Aphelion, the point in the year when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, occurs around this date.
Events
- 836 – Pactum
Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the
Duchy of Naples
- 993 – Saint Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized.
- 1054 – A supernova
is observed by the Chinese, the
Arabs and possibly Amerindians near the
star Tauri. For several months it remains
bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the
Crab Nebula.
- 1120 – Jordan
II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's
death.
- 1187 – The Crusades: Battle of Hattin
– Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
- 1253 – Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
- 1359 – Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì
surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
- 1456 – The Siege of Nándorfehérvár begins. (Part of
the Ottoman wars in
Europe)
- 1534 – Christian III is elected King of
Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
- 1569 – The King of Poland and the Grand
Duke of Lithuania, Sigismund II
Augustus finally sign the document of union between Poland and
Lithuania, creating new country known as Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth.
- 1634 – The city of
Trois-Rivières
is founded in New France,
later to become the Canadian
province of
Quebec
.
- 1636 – City of Providence
, Rhode
Island
forms.
- 1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the
Iriquois ceded lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British
colonies, is
signed in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania
.
- 1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort
Necessity
to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
- 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the
Province of New York, one of
many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts

- 1776 – American Revolution: the United States
Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress
- 1778 – American Revolutionary War:
Forces under George Clark
capture Kaskaskia
during the Illinois
campaign.
- 1802 – At West
Point
, New
York
the United States Military Academy
opens.
- 1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the
American people.
- 1810 – The French
occupy
Amsterdam
.
- 1817 – At Rome, New
York
, United
States
, construction on the Erie
Canal begins.
- 1826 – John Adams
and Thomas Jefferson, the second
and third U.S.
presidents respectively, both die on the fiftieth anniversary
of the United
States Declaration of Independence, of which they were both
signatories.
- 1827 – Slavery is abolished in New York State
.
- 1837 – Grand Junction Railway, the world's
first long-distance railway, opens between
Birmingham
and Liverpool
.
- 1838 – The Iowa
Territory is organized.
- 1840 – The Cunard Line's 700 ton wooden paddle steamer RMS
Britannia departs from Liverpool
bound for Halifax
, Nova
Scotia
on the first transatlantic crossing with a scheduled
end.
- 1845 – Near Concord,
Massachusetts
, Henry David
Thoreau embarks on a two-year experiment in simple living at
Walden
Pond
(see Walden).
- 1855 – In Brooklyn,
New York
, the first edition of Walt
Whitman's book of poems, titled
Leaves of Grass, is
published.
- 1862 – Lewis
Carroll tells Alice Liddell a
story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland and its sequels.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of
Vicksburg
– Vicksburg, Mississippi
surrenders to Ulysses
S. Grant after 47 days
of siege. 150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is
repulsed at the Battle of Helena,
Arkansas.
- 1865 – Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland is published.
- 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Zululand capital of
Ulundi
is captured
by British troops and burnt to the ground, thus, ending the war and
forcing King Cetshwayo to
flee.
- 1881 – In Alabama
, the Tuskegee Institute
opens.
- 1886 – The people of
France
offer the
Statue of
Liberty
to the people of the United States.
- 1886 – The first
scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody
, British
Columbia
.
- 1887 – The founder of
Pakistan
, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali
Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi
.
- 1892 – Western Samoa
changes the International Date Line
, so that year there were 367 days in this country,
with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
- 1894 – The short-lived
Republic of
Hawaii
is proclaimed by Sanford
B. Dole.
- 1903 – Dorothy
Levitt was reported as the first woman in the world to compete
in a 'motor race'.
- 1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer
Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race
riots across the United States
.
- 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the
Great Reunion of 1913.
- 1918 – Ottoman
sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the
throne.
- 1918 – Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family
(Julian calendar date).
- 1927 – First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
- 1934 – Leo
Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
- 1939 – Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium
that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the
face of the earth" as he announces his retirement from major league
baseball.
- 1941 – Nazi Germans
massacre Polish scientists and
writers in the captured Polish
city of
Lwów
.
- 1946 – After 381 years
of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines
attains full independence from the United States
.
- 1947 – The "Indian
Independence Bill" is presented before British
House of Commons
, suggesting bifurcation of British India into two sovereign countries –
India
and Pakistan
.
- 1950 – The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
- 1959 – With the
admission of Alaska
as the 49th
U.S. state earlier in the year, the
49-star flag of the United
States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
.
