". Read more
03 Jul 1938: Sjaak Swart, Dutch footballer Jesaia Swart, commonly known as Sjaak Swart, is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a winger for Ajax. During his career at Ajax, he amassed a total of 603 official matches, a record for the club. Read more
03 Jul 1937: Nicholas Maxwell, English philosopher and academic (died 2025) Nicholas Maxwell was a British philosopher. Read more
03 Jul 1937: Tom Stoppard, Czech-English playwright and screenwriter (died 2025) Sir Tom Stoppard was a British playwright and screenwriter. He wrote for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covered the themes of human rights, censorship, and political freedom, often delving into the deeper philosophical bases of society. Stoppard, a playwright of the Royal National Theatre, was one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation and was critically compared with William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw. He was knighted for his contribution to theatre in 1997 and awarded the Order of Merit in 2000. Read more
03 Jul 1936: Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill, English lawyer and politician (died 2020) Anthony Paul Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill, QC was a British barrister and member of the House of Lords. He was at different times a member of the Labour Party, Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Democrats. Lester was best known for his influence on race relations legislation in the United Kingdom and as a founder-member of groups such as the Institute of Race Relations, the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination and the Runnymede Trust. Lester was also a prominent figure in promoting birth control and abortion through the Family Planning Association, particularly in Northern Ireland. Read more
03 Jul 1936: Baard Owe, Norwegian-Danish actor (died 2017) Baard Arne Owe, sometimes credited Bård Owe, was a Norwegian-born Danish actor who appeared in many Scandinavian films and television series. Read more
03 Jul 1935: Cheo Feliciano, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (died 2014) Cheo Feliciano was a Puerto Rican singer and composer of salsa and bolero music. Feliciano was the owner of a recording company called "Coche Records". He was the first tropical singer to perform at the "Amira de la Rosa Theater" in Barranquilla, Colombia, and in 1987 he played the role of Roberto Clemente's father in the musical Clemente. Read more
03 Jul 1935: Harrison Schmitt, American geologist, astronaut, and politician. Twelfth man to walk on the moon. Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt is an American geologist, former NASA astronaut, university professor, and former U.S. senator from New Mexico. He is the most recent living person—and only person without a background in military aviation—to have walked on the Moon. Read more
03 Jul 1933: Edward Brandt, Jr., American physician and mathematician (died 2007) Edward Newman Brandt Jr. MD was an American physician, mathematician, and public health administrator. He was appointed acting surgeon general of the United States from 1981 to 1982 and served as the United States assistant secretary for health from 1981 to 1984. Read more
03 Jul 1932: Richard Mellon Scaife, American businessman (died 2014) Richard Mellon Scaife was an American billionaire, a principal heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, and the owner and publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. In 2005, Scaife was number 238 on the Forbes 400, with a personal fortune of $1.2 billion. By 2013, Scaife had dropped to number 371 on the listing, with a personal fortune of $1.4 billion. Read more
03 Jul 1930: Pete Fountain, American clarinet player (died 2016) Pierre Dewey LaFontaine Jr., known professionally as Pete Fountain, was an American jazz clarinetist. Read more
03 Jul 1930: Carlos Kleiber, German-Austrian conductor (died 2004) Carlos Kleiber was a German-born Austrian conductor, who is widely regarded as among the greatest conductors of all time. The son of the conductor Erich Kleiber, he was particularly known for the Romantic repertoire. John Rockwell writes: "A fabled perfectionist, he demanded long hours of rehearsal as his reputation grew and allowed him to obtain such concessions. But he made all that work pay off in performances that blended exactitude with impassioned spontaneity." Read more
03 Jul 1930: Tommy Tedesco, American guitarist (died 1997) Thomas Joseph Tedesco was an American guitarist and studio musician in Los Angeles and Hollywood. He was part of the loose collective of the area's leading session musicians later popularly known as the Wrecking Crew, who played on thousands of studio recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including several hundred Top 40 hits. Read more
03 Jul 1929: Clément Perron, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1999) Clément Perron was a Canadian film director and screenwriter. Read more
03 Jul 1929: Joanne Herring, American socialite, businesswoman, political activist, philanthropist, diplomat, and television talk show host Joanne King Herring is an American socialite, businesswoman, political activist, philanthropist, diplomat, and former television talk show host. Read more
03 Jul 1928: Evelyn Anthony, English author (died 2018) Evelyn Bridget Patricia Ward-Thomas, better known by the pen name Evelyn Anthony, was a British writer. Anthony was born in the Lambeth district of London. She had a very prolific writing career, translated into at least 19 languages and her 1971 novel The Tamarind Seed was adapted for a film in 1974, starring Julie Andrews as Judith Farrow. Read more
03 Jul 1927: Ken Russell, English actor, director, and producer (died 2011) Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell was a British film director known for his pioneering work in television and film, and for his flamboyant and controversial style. His films were mainly liberal adaptations of existing texts, or biographies, notably of composers of the Romantic era. Russell began directing for the BBC, where he made creative adaptations of composers' lives which were unusual for the time. He also directed many feature films independently and for studios. Read more
03 Jul 1927: Tim O'Connor, American actor (died 2018) Timothy Joseph O'Connor was an American character actor known for his work in television. O'Connor specialized in playing officials, military men, and police officers. Read more
03 Jul 1926: Johnny Coles, American trumpet player (died 1997) John Coles was an American jazz trumpeter. Read more
03 Jul 1926: Rae Allen, American actress, singer, and director (died 2022) Rae Julia Theresa Abruzzo, professionally known as Rae Allen, was an American actress of stage, film and television. Her career spanned some seventy years and eight decades. Read more
03 Jul 1926: Laurence Street, Australian jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (died 2018) Sir Laurence Whistler Street, AC, KCMG, KStJ, QC was an Australian judge. He served as the 14th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales. He was the third generation of the Street family to serve in these viceregal offices, and the youngest since 1844. Street fought in World War II, and he became a commander of the Royal Australian Navy Reserve, and an honorary colonel of the Australian Army Reserve. Read more
