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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 7th of July 1456 | EVENT | A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. |
| 7th of July 1534 | EVENT | European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in New Brunswick. |
| 7th of July 1543 | EVENT | French troops invade Luxembourg. |
| 7th of July 1575 | EVENT | Raid of the Redeswire, the last major battle between England and Scotland. |
| 7th of July 1585 | EVENT | The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France. |
| 7th of July 1770 | EVENT | The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place. |
| 7th of July 1777 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton. |
| 7th of July 1798 | EVENT | Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the "war". |
| 7th of July 1807 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: the Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition. |
| 7th of July 1846 | EVENT | Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. conquest of California. |
| 7th of July 1863 | EVENT | United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300. |
| 7th of July 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged. |
| 7th of July 1892 | EVENT | Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established, contributing to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia. |
| 7th of July 1898 | EVENT | U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States. |
| 7th of July 1915 | EVENT | An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15. |
| 7th of July 1915 | EVENT | World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo. |
| 7th of July 1917 | EVENT | Russian Revolution: Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov forms a provisional government in Russia after the deposing of Tsar Nicholas II. |
| 7th of July 1928 | EVENT | Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. |
| 7th of July 1930 | EVENT | Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). |
| 7th of July 1937 | EVENT | Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge : Japanese forces invade Beijing, China. |
| 7th of July 1941 | EVENT | World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation. |
| 7th of July 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops. |
| 7th of July 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan. |
| 7th of July 1946 | EVENT | Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized. |
| 7th of July 1946 | EVENT | Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood. |
| 7th of July 1952 | EVENT | The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop's Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world. |
| 7th of July 1953 | EVENT | Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. |
| 7th of July 1954 | EVENT | Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right." |
| 7th of July 1956 | EVENT | Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m). |
| 7th of July 1958 | EVENT | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law. |
| 7th of July 1959 | EVENT | 14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere. |
| 7th of July 1967 | EVENT | Beginning of the civil war in Biafra. |
| 7th of July 1969 | EVENT | In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government. |
| 7th of July 1978 | EVENT | The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom. |
| 7th of July 1980 | EVENT | Institution of sharia in Iran. |
| 7th of July 1980 | EVENT | During the Lebanese civil war, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre. |
| 7th of July 1983 | EVENT | Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov. |
| 7th of July 1985 | EVENT | Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17 |
| 7th of July 1991 | EVENT | Yugoslav Wars: the Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. |
| 7th of July 2002 | EVENT | A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader. |
| 7th of July 2005 | EVENT | A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system killing 56 people including four alleged suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others. |
| 7th of July 1053 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129) |
| 7th of July 1119 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164) |
| 7th of July 1207 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Elisabeth of Hungary Catholic saint (d. 1231) |
| 7th of July 1528 | BIRTHDAY | Archduchess Anna of Austria, daughter of Ferdinand I (d. 1590) |
| 7th of July 1586 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman and art collector (d. 1646) |
| 7th of July 1656 | BIRTHDAY | Guru Har Krishan, Indian religious figure (d. 1664) |
| 7th of July 1746 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (d. 1826) |
| 7th of July 1752 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834) |
| 7th of July 1766 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (d. 1815) |
| 7th of July 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1926) |
| 7th of July 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician (d. 1919) |
| 7th of July 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Tindley, American gospel music composer (d. 1933) |
| 7th of July 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920) |
| 7th of July 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911) |
| 7th of July 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945) |
| 7th of July 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958) |
| 7th of July 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Chagall, Russian painter (d. 1985) |
| 7th of July 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese general (d. 1945) |
| 7th of July 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Virginia Rappe, American actress (d. 1921) |
| 7th of July 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Miroslav Krleza, Croatian writer (d. 1981) |
| 7th of July 1899 | BIRTHDAY | George Cukor, American director (d. 1983) |
| 7th of July 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Earle E. Partridge, American military commander (d. 1990) |