- 1960 – Due to the
post-Independence Day admission of Hawaiˈi
as the 50th U.S. state on
August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
almost ten and a half months later (see Flag
Act).
- 1961 – Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on
the Independence Day in The Rebuild Hills at Skørping
in Denmark
- 1965 – Homophile activists picket at Independence
Hall
in Philadelphia
, the first in a series of Annual Reminders of the second-class status
of LGBT people in the United
States.
- 1966 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of
Information Act into United States
law. The act goes into effect the next year.
- 1969 – Two teens (one
male, one female) are attacked at Blue Rock Springs in California
. They are the second (known) victims of the
Zodiac Killer. The male survives.
- 1969 – The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18
Ohioans
and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie
.
- 1976 – Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and
crew of an Air France jetliner seized by
Palestinian terrorists.
- 1982 – Iranian diplomats
kidnapping : four Iranian
diplomats are kidnapped by Lebanese militia in
Lebanon
.
- 1987 – In France
, former
Gestapo
chief Klaus Barbie (aka
the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and is
sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 1993 – Sumitomo
Chemical's resin plant in Nihama
explodes killing one worker and injuring three others.
- 1997 – NASA
's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface
of Mars.
- 2004 – The cornerstone
of the Freedom
Tower
is laid on the site of the World Trade
Center
in New York
City
.
- 2005 – The Deep Impact collider hits the
comet Tempel 1.
- 2006 – Space Shuttle program: STS-121 Mission – Space Shuttle Discovery
launches at 18:37:55 UTC.
- 2006
– North
Korea
tests
four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a
long-range Taepodong-2.
The
long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the
Sea of
Japan
.
- 2008 – Cross-strait charter direct flight between mainland China and Taiwan
started.
- 2009 – The Statue of
Liberty's
crown reopens to the public after 8 years, due to
security reasons following the World Trade Center attacks.
Births
- 1330 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d.
1367)
- 1546 – Murat III,
Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595)
- 1694 – Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (d.
1772)
- 1715 – Christian Fürchtegott
Gellert, German poet (d. 1769)
- 1719 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist
(d. 1797)
- 1790 – George
Everest, Welsh surveyor (d. 1866)
- 1799 – King Oscar I of Sweden, French general (d.
1859)
- 1804 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d.
1864)
- 1807 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (d.
1882)
- 1816 – Hiram
Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
- 1826 – Stephen
Foster, American songwriter (d. 1864)
- 1845 – Thomas
Barnardo, Irish humanitarian (d. 1905)
- 1847 – James Anthony Bailey, American circus
impresario (d. 1906)
- 1854 – Victor
Babeş, Romanian bacteriologist (d. 1926)
- 1867 – Stephen
Mather, American entrepreneur and conservationist (d.
1930)
- 1868 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American
astronomer (d. 1921)
- 1872 – Calvin
Coolidge, 30th President of the United
States (d. 1933)
- 1881 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (d.
1968)
- 1882 – Louis
B. Mayer, American film producer
(d. 1957)
- 1883 – Rube
Goldberg, American cartoonist (d. 1970)
- 1895 – Irving
Caesar, American lyricist and composer (d. 1996)
- 1896 – Mao Dun,
Chinese writer (d. 1981)
- 1898 – Dr. Pilar
Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian (d. 1997)
- 1898 – Gertrude Lawrence,
English-born actress (d. 1952)
- 1902 – Meyer
Lansky, Russian-born American gangster (d. 1983)
- 1902 – George Murphy, American
entertainer (d. 1992)
- 1903 – Flor
Peeters, Belgian composer, organist and teacher (d. 1986)
- 1904 – Angela
Baddeley, English actress (d. 1976)
- 1905 – Irving
Johnson, American adventurer (d. 1991)
- 1907 – Gordon
Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
- 1907 – Howard Taubman, American
music and theater critic (d. 1996)
- 1910 – Gloria
Stuart, American actress
- 1911 – Mitch
Miller, American entertainer
- 1912 – Viviane
Romance, French actress (d. 1991)
- 1916 – Iva
Toguri D'Aquino, American World War II figure (d. 2006)
- 1917 – Manolete,
Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947)
- 1918 – Ann
Landers, American advice columnist (d. 2002)
- 1918 – Abigail Van Buren,
American advice columnist
- 1918
– King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of
Tonga
(d. 2006)
- 1918 – Johnnie Parsons, American
race car driver (d. 1984)
- 1920 – Norm
Drucker, American basketball referee
- 1920 – Leona Helmsley, American
hotel operator and real estate investor (d. 2007)
- 1921 – Gerard
Debreu, French economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
- 1921 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian
violinist (d. 2003)
- 1923 – Rudolf
Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1924 – Eva Marie
Saint, American actress
- 1926 – Alfredo Di Stéfano,
Argentine-Spanish footballer
- 1927 – Gina
Lollobrigida, Italian actress
- 1927 – Neil Simon, American
playwright
- 1929 – Al Davis,
American businessman
- 1929 – Chuck Tanner, American
baseball player
- 1929 – Bill Tuttle, American
baseball player (d. 1998)
- 1930 – Frunzik
Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor
- 1930 – George Steinbrenner,
American businessman
- 1930 – Yuri Tyukalov, Soviet
Olympic rower
- 1931 – Stephen
Boyd, Northern Irish actor (d. 1977)
- 1931 – Sébastien
Japrisot, French author, film director and sreenwriter (d.