03 Jul 1925: Terry Moriarty, Australian rules footballer (died 2011) Terrence Brian "Terry" Moriarty was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Perth Football Club in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL). Having won the club's best and fairest trophy in his first two seasons, Moriarty went on to play 253 games over a 15-season career, which remains a club record. He also played nine interstate matches for Western Australia. Having also served in the Australian Army during World War II, he was the winner of the 1943 Sandover Medal as the best player in the competition, and was inducted into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2010. Read more
03 Jul 1925: Danny Nardico, American professional boxer (died 2010) Daniel Richard (Danny) Nardico was an American professional boxer who was once ranked the fifth-best light heavyweight boxer by The Ring magazine. He was the only fighter to knock down Jake LaMotta. Nardico briefly entered wrestling after his boxing career. Read more
03 Jul 1925: Philip Jamison, American artist (died 2021) Philip Jamison was an American artist working primarily with watercolor as a medium. Typical scenes are landscapes, seascapes, interiors and flower arrangements. Read more
03 Jul 1924: Amalia Aguilar, Cuban-Mexican film actress and dancer (died 2021) Amalia Isabel Rodríguez Carriera, known professionally as Amalia Aguilar, was a Cuban-Mexican dancer, actress and comedian. Read more
03 Jul 1924: S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (died 2016) Sellapan Ramanathan, often known as S. R. Nathan, was a Singaporean civil servant, diplomat and politician who served as the sixth president of Singapore between 1999 and 2011. He was the longest-serving president in the country's history, holding office for two full terms. Prior to his presidency, Nathan held various key positions in the public service, including roles in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Security and Intelligence Division (SID). He also served as Singapore's High Commissioner to Malaysia and Ambassador to the United States. Read more
03 Jul 1922: Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian painter and sculptor (died 2010) Corneille – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, better known under his pseudonym Corneille, was a Dutch artist. Read more
03 Jul 1922: Theo Brokmann Jr., Dutch football player (died 2003) Theodorus Johannes Franciscus Brokmann Jr., better known as Theo Brokmann, was a Dutch football player. Read more
03 Jul 1921: Flor María Chalbaud, First Lady of Venezuela (died 2013) Flor de María Chalbaud Castro was First Lady of Venezuela between 2 December 1952 and 23 January 1958 and one of the founders of the Bolivarian Ladies Society. Read more
03 Jul 1921: Susan Peters, American actress (died 1952) Susan Peters was an American actress who appeared in more than twenty films over the course of her decade-long career. Though she began her career in uncredited and ingénue roles, she would establish herself as a serious dramatic actress in the mid-1940s. Read more
03 Jul 1921: François Reichenbach, French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1993) François Arnold Reichenbach was a French film director, cinematographer, producer, and screenwriter. He directed 40 films between 1954 and 1993. Read more
03 Jul 1920: Eddy Paape, Belgian illustrator (died 2012) Edouard Paape, commonly known as Eddy Paape, was a Belgian comics artist best known for illustrating the science fiction comic series Luc Orient. Read more
03 Jul 1920: Paul O'Dea, American baseball player and manager (died 1978) Paul O'Dea was an American professional baseball player, manager and scout. He saw Major League service during World War II for the 1944 and 1945 Cleveland Indians. He threw and batted left-handed, stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 200 pounds (91 kg). Read more
03 Jul 1920: Lennart Bladh, Swedish politician (died 2006) Lennart Villiam Bladh was a Swedish politician who served as member of the Riksdag (MP) from 1974 to 1985. Read more
03 Jul 1919: Cecil FitzMaurice, 8th Earl of Orkney (died 1998) Cecil O'Bryen Fitz-Maurice, 8th Earl of Orkney was a Scottish peer. He held the subsidiary titles of Viscount of Kirkwall and Baron of Dechmont. Read more
03 Jul 1919: Gerald W. Thomas, American soldier and academic (died 2013) Gerald Waylett Thomas was President Emeritus of New Mexico State University, a veteran of World War II, and an author. Read more
03 Jul 1918: S. V. Ranga Rao, Indian actor, director, and producer (died 1974) Samarla Venkata Ranga Rao, popularly known as S. V. Ranga Rao and SVR, was an Indian actor and filmmaker who primarily worked in Telugu and Tamil films. He is regarded as one of the finest actors in the history of Indian cinema. He is known by the epithet "Viswa Nata Chakravarthi" and was the earliest known character actor in South Indian cinema to achieve a star status. In a career spanning nearly three decades, Ranga Rao garnered various national and international honours. Read more
03 Jul 1918: Johnny Palmer, American golfer (died 2006) John Cornelius Palmer was an American professional golfer. Read more
03 Jul 1917: João Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, manager, and journalist (died 1990) João Alves Jobin Saldanha was a Brazilian journalist and football manager. He coached the Brazil national football team during the South American Qualifying to the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Nicknamed João Sem Medo by Nelson Rodrigues, Saldanha played for Botafogo. He then started a career in journalism and became one of Brazil's most prolific sports columnists. He often criticised players, managers and teams, and was a member of then-illegal Brazilian Communist Party. Read more
03 Jul 1916: John Kundla, American basketball player and coach (died 2017) John Albert Kundla was an American college and professional basketball coach. He was the first head coach for the Minneapolis Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and its predecessors, the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball League (NBL), serving 12 seasons, from 1947 to 1959. His teams won six league championships, one in the NBL, one in the BAA, and four in the NBA. Kundla was the head basketball coach at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul for one season in 1946–47, and at the University of Minnesota for ten seasons, from 1959 to 1968. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 and the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. Read more
03 Jul 1913: Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist, actress, and author (died 1965) Dorothy Mae Kilgallen was an American columnist, journalist, and television game show panelist. After spending two semesters at the College of New Rochelle, she started her career shortly before her 18th birthday as a reporter for the Hearst Corporation's New York Evening Journal. In 1938, she began her newspaper column "The Voice of Broadway", which was eventually syndicated to more than 140 papers. In 1950, she became a regular panelist on the television game show What's My Line?, continuing in the role until her death. Read more
03 Jul 1911: Joe Hardstaff Jr., English cricketer (died 1990) Joseph Hardstaff Jr was an English cricketer, who played in twenty three Test matches for England from 1935 to 1948. Hardstaff's father, Joe senior played for Nottinghamshire and England and his son, also named Joe, played first-class cricket as well. Read more
