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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1st of July 0069 | EVENT | Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor. |
| 1st of July 0251 | EVENT | Battle of Abrittus: The Goths defeat emperor Decius and his son Herennius Etruscus on swampy ground in the Dobrudja (Moesia). |
| 1st of July 1097 | EVENT | Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by Prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by Sultan Kilij Arslan I. |
| 1st of July 1520 | EVENT | La Noche Triste: a joint Mexican Indian force led by the Aztec ruler Cuitlahuac defeat Spanish Conquistadores led by Hernan Cortes. |
| 1st of July 1569 | EVENT | Union of Lublin: the Kingdom of Poland and the Great Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations. |
| 1st of July 1690 | EVENT | Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne (as reckoned under the Julian calendar). |
| 1st of July 1770 | EVENT | Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u. |
| 1st of July 1782 | EVENT | American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. |
| 1st of July 1837 | EVENT | A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales. |
| 1st of July 1855 | EVENT | Signing of the Quinault Treaty: the Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States. |
| 1st of July 1858 | EVENT | Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society. |
| 1st of July 1862 | EVENT | The Russian State Library is founded. |
| 1st of July 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: the Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of the George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. |
| 1st of July 1863 | EVENT | Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands. |
| 1st of July 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins. |
| 1st of July 1867 | EVENT | The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. |
| 1st of July 1870 | EVENT | The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence. |
| 1st of July 1873 | EVENT | Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation. |
| 1st of July 1878 | EVENT | Canada joins the Universal Postal Union. |
| 1st of July 1879 | EVENT | Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower. |
| 1st of July 1881 | EVENT | The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States. |
| 1st of July 1881 | EVENT | General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect. |
| 1st of July 1885 | EVENT | The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada. |
| 1st of July 1890 | EVENT | Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable. |
| 1st of July 1892 | EVENT | The Homestead Strike, a strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers against the Carnegie Steel Company, begins. |
| 1st of July 1898 | EVENT | Spanish-American War: the Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba. |
| 1st of July 1908 | EVENT | SOS is adopted as the international distress signal. |
| 1st of July 1915 | EVENT | Lieutenant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized gun-equipped fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker. |
| 1st of July 1916 | EVENT | 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. |
| 1st of July 1921 | EVENT | The Communist Party of China is founded. |
| 1st of July 1923 | EVENT | The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration. |
| 1st of July 1931 | EVENT | United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport). |
| 1st of July 1935 | EVENT | Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek. |
| 1st of July 1935 | EVENT | Grant Park Music Festival begins its tradition of free summer symphonic music concert series in Chicago's Grant Park, which continues as the United States' only annual free outdoor classical music concert series. |
| 1st of July 1942 | EVENT | World War II: first Battle of El Alamein. |
| 1st of July 1942 | EVENT | The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of Income Tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished. |
| 1st of July 1943 | EVENT | Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city). |
| 1st of July 1947 | EVENT | The Philippine Air Force is established. |
| 1st of July 1948 | EVENT | Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan. |
| 1st of July 1949 | EVENT | 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. |
| 1st of July 1957 | EVENT | The International Geophysical Year begins. |
| 1st of July 1958 | EVENT | The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave. |
| 1st of July 1958 | EVENT | Flooding of Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway begins. |
| 1st of July 1959 | EVENT | The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference. |
| 1st of July 1959 | EVENT | Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries. |
| 1st of July 1960 | EVENT | Independence of Somalia. |
| 1st of July 1960 | EVENT | Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be its Head of state. |
| 1st of July 1962 | EVENT | Independence of Rwanda. |
| 1st of July 1962 | EVENT | Independence of Burundi. |
| 1st of July 1963 | EVENT | ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail. |
| 1st of July 1963 | EVENT | The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent. |
| 1st of July 1966 | EVENT | The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto. |
| 1st of July 1967 | EVENT | The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission. |
| 1st of July 1967 | EVENT | Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion. |
| 1st of July 1968 | EVENT | The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established. |
| 1st of July 1968 | EVENT | The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries. |
