• 1546 - Murad III, sultan of Turkey (1574-95)
• 1610 - Cornelis Evertsen, the Elder, Dutch/Swiss vice-admiral
• 1610 - Paul Scarron, French playwright (Virgile Travesti)
• 1669 - Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor
• 1694 - Louis-Claude Daquin, [d'Acquin], French organist/composer (La Rose)
• 1715 - Christian F Gellert, Saxony, poet/novelist (Fables & Tales)
• 1731 - Ant¢nio Dinis da Cruz e Silva, Portuguese poet (O Falso Hero¡smo)
• 1753 - Jean-Pierre-Fran‡ois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US
• 1762 - Marco Santucci, composer
• 1769 - Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer
• 1793 - Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer
• 1799 - F J Oscar I, King of Sweden/Norway (1844-59)
• 1804 - D‚sir‚ de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader
• 1804 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mass, author (House of 7 Gables, Scarlet Letter)
• 1807 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, freedom fighter (Risorgimento)/unified Italy
• 1810 - Phineas T Barnum, circus magnate
• 1819 - Reuben Eaton Fenton, Governor (Union), died in 1885
• 1826 - Green Clay Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
• 1826 - Stephen Foster, Lawrencevil, Pa, composer (Oh! Susanna, Swanee River)
• 1828 - James Johnston Pettigrew, Brig General (Confederate Army)
• 1828 - Theodor W Ahlwardt, German orientalist
• 1829 - Hermann Kotzchmar, composer
• 1840 - James McGranahan, composer
• 1841 - Edward Gailliard, Flemish linguist/archaeologicalist
• 1841 - Marie von Wied, Princess of Orange Nassau
• 1842 - Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria, sociologist/judge/fieldmarshal
• 1842 - Gyula Erkel, composer
• 1845 - Thomas John Barnardo, English social worker
• 1847 - James Anthony Bailey, Detroit, circus impresario (Barnum & Bailey)
• 1850 - Ole Olsen, composer
• 1854 - Heinrich Zollner, composer
• 1867 - Stephen Mather, organized US National Park Service
• 1869 - Karl Seitz, president of Austria
• 1870 - Pieter van der Lijn, Dutch geologist (Dutch boulders)
• 1872 - Calvin Coolidge, [Silent Cal], Plymouth Vt, (R) 30th pres (1923-29)
• 1875 - Giovanni & Giacomo Tocci, Italy, siamese twins
• 1876 - William Farnum, Boston MA, actor (Spoilers, Man who Fights Alone)
• 1880 - George Mullin, pitcher (Detroit Tigers-no-hitter on 7/4/1912)
• 1880 - Pat Rooney, vaudevillian/actor (Night Club)
• 1882 - Cornelis van der Lugt Melsert, Dutch actor/dir (Willem van Oranje)
• 1883 - Alan Brooke, English general [or Jul 23]
• 1883 - Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer
• 1883 - Rube Goldberg, cartoonist (who made the easy outrageously difficult)
• 1884 - Alexander Byvanck, Dutch art historian/archaeologist
• 1885 - Louis B Mayer, Minsk Russia, motion-picture executive (MGM)
• 1886 - Heinrich Kaminski, composer
• 1888 - Henry Armetta, Italian/US actor (Bell for Adano, Big Store)
• 1894 - Henry Carlson, basketball coach (originated figure 8 play)
• 1895 - Irving Caesar, songwriter
• 1895 - Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator
• 1895 - Walderman Marx, cricketer (S Af, 240 on FC debut (then world record))
• 1896 - Adolf Hallis, composer
• 1898 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (Mimi, Rembrandt)
• 1898 - Johnny Lee, Missouri, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy)
• 1899 - Benjamin P‚ret, French writer/poet (La r‚volution surr‚aliste)
• 1900 - Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, New Orleans LA, jazz musician (Hello Dolly)
• 1902 - George Murphy, New Haven Ct, (Sen-R-Calif)/actor/dancer (MGM Parade)
• 1902 - Meyer Lansky, mobster (Started numbers)
• 1902 - Vince Barnett, Pittsburgh, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle)
• 1903 - Flor Peeters, Antwerp Belgium, organist/composer (Lied Symphony)
• 1904 - Angela Baddeley, London England, actress (Ghost Train, Tom Jones)
• 1904 - Artur Malawski, composer
• 1904 - Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist
• 1905 - Dante Fiorillo, composer
• 1905 - Lionel Trilling, author (1969 Poses Award, Liberal Imagination)
• 1907 - Elliott Sullivan, San Antonio TX, actor (Sergeant)
• 1908 - Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/chairman (Club of Rome)
• 1909 - Alec Templeton, Cardiff Wales, pianist/composer (Concertino Lirico)
• 1909 - Lynette Roberts, poet
• 1909 - Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine
• 1910 - Francis D Foley, US lt adm (WW II, Guadalcanal)
• 1910 - Gloria Stuart, actress (Rose-Titanic)/founder (Screen Actors Guild)
