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==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 69|69]] &ndash; [[Tiberius Julius Alexander]] orders his [[Roman legion]]s in [[Alexandria]] to swear [[allegiance]] to [[Vespasian]] as [[Roman emperor|Emperor]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lebel-Hadas|first=Mirelle|title=Flavius Josephus: Eyewitness to Rome's First-Century Conquest of Judea|location=New York|publisher=Macmillan|date=1993|oclc=610244378|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FCaKNXhHgMUC|page=140|isbn=9780743217965}}</ref>
* [[552]] &ndash; [[Battle of Taginae]]: [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] forces under [[Narses]] defeat the [[Ostrogoths]] in Italy, and the Ostrogoth king, [[Totila]], is mortally wounded.<ref>{{cite book|last=Anderson|first=Earl R.|title=Friendly Fire in the Literature of War|location=Jefferson, N.C.|publisher=McFarland & Co.|date=2017|isbn=9781476667218|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a9zCDgAAQBAJ|pages=120–121}}</ref>
*[[1097]] &ndash; [[Battle of Dorylaeum (1097)|Battle of Dorylaeum]]: [[Crusaders]] led by prince [[Bohemond I of Antioch|Bohemond of Taranto]] defeat a [[Seljuk Turks|Seljuk]] army led by sultan [[Kilij Arslan I]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Melegari|first=Vezio|title=The Great Military Sieges|location=London|publisher=New English Library|date=1972|isbn=9780450013256|page=67}}</ref>
*[[1431]] &ndash; The [[Battle of La Higueruela]] takes place in [[Granada]], leading to a modest advance of the [[Kingdom of Castile]] during the [[Reconquista]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Setton|first1=Kenneth M.|last2=Hazard|first2=Henry W.|title=A History of the Crusades. Vol. 3: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries|location=Madison, Wisc.|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|date=1975|isbn=9780299066703|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J6v9jhUd-r8C|page=446}}</ref>
*[[1520]] &ndash; Spanish [[conquistador]]s led by [[Hernán Cortés]] [[La Noche Triste|fight their way]] out of [[Tenochtitlan]] after nightfall.<ref>{{cite book|author=David Marley|title=Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rdvp3cGJUZoC&pg=PA20|year=1998|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-87436-837-6|pages=20}}</ref>
*[[1523]] &ndash; [[Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos]] become the first [[Lutheran]] martyrs, burned at the stake by [[Roman Catholic]] authorities in [[Brussels]].<ref>{{cite book|last=de Groot|first=Aart|chapter=Netherlands|title=Encyclopedia of Protestantism. Volume 3: L—R|editor-last=Hillerbrand|editor-first=Hans J.|location=New York|publisher=Routledge|date=2014|isbn=9780415924726|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PMSTAgAAQBAJ|page=1598}}</ref>
*[[1569]] &ndash; [[Union of Lublin]]: The Kingdom of Poland and the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]] confirm a [[real union]]; the united country is called the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] or the Republic of Both Nations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Union of Lublin, July 1st 1569 r. |url=https://www.dziejesejmu.pl/en/union-of-lublin-july-1st-1569-r,p1509767935 |website=Sejm Rzeczypospolite Polskiej}}</ref>
===1601–1900===
*[[1643]] &ndash; First meeting of the [[Westminster Assembly]], a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the [[Parliament of England]] appointed to restructure the [[Church of England]], at [[Westminster Abbey]] in London.
*[[1690]] &ndash; [[War of the Grand Alliance]]: [[François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg|Marshal de Luxembourg]] triumphs over an Anglo-Dutch army at the [[Battle of Fleurus (1690)|battle of Fleurus]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lynn|first=John A.|title=The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667–1714|publisher=Longman|date=1999|isbn=0-582-05629-2|page=207}}</ref>
*[[1690]] &ndash; [[Glorious Revolution]]: [[Battle of the Boyne]] in Ireland (as reckoned under the [[Julian calendar]]).
*[[1766]] &ndash; [[François-Jean de la Barre]], a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a [[pyre]] along with a copy of [[Voltaire]]'s ''[[Dictionnaire philosophique]]'' nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a [[Roman Catholic]] religious procession in [[Abbeville]], France.
*[[1770]] &ndash; [[Lexell's Comet]] is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of {{convert|0.0146|AU|lk=in}}.
*[[1782]] &ndash; [[Raid on Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (1782)|Raid on Lunenburg]]: American [[privateer]]s attack the British settlement of [[Lunenburg, Nova Scotia]].
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[Johann Georg Tralles]] discovers the [[Great Comet of 1819]], (C/1819 N1). It is the first comet analyzed using [[polarimetry]], by [[François Arago]].
*[[1823]] &ndash; The five Central American nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica declare independence from the [[First Mexican Empire]] after being [[Central America under Mexican rule|annexed]] the year prior.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Stanger|first1=Francis Merriman|date=February 1932|title=National Origins in Central America|journal=The Hispanic American Historical Review|language=en|publisher=[[Duke University Press]]|volume=12|issue=1|doi=10.2307/2506428|jstor=2506428|pages=40–41}}</ref>
*[[1837]] &ndash; A system of [[civil registration]] of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
*[[1841]] &ndash; [[Thomas Lempriere]] and [[James Clark Ross]] carve a marker on the [[Isle of the Dead (Tasmania)|Isle of the Dead]] in [[Van Diemen's Land]] to measure tidal variations, one of the earliest surviving benchmarks for [[sea level rise]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.naa.gov.au/blog/can-archives-help-us-measure-climate-change|title=Can archives help us measure climate change?|first=Peter|last=Hobbins|publisher=National Archives of Australia|access-date=19 May 2024|date=10 October 2019}}</ref>
*[[1855]] &ndash; Signing of the [[Quinault Treaty]]: The [[Quinault people|Quinault]] and the [[Quileute]] cede their land to the United States.
*[[1858]] &ndash; Joint reading of [[Charles Darwin]] and [[Alfred Russel Wallace]]'s papers on [[evolution]] to the [[Linnean Society of London]].
*[[1862]] &ndash; The [[Russian State Library]] is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
*  1862   &ndash; [[Princess Alice of the United Kingdom]], second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future [[Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse]].
*  1862   &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Malvern Hill]] takes place. It is the last of the [[Seven Days Battles]], part of [[George B. McClellan]]'s [[Peninsula Campaign]].
*[[1863]] &ndash; Slavery was abolished in the Dutch colony of [[Surinam (Dutch colony)|Surinam]], a date now celebrated as [[Ketikoti]] in independent [[Suriname]].
*  1863   &ndash; American Civil War: The [[Battle of Gettysburg]] begins.<ref>{{cite book|last=McPherson|first=James M.|title=Battle Cry of Freedom|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2003|isbn=9780195168952|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GXfGuNAvm7AC|pages=653–655}}</ref>
*[[1867]] &ndash; The [[Constitution Act, 1867|''British North America Act'']] takes effect as the [[Province of Canada]], [[New Brunswick]], and [[Nova Scotia]] [[Canadian Confederation|join into confederation]] to create the modern nation of Canada. [[John A. Macdonald]] is sworn in as the first [[Prime Minister of Canada]]. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as [[Canada Day]], a national holiday.
*[[1870]] &ndash; The [[United States Department of Justice]] formally comes into existence.
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Prince Edward Island]] joins into [[Canadian Confederation]].
*[[1874]] &ndash; The [[Sholes and Glidden typewriter]], the first commercially successful [[typewriter]], goes on sale.
*[[1878]] &ndash; Canada joins the [[Universal Postal Union]].
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Charles Taze Russell]] publishes the first edition of the religious magazine ''[[The Watchtower]]''.
*[[1881]] &ndash; The world's first international [[telephone call]] is made between [[St. Stephen, New Brunswick]], Canada, and [[Calais, Maine]], United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.famousdaily.com/history/worlds-first-international-telephone-call.html|title=First international phone call|website=Famousdaily.com|access-date=2016-07-08}}</ref>
*  1881   &ndash; General Order 70, the culmination of the [[Cardwell Reforms|Cardwell]] and [[Childers Reforms|Childers]] reforms of the [[British Army]], comes into effect.
*[[1885]] &ndash; The United States terminates [[reciprocity (Canadian politics)|reciprocity]] and [[fishery]] agreement with Canada.
*  1885   &ndash; The [[Congo Free State]] is established by King [[Leopold II of Belgium]].<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Congo Free State}}</ref>
*[[1890]] &ndash; Canada and [[Bermuda]] are linked by [[telegraphy|telegraph]] cable.
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: The [[Battle of San Juan Hill]] is fought in [[Santiago de Cuba]], [[Cuba]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Keenan|first1=Jerry|last2=Tucker|first2=Spencer C.|chapter=San Juan Heights, Battle of|title=The Encyclopedia of the Spanish–American and Philippine–American Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History|editor-last=Tucker|editor-first=Spencer|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2009|isbn=9781851099511|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8V3vZxOmHssC|page=574|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Trask|first=David F.|title=The War With Spain in 1898|location=Lincoln, Neb.|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|date=1996|isbn=9780803294295|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2f0Gf0DQfmUC|pages=237–246}}</ref>
===1901–present===
*[[1901]] &ndash; French government enacts its anti-clerical legislation ''Law of Association'' prohibiting the formation of new monastic orders without governmental approval.<ref name="chronicle">{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the World|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1989|page=248|isbn=0-13-133463-8}}</ref>
*[[1903]] &ndash; Start of [[1903 Tour de France|first Tour de France]] bicycle race.
