History of Today 07 July: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 07 July in History

07 Jul 2022: Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party following days of pressure from the Members of Parliament (MPs) during the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis. Read more
07 Jul 2021: Haitian crisis: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated in his residence in the capital of Port-au-Prince. Read more
07 Jul 2019: The United States defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Lyon, France. Read more
07 Jul 2017: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted with 122 countries voting in favour. Read more
07 Jul 2016: Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen, killing five of them, in downtown Dallas, Texas at the end of a protest of recent police killings of Black men. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb. Read more
07 Jul 2013: A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people. Read more
07 Jul 2012: At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia. Read more
07 Jul 2011: A man goes on a killing spree in Grand Rapids, Michigan, killing 7 and wounding 2 before killing himself. Read more
07 Jul 2007: The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world. Read more
07 Jul 2006: A shootout happens in Spiritwood, Canada, killing 2 Royal Canadian Mounted Police and wounding a 3rd officer. Read more
07 Jul 2005: A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others. Read more
07 Jul 2003: NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket. Read more
07 Jul 1997: The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War. Read more
07 Jul 1992: The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public. Read more
07 Jul 1991: Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Read more
07 Jul 1985: Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17. Read more
07 Jul 1983: Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov. Read more
07 Jul 1981: US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. Read more
07 Jul 1980: Institution of sharia law in Iran. Read more
07 Jul 1980: During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre. Read more
07 Jul 1978: The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom. Read more
07 Jul 1963: Buddhist crisis: Police commanded by Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest. Read more
07 Jul 1962: Alitalia Flight 771 crashes in Junnar, Maharashtra, India, killing 94 people. Read more
07 Jul 1959: Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere. Read more
07 Jul 1958: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law. Read more
07 Jul 1953: Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. Read more
07 Jul 1952: The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world. Read more
07 Jul 1946: Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized. Read more
07 Jul 1946: Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood. Read more
07 Jul 1944: World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan. Read more
07 Jul 1941: The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK's occupation. Read more
07 Jul 1937: The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (Lugou Bridge) provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War (China-Japan War). Read more
07 Jul 1937: The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine. Read more
07 Jul 1930: Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). Read more
07 Jul 1930: The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement organises the Peasant March demonstration in Helsinki to put pressure on the government to prohibit communist activities. Read more
07 Jul 1928: Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. Read more
07 Jul 1916: The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington. Read more
07 Jul 1915: The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end. Read more
07 Jul 1915: Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims. Read more
07 Jul 1911: The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues. Read more
07 Jul 1907: Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City. Read more
07 Jul 1900: The luxury racing yacht Idler capsizes and sinks on Lake Erie during a storm, drowning six of its seven passengers (all members of the family of Cleveland businessman James C. Corrigan). Read more
07 Jul 1898: US president William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States. Read more
07 Jul 1892: The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution. Read more
07 Jul 1865: Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged. Read more
07 Jul 1863: The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300. Read more
07 Jul 1846: US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California. Read more
07 Jul 1834: In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began. Read more
07 Jul 1807: The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is signed, ending hostilities between the two countries in the War of the Fourth Coalition. Read more

Famous Births on 07 July

07 Jul 1999: Moussa Diaby, French footballer Moussa Diaby is a French professional footballer who plays as a winger or wide midfielder for Saudi Pro League club Al-Ittihad and the France national team. Read more
07 Jul 1997: Mizuho Habu, Japanese idol and model Mizuho Habu is a Japanese model. She is a former member of Japanese idol group Sakurazaka46 & was formerly represented by Sony Music Records. Read more
07 Jul 1997: James Marriott, English musician and online content creator James William Marriott is a Swiss-born English musician and YouTuber. He is best known for his 2025 No. 1 UK-charting album Don't Tell the Dog and 2026 Top 40 single “California Rain”. Earlier, he charted at No. 17 on the UK Albums Chart with Are We There Yet? and No. 67 on the UK singles chart with "I Don't Want to Live Like This". Read more
07 Jul 1996: Yoon Chae-kyung, South Korean singer and actress Yoon Chae-kyung, is a South Korean actress and singer. Yoon began her career with debuted as a member of Puretty under DSP in Japan during 2012 and the group later disbanded in January 2014. Following the disbandment, Yoon appeared as a contestant in the 2014 Kara's reality show for searching a new member Kara Project. She also appeared in the reality show Produce 101 and later in the mockumentary series The God of Music 2 which she became a member of project group C.I.V.A and also joined the fan-made group of Produce 101, I.B.I both respectively in 2016. Yoon later was added as a member of the DSP girl group April in 2016 and participated in group activities until their disbandment in 2022. Read more
07 Jul 1994: Nigina Abduraimova, Uzbekistani tennis player Nigina Abduraimova is an Uzbeki former professional tennis player. Read more
07 Jul 1994: Timothy Cathcart, Northern Irish race car driver (died 2014) Timothy Cathcart was a Northern Irish rally driver from Enniskillen who was killed at the Todds Leap Ulster Rally, a round of the 2014 British Rally Championship season, after his Citroën DS3 R3T vehicle left the road and crashed near Fivemiletown. Read more
07 Jul 1994: Ashton Irwin, Australian musician Ashton Fletcher Irwin is an Australian musician, best known as the drummer of the pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer. Since 2014, 5 Seconds of Summer have sold more than 10 million albums, sold over 2 million concert tickets worldwide, and the band's songs streams surpass 7 billion, making them one of the most successful Australian musical exports in history. Read more
07 Jul 1992: Ellina Anissimova, Estonian hammer thrower Ellina Anissimova is an Estonian hammer thrower. Read more
07 Jul 1992: Dominik Furman, Polish footballer Dominik Grzegorz Furman is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Read more
07 Jul 1991: Alesso, Swedish DJ, record producer and musician Alessandro Renato Rodolfo Lindblad, better known by his stage name Alesso, is a Swedish DJ and record producer. Read more
07 Jul 1990: Lee Addy, Ghanaian footballer Lee Addy is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a defender. He played for the Ghana national team at the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Read more
07 Jul 1990: Pascal Stöger, Austrian footballer Pascal Stöger is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Union Dietach. He is the brother of Kevin Stöger. Read more
07 Jul 1989: Landon Cassill, American race car driver Landon Douglas Cassill is an American former professional stock car racing driver. He last competed full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 10 Chevrolet Camaro for Kaulig Racing. Read more
07 Jul 1989: Miina Kallas, Estonian footballer This is a complete list of Estonia women's international footballers – women's association football players who have played for the Estonia women's national football team. Read more
07 Jul 1989: Karl-August Tiirmaa, Estonian skier Karl-August Tiirmaa is an Estonian Nordic combined skier. Read more
07 Jul 1988: Kaci Brown, American singer-songwriter Kaci Deanne Brown is an American singer and songwriter. Born in Sulphur Springs, Texas, she began performing at an early age, performing across Texas and winning the title of "Little Miss Texas Overall Grand Talent" at ten years old. At age 11, she moved with her family to Nashville, Tennessee in 2001, where she quickly established herself in the country scene. She soon signed a music publishing deal as a staff songwriter with Roy and Barbara Orbison's Still Working Music, initially with the intention of developing a career in country music. She eventually chose to pursue a pop career and toured with the Backstreet Boys. At age 17, she released her debut album Instigator via Interscope Records in 2005. She co-wrote all but one of the album's songs with producer Toby Gad. Read more
07 Jul 1988: Lukas Rosenthal, German rugby player Lukas Rosenthal is a German international rugby union player, playing for the TSV Handschuhsheim in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team. Read more
07 Jul 1986: Ana Kasparian, American journalist and producer Anahit Misak "Ana" Kasparian is an American political commentator, journalist, producer, and media host. She is best known as the co-host and executive producer of The Young Turks (TYT), one of the largest online progressive news networks. She is also known for hosting TYT programs including The Point and NoFilter, as well as co-hosting a Jacobin YouTube show Weekends, alongside political commentators including Michael Brooks and Nando Vila. Read more
07 Jul 1986: Udo Schwarz, German rugby player Udo Schwarz is a German international rugby union player, playing for the SC Neuenheim in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team. Read more
07 Jul 1986: Sevyn Streeter, American singer-songwriter Amber Denise "Sevyn" Streeter is an American singer, best known for being a member of the girl groups TG4 and RichGirl where she was known as Se7en. She signed to Atlantic Records and released her debut single "I Like It" in 2012. Read more
07 Jul 1985: Marc Stein, German footballer Marc Stein is a German former professional footballer who played as a full-back. Read more
07 Jul 1984: Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler Minás Alozídis is a Greek and Cypriot hurdler. He competes in the 200m and 400m hurdles events. Representing Greece, he finished 7th in the 400m hurdles final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. At the 2009 Games of the Small States of Europe, he won gold medals in the 400 metres hurdles and 4 x 400 metres relay, while representing Cyprus. Read more
07 Jul 1984: Alberto Aquilani, Italian footballer Alberto Aquilani is an Italian football manager and former player who is the manager of Serie A club Sassuolo. Mainly a central midfielder, he usually operated as a deep-lying playmaker but was also capable of playing as an attacking midfielder. Read more
07 Jul 1984: Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer Mohammad Ashraful is a Bangladeshi cricketer, who has represented the Bangladesh men's national team. Read more
07 Jul 1983: Justin Davies, Australian footballer Justin Davies is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL). Read more
07 Jul 1982: Jan Laštůvka, Czech footballer Jan Laštůvka is a Czech former professional footballer who last played as a goalkeeper for Baník Ostrava. Read more
07 Jul 1982: George Owu, Ghanaian footballer George Owu is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Read more
07 Jul 1982: Asia O'Hara, American drag performer Antwan Mason Lee, better known by the stage name Asia O'Hara, is an American drag queen, reality television personality, and costume designer. She is most well known for competing on the tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race, in which she placed fourth. Since her season aired in 2018, O'Hara has been a staple of several domestic and international tours that feature Drag Race contestants, including Werq the World, Christmas Queens and Drive 'N Drag. She has also appeared on a number of web series produced by World of Wonder, including Can Do Queens, which she co-hosts with Kameron Michaels. In June 2018, she released "Queen for Tonight", her debut single. Her second single, "Crown Up", was released on May 20, 2019, along with an accompanying music video. Since January 2020, she has been a staple cast member of RuPaul's Drag Race Live!, a residency show in Las Vegas, and also stars in the accompanying VH1 miniseries RuPaul's Drag Race: Vegas Revue. Read more
