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The terms 7th July, July 7th, and 7/7 (pronounced "Seven-seven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 London bombings on London's transport in London. In China, this term is used to denote the Battle of Lugou Bridge started on July 7, 1937, marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Events

• 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of Christian heresy 25 years after her death.
• 1534 - European colonization of the Americas: First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
• 1543 - France troops invade Luxembourg.
• 1585 - Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
• 1668 - Isaac Newton received an MA from Trinity College, Cambridge.
• 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
• 1798 - Quasi-War: The Congress of the United States rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
• 1799 - Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore.
• 1807 - Napoleonic Wars: Peace of Tilsit between France, Kingdom of Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.
• 1846 - Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey, California and San Francisco, thus beginning the United States annexation of California.
• 1863 - United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $100
• 1865 - American Civil War: Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged.
• 1898 - History of United States overseas expansion: President of the United States William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
• 1915 - World War I: End of First Battle of the Isonzo.
• 1915 - A Great Gorge and International Railway tram with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashed near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
• 1917 - Russian Revolution of 1917: Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov forms Russian Provisional Government, 1917 in Russia after the deposing of the Nicholas II of Russia.
• 1930 - Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
• 1937 - Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): Battle of Lugou Bridge - Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
• 1941 - World War II: United States forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by Nazi Germany.
• 1941 - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
• 1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first United States to be canonized.
• 1946 - Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills, California neighborhood.
• 1947 - Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.
• 1954 - Formation of the TANU in Tanzania
• 1956 - Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
• 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.
• 1959 - 14:28 UT Venus (planet) Occultation the star Regulus. This rare event was used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
• 1967 - Beginning of the Biafran War.
• 1969 - In Canada, the Official Languages Act (Canada) is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
• 1974 - Germany national football team wins 1974 FIFA World Cup.
• 1978 - The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1980 - Institution of sharia in Iran.
• 1983 - Cold War: Samantha Smith, a United States schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of List of leaders of the Soviet Union Yuri Andropov.
• 1985 - Boris Becker becomes the first unseeded player, the youngest male (at the time), and the first German to win the The Championships, Wimbledon tennis singles title, at age of 17 years, 7 months.
• 1991 - Yugoslav Wars: Brioni Agreement ended Ten-Day War in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 1994 - Aden is secured by troops from North Yemen, completing the reunification of Yemen.
• 2002 - A scandal broke out in the United Kingdom when news reports alleged MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.
• 2003 - The United Communist Party of Armenia was formed.
• 2004 - The last patent on the LZW compression algorithm (in Canada) expired.
• 2005 - A series of 7 July 2005 London bombings occur on Transport in London killing 52 people, plus four suicide bombers.
• 2005 - Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledged to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010.
• 2007 - Pope Benedict XVI issues the Summorum Pontificum, removing restrictions on celebrating the old Tridentine Mass.
• 2007 - A series of Live Earth concerts take place all over the world.