*[[1908]] &ndash; [[SOS]] is adopted as the international [[distress signal]].
*[[1911]] &ndash; Germany dispatches the gunship {{SMS|Panther}} to Morocco, sparking the [[Agadir Crisis]].<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC - History : British History Timeline |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/worldwars_timeline_noflash.shtml |website=BBC |access-date=8 October 2020}}</ref>
*[[1915]] &ndash; ''[[Leutnant]]'' [[Kurt Wintgens]] of the then-named German [[German Army (German Empire)|''Deutsches Heer's'']] [[Luftstreitkräfte|''Fliegertruppe'']] army air service achieves [[Kurt Wintgens#First victory using a synchronized gun|the first known aerial victory]] with a [[Synchronization gear|synchronized machine-gun]] armed fighter plane, the [[Fokker E.I|Fokker M.5K/MG]] ''Eindecker''.
*[[1916]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: [[First day on the Somme]]: On the first day of the [[Battle of the Somme]] 19,000 soldiers of the [[British Army]] are killed and 40,000 wounded.
*[[1917]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: Russia launches [[Kerensky offensive|an offensive]] against [[Austria-Hungary]] to capture [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]], its final offensive of the war.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Heenan |first=Louise Erwin |title=Russian Democracy's Fatal Blunder: The Summer Offensive of 1917 |location=New York |publisher=Praeger |year=1987 |pages=109–111 |isbn= 978-0-275-92829-2 }}</ref>
*[[1917]] &ndash; Chinese General [[Zhang Xun]] seizes control of [[Beijing]] and [[Manchu Restoration|restores the monarchy]], installing [[Puyi]], last emperor of the [[Qing dynasty]], to the throne. The restoration is reversed just shy of two weeks later, when [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republican]] troops regain control of the capital.<ref>{{cite book|title=Modern Chinese History Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7fMwAQAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=History of Chinese Communist Party Publishing House|isbn=978-7-80023-476-7}}</ref>
*[[1921]] &ndash; The [[Chinese Communist Party]] is founded by [[Chen Duxiu]] and [[Li Dazhao]], with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union#Name|Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)]], who seized power in Russia after the 1917 October Revolution, and the Far Eastern Secretariat of the Communist International.
*[[1922]] &ndash; The [[Great Railroad Strike of 1922]] begins in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|last=Davis|first=Colin J.|title=Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike|location=Urbana, Ill.|publisher=University of Illinois Press|date=1997|isbn=9780252023125|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63gRX3UbSfAC|page=64}}</ref>
*[[1923]] &ndash; The [[Parliament of Canada]] suspends all [[History of Chinese immigration to Canada|Chinese immigration]].
*[[1924]] &ndash; The [[National War Memorial (Newfoundland) | National War Memorial]] for the [[Dominion of Newfoundland]] was inaugurated by [[Field Marshall]] [[Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig]] in [[St. John's, Newfoundland]]. The date commemorates the first day of the [[Battle of the Somme]], where at [[Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial | Beaumont-Hamel]], 86 percent of the [[Royal Newfoundland Regiment]] was wiped out.<ref name = "Gazette Coverage 1924">
{{cite news
| author        = Gazette Staff
| title         = Earl Haig unveils stature
| work          = The Gazette
| location      = Montreal
| page          = 12
| date          = 2 July 1924
| url           = https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-haig-unveils-statue/150453374/
| access-date   = 1 July 2024
}}</ref>
*[[1931]] &ndash; [[United Airlines]] begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
*  1931   &ndash; [[Wiley Post]] and [[Harold Gatty]] become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a [[Lockheed Vega|single-engined monoplane]] aircraft.
*[[1932]] &ndash; Australia's national broadcaster, the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]], was formed.
*[[1935]] &ndash; [[Regina, Saskatchewan]], police and [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] ambush strikers participating in the [[On-to-Ottawa Trek]].
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[First Battle of El Alamein]].
*  1942   &ndash; The [[Australian Federal Government]] becomes the sole collector of [[income tax in Australia]] as State Income Tax is abolished.
*[[1943]] &ndash; The [[Tokyo City|City of Tokyo]] and the [[Tokyo Prefecture|Prefecture of Tokyo]] are both replaced by the Tokyo Metropolis.
*[[1946]] &ndash; [[Operation Crossroads#Test Able|Crossroads Able]] is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.<ref>{{citation|last=Navy History and Heritage Command|year=2002|title=Operation Crossroads: Fact Sheet|location=Washington, DC|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq76-1.htm|access-date=January 1, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024121304/http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq76-1.htm|archive-date=October 24, 2012}}</ref>
*[[1947]] &ndash; The [[Philippine Air Force]] is established.
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]] (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's [[central bank]], the [[State Bank of Pakistan]].
*[[1949]] &ndash; The merger of two princely states of India, [[Cochin]] and [[Travancore]], into the state of [[Thiru-Kochi]] (later re-organized as [[Kerala]]) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the [[Cochin royal family]].
*[[1957]] &ndash; The [[International Geophysical Year]] begins.
*[[1958]] &ndash; The [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] links [[television]] broadcasting across Canada via [[microwave]].
*  1958   &ndash; Flooding of Canada's [[Saint Lawrence Seaway]] begins.
*[[1959]] &ndash; Specific values for the international [[yard]], [[avoirdupois pound]] and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and [[ounce]]) are adopted after [[International yard and pound|agreement]] between the US, the United Kingdom and other [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] countries.
*[[1960]] &ndash; The [[Trust Territory of Somaliland]] (the former [[Italian Somaliland]]) gains its independence from Italy. Concurrently, it unites as scheduled with the five-day-old [[State of Somaliland]] (the former [[British Somaliland]]) to form the [[Somali Republic]].
*  1960   &ndash; [[Ghana]] becomes a [[republic]] and [[Kwame Nkrumah]] becomes its first [[President of Ghana|President]] as Queen [[Elizabeth II]] ceases to be its [[head of state]].
*[[1962]] &ndash; Independence of [[Rwanda]] and [[Burundi]].
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[ZIP code]]s are introduced for [[United States Postal Service|United States mail]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Janeczko|first=Paul B.|title=Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing|location=Cambridge, Mass.|publisher=Candlewick Press|date=2004|isbn=9780763629724|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_HjRUYwJ1moC|page=8}}</ref>
*  1963   &ndash; The British Government admits that former diplomat [[Kim Philby]] had worked as a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Espionage|agent]].
*[[1966]] &ndash; The first [[color television]] transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Merger Treaty]]: The [[European Community]] is formally created out of a merger between the [[Common Market]], the [[European Coal and Steel Community]], and the [[Euratom|European Atomic Energy Commission]].
*[[1968]] &ndash; The United States [[Central Intelligence Agency]]'s [[Phoenix Program]] is officially established.
*  1968   &ndash; The [[Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons]] is signed in [[Washington, D.C.]], [[London]] and [[Moscow]] by sixty-two countries.
*  1968   &ndash; Formal separation of the [[United Auto Workers]] from the [[AFL–CIO]] in the United States.
*[[1976]] &ndash; Portugal grants autonomy to [[Madeira]].
*[[1978]] &ndash; The [[Northern Territory]] in Australia is granted self-government.
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Sony]] introduces the [[Walkman]].
*[[1980]] &ndash; "[[O Canada]]" officially becomes the [[national anthem]] of Canada.
*[[1983]] &ndash; A [[North Korea]]n [[Ilyushin Il-62|Ilyushin Il-62M]] jet en route to [[Conakry Airport]] in [[Guinea]] [[1983 Chosonminhang Ilyushin Il-62 crash|crashes]] into the [[Fouta Djallon]] mountains in [[Guinea-Bissau]], killing all 23 people on board.
*[[1983]] &ndash; The [[Ministry of State Security (China)|Ministry of State Security]] is established as China's principal [[intelligence agency]]<ref name=":13">{{cite book |last1=Mattis |first1=Peter |title=Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer |last2=Brazil |first2=Matthew |date=2019-11-15 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |isbn=978-1-68247-304-7 |language=en-US |oclc=1117319580}}</ref>
*[[1984]] &ndash; The [[PG-13 (Motion Picture Association)|PG-13]] rating is introduced by the [[Motion Picture Association of America|MPAA]].
*[[1987]] &ndash; The American radio station [[WFAN (AM)|WFAN]] in New York City is launched as the world's first [[sports radio|all-sports radio]] station.
*[[1990]] &ndash; [[German reunification]]: [[East Germany]] accepts the [[Deutsche Mark]] as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: The [[Warsaw Pact]] is officially dissolved at a meeting in [[Prague]].