| 1st of July 1968 | EVENT | Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO. |
| 1st of July 1970 | EVENT | President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces. |
| 1st of July 1972 | EVENT | The first Gay Pride march in England takes place. |
| 1st of July 1976 | EVENT | Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira. |
| 1st of July 1978 | EVENT | The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government. |
| 1st of July 1979 | EVENT | Sony introduces the Walkman. |
| 1st of July 1980 | EVENT | O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada. |
| 1st of July 1981 | EVENT | The Wonderland Murders occurred in the early morning hours, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash. |
| 1st of July 1983 | EVENT | A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board. |
| 1st of July 1984 | EVENT | The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA. |
| 1st of July 1987 | EVENT | The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station. |
| 1st of July 1990 | EVENT | German re-unification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany. |
| 1st of July 1991 | EVENT | The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague. |
| 1st of July 1997 | EVENT | The People's Republic of China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. |
| 1st of July 1999 | EVENT | The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. |
| 1st of July 2000 | EVENT | The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic. |
| 1st of July 2002 | EVENT | The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. |
| 1st of July 2002 | EVENT | A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71. |
| 1st of July 2003 | EVENT | Over 500,000 people protested against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong. |
| 1st of July 2004 | EVENT | Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC. |
| 1st of July 2006 | EVENT | The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China. |
| 1st of July 2007 | EVENT | Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces. |
| 1st of July 2008 | EVENT | Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections. |
| 1st of July 2009 | EVENT | Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader resigns giving no specific reason. Jadranka Kosor is announced as the next Prime Minister, the first woman ever to hold the post. |
| 1st of July 1481 | BIRTHDAY | King Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559) |
| 1st of July 1506 | BIRTHDAY | King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526) |
| 1st of July 1534 | BIRTHDAY | King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig (d. 1588) |
| 1st of July 1574 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (d. 1656) |
| 1st of July 1586 | BIRTHDAY | Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (d. 1630) |
| 1st of July 1633 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698) |
| 1st of July 1646 | BIRTHDAY | Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716) |
| 1st of July 1676 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729) |
| 1st of July 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Rodriguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman (d. 1802) |
| 1st of July 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French nobleman and soldier (d. 1807) |
| 1st of July 1731 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan Royal Navy Admiral (d.1804) |
| 1st of July 1742 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (d. 1799) |
| 1st of July 1788 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (d. 1867) |
| 1st of July 1804 | BIRTHDAY | George Sand, French writer (d. 1876) |
| 1st of July 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist (d. 1886) |
| 1st of July 1807 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Green Clemson, American educator (d. 1888) |
| 1st of July 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician (d. 1865) |
| 1st of July 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Jadwiga ?uszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908) |
| 1st of July 1863 | BIRTHDAY | William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892) |
| 1st of July 1869 | BIRTHDAY | William Strunk, Jr., American grammarian (d. 1946) |
| 1st of July 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Bleriot, French aviator (d. 1936) |
| 1st of July 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Guy-Blache, American film director (d. 1968) |
| 1st of July 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Jouhaux, French labor figure, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1954) |
| 1st of July 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Borton, English soldier (d. 1933) |
| 1st of July 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas A. Dorsey, American composer (d. 1993) |
| 1st of July 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Laughton, English actor (d. 1962) |
| 1st of July 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek politician (d. 1987) |
| 1st of July 1902 | BIRTHDAY | William Wyler, French-born American film director (d. 1981) |
| 1st of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Johnson, English pilot (d. 1941) |
| 1st of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Dieudonne, French mathematician (d. 1992) |
| 1st of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Estee Lauder, American entrepreneur (d. 2004) |
| 1st of July 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971) |
| 1st of July 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Sokolov, Soviet marshal |
| 1st of July 1912 | BIRTHDAY | David R. Brower, American environmentalist (d. 2000) |
| 1st of July 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989) |