03 Jul 1910: Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (died 1954) Fritz Kasparek was an Austrian mountaineer who was on the team that made the first successful ascent of the Eiger north face. Read more
03 Jul 1909: Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping magnate (died 1996) Stavros Spyrou Niarchos was a Greek billionaire shipping tycoon. Starting in 1952, he had the world's biggest supertankers built for his fleet. Propelled by both the Suez Crisis and increasing demand for oil, he and rival Aristotle Onassis became giants in global petroleum shipping. Read more
03 Jul 1908: M. F. K. Fisher, American author (died 1992) Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher Parrish Friede, writing as M.F.K. Fisher, was an American food writer. She was a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. Over her lifetime she wrote 27 books, among them Consider the Oyster (1941), How to Cook a Wolf (1942), The Gastronomical Me (1943) and a translation of Brillat-Savarin's The Physiology of Taste. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing. W. H. Auden once remarked, "I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose." In 1991 the New York Times editorial board went so far as to say, "Calling M.F.K. Fisher, who has just been elected to the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters, a food writer is a lot like calling Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart a tunesmith. At the same time that she is celebrating, say, oysters or the scent of orange segments drying on a radiator, she is also celebrating life and loneliness, sense and sensibility." Read more
03 Jul 1908: Robert B. Meyner, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (died 1990) Robert Baumle Meyner was an American Democratic Party politician and attorney who served as the 44th governor of New Jersey from 1954 to 1962. Before being elected governor, Meyner represented Warren County in the New Jersey Senate from 1948 to 1951. Read more
03 Jul 1906: George Sanders, Russian-born British actor (died 1972) George Henry Sanders was a British actor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is remembered for his roles as the wicked Jack Favell in Rebecca (1940), Scott ffolliott in Foreign Correspondent, The Saran of Gaza in Samson and Delilah, theater critic Addison DeWitt in All About Eve, Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert in Ivanhoe (1952), King Richard the Lionheart in King Richard and the Crusaders (1954), Mr. Freeze in a two-part episode of Batman (1966), and the voice of Shere Khan in Disney's The Jungle Book (1967). He also starred as Simon Templar, in five of the eight films in The Saint series (1939–1941), and as a suave Saint-like crimefighter in the first four of the sixteen The Falcon films (1941–1942). Read more
03 Jul 1905: Johnny Gibson, American hurdler and coach (died 2006) John A. Gibson was a runner and Olympic athlete. Read more
03 Jul 1905: Harald Kihle, Norwegian painter and illustrator (died 1997) Harald Kihle was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. He is particularly known for his pictures with motifs from Telemark. Read more
03 Jul 1903: Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1992) Irvine Wallace "Ace" Bailey was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs for eight seasons, from 1926 to 1933. His playing career ended with a hit from Eddie Shore in a game against the Boston Bruins; he was severely injured with a fractured skull when Shore hit Bailey from behind in retaliation for a check by teammate King Clancy. Bailey fell, fracturing his skull upon hitting the ice, and was knocked unconscious. Bailey is the first professional sports player to have a jersey number retired in his honour. Bailey led the NHL in scoring in 1929, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1975. Read more
03 Jul 1901: Ruth Crawford Seeger, American composer (died 1953) Ruth Crawford Seeger was an American composer and musicologist. Her music heralded the emerging modernist aesthetic, and she became a central member of a group of American composers known as the "ultramodernists". She composed primarily during the 1920s and 1930s, turning towards studies on folk music from the late 1930s until her death. Her music influenced later composers including Elliott Carter. Read more
03 Jul 1900: Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (died 1987) Alessandro Blasetti was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Four Steps in the Clouds. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era. He is sometimes known as the "father of Italian cinema" because of his role in reviving the struggling industry in the late 1920s. Read more
03 Jul 1898: Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1982) Stefanos Stefanopoulos was a Greek politician, and served as Prime Minister of Greece from 1965 to 1966. Read more
03 Jul 1897: Jesse Douglas, American mathematician and academic (died 1965) Jesse Douglas was an American mathematician and Fields Medalist known for his general solution to Plateau's problem. Read more
03 Jul 1896: Doris Lloyd, English actress (died 1968) Hessy Doris Lloyd was a British actress. She appeared in The Time Machine (1960) and The Sound of Music (1965). Read more
03 Jul 1893: Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (died 1976) Sándor Bortnyik was a Hungarian painter and graphic designer. His work was greatly influenced by Cubism, Expressionism and Constructivism. Read more
03 Jul 1889: Richard Cramer, American actor (died 1960) Richard Earl Cramer was an American actor in films from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. Read more
03 Jul 1888: Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish author and playwright (died 1963) Ramón Gómez de la Serna y Puig, born in Madrid, was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator. He strongly influenced surrealist film maker Luis Buñuel. Read more
03 Jul 1886: Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines (died 1969) Raymond Ames Spruance was a United States Navy admiral during World War II. He commanded U.S. naval forces during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, one of the most significant naval battles of the Pacific Theatre. He also commanded Task Force 16 at the Battle of Midway, comprising the carriers Enterprise and Hornet. At Midway, dive bombers from American carriers sank four fleet carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Most historians consider Midway the turning point of the Pacific War. Read more
03 Jul 1885: Anna Dickie Olesen, American politician (died 1971) Anna Dickie Olesen was an American politician from the state of Minnesota who was the first woman to be nominated by a major party for the United States Senate. Read more
03 Jul 1883: Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian author (died 1924) Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe situations like those depicted in his writings. His best-known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926). He is also celebrated for his brief fables and aphorisms, which frequently incorporated comedic elements alongside the darker themes of his longer works. His work has widely influenced artists, philosophers, composers, filmmakers, literary historians, religious scholars, and cultural theorists. Read more