*  1991   &ndash; The Finnish operator [[Radiolinja]] is launched as the world's first [[GSM|GSM network]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Anton A.|last=Huurdeman|title=The Worldwide History of Telecommunications|page=529|publisher=[[Wiley (publisher)|John Wiley & Sons]]|year=2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=1&ag=86&t=586&a=5126 |title= Maailman ensimmäinen GSM-puhelu |trans-title= World's first GSM call |date= 22 February 2008 |work= yle.fi |publisher= Yelisradio OY |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110706064231/http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=1&ag=86&t=586&a=5126 |archivedate= 6 July 2011 |accessdate= 5 May 2011 |quote= Harri Holkeri made the first call on the Radiolinja (Elisa's subsidiary) network, at the opening ceremony in Helsinki on 07.01.1991. |url-status= dead}}</ref>
*[[1997]] &ndash; China [[Handover of Hong Kong|resumes sovereignty]] over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British [[colonialism|colonial]] rule.  The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]], [[Charles III of the United Kingdom|Charles, Prince of Wales]], Chinese President [[Jiang Zemin]] and U.S. Secretary of State [[Madeleine Albright]].
*1997   &ndash; [[Space Shuttle program]]: [[Space Shuttle Columbia|Space Shuttle ''Columbia'']] is launched on [[STS-94]], a re-flight of the prematurely-ended [[STS-83]] mission with the same crew.<ref>{{Cite web |title=STS-94 |url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission/sts-94/ |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=NASA}}</ref>
*[[1999]] &ndash; The [[Scottish Parliament]] is officially opened by [[Elizabeth II]] on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old [[Scottish Office]] in London to the new devolved [[Scottish Executive]] in [[Edinburgh]]. In Wales, the powers of the [[Secretary of State for Wales|Welsh Secretary]] are transferred to the [[National Assembly for Wales|National Assembly]].
*[[2002]] &ndash; The [[International Criminal Court]] is established to prosecute individuals for [[genocide]], [[crimes against humanity]], [[war crime]]s and the [[crime of aggression]].
*  2002   &ndash; Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a [[Tupolev Tu-154]], and DHL Flight 611, a [[Boeing 757]], [[Überlingen mid-air collision|collide in mid-air]] over [[Überlingen]], southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.
*[[2003]] &ndash; Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass [[Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23|anti-sedition legislation]] in Hong Kong.
*[[2004]] &ndash; [[Saturn]] [[orbit insertion]] of [[Cassini–Huygens]] begins at 01:12 [[UTC]] and ends at 02:48 UTC.
*[[2006]] &ndash; The first operation of [[Qinghai–Tibet Railway]] is conducted in China.
*[[2007]] &ndash; Smoking in England is [[Smoking ban in England|banned]] in all public indoor spaces.
*[[2008]] &ndash; [[2008 riot in Mongolia|Riots erupt in Mongolia]] in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Yardley |first=Jim |date=2008-07-03 |title=Mongolia Enforces Martial Law in Capital Amid Political Unrest |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/world/asia/03mongolia.html |access-date=2022-09-10 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[2013]] &ndash; [[Croatia]] becomes the [[Accession of Croatia to the European Union|28th member]] of the [[European Union]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bilefsky |first=Dan |date=2013-07-01 |title=Joyous Croatia Joins Europe Amid a Crisis |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/world/europe/croatia-joins-european-union.html |access-date=2022-09-10 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[2020]] &ndash; The [[United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement]] replaces NAFTA.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2020/april/usmca-enter-force-july-1-after-united-states-takes-final-procedural-steps-implementation|website=ustr.gov| title=USMCA To Enter Into Force July 1 After United States Takes Final Procedural Steps For Implementation|date=April 24, 2020|access-date=April 26, 2020}}</ref>
*[[2024]] &ndash; At the centennial ceremony of the [[National War Memorial (Newfoundland)|Dominion of Newfoundland National War Memorial]], the [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]] allowed an unprecedented second Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The [[Royal Newfoundland Regiment]] solder was entombed in the memorial at this ceremony.<ref name = CBC2024>{{Cite news
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==Births==
===Pre-1600===
*[[1311]] &ndash; [[Liu Bowen]], Chinese military strategist, statesman and poet (d. 1375)
*[[1464]] &ndash; [[Clara Gonzaga]], Italian noble (d. 1503)
*[[1481]] &ndash; [[Christian II of Denmark]] (d. 1559)
*[[1506]] &ndash; [[Louis II of Hungary]] (d. 1526)
*[[1534]] &ndash; [[Frederick II of Denmark]] (d. 1588)
*[[1553]] &ndash; [[Peter Street (carpenter)|Peter Street]], English carpenter and builder (d. 1609)
*[[1574]] &ndash; [[Joseph Hall (bishop)|Joseph Hall]], English bishop and mystic (d. 1656)
*[[1586]] &ndash; [[Claudio Saracini]], Italian lute player and composer (d. 1630)
===1601–1900===
*[[1633]] &ndash; [[Johann Heinrich Heidegger]], Swiss theologian and author (d. 1698)
*[[1646]] &ndash; [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]], German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1716)<ref>{{cite book | last=Strickland | first=Lloyd | author-link=Lloyd Strickland | title=The Shorter Leibniz Texts : a Collection of New Translations | url=https://archive.org/details/shorterleibnizte00leib | url-access=limited | place=New York | publisher=Continuum | year=2006 | isbn=978-1-4411-9994-2 | page=[https://archive.org/details/shorterleibnizte00leib/page/n21 1]}}</ref>
*[[1663]] &ndash; [[Franz Xaver Murschhauser]], German composer and theorist (d. 1738)
*[[1725]] &ndash; [[Rhoda Delaval]], English painter and aristocrat (d. 1757)<ref>{{cite book | last=Craster | first=H.H.E. | title=A History of Northumberland Volume IX: The Parochial Chaleletes of Earsdon and Horton | url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofnorthum09nort#page/172/mode/2up | place=Newcastle-Upon-Tyne |  publisher=Andrew Reid & Company, Limited | year=1909 |page=173 | access-date=29 June 2019}}</ref>
*  1725   &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau]], French general (d. 1807)
*[[1726]] &ndash; [[Acharya Bhikshu (Jain Monk)|Acharya Bhikshu]], Jain saint (d. 1803)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.terapanthinfo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=105&Itemid=696&lang=en|title=Acharya Shri Bhikshu}}</ref>
*[[1731]] &ndash; [[Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan]], Scottish-English admiral (d. 1804)
*[[1742]] &ndash; [[Georg Christoph Lichtenberg]], German physicist and academic (d. 1799)<ref>{{cite book | last=Roggenhofer |first=Johannes | chapter=Lichtenburg on Language and Reason: One Aspect of the Crisis in German Enlightenment | editor-last=Ahlqvist | editor-first=Anders | title=Diversions of Galway |date=January 1992 | place=Amsterdam | publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company | isbn=978-9-0272-4555-7 | page=169}}</ref>
*[[1771]] &ndash; [[Ferdinando Paer]], Italian composer and conductor (d. 1839)
*[[1788]] &ndash; [[Jean-Victor Poncelet]], French mathematician and engineer (d. 1867)
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[Charles Gordon Greene]], American journalist and politician (d. 1886)
*  1804   &ndash; [[George Sand]], French author and playwright (d. 1876)
*[[1807]] &ndash; [[Thomas Green Clemson]], American politician and educator, founder of [[Clemson University]] (d. 1888)
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[Ygnacio del Valle]], Mexican-American landowner (d. 1880)
*[[1814]] &ndash; [[Robert Richard Torrens]], Irish-Australian politician, 3rd [[Premier of South Australia]] (d. 1884)<ref name=adb>{{cite AuDB |first=Douglas J.|last= Whalan |author-link= |title=Torrens, Sir Robert Richard (1814–1884)|volume=6 |edition= |year=1976 |id2=torrens-sir-robert-richard-4739|access-date=10 November 2019}}</ref>
*[[1818]] &ndash; [[Ignaz Semmelweis]], Hungarian-Austrian physician and obstetrician (d. 1865)
*  1818   &ndash; [[Karl von Vierordt]], German physician, psychologist and academic (d. 1884)
*[[1822]] &ndash; [[Nguyễn Đình Chiểu]], Vietnamese poet and activist (d. 1888)
*[[1834]] &ndash; [[Jadwiga Łuszczewska]], Polish poet and author (d. 1908)
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[Florence Earle Coates]], American poet (d. 1927)
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Willard Metcalf]], American painter (d. 1925)<ref>{{cite web |title=Fox Chase: Willard Metcalf |url=https://florencegriswoldmuseum.org/collections/online/fox-chase/fox-chase-willard-metcalf/ |website=Florence Griswold Museum |access-date=5 February 2020}}</ref>
*  1858   &ndash; [[Velma Caldwell Melville]], American editor and writer of prose and poetry (d. 1924)
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[DeLancey W. Gill]], American painter (d. 1940)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Glenn |first=J. R. |date=1983 |title=De Lancey W. Gill: Photographer for the Bureau of American Ethnology. History of Photography |journal=[[History of Photography (journal)|History of Photography]] |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=7–22|doi=10.1080/03087298.1983.10442742 }}</ref>