Births

• 1053 - Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
• 1119 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
• 1528 - Anna of Austria (1528-1590), daughter of Ferdinand I (d. 1590)
• 1586 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (d. 1646)
• 1656 - Guru Har Krishan, 8th Guru of Sikhism (d. 1664)
• 1746 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (d. 1826)
• 1752 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)
• 1766 - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (d. 1815)
• 1843 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1926)
• 1848 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician (d. 1919)
• 1851 - Charles Tindley, American Gospel Music Composer (d. 1933)
• 1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
• 1860 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911)
• 1874 - Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
• 1884 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
• 1887 - Marc Chagall, Russian painter (d. 1985)
• 1893 - Miroslav Krleza, Croatian writer (d. 1981)
• 1899 - George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
• 1900 - Earle E. Partridge, American military officer (d. 1990)
• 1901 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director (d. 1974)
• 1901 - Sam Katzman, American film producer (d. 1973)
• 1901 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film producer (d. 1970)
• 1902 - Double Duty Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1904 - Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991)
• 1906 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d. 1970)
• 1906 - Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
• 1906 - Anton Karas, Viennese musician (d. 1985)
• 1907 - Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (d. 1988)
• 1908 - Revilo P. Oliver, American professor (d. 1994)
• 1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (d. 2007)
• 1915 - Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander, African American Novelist and poet (d. 1998)
• 1917 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadorian politician (d. 2003)
• 1919 - Jon Pertwee, British actor (d. 1996)
• 1921 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
• 1921 - Ezzard Charles, American boxer (d. 1975)
• 1922 - Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer
• 1924 - Mary Ford, American singer (d. 1977)
• 1929 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
• 1930 - Hank Mobley, American Jazz composer and saxophonist (d. 1986)
• 1927 - Doc Severinsen, American composer and musician
• 1931 - David Eddings, American author
• 1932 - Josef Zawinul, Austrian composer and musician (d. 2007)
• 1933 - Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner
• 1933 - David McCullough, American historian and author
• 1936 - Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (d. 1980)
• 1937 - Tung Chee-Hwa, Hong Kong administrator
• 1940 - Ringo Starr, English drummer and singer (The Beatles)
• 1941 - Michael Howard, British politician
• 1941 - Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
• 1942 - Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
• 1943 - Toto Cutugno, Italian singer
• 1943 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)
• 1945 - Michael Ancram, British politician
• 1947 - Howard Rheingold, American author
• 1947 - Rob Townsend, English drummer (Family (band))
• 1947 - Víctor Manuel, Spanish songwriter and singer
• 1948 - Jean LeClerc (actor), French-Canadian actor
• 1949 - Shelley Duvall, American actress
• 1955 - Len Barker, American baseball player
• 1957 - Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, American film director
• 1959 - Jessica Hahn, American model
• 1959 - Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)
• 1960 - Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut
• 1963 - Vonda Shepard, American singer
• 1965 - Paula Devicq, Canadian actress
• 1965 - Mo Collins, American actress
• 1965 - Jeremy Kyle, English television presenter
• 1966 - Gundula Krause, German folk violinist
• 1967 - Jackie Neal, American singer (d. 2005)
• 1968 - Jorja Fox, American actress
• 1968 - Jeff VanderMeer, American writer
• 1969 - Sylke Otto, German luger
• 1969 - Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 - Nathalie Simard, French Canadian singer
• 1969 - Cree Summer, Canadian voice actress
• 1969 - Robin Weigert, American actress
• 1970 - Wayne McCullough, Irish boxer
• 1970 - Erik Zabel, German cyclist
• 1970 - Robia LaMorte, American actress and dancer
• 1971 - Alistair Potts, British rower
• 1972 - Lisa Leslie, American basketball player
• 1972 - Manfred Stohl, Austrian rally driver
• 1973 - José Jiménez (baseball player), Dominican baseball player
• 1974 - Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player
• 1974 - Patrick Lalime, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 - Tony Benshoof, American luger
• 1975 - Michael Voss, Australian rules footballer
• 1979 - Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter
• 1979 - Carl Breeze, British racing driver
• 1980 - Deidre Downs, American beauty queen
• 1980 - Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
• 1981 - Synyster Gates, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
• 1981 - Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
• 1982 - Cassidy (singer), American rapper
• 1982 - George Owu, Ghanaian football player
• 1982 - Mike Glita, American bassist (Senses Fail)
• 1983 - Justin Davies, Australian rules footballer
• 1984 - Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler
• 1984 - Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1988 - Kaci Brown, American singer
• 1989 - Giannoulis Fakinos, Greek footballer
• 1995 - Chloe Greenfield, American actress