03 Jul 1880: Carl Schuricht, Polish-German conductor (died 1967) Carl Adolph Schuricht was a German conductor. Read more
03 Jul 1879: Alfred Korzybski, Polish-American mathematician, linguist, and philosopher (died 1950) Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski was a Polish-American philosopher and independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics. He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality. His best known dictum is "The map is not the territory". Many of his ideas were presented in his book Science and Sanity (1933). Read more
03 Jul 1878: George M. Cohan, American songwriter, actor, singer, and dancer (died 1942) George Michael Cohan was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and theatrical producer. Read more
03 Jul 1876: Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher and academic (died 1957) Ralph Barton Perry was an American philosopher. He was a strident moral idealist who stated in 1909 that, to him, idealism meant "to interpret life consistently with ethical, scientific, and metaphysical truth." Perry's viewpoints on religion stressed the notion that religious thinking possessed legitimacy should it exist within a framework accepting of human reason and social progress. Read more
03 Jul 1875: Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon and academic (died 1951) Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch was a German surgeon. His major work was on the use of negative-pressure chambers for surgery. Read more
03 Jul 1874: Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (died 1928) Jean Collas was a French rugby union player and tug of war competitor, who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the French rugby union team, which won the gold medal. He also participated in the tug of war competition and won a silver medal as a member of the French team. Read more
03 Jul 1871: William Henry Davies, Welsh poet and writer (died 1940) William Henry Davies was a Welsh poet and writer, who spent much of his life as a tramp or hobo in the United Kingdom and the United States, yet became one of the most popular poets of his time. His themes included observations on life's hardships, the ways the human condition is reflected in nature, his tramping adventures and the characters he met. His work has been classed as Georgian, though it is not typical of that class of work in theme or style. Read more
03 Jul 1870: R. B. Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1947) Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Canada from 1930 to 1935. Read more
03 Jul 1869: Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (died 1933) Svend Kornbeck was a Danish stage and film actor. Read more
03 Jul 1866: Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (died 1906) Albert Gottschalk was a Danish painter. He had a close connection, personally and artistically, to the poets Johannes Jørgensen, Viggo Stuckenberg and Sophus Claussen. Read more
03 Jul 1860: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (died 1935) Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman, also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, early sociologist, and advocate for social reform. She was an early and leading figure in the women's rights movement in the United States. Her works were primarily focused on gender, specifically gendered labor division in society, and the problem of male domination. Gilman is best known for the semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892), based on her experience with postpartum depression, her manifesto calling for women's economic independence, Women and Economics (1898), and the utopian feminist novel, Herland (1915). She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Read more
03 Jul 1854: Leoš Janáček, Czech composer and theorist (died 1928) Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, music theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic music, including Eastern European folk music, to create an original, modern musical style. Read more
03 Jul 1851: Charles Bannerman, English-Australian cricketer and umpire (died 1930) Charles Bannerman was an English-born Australian cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he represented Australia in three Test matches between 1877 and 1879. At the domestic level, he played for the New South Wales cricket team. Later, he became an umpire. Read more
03 Jul 1846: Achilles Alferaki, Russian composer and politician, Governor of Taganrog (died 1919) Achilles Nikolayevich Alferaki was a Russian composer and politician of Greek descent. His brother was Sergei Alphéraky. He served as the mayor of Taganrog from 1880 to 1888. Read more
03 Jul 1844: Dankmar Adler, German-born American architect and engineer (died 1900) Dankmar Adler was a German-born American architect and civil engineer. He is best known for his fifteen-year partnership with Louis Sullivan, during which they designed influential skyscrapers that boldly addressed their steel skeleton through their exterior design: the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri (1891), the Chicago Stock Exchange Building (1894), and the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, New York (1896). Read more
03 Jul 1823: Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Greek-Ottoman statesman, diplomat, playwright, and translator (died 1891) Ahmed Vefik Pasha was an Ottoman statesman, diplomat, scholar, playwright, and translator during the Tanzimat and First Constitutional Era periods. He was commissioned with top-rank governmental duties, including presiding over the first Ottoman Parliament in 1877. He also served as Prime Minister for two brief periods. He also established the first Ottoman theatre and initiated the first Western style theatre plays in Bursa and translated Molière's major works into Turkish. His portrait was depicted on the Turkish postcard stamp dated 1966. Read more
03 Jul 1814: Ferdinand Didrichsen, Danish botanist and physicist (died 1887) Didrik Ferdinand Didrichsen was a Danish botanist and physicist. Read more

Notable Deaths on 03 July

03 Jul 2025: Borja Gómez, Spanish motorcycle rider (born 2005) Borja Gómez Rus was a Spanish motorcycle racer. He competed in the Supersport World Championship in 2021 and 2024, the Moto2 World Championship between 2022 and 2023, and the FIM Stock European Championship at the time of his death. Read more
03 Jul 2025: Diogo Jota, Portuguese footballer (born 1996) Diogo José Teixeira da Silva, commonly known as Diogo Jota, was a Portuguese professional footballer who played as a forward and winger. He was known for his finishing, pace, dribbling ability, and work rate. Read more
03 Jul 2025: David Mabuza, South African politician, 8th Deputy President of South Africa (born 1960) David Dabede Mabuza, also known as DD Mabuza, was a South African politician who served as deputy president of South Africa from February 2018 to February 2023. He was the deputy president of the African National Congress (ANC) from December 2017 to December 2022 and was previously the premier of Mpumalanga from 2009 to 2018, throughout the presidency of his onetime political ally Jacob Zuma. Mabuza served as a Member of Parliament from 2018 until his resignation in 2023. Read more
