July 7

2024 Calendar

July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 177 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1162 – Haakon II of Norway (b. 1147)
1304 – Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)
1307 – King Edward I of England (b. 1239)
1537 – Madeleine of Valois, French-born Queen Consort of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
1647 - Thomas Hooker, English Puritan settler in Connecticut (b. 1586)
1718 - Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (b. 1690)
1790 - Francois Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721)
1819 – Sophie Blanchard, French balloonist (b. 1778)
1865 - Conspirators in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln:
- George Atzerodt (b. 1853)
- David Herold (b. 1842)
- Lewis Payne (b. 1844)
- Mary Surratt (b. 1823)
1889 - Giovanni Bottesini, Italian composer, conductor and double-bass virtuoso (b. 1821)
1890 – Henri Nestlé, German confectioner and businessman (b. 1814)

1901 – 2000

1901 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (b. 1827)
1922 - Cathal Brugha, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1874)
1930 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (b. 1859)
1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian author (b. 1880)
1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian and educator (b. 1844)
1939 - Deacon White, American baseball player and manager (b. 1847)
1950 - Fats Navarro, American trumpeter and composer (b. 1923)
1954 - Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter (b. 1874)
1956 - Gottfried Benn, German author and poet (b. 1886)
1964 - Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower (b. 1904)
1965 – Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
1967 – Vivian Leigh, British actress (b. 1913)
1971 – Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b. 1901)
1972 – King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
1972 - Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (b. 1886)
1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
1973 - Veronica Lake, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
1976 - Walter Giesler, American soccer player and referee (b. 1910)
1976 – Gustav Heinemann, President of Germany (b. 1899)
1978 - Francisco Mendes, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1933)
1983 – Herman Kahn, American futurologist (b. 1922)
1984 - Carl Bienish, American BASE jumper and cinematographer (b. 1941)
1987 - Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist (b. 1902)
1990 – Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)
1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1958)
1992 - Josy Barthel, Luxembourgish athlete (b. 1927)
1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
1994 - Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (b. 1924)
1994 - Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
1998 - Lenore Romney, mother of Mitt Romney (b. 1908)

From 2001

2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian conductor (b. 1924)
2003 - Vlado Kristl, Croatian painter, animator and director (b. 1923)
2006 – Syd Barrett, British musician (b. 1946)
2006 – Rudi Carrell, Dutch singer and entertainer (b. 1934)
2008 - Giovanni Viola, Italian footballer (b. 1926)
2008 - Dorian Leigh, American model (b. 1917)
2012 - Mouss Diouf, French actor (b. 1964)
2012 - Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (b. 1925)
2013 - Anna Wing, English actress (b. 1914)
2014 - Peter Underwood, 27th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1937)
2014 - Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet-Georgian politician, Soviet foreign minister and President of Georgia (b. 1928)
2014 - Andrew Mango, Turkish-British journalist (b. 1926)
2014 - Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer (b. 1926)
2014 - Dick Jones, American actor (b. 1927)
2015 - Maria Barroso, Portuguese actress and politician (b. 1925)
2015 - Fons van Wissen, Dutch footballer (b. 1933)
2016 - Sally Beauman, British writer (b. 1944)
2016 - James Gilbert, Scottish television producer (b. 1923)
2016 - Leonard Lee, Canadian businessman (b. 1938)
2016 - Cinna Lomnitz, German-born Chilean-Mexican geophysicist (b. 1925)
2016 - John O'Rourke, English footballer (b. 1945)
2016 - Wolfram Siebeck, German journalist and food critic (b. 1928)
2017 - Pam McConnell, Canadian politician (b. 1946)
2017 - Egil Monn-Iversen, Norwegian composer (b. 1928)
2017 - Jean-Pierre Bernard, French actor (b. 1933)
2017 - Pierrette Bloch, French-Swiss artist (b. 1928)
2017 - James B. Nutter Sr., American mortgage lender, philanthropist and power broker (b. 1928)
2017 - Marina Ratner, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1938)
2017 - Kenneth Silverman, American biographer (b. 1936)
2018 - William Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcyclist (b. 1985)
2018 - Hacène Lalmas, Algerian footballer (b. 1943)
2018 - Levko Lukyanenko, Ukrainian politician (b. 1928)
2018 - Firuz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani politician and former Prime minister of Azerbaijan (b. 1933)