| 1st of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Barrett, American baseball player (d. 1998) |
| 1st of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician (d. 1979) |
| 1st of July 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Dixon, American blues vocalist and record producer (d. 1992) |
| 1st of July 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001) |
| 1st of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Olivia de Havilland, British-born actress |
| 1st of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Humphry Osmond, British psychiatrist (d. 2004) |
| 1st of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Sakata, American actor (d. 1982) |
| 1st of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Seretse Khama, Botswanan politician (d. 1980) |
| 1st of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Farley Granger, American actor |
| 1st of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Fogel, American economist, Nobel laureate |
| 1st of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Hahn, German automotive executive |
| 1st of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Werner Henze, German composer |
| 1st of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Alan J. Charig, British palaeontologist (d. 1997) |
| 1st of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Edelman, American biologist, Nobel laureate |
| 1st of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005) |
| 1st of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Chomsky, American linguist, wife of Noam Chomsky (d. 2008) |
| 1st of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Day, American singer (d. 1990) |
| 1st of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Caron, French actress |
| 1st of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (d. 2007) |
| 1st of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (d. 2010) |
| 1st of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2009) |
| 1st of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Farr, American actor |
| 1st of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Marsh, English actress |
| 1st of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Sydney Pollack, American film director (d. 2008) |
| 1st of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | James Cotton, American blues harmonica player |
| 1st of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Anderson, American baseball player |
| 1st of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Black, American actress |
| 1st of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist, Nobel laureate |
| 1st of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Rod Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1st of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel laureate |
| 1st of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Twyla Tharp, American choreographer |
| 1st of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Genevieve Bujold, Canadian actress |
| 1st of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Andrae Crouch, American singer |
| 1st of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Malloy, American talk radio host |
| 1st of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Wayne, American pianist, keyboardist and composer |
| 1st of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Marian Glinka, Polish actor (d. 2008) |
| 1st of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Burstyn, Israeli-born American actor |
| 1st of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Debbie Harry, American singer (Blondie) |
| 1st of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Shirley Hemphill, American actress (d. 1999) |
| 1st of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese racing driver |
| 1st of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | John Ford, English songwriter and guitarist (Strawbs) |
| 1st of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | John Farnham, English-born Australian singer |
| 1st of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | David Duke, American politician and white supremacist |
| 1st of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Eve, British actor |
| 1st of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Feeney, American protest singer |
| 1st of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Terrence Mann, American actor and dancer |
| 1st of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's) |
| 1st of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor |
| 1st of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1st of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy J. Tobias, American composer and musician (d. 2006) |
| 1st of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Gonzi, Maltese politician |
| 1st of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jadranka Kosor, Croatian journalist and politician |
| 1st of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Whitley, American country musicsinger (d. 1989) |
| 1st of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor (d. 2009) |
| 1st of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Ruck, American actor |
| 1st of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player |
| 1st of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (d. 2010) |
| 1st of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Midkiff, American actor |
| 1st of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Evelyn King, American singer |
| 1st of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Swords, American rugby player |
| 1st of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Kalpana Chawla, Indian-born American astronaut (d. 2003) |
| 1st of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Elliott, British cyclist |