2003)
- 1932 – Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian
athlete
- 1934 – Colin
Welland, English actor
- 1935 – Paul
Scoon, Governor General of Grenada
- 1936 – Zdzisława Donat, Polish coloratura
soprano
- 1937 – Sonja
Haraldsen, Queen of Norway (spouse of King Harald V of Norway)
- 1937 – Thomas Nagel, American
philosopher
- 1938 – Bill
Withers, American singer and songwriter
- 1940 – Karolyn
Grimes, American actress
- 1941 – Brian
Willson, American peace activist
- 1942 – Hal
Lanier, American baseball player
- 1942 – Floyd Little, American
football player
- 1942 – Stefan Meller, Polish
foreign minister (d. 2008)
- 1943 – Konrad
"Conny" Bauer, German musician
- 1943 – Geraldo Rivera, American
reporter
- 1943 – Alan "Blind Owl"
Wilson, American musician (d. 1970)
- 1943 – Emerson Boozer, American
football player
- 1943 – Milan Máčala,
Czech football coach
- 1944 – Ray
Meagher, Australian actor
- 1945 – Bruce French, American actor
- 1946 – Tish
Howard, American model
- 1946 – Ron Kovic, American peace
activist
- 1946 – Michael Milken, American
financier
- 1946 – Ed O'Ross, American actor
- 1947 – Morganna
Roberts, American entertainer
- 1948 – Ed
Armbrister, baseball player
- 1948 – René Arnoux, French race
car driver
- 1948 – Tommy Körberg, Swedish
singer and actor
- 1948 – Jeremy Spencer, English
musician
- 1948 – Phil Wheatley,
Director-General of the National Offender
Management Service
- 1950 – David
Jensen, Canadian-born British radio DJ
- 1951 – Kathleen Kennedy Townsend,
American politician
- 1952 – Álvaro Uribe Vélez, President of Colombia
- 1954 – Jim
Beattie, American baseball player
- 1955 – John
Waite, English singer
- 1956 – Mark
Belling, American radio talkshow host
- 1957 – Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand
- 1957 – Rein Lang, Estonian politician
and diplomat
- 1958 – Kirk
Pengilly, Australian musician
- 1959 – Victoria
Abril, Spanish actress
- 1949 – Georgios
Voulgarakis, Greek politician
- 1960 – Sid Eudy,
American professional wrestler
- 1960 – Barry Windham, American
professional wrestler
- 1960 – Roland Ratzenberger,
Austrian racing driver (d. 1994)
- 1961 – Richard
Garriott, English video game designer
- 1962 – Neil
Morrissey, English actor
- 1962 – Pam Shriver, American former
tennis player
- 1963 – Henri
Leconte, French former tennis player
- 1963 – Matt Malley, American
musician
- 1963 – José Oquendo, Puerto
Rican baseball player
- 1964 – Cle
Kooiman, American soccer player
- 1964 – Mark Slaughter, American
singer
- 1964 – Mark Whiting, American
filmmaker and actor
- 1965 – Horace
Grant, American basketball player
- 1965 – Harvey Grant, American
basketball player
- 1965 – Jo Whiley, English radio
DJ
- 1966 – Minas
Hantzidis, Greek footballer
- 1966 – Lee Reherman, American
actor
- 1967 – Vinny
Castilla, Mexican baseball player
- 1967 – Andy Walker, Canadian
television personality
- 1967 – Rick Wilkins, American
baseball player
- 1968 – Jack Frost,
American musician
- 1969 – Todd
Marinovich, American football player
- 1970 – Tony
Vidmar, Australian former footballer
- 1971 – Andy
Creeggan, Canadian musician
- 1971 – Brendan Donnelly,
American baseball player
- 1971 – Koko, sign-language
gorilla
- 1971 – Andrew Murray, English
entrepreneur
- 1971 – Ned Zelic, Australian soccer
player
- 1972 – Nina
Badrić, Croatian singer
- 1972 – Stephen Giles, Canadian
canoer
- 1972 – William Goldsmith,
American drummer