• 1910 - William T "Champion Jack" Dupree, US boxer/slaughterhouse pianist
• 1911 - Mitch Miller, Rochester NY, sing along with Mitch (Yellow Rose of Tx)
• 1912 - Virginia Graham, Chicago Ill, TV personality (Girl Talk, Where Was I)
• 1914 - Giuseppe 'Nuccio' Bertone, car designer
• 1915 - Christine Lavant, writer
• 1915 - Jimmie Rogers, Detroit Mich, singer (Sugar Hill Time)
• 1916 - Tokyo Rose, [Iva Toguri D'Aquino], propagandist (WW II)
• 1918 - Abigail Van Buren, [Mrs Morton Phillips], Sioux City Iowa, columnist
• 1918 - Alec Bedser, cricketer (mighty post-war England medium-pacer)
• 1918 - Ann Landers, Sioux City Iowa, twin sister/advice columnist
• 1918 - Buster Davis, Johnstown Pa, choral director (Garry Moore Show)
• 1918 - Eric Bedser, cricketer (bro of Alec, Surrey bowler but not England)
• 1918 - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (1965- )
• 1920 - Leona Helmsley, (wife of Harry), real estate billionaire/tax cheat
• 1921 - Gerard Debreu, France, economist (Nobel 1983)
• 1921 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist/orchestra leader (Ripley's Game)
• 1922 - Ghulam Ahmed, cricketer (off-spinner in 22 Tests for India in 1950's)
• 1924 - Eva Marie Saint, Newark NJ, actress (On the Waterfront)
• 1926 - Mary Stuart, Miami Fla, actress (Jo-Search for Tomorrow)
• 1927 - Gina Lollobrigida, Subiaco Italy, actress (Trapeze, Falcon Crest)
• 1927 - Neil Simon, Bronx, playwright (Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues)
• 1928 - Cathy Berberian, Armenia, US singer
• 1928 - Lloyd Lambert, bassist
• 1928 - Patrick Tilley, UK, sci-fi author (1st Family, Blood River)
• 1928 - Paul de Wispelaere, Flemish writer/essayist/critic
• 1928 - Stephen Boyd, [William Millar], Ire, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Ben-Hur)
• 1928 - Sylvius G M "Boy" Rozendal, premier (Netherland's Antilles)
• 1929 - Al Davis, Brocton Mass, NFL team owner (LA Raiders)
• 1929 - Bill Tuttle, baseball player
• 1929 - Chuck Tanner, baseball player
• 1930 - George Steinbrenner, owner (NY Yankees)/ship builder/horse owner
• 1931 - Peter Richardson, cricketer (England batsman mid-50's)
• 1934 - Colin Welland, Liverpool England, actor (Straw Dogs, Sweeney)
• 1935 - Paul Scoon, governor-general of Grenada (1978-92)
• 1937 - Hector Palma, horse trainer
• 1938 - Bill Withers, Slab Fork WV, rhythm & blues singer (Lean on Me)
• 1938 - Cyril Mitchley, cricket wicket-keeper (Transvaal, later Test umpire)
• 1939 - Ed Bernard, Phila, actor (Joe-Police Woman, Jim-White Shadow)
• 1940 - Joost P van Iersel, Dutch MP (CDA)
• 1940 - Walter Greenman, horse trainer
• 1942 - Hal Lanier, baseball player
• 1942 - Michael G C F, English prince of Kent
• 1943 - Al "Blind Owl" Wilson, rock guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat)
• 1943 - Dave Rowberry, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
• 1943 - Emerson Boozer, NFL running back (NY Jet)/sportscaster
• 1946 - Michael Milken, LA Calif, partner (Intl Capital Access Group)
• 1946 - Ron Kovic, disabled vietnam vet (Born on 4th of July)
• 1946 - Tish Howard, playmate (July, 1966)
• 1947 - Morganna Roberts, Louisville Ky, (Baseball's kissing bandit)
• 1948 - Ed Armbrister, baseball player
• 1948 - Jeremy Spencer, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well)
• 1948 - Ren‚ Arnoux, France, formula-1 racer (6th place-1980)
• 1949 - Joyce Brothers, psychologist/author/columnist
• 1950 - David Jensen, rock British DJ
• 1951 - Ralph Johnson, rock drummer (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star)
• 1954 - Jim Beattie, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
• 1955 - John Waite, vocalist (Babies/Bad English-Forget Me Not, Missing You)
• 1958 - Kirk Pengilly, Sydney Australia, rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
• 1959 - Bill McCorvey, Montgomery Ala, singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake)
• 1959 - Victoria Abril, [Victoria Rojas], Madrid Spain, actress (Libertarias)
• 1961 - Connie Paraskevin-Young, Detroit, sprint cyclist (Olymp-br-88, 92, 96)
• 1961 - Richard Allen Garriott, Austin TX, computer game designer (Origin)
• 1962 - Pam Shriver, Balt MD, tennis star (1991 US Open doubles/Oly-gold-88)
• 1962 - Roland Ratzenberger, driver
• 1963 - Henri Leconte, France, tennis player (French finalist 1988)
• 1963 - Jose Oquendo, baseball player
• 1964 - Kevin Sutherland, Sacramento CA, Nike golfer (1992 Hawkeye Open-2nd)
• 1964 - Mark Allen Slaughter, Las Vegas, guitarist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