| 7th of July 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Vittorio De Sica, Italian director (d. 1974) |
| 7th of July 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film producer (d. 1970) |
| 7th of July 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Katzman, American film producer (d. 1973) |
| 7th of July 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Radcliffe, American baseball player and centenarian (d. 2005) |
| 7th of July 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991) |
| 7th of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d. 1970) |
| 7th of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Marie Hahn, German-born American serial killer (d. 1938) |
| 7th of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Karas, Austrian zither player (d. 1985) |
| 7th of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982) |
| 7th of July 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (d. 1988) |
| 7th of July 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Revilo P. Oliver, American academic and White nationalism advocate (d. 1994) |
| 7th of July 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Gretchen Franklin, English actress (d. 2005) |
| 7th of July 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian composer (d. 2007) |
| 7th of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Pinetop Perkins, American blues pianist |
| 7th of July 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander, American novelist and poet (d. 1998) |
| 7th of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Fidel Sanchez Hernandez, El Salvador politician (d. 2003) |
| 7th of July 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Pertwee, English actor (d. 1996) |
| 7th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Bhaktaraj Maharaj, Indian Hindu figure (d. 1995) |
| 7th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Ezzard Charles, American boxer (d. 1975) |
| 7th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996) |
| 7th of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Armer, American television producer, and director (d. 2010) |
| 7th of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer |
| 7th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Ford, American singer (d. 1977) |
| 7th of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Wally Phillips, American radio personality (d. 2008) |
| 7th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Louvin, American country music singer-songwriter (Louvin Brothers) |
| 7th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Doc Severinsen, American composer and jazz trumpeter |
| 7th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005) |
| 7th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Mobley, American jazz composer and saxophonist (d. 1986) |
| 7th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Edgar McCarrick, American cardinal |
| 7th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | David Eddings, American fantasy novelist (d. 2009) |
| 7th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Zawinul, Austrian jazz composer and keyboardist (d. 2007) |
| 7th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Murray Halberg, New Zealand middle distance runner |
| 7th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | David McCullough, American historian and author |
| 7th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Wells, English boxer and actor |
| 7th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver (d. 1971) |
| 7th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (d. 1980) |
| 7th of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Tung Chee-Hwa, Hong Kong administrator |
| 7th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ringo Starr, English drummer and singer (The Beatles) |
| 7th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Bollesan, Italian rugby player and coach |
| 7th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist |
| 7th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Howard, British politician |
| 7th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Duncan, Australian actress |
| 7th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Toto Cutugno, Italian singer |
| 7th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007) |
| 7th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Ancram, British politician |
| 7th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Matti Salminen, Finnish opera singer |
| 7th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Spano, American actor |
| 7th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Manuel, Spanish songwriter and singer |
| 7th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Gyanendra, deposed king of Nepal |
| 7th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat |
| 7th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Townsend, English drummer (Family) |
| 7th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Rheingold, American critic and writer |
| 7th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Leclerc, French-Canadian actor |
| 7th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Shelley Duvall, American actress |
| 7th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Mando Guerrero, Mexican professional wrestler |
| 7th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Rami Fortis, Israeli rock singer (Minimal Compact) |
| 7th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Len Barker, American baseball player |
| 7th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Dayton, American film director |
| 7th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Berry Sakharof, Turkish-born Israeli guitarist (Minimal Compact) |
| 7th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Campbell, American actor |
| 7th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Hahn, American model |
| 7th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987) |
| 7th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut |
| 7th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Sampson, American basketball player |
| 7th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Vonda Shepard, American singer |
| 7th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mo Collins, American actress |
| 7th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Devicq, Canadian actress |
| 7th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Kyle, English television presenter |
| 7th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Guscott, English rugby player |
| 7th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Gaffigan, American comedian |
| 7th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Tobin, American magician and psychic entertainer |
| 7th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Gundula Krause, German folk violinist |
| 7th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Kristensen, Danish race car driver |
| 7th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Neal, American singer (d. 2005) |
| 7th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Carlson, American actress |
| 7th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jorja Fox, American actress |
| 7th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff VanderMeer, American writer |
| 7th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Allen Payne, American actor |
| 7th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 7th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Nathalie Simard, French Canadian singer |
| 7th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Cree Summer, American voice actress |
| 7th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Sylke Otto, German luger |
| 7th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Weigert, American actress |
| 7th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Robia LaMorte, American actress and dancer |
| 7th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne McCullough, Irish boxer |
| 7th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Zabel, German cyclist |
| 7th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Alistair Potts, British rower |
| 7th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Camargo, American actor |
| 7th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Leslie, American basketball player |
| 7th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Manfred Stohl, Austrian rally driver |
| 7th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kirsten Vangsness, American actress |
| 7th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Mantei, American baseball player |
| 7th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Karlis Skrastins, Latvian ice hockey player |
| 7th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Garity, American actor |
| 7th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga-ka |
| 7th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Jimenez, Dominican baseball player |
| 7th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Lalime, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 7th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Benshoof, American luger |
| 7th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Voss, Australian rules footballer |
| 7th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dominic Foley, Irish footballer |
| 7th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Vasquez, American municipal employee |
| 7th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Andersen, American basketball player |
| 7th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Davor Kraljevic, Croatian footballer |
| 7th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter |
| 7th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Breeze, British racing driver |
| 7th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | John Buck, American baseball player |
| 7th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Deidre Downs, American beauty queen |
| 7th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Kwan, American figure skater |
| 7th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Whitesides, American drummer (The Used) |
| 7th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kaisa Jouhki, Indonesian singer (Battlelore) |
| 7th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Synyster Gates, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold) |
| 7th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer |
| 7th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Cassidy, American rapper |
| 7th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Karner, American filmmaker |
| 7th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Glita, American bassist (Senses Fail) |
| 7th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | George Owu, Ghanaian footballer |
| 7th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Davies, Australian rules footballer |
| 7th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | D. Woods, American singer (Danity Kane) |
| 7th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ciara Newell, Irish singer (Bellefire) |
| 7th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler |
| 7th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer |
| 7th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Marie-Mai, Canadian singer |
| 7th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Kasparian, American radio personality |
| 7th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Udo Schwarz, German rugby player |
| 7th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Lena Ma, Canadian beauty pageant contestant |
| 7th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Crowder, American comedian |
| 7th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Kaci Brown, American singer |
| 7th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Ilan Rubin, American drummer (Nine Inch Nails) |
| 7th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Lukas Rosenthal, German rugby player |
| 7th of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Bum, South Korean actor |
| 7th of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Giannoulis Fakinos, Greek footballer |