Deaths

• 1304 - Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)
• 1307 - King Edward I of England (b. 1239)
• 1537 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
• 1572 - King Sigismund II of Poland (b. 1520)
• 1573 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507)
• 1647 - Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (b. 1586)
• 1663 - Thomas Baltzar, German violinist
• 1701 - William Stoughton (Massachusetts), American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)
• 1713 - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)
• 1764 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
• 1776 - Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693)
• 1790 - François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721)
• 1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)
• 1855 - Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)
• 1865 - Mary Surratt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1823)
• 1865 - Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844)
• 1865 - David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842)
• 1865 - George Atzerodt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1833)
• 1878 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
• 1890 - Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A. (b. 1814)
• 1901 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)
• 1913 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b.1841)
• 1922 - Cathal Brugha, List of IRA Chiefs of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)
• 1925 - Clarence Hudson White American photographer (b.. 1871)
• 1927 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
• 1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (b. 1859)
• 1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
• 1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
• 1949 - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
• 1956 - Gottfried Benn, German poet (b. 1886)
• 1964 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (b. 1904)
• 1965 - Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
• 1971 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
• 1971 - Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)
• 1972 - Patriarch Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1886)
• 1972 - King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
• 1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
• 1973 - Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1919)
• 1975 - Ruffian (horse), American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1972)
• 1980 - Dore Schary, American film producer and writer (b. 1905)
• 1984 - Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (b. 1941)
• 1990 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)
• 1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and cmposer (b. 1958)
• 1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965)
• 2000 - Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
• 2001 - Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
• 2002 - Bison Dele, American basketball player (b. 1969)
• 2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)
• 2006 - Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
• 2006 - Syd Barrett, original guitarist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd (b. 1946)

Holidays, Feasts, and Observances

• Tanzania: Saba Saba Day
• Japan: Tanabata
• Saint Job of Maniava
• Benedict XI; Claudius, Saint Nicostratus & Companions; Æthelburg of Faremoutiers; Medran and Odran; Palladius of Ireland; Peregrine (martyr), Lucian, Pompeius & Companions.
• Russia, Ukraine: Ivan Kupala Day
• Bungie Studios Day
• San Fermin, a spanish bullfighting celebration

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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The terms 7th July, July 7th, and 7/7 (pronounced "Seven-seven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 London bombings on London's transport in London. In China, this term is used to denote the Battle of Lugou Bridge started on July 7, 1937, marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Events

• 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of Christian heresy 25 years after her death.
• 1534 - European colonization of the Americas: First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
• 1543 - France troops invade Luxembourg.
• 1585 - Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
• 1668 - Isaac Newton received an MA from Trinity College, Cambridge.
• 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
• 1798 - Quasi-War: The Congress of the United States rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
• 1799 - Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore.
• 1807 - Napoleonic Wars: Peace of Tilsit between France, Kingdom of Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.
• 1846 - Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey, California and San Francisco, thus beginning the United States annexation of California.
• 1863 - United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $100
• 1865 - American Civil War: Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged.
• 1898 - History of United States overseas expansion: President of the United States William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
• 1915 - World War I: End of First Battle of the Isonzo.
• 1915 - A Great Gorge and International Railway tram with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashed near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
• 1917 - Russian Revolution of 1917: Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov forms Russian Provisional Government, 1917 in Russia after the deposing of the Nicholas II of Russia.
• 1930 - Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
• 1937 - Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): Battle of Lugou Bridge - Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
• 1941 - World War II: United States forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by Nazi Germany.
• 1941 - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
• 1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first United States to be canonized.
• 1946 - Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills, California neighborhood.
• 1947 - Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.
• 1954 - Formation of the TANU in Tanzania
• 1956 - Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
• 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.
• 1959 - 14:28 UT Venus (planet) Occultation the star Regulus. This rare event was used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
• 1967 - Beginning of the Biafran War.
• 1969 - In Canada, the Official Languages Act (Canada) is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
• 1974 - Germany national football team wins 1974 FIFA World Cup.
• 1978 - The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1980 - Institution of sharia in Iran.
• 1983 - Cold War: Samantha Smith, a United States schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of List of leaders of the Soviet Union Yuri Andropov.
• 1985 - Boris Becker becomes the first unseeded player, the youngest male (at the time), and the first German to win the The Championships, Wimbledon tennis singles title, at age of 17 years, 7 months.
• 1991 - Yugoslav Wars: Brioni Agreement ended Ten-Day War in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 1994 - Aden is secured by troops from North Yemen, completing the reunification of Yemen.
• 2002 - A scandal broke out in the United Kingdom when news reports alleged MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.
• 2003 - The United Communist Party of Armenia was formed.
• 2004 - The last patent on the LZW compression algorithm (in Canada) expired.
• 2005 - A series of 7 July 2005 London bombings occur on Transport in London killing 52 people, plus four suicide bombers.
• 2005 - Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledged to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010.
• 2007 - Pope Benedict XVI issues the Summorum Pontificum, removing restrictions on celebrating the old Tridentine Mass.
• 2007 - A series of Live Earth concerts take place all over the world.