- 1972 – Mike Knuble, Canadian hockey
player
- 1972 – Oleg Prudius, Ukrainian
professional wrestler
- 1973 – Gackt, Japanese
singer
- 1973 – Keiko Ihara, Japanese racing
driver
- 1973 – Michael Johnson,
English-born Jamaican footballer
- 1973 – Jan Magnussen, Danish
racing driver
- 1973 – Tony Popovic, Australian
soccer player
- 1974 – La'Roi
Glover, American football player
- 1974 – Adrian Griffin, American
basketball player
- 1974 – Vince Spadea, American
tennis player
- 1975 – Tania
Davis, Australian violist
- 1976 – Daijiro
Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
- 1976 – Yevgeniya
Medvedeva-Arbuzova, Russian cross-country skier
- 1977 – Jonas Kjellgren, Swedish
musician (Scar Symmetry)
- 1978 – Katia
Zygouli, Greek supermodel
- 1978 – Vicky
Kaya, Greek supermodel and actress
- 1978 – Stephen
McNally, British singer and songwriter (BBMak)
- 1978 – Emile Mpenza, Belgian
footballer
- 1978 – Becki Newton, American
actress
- 1980 – Max
Elliott Slade, American film actor
- 1981 – Francisco Cruceta, Dominican baseball
player
- 1982 – Hannah
Harper,English porn star
- 1983 – Isabeli
Fontana, Brazilian model
- 1983 – Ben Jorgensen, American
musician
- 1983 – Andy Mrotek, American
musician
- 1983 – Miguel Ángel
Muñoz, Spanish actor and singer
- 1984 – Gina
Glocksen, American singer
- 1984 – Akanishi Jin, Japanese
singer
- 1985 – Kane
Tenace, Australian rules footballer
- 1986 – Takahisa
Masuda, Japanese singer
- 2003 – Alessia
di Matteo, Italian medical figure (d. 2005)
Deaths
- 907 – Luitpold, Margrave of
Bavaria
- 943 – Taejo of
Goryeo, ruler of Korea (b. 877)
- 965 – Pope
Benedict V, Italian Roman Catholic Pope (b. unknown)
- 973 – Ulrich
of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890)
- 1187 – Raynald of Chatillon, Prince of
Antioch
- 1541 – Pedro
de Alvarado, Spanish explorer (b. 1495)
- 1546 – Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the
Ottoman Navy (b. 1478)
- 1603 – Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (b.
1521)
- 1623 – William
Byrd, English composer
- 1648 – Antoine
Daniel, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1601)
- 1742 – Guido
Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
- 1754 – Philippe Néricault
Destouches, French dramatist and author (b. 1680)
- 1761 – Samuel
Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
- 1780 – Prince Charles Alexander of
Lorraine, Austrian military leader (b. 1712)
- 1787 – Charles de Rohan, prince de
Soubise, Marshal of France (b. 1715)
- 1821 – Richard
Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
- 1826 – John
Adams, 2nd President
of the United States (b. 1735)
- 1826 – Thomas Jefferson 3rd
President of the United
States (b. 1743)
- 1831 – James
Monroe, 5th President
of the United States (b. 1758)
- 1848 – François-René de
Chateaubriand, French writer (b. 1768)
- 1850 – William Kirby, English
entomologist (b. 1759)
- 1854 – Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German
jurist (b. 1781)
- 1857 – William
L. Marcy, American statesman
(b. 1786)
- 1881 – Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish
statesman (b. 1806)
- 1882 – Joseph
Brackett, American composer (b. 1797)
- 1891 – Hannibal
Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809)
- 1901 – Johannes Schmidt, German
linguist (b. 1843)
- 1902 – Swami
Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1863)
- 1905 – Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b.