07 Jul 1981: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian professional cricketer who plays as a right-handed batter and a wicket-keeper. Widely regarded as one of the most prolific wicket-keeper batsmen and captains, he represented the Indian cricket team and was the captain of the team in limited overs formats from 2007 to 2017 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014. Dhoni has captained the most international matches and is the most successful Indian captain. He has led India to victory in the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the 2011 Cricket World Cup, and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, being the only captain to win three different limited overs ICC tournaments. He also led the teams that won the Asia Cup in 2010 and 2016, and he was a member of the title winning squad in 2018. Read more
07 Jul 1981: Synyster Gates, American guitarist Brian Elwin Haner Jr., better known by his stage name Synyster Gates or simply Syn, is an American guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist of heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold. He ranks No. 9 on Guitar World's best metal guitarists of all time. Gates was voted as Best Metal Guitarist in the World by Total Guitar in 2016 and once again in 2017. Read more
07 Jul 1980: John Buck, American baseball player Johnathan Richard Buck is an American former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals, Toronto Blue Jays, Florida/Miami Marlins, New York Mets, Pittsburgh Pirates, Seattle Mariners and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He went to high school in Taylorsville, Utah. Read more
07 Jul 1980: Serdar Kulbilge, Turkish footballer Serdar Kulbilge is a Turkish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Read more
07 Jul 1980: Michelle Kwan, American figure skater Michelle Wingshan Kwan is an American retired competitive figure skater and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Belize from 2022 to 2025. In figure skating Kwan is a two-time Olympic medalist, a five-time world champion and a nine-time U.S. champion. She is tied with Maribel Vinson for the all-time National Championship record. Read more
07 Jul 1979: Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh, Saudi Arabian terrorist (died 2015) Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad al-Rubaish was a militant and a senior leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. He was released into the custody of Saudi Arabian authorities and then escaped in 2006. He became AQAP's mufti. Read more
07 Jul 1979: Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter Anastasios "Tasos" Gousis is a Greek sprint athlete. Read more
07 Jul 1979: Douglas Hondo, Zimbabwean cricketer Douglas Tafadzwa Hondo is a former Zimbabwean cricketer, who played nine Test matches and 56 One Day Internationals as a right-arm medium-fast swing bowler, and is distinctive for his dreadlocks. Read more
07 Jul 1978: Chris Andersen, American basketball player Christopher Claus Andersen is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Birdman" for his wingspan and blocking prowess, Andersen was born in Long Beach, California, grew up in Iola, Texas, and played one year at Blinn College. Andersen began his professional career in the Chinese Basketball Association and the American minor leagues. Read more
07 Jul 1978: Davor Kraljević, Croatian footballer Davor Kraljević is a Croatian retired footballer. Read more
07 Jul 1976: Bérénice Bejo, Argentinian-French actress Bérénice Bejo is a French-Argentine actress best known for playing Christiana in A Knight's Tale (2001) and Peppy Miller in The Artist (2011). Her work in the latter earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won her the César Award for Best Actress. For her performance in The Past, she won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 and was nominated for a César. She plays Alice Guy-Blaché, the first female film director, in the upcoming six-part drama series Alice. Read more
07 Jul 1976: Dominic Foley, Irish footballer Dominic Joseph Foley is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a forward. Read more
07 Jul 1976: Ercüment Olgundeniz, Turkish discus thrower and shot putter Ercüment Olgundeniz is a Turkish track and field athlete competing in the discus and occasionally shot put. The 198 cm tall athlete at 146 kg (322 lb) is a member of Enkaspor, where he is coached by Teodoru Agachi. Read more
07 Jul 1976: Vasily Petrenko, Russian conductor Vasily Eduardovich Petrenko is a Russian-British conductor. He is currently music director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Read more
07 Jul 1975: Tony Benshoof, American luger Antony Lee "Tony" Benshoof is an American luger from White Bear Lake, Minnesota who has been competing since 1990. He won three medals in the mixed team event at the FIL World Luge Championships with two silvers and one bronze (2001). Read more
07 Jul 1975: Louis Koen, South African rugby player Louis Johannes Koen is a South-African rugby union player who played for the Springboks, until 2003, when he moved abroad following the World Cup. Read more
07 Jul 1975: Adam Nelson, American shot putter Adam McCright Nelson is a retired American shot putter and Olympic gold medalist. Nelson competed in three consecutive Olympic Games in 2000, 2004 and 2008. In addition to his gold medal at the 2004 Olympics, Nelson won a silver medal at the 2000 Olympics. Read more
07 Jul 1974: Patrick Lalime, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster Patrick Lalime is a Canadian ice hockey commentator and former professional ice hockey player who played twelve seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Ottawa Senators, St. Louis Blues, Chicago Blackhawks and Buffalo Sabres. Lalime retired from playing in 2011 to join the Réseau des sports (RDS) television network covering the Ottawa Senators, but has since left RDS to cover the Montreal Canadiens and the NHL for TVA Sports. Read more
07 Jul 1973: José Jiménez, Dominican baseball player José Jiménez is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB). He appeared in seven seasons from 1998 to 2004 for the St. Louis Cardinals, Colorado Rockies, and Cleveland Indians. The Cardinals signed him as an amateur free agent in his native Dominican Republic in 1991. Jiménez' career in MLB commenced as a starting pitcher with the Cardinals and he converted to relief pitching with the Rockies, saving more than 100 games. Read more
07 Jul 1972: Lisa Leslie, American basketball player and actress Lisa Deshaun Leslie is an American former professional basketball player. She is formerly the head coach for Triplets in the BIG3 professional basketball league, as well as a studio analyst for Orlando Magic broadcasts on FanDuel Sports Network Florida. In 2002, Leslie made history as the first player to dunk during a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) game. Leslie was ranked 5th on ESPN.com's 2021 list of the WNBA's greatest players of all time. Read more
07 Jul 1972: Manfred Stohl, Austrian race car driver Manfred Stohl is an Austrian rally driver who debuted in the World Rally Championship in 1991. Stohl's co-driver is fellow Austrian Ilka Minor. Read more
07 Jul 1972: Kirsten Vangsness, American actress and writer Kirsten Vangsness is an American actress and writer. She is best known for her role as FBI technical analyst Penelope Garcia on CBS's Criminal Minds, as well as the spin-offs Suspect Behavior and Beyond Borders. Read more
07 Jul 1971: Christian Camargo, American actor, producer, and screenwriter Christian Camargo is an American actor, director, producer, and writer. He is best known for his role as Brian Moser in the Showtime drama Dexter and army officer John Cambridge in the Academy Award-winning film The Hurt Locker. Camargo's other roles include Michael Corrigan in the Netflix drama House of Cards, Count Dracula in the third season of Penny Dreadful, Eleazar in the films The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Parts 1 and 2, and Tamacti Jun in See. Read more
07 Jul 1970: Wayne McCullough, Northern Irish boxer Wayne Pocket Rocket McCullough is a former professional boxer from Northern Ireland who competed from 1993 to 2008. He held the WBC bantamweight title from 1995 to 1997, becoming the first boxer from Northern Ireland to win a WBC championship. Read more
07 Jul 1970: Min Patel, Indian-English cricketer Minal Mahesh Patel is a retired Indian-born English cricketer who made two appearances in Test cricket for the England cricket team. He was a right-handed batsman and a slow left arm bowler, who primarily played for Kent County Cricket Club. As of 2018 he is the Second XI coach at Kent. Read more
07 Jul 1970: Erik Zabel, German cyclist and coach Erik Zabel is a German former professional road bicycle racer who raced for most of his career with Team Telekom. With 152 professional wins and 211 wins in his career, he is considered by some to be one of the greatest German cyclists and cycling sprinters of all time. Zabel won a record nine points classifications in grands tours including the points classification in the Tour de France six consecutive years between 1996 and 2001 and the points classification in the Vuelta a España in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Zabel won the Milan–San Remo four times and numerous six-day track events. He was one of the few road cyclists of recent times who raced all year, including track cycling in winter. For season 2012 he joined Team Katusha as sprint coach. He previously held that same position with the HTC–Highroad team until their dissolution. Zabel admitted to doping from 1996 to 2003. He is the father of cyclist Rick Zabel. Read more
07 Jul 1969: Sylke Otto, German luger Sylke Otto is a German former luger who competed from 1991 to 2007. She was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt. Competing in three Winter Olympics, she won the gold medal in the women's singles event in 2002 and 2006. Read more
07 Jul 1969: Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player Joseph Steven Sakic is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player who currently serves as president of hockey operations and general manager of the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). He spent his entire 21-year NHL career, which lasted from 1988 to 2009, with the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche franchise. Named captain of the team in 1992. Read more
07 Jul 1969: Cree Summer, American-Canadian actress Cree Summer Francks is a Canadian-American actress and singer. In animation, she has voiced characters such as Elmyra Duff in Tiny Toon Adventures and related media, Susie Carmichael in Rugrats and Lizard in Spirit Rangers. The latter two respectively won her an NAACP Image Award and two nominations at the Children's and Family Emmy Awards. Read more
07 Jul 1968: Jorja Fox, American actress Jorja Fox is an American actress. She first came to prominence with a recurring role in the NBC medical drama ER as Dr. Maggie Doyle from 1996 to 1999. This was followed by another critical success in the recurring role of Secret Service Agent Gina Toscano in the NBC political drama The West Wing in 2000. She portrayed Sara Sidle in the CBS police procedural crime-drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, both as a regular and recurring (2008–2010) cast member. She reprised the role in the sequel CSI: Vegas, which premiered on October 6, 2021. Read more
07 Jul 1967: Tom Kristensen, Danish race car driver Tom Kristensen is a Danish former racing driver. He holds the record for the most wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with nine, six of which were consecutive. In 1997, he won the race with the Joest Racing team, driving a Tom Walkinshaw Racing-designed Porsche WSC-95, after being a late inclusion in the team following Davy Jones' accident that eventually ruled him out of the race. All of his subsequent wins came driving an Audi prototype, except in 2003, when he drove a Bentley prototype. In both 1999 and 2007 Kristensen's teammates crashed out of comfortable leads in the closing hours of the race. He is considered by many to be the greatest driver ever to have raced in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Read more
07 Jul 1966: Jim Gaffigan, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter James Christopher Gaffigan is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. His material often addresses fatherhood, laziness, food, religion, and general observations. He is regarded as a "clean" comic, using little profanity in his routines, although he does use it from time to time. He has released several successful comedy specials, including Mr. Universe, Obsessed, Cinco, and Quality Time, all of which have received Grammy nominations. Read more
07 Jul 1965: Mo Collins, American actress, comedian and screenwriter Maureen Ann Collins is an American actress and comedian who was a member of the ensemble on FOX's sketch comedy series Mad TV. Collins became well known for several characters during her tenure on the show. Read more
07 Jul 1965: Jeremy Kyle, English talk show host Jeremy Neil Kyle is an English broadcaster and writer. He is best known for hosting the tabloid talk show The Jeremy Kyle Show on ITV from 2005 to 2019. He also hosted an American version of his eponymous show, which ran for two seasons beginning in 2011. Since 2022, Kyle has been a presenter for Talk. Read more
07 Jul 1964: Dominik Henzel, Czech-Swedish actor and comedian Dominik Henzel is a Czech-born Swedish actor and comedian. He has starred in at least 18 Swedish films and television series during a career that began in 1979. Henzel has also appeared in a number of television commercials and works as a stand-up comedian. Read more