Births

• 1053 - Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
• 1119 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
• 1528 - Anna of Austria (1528-1590), daughter of Ferdinand I (d. 1590)
• 1586 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (d. 1646)
• 1656 - Guru Har Krishan, 8th Guru of Sikhism (d. 1664)
• 1746 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (d. 1826)
• 1752 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)
• 1766 - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (d. 1815)
• 1843 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1926)
• 1848 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician (d. 1919)
• 1851 - Charles Tindley, American Gospel Music Composer (d. 1933)
• 1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
• 1860 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911)
• 1874 - Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
• 1884 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
• 1887 - Marc Chagall, Russian painter (d. 1985)
• 1893 - Miroslav Krleza, Croatian writer (d. 1981)
• 1899 - George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
• 1900 - Earle E. Partridge, American military officer (d. 1990)
• 1901 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director (d. 1974)
• 1901 - Sam Katzman, American film producer (d. 1973)
• 1901 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film producer (d. 1970)
• 1902 - Double Duty Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1904 - Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991)
• 1906 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d. 1970)
• 1906 - Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
• 1906 - Anton Karas, Viennese musician (d. 1985)
• 1907 - Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (d. 1988)
• 1908 - Revilo P. Oliver, American professor (d. 1994)
• 1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (d. 2007)
• 1915 - Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander, African American Novelist and poet (d. 1998)
• 1917 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadorian politician (d. 2003)
• 1919 - Jon Pertwee, British actor (d. 1996)
• 1921 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
• 1921 - Ezzard Charles, American boxer (d. 1975)
• 1922 - Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer
• 1924 - Mary Ford, American singer (d. 1977)
• 1929 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
• 1930 - Hank Mobley, American Jazz composer and saxophonist (d. 1986)
• 1927 - Doc Severinsen, American composer and musician
• 1931 - David Eddings, American author
• 1932 - Josef Zawinul, Austrian composer and musician (d. 2007)
• 1933 - Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner
• 1933 - David McCullough, American historian and author
• 1936 - Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (d. 1980)
• 1937 - Tung Chee-Hwa, Hong Kong administrator
• 1940 - Ringo Starr, English drummer and singer (The Beatles)
• 1941 - Michael Howard, British politician
• 1941 - Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
• 1942 - Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
• 1943 - Toto Cutugno, Italian singer
• 1943 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)
• 1945 - Michael Ancram, British politician
• 1947 - Howard Rheingold, American author
• 1947 - Rob Townsend, English drummer (Family (band))
• 1947 - Víctor Manuel, Spanish songwriter and singer
• 1948 - Jean LeClerc (actor), French-Canadian actor
• 1949 - Shelley Duvall, American actress
• 1955 - Len Barker, American baseball player
• 1957 - Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, American film director
• 1959 - Jessica Hahn, American model
• 1959 - Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)
• 1960 - Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut
• 1963 - Vonda Shepard, American singer
• 1965 - Paula Devicq, Canadian actress
• 1965 - Mo Collins, American actress
• 1965 - Jeremy Kyle, English television presenter
• 1966 - Gundula Krause, German folk violinist
• 1967 - Jackie Neal, American singer (d. 2005)
• 1968 - Jorja Fox, American actress
• 1968 - Jeff VanderMeer, American writer
• 1969 - Sylke Otto, German luger
• 1969 - Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 - Nathalie Simard, French Canadian singer
• 1969 - Cree Summer, Canadian voice actress
• 1969 - Robin Weigert, American actress
• 1970 - Wayne McCullough, Irish boxer
• 1970 - Erik Zabel, German cyclist
• 1970 - Robia LaMorte, American actress and dancer
• 1971 - Alistair Potts, British rower
• 1972 - Lisa Leslie, American basketball player
• 1972 - Manfred Stohl, Austrian rally driver
• 1973 - José Jiménez (baseball player), Dominican baseball player
• 1974 - Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player
• 1974 - Patrick Lalime, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 - Tony Benshoof, American luger
• 1975 - Michael Voss, Australian rules footballer
• 1979 - Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter
• 1979 - Carl Breeze, British racing driver
• 1980 - Deidre Downs, American beauty queen
• 1980 - Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
• 1981 - Synyster Gates, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
• 1981 - Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
• 1982 - Cassidy (singer), American rapper
• 1982 - George Owu, Ghanaian football player
• 1982 - Mike Glita, American bassist (Senses Fail)
• 1983 - Justin Davies, Australian rules footballer
• 1984 - Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler
• 1984 - Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1988 - Kaci Brown, American singer
• 1989 - Giannoulis Fakinos, Greek footballer
• 1995 - Chloe Greenfield, American actress