03 Jul 2025: Michael Madsen, American actor (born 1957) Michael Søren Madsen was an American actor. He was widely known for starring in Quentin Tarantino's films such as Reservoir Dogs (1992), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), and The Hateful Eight (2015). His other film roles included WarGames (1983), The Natural (1984), The Doors (1991), Thelma & Louise (1991), Free Willy (1993), Species (1995), Donnie Brasco (1997), Die Another Day (2002), Sin City (2005), and Scary Movie 4 (2006). Madsen also voiced characters in video games such as Grand Theft Auto III (2001), Narc (2005), the Dishonored series (2012–2017), The Walking Dead: Season Two (2014), and Crime Boss: Rockay City (2023). Madsen had six children, including actor Christian Madsen. Read more
03 Jul 2025: Peter Rufai, Nigerian footballer (born 1963) Peter Rufai was a Nigerian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Having begun his career with Stationery Stores, he competed professionally abroad in Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain in a senior career that lasted 20 years. Read more
03 Jul 2025: André Silva, Portuguese footballer (born 2000) André Filipe Teixeira da Silva was a Portuguese professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and a left winger. Read more
03 Jul 2025: Lolit Solis, Filipino talent manager, columnist and talk show host (born 1947) Maria Lolita Arguelles "Lolit" Solis was a Filipino talk show host, entertainment news writer, and talent manager. Read more
03 Jul 2020: Saroj Khan, Indian dance choreographer (born 1948) Saroj Khan was an Indian dance choreographer in Hindi cinema. She was best known for the dance form mujra and the first woman choreographer in Bollywood. With a career spanning over forty years, she choreographed over 3000 songs and received several accolades, including four National Film Awards and record eight Filmfare Awards for Best Choreography. Read more
03 Jul 2015: Diana Douglas, British-American actress (born 1923) Diana Love Webster, known professionally as Diana Douglas, was a Bermudian-American actress who was married to actor Kirk Douglas from 1943 until their divorce in 1951. She was the mother of Michael and Joel Douglas. Read more
03 Jul 2015: Boyd K. Packer, American religious leader and educator (born 1924) Boyd Kenneth Packer was an American religious leader and educator who served as president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2008 until his death. He also served as the quorum's acting president from 1994 to 2008 and was an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve from 1970 until his death. He served as a general authority of the church from 1961 until his death. Read more
03 Jul 2015: Wayne Townsend, American farmer and politician (born 1926) W. Wayne Townsend was an American politician from the U.S. state of Indiana. A Democrat, he was his party's gubernatorial nominee in 1984. Townsend was defeated by the incumbent Republican governor Robert D. Orr. Read more
03 Jul 2015: Phil Walsh, Australian footballer and coach (born 1960) Phillip Walsh was an Australian rules footballer and coach. Walsh played for Collingwood, Richmond and the Brisbane Bears in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1983 and 1990. Upon ending his playing career, Walsh held assistant coaching roles at Geelong, West Coast and Port Adelaide before being appointed as the senior coach of the Adelaide Football Club for a three-season contract beginning in 2015. Read more
03 Jul 2014: Jini Dellaccio, American photographer (born 1917) Jini Dellaccio was an American photographer best known for her images of rock and pop acts of the 1960s, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. Her photographs of the Sonics, the Wailers, Merrilee Rush, the Daily Flash and many others were frequently used for album covers, posters, and publicity stills, and – along with her shots of major acts such as Neil Young, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, and The Who – have been widely reproduced in books, CDs, articles, and gallery exhibitions. Read more
03 Jul 2014: Tim Flood, Irish hurler and coach (born 1927) Timothy Flood was an Irish hurler who played as a left corner-forward for the Wexford senior team. Read more
03 Jul 2014: Volkmar Groß, German footballer (born 1948) Volkmar Groß was a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He spent seven seasons in the Bundesliga with Hertha BSC, Tennis Borussia Berlin and FC Schalke 04. He represented West Germany once in a friendly against Greece. He scored one goal in the Bundesliga from a penalty kick. Read more
03 Jul 2014: Ira Ruskin, American politician (born 1943) Ira Ruskin was an American politician from Redwood City, California. A Democrat, he is a former member of the California State Assembly and of Redwood City Council. He and his wife Cheryl resided in Redwood City, California; the couple had no children. Read more
03 Jul 2014: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ukrainian-American rabbi and author (born 1924) Meshullam Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, commonly referred to as Reb Zalman, was an American rabbi, writer, and activist, and one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement and an innovator in ecumenical dialogue. Read more
03 Jul 2013: Roman Bengez, Slovenian footballer and manager (born 1964) Roman Bengez was a Slovenian footballer and manager. Read more
03 Jul 2013: Francis Ray, American author (born 1944) Francis Ray was a New York Times and USA Today bestselling African-American writer of romance novels. Her literary fiction series – Taggart and Falcon, the Invincible Women, Grayson Family of New Mexico, and Grayson Friends – consistently made bestsellers' lists. She lived in Dallas, Texas. Read more
03 Jul 2013: PJ Torokvei, Canadian actress and screenwriter (born 1951) PJ Torokvei was a Canadian actress. As a trans woman, her professional credits are generally under her former name. Read more
03 Jul 2013: Radu Vasile, Romanian historian and politician, 57th Prime Minister of Romania (born 1942) Radu Vasile was a Romanian politician, historian, academic, writer and poet who served as Prime Minister of Romania from 17 April 1998 to 13 December 1999. A leading member of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚ-CD), he played a prominent role within the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR). Before becoming active in national politics, Vasile pursued an academic career at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies (ASE), where he specialized in economic history and the history of economic thought. He served in the Senate of Romania, from 1992 to 2004, originally as a PNȚ-CD member, and then, from 2000 to 2004, on behalf of the Democratic Party (PD). His premiership was mainly marked by his handling of the January 1999 Mineriad, during which miners marched toward Bucharest in protest against planned mine closures and government restructuring measures, an event that some commentators and media outlets described as an attempted coup d'état. In addition to his political career, Vasile published poetry under the pen name Radu Mischiu. Read more
03 Jul 2013: Bernard Vitet, French trumpet player and composer (born 1934) Bernard Vitet was a French trumpeter, multi-instrumentist and composer, co-founder of the first free jazz band in France (1964) together with François Tusques, Michel Portal Unit (1972) and Un Drame Musical Instantané with Jean-Jacques Birgé and Francis Gorgé in 1976. Read more