07 Jul 1963: Vonda Shepard, American singer-songwriter and actress Vonda Shepard is an American singer, songwriter, music director, and actress. She is best known for her supporting role as a fictionalized version of herself on the television series Ally McBeal (1997–2002), for which she recorded five soundtrack albums as well as the series' theme song "Searchin' My Soul", which saw international commercial success. Shepard has otherwise released nine studio albums and three live albums. She received a Screen Actors Guild Award as a cast member of Ally McBeal in 1999 among two additional nominations, and received a Billboard award for selling the most television soundtrack albums in history. Read more
07 Jul 1960: Kevin A. Ford, American colonel and astronaut Kevin Anthony Ford is a retired United States Air Force Colonel and NASA astronaut. Ford has received a number of special honors and awards, some of which are the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, Aerial Achievement Medal and the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. Ford has also logged more than 6,100 flying hours and also holds FAA certificates for airplanes, helicopters, gliders, and balloons. Ford has served in many roles at NASA since his selection in July 2000. The roles include as a Capsule Communicator or CAPCOM. He was also the Director Of Operations at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia from January 2004 to January 2005. He was pilot of STS-128 and flight engineer 2 of Soyuz TMA-06M from October 23, 2012, to March 16, 2013. He served as ISS flight engineer for Expedition 33, and commander of Expedition 34. Read more
07 Jul 1960: Ralph Sampson, American basketball player and coach Ralph Lee Sampson Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. A 7-foot-4-inch (2.24 m) phenom, three-time college national player of the year, and first overall selection in the 1983 NBA draft, Sampson brought heavy expectations with him to the National Basketball Association (NBA). Read more
07 Jul 1959: Billy Campbell, American actor William Oliver Campbell is an American film and television actor. He first gained recognition for his recurring role as Luke Fuller on the television series Dynasty, and as the titular character Cliff Secord / The Rocketeer in the superhero film The Rocketeer (1991). He then starred as Rick Sammler on Once and Again (1999–2002), earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor – Television Series Drama. Read more
07 Jul 1958: Alexander Svinin, Russian figure skater and coach Alexander Vasilyevich Svinin is a Russian ice dancing coach and former competitor for the Soviet Union. With Olga Volozhinskaya, he is the 1983 European silver medalist, 1985 Skate Canada International champion, and competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. Read more
07 Jul 1957: Jonathan Dayton, American director and producer Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris are two American directors and producers for films and music videos. They started their career directing videos for such artists as Red Hot Chili Peppers, R.E.M. and the Smashing Pumpkins. Together they directed the films Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Ruby Sparks (2012), and Battle of the Sexes (2017). They also directed the Netflix comedy series Living with Yourself (2019) and episodes of the Hulu series Fleishman Is In Trouble (2022). Read more
07 Jul 1957: Berry Sakharof, Turkish-Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist Berry Sakharof is an Israeli rock guitarist, singer-songwriter, and producer. He is often referred to as the prince of Israeli rock. Read more
07 Jul 1955: Len Barker, American baseball player and coach Leonard Harold Barker III is an American former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher. He pitched the tenth perfect game in baseball history. Barker pitched with the Texas Rangers (1976–78), Cleveland Indians (1979–83), Atlanta Braves (1983–85) and Milwaukee Brewers (1987). During an 11-year baseball career, Barker compiled 74 wins, 975 strikeouts, and a 4.34 earned run average. Read more
07 Jul 1954: Simon Anderson, Australian surfer Simon Anderson is an Australian competitive surfer, surfboard shaper, and writer. He is credited with the 1980 invention of a three-fin surfboard design, called the "thruster". Read more
07 Jul 1949: Shelley Duvall, American actress, writer, and producer (died 2024) Shelley Alexis Duvall was an American actress and producer known for her distinctive screen presence, portrayals of eccentric characters, and later productions in children's programming. Her accolades include a Cannes Award and a Peabody Award, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Four of Duvall's films have been preserved in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" as of 2025. Read more
07 Jul 1947: Gyanendra, King of Nepal Shri Panch Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev was the King of Nepal and the last monarch of Kingdom of Nepal. He ascended the throne on 4 June 2001 following the royal massacre and reigned until 28 May 2008, when the monarchy was abolished and the democratic republic was proclaimed. He had previously reigned from 7 November 1950 to 7 January 1951, when the Rana regime declared him king at the age of three after his grandfather, King Tribhuvan, and the royal family fled to India. His brief reign ended with Tribhuvan's restoration to the throne. Read more
07 Jul 1947: Howard Rheingold, American author and critic Howard Rheingold is an American critic, writer, and teacher, known for his specialties on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities. Read more
07 Jul 1945: Michael Ancram, English lawyer and politician (died 2024) Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian, Baron Kerr of Monteviot,, commonly known as Michael Ancram, was a British politician and peer who served as Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 2001 to 2005. He was formerly styled Earl of Ancram until he inherited the marquessate in 2004, upon the death of his father. Read more
07 Jul 1945: Adele Goldberg, American computer scientist and academic Adele J. Goldberg is an American computer scientist. She was a co-developer of the programming language Smalltalk-80, an early object-oriented programming language that influenced the design of languages such as Python, Objective-C, and Java, and developed many concepts related to object-oriented programming, while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the 1970s. Read more
07 Jul 1945: Helô Pinheiro, inspiration for the song "The Girl from Ipanema" Heloísa Eneida Paes Pinto Mendes Pinheiro, better known as Helô Pinheiro, is a Brazilian businesswoman and former model. Read more
07 Jul 1944: Tony Jacklin, English golfer and sportscaster Anthony Jacklin is an English golfer. He was the most successful British player of his generation, winning two major championships, the 1969 Open Championship and the 1970 U.S. Open. He was also Ryder Cup captain from 1983 to 1989, Europe winning two and tying another of these four events. Read more
07 Jul 1944: Glenys Kinnock, English educator and politician (died 2023) Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, Baroness Kinnock, was a British politician and teacher who served as Minister of State for Europe from June to October 2009 and Minister of State for Africa and the United Nations from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, she was previously a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales, formerly South Wales East, from 1994 to 2009. Read more
07 Jul 1944: Feleti Sevele, Tongan politician; Prime Minister of Tonga Feleti Vakaʻuta Sevele, Lord Sevele of Vailahi is a Tongan politician who served as the prime minister of Tonga from 30 March 2006 to 22 December 2010. Read more
07 Jul 1944: Emanuel Steward, American boxer and trainer (died 2012) Emanuel "Manny" Steward was an American boxer, trainer, and commentator for HBO Boxing. Known as "the godfather of Detroit boxing," Steward trained 41 world champion fighters throughout his career, most notably Thomas Hearns, through the famous Kronk Gym and later heavyweights Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko. Emanuel trained over two dozen boxers who turned out to be champions in the course of his career. He is arguably the greatest boxing trainer of all time. His heavyweight fighters had a combined record of 34–2–1 in title fights. He was an inductee of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame, and the World Boxing Hall of Fame. Steward was also known for his charity work in Detroit, Michigan, helping youth to attain an education. Read more
07 Jul 1944: Ian Wilmut, English-Scottish embryologist and academic (died 2023) Sir Ian Wilmut was an English embryologist and the chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He was the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly. Read more
07 Jul 1943: Joel Siegel, American journalist and critic (died 2007) Joel Steven Siegel was an American film critic for the ABC morning news show Good Morning America for over 25 years. The winner of multiple Emmy Awards, Siegel also worked as a radio disc jockey and an advertising copywriter. Read more
07 Jul 1942: Carmen Duncan, Australian actress (died 2019) Carmen Joan Duncan was an Australian actress and activist, with a career locally and internationally that spanned over 50 years. She was nominated for an AFI/AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the film Harlequin (1980), and was also known for her role as Iris Wheeler on the American soap opera Another World from 1988 to 1994. Read more
07 Jul 1941: Marco Bollesan, Italian rugby player and coach (died 2021) Marco Bollesan was an Italian rugby union player, coach and manager. Read more
07 Jul 1941: Michael Howard, Welsh lawyer and politician Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne is a British politician who was Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005. He previously held cabinet positions in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including Secretary of State for Employment, Secretary of State for the Environment and Home Secretary. Read more
07 Jul 1941: John Fru Ndi, Cameroonian politician (died 2023) Ni John Fru Ndi was a Cameroonian politician who served as first and founding Chairman of the Social Democratic Front (SDF), the main opposition party in Cameroon, from party foundation in 1990 to his death in 2023. He failed to be elected as a senator in 2013. Read more
07 Jul 1941: Bill Oddie, English comedian, actor, and singer William Edgar Oddie is an English actor, artist, birder, comedian, conservationist, musician, songwriter, television presenter and writer. He was a member of comedy trio The Goodies. Read more
07 Jul 1941: Jim Rodford, English bass player (died 2018) James Walter Rodford was an English musician, who played bass for several British rock bands. He was a founding member of Argent, which was led by his cousin Rod Argent, and performed with them from their formation in 1969 until they disbanded in 1976. He was the bassist for the Kinks from 1978 until they disbanded in 1997. In 2004, he joined the reunited Zombies, whom he had been closely associated with since the early 1960s, and remained a member until his death in 2018. He was also a member of the Swinging Blue Jeans and the Kast Off Kinks. Read more
07 Jul 1940: Ringo Starr, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor Sir Richard Starkey, known as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He sometimes sang lead vocals on the group's recordings, usually for one song on each album; these include "Yellow Submarine" and "With a Little Help from My Friends". He also wrote and sang the Beatles songs "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden", and is credited as a co-writer of three others. Read more
07 Jul 1939: Elena Obraztsova, Russian soprano and actress (died 2015) Elena Vasilyevna Obraztsova was a Soviet and Russian mezzo-soprano. She was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990. Read more
07 Jul 1938: James Montgomery Boice, American pastor and theologian (died 2000) James Montgomery Boice was an American Reformed Christian theologian, Bible teacher, author, and speaker known for his writing on the authority of Scripture and the defense of Biblical inerrancy. He was also the Senior Minister of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia from 1968 until his death. Read more
07 Jul 1937: Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong businessman and politician, 1st Chief Executive of Hong Kong Tung Chee-hwa is a Hong Kong businessman and retired politician who served as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong between 1997 and 2005, upon the transfer of sovereignty on 1 July. He served as a vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) between 2005 and 2023. Read more
07 Jul 1936: Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician and academic (died 2013) Egbert Valentin Brieskorn was a German mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution. Read more
07 Jul 1936: Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver (died 1971) Joseph "Jo" Siffert was a Swiss racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1962 to 1971. Siffert won two Formula One Grands Prix across 10 seasons. Read more
07 Jul 1936: Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer-songwriter (died 1980) Nikos Xylouris, also known as Psaronikos (Ψαρονίκος), was a Greek singer, Cretan lyra player, and songwriter who performed both Cretan rural traditional and urban orchestral music arrangements. Read more