Deaths

• 1304 - Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)
• 1307 - King Edward I of England (b. 1239)
• 1537 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
• 1572 - King Sigismund II of Poland (b. 1520)
• 1573 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507)
• 1647 - Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (b. 1586)
• 1663 - Thomas Baltzar, German violinist
• 1701 - William Stoughton (Massachusetts), American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)
• 1713 - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)
• 1764 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
• 1776 - Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693)
• 1790 - François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721)
• 1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)
• 1855 - Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)
• 1865 - Mary Surratt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1823)
• 1865 - Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844)
• 1865 - David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842)
• 1865 - George Atzerodt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1833)
• 1878 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
• 1890 - Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A. (b. 1814)
• 1901 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)
• 1913 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b.1841)
• 1922 - Cathal Brugha, List of IRA Chiefs of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)
• 1925 - Clarence Hudson White American photographer (b.. 1871)
• 1927 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
• 1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (b. 1859)
• 1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
• 1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
• 1949 - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
• 1956 - Gottfried Benn, German poet (b. 1886)
• 1964 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (b. 1904)
• 1965 - Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
• 1971 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
• 1971 - Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)
• 1972 - Patriarch Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1886)
• 1972 - King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
• 1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
• 1973 - Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1919)
• 1975 - Ruffian (horse), American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1972)
• 1980 - Dore Schary, American film producer and writer (b. 1905)
• 1984 - Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (b. 1941)
• 1990 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)
• 1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and cmposer (b. 1958)
• 1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965)
• 2000 - Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
• 2001 - Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
• 2002 - Bison Dele, American basketball player (b. 1969)
• 2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)
• 2006 - Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
• 2006 - Syd Barrett, original guitarist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd (b. 1946)

Holidays, Feasts, and Observances

• Tanzania: Saba Saba Day
• Japan: Tanabata
• Saint Job of Maniava
• Benedict XI; Claudius, Saint Nicostratus & Companions; Æthelburg of Faremoutiers; Medran and Odran; Palladius of Ireland; Peregrine (martyr), Lucian, Pompeius & Companions.
• Russia, Ukraine: Ivan Kupala Day
• Bungie Studios Day
• San Fermin, a spanish bullfighting celebration

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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