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[William Grant Stairs]], Canadian-English captain and explorer (d. 1892)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[William Strunk Jr.]], American author and educator (d. 1946)
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[Louis Blériot]], French pilot and engineer (d. 1936)<ref>{{cite book | last=Elliot |first= B.A. |title=Blériot: Herald of an Age | place=Stroud | publisher=Tempus | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-7524-1739-4 |page=11}}</ref>
*  1872   &ndash; [[William Duddell]], English physicist and engineer (d. 1917)
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Alice Guy-Blaché]], French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1968)<ref>{{cite web |title=Alice Guy-Blaché {{!}} French director |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alice-Guy-Blache |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*  1873   &ndash; [[Andrass Samuelsen]], Faroese politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands]] (d. 1954)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Joseph Weil]], American con man (d. 1976)
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[T. J. Ryan]], Australian politician, 19th [[Premier of Queensland]] (d. 1921)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Jacques Rosenbaum]], Estonian-German architect (d. 1944)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Léon Jouhaux]], French union leader, [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1954)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Edward Battersby Bailey]], English geologist (d. 1965)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]], Indian physician and politician, 2nd [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]] (d. 1962)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Arthur Borton]], English colonel, [[Victoria Cross]] recipient (d. 1933)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Dorothea Mackellar]], Australian author and poet (d. 1968)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Amber Reeves]], New Zealand-English author and scholar (d. 1981)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[James M. Cain]], American author and journalist (d. 1977)
*  1892   &ndash; [[László Lajtha]], Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1963)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Thomas A. Dorsey]], American pianist and composer (d. 1993)
*  1899   &ndash; [[Charles Laughton]], English-American actor and director (d. 1962)
*  1899   &ndash; [[Konstantinos Tsatsos]], Greek scholar and politician, [[President of Greece]] (d. 1987)
===1901–present===
*[[1901]] &ndash; [[Irna Phillips]], American screenwriter (d. 1973)
*[[1902]] &ndash; [[William Wyler]], French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1981)
*[[1903]] &ndash; [[Amy Johnson]], English pilot (d. 1941)<ref>{{cite book | last=Nesbit | first=Roy Conyers | title=Missing: Believed Killed: Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson, Glenn Miller and the Duke of Kent | place=Barnsley | publisher=Pen and Sword | year=2010 | page=38}}</ref>
*  1903   &ndash; [[Beatrix Lehmann]], English actress (d. 1979)<ref>{{cite book | last=Herbert | first=Ian | title=Who's who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Theatre | place=Detroit | publisher=Gale | year=1981 | page=418}}</ref>
*[[1906]] &ndash; [[Jean Dieudonné]], French mathematician and academic (d. 1992)
*  1906   &ndash; [[Estée Lauder (businesswoman)|Estée Lauder]], American businesswoman, co-founder of [[Estée Lauder Companies]] (d. 2004)
*[[1907]] &ndash; [[Norman Pirie]], Scottish-English biochemist and virologist (d. 1997)
*[[1909]] &ndash; [[Emmett Toppino]], American sprinter (d. 1971)
*[[1910]] &ndash; [[Glenn Hardin]], American hurdler (d. 1975)
*[[1911]] &ndash; [[Arnold Alas]], Estonian landscape architect and artist (d. 1990)
*  1911   &ndash; [[Sergey Sokolov (commander)|Sergey Sokolov]], Russian marshal and politician, [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)|Soviet Minister of Defence]] (d. 2012)
*[[1912]] &ndash; [[David Brower]], American environmentalist, founder of the [[Sierra Club Foundation]] (d. 2000)<ref>{{cite book | last=Carnes | first=Mark C. | title=American National Biography | place=New York | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2005 | isbn=978-0-1997-7149-3 | page=41}}</ref>
*  1912   &ndash; [[Sally Kirkland (editor)|Sally Kirkland]], American journalist (d. 1989)
*[[1913]] &ndash; [[Frank Barrett (baseball)|Frank Barrett]], American baseball player (d. 1998)
*  1913   &ndash; [[Lee Guttero]], American basketball player (d. 2004)
*  1913   &ndash; [[Vasantrao Naik]], Indian politician, 3rd [[Chief Minister of Maharashtra]] (d. 1979)
*[[1914]] &ndash; [[Thomas Pearson (British Army officer, born 1914)|Thomas Pearson]], British Army officer (d. 2019)
*  1914   &ndash; [[Christl Cranz]], German alpine skier (d. 2004)<ref>{{cite book | last=Allen | first=E. John B. | title=Historical Dictionary of Skiing | place=Lanham | publisher=Scarecrow Press | year=2014 | isbn=978-0-8108-7977-5 | page=58}}</ref>
*  1914   &ndash; [[Bernard B. Wolfe]], American politician (d. 2016)
*[[1915]] &ndash; [[Willie Dixon]], American blues singer-songwriter, bass player, guitarist and producer (d. 1992)
*  1915   &ndash; [[Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme]], British peer (d. 2000)<ref>{{cite book | last1=Kidd |first1=Charles | last2=Williamson | first2=David | title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage | place=London | publisher=Macmillan | year=1985 | isbn=978-0-31212-557-8 |page=758}}</ref>
*  1915   &ndash; [[Boots Poffenberger]], American baseball pitcher (d. 1999)
*  1915   &ndash; [[Joseph Ransohoff]], American soldier and neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
*  1915   &ndash; [[Nguyễn Văn Linh]], Vietnamese politician (d. 1998)
*[[1916]] &ndash; [[Olivia de Havilland]], British-American actress (d. 2020) <ref>{{cite book | last=Thomas |first=Tony |title=The Films of Olivia de Havilland |publisher=Citadel Press |location=New York |year=1983 |isbn=978-0-8065-0988-4 |page=20}}</ref>
*  1916   &ndash; [[Iosif Shklovsky]], Ukrainian astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985)<ref>{{cite book | last1=Hockey | first1=Thomas |last2=Trimble | first2=Virginia | last3=Williams | first3=Thomas R. | last4=Bracher | first4=Katherine | last5=Jarrell | first5=Richard A. |last6=Marché | first6=Jordan D. |last7=Ragep | first7=F. Jamil |last8=Palmeri |first8=Jo Ann |last9=Bol |first9=Marvin | title=Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers | date=18 September 2007 | place=New York | publisher=Springer | isbn=978-0-3873-0400-7 | page=1057}}</ref>
*  1916   &ndash; [[George C. Stoney]], American director and producer (d. 2012)
*[[1917]] &ndash; [[Humphry Osmond]], English-American lieutenant and psychiatrist (d. 2004)
*  1917   &ndash; [[Álvaro Domecq y Díez]], Spanish aristocrat (d. 2005)
*[[1918]] &ndash; [[Ralph Young (singer)|Ralph Young]], American singer and actor (d. 2008)
*  1918   &ndash; [[Ahmed Deedat]], South African writer and public speaker (d. 2005)
*  1918   &ndash; [[Pedro Yap]], Filipino lawyer (d. 2003)
*[[1919]] &ndash; [[Arnold Meri]], Estonian colonel (d. 2009)
*  1919   &ndash; [[Malik Dohan al-Hassan]], Iraqi politician (d. 2021)
*  1919   &ndash; [[Gerald E. Miller]], American vice admiral (d. 2014)
*[[1920]] &ndash; [[Henri Amouroux]], French historian and journalist (d. 2007)
*  1920   &ndash; [[Harold Sakata]], Japanese-American wrestler and actor (d. 1982)<ref>{{cite book | last=Grasso | first=John | title=Historical Dictionary of Wrestling | place=Lanham | publisher=Scarecrow Press | year=2014 | isbn=978-0-8108-7925-6 | page=299}}</ref>
*  1920   &ndash; [[George I. Fujimoto]], American-Japanese chemist (d. 2023)
*[[1921]] &ndash; [[Seretse Khama]], Batswana lawyer and politician, 1st [[President of Botswana]] (d. 1980)
*  1921   &ndash; [[Michalina Wisłocka]], Polish gynecologist and sexologist (d. 2005)
*  1921   &ndash; [[Arthur Johnson (canoeist)|Arthur Johnson]], Canadian canoeist (d. 2003)
*[[1922]] &ndash; [[Toshi Seeger]], German-American activist, co-founder of the [[Clearwater Festival]] (d. 2013)
*  1922   &ndash; [[Mordechai Bibi]], Israeli politician (d. 2023)
*[[1923]] &ndash; [[Scotty Bowers]], American marine, author and pimp (d. 2019)
*[[1924]] &ndash; [[Antoni Ramallets]], Spanish footballer and manager (d. 2013)
*  1924   &ndash; [[Florence Stanley]], American actress (d. 2003)
*  1924   &ndash; [[Georges Rivière]], French actor (d. 2011)
*[[1925]] &ndash; [[Farley Granger]], American actor (d. 2011)
*  1925   &ndash; [[Art McNally]], American football referee (d. 2023)
*[[1926]] &ndash; [[Robert Fogel]], American economist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 2013)
*  1926   &ndash; [[Carl Hahn]], German businessman (d. 2023)
*  1926   &ndash; [[Mohamed Abshir Muse]], Somali general (d. 2017)
*  1926   &ndash; [[Hans Werner Henze]], German composer and educator (d. 2012)
*[[1927]] &ndash; [[Alan J. Charig]], English paleontologist and author (d. 1997)