07 Jul 1935: Gian Carlo Michelini, Italian-Taiwanese Roman Catholic priest Gian Carlo Michelini, M.I. was an Italian-Taiwanese Roman Catholic priest. He moved to Taiwan in 1964, where he founded the Lanyang Dance Troupe. In 1996, Michelini helped establish the Yilan International Children's Folklore and Folkgame Festival. Read more
07 Jul 1934: Robert McNeill Alexander, British zoologist (died 2016) Robert McNeill (Neill) Alexander, CBE FRS was a British zoologist and a leading authority in the field of biomechanics. For thirty years he was Professor of Zoology at the University of Leeds. Read more
07 Jul 1933: David McCullough, American historian and author (died 2022) David Gaub McCullough was an American popular historian and author. He was a two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award. Read more
07 Jul 1932: T. J. Bass, American physician and author (died 2011) Thomas J. Bassler was an American science fiction author and physician. Read more
07 Jul 1932: Joe Zawinul, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer (died 2007) Josef Erich Zawinul was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, a musical genre that combined jazz with rock. He co-founded the groups Weather Report and The Zawinul Syndicate. He pioneered the use of electric piano and synthesizer, and was named "Best Electric Keyboardist" twenty-eight times by the readers of DownBeat magazine. Read more
07 Jul 1931: David Eddings, American author and academic (died 2009) David Carroll Eddings was an American fantasy writer. With his wife Leigh, he authored several best-selling epic fantasy novel series, including The Belgariad (1982–84), The Malloreon (1987–91), The Elenium (1989–91), The Tamuli (1992–94), and The Dreamers (2003–06). Whether credited as the sole author or with Leigh, David Eddings wrote over two dozen novels. Read more
07 Jul 1930: Hamish MacInnes, Scottish mountaineer and author (died 2020) Hamish MacInnes was a Scottish mountaineer, explorer, mountain search and rescuer, and author. He has been described as the "father of modern mountain rescue in Scotland". He is credited with inventing the first all-metal ice-axe and an eponymous lightweight foldable alloy stretcher called MacInnes stretcher, widely used in mountain and helicopter rescue. He was a mountain safety advisor to a number of major films, including Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Eiger Sanction and The Mission. His 1972 International Mountain Rescue Handbook is considered a manual in the mountain search and rescue discipline. Read more
07 Jul 1930: Theodore McCarrick, American former cardinal (died 2025) Theodore Edgar McCarrick was an American former Catholic prelate who was dismissed and laicized by Pope Francis in 2019 after being convicted of sexual misconduct in a canonical trial. Prior to his dismissal, he served as a bishop and cardinal, holding the positions of Archbishop of Newark from 1986 to 2000 and Archbishop of Washington from 2001 to 2006. Read more
07 Jul 1930: Hank Mobley, American saxophonist and composer (died 1986) Henry Mobley was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone, that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Lester Young, and his style that was laid-back, subtle and melodic, especially in contrast with players such as Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. The critic Stacia Proefrock claimed him "one of the most underrated musicians of the bop era." Mobley's compositions include "Double Exposure", "Soul Station", and "Dig Dis". Read more
07 Jul 1930: Biljana Plavšić, 2nd President of Republika Srpska Biljana Plavšić is a Bosnian Serb former politician, university professor and scientist who served as President of Republika Srpska and was later convicted of crimes against humanity for her role in the Bosnian War. Before entering politics, she taught biology at the University of Sarajevo. Read more
07 Jul 1929: Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (died 2005) Hasan Abidi was a Pakistani journalist, writer, political activist and an Urdu language poet. Read more
07 Jul 1929: Sergio Romano, Italian writer, journalist, and historian Sergio Romano is an Italian diplomat, writer, journalist, and historian. He is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera. Romano is also a former Italian ambassador to Moscow. Read more
07 Jul 1928: Patricia Hitchcock, English actress (died 2021) Patricia Alma Hitchcock O'Connell was a British-American actress and producer. She was the only child of English director Alfred Hitchcock and film editor Alma Reville, and had small roles in several of her father's films, with her most substantial appearance being in Strangers on a Train (1951). Read more
07 Jul 1928: Kapelwa Sikota Zambian nurse and health official (died 2006) Kapelwa Sikota (1928–2006) was the first Zambian registered nurse, in the 1950s when her country was still the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia. She trained and qualified in South Africa where nursing education was available before it was developed in Zambia. Her qualifications were not fully recognised at home until independence in 1964 when she was appointed to senior nursing posts. By 1970 she was Chief Nursing Officer in the Ministry of Health. In 2011 she was honoured posthumously by the Zambian Association of University Women. Read more
07 Jul 1927: Alan J. Dixon, American lawyer and politician, 34th Illinois Secretary of State (died 2014) Alan John Dixon was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served in the Illinois General Assembly from 1951 to 1971, as the Illinois Treasurer from 1971 to 1977, as the Illinois Secretary of State from 1977 to 1981 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1981 to 1993. Read more
07 Jul 1927: Charlie Louvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011) Charles Elzer Loudermilk, known professionally as Charlie Louvin, was an American country music singer and songwriter. He is best known as one of the Louvin Brothers, and was a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1955. Read more
07 Jul 1927: Doc Severinsen, American trumpet player and conductor Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen is an American retired jazz trumpeter who led the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Read more
07 Jul 1926: Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician (died 2019) Nuon Chea, also known as Long Bunruot or Rungloet Laodi, was a Cambodian politician and revolutionary who was the chief ideologist of the Khmer Rouge. He also briefly served as acting Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea. He was commonly known as "Brother Number Two" (បងធំទី២), as he was second-in-command to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, General Secretary of the Party, during the Cambodian genocide of 1975–1979. In 2014, Nuon Chea received a life sentence for crimes against humanity, alongside another top-tier Khmer Rouge leader, Khieu Samphan, and a further trial convicted him of genocide in 2018. These life sentences were merged into a single life sentence by the Trial Chamber on 16 November 2018. He died while serving his sentence in 2019. Nuon Chea was a proponent of what he called "Dialectical Materialist Buddhism". Read more
07 Jul 1926: Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi, Urdu poet (died 2020) Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlavi was an Indian Urdu poet, scholar, and journalist. Born in Old Delhi's Gali Kashmirian. Read more
07 Jul 1925: Geliy Korzhev, Russian painter (died 2012) Geliy Mikhailovich Korzhev-Chuvelyov was a Soviet and Russian painter. Read more
07 Jul 1925: Wally Phillips, American radio host (died 2008) Walter Phillips was an American radio personality best known for hosting WGN's morning radio show from Chicago for 21 years from January 1965 until July 1986, and was number one in the morning slot from 1968 until he left for an afternoon radio slot in 1986. Read more
07 Jul 1924: Natalia Bekhtereva, Russian neuroscientist and psychologist (died 2008) Natalia Petrovna Bekhtereva was a Soviet and Russian neuroscientist and psychologist who developed neurophysiological approaches to psychology, such as measuring the impulse activity of human neurons. She was a participant in the documentaries The Call of the Abyss and Storm of Consciousness, which aroused wide public interest. Read more
07 Jul 1924: Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (died 1977) Mary Ford was an American guitarist and vocalist, comprising half of the husband-and-wife musical team Les Paul and Mary Ford. Between 1950 and 1954, the couple had 16 top-ten hits, including "How High the Moon" and "Vaya con Dios", which were number one hits on the Billboard charts. In 1951 alone they sold six million records. With Paul, Ford became one of the early practitioners of multi-tracking. Read more
07 Jul 1924: Karim Olowu, Nigerian sprinter and long jumper (died 2019) Alhaji Karim Ayinla Babalola "KAB" Olowu was a Nigerian sprinter and long jumper who was part of Nigeria's first delegation to the Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games. Read more
07 Jul 1924: Eddie Romero, Filipino director, producer, screenwriter, and National Artist for Cinema and Broadcast Arts (died 2013) Edgar Sinco Romero,, commonly known as Eddie Romero, was a Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter. Read more
07 Jul 1923: Liviu Ciulei, Romanian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2011) Liviu Ciulei was a Romanian theater and film director, film writer, actor, architect, educator, costume and set designer. During a career spanning over 50 years, he was described by Newsweek as "one of the boldest and most challenging figures on the international scene". Read more
07 Jul 1923: Whitney North Seymour Jr., American politician (died 2019) Whitney North Seymour Jr., known to friends as Mike Seymour, was an American politician and attorney from New York City. Born to a prominent family, Seymour graduated from Princeton University and Yale Law School and served in the United States Army during World War II. He served in the New York State Senate from 1966 to 1968 and as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1970 to 1973. Read more
07 Jul 1923: Eduardo Falú, Argentinian guitarist and composer (died 2013) Eduardo Falú was an Argentine folk music guitarist and composer. Read more
07 Jul 1922: Alan Armer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2010) Alan A. Armer was an American television producer, best known for his Emmy Award winning tenure as the producer of The Fugitive. He also produced The Invaders, The Untouchables and the first year of Cannon. Read more
07 Jul 1922: James D. Hughes, American Air Force lieutenant general (died 2024) James Donald Hughes was a lieutenant general in the United States Air Force (USAF) who was commander in chief, Pacific Air Forces, with headquarters at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. He commanded the air component of the unified Pacific Command with an overall mission of planning, conducting, controlling and coordinating offensive and defensive air operations. Read more
07 Jul 1921: Ezzard Charles, American boxer (died 1975) Ezzard Mack Charles was an American professional boxer who competed from 1940 to 1959. Known as "the Cincinnati Cobra", Charles was respected for his slick defense and precision, and is often regarded as the greatest light heavyweight of all time, and one of the greatest fighters pound for pound, having defeated numerous Hall of Fame fighters in three different weight classes. Charles was the world heavyweight champion from 1949 to 1951, and made eight successful title defenses in under two years. Read more
07 Jul 1921: Adolf von Thadden, German lieutenant and politician (died 1996) Adolf von Thadden was a German far-right politician who led the National Democratic Party. Read more
07 Jul 1919: William Kunstler, American defense attorney (defended the Chicago 7) (died 1995) William Moses Kunstler was an American attorney and civil rights activist, known for defending the Chicago Seven. Kunstler was an active member of the National Lawyers Guild, a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the co-founder of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the "leading gathering place for radical lawyers in the country." Read more
07 Jul 1919: Jon Pertwee, English actor (died 1996) John Devon Roland Pertwee, known professionally as Jon Pertwee, was an English actor. His best known television roles included the third incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who and the title character in Worzel Gummidge (1979–1981) and Worzel Gummidge Down Under (1987–1989). He also featured in the BBC Radio sitcom The Navy Lark (1959–1977). Read more
07 Jul 1918: Bob Vanatta, American head basketball coach (died 2016) Bob Vanatta was an American basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He was the head basketball coach for Central Methodist, Missouri State University, Army, Bradley, Memphis State, Missouri, and Delta State University. At Missouri State, he won the 1952 and 1953 NAIA Championships. He compiled a 109–34 record at Memphis State, including making it to the 1957 NIT Championship game. After coaching, he later served as athletic director at Oral Roberts University, commissioner of the Ohio Valley Conference, commissioner of the Atlantic Sun Conference, executive director of the Independence Bowl, athletic director at Louisiana Tech University, commissioner of the Sunshine State Conference, president of the NCAA Division II Conference Commissioner's Association, and associate athletic director at Florida Atlantic University. He was a Palm Beach County Sports Commission member, which presents the Lou Groza Award to the nation's top placekicker. Read more
