July 7

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.

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 bombings on London's transport system. In the Chinese language, 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 heresy 25 years after her death.
• 1520 – Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
• 1534 – European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in New Brunswick.
• 1543 – French troops invade Luxembourg.
• 1575 – Raid of the Redeswire, the last major battle between England and Scotland.
• 1585 – The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
• 1770 – The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
• 1798 – Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the "war".
• 1807 – Napoleonic Wars: the Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the War of the Fourth Coalition.
• 1834 – In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
• 1846 – Mexican–American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. acquisition of California.
• 1863 – United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
• 1865 – American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
• 1892 – Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established, contributing to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia.
• 1898 – U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
• 1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
• 1911 – The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
• 1915 – World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo.
• 1915 – An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
• 1915 – Militia officer Henry Pedris executed by firing squad at Colombo, Ceylon - an act widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities.
• 1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
• 1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
• 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge – Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
• 1941 – World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation.
• 1941 – World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
• 1944 – World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
• 1946 – Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
• 1946 – Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
• 1947 – The Roswell incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
• 1952 – The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
• 1953 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
• 1954 – Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right."
• 1956 – Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
• 1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
• 1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
• 1978 – The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom
• 1980 – Institution of sharia in Iran.
• 1980 – During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
• 1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1983 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
• 1985 – Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17
• 1991 – Yugoslav Wars: the Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 1997 – The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
• 2002 – A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al-Qaeda leader.
• 2003 – NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover – B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
• 2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system killing 56 people including four alleged suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.
• 2012 – At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
• 2013 – A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing 10 people.