*  1927   &ndash; [[Winfield Dunn]], American politician, 43rd [[Governor of Tennessee]]<ref name=tehc>Michael Rogers, "[http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=411 Winfield Dunn]," ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', 2009.  Retrieved: 30 December 2012.</ref> (d. 2024)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Winfield Dunn, 43rd Governor of Tennessee, Passes Away |url=https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2024/9/28/winfield-dunn--43rd-governor-of-tennessee--passes-away.html |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.tn.gov |language=en}}</ref>
*  1927   &ndash; [[Joseph Martin Sartoris]], American bishop
*  1927   &ndash; [[Chandra Shekhar]], 8th Prime Minister of India (d. 2007)<ref>{{cite book|author=Kotamraju Narayana Rao|title=Chandra Shekhar, the survivor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JeZHAAAAMAAJ|date=1 August 1991|publisher=Manak Publications|isbn=978-8-1854-4508-3}}</ref>
*[[1929]] &ndash; [[Gerald Edelman]], American biologist and  immunologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 2014)
*[[1930]] &ndash; [[Moustapha Akkad]], Syrian-American director and producer (d. 2005)
*  1930   &ndash; [[Carol Chomsky]], American linguist and academic (d. 2008)
*[[1931]] &ndash; [[Leslie Caron]], French actress and dancer
*[[1932]] &ndash; [[Ze'ev Schiff]], French-Israeli journalist and author (d. 2007)
*[[1933]] &ndash; [[C. Scott Littleton]], American anthropologist and academic (d. 2010)
*[[1934]] &ndash; [[Claude Berri]], French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
*  1934   &ndash; [[Jamie Farr]], American actor
*  1934   &ndash; [[Jean Marsh]], English actress and screenwriter
*  1934   &ndash; [[Sydney Pollack]], American actor, director and producer (d. 2008)
*[[1935]] &ndash; [[James Cotton]], American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 2017)
*  1935   &ndash; [[David Prowse]], English actor (d. 2020)
*[[1936]] &ndash; [[Wally Amos]], American entrepreneur, founder of [[Famous Amos]] (d. 2024)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Risen |first=Clay |date=2024-08-14 |title=Wally Amos, Enterprising Creator of Famous Amos Cookies, Dies at 88 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/business/wally-amos-dead.html |access-date=2024-08-18 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[1938]] &ndash; [[Craig Anderson (right-handed pitcher)|Craig Anderson]], American baseball player and coach
*  1938   &ndash; [[Hariprasad Chaurasia]], Indian flute player and composer
*[[1939]] &ndash; [[Karen Black]], American actress (d. 2013)
*  1939   &ndash; [[Delaney Bramlett]], American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (d. 2008)
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[Craig Brown (footballer, born 1940)|Craig Brown]], Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2023)
*  1940   &ndash; [[Ela Gandhi]], South African activist and politician
*  1940   &ndash; [[Cahit Zarifoğlu]], Turkish poet and author (d. 1987)
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[Rod Gilbert]], Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2021)
*  1941   &ndash; [[Alfred G. Gilman]], American pharmacologist and biochemist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 2015)
*  1941   &ndash; [[Nicolae Saramandu]], Romanian linguist and philologist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://acad.ro/acad_membri/membri/SARAMANDU_Nicolae.html|title=Nicolae SARAMANDU - Filolog, Lingvist|publisher=[[Romanian Academy]]|accessdate=23 February 2023|language=ro}}</ref>
*  1941   &ndash; [[Myron Scholes]], Canadian-American economist and academic, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*  1941   &ndash; [[Twyla Tharp]], American dancer and choreographer
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri]], Iraqi field marshal and politician (d. 2020)
*  1942   &ndash; [[Geneviève Bujold]], Canadian actress
*  1942   &ndash; [[Andraé Crouch]], American singer-songwriter, producer and pastor (d. 2015)
*  1942   &ndash; [[Julia Higgins]], English chemist and academic
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[Philip Brunelle]], American conductor and organist
*  1943   &ndash; [[Peeter Lepp]], Estonian politician, 37th [[Mayor of Tallinn]]
*  1943   &ndash; [[Jeff Wayne]], American composer, musician and lyricist
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[Nurul Haque Miah]], Bangladeshi professor and writer (d. 2021)<ref>{{Cite web|title=রসায়ন বইয়ের বিখ্যাত লেখক প্রফেসর নূরুল হক মিয়া আর নেই|url=https://www.jugantor.com/national/395122/রসায়ন-বইয়ের-বিখ্যাত-লেখক-প্রফেসর-নূরুল-হক-মিয়া-আর-নেই|access-date=20 February 2021|website=[[Jugantor]]|language=bn}}</ref>
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[Mike Burstyn]], American actor and singer
*  1945   &ndash; [[Debbie Harry]], American singer-songwriter and actress
*[[1946]] &ndash; [[Mick Aston]], English archaeologist and academic (d. 2013)
*  1946   &ndash; [[Erkki Tuomioja]], Finnish sergeant and politician, [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Finland)|Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs]]
*  1946   &ndash; [[Kojo Laing]], Ghanaian novelist and poet (d. 2017)<ref>[https://brittlepaper.com/2017/05/africas-novelist-5-books-late-kojo-laing/ "Is He African Literature's Greatest Linguistic Innovator? | The 5 Books of the Late Kojo Laing"], ''[[Brittle Paper]]'', 10 May 2017.</ref>
*[[1947]] &ndash; [[Kazuyoshi Hoshino]], Japanese race car driver
*  1947   &ndash; [[Malcolm Wicks]], English academic and politician (d. 2012)
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[John Ford (musician)|John Ford]], English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
*[[1949]] &ndash; [[Néjia Ben Mabrouk]], Tunisian-Belgian director and screenwriter
*  1949   &ndash; [[John Farnham]], English-Australian singer-songwriter
*  1949   &ndash; [[David Hogan (composer)|David Hogan]], American composer and educator (d. 1996)
*  1949   &ndash; [[Venkaiah Naidu]], Indian lawyer and politician
*[[1950]] &ndash; [[David Duke]], American white supremacist, politician and [[Ku Klux Klan]] [[Grand Wizard]]
*[[1951]] &ndash; [[Trevor Eve]], English actor and producer
*  1951   &ndash; [[Anne Feeney]], American singer-songwriter and activist (d. 2021)
*  1951   &ndash; [[Julia Goodfellow]], English physicist and academic
*  1951   &ndash; [[Klaus-Peter Justus]], German runner
*  1951   &ndash; [[Tom Kozelko]], American basketball player
*  1951   &ndash; [[Terrence Mann]], American actor, singer and dancer
*  1951   &ndash; [[Fred Schneider]], American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
*  1951   &ndash; [[Victor Willis]], American singer-songwriter, pianist and actor
*[[1952]] &ndash; [[Dan Aykroyd]], Canadian actor, producer and screenwriter
*  1952   &ndash; [[David Arkenstone]], American composer and performer
*  1952   &ndash; [[David Lane (oncologist)|David Lane]], English oncologist and academic
*  1952   &ndash; [[Steve Shutt]], Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
*  1952   &ndash; [[Timothy J. Tobias]], American pianist and composer (d. 2006)
*[[1953]] &ndash; [[Lawrence Gonzi]], Maltese lawyer and politician, 12th [[Prime Minister of Malta]]
*  1953   &ndash; [[Mike Haynes (cornerback)|Mike Haynes]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Mike Haynes |url=https://www.profootballhof.com/players/mike-haynes/ |publisher=[[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] |access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref>
*  1953   &ndash; [[Jadranka Kosor]], Croatian journalist and politician, 9th [[Prime Minister of Croatia]]
*[[1954]] &ndash; [[Keith Whitley]], American singer and guitarist (d. 1989)
*[[1954]] &ndash; [[Hossein Nuri]], Iranian artist and director<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iribnews.ir/fa/news/2512078|publisher=IRIB News Agency|title=Hossein Nuri|language=fa|access-date=Oct 19, 2021}}</ref>
*[[1955]] &ndash; [[Nikolai Demidenko]], Russian pianist and educator
*  1955   &ndash; [[Li Keqiang]], Chinese economist and politician, 7th [[Premier of the People's Republic of China]] (d. 2023)
*  1955   &ndash; [[Lisa Scottoline]], American lawyer and author
*  1955   &ndash; [[Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi]], Tongan politician and military officer, Deputy Prime Minister (d. 2021)<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Manase Lua|first=Pakilau|date=2021-12-18|title=Obituary: Lord Ma'afu, deputy prime minister of Tonga, a chief who truly loved his people|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/127309625/obituary-lord-maafu-deputy-prime-minister-of-tonga-a-chief-who-truly-loved-his-people|access-date=2021-12-19|website=Stuff|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1956]] &ndash; [[Alan Ruck]], American actor<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lavin |first1=Cheryl |title=Alan Ruck |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-10-31-9910310293-story.html |publisher=[[Chicago Tribune]] |access-date=29 June 2023 |date=31 October 1999}}</ref>
*[[1957]] &ndash; [[Lisa Blount]], American actress and producer (d. 2010)
*  1957   &ndash; [[Hannu Kamppuri]], Finnish ice hockey player
*  1957   &ndash; [[Sean O'Driscoll]], English footballer and manager
*[[1958]] &ndash; [[Jack Dyer Crouch II]], American diplomat, [[Deputy National Security Advisor (United States)|United States Deputy National Security Advisor]]