07 Jul 1918: Jing Shuping, Chinese businessman (died 2009) Jing Shuping was a Chinese businessman who founded the Minsheng Bank, the first privately owned bank to open in the Communist People's Republic of China, in 1996. Read more
07 Jul 1917: Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadoran general and politician, President of El Salvador (died 2003) Fidel Sánchez Hernández was a Salvadoran military officer, military attaché, and politician who served as President of El Salvador from 1967 to 1972 as a member of the National Conciliation Party. Read more
07 Jul 1917: Red Sovine, "Red" Sovine, American country music singer and songwriter (died 1980) Woodrow Wilson "Red" Sovine was an American country music singer and songwriter associated with truck-driving country songs, particularly those recited as narratives but set to music. His most noted examples are "Giddyup Go" (1965) and "Teddy Bear" (1976), both of which topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Read more
07 Jul 1917: Iva Withers, Canadian-American actress and singer (died 2014) Pearl Iva Edith Withers was a Canadian-born American actress and singer, best remembered as a replacement player who had long runs in some of Rodgers and Hammerstein's biggest musical theatre hits. From 1945 to 1970, she worked almost continuously on Broadway or in national tours, generally as a replacement. Read more
07 Jul 1916: Tiny Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (died 1989) Lloyd "Tiny" Grimes was an American jazz and R&B guitarist. He was a member of the Art Tatum Trio from 1943 to 1944, was a backing musician on recording sessions, and later led his own bands, including a recording session with Charlie Parker. He is notable for playing the electric tenor guitar, a four-stringed instrument. Read more
07 Jul 1915: Margaret Walker, American novelist and poet (died 1998) Margaret Walker was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Her notable works include For My People (1942) which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, and the novel Jubilee (1966), set in the South during the American Civil War. Read more
07 Jul 1913: Pinetop Perkins, American singer and pianist (died 2011) Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins was an American blues pianist. He played with some of the most influential blues and rock-and-roll performers of his time and received numerous honors, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Blues Hall of Fame. Read more
07 Jul 1911: Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-American composer (died 2007) Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian composer, librettist, director, and playwright who is primarily known for his output of 25 operas. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship and never officially became an American citizen. One of the most frequently performed opera composers of the 20th century, he wrote his most successful works in the 1940s and 1950s. Highly influenced by Giacomo Puccini and Modest Mussorgsky, Menotti further developed the verismo tradition of opera in the post-World War II era. Rejecting atonality and the aesthetic of the Second Viennese School, Menotti's music is characterized by expressive lyricism which carefully sets language to natural rhythms in ways that highlight textual meaning and underscore dramatic intent. Read more
07 Jul 1910: Doris McCarthy, Canadian painter and author (died 2010) Doris McCarthy, LL. D. was a Canadian artist known for her semi-abstracted landscapes. In a 2004 interview with Harold Klunder, the artist remarked:I was influenced very strongly by the tradition of going out into nature and painting
what was there. I bought it. And I still buy it. Read more
07 Jul 1909: Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis player (died 1976) Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr[A] von Cramm was a German tennis player who won the French Championships twice and reached the final of a Grand Slam singles tournament on five other occasions. He was ranked number 2 in the world in 1934 and 1936, and number 1 in the world in 1937. He was the first German to win a singles title at a Grand Slam tournament. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1977, which states that he is "most remembered for a gallant effort in defeat against Don Budge in the 1937 Interzone Final at Wimbledon". Read more
07 Jul 1908: Evert Willem Beth, Dutch mathematician and philosopher (died 1964) Evert Willem Beth was a Dutch philosopher and logician, whose work principally concerned the foundations of mathematics. He was a member of the Significs Group. Read more
07 Jul 1908: Revilo P. Oliver, American author and academic (died 1994) Revilo Pendleton Oliver was an American professor of Classical philology, Spanish, and Italian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a founding member of the John Birch Society in 1958, where he published in its magazine, American Opinion, before resigning in 1966. He was a polemicist for right-wing, white supremacist and antisemitic causes. He later advised the Holocaust denial group the Institute for Historical Review. Read more
07 Jul 1907: Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (died 1988) Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction author, engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction and was thus a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction. His published works, both fiction and non-fiction, express admiration for competence and emphasize the value of critical thinking. His plots often presented provocative situations which challenged conventional social mores. His work continues to have an influence on the science fiction genre and on modern culture more generally. Read more
07 Jul 1906: William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician and academic (died 1970) William "Vilim" Feller, born Vilibald Srećko Feller, was a Croatian–American mathematician specializing in probability theory. Read more
07 Jul 1906: Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (died 1985) Anton Karl Karas was an Austrian zither player and composer, best known for his internationally famous 1948 soundtrack to Carol Reed's The Third Man. His association with the film came about as a result of a chance meeting with its director. The success of the film and the enduring popularity of its theme song changed Karas' life. Read more
07 Jul 1906: Satchel Paige, American baseball player and coach (died 1982) Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB). His career spanned five decades and culminated with his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Read more
07 Jul 1905: Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, French mathematician (died 1972) Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin was a French mathematician. She was the second woman in France to obtain a doctorate in pure mathematics and the first to become a full professor of mathematics. Remembered for her contributions to fluid mechanics amd abstract algebra. In semigroup theory, the Dubreil-Jacotin semigroups are named after her, as is the Dubreil-Jacotin–Long (DJL) equation, "the standard model for internal gravity waves" in fluid mechanics. Dubreil-Jacotin was president of the French Mathematical Society. Read more
07 Jul 1904: Simone Beck, French chef and author (died 1991) Simone "Simca" Beck was a French cookbook writer and cooking teacher who, along with colleagues Julia Child and Louisette Bertholle, played a significant role in the introduction of French cooking technique and recipes into American kitchens. Read more
07 Jul 1902: Ted Radcliffe, American baseball player and manager (died 2005) Theodore Roosevelt "Double Duty" Radcliffe was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues. An accomplished two-way player, he played as a pitcher and a catcher, became a manager, and in his old age became a popular ambassador for the game. He is one of only a handful of professional baseball players who lived past their 100th birthdays, next to Red Hoff and fellow Negro leaguer Silas Simmons. Read more
07 Jul 1901: Sam Katzman, American director and producer (died 1973) Sam Katzman was an American film producer and director. Katzman's specialty was producing low-budget genre films, including serials, which had disproportionately high returns for the studios and his financial backers. In the 1930s, he produced numerous Western films for Victory Pictures and Puritan Pictures, and in the 1940s, he produced 22 East Side Kids features for Monogram Pictures. As well as producing the Jungle Jim series, in the 1950s, Katzman and his studio Clover Productions made science fiction, horror, and teen films for Columbia Pictures, including Creature with the Atom Brain (1955), Rock Around the Clock, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, The Werewolf, and The Giant Claw (1957). Katzman also produced two musicals starring Elvis Presley for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM): Kissin' Cousins (1964) and Harum Scarum (1965). Read more
07 Jul 1901: Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and director (died 1974) Vittorio De Sica was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Read more
07 Jul 1901: Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese cinematographer and producer (died 1970) Eiji Tsuburaya was a Japanese special effects director, filmmaker, and cinematographer. A co-creator of the Godzilla and Ultraman franchises, he is considered one of the most important and influential figures in the history of cinema. Tsuburaya is known as the "Father of Tokusatsu", having pioneered Japan's special effects industry and introduced several technological developments in film productions. In a career spanning five decades, Tsuburaya worked on approximately 250 films—including globally renowned features directed by Ishirō Honda, Hiroshi Inagaki, and Akira Kurosawa—and earned six Japan Technical Awards. Read more
07 Jul 1900: Maria Bard, German stage and silent film actress (died 1944) Maria Bard was a German stage actress, who made several films in the silent era for Rimax, her first husband Wilhelm Graaff's company. Read more
07 Jul 1900: Earle E. Partridge, American general (died 1990) Earle Everard "Pat" Partridge was a four-star general in the United States Air Force and a Command Pilot. Read more
07 Jul 1899: George Cukor, American director and producer (died 1983) George Dewey Cukor was an American film director and producer. He concentrated primarily on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's head of production, assigned Cukor to direct several of RKO's major films, including What Price Hollywood? (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Our Betters (1933), and Little Women (1933). When Selznick moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1933, Cukor followed and directed Dinner at Eight (1933) and David Copperfield (1935) for Selznick, and Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Camille (1936) for Irving Thalberg. Read more
07 Jul 1898: Arnold Horween, American football player and coach (died 1985) Arnold Horween was an American football player and coach. He played and coached both collegiately for Harvard University and professionally in the National Football League (NFL). Read more
07 Jul 1893: Herbert Feis, American historian and author (died 1972) Herbert Feis was an American historian, author, and economist who was the Advisor on International Economic Affairs in the US Department of State during the Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt administrations. Read more
07 Jul 1893: Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (died 1981) Miroslav Krleža was a Croatian writer who is widely considered to be the greatest of the 20th century. He wrote notable works in all the literary genres, including poetry, theater, short stories, novels, and an intimate diary. His works often include themes of bourgeois hypocrisy and conformism in Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Krleža wrote numerous essays on problems of art, history, politics, literature, philosophy, and military strategy, and was known as one of the great polemicists of the century. His style combines visionary poetic language and sarcasm. Read more
07 Jul 1891: Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese general and poet (died 1945) Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Japanese: 栗林忠道; 7 July 1891 – c. 26 March 1945) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, diplomat, and commanding officer of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff. He is best known for having been the commander of the Japanese garrison at the battle of Iwo Jima. Read more
07 Jul 1891: Virginia Rappe, American model and actress (died 1921) Zelliene Virginia Rappe was an American model and silent film actress. Working mostly in bit parts, Rappe died after attending a party with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, who was tried for manslaughter and rape in connection with her death, though he was ultimately acquitted of both charges three different times. Read more
07 Jul 1884: Lion Feuchtwanger, German author and playwright (died 1958) Lion Feuchtwanger was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Read more
07 Jul 1883: Toivo Kuula, Finnish conductor and composer (died 1918) Toivo Timoteus Kuula was a Finnish composer and conductor of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods, who emerged in the wake of Jean Sibelius, under whom he studied privately from 1906 to 1908. The core of Kuula's oeuvre are his many works for voice and orchestra, in particular the Stabat mater, The Sea-Bathing Maidens (1910), Son of a Slave (1910), and The Maiden and the Boyar's Son (1912). In addition he also composed two Ostrobothnian Suites for orchestra and left an unfinished symphony at the time of his murder in 1918 in a drunken quarrel. Read more