| 1st of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Lewis, American athlete |
| 1st of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Wright, Canadian country music singer and guitarist |
| 1st of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Charles's ex wife (d. 1997) |
| 1st of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Braugher, American actor |
| 1st of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Roddy Bottum, American musician (Faith No More, Imperial Teen) |
| 1st of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | David Wood, American environmentalist |
| 1st of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Laporte, French rugby player and coach |
| 1st of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Harald Zwart, Norwegian film director |
| 1st of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer |
| 1st of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Pamela Anderson, Canadian model |
| 1st of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Abell, American actor |
| 1st of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jordi Molla, Spanish actor |
| 1st of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Peterman, American actress |
| 1st of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Simmons, American actor |
| 1st of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Steven W. Bailey, American actor |
| 1st of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Amira Casar, French actress |
| 1st of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Missy Elliott, American rapper and singer |
| 1st of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Walker, American baseball player |
| 1st of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Julianne Nicholson, American actress |
| 1st of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Claire Forlani, English actress |
| 1st of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Machacek, Austrian musician |
| 1st of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jefferson Perez, Ecuadorian race walker |
| 1st of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sufjan Stevens, American singer and musician |
| 1st of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer |
| 1st of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Plies, American rapper |
| 1st of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer |
| 1st of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Lo, Hong Kong singer and songwriter |
| 1st of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer |
| 1st of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Frager, French-born singer and surfer |
| 1st of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jarome Iginla, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1st of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Pattillo, American beatboxing flautist |
| 1st of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Birgit Schuurman, Dutch singer and actress |
| 1st of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Pamela Rogers Turner, former elementary school physical education teacher/coach and convicted sex offender |
| 1st of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Liv Tyler, American actress |
| 1st of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist |
| 1st of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Aufiero, American ice hockey player |
| 1st of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo del Fava, South African-born Italian rugby player |
| 1st of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Diva, American actress and rapper |
| 1st of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Tadhg Kennelly, Irish Australian rules footballer |
| 1st of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Hilarie Burton, American actress |
| 1st of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Carmella DeCesare, American glamor model |
| 1st of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Huber, Australian baseball player |
| 1st of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Ward, American football player |
| 1st of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player |
| 1st of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Lynsey Bartilson, American actress |
| 1st of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Marit Larsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter (M2M) |
| 1st of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Leeteuk (Park Jung Su), Korean singer |
| 1st of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Agnes Monica, Indonesian singer |
| 1st of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Lee, Australian rules footballer |
| 1st of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Ellingson, American actor |
| 1st of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Mitch Hewer, English actor |
| 1st of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Ricciardo, Australian racing driver |
| 1st of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Hannah Murray, English actress |
| 1st of July 1998 | BIRTHDAY | Hollie Steel, English singer |
| 1st of July 0552 | DEATH | Totila, King of the Ostrogoths (birth year unknown) |
| 1st of July 0868 | DEATH | Ali al-Hadi, Shi'a Imam (Born 828) |
| 1st of July 1109 | DEATH | King Alfonso VI of Castile (Born 1040) |
| 1st of July 1277 | DEATH | Baibars, Mameluk Sultan of Egypt (Born 1223) |
| 1st of July 1592 | DEATH | Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (Born c. 1547) |
| 1st of July 1614 | DEATH | Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (Born 1559) |
| 1st of July 1622 | DEATH | William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (Born 1575) |
| 1st of July 1681 | DEATH | Oliver Plunkett, Irish Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and saint (Born 1629) |