*[[1960]] &ndash; [[Michael Beattie (rugby league)|Michael Beattie]], Australian rugby league player and coach
*  1960   &ndash; [[Lynn Jennings]], American runner
*  1960   &ndash; [[Evelyn "Champagne" King]], American soul/disco singer
*  1960   &ndash; [[Kevin Swords]], American rugby player
*[[1961]] &ndash; [[Malcolm Elliott]], English cyclist
*  1961   &ndash; [[Ivan Kaye]], English actor
*  1961   &ndash; [[Carl Lewis]], American long jumper and runner<ref>{{cite web |title=Carl Lewis {{!}} Biography, Olympic Medals, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Lewis |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=26 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*  1961   &ndash; [[Diana, Princess of Wales]] (d. 1997)<ref>{{cite web |title=Diana, princess of Wales {{!}} Biography, Marriage, Children, & Death |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Diana-princess-of-Wales |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=26 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*  1961   &ndash; [[Michelle Wright]], Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
*[[1962]] &ndash; [[Andre Braugher]], American actor (d. 2023)<ref>{{cite web |title=Andre Braugher, star of 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' and 'Men of a Certain Age,' dies at 61 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-12-12/andre-braugher-dead-brooklyn-nine-nine |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=13 December 2023 |date=13 December 2023}}</ref>
*  1962   &ndash; [[Mokhzani Mahathir]], Malaysian businessman
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[Roddy Bottum]], American singer and keyboard player
*  1963   &ndash; [[Nick Giannopoulos]], Australian actor
*  1963   &ndash; [[David Wood (environmental campaigner)|David Wood]], American lawyer and environmentalist (d. 2006)
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[Bernard Laporte]], French rugby player and coach
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Carl Fogarty]], English motorcycle racer
*  1965   &ndash; [[Garry Schofield]], English rugby player and coach
*  1965   &ndash; [[Harald Zwart]], Norwegian director and producer
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[Enrico Annoni]], Italian footballer and coach
*  1966   &ndash; [[Shawn Burr]], Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2013)
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Pamela Anderson]], Canadian-American model and actress
*[[1969]] &ndash; [[Séamus Egan]], American-Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
*[[1971]] &ndash; [[Missy Elliott]], American rapper, producer, dancer and actress
*  1971   &ndash; [[Julianne Nicholson]], American actress
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[Jefferson Pérez]], Ecuadorian race walker
*[[1975]] &ndash; [[Sean Colson]], American basketball player and coach
*  1975   &ndash; [[Sufjan Stevens]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist
*[[1976]] &ndash; [[Patrick Kluivert]], Dutch footballer and coach
*  1976   &ndash; [[Hannu Tihinen]], Finnish footballer
*  1976   &ndash; [[Albert Torrens]], Australian rugby league player
*  1976   &ndash; [[Ruud van Nistelrooy]], Dutch footballer and manager
*  1976   &ndash; [[Szymon Ziółkowski]], Polish hammer thrower
*[[1977]] &ndash; [[Tom Frager]], Senegalese-French singer-songwriter and guitarist
*  1977   &ndash; [[Keigo Hayashi]], Japanese musician
*  1977   &ndash; [[Jarome Iginla]], Canadian ice hockey player
*  1977   &ndash; [[Liv Tyler]], American actress<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gomez |first1=Shirley |title=Eva Mendes congratulates bestie Liv Tyler on her 44th birthday |date=2 July 2021 |url=https://www.hola.com/us/celebrities/20211125312187/eva-mendes-congratulates-bestieliv-tyler-on-her-44th-birthday/ |publisher=[[¡Hola!]] |access-date=23 June 2022}}</ref>
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Forrest Griffin]], American mixed martial artist and actor
*[[1980]] &ndash; [[Nelson Cruz]], Dominican-American baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Players born on July 1 |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/birthdays.cgi?date=07-01 |website=Baseball Reference |access-date=1 July 2022}}</ref>
*[[1981]] &ndash; [[Carlo Del Fava]], South African-Italian rugby player
*  1981   &ndash; [[Tadhg Kennelly]], Irish-Australian footballer
*[[1982]] &ndash; [[Justin Huber]], Australian baseball player
*  1982   &ndash; [[Joachim Johansson]], Swedish tennis player
*  1982   &ndash; [[Adrian Ward (American football)|Adrian Ward]], American football player
*  1982   &ndash; [[Fedi Nuril]], Indonesian actor, model, and musician<ref>{{Cite web |last=Detikcom |first=Tim |title=Fedi Nuril Kisahkan Ditahan Tentara Israel dan Jelaskan Pelanggaran HAM |url=https://hot.detik.com/celeb/d-5582165/fedi-nuril-kisahkan-ditahan-tentara-israel-dan-jelaskan-pelanggaran-ham |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=detikhot |language=id-ID}}</ref>
*  1982   &ndash; [[Hilarie Burton]], American actress
*[[1983]] &ndash; [[Leeteuk]], South Korean singer and entertainer<ref name="leeteuk">{{cite web |url=https://m.100.daum.net/encyclopedia/view/33XXXXX24682 |work=Daum |date=15 February 1974 |access-date=December 31, 2019 |language=ko |script-title=ko:이특 |trans-title=Leeteuk |archive-date=December 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231124302/https://m.100.daum.net/encyclopedia/view/33XXXXX24682 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1984]] &ndash; [[Donald Thomas (athlete)|Donald Thomas]], Bahamian high jumper
*[[1985]] &ndash; [[Chris Perez (baseball)|Chris Perez]], American baseball player
*  1985   &ndash; [[Léa Seydoux]], French actor<ref>{{cite web |title=French Cinema: Profile of Actress Léa Seydoux |url=https://francetoday.com/culture/cinema-film/french-cinema-profile-of-actress-lea-seydoux/ |publisher=[[France Magazine]] |access-date=29 June 2023 |date=26 April 2022}}</ref>
*[[1986]] &ndash; [[Charlie Blackmon]], American baseball player
*  1986   &ndash; [[Andrew Lee (Australian footballer)|Andrew Lee]], Australian footballer
*  1986   &ndash; [[Julian Prochnow]], German footballer
*[[1987]] &ndash; [[Michael Schrader]], German decathlete
*[[1988]] &ndash; [[Dedé (footballer, born 1988)|Dedé]], Brazilian footballer
*  1988   &ndash; [[Aleksander Lesun]], Russian modern pentathlete
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Kent Bazemore]], American basketball player
*  1989   &ndash; [[Hannah Murray]], English actress<ref>{{cite web |last1=Buchreitz Jensen |first1=Amalie |title=Mandagsmuse: Hannah Murray |url=https://www.elle.dk/mode/celebrity-style/mandagsmuse-hannah-murray |publisher=[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]] |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=Danish |date=20 July 2015}}</ref>
*  1989   &ndash; [[Daniel Ricciardo]], Australian race car driver
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Lucas Vázquez]], Spanish footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Lucas Vázquez |url=https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/174967/lucas-vazquez |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref>
*  1991   &ndash; [[Michael Wacha]], American baseball player
*[[1992]] &ndash; [[Aaron Sanchez (baseball)|Aaron Sanchez]], American baseball player
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[Chloé Paquet]], French tennis player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chloe Paquet {{!}} Player Stats & More – WTA Official |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/318839/chloe-paquet |access-date=2022-10-17 |website=Women's Tennis Association |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1995]] &ndash; [[Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo]], Belgian footballer
*  1995   &ndash; [[Savvy Shields]], [[Miss America 2017]]
*[[1996]] &ndash; [[Adelina Sotnikova]], Russian figure skater<ref>{{cite web |title=Russian Olympic skating champion Adelina Sotnikova retires |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2020/03/02/figure-skating/russian-olympic-skating-champion-adelina-sotnikova-retires/#.XpB5Zbco-DY |website=The Japan Times Online |access-date=10 April 2020 |date=2 March 2020}}</ref>
*[[1998]] &ndash; [[Chloe Bailey]], American singer-songwriter and actress<ref>{{cite web |title=Beyonce celebrates Chloe Bailey's 23rd birthday |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/858923-beyonce-celebrates-chloe-baileys-23rd-birthday |publisher=[[The News International]] |access-date=29 June 2023 |date=4 July 2021}}</ref>
*  1998   &ndash; [[Susan Bandecchi]], Swiss tennis player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Susan Bandecchi {{!}} Player Stats & More – WTA Official |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/321032/susan-bandecchi |access-date=2022-10-23 |website=Women's Tennis Association |language=en}}</ref>
*  1998   &ndash; [[Aleksandra Golovkina]], Lithuanian figure skater<ref>{{cite web |title=Aleksandra Golovkina - Player Profile - Figure Skating |url=https://www.eurosport.co.uk/figure-skating/aleksandra-golovkina_prs417186/person.shtml |website=Eurosport UK |access-date=10 April 2020}}</ref>
*[[2000]] &ndash; [[Lalu Muhammad Zohri]], Indonesian sprinter<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/indonesia/lalu-muhammad-zohri-373792|title=IAAF: Lalu Muhammad ZOHRI - Profile|website=iaaf.org}}</ref>