07 Jul 1882: Yanka Kupala, Belarusian poet and writer (died 1941) Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich, better known by his pen name Yanka Kupala, was a Belarusian poet and writer. Read more
07 Jul 1880: Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer, invented sliced bread (died 1960) Otto Frederick Rohwedder was an American inventor and engineer who created the first automatic bread-slicing machine for commercial use. It was first used by the Chillicothe Missouri Baking Company. Read more
07 Jul 1874: Erwin Bumke, German lawyer and jurist (died 1945) Erwin Konrad Eduard Bumke was the last president of the Reichsgericht, the supreme civil and criminal court of the German Reich, serving from 1929 to 1945. As such, according to the Weimar Constitution, he should have become acting President of Germany upon the death of Paul von Hindenburg in August 1934, and thus the acting Head of State of Nazi Germany. The Law Concerning the Head of State of the German Reich, passed by the Hitler cabinet, unconstitutionally prevented that by combining the presidency with the chancellorship, making Adolf Hitler the undisputed ruler of Germany. Following the Nazi takeover, Bumke extensively cooperated with the Party in establishing a Verbrecherstaat. Read more
07 Jul 1869: Rachel Caroline Eaton, American academic (died 1938) Rachel Caroline Eaton was believed to be the first Native American woman from Oklahoma to be awarded a Ph.D. Read more
07 Jul 1869: Fernande Sadler, French painter and mayor (died 1949) Fernande Sadler was a French painter and engraver. She established the art collection at Grez-sur-Loing and became the mayor of that town in 1945. Read more
07 Jul 1861: Nettie Stevens, American geneticist (died 1912) Nettie Maria Stevens was the American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes. In 1905, soon after the rediscovery of Mendel's paper on genetics in 1900, she observed that male mealworms produced two kinds of sperm, one with a large chromosome and one with a small chromosome. When the sperm with the large chromosome fertilized eggs, they produced female offspring, and when the sperm with the small chromosome fertilized eggs, they produced male offspring. The pair of sex chromosomes that she studied later became known as the X and Y chromosomes. Read more
07 Jul 1860: Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (died 1911) Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect, which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 his compositions were rediscovered by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century. Read more
07 Jul 1859: Rettamalai Srinivasan, Indian politician (died 1945) Diwan Bahadur Rettamalai Srinivasan, commonly known as R. Srinivasan, was a scheduled caste activist and politician from then Madras Presidency of British India. He is a Paraiyar icon and was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi and was also an associate of B. R. Ambedkar. He is remembered today as one of the pioneers of the Scheduled caste movement in India. He founded the Adi dravida mahajana sabha in 1893. Read more
07 Jul 1855: Ludwig Ganghofer, German author and playwright (died 1920) Ludwig Ganghofer was a German writer. He has been called the "most-adapted author in the history of German cinema", as many of his novels were turned into films. Read more
07 Jul 1851: Charles Albert Tindley, American minister and composer (died 1933) Charles Albert Tindley was an African-American Methodist minister and gospel music composer. His composition "I'll Overcome Someday" is credited as the basis for the U.S. Civil Rights anthem "We Shall Overcome". Another of his hymns is "Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There" (1916), as well as "What Are They Doing in Heaven?" (1901). Read more
07 Jul 1848: Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician, 5th President of Brazil (died 1919) Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves was a Brazilian politician and statesman who served as the fifth president of Brazil, from 1902 to 1906. Alves was elected in 1902, becoming the third consecutive São Paulo native to hold the presidency. Before his presidency, he served as president of the province of São Paulo during the Empire of Brazil (1887) and as finance minister under Floriano Peixoto and Prudente de Morais in the 1890s. Read more
07 Jul 1846: Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian physician and author (died 1916) Heinrich Rosenthal was an activist of the Estonian national movement, doctor and author. Read more
07 Jul 1843: Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1926) Camillo Golgi was an Italian biologist and pathologist who was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his works on the central nervous system. He studied medicine at the University of Pavia between 1860 and 1868 under the tutelage of Cesare Lombroso. Inspired by pathologist Giulio Bizzozero, he pursued research in the nervous system. His discovery of a staining technique called black reaction in 1873 was a major breakthrough in neuroscience. Several structures and phenomena in anatomy and physiology are named for him, including the Golgi apparatus, the Golgi tendon organ and the Golgi tendon reflex. Read more
07 Jul 1833: Félicien Rops, Belgian painter and illustrator (died 1898) Félicien Victor Joseph Rops was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolism, Decadence, and the Parisian fin de siècle, and was a member of the Les XX group. He was a painter, illustrator, caricaturist and a prolific and innovative print maker, particularly in intaglio. Although not well known to the general public and initially sought after as a pornographer, Rops was greatly respected by his bohemian peers and actively pursued and celebrated as an illustrator by the publishers, authors, and poets of his time. He provided frontispieces and illustrations for works by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Charles Baudelaire, Charles De Coster, Théophile Gautier, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Stéphane Mallarmé, Joséphin Péladan, Paul Verlaine, Voltaire, and many others. Best known today for his prints and drawings illustrating erotic and occult literature of the period, he also produced oil paintings including landscapes, seascapes, and occasional genre paintings. Rops is recognized as a pioneer of Belgian comics. Read more
07 Jul 1831: Jane Elizabeth Conklin, American poet and religious writer (died 1914) Jane Elizabeth Conklin was an American poet and religious writer of the long nineteenth century from New York. For three years, she served as president of the Woman's Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic. She enjoyed a reputation as an elocutionist; and was the author of three volumes of poetry. She was born and died in Utica, New York. Read more

Notable Deaths on 07 July

07 Jul 2025: Wayne Dobson, English magician (born 1957) Wayne Dobson was an English magician, who became well known through various television appearances in the late 1980s and 1990s. At the height of his fame, he had his own television series Wayne Dobson – A Kind of Magic. He became known as a campaigner for multiple sclerosis charities. Read more
07 Jul 2025: Roman Starovoyt, Russian politician (born 1972) Roman Vladimirovich Starovoyt was a Russian politician who served as Minister of Transport from May 2024 to July 2025. He had previously served as Governor of Kursk Oblast from 2019 to 2024, Deputy Minister of Transport, and the head of the Federal Road Agency in that ministry. He was a member of the United Russia party. Read more
07 Jul 2025: Norman Tebbit, English journalist and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1931) Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit, was a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet from 1981 to 1987 as Secretary of State for Employment (1981–1983), Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1983–1985), and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party (1985–1987). He was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1992, representing the constituencies of Epping (1970–1974) and Chingford (1974–1992). Read more
07 Jul 2024: Jane McAlevey, American labor organizer and author (born 1964) Jane F. McAlevey was an American union organizer, author, and political commentator. She was a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and a columnist at The Nation. Read more
07 Jul 2021: Robert Downey Sr., American actor and director (born 1936) Robert John Downey Sr. was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. He was known for writing and directing the underground films Putney Swope (1969), a satire on the New York Madison Avenue advertising world, and Greaser's Palace (1972), a surrealist Western. According to film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon, Downey's films during the 1960s were "strictly take-no-prisoners affairs, with minimal budgets and outrageous satire, effectively pushing forward the countercultural agenda of the day." He was the father of actor Robert Downey Jr.. Read more
07 Jul 2021: Dilip Kumar, Indian film actor (born 1922) Muhammad Yusuf Khan, known professionally as Dilip Kumar, was an Indian actor, writer and film producer best known for his work in Hindi cinema. Credited with pioneering method acting in cinema, he dominated Hindi cinema from the 1950s throughout the 1960s and is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors in the history of Indian Cinema. Read more
07 Jul 2021: Jovenel Moïse, Haitian entrepreneur and politician, President of Haiti (born 1968) Jovenel Moïse was a Haitian politician and businessman who served as the 48th president of Haiti from 2017 until his assassination in 2021. He assumed the presidency in February 2017 following his victory in the November 2016 Haitian presidential election. Read more
07 Jul 2015: Maria Barroso, Portuguese actress and politician (born 1925) Maria de Jesus Simões Barroso Soares was a Portuguese actress, teacher and political and social activist, having been one of the founders of the Socialist Party (PS), in Germany, in 1973. As the wife of the 17th President of Portugal, Mário Soares, she was the first-lady of the country between 1986 and 1996. Read more
07 Jul 2015: Bob MacKinnon, American basketball player and coach (born 1927) Robert MacKinnon was an American college and professional basketball coach. He coached three different professional teams in his career; the American Basketball Association's Spirits of St. Louis, and the NBA's Buffalo Braves and New Jersey Nets. MacKinnon also served as the Nets' general manager. Read more
07 Jul 2014: Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (born 1926) Alfredo Stéfano Di Stéfano Laulhé was an Argentine and naturalised Spanish professional footballer and manager who played as a forward, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and the greatest Real Madrid player ever. Nicknamed "Saeta Rubia", he is best known for his achievements with the club, where he was instrumental in the club's domination of the European Cup and La Liga during the 1950s and 1960s. Along with Francisco Gento and José María Zárraga, he was one of only three players to play a part in all five European Cup victories, scoring goals in each of the five finals. Di Stéfano played international football mostly for Spain after moving to Madrid and becoming a naturalised citizen, but he also played for Argentina and Colombia. Read more
07 Jul 2014: Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia (born 1928) Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze was a Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat who governed Georgia for several non-consecutive periods from 1972 until his resignation in 2003 and also served as the final Soviet minister of foreign affairs from 1985 to 1991. Read more
07 Jul 2014: Peter Underwood, Australian lawyer and politician, 27th Governor of Tasmania (born 1937) Peter George Underwood, was an Australian jurist and the Governor of Tasmania from 2008 until his death in 2014. He was the Chief Justice of Tasmania from 2004 to 2008, having been a judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania from 1984. Read more
07 Jul 2013: Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer (born 1962) Artur Henryk "Słon” Hajzer was a Polish mountaineer. Hajzer summitted seven eight-thousanders, several via new routes and made the first winter climb of Annapurna on February 3, 1987. Read more
07 Jul 2013: Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, theologian, and author (born 1938) Robert Gerald Hamerton-Kelly was a Christian theologian, ordained United Methodist pastor, ethics scholar, and author and editor of several books on religion and violence. He served as Dean of the Chapel at Stanford Memorial Church at Stanford University for 14 years and was on the faculty of the university for more than 30 years. A leading advocate of the work of René Girard's theory of mimetic desire, Hamerton-Kelly co-founded several organizations dedicated to the study of the theory and edited several important texts about it. Read more
07 Jul 2013: Donald J. Irwin, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (born 1926) Donald Jay Irwin was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut's 4th district, Connecticut State Treasurer and mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut. Read more