| 1st of July 1708 | DEATH | Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (Born 1706) |
| 1st of July 1774 | DEATH | Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (Born 1705) |
| 1st of July 1782 | DEATH | Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British statesman and noble (Born 1730) |
| 1st of July 1784 | DEATH | Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (Born 1710) |
| 1st of July 1819 | DEATH | Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (Born 1752) |
| 1st of July 1839 | DEATH | Mahmud II, Ottoman Sultan (Born 1785) |
| 1st of July 1860 | DEATH | Charles Goodyear, American inventor (Born 1800) |
| 1st of July 1863 | DEATH | John Fulton Reynolds, American Civil War general (Born 1820) |
| 1st of July 1894 | DEATH | Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (Born 1819) |
| 1st of July 1896 | DEATH | Harriet Beecher Stowe, American abolitionist and writer (Born 1811) |
| 1st of July 1905 | DEATH | John Hay, American statesman (Born 1838) |
| 1st of July 1925 | DEATH | Erik Satie, French composer (Born 1866) |
| 1st of July 1942 | DEATH | Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish language writer (Born 1857) |
| 1st of July 1944 | DEATH | Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (Born 1930) |
| 1st of July 1948 | DEATH | Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (Born 1904) |
| 1st of July 1950 | DEATH | Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and music educator (Born 1865) |
| 1st of July 1950 | DEATH | Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (Born 1873) |
| 1st of July 1961 | DEATH | Louis-Ferdinand Celine, French writer (Born 1894) |
| 1st of July 1964 | DEATH | Pierre Monteux, French conductor (Born 1875) |
| 1st of July 1965 | DEATH | Wally Hammond, English cricketer (Born 1903) |
| 1st of July 1967 | DEATH | Gerhard Ritter, German historian (Born 1888) |
| 1st of July 1968 | DEATH | Fritz Bauer, German judge and prosecutor (Born 1903) |
| 1st of July 1971 | DEATH | William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1890) |
| 1st of July 1974 | DEATH | Juan Peron, 29th and 41st President of Argentina (Born 1895) |
| 1st of July 1976 | DEATH | Anneliese Michel, German woman said to be possessed by demons (Born 1952) |
| 1st of July 1978 | DEATH | Kurt Student, German Luftwaffe general (Born 1890) |
| 1st of July 1981 | DEATH | Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (Born 1921) |
| 1st of July 1981 | DEATH | Rushton Moreve, American bass player (Steppenwolf) (Born 1948) |
| 1st of July 1983 | DEATH | R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and philosopher (Born 1903) |
| 1st of July 1984 | DEATH | Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian educator (Born 1904) |
| 1st of July 1987 | DEATH | Snakefinger, British guitarist, violinist and composer (The Residents) (Born 1949) |
| 1st of July 1991 | DEATH | Michael Landon, American actor (Born 1936) |
| 1st of July 1992 | DEATH | Franco Cristaldi, Italian film producer (Born 1924) |
| 1st of July 1992 | DEATH | Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau politician (Born 1933) |
| 1st of July 1994 | DEATH | Merriam Modell, American novelist (Born 1908) |
| 1st of July 1995 | DEATH | Wolfman Jack, American radio personality (Born 1938) |
| 1st of July 1996 | DEATH | William T. Cahill, American politician (Born 1904) |
| 1st of July 1996 | DEATH | Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter (Born 1942) |
| 1st of July 1996 | DEATH | Margaux Hemingway, American actress and model (Born 1954) |
| 1st of July 1997 | DEATH | Robert Mitchum, American actor (Born 1917) |
| 1st of July 1999 | DEATH | Guy Mitchell, American popular singer (Born 1927) |
| 1st of July 1999 | DEATH | Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-born film director (Born 1908) |
| 1st of July 1999 | DEATH | Forrest Mars Sr., American candy magnate (Born 1904) |
| 1st of July 1999 | DEATH | Sylvia Sidney, American actress (Born 1910) |
| 1st of July 2000 | DEATH | Sarah Payne, British murder victim (Born 1992) |
| 1st of July 2000 | DEATH | Walter Matthau, American actor (Born 1920) |
| 1st of July 2001 | DEATH | Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1922) |
| 1st of July 2003 | DEATH | Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (Born 1930) |
| 1st of July 2003 | DEATH | Wesley Mouzon, American boxer (Born 1927) |
| 1st of July 2003 | DEATH | N?xau, Namibian actor (Born 1944) |
| 1st of July 2004 | DEATH | Peter Barnes, English writer (Born 1931) |
| 1st of July 2004 | DEATH | Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (Born 1909) |
| 1st of July 2004 | DEATH | Marlon Brando, American actor (Born 1924) |
| 1st of July 2005 | DEATH | Luther Vandross, American singer (Born 1951) |
| 1st of July 2005 | DEATH | Renaldo "Obie" Benson, American soul singer-songwriter (Born 1936) |
| 1st of July 2006 | DEATH | Fred Trueman, English cricketer (Born 1931) |
| 1st of July 2008 | DEATH | Mark Dean Schwab, American rapist and murderer (Born 1968) |
| 1st of July 2008 | DEATH | Mel Galley, English guitarist (Whitesnake) (Born 1948) |
| 1st of July 2009 | DEATH | Karl Malden, American actor (Born 1912) |
| 1st of July 2009 | DEATH | Onni Palaste, Finnish writer (Born 1917) |
| 1st of July 2009 | DEATH | Alexis Arguello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (Born 1952) |
| 1st of July 2009 | DEATH | Mollie Sugden, English actress (Born 1922) |
| 1st of July 2010 | DEATH | Ilene Woods, American actress (Born 1929) |
| 1st of July 2010 | DEATH | Geoffrey Hutchings, British actor (Born 1939) |
| 1st of July 2010 | DEATH | Arnold Friberg, American illustrator (Born 1913) |
| 1st of July 2010 | DEATH | Don Coryell, American football head coach (Born 1924) |