Births

1901 – 1950

1901 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and director (d. 1974)
1901 - Sam Katzman, American director and producer (d. 1973)
1901 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese cinematographer (d. 1970)
1903 - Ralph Tarrant, English supercentenarian (d. 2013)
1906 – Anton Karas, Austrian zither player (d. 1985)
1906 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1906 - William Feller, American mathematician (d. 1970)
1907 – Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (d. 1988)
1911 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (d. 2007)
1911 – Gretchen Franklin, English actress (d. 2005)
1913 – Pinetop Perkins, American musician (d. 2011)
1917 - Iva Withers, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1917 - Fidel Sanchez Hernandez, President of El Salvador (d. 2003)
1919 – Jon Pertwee, British actor (d. 1996)
1921 - Ezzard Charles, American boxer (d. 1975)
1924 - Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (d. 2007)
1927 - Henri Dirickx, Belgian footballer (d. 2018)
1927 - Alan J. Dixon, former United States Senator for Illinois (d. 2014)
1930 - Hamish MacInnes, Scottish mountaineer and author
1930 - Theodore Edgar McCarrick, American cardinal
1930 - Hank Mobley, American jazz composer (d. 1986)
1931 – David Eddings, American writer (d. 2009)
1932 - Joe Zawinul, Austrian-American keyboardist and composer (d. 2007)
1936 - Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician (d. 2013)
1937 – Tung Chee-hwa, Chinese politician
1938 - Jan Assmann, German Egyptologist and cultural theorist
1939 - Elena Obraztsova, Russian soprano and actress (d. 2015)
1940 – Ringo Starr, English drummer (in the Beatles)
1940 – Wolfgang Clement, German politician, former Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
1941 – Michael Howard, British politician
1941 – Bill Oddie, British comedian and ornithologist
1943 - Toto Cutugno, Italian singer-songwriter
1944 - Feleti Sevele, former Prime Minister of Tonga
1944 - Tony Jacklin, English golfer
1944 - Glenys Kinnock, Welsh politician
1945 - Michael Ancram, English-Scottish lawyer and politician
1945 - Manuel Chaves, Spanish politician, former Prime Minister of Andalusia
1945 - Matti Salminen, Finnish opera singer
1947 – Gyanendra, former King of Nepal
1947 - Victor Manuel, Spanish singer-songwriter
1947 - Rob Townsend, English drummer
1948 - Kathy Reichs, American writer and forensic anthropologist
1949 – Shelley Duvall, American actress
1950 - Gerda Hasselfeldt, German politician
1950 - Vaughn Armstrong, American actor

1951 – 1975

1952 - Mando Guerrero, Mexican-American wrestler and stuntman
1954 - Rami Fortis, Israeli singer
1955 - Rolf Saxon, American actor and voice actor
1957 - Berry Sakharof, Israeli singer
1957 - Jonathan Dayton, American director and producer
1958 - Alexander Svinin, Russian figure skater and coach
1959 – Billy Campbell, American actor
1959 - Jessica Hahn, American model and actress
1959 - Alessandro Nannini, Italian racing driver
1960 - Kevin A. Ford, American colonel and astronaut
1960 - Ralph Sampson, American basketball player and coach
1963 – Vonda Shepard, American singer-songwriter
1963 - Geir Karlstad, Norwegian speed skater
1964 - Jennifer Gibney, Irish actress
1965 – Jeremy Guscott, English rugby player
1965 - Jeremy Kyle, English television presenter
1966 - Gundula Krause, German-American violinist
1968 - Amy Carlson, American actress
1968 – Jorja Fox, American actress
1969 – Sylke Otto, German luger
1969 - Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 - Robia LaMorte, American actress
1970 - Zoe Tyler, English voice coach, singer and performer
1970 – Erik Zabel, German cyclist
1972 – Lisa Leslie, American basketball player
1972 - Kirsten Vangsness, American actress
1973 - Kailash Kher, Indian singer
1973 - Troy Garity, American actor
1973 - Karlis Skrastins, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1973 - Natsuki Takaya, Japanese illustrator
1974 - Jennifer Jones, Canadian curler
1975 – Nina Hoss, German actress
1975 - Richard Arkless, Scottish politician

From 1976

1976 - Vasily Petrenko, Russian conductor
1976 - Erciment Olgundeniz, Turkish athlete
1976 - Hamish Linklater, American actor
1980 – Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
1981 - Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
1981 - Synyster Gates, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 - George Owu, Ghanaian footballer
1983 - Justin Davies, Australian footballer
1983 - Jakob Poulsen, Danish footballer
1984 – Alberto Aquilani, Italian footballer
1985 - Brandon Rush, American basketball player
1986 - Ana Kasparian, American journalist and producer
1987 - Julianna Guill, American actress
1988 - Iban Rubin, American drummer
1988 - Kaci Brown, American singer
1988 - Jack Whitehall, English comedian and actor
1989 - Kim Bum, South Korean actor and singer
1991 - Alesso, Swedish DJ and producer
1992 - Toni Garrn, German model
1994 - Ashton Irwin, Australian singer, 5 Seconds of Summer.
1997 - Erina Ikuta, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1998 - Dylan Sprayberry, American actor
2000 - Princess Purnika of Nepal

Deaths

Observances

National Holiday of the Solomon Islands
Tanabata Matsuri (Japan)
San Fermín festival in Pamplona, northern Spain: the bull run takes place.