Births

• 1053 – Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
• 1119 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
• 1207 – Elizabeth of Hungary (d. 1231)
• 1528 – Archduchess Anna of Austria (d. 1590)
• 1586 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier (d. 1646)
• 1656 – Guru Har Krishan, Indian eighth of the eleven Sikh Gurus (d. 1664)
• 1752 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French merchant, invented the Jacquard loom (d. 1834)
• 1766 – Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (d. 1815)
• 1833 – Félicien Rops, Belgian painter and illustrator (d. 1898)
• 1843 – Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
• 1846 – Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian nationalist leader, doctor and author (d. 1916)
• 1848 – Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician, 5th President of Brazil (d. 1919)
• 1851 – Charles Albert Tindley, American minister and composer (d. 1933)
• 1855 – Ludwig Ganghofer, German author (d. 1920)
• 1860 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911)
• 1874 – Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
• 1880 – Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer, invented sliced bread (d. 1960)
• 1884 – Lion Feuchtwanger, German playwright (d. 1958)
• 1887 – Marc Chagall, Russian painter (d. 1985)
• 1891 – Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese general (d. 1945)
• 1891 – Virginia Rappe, American model and actress (d. 1921)
• 1893 – Herbert Feis, American author (d. 1972)
• 1893 – Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1981)
• 1898 – Arnold Horween, American football player (d. 1985)
• 1899 – George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
• 1900 – Earle E. Partridge, American general (d. 1990)
• 1901 – Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and director (d. 1974)
• 1901 – Sam Katzman, American director and producer (d. 1973)
• 1901 – Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese cinematographer and producer (d. 1970)
• 1903 – Ralph Tarrant, English super-centenarian (d. 2013)
• 1902 – Ted Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1904 – Simone Beck, French chef and author (d. 1991)
• 1906 – William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician (d. 1970)
• 1906 – Anna Marie Hahn, German-American serial killer (d. 1938)
• 1906 – Anton Karas, Austrian zither player (d. 1985)
• 1906 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
• 1907 – Robert A. Heinlein, American author (d. 1988)
• 1908 – Revilo P. Oliver, American academic and author (d. 1994)
• 1910 – Doris McCarthy, Canadian painter (d. 2010)
• 1911 – Gretchen Franklin, English actress (d. 2005)
• 1911 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-American composer (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Pinetop Perkins, American singer and pianist (d. 2011)
• 1915 – Margaret Walker, American author and poet (d. 1998)
• 1917 – Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadoran general and politician, President of El Salvador (d. 2003)
• 1919 – Jon Pertwee, English actor (d. 1996)
• 1920 – Bhaktaraj Maharaj, Indian saint (d. 1995)
• 1921 – Ezzard Charles, American boxer (d. 1975)
• 1921 – Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
• 1922 – Alan Armer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1923 – Liviu Ciulei, Romanian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
• 1923 – Eduardo Falú, Argentinian guitarist and composer (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
• 1924 – Eddie Romero, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Abdul Razak Abdul Hamid, Malaysian academic (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Gely Korzhev, Russian painter (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Wally Phillips, American radio host (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Charlie Louvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Louvin Brothers) (d. 2011)
• 1927 – Doc Severinsen, American trumpet player
• 1929 – Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
• 1930 – John Little, Scottish footballer
• 1930 – Theodore Edgar McCarrick, American cardinal
• 1930 – Hank Mobley, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1986)
• 1931 – David Eddings, American author (d. 2009)
• 1932 – T. J. Bass, American physician and author (d. 2011)
• 1932 – Joe Zawinul, Austrian-American keyboard player and composer (Weather Report) (d. 2007)
• 1933 – Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner
• 1933 – David McCullough, American historian and author
• 1933 – Bruce Wells, English boxer and actor (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Catherine Genovese, American murder victim (d. 1964)
• 1936 – Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver (d. 1971)
• 1936 – Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
• 1937 – Tung Chee Hwa, Hong Kong businessman and politician, 1st Chief Executive of Hong Kong
• 1940 – Ringo Starr, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (The Beatles, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, and Plastic Ono Band)
• 1941 – Marco Bollesan, Italian rugby player and coach
• 1941 – Nancy Farmer, American author
• 1941 – Michael Howard, Welsh politician
• 1941 – Bill Oddie, English comedian and actor
• 1941 – Jim Rodford, English bass player (The Kinks, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Zombies, The Kast Off Kinks, and Argent)
• 1942 – Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
• 1943 – Toto Cutugno, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1943 – Joel Siegel, American journalist and critic (d. 2007)
• 1944 – Tony Jacklin, English golfer
• 1944 – Emanuel Steward, American boxer and trainer (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Michael Ancram, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