07 Jul 2013: Ben Pucci, American football player and sportscaster (born 1925) Benito Modesto "Ben" Pucci was an American professional football tackle who played three seasons for the Buffalo Bisons, Chicago Rockets and Cleveland Browns in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) between 1946 and 1948. Read more
07 Jul 2012: Dennis Flemion, American drummer (born 1955) Dennis Flemion was a founding member, with his younger brother Jimmy, of the controversial independent rock band the Frogs. He was the primary percussionist for the band and was also a temporary member of the Smashing Pumpkins from 1996 to 1997, filling in on live keyboards following the death of Jonathan Melvoin. The Flemion brothers also appeared on "Medellia of the Gray Skies" on the band's single for "Tonight, Tonight". On Adore, the brothers backed vocals for "To Sheila" and "Behold! The Night-Mare". Read more
07 Jul 2012: Ronaldo Cunha Lima, Brazilian poet and politician (born 1936) Ronaldo Cunha Lima was a Brazilian poet and politician. He served as the governor of Paraíba from 1991 to 1994. Read more
07 Jul 2012: Doris Neal, American baseball player (born 1928) Doris M. Neal was an infielder and outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5' 4", 128 lb., she batted and threw right handed. Read more
07 Jul 2012: Jerry Norman, American sinologist and linguist (born 1936) Jerry Lee Norman was an American sinologist and linguist known for his studies of varieties of Chinese, particularly Min varieties, and also of the Manchu language. Norman had a large impact on Chinese linguistics, and was largely responsible for establishing the importance of Min varieties in the reconstruction of Old Chinese. Read more
07 Jul 2012: Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (born 1927) Leon Schlumpf was a Swiss politician and a member of the Swiss Federal Council (1979–1987). Read more
07 Jul 2011: Allan W. Eckert, American historian and author (born 1931) Allan Wesley Eckert was an American novelist and playwright who specialized in historical novels for adults and children, and was also a naturalist. His novel Incident at Hawk's Hill (1971) was initially marketed to adults and selected by Reader's Digest Condensed Books. A runner-up for the Newbery Medal, it was afterward marketed as a children's novel and adapted by Disney for a television movie known as The Boy Who Talked to Badgers (1975). Read more
07 Jul 2011: Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1929) Richard Hirschfeld Williams was an American left fielder, third baseman, manager, coach and front-office consultant in Major League Baseball (MLB). Known especially as a hard-driving, sharp-tongued manager from 1967 to 1969 and from 1971 to 1988, he led teams to three American League pennants, one National League pennant, and two World Series triumphs. He is one of nine managers to win pennants in both major leagues, and joined Bill McKechnie in becoming only the second manager to lead three franchises to the Series. He and Lou Piniella are the only managers in history to lead four teams to seasons of 90 or more wins. Williams was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008 following his election by the Veterans Committee. Read more
07 Jul 2008: Bruce Conner, American sculptor, painter, and photographer (born 1933) Bruce Conner was an American artist who worked with assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography. Read more
07 Jul 2008: Dorian Leigh, American model (born 1917) Dorian Elizabeth Leigh Parker, known professionally as Dorian Leigh, was an American model and one of the earliest modeling icons of the fashion industry. She is considered one of the first supermodels, and was well known in the United States and Europe. Read more
07 Jul 2007: Anne McLaren, British scientist (born 1927) Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren, was a British scientist who was a leading figure in developmental biology. She paved the way for women in science and her work helped lead to human in vitro fertilisation (IVF). She left an enduring legacy marked by her research and ethical contributions to the field. She received many honours for her contributions to science, including election as fellow of the Royal Society. Read more
07 Jul 2007: Donald Michie, British scientist (born 1923) Donald Michie was a British researcher in artificial intelligence. During World War II, Michie worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, contributing to the effort to solve "Tunny", a German teleprinter cipher. Read more
07 Jul 2006: Syd Barrett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946) Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett was an English singer, guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. Until his departure in 1968, he was Pink Floyd's frontman and primary songwriter, known for his whimsical style of psychedelia and stream-of-consciousness writing. As a guitarist, he was influential for his free-form playing and for employing effects such as dissonance, distortion, echo and feedback. Read more
07 Jul 2006: Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (born 1911) Juan de Ávalos y García-Taborda was a Spanish sculptor. Read more
07 Jul 2006: John Money, New Zealand-American psychologist and author (born 1921) John William Money was a New Zealand American psychologist, sexologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University known for his research on human sexual behavior and gender. Read more
07 Jul 2003: Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian trumpet player and conductor (born 1924) Izhak Graziani was an Israeli music conductor. Read more
07 Jul 2001: Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936) Fred Neil was an American folk singer-songwriter active in the 1960s and early 1970s. He is mainly known through other people's recordings of his material, particularly "Everybody's Talkin'", which became a hit for Harry Nilsson after it was used in the film Midnight Cowboy in 1969. Though highly regarded by contemporary folk singers, he was reluctant to tour and spent much of the last 30 years of his life assisting with the preservation of dolphins. Read more
07 Jul 2000: Kenny Irwin Jr., American race car driver (born 1969) Kenneth Dale Irwin Jr. was an American stock car racing driver. He had driven in all three NASCAR national touring series, and had two total victories, both in the Craftsman Truck Series. Before that, he raced in the United States Auto Club against Tony Stewart, who was one of his fiercest rivals. He died as a result of injuries suffered in a crash during a practice session at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Read more
07 Jul 1999: Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra, Indian Army personnel (born 1974) Captain Vikram Batra, was an Indian Army officer. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military decoration, for his actions during the Kargil War. On 7 July 1999, Batra was killed while fighting Pakistani troops at Point 4875 in the Kargil district of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir. Read more
07 Jul 1999: Julie Campbell Tatham, American author (born 1908) Julie Campbell Tatham was an American writer of children's novels, who also wrote for adults, especially on Christian Science. As Julie Campbell she was the creator of the Trixie Belden series and the Ginny Gordon series. As Julie Tatham she also took over the Cherry Ames series and Vicki Barr series from Helen Wells. Read more
07 Jul 1998: Moshood Abiola, Nigerian businessman and politician (born 1937) Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, also known as M. K. O. Abiola, was a Nigerian business magnate, publisher and politician. He was the honorary supreme military commander of the Oyo Empire and an aristocrat of the Egba clan. Read more
07 Jul 1994: Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (born 1924) Carlo Chiti was an Italian racing car and engine designer best known for his long association with Alfa Romeo's racing department. He also worked for Ferrari and was involved in the design of the Ferrari 156 Sharknose car, with which Phil Hill won the 1961 championship. Read more
07 Jul 1994: Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German general (born 1907) Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte was a German paratroop officer during World War II who later served in the armed forces of West Germany, achieving the rank of General. Following the war, Heydte pursued academic, political and military careers, as a Catholic-conservative professor of political science, a member of the Christian Social Union political party, and as a Bundeswehr reservist. In 1962, Heydte was involved in the Spiegel affair. Read more
07 Jul 1993: Rıfat Ilgaz, Turkish author, poet, and educator (born 1911) Rıfat Ilgaz was a Turkish teacher, writer and poet. He became especially known for his novel "Hababam Sınıfı". He maintained a socialist line both in his writings and in his personal life. His magazine work, which continued Turkey's most turbulent political flow, caused him to spend time in courthouse corridors and prison, like many writers of the same period.[8] In his very productive literary life, he wrote works in many different fields, from poetry to humorous stories, from novels to children's books. His work "Karartma Geceleri", which was once confiscated, was included in the list of 100 Essential Works in 2004.[9] The author's works are now protected by Çınar Publications, which he founded together with his son Aydın Ilgaz. These books are printed by Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları.[10] Read more
07 Jul 1993: Mia Zapata, American singer (born 1965) Mia Katherine Zapata was an American musician who was the lead vocalist and lyricist of the punk rock band the Gits. As part of the burgeoning Seattle music scene, she was noted for her powerful vocals and fiery stage presence. Read more
07 Jul 1990: Bill Cullen, American television panelist and game show host (born 1920) William Lawrence Frances Cullen was an American radio and television personality whose career spanned five decades. Known for appearing on game shows and later as a prolific game show host, he hosted 23 shows, earning the nickname "Dean of Game Show Hosts". Aside from his hosting duties, he appeared as a panelist/celebrity guest on many other game shows, including regular appearances on I've Got a Secret and To Tell the Truth. Read more
07 Jul 1990: Cazuza, Brazilian singer and songwriter (born 1958) Agenor de Miranda Araújo Neto, better known as Cazuza, was a Brazilian singer-songwriter, born in Rio de Janeiro. Along with Raul Seixas, Renato Russo and Os Mutantes, Cazuza, both while fronting Barão Vermelho and at solo career, is considered one of the best exponents of Brazilian rock music. In his 9-year career, he sold more than 5 million albums and achieved 11 number one singles and 18 Top 10 singles in Brazil. Read more
07 Jul 1987: Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist (born 1902) Germaine Thyssens-Valentin was a Dutch-born classical pianist of Franco-Dutch parentage, noted for her performances of French music. She studied under Gabriel Fauré at the Paris Conservatoire, and in the 1950s, after a long absence from performing while she raised a family of five children, she recorded a series of discs of Fauré's music that have been reissued on compact disc to considerable acclaim. Read more
07 Jul 1984: George Oppen, American poet and author (born 1908) George Oppen was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism and moved to Mexico in 1950 to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He returned to poetry—and to the United States—in 1958, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1969. Read more
07 Jul 1982: Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious writer (born 1901) Bhakti Hridaya Bon, also known as Swami Bon, was a disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and a guru in the Gaudiya Math following the philosophy of bhakti, specifically that of Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Gaudiya Vaishnava theology. At the time of his death, he left behind thousands of Bengali disciples in India. Read more
07 Jul 1980: Dore Schary, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1905) Isadore "Dore" Schary was an American playwright, director, and producer for the stage and a prolific screenwriter and producer of motion pictures. He directed one feature film, Act One, the film biography of his friend, playwright and theatre director Moss Hart. He became head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and replaced Louis B. Mayer as president of the studio in 1951. Read more
07 Jul 1978: Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (born 1933) Francisco Mendes, popularly known by his nom de guerre as Chico Té, was a Bissau-Guinean politician and revolutionary. He was the country's first Prime Minister and held that position from September 24, 1973, until he died in a suspicious car accident on July 7, 1978. Read more
07 Jul 1973: Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (born 1895) Max Horkheimer was a German philosopher and sociologist best known for his role in developing critical theory as director of the Institute for Social Research, commonly associated with the Frankfurt School. Read more
07 Jul 1973: Veronica Lake, American actress (born 1922) Constance Frances Marie Ockelman, known professionally as Veronica Lake, was an American film, stage, and television actress. Lake was best known for her femme fatale roles in films noir with Alan Ladd during the 1940s, her peek-a-boo hairstyle, and films such as Sullivan's Travels (1941) and I Married a Witch (1942). By the late 1940s, Lake's career began to decline, in part because of alcoholism. She made only one film in the 1950s, but had several guest appearances on television. She returned to the big screen in the film Footsteps in the Snow (1966), but the role failed to revitalize her career. Read more