03 Jul 2013: Snoo Wilson, English playwright and screenwriter (born 1948) Andrew James Wilson, better known as Snoo Wilson, was an English playwright, screenwriter and director. His early plays such as Blow-Job (1971) were overtly political, often combining harsh social comment with comedy. In his later works he moved away from purely political themes, embracing a range of surrealist, magical, philosophical and madcap, darkly comic subjects. Read more
03 Jul 2012: Nguyễn Hữu Có, Vietnamese general and politician (born 1925) Nguyễn Hữu Có was a South Vietnamese soldier and politician who served in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, rising to the rank of lieutenant general. He was prominent in several coups and juntas in the 1960s. Read more
03 Jul 2012: Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, and producer (born 1926) Andy Samuel Griffith was an American actor, comedian, television producer, singer, and writer whose career spanned seven decades in music and television. Known for his Southern drawl, his characters with a folksy-friendly personality, as well as his gruff but friendly voice, Griffith was a Tony Award nominee for two roles. He gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's film A Face in the Crowd (1957) and No Time for Sergeants (1958) before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead roles of Andy Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968) and Ben Matlock in the legal drama Matlock (1986–1995). Read more
03 Jul 2012: Yvonne B. Miller, American educator and politician (born 1934) Yvonne Bond Miller was a Virginia educator and American politician who became the first African-American woman to serve in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly. A Democrat, in 1983 Miller became the first African-American woman elected to the state house, where she served for four years before winning election to the state Senate, where she consistently won re-election until her death in office. Miller taught in the Norfolk Public schools, and later taught early and childhood education at one of her alma maters, which had become Norfolk State University during her lifetime. Read more
03 Jul 2012: Sergio Pininfarina, Italian engineer and politician (born 1926) Sergio Pininfarina was an Italian automobile designer and Senator for life. Read more
03 Jul 2012: Richard Alvin Tonry, American lawyer and politician (born 1935) Richard Alvin Tonry was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 1st congressional district for a partial term in 1977. Read more
03 Jul 2011: Ali Bahar, Bahraini singer and guitarist (born 1960) Ali Khamis Ebrahim Bahar was a Bahraini singer, guitarist and organ player known for his music band Al Ekhwa. He was nicknamed the "Bob Marley of the Gulf" and has been called as being "the best musician in Bahrain's and Arab's history". He sang and performed in national concerts and multiple international music festival and was renowned around the gulf especially in Bahrain and Oman. Read more
03 Jul 2010: Abu Daoud, Palestinian terrorist, planned the Munich massacre (born 1937) Mohammad Daoud Oudeh, commonly known by his nom de guerre Abu Daoud or Abu Dawud, was a Palestinian militant, teacher and lawyer known as the planner, architect and mastermind of the Munich massacre. He served in a number of commanding functions in Fatah's armed units in Lebanon and Jordan. Read more
03 Jul 2009: Alauddin Al-Azad, Bangladeshi author and poet (born 1932) Alauddin Al-Azad was a modern Bangladeshi author, novelist, and poet. Read more
03 Jul 2009: John Keel, American journalist and author (born 1930) John Alva Keel, born Alva John Kiehle, was an American journalist and influential ufologist who is known best as author of The Mothman Prophecies. Read more
03 Jul 2008: Clive Hornby, English actor and drummer (born 1944) Clive William Hornby was an English actor and musician, best known for his role as Jack Sugden in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. He first appeared in the programme in 1980, and remained in the role for 28 years. Read more
03 Jul 2008: Oliver Schroer, Canadian fiddler, composer, and producer (born 1956) Oliver Schroer was a Canadian fiddler, composer, and music producer. Read more
03 Jul 2007: Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (born 1927) Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III was an American musician. His 1963 saxophone hit "Yakety Sax" became the signature tune of The Benny Hill Show. Randolph was a prolific session musician and member of the Nashville A-Team, performing on numerous recordings by artists including Chet Atkins, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Brenda Lee, and Al Hirt. He performed alongside artists in pop, rock, jazz, and country music. Read more
03 Jul 2006: Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist, developed the OBJ programming language (born 1941) Joseph Amadee Goguen was an American computer scientist. He was professor of Computer Science at the University of California and University of Oxford, and held research positions at IBM and SRI International. Read more
03 Jul 2005: Alberto Lattuada, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1914) Mario Alberto Lattuada was an Italian film director. Read more
03 Jul 2005: Gaylord Nelson, American lawyer and politician, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (born 1916) Gaylord Anton Nelson was an American lawyer, Democratic politician, and environmentalist from Wisconsin. He served three terms as a United States senator from Wisconsin, from 1963 to 1981, and was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Small Business for the last six years of his tenure. During his time in the U.S. Senate, he was the creator of Earth Day, which launched a new wave of environmental activism. After losing his bid for re-election in 1980, he continued his environmental activism as counselor for The Wilderness Society, and was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom for his environmental efforts by President Bill Clinton. Read more
03 Jul 2004: Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (born 1929) Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev was a Soviet cosmonaut. In 1962, aboard Vostok 3, he became the third Soviet cosmonaut to fly into space. Nikolayev was an ethnic Chuvash and because of it is considered the first Turkic cosmonaut. Read more
03 Jul 2001: Mordecai Richler, Canadian author and screenwriter (born 1931) Mordecai Richler was a Canadian writer from Montreal, Quebec. He is best known for his novels set in Montreal's Jewish community; including The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Barney's Version (1997). His 1970 novel St. Urbain's Horseman and 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here were nominated for the Booker Prize. He is also well known for the Jacob Two-Two fantasy series for children. Read more
03 Jul 2001: Johnny Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1940) John Bright Russell was an American country music singer, songwriter, and comedian best known for his song "Act Naturally", which was made famous by Buck Owens, who recorded it in 1963, and The Beatles in 1965. His songs have been recorded by Gene Watson, Burl Ives, Jim Reeves, Jerry Garcia, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Loretta Lynn, and Linda Ronstadt. Read more