• 1945 – Matti Salminen, Finnish opera singer
• 1946 – Joe Spano, American actor
• 1947 – David Hodo, American singer and actor (Village People)
• 1947 – Víctor Manuel, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1947 – Gyanendra of Nepal
• 1947 – Howard Rheingold, American author and critic
• 1947 – Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat
• 1947 – Rob Townsend, English drummer (Family, The Blues Band, The Manfreds, and Axis Point)
• 1948 – Jean Leclerc, Canadian actor
• 1949 – Shelley Duvall, American actress and producer
• 1951 – Tom Fox, American activist (d. 2006)
• 1952 – Mando Guerrero, Mexican-American wrestler and stuntman
• 1954 – Pam Bricker, American singer (d. 2005)
• 1954 – Sandy Johnson, American model and actress
• 1954 – Rami Fortis, Israeli singer (Minimal Compact)
• 1955 – Len Barker, American baseball player
• 1957 – Jonathan Dayton, American director and producer
• 1957 – Berry Sakharof, Turkish-Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist (Minimal Compact)
• 1958 – Alexander Svinin, Russian figure skater and coach
• 1959 – Billy Campbell, American actor
• 1959 – Jessica Hahn, American model and actress
• 1959 – Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)
• 1960 – Kevin A. Ford, American colonel and astronaut
• 1960 – Ralph Sampson, American basketball player and coach
• 1961 – Eric Jerome Dickey, American author
• 1963 – Vonda Shepard, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1965 – Mo Collins, American actress
• 1965 – Paula Devicq, Canadian actress
• 1965 – Jeremy Guscott, English rugby player and sportscaster
• 1965 – Sam Holbrook, American baseball umpire
• 1965 – Jeremy Kyle, English talk show host
• 1966 – Jim Gaffigan, American comedian and actor
• 1966 – Gundula Krause, German-American violinist
• 1966 – Neil Tobin, American magician
• 1967 – Tom Kristensen, Danish race car driver
• 1967 – Jackie Neal, American singer (d. 2005)
• 1968 – Amy Carlson, American actress
• 1968 – Jorja Fox, American actress
• 1968 – Allen Payne, American actor
• 1968 – Jeff VanderMeer, American author
• 1969 – Sylke Otto, German luger
• 1969 – Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 – Nathalie Simard, Canadian singer
• 1969 – Cree Summer, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and actress (Subject to Change)
• 1969 – Robin Weigert, American actress
• 1970 – Robia LaMorte, American actress and dancer
• 1970 – Wayne McCullough, Irish boxer
• 1970 – Erik Zabel, German cyclist
• 1970 – Zoë Tyler, English voice coach, cruise ship singer, performer and reality television show judge
• 1971 – Christian Camargo, American actor
• 1971 – Alistair Potts, English rower
• 1972 – Lisa Leslie, American basketball player and actress
• 1972 – Manfred Stohl, Austrian race car driver
• 1972 – Kirsten Vangsness, American actress
• 1973 – Troy Garity, American actor
• 1973 – José Jiménez, Dominican baseball player
• 1973 – Kailash Kher, Indian singer-songwriter and director
• 1973 – Matt Mantei, American baseball player
• 1973 – Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
• 1973 – Natsuki Takaya, Japanese illustrator
• 1974 – Patrick Lalime, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1974 – E.D.I. Mean, American rapper and producer (Outlawz)
• 1975 – Tony Benshoof, American luger
• 1975 – Michael Voss, Australian footballer and coach
• 1976 – Natasha Collins, English actress (d. 2008)
• 1976 – Dominic Foley, Irish footballer
• 1976 – Bérénice Bejo, Argentinian-French actress
• 1978 – Chris Andersen, American basketball player
• 1978 – Davor Kraljević, Croatian footballer
• 1979 – Carl Breeze, English race car driver
• 1979 – Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter
• 1980 – John Buck, American baseball player
• 1980 – Fyfe Dangerfield, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Guillemots and Senseless Prayer)
• 1980 – Deidre Downs, American model, Miss America 2005
• 1980 – Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
• 1980 – Dan Whitesides, American drummer (The Used and The New Transit Direction)
• 1981 – Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
• 1981 – Synyster Gates, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold and Pinkly Smooth)
• 1982 – Cassidy, American rapper, producer, and actor (Larsiny Family)
• 1982 – Mike Glita, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Senses Fail)
• 1982 – Nick Karner, American actor and director
• 1982 – Jan Laštůvka, Czech footballer
• 1982 – George Owu, Ghanaian footballer
• 1983 – Justin Davies, Australian footballer
• 1983 – Ciara Newell, Irish singer (Bellefire)
• 1984 – Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler
• 1984 – Alberto Aquilani, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1984 – Marie-Mai, Canadian singer
• 1985 – Marc Stein, German footballer
• 1986 – Ana Kasparian, American journalist and producer
• 1986 – Udo Schwarz, German rugby player
• 1987 – Julianna Guill, American actress
• 1987 – Lena Ma, Chinese-Canadian model, Miss World Canada 2009
• 1987 – Carly Telford, English footballer
• 1988 – Kaci Brown, American singer
• 1988 – Lukas Rosenthal, German rugby player
• 1988 – Ilan Rubin, American drummer (Angels & Airwaves, Nine Inch Nails, Lostprophets, Denver Harbor, and Fenix TX)
• 1988 – Jack Whitehall, English comedian and actor
• 1989 – Bii, Taiwanese singer
• 1989 – Landon Cassill, American race car driver
• 1989 – Miina Kallas, Estonian footballer
• 1989 – Kim Bum, South Korean actor and singer
• 1990 – Lee Addy, Ghanaian footballer
• 1990 – Pascal Stöger, Austrian footballer
• 1992 – Ellina Anissimova, Estonian hammer thrower
• 1992 – Toni Garrn, German model
• 1997 – Erina Ikuta, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
• 2000 – Princess Purnika of Nepal