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[Chosen Jacobs]], American actor and singer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/chosen-jacobs/20514605/main/|title=Chosen Jacobs|website=www.moviefone.com|language=en|access-date=2018-07-05}}</ref>
*[[2003]] &ndash; [[Tate McRae]], Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-01-01|title=You Should Know: Tate McRae|url=https://www.dancespirit.com/know-tate-mcrae-2326508914.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127084125/http://www.dancespirit.com/know-tate-mcrae-2326508914.html|archive-date=2017-11-27|access-date=2021-07-01|website=Dance Spirit|language=en}}</ref>
*  2003   &ndash; [[Storm Reid]], American actress<ref>{{cite web |last1=Greenfield |first1=Jacquelyn |title='Euphoria' star Storm Reid just dropped her own swim line with Pac Sun |url=https://www.nylon.com/fashion/storm-reid-swim-line-pacsun-arashiblu |publisher=[[Nylon (magazine)|Nylon]] |access-date=29 June 2023 |date=1 July 2021}}</ref>
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==Deaths==
===Pre-1600===
* [[552]] &ndash; [[Totila]], Ostrogoth king
* [[992]] &ndash; [[Queen Heonjeong|Heonjeong]], Korean queen (b. 966)
*[[1109]] &ndash; [[Alfonso VI of León and Castile|Alfonso VI]], king of León and Castile (b. 1040)
*[[1224]] &ndash; [[Hōjō Yoshitoki]], regent of the [[Kamakura shogunate]] of Japan (b. 1163)
*[[1242]] &ndash; [[Chagatai Khan]], Mongol ruler (b. 1183)
*[[1277]] &ndash; [[Baibars]], Egyptian sultan (b. 1223)
*[[1287]] &ndash; [[Narathihapate]], Burmese king (b. 1238)<ref name=yt-1>(Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 149, footnote 3) of {{cite book | author=Maha Sithu | author-link=Maha Sithu of Twinthin | title=[[Yazawin Thit]] | publisher=Ya-Pyei Publishing | location=Yangon |orig-year=1798 | year=2012 |edition=2nd | language=my | volume=1–3 | editor1=Kyaw Win |editor2=Thein Hlaing}}</ref>
*[[1321]] &ndash; [[María de Molina]], queen of Castile and León
*[[1348]] &ndash; [[Joan of England (1335–1348)|Joan]], English princess
*[[1555]] &ndash; [[John Bradford]], English [[English Reformation|reformer]], [[prebendary]] of [[Old St Paul's Cathedral|St. Paul's]] (b. 1510)
*[[1589]] &ndash; [[Lady Saigō]], Japanese concubine (b. 1552)
*[[1592]] &ndash; [[Marc'Antonio Ingegneri]], Italian composer and educator (b. 1535)
===1601–1900===
*[[1614]] &ndash; [[Isaac Casaubon]], French philologist and scholar (b. 1559)
*[[1622]] &ndash; [[William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle]], English politician (b. 1575)
*[[1681]] &ndash; [[Oliver Plunkett]], Irish archbishop and saint (b. 1629)
*[[1736]] &ndash; [[Ahmed III]], Ottoman sultan (b. 1673)
*[[1749]] &ndash; [[William Jones (mathematician)|William Jones]], Welsh mathematician and academic (b. 1675)<ref>{{cite DWB |title=JONES, WILLIAM (1675?-1749), mathematician |id=s-JONE-WIL-1675 |access-date=27 October 2021}}</ref>
*[[1774]] &ndash; [[Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland]], English politician, [[Secretary of State for the Southern Department]] (b. 1705)
*[[1782]] &ndash; [[Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham]], English politician, [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]] (b. 1730)<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/charles-watson-wentworth-2nd-marquess-of-rockingham |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=1 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1784]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], German composer (b. 1710)<ref>{{cite web |title=Wilhelm Friedemann Bach {{!}} German composer {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Friedemann-Bach |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=9 July 2023 |language=en |date=27 June 2023}}</ref>
*[[1787]] &ndash; [[Charles, Prince of Soubise|Charles de Rohan]], French marshal (b. 1715)
*[[1819]] &ndash; The [[Public Universal Friend]], American evangelist (b. 1752)<ref>{{cite book|last=Wisbey|first=Herbert A. Jr|orig-year=1965|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nu_Kk0mwm00C|title=Pioneer Prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0-8014-7551-1|year=2009}}, p. 163; Moyer, Paul B. ''The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America.'' Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015, p. 243</ref>
*[[1839]] &ndash; [[Mahmud II]], Ottoman sultan (b. 1785)
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Charles Goodyear]], American chemist and engineer (b. 1800)
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[John F. Reynolds]], American general (b. 1820)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Allan Pinkerton]], Scottish-American detective and spy (b. 1819)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]], American author and activist (b. 1811)
===1901–present===
*[[1905]] &ndash; [[John Hay]], American journalist and politician, 37th [[United States Secretary of State]] (b. 1838)
*[[1912]] &ndash; [[Harriet Quimby]], American pilot and screenwriter (b. 1875)
*[[1925]] &ndash; [[Erik Satie]], French pianist and composer (b. 1866)
*[[1934]] &ndash; [[Ernst Röhm]], German paramilitary commander (b. 1887)
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich]], Irish writer (b. 1857)
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[Willem Arondeus]], Dutch artist, author and anti-Nazi resistance fighter (b. 1894)
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[Carl Mayer]], Austrian-English screenwriter (b. 1894)
*  1944   &ndash; [[Tanya Savicheva]], Russian author (b. 1930)
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[Achille Varzi]], Italian race car driver (b. 1904)
*[[1950]] &ndash; [[Émile Jaques-Dalcroze]], Swiss composer and educator (b. 1865)
*  1950   &ndash; [[Eliel Saarinen]], Finnish-American architect, co-designed the [[National Museum of Finland]] (b. 1873)
*[[1951]] &ndash; [[Tadeusz Borowski]], Polish poet, novelist and journalist (b. 1922)
*[[1961]] &ndash; [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]], French physician and author (b. 1894)
*[[1962]] &ndash; [[Purushottam Das Tandon]], Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1882)
*  1962   &ndash; [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]], Indian physician and politician, 2nd [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]] (b. 1882)
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[Pierre Monteux]], French-American viola player and conductor (b. 1875)
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Wally Hammond]], English cricketer (b. 1903)
*  1965   &ndash; [[Robert Ruark]], American journalist and author (b. 1915)
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[Frank Verner]], American runner (b. 1883)
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Gerhard Ritter]], German historian and academic (b. 1888)
*[[1968]] &ndash; [[Fritz Bauer]], German judge and politician (b. 1903)
*[[1971]] &ndash; [[William Lawrence Bragg]], Australian-English physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1890)
*  1971   &ndash; [[Learie Constantine]], Trinidadian-English cricketer, lawyer and politician (b. 1901)
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[Juan Perón]], Argentinian general and politician, [[President of Argentina]] (b. 1895)
*[[1978]] &ndash; [[Kurt Student]], German general and pilot (b. 1890)
*[[1981]] &ndash; [[Carlos de Oliveira]], Portuguese author and poet (b. 1921)
*[[1983]] &ndash; [[Buckminster Fuller]], American architect, designed the [[Montreal Biosphère]] (b. 1895)
*[[1984]] &ndash; [[Moshé Feldenkrais]], Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (b. 1904)
*[[1990]] &ndash; [[Jurriaan Schrofer]], Dutch sculptor, designer and educator (b. 1926)<ref name="rkd">"[https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/Schrofer%2C%20Jurriaan Jurriaan Schrofer]" (in Dutch), ''[[Netherlands Institute for Art History]]''. Retrieved 3 April 2022.</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Michael Landon]], American actor, director and producer (b. 1936)
*[[1992]] &ndash; [[Franco Cristaldi]], Italian screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[Merriam Modell]], American author (b. 1908)
*[[1995]] &ndash; [[Wolfman Jack]], American radio host (b. 1938)
*  1995   &ndash; [[Ian Parkin]], English guitarist ([[Be-Bop Deluxe]]) (b. 1950)
*[[1996]] &ndash; [[William T. Cahill]], American lawyer and politician, 46th [[Governor of New Jersey]] (b. 1904)
*  1996   &ndash; [[Margaux Hemingway]], American model and actress (b. 1954)
*  1996   &ndash; [[Steve Tesich]], Serbian-American author and screenwriter (b. 1942)
*[[1997]] &ndash; [[Robert Mitchum]], American actor (b. 1917)
*  1997   &ndash; [[Charles Werner]], American cartoonist (b. 1909)
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[Edward Dmytryk]], Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1908)
*  1999   &ndash; [[Forrest Mars Sr.]], American businessman, creator of [[M&M's]] and the [[Mars (chocolate bar)|Mars chocolate bar]] (b. 1904)
*  1999   &ndash; [[Sylvia Sidney]], American actress (b. 1910)
*  1999   &ndash; [[Sola Sierra]], Chilean human rights activist (b. 1935)<ref>{{cite news|first=Nick|last=Caistor|title=Sola Sierra|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|url=https://amp.theguardian.com/news/1999/jul/07/guardianobituaries|date=1999-07-07|access-date=2021-07-03}}</ref>