03 Jul 1999: Mark Sandman, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1952) Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor, multi-instrumentalist and comic writer. Sandman possessed a distinctive, deep bass-baritone voice and a mysterious demeanour. He was an indie rock icon and longtime fixture in the Boston/Cambridge music scene, best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine. Sandman was also a member of the blues-rock band Treat Her Right and founder of Hi-n-Dry, a recording studio and independent record label. Read more
03 Jul 1999: Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, Russian mathematician (born 1899) Pelageya Yakovlevna Polubarinova-Kochina was a Soviet and Russian applied mathematician, known for her work on fluid mechanics and hydrodynamics, particularly, the application of Fuchsian equations, as well in the history of mathematics. She was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1946 and full member (academician) in 1958. Read more
03 Jul 1998: Danielle Bunten Berry, American game designer and programmer (born 1949) Danielle Bunten Berry, was an American game designer and programmer, known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E., one of the first influential multiplayer video games, and 1984's The Seven Cities of Gold. Read more
03 Jul 1995: Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (born 1928) Ricardo Alonso "Pancho" González, known sometimes as Richard Gonzales, was an American tennis player. He won 15 major singles titles, including two U.S. National Championships in 1948 and 1949, and 13 Professional majors. He also won three Tournament of Champions professional events in 1957, 1958, and 1959. Gonzales was ranked as the amateur world No. 1 in 1948 by Ned Potter and in 1949 by Potter and John Olliff. Read more
03 Jul 1995: Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1929) Edward Joseph "Spider" Mazur was a Canadian ice hockey forward. He played in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks between 1951 and 1956. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1948 to 1966, was spent in the minor leagues. Read more
03 Jul 1994: Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player and coach (born 1934) Lewis Alan Hoad was an Australian tennis player whose career ran from 1950 to 1973. Hoad won four Major singles tournaments as an amateur. He was a member of the Australian team that won the Davis Cup four times between 1952 and 1956. Hoad turned professional in July 1957. He won the Kooyong Tournament of Champions in 1958 and the Forest Hills Tournament of Champions in 1959. He won the Ampol Open Trophy world series of tournaments in 1959, which included the Kooyong tournament that concluded in early January 1960. Hoad's singles tournament victories spanned from 1951 to 1971. Read more
03 Jul 1993: Don Drysdale, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1936) Donald Scott Drysdale, nicknamed "Big D", was an American professional baseball pitcher and broadcaster who played in Major League Baseball (MLB). He spent his entire 14-year career with the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers. Known for being a fierce competitor, Drysdale won the Cy Young Award in 1962 and was a three-time World Series champion during his playing career. Read more
03 Jul 1989: Jim Backus, American actor and voice artist (born 1913) James Gilmore Backus was an American actor. Among his most famous roles were Thurston Howell III on the 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island, the father of James Dean's character in Rebel Without a Cause, the voice of the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo, the rich Hubert Updike III on the radio version of The Alan Young Show, and Joan Davis's character's husband on TV's I Married Joan. He also starred in his own show of one season, The Jim Backus Show, also known as Hot Off the Wire. Read more
03 Jul 1986: Rudy Vallée, American singer, saxophonist, and actor (born 1901) Hubert Prior Vallée, known professionally as Rudy Vallée, was an American singer, musician, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type. Read more
03 Jul 1985: Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (born 1893) Francis Joseph Aloysius Selke was a Canadian professional ice hockey executive in the National Hockey League. He was a nine-time Stanley Cup champion with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens and a Hockey Hall of Fame inductee. Read more
03 Jul 1981: Ross Martin, American actor and director (born 1920) Ross Martin was an American radio, voice, stage, film, and television actor. Martin was best known for portraying Artemus Gordon on the CBS Western series The Wild Wild West, which aired from 1965 to 1969. He was the voice of Doctor Paul Williams in 1972's Sealab 2020, additional characters in 1973's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, and additional character voices in 1978's Jana of the Jungle. Read more
03 Jul 1979: Louis Durey, French pianist and composer (born 1888) Louis Edmond Durey was a French composer. He was among the Les Six group of composers. Read more
03 Jul 1978: James Daly, American actor (born 1918) James Firman Daly was an American actor. Recognized for his work on stage and screen, he is perhaps best known for his role as Paul Lochner in the hospital drama series Medical Center, in which he played Chad Everett's superior. Read more
03 Jul 1977: Alexander Volkov, Russian mathematician and author (born 1891) Alexander Melentyevich Volkov was a Soviet novelist, playwright, university lecturer. He was an author of novels, short stories, plays and poems for children, mostly remembered for the Magic Land series of books, based on L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Read more
03 Jul 1974: John Crowe Ransom, American poet and critic (born 1888) John Crowe Ransom was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism. As a faculty member at Kenyon College, he was the first editor of the widely regarded Kenyon Review. Highly respected as a teacher and mentor to a generation of accomplished students, he also was a prize-winning poet and essayist. He was nominated for the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more
03 Jul 1971: Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter (born 1943) James Douglas Morrison was an American singer-songwriter and poet who was the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band the Doors. Due to his charismatic persona, poetic lyrics, distinctive voice, and unpredictable performances, along with the dramatic circumstances surrounding his life and early death, Morrison is regarded by music critics and fans as one of the most influential frontmen in rock history. Since his death, his fame has endured as one of popular culture's top rebellious and oft-displayed icons, representing the generation gap and youth counterculture. Read more
03 Jul 1969: Brian Jones, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (born 1942) Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones was an English musician and one of the founders of the Rolling Stones. Initially a slide guitarist, he went on to play electric guitar, sing backing vocals and play a wide variety of instruments on Rolling Stones recordings and in concerts. Read more
03 Jul 1958: Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, English politician, 4th Governor-General of New Zealand (born 1867) Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, was a British landowner, barrister, Conservative politician and government minister, and colonial governor. He was Governor-General of New Zealand from 1930 to 1935. Read more