Deaths

• 1304 – Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)
• 1307 – Edward I of England (b. 1239)
• 1537 – Madeleine of Valois (b. 1520)
• 1572 – Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (b. 1520)
• 1573 – Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect, designed the Church of the Gesu and Villa Farnese (b. 1507)
• 1593 – Mohammed Bagayogo, Malian scholar (b. 1523)
• 1647 – Thomas Hooker, English minister, founded the Colony of Connecticut (b. 1586)
• 1701 – William Stoughton, American judge and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1631)
• 1713 – Henry Compton, English bishop (b. 1632)
• 1718 – Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (b. 1690)
• 1730 – Olivier Levasseur, French pirate (b. 1690)
• 1764 – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
• 1776 – Jeremiah Markland, English scholar (b. 1693)
• 1790 – François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721)
• 1816 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1751)
• 1865 – conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
  • – George Atzerodt (b. 1833)
  • – David Herold (b. 1842)
  • – Lewis Payne (b. 1844)
  • – Mary Surratt (b. 1823)
• 1890 – Henri Nestlé, German businessman, founded Nestlé (b. 1814)
• 1901 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)
• 1913 – Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American general (b. 1841)
• 1922 – Cathal Brugha, Irish soldier and politician, 1st President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1874)
• 1925 – Clarence Hudson White American photographer (b. 1871)
• 1927 – Émile Coste, French fencer (b. 1862)
• 1927 – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
• 1930 – Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish physician and author, created Sherlock Holmes (b. 1859)
• 1932 – Alexander Grin, Russian author (b. 1880)
• 1932 – Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian and educator (b. 1844)
• 1937 – Nikolajs Švedrēvics, Latvian javelin thrower (b. 1891)
• 1939 – Deacon White, American baseball player and manager (b. 1847)
• 1942 – Thomas Xenakis, Greek gymnast (b. 1875)
• 1949 – Bunk Johnson, American trumpet player (b. 1879)
• 1950 – Fats Navarro, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1923)
• 1954 – Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter (b. 1874)
• 1956 – Gottfried Benn, German author and poet (b. 1886)
• 1960 – Francis Browne, Irish photographer (b. 1880)
• 1964 – Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower (b. 1904)
• 1965 – Moshe Sharett, Ukrainian-Israeli politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
• 1967 – Vivien Leigh, Indian-English actress and singer (b. 1913)
• 1968 – Jo Schlesser, French race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1971 – Claude Gauvreau, Canadian poet and playwright (b. 1925)
• 1971 – Ub Iwerks, American animator and director (b. 1901)
• 1972 – Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (b. 1886)
• 1972 – Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
• 1973 – Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
• 1973 – Veronica Lake, American actress and singer (b. 1919)
• 1975 – Ruffian, American race horse (b. 1972)
• 1976 – Walter Giesler, American soccer player and referee (b. 1910)
• 1978 – Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1933)
• 1980 – Dore Schary, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1981 – Peace Pilgrim, American mystic and activist (b. 1908)
• 1984 – Carl Boenish, American BASE jumper and cinematographer (b. 1941)
• 1984 – Alexander Fu, Hong Kong actor (b. 1954)
• 1984 – George Oppen, American poet (b. 1908)
• 1987 – Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist (b. 1902)
• 1987 – Hannelore Schroth, German actress (b. 1922)
• 1990 – Cazuza, Brazilian singer-songwriter (Barão Vermelho) (b. 1958)
• 1990 – Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)
• 1993 – Mia Zapata, American singer-songwriter (The Gits) (b. 1965)
• 1994 – Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1994 – Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German general (b. 1907)
• 1997 – Rosyton Tickner, English actor (b. 1992)
• 1998 – Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Nigerian businessman and politician (b. 1937)
• 1999 – Vikram Batra, Indian captain (b. 1974)
• 1999 – Julie Campbell Tatham, American author (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
• 2001 – Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 2003 – Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian conductor (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Vlado Kristl, Croatian painter, animator and director (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Syd Barrett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pink Floyd and Stars) (b. 1946)
• 2006 – Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
• 2006 – John Money, New Zealand-American psychologist and author (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Bruce Conner, American sculptor, painter, and photographer (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Dorian Leigh, American model (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Allan W. Eckert, American historian and author (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Ronaldo Cunha Lima, Brazilian poet and politician (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Mouss Diouf, Senegalese-French actor (b. 1964)
• 2012 – Dennis Flemion, American drummer (The Frogs) (b. 1955)
• 2012 – Ralph Raymond Loffmark, Canadian accountant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Doris Neal, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Jerry Norman, American sinologist and linguist (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Jimmy Tansey, English footballer (b. 1929)
• 2013 – John Bockris, South African–American chemist (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Sudhakar Bokade, Indian film producer (b. 1956)
• 2013 – Joe Conley, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2013 – MC Daleste, Brazilian rapper (b. 1992)
• 2013 – Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer (b. 1962)
• 2013 – Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, scholar, and author (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Donald J. Irwin, American politician, 32nd Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Ben Pucci, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Charles Quinn, American journalist (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Anna Wing, English actress (b. 1914)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Æthelburg of Faremoutiers
  • Illidius
  • Job of Maniava (Ukrainian Orthodox Church)
  • Willibald (Catholic Church)
  • July 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Solomon Islands from the United Kingdom in 1978.
• Ivan Kupala Day (Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)
• Saba Saba Day (Tanzania)
• Tanabata (Japan)

External links

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