07 Jul 1972: Athenagoras I of Constantinople (born 1886) Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I, born Aristocles Matthaiou Spyrou, was the 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from November 1948, until his death in July 1972, serving as the primus inter pares and spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christianity worldwide. Read more
07 Jul 1971: Claude Gauvreau, Canadian poet and playwright (born 1925) Claude Gauvreau was a playwright, poet, sound poet, and polemicist. He was a member of the radical Automatist movement and a contributor to the revolutionary Refus Global Manifesto. Read more
07 Jul 1970: Dame Laura Knight, English artist (born 1877) Dame Laura Knight was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced English Impressionism. In her long career, Knight was among the most successful and popular painters in Britain. Her success in the male-dominated British art establishment paved the way for greater status and recognition for female artists. Read more
07 Jul 1968: Jo Schlesser, French race car driver (born 1928) Joseph Théodule Marie Schlesser was a French Formula One and sports car racing driver. He participated in three World Championship Grands Prix, including the 1968 French Grand Prix in which he was killed. He scored no championship points. He was the uncle of Jean-Louis Schlesser who himself became a Formula One driver in the 1980s. Read more
07 Jul 1965: Moshe Sharett, Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (born 1894) Moshe Sharett was an Israeli politician who was Prime Minister of Israel from 1954 to 1955 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1948 to 1956. He signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence and was a principal negotiator in the cease-fire agreements that concluded the 1948 Palestine war. Beginning in 1933, he headed the political department of the Jewish Agency. He also founded the Jewish Brigade, which fought with the British Army against Nazi Germany during World War II. Read more
07 Jul 1964: Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower and shot putter (born 1904) Lillian Copeland, née Lillian Drossin, was an American track and field Olympic champion athlete, who excelled in discus, javelin throwing, and shot put, setting multiple world records. She has been called "the most successful female discus thrower in U.S. history". She also held multiple titles in shot put and javelin throwing. She won a silver medal in discus at the 1928 Summer Olympics, a gold medal in discus at the 1932 Summer Olympics, and gold medals in discus, javelin, and shot put at the 1935 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine. Read more
07 Jul 1960: Francis Browne, Irish priest and photographer (born 1880) Francis Patrick Mary Browne, was an Irish Jesuit and a prolific photographer. His best-known photographs are those of the RMS Titanic and its passengers and crew which he took while a passenger on the ship; he disembarked in Queenstown, four days before the ship sank. He was decorated as a military chaplain during the First World War. Read more
07 Jul 1956: Gottfried Benn, German author and poet (born 1886) Gottfried Benn was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1951. Read more
07 Jul 1955: Ali Naci Karacan, Turkish journalist and publisher (born 1896) Ali Naci Karacan was a Turkish journalist and publisher. He was involved in founding the Turkish daily newspapers Akşam (1918) and Milliyet (1955), and his family, including grandson Ali Naci Karacan, built up a publishing group around Milliyet. He was the President of Fenerbahçe S.K. (1926–1927), and the editor of the newly founded Tan from 1935. Born Ali Naci, he later took the additional surname Karacan. Read more
07 Jul 1950: Fats Navarro, American trumpet player and composer (born 1923) Theodore "Fats" Navarro was an American jazz trumpet player and a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. A native of Key West, Florida, he toured with big bands before achieving fame as a bebop trumpeter in New York. Following a series of studio sessions with leading bebop figures including Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Kenny Clarke, he became ill with tuberculosis and died at the age of 26. Despite the short duration of his career, he had a strong stylistic influence on trumpet players who rose to fame in later decades, including Miles Davis, Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan. Read more
07 Jul 1939: Deacon White, American baseball player and manager (born 1847) James Laurie "Deacon" White was an American baseball player who was one of the principal stars during the first two decades of the sport's professional era. The outstanding catcher of the 1870s during baseball's barehanded period, he caught more games than any other player during the decade, and was a major figure on five consecutive championship teams from 1873 to 1877 – three in the National Association (NA), in which he played throughout its five-year existence from 1871 to 1875, and two in the National League (NL), which was formed as the first fully recognized major league in 1876, partially as a result of White and three other stars moving from the powerhouse Boston Red Stockings to the Chicago White Stockings. Although he was already 28 when the NL was established, White played 15 seasons in the major leagues, completing a 23-year career at the top levels of the sport. Read more
07 Jul 1932: Alexander Grin, Russian author (born 1880) Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevsky, better known by his pen name Alexander Green or Grin, was a Russian writer, notable for his romantic novels and short stories, mostly set in an unnamed fantasy land with a European or Latin American flavor. Most of his writings deal with the sea, adventures, and love. Read more
07 Jul 1932: Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian and educator (born 1844) Henry Eyster Jacobs was an American religious educator, Biblical commentator and Lutheran theologian. Read more
07 Jul 1930: Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer, creator of Sherlock Holmes (born 1859) Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, which are milestones in crime fiction, and for his first work featuring Professor Challenger, The Lost World (1912), which gave its name to a subgenre of speculative fiction. He was a prolific writer who produced over 200 stories and articles, four volumes of poetry, and a number of works for the stage. He was knighted by King Edward VII in the 1902 Coronation Honours. Read more
07 Jul 1927: Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician and academic (born 1846) Magnus Gustaf "Gösta" Mittag-Leffler was a Swedish mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions that today is called complex analysis. He founded the prestigious mathematical periodical Acta Mathematica and was its editor for 40 years. Read more
07 Jul 1925: Clarence Hudson White, American photographer and educator (born 1871) Clarence Hudson White was an American photographer, teacher and a founding member of the Photo-Secession movement. He grew up in small towns in Ohio, where his primary influences were his family and the social life of rural America. After visiting the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, he took up photography. Although he was completely self-taught in the medium, within a few years he was internationally known for his pictorial photographs that captured the spirit and sentimentality of America in the early twentieth century.
As he became well known for his images, White was sought out by other photographers who often traveled to Ohio to learn from him. He became friends with Alfred Stieglitz and helped advance the cause of photography as a true art form. In 1906 White and his family moved to New York City in order to be closer to Stieglitz and his circle and to further promote his own work. While there he became interested in teaching photography and in 1914 he established the Clarence H. White School of Photography, the first educational institution in America to teach photography as art. Due to the demands of his teaching duties, his own photography declined and White produced little new work during the last decade of his life. In 1925 he suffered a heart attack and died while teaching students in Mexico City. Read more
07 Jul 1922: Cathal Brugha, Irish revolutionary and politician, active in the Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence; first Ceann Comhairle and first President of Dáil Éireann (born 1874) Cathal Brugha was an Irish republican politician who served as Minister for Defence from 1919 to 1922, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann in January 1919, the first president of Dáil Éireann from January 1919 to April 1919 and Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army from 1917 to 1918. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1918 to 1922. Read more
07 Jul 1913: Edward Burd Grubb Jr., American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Spain (born 1841) Edward Burd Grubb Jr. was a Union Army colonel and regimental commander in the American Civil War. He served in three regiments and commanded two of them. In recognition of his service, in 1866, he was nominated and confirmed for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from March 13, 1865. He was later appointed by President Benjamin Harrison as United States Ambassador to Spain. He was also a noted foundryman, business owner and New Jersey politician who was close to Woodrow Wilson. Read more
07 Jul 1901: Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (born 1827) Johanna Spyri was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories. She wrote the popular book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zürich, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels. Read more
07 Jul 1890: Henri Nestlé, German businessman, founded Nestlé (born 1814) Henri Nestlé was a German-born Swiss confectioner and the founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company. Read more
07 Jul 1865: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: execution of convicted conspirators George Andrew Atzerodt was a German American repairman, Confederate sympathizer, and conspirator in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. He was assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson, but lost his nerve and made no attempt. Atzerodt was tried by a military tribunal, sentenced to death for conspiracy, and hanged along with three other conspirators. Read more
07 Jul 1865: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: execution of convicted conspirators David Edgar Herold was an American pharmacist's assistant and accomplice of John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. After the shooting, Herold accompanied Booth to the home of Samuel Mudd, who set Booth's injured leg. The two men then continued their escape through Maryland and into Virginia, and Herold remained with Booth until the authorities cornered them in a barn. Herold surrendered, but Booth was shot to death by Sergeant Boston Corbett. Herold was tried by a military tribunal, sentenced to death for conspiracy, and hanged with three other conspirators at the Washington Arsenal, now known as Fort Lesley J. McNair. Read more
07 Jul 1865: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: execution of convicted conspirators Lewis Thornton Powell was an American Confederate soldier who attempted to assassinate William Henry Seward as part of the Lincoln assassination plot. Wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, he later served in Mosby's Rangers before working with the Confederate Secret Service in Maryland. John Wilkes Booth recruited him into a plot to kidnap Lincoln and turn the president over to the Confederacy, but then decided to assassinate Lincoln, Seward, and Vice President Andrew Johnson instead, and assigned Powell the task to kill Seward. Read more
07 Jul 1865: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: execution of convicted conspirators Mary Elizabeth Surratt was an American boarding house owner in Washington, D.C., who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy which led to the assassination of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Sentenced to death, she was hanged and became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government. She maintained her innocence until her death, and the case against her was and remains controversial. Surratt was the mother of John Surratt, who was later tried in the conspiracy, but was not convicted. Read more
07 Jul 1863: William Mulready, Irish genre painter (born 1786) William Mulready was an Irish genre painter living in London. He is best known for his romanticising depictions of rural scenes, and for creating Mulready stationery letter sheets, issued at the same time as the Penny Black postage stamp. Read more
07 Jul 1816: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and poet (born 1751) Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester. The owner of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London, he wrote several prominent plays such as The Rivals (1775), The Duenna (1775), The School for Scandal (1777) and A Trip to Scarborough (1777). He served as Treasurer of the Navy from 1806 to 1807. Sheridan died in 1816 and was buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. His plays remain a central part of the Western canon and are frequently performed around the world. Read more

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