03 Jul 1957: Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player and manager (born 1890) Adolfo Domingo De Guzmán Luque was a Cuban starting pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1914 to 1935. He spent 12 seasons of his career (1918–1929) with the Cincinnati Reds. Luque was not only the first Latin American pitcher in MLB, but also the first to earn a World Series win, and the first to lead the majors in wins, shutouts and earned run average (ERA). Read more
03 Jul 1957: Richard Mohaupt, German composer and Kapellmeister (born 1904) Richard Mohaupt was a German composer and Kapellmeister. Read more
03 Jul 1954: Siegfried Handloser, German physician and general (born 1895) Siegfried Adolf Handloser was a German physician and war criminal, convicted for overseeing medical atrocities at concentration camps. Read more
03 Jul 1954: Reginald Marsh, French-American painter, illustrator, and academic (born 1898) Reginald Marsh was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and burlesque, women, and jobless men on the Bowery are subjects that reappear throughout his work. He painted in egg tempera and in oils, and produced many watercolors, ink and ink wash drawings, and prints. Read more
03 Jul 1941: Friedrich Akel, Estonian physician and politician, Head of State of Estonia (born 1871) Friedrich Karl Akel was an Estonian diplomat and politician who served as State Elder of Estonia in 1924. Read more
03 Jul 1937: Jacob Schick, American-Canadian captain and businessman, invented the electric razor (born 1877) Jacob Schick was an American military officer, inventor, and entrepreneur who patented an early electric razor and started the Schick Dry Shaver, Inc. razor company. He is the father of electric razors. Read more
03 Jul 1935: André Citroën, French engineer and businessman, founded the Citroën Company (born 1878) André-Gustave Citroën was a French industrialist and the founder of French automaker Citroën. He is also remembered for his application of double helical gears. Read more
03 Jul 1933: Hipólito Yrigoyen, Argentinian educator and politician, 19th President of Argentina (born 1852) Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union who served as President of Argentina from 1916 to 1922 and again from 1928 until his overthrow in 1930. He was the first president elected democratically by means of the secret ballot and mandatory male suffrage established by the Sáenz Peña Law of 1912. His activism was the prime impetus behind the passage of that law in Argentina. Read more
03 Jul 1927: Gérard de Courcelles, French race car driver Smaragd Marie Charles Henry Jullien "Gérard" de Courcelles was a French racing driver who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the French Lorraine-Dietrich automobile company, along with teammate André Rossignol. Read more
03 Jul 1921: James Mitchel, Irish-American weight thrower (born 1864) James Sarsfield Mitchel was an Irish-born American field athlete who competed in the 1904 Olympics. He was one of a group of Irish-American athletes known as the "Irish Whales." Read more
03 Jul 1918: Mehmed V, Ottoman sultan (born 1844) Mehmed V Reşâd was the penultimate sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1918. Mehmed V reigned as a constitutional monarch. He had little influence over government affairs and his ministries showed little regard for the Ottoman constitution. The first half of his reign was marked by increasingly polarizing politics, and the second half by war and domination of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) and the Three Pashas. Read more
03 Jul 1916: Hetty Green, American businesswoman and financier (born 1834) Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age. Those who knew her well referred to her admiringly as the "Queen of Wall Street" due to her willingness to lend freely and at reasonable interest rates to financiers and city governments during financial panics. Her extraordinary discipline during such times enabled her to amass a fortune as a financier at a time when nearly all major financiers were men. Read more
03 Jul 1908: Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (born 1845) Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years, Harris spent most of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at The Atlanta Constitution. Read more
03 Jul 1904: Édouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (born 1881) Édouard Beaupré, better known by his nickname "The Willow Bunch Giant" was a Canadian circus and freak show giant, professional wrestler, strongman, and star of Barnum and Bailey's circus. He was one of the tallest men in recorded history, with a reported height of 2.52 m. Read more
03 Jul 1904: Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist, playwright, and father of modern political Zionism (born 1860) Theodor Herzl was a Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish immigration to Palestine, which, in the late 19th century was part of the Ottoman Empire, in an effort to form a Jewish state. Due to his Zionist work, he is known in Hebrew as Chozeh HaMedinah, lit. 'Visionary of the State'. He is specifically mentioned in the Israeli Declaration of Independence and is officially referred to as "the spiritual father of the Jewish State". Read more
03 Jul 1888: Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet and author (born 1822) Nguyễn Đình Chiểu was a Vietnamese poet who was known for his nationalist and anti-colonial writings against the French colonization of Cochinchina, the European name for the southern part of Vietnam. Read more
03 Jul 1887: Clay Allison, American rancher (born 1841) Robert A. Clay Allison, also known as Clay Allison was an American cattle rancher, cattle broker, and sometimes gunfighter of the American Old West. He fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. Allison had a reputation for violence, having survived several one-on-one knife and gunfights, as well as being implicated in a number of vigilante jail break-ins and lynchings. A drunken Allison once rode his horse through town nearly naked—wearing only his gunbelt. Later most reports stated that he was dangerous not only to others but to himself, accidentally shooting himself in the foot. Read more
03 Jul 1881: Hasan Tahsini, Albanian astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (born 1811) Hoxhë Hasan Tahsini or simply Hoxha Tahsim was an Albanian alim, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher. He was the first rector of Istanbul University and one of the founders of the Central Committee for Defending Albanian Rights. Tahsini is regarded as one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century. Read more
03 Jul 1863: George Hull Ward, American general (born 1826) George Hull Ward was a soldier and Union officer in the American Civil War. Read more
03 Jul 1863: Little Crow, American tribal leader (born 1810) Little Crow III was a Wahpekute Dakota chief who led a faction of the Dakota in a five-week war against the United States in 1862. Read more
03 Jul 1809: Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (born 1746) Joseph Quesnel was a French Canadian composer, poet and playwright. Among his works were two operas, Colas et Colinette and Lucas et Cécile; the former is considered to be the first Canadian opera and probably of North America. Read more

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