1830)
- 1910 – Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United
States (b. 1833)
- 1910 – Giovanni
Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835)
- 1916 – Alan
Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
- 1922 – Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot
(b. 1894)
- 1926 – Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint
(b. 1901)
- 1931 – Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd
Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1869)
- 1931 – Buddie Petit, American jazz
musician (b. 1895)
- 1934 – Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and
Physics (b. 1867)
- 1938 – Otto
Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic politician (b. 1881)
- 1938 – Suzanne Lenglen, French
tennis player (b. 1899)
- 1941 – Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician
(b. 1881)
- 1946 – Gerda
Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
- 1948 – Monteiro
Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
- 1963 – Bernard
Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
- 1964 – Henry Sylvern, U.S.
radio personality (b. 1908)
- 1970 – Barnett
Newman, American artist (b. 1905)
- 1970 – Harold Stirling
Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1884)
- 1971 – August
Derleth, American writer and editor (b. 1909)
- 1975 – Georgette
Heyer, English author (b. 1902)
- 1976 – Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet (b.
1895)
- 1977 – Gersh
Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918)
- 1979 – Lee Wai
Tong, Chinese footballer (b. 1905)
- 1980 – Maurice
Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1895)
- 1982 – Terry
Higgins, early British AIDS death (b.
1945)
- 1984 – Jimmie
Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
- 1986 – Flor
Peeters, Belgian composer, organist, and teacher (b. 1903)
- 1986 – Oscar Zariski, Russian
mathematician (b. 1899)
- 1988 – Adrian
Adonis, American professional wrestler (b. 1954)
- 1989 – Jack Haig,
British actor (b. 1913)
- 1991 – Victor
Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
- 1992 – Ástor Piazzolla, Argentinian composer
(b. 1921)
- 1993 – Bona
Arsenault, French Canadian politician and historian (b.
1903)
- 1994 – Joey
Marella, American professional wrestling referee (b. 1964)
- 1995 – Eva Gabor,
Hungarian actress (b. 1919)
- 1995 – Bob Ross, American artist and
television host (b. 1942)
- 1997 – Charles
Kuralt, American television presenter (b. 1934)
- 1997 – John Zachary Young,
English zoologist (b. 1907)
- 1999 – Leo Garel,
American artist and cartoonist (b. 1917)
- 2000 – Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Polish
writer (b. 1919)
- 2001 – Keenan
Milton, Professional Skater (b. 1974)
- 2002 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American general (b.
1912)
- 2002 – Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian
politician (b. 1951)
- 2002 – Winnifred Quick, American
Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
- 2003 – André
Claveau, French singer (b. 1915)
- 2003 – Barry White, American singer
(b. 1944)
- 2004 – Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (b.
1920)
- 2004
– Frank Robinson , an
eccentric street entertainer in Nottingham
, England
(b. 1932)
- 2005 – Hank
Stram, American football coach (b. 1923)
- 2007 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish rock musician
(b. 1979)
- 2007 – Bill Pinkney, American
singer and performer (b. 1925)
- 2008 – Jesse
Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
- 2008 – Evelyn Keyes, American
actress (b. 1916)
- 2008 – Terrence Kiel, American
Football Player (b. 1980)
- 2008 – Charles
Wheeler, British journalist (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Brenda Joyce, American actress (b.
1917)
- 2009 – Allen Klein, American record
label executive (b. 1931)
- 2009 – Drake Levin, American rock
musician (b. 1946)
- 2009 – Steve McNair, American
football player (b. 1973)
- 2009 – Lasse Strömstedt,
Swedish writer (b. 1935)
- 2009 – Jean-Baptiste Tati
Loutard, Congolese politician (b.1938)
- 2009 – Jim Chapin, American drummer
(b.1919)
Holidays and observances
- In astronomy, the approximate date of
Earth's aphelion.
- Christian saints:
- Saint Flavian
- Translation, Ordination of Saint
Martin, bishop of Tours,
confessor
- Saint Oda,
Archbishop of
Canterbury
- Saint Procopius, abbot (at
Prague), confessor
- Saint Ulric, bishop of Augsburg, confessor (d.
973)
- Saint Bertha, widow, abbess of
Blangy in Artois
- Saint Elizabeth
Lusitania of Portugal (d. 1336), patron
saint of Coimbra (city holiday), known
there as Rainha Santa Isabela
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