*[[2000]] &ndash; [[Walter Matthau]], American actor (b. 1920)
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[Nikolay Basov]], Russian physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1922)
*  2001   &ndash; [[Jean-Louis Rosier]], French race car driver (b. 1925)
*[[2003]] &ndash; [[Herbie Mann]], American flute player and saxophonist (b. 1930)
*[[2004]] &ndash; [[Peter Barnes (playwright)|Peter Barnes]], English playwright and screenwriter (b. 1931)
*  2004   &ndash; [[Marlon Brando]], American actor and director (b. 1924)
*  2004   &ndash; [[Todor Skalovski]], Macedonian composer and conductor (b. 1909)
*[[2005]] &ndash; [[Renaldo Benson]], American singer-songwriter ([[Four Tops]]) (b. 1936)
*  2005   &ndash; [[Gus Bodnar]], Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1923)
*  2005   &ndash; [[Luther Vandross]], American singer-songwriter and producer ([[Change (band)|Change]]) (b. 1951)
*[[2006]] &ndash; [[Ryutaro Hashimoto]], Japanese politician, 53rd [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. 1937)
*  2006   &ndash; [[Robert Lepikson]], Estonian race car driver and politician, [[Minister of the Interior (Estonia)|Estonian Minister of the Interior]] (b. 1952)
*  2006   &ndash; [[Fred Trueman]], English cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1931)
*[[2008]] &ndash; [[Mel Galley]], English guitarist (b. 1948)
*[[2009]] &ndash; [[Karl Malden]], American actor (b. 1912)
*  2009   &ndash; [[Onni Palaste]], Finnish soldier and author (b. 1917)
*  2009   &ndash; [[Mollie Sugden]], English actress (b. 1922)
*[[2010]] &ndash; [[Don Coryell]], American football player and coach (b. 1924)
*  2010   &ndash; [[Arnold Friberg]], American painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
*  2010   &ndash; [[Ilene Woods]], American actress and singer (b. 1929)
*[[2012]] &ndash; [[Peter E. Gillquist]], American priest and author (b. 1938)
*  2012   &ndash; [[Ossie Hibbert]], Jamaican-American keyboard player and producer (b. 1950)
*  2012   &ndash; [[Evelyn Lear]], American operatic soprano (b. 1926)
*  2012   &ndash; [[Alan G. Poindexter]], American captain, pilot and astronaut (b. 1961)<ref>{{cite book |last1=O'Sullivan |first1=John |title=Japanese Missions to the International Space Station: Hope from the East |date=2019 |publisher=Springer Praxis Books |location=Cham, Switzerland |isbn=9783030045340 |page=260}}</ref>
*  2012   &ndash; [[Jack Richardson (writer)|Jack Richardson]], American author and playwright (b. 1934)
*[[2013]] &ndash; [[Sidney Bryan Berry]], American general (b. 1926)
*  2013   &ndash; [[Charles Foley (inventor)|Charles Foley]], American game designer, co-creator of [[Twister (game)|Twister]] (b. 1930)
*  2013   &ndash; [[William H. Gray (Pennsylvania politician)|William H. Gray]], American minister and politician (b. 1941)
*[[2014]] &ndash; [[Jean Garon]], Canadian economist, lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
*  2014   &ndash; [[Stephen Gaskin]], American activist, co-founder of [[The Farm (Tennessee)|The Farm]] (b. 1935)
*  2014   &ndash; [[Bob Jones (police commissioner)|Bob Jones]], English lawyer and politician (b. 1955)
*  2014   &ndash; [[Anatoly Kornukov]], Ukrainian-Russian general (b. 1942)
*  2014   &ndash; [[Walter Dean Myers]], American author and poet (b. 1937)
*[[2015]] &ndash; [[Val Doonican]], Irish singer and television host (b. 1927)
*  2015   &ndash; [[Czesław Olech]], Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1931)
*  2015   &ndash; [[Nicholas Winton]], English lieutenant and humanitarian (b. 1909)
*[[2016]] &ndash; [[Robin Hardy (film director)|Robin Hardy]], English author and film director (b. 1929)
*[[2019]] &ndash; [[Bogusław Schaeffer]], Polish composer (b. 1929)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://polskieradio.pl/art4933_2333823|title=Bogusław Schaeffer nie żyje|website=PolskieRadio.pl|access-date=2019-07-01}}</ref>
*[[2021]] &ndash; [[Louis Andriessen]], Dutch composer (b. 1939)<ref>{{cite web|last=Huizenga|first=Tom|title=Louis Andriessen, Influential, Iconoclastic Dutch Composer, Dies At Age 82|website=WVTF|date=2021-07-01|url=https://www.wvtf.org/post/louis-andriessen-influential-iconoclastic-dutch-composer-dies-age-82|access-date=2021-07-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Fonseca-Wollheim|first=Corinna da|title=Louis Andriessen, Lionized Composer With Radical Roots, Dies at 82|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2021-07-01|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/arts/music/louis-andriessen-dead.html|access-date=2021-07-02}}</ref>
*[[2023]] &ndash; [[Dilano van 't Hoff]], Dutch race car driver (b. 2004)<ref>{{cite web|last=Jackson|first=Kieran|title=Dutch driver Dilano van 't Hoff, 18, dies after tragic accident in junior race at Spa|website=[[The Independent]]|date=2023-07-01|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/dilano-vant-hoff-spa-francorchamps-formula-regional-b2367747.html|access-date=2023-07-02}}</ref>
*[[2024]] &ndash; [[Ismail Kadare]], Albanian novelist (b. 1936)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sulaj |first1=Vlasov |last2=Semini |first2=Llazar |title=Albania's world-renowned novelist Ismail Kadare dies at 88 |url=https://apnews.com/article/albania-ismail-kadare-obituary-47542ac3c4a8c6e734c17f34ea7ae9ea |work=AP News |date=1 July 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
*2024 &ndash; [[Robert Towne]], American screenwriter (b. 1934)<ref>{{Cite web |last=McLellan|first=Dennis|title=Robert Towne, Oscar-winning screenwriting icon behind 'Chinatown,' dies at 89
|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-07-02/robert-towne-dead-chinatown-screenwriter|date=July 2, 2024|access-date=July 2, 2024 |website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
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==Holidays and observances==
*Christian [[feast day]]:
**[[Aaron]] ([[Syriac Christianity]])
**[[Beatification|Blessed]] [[Antonio Rosmini-Serbati]]
**[[Felix of Como]]
**[[Junípero Serra]]
**[[Julius and Aaron]]
**[[Leontius of Autun]]
**[[Saint Serf|Servanus]]
**[[Saint Veep|Veep]]
**[[July 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]]
**[[Feast of the Most Precious Blood|Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ]] (removed from official [[Roman Catholic]] calendar since 1969)
*[[Armed Forces Day (Singapore)]]
*[[Bobby Bonilla]] Day (United States)
*[[Canada Day]], formerly [[Dominion Day]] (Canada)
*[[Children's Day (Pakistan)]]
*[[Chinese Communist Party|Chinese Communist Party Founding Day]] (China)
*[[Day of Officials and Civil Servants]] ([[Hungary]])
*[[Doctors' Day]] (India)
*[[Emancipation Day]] ([[Sint Maarten]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Public Holiday Schedule|url=http://www.sintmaartengov.org/government/VSA/labour/Pages/Public-Holiday-Schedule.aspx|access-date=2022-01-30|website=www.sintmaartengov.org}}</ref> and [[Sint Eustatius]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-13|title=Adopted motion: Emancipation Day July 1st official holiday - Decree, order or decision - St. Eustatius|url=https://www.statiagovernment.com/documents/decrees-orders-and-decisions/2021/01/13/adopted-motion-emancipation-day-july-1st-official-holiday|access-date=2022-01-30|website=www.statiagovernment.com|language=en-GB}}</ref>)
*[[Engineer's Day]] ([[Bahrain]], [[Mexico]])
*[[Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day]] ([[Hong Kong]], China)
*[[Independence Day (Burundi)]], celebrates the independence of [[Burundi]] from Belgium in 1962.
*[[Independence Day (Rwanda)]]
*[[Independence Day (Somalia)]]
*[[International Tartan Day]]
*[[July Morning]] ([[Bulgaria]])
*[[Keti Koti]] ([[Emancipation Day]]) ([[Suriname]])
*[[Madeira Day]] ([[Madeira]], Portugal)
*[[Moving Day (Quebec)]] (Canada)
*[[Newfoundland and Labrador Memorial Day]]
*[[Republic Day (Ghana)]]
*[[RONPhos]] Handover Day ([[Nauru]])<ref>{{cite web |last=|first=|url=https://www.loopnauru.com/nauru-news/nauru-public-holiday-commemorate-%E2%80%9Cronphos-handover%E2%80%9D-101718|title=Nauru public holiday to commemorate "RONPHOS Handover"|work=Loop Nauru|date=28 June 2021|accessdate=22 July 2023}}</ref><ref name = "days">{{cite web |last=|first=|url=https://www.nauru.gov.nr/about-nauru/national-days.aspx|title=National Days|publisher=Republic of Nauru|accessdate=22 July 2023}}</ref>
*[[Sir Seretse Khama Day]] ([[Botswana]])
*[[Territory Day (British Virgin Islands)]]
*[[Territory Day (Northern Territory)|Territory Day (Northern Territory, Australia)]]<ref name=":12">{{Cite news |last=Perera |first=Alicia |date=2022-06-30 |title='Final frontier': The last place in Australia you can buy and blow up explosives, for one day |language=en-AU |work=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-01/why-the-nt-allows-public-fireworks-use-on-territory-day-july-1/101174064 |access-date=2022-07-01}}</ref>
*The first day of [[Van Mahotsav]], celebrated until July 7. (India)
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==External links==
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* {{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/1 |title=On This Day |publisher=BBC}}
* {{NYT On this day|month=07|day=01}}
* {{cite web |url=https://www.onthisday.com/events/july/1 |title=Historical Events on July 1 |publisher=OnThisDay.com}}
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