| 7th of July 2000 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Purnika of Nepal |
| 7th of July 1304 | DEATH | Pope Benedict XI (Born 1240) |
| 7th of July 1307 | DEATH | King Edward I of England (Born 1239) |
| 7th of July 1537 | DEATH | Madeleine of Valois, French-born Queen consort of James V of Scotland (Born 1520) |
| 7th of July 1572 | DEATH | King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (Born 1520) |
| 7th of July 1573 | DEATH | Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (Born 1507) |
| 7th of July 1647 | DEATH | Thomas Hooker, English-born Connecticut colonist (Born 1586) |
| 7th of July 1663 | DEATH | Thomas Baltzar, German violinist |
| 7th of July 1701 | DEATH | William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (Born 1631) |
| 7th of July 1713 | DEATH | Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and member of the Privy Council of England (Born 1632) |
| 7th of July 1730 | DEATH | Olivier Levasseur, French pirate (Born 1688 or 1690) |
| 7th of July 1737 | DEATH | Gian Gastone, the last Medicean Grand Duke of Tuscany (Born 1671) |
| 7th of July 1764 | DEATH | William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (Born 1683) |
| 7th of July 1776 | DEATH | Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (Born 1693) |
| 7th of July 1790 | DEATH | Francois Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (Born 1721) |
| 7th of July 1816 | DEATH | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (Born 1751) |
| 7th of July 1855 | DEATH | Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (Born 1787) |
| 7th of July 1865 | DEATH | Mary Surratt, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the first woman ever executed in the USA (Born 1823) |
| 7th of July 1865 | DEATH | Lewis Payne, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Born 1844) |
| 7th of July 1865 | DEATH | George Atzerodt, German-born conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Born 1833) |
| 7th of July 1865 | DEATH | David Herold, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Born 1842) |
| 7th of July 1878 | DEATH | Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (Born 1847) |
| 7th of July 1890 | DEATH | Henri Nestle, German confectioner and founder of Nestle S.A. (Born 1814) |
| 7th of July 1901 | DEATH | Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (Born 1827) |
| 7th of July 1913 | DEATH | Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (Born 1841) |
| 7th of July 1922 | DEATH | Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (Born 1874) |
| 7th of July 1925 | DEATH | Clarence Hudson White American photographer (Born 1871) |
| 7th of July 1927 | DEATH | Gosta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (Born 1846) |
| 7th of July 1930 | DEATH | Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (Born 1859) |
| 7th of July 1932 | DEATH | Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (Born 1844) |
| 7th of July 1932 | DEATH | Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (Born 1880) |
| 7th of July 1949 | DEATH | Bunk Johnson, American jazz trumpeter (Born 1879 or 1889) |
| 7th of July 1954 | DEATH | Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter (Born 1874) |
| 7th of July 1956 | DEATH | Gottfried Benn, German poet (Born 1886) |
| 7th of July 1964 | DEATH | Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower (Born 1904) |
| 7th of July 1965 | DEATH | Moshe Sharett, Ukraine-born 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (Born 1894) |
| 7th of July 1967 | DEATH | Vivien Leigh, English actress (Born 1913) |
| 7th of July 1968 | DEATH | Jo Schlesser, French race car driver (Born 1928) |
| 7th of July 1971 | DEATH | Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (Born 1925) |
| 7th of July 1971 | DEATH | Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (Born 1901) |
| 7th of July 1972 | DEATH | Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (Born 1886) |
| 7th of July 1972 | DEATH | King Talal of Jordan (Born 1909) |
| 7th of July 1973 | DEATH | Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (Born 1895) |
| 7th of July 1973 | DEATH | Veronica Lake, American actress (Born 1919) |
| 7th of July 1975 | DEATH | Ruffian, American thoroughbred racehorse (Born 1972) |
| 7th of July 1976 | DEATH | Walter Giesler, American football coach (Born 1910) |
| 7th of July 1980 | DEATH | Dore Schary, American film producer and writer (Born 1905) |
| 7th of July 1981 | DEATH | Peace Pilgrim, American pacifist and activist (Born 1908) |
| 7th of July 1984 | DEATH | Carl Boenish, American BASE jumping supporter (Born 1941) |
| 7th of July 1984 | DEATH | Alexander Fu Sheng, Hong Kong actor (Born 1954) |
| 7th of July 1990 | DEATH | Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (Born 1958) |
| 7th of July 1990 | DEATH | Bill Cullen, American game show host (Born 1920) |
| 7th of July 1993 | DEATH | Mia Zapata, American singer (The Gits) (Born 1965) |
| 7th of July 1994 | DEATH | Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer (Born 1907) |
| 7th of July 1994 | DEATH | Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (Born 1924) |
| 7th of July 1999 | DEATH | Captain Vikram Batra, Indian Army officer and Param Vir Chakra recipient (Born 1974) |
| 7th of July 2000 | DEATH | Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (Born 1969) |
| 7th of July 2001 | DEATH | Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (Born 1936) |
| 7th of July 2002 | DEATH | Bison Dele, American basketball player (Born 1969) |
| 7th of July 2003 | DEATH | Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (Born 1924) |
| 7th of July 2006 | DEATH | Juan de Avalos, Spanish sculptor (Born 1911) |
| 7th of July 2006 | DEATH | John Money, New Zealand-born American sexologist (Born 1921) |
| 7th of July 2006 | DEATH | Syd Barrett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pink Floyd) (Born 1946) |
| 7th of July 2008 | DEATH | Bruce Conner, American sculptor, painter and photographer (Born 1933) |
| 7th of July 2008 | DEATH | Dorian Leigh, American supermodel (Born 1917) |