• 1965 - Eva Dahllof, Ornskoldsvik Sweden, golfer (1995 McCall's Classic-18th)
• 1965 - Harvey Grant, NBA forward (Trail Blazers, Orlando Magic, Wizards)
• 1965 - John Frawley, Australia, tennis star
• 1965 - Shelley Oates, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
• 1965 - Suzanne Peta Strudwick, Knutsford England, golfer (1995 Brit Open-7th)
• 1966 - Adrian Caldwell, NBA forward/center (Indiana Pacers)
• 1967 - Rick Wilkins, baseball player
• 1967 - Vinny Castilla, Oaxaca Mexico, infielder (Colorado Rockies)
• 1968 - Derek Loville, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
• 1968 - Loville Derek, NFL running back (Denver Broncos, Superbowl 32)
• 1968 - Mark Lenzi, Huntsville Ala, diver (Olympics-bronze-96)
• 1969 - David Wittman Buffalo, NY, 1.5k runner
• 1969 - Tim Jackson, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-96)
• 1970 - Andrei Cherkasov, USSR, tennis star
• 1970 - Louise Van Voorhis, Rochester NY, 470 yachter (Olympics-4th-1992, 96)
• 1971 - Steve Rucchin, Thunder Bay, NHL center (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
• 1972 - Steve Giles, St Stephens New Brunswick, canoeist (Olympics-6-92, 96)
• 1973 - Justin Ring, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
• 1974 - Kellee Nicole Kattleman, Miss Wyoming USA (1996)
• 1975 - Reinhard Davis, hockey goaltender (Team Austria 1998)
• 1978 - Tatyana Jecmenica, Novi Sad Yugo, tennis star (1995 Futures-Novi Sad)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0966 - Benedictus V Grammaticus, Italian (anti?)Pope (5/22-6/23 964), dies
• 1187 - Reinoud van Chƒtillon, French prince of Antioch, dies
• 1301 - Willem II Berthout van Mechelen, bishop of Utrecht, dies in battle
• 1307 - Rudolf III, Duke of Austria/King of Bohemia dies
• 1336 - Elisabeth van Portugal, queen of Portugal/saint, dies at about 65
• 1498 - Filips van Burgundy, admiral-general of Netherlands, dies
• 1519 - Johann Tetzel, (German?) monk, dies at about 79
• 1541 - Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish occupier, dies at about 56
• 1578 - Charles de Berlaymont, baron of Hierges, gov/viceroy of Names, dies
• 1603 - Philippus the Monte, priest/bandmaster/composer, dies at 82
• 1623 - William Byrd, English composer (Ave verum corpus), dies at 80
• 1627 - Thomas Middleton, Elizabethan dramatist (Women Beware Women), dies
• 1672 - Ambrosius Reiner, composer, dies at 67
• 1672 - Govert D Camphuysen, (court)painter, dies at about 48
• 1757 - Jean-Joseph Vade, composer, dies at 38
• 1768 - Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide), dies at 58
• 1780 - Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen South Neth, dies at 67
• 1787 - Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71
• 1789 - Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian conductor, dies at 59
• 1826 - John Adams, 2nd president (1797-1801), dies at 90
• 1826 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83
• 1831 - James Monroe, 5th president (1817-25), dies at 73
• 1845 - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies
• 1848 - Fran‡ois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies
• 1851 - Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer, dies at 67
• 1854 - Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian, dies at 72
• 1856 - Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor, dies at 64
• 1863 - Paul Joseph Revere, US grandson of Paul Revere/Union brig-gen, dies
• 1888 - Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Schimmelreiter), dies at 70
• 1889 - Auguste Mermet, composer, dies at 79
• 1891 - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer, dies at 67
• 1901 - John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher, dies
• 1910 - Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars), dies at 75
• 1910 - Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer, dies at 70
• 1917 - Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskreet), dies at 84
• 1923 - Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 67
• 1929 - Otto Taubmann, composer, dies at 70
• 1931 - Emanuele F duke of Aosta, Italian WW I-general/fascist, dies at 62
• 1931 - Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies
• 1934 - "Madame" Marie Curie-Sklodovska, Polish/French chemist, dies
• 1934 - Chaim Nachman Bialik, zionist poet, dies
• 1938 - Otto Bauer, Austrian social democrat, dies at 56
• 1938 - Suzanne Lenglen, 6 time Wimbledon champ, dies at 39 of anemia
• 1943 - Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/PM of Poland in exile (1939-43), dies at 62
• 1946 - Othenio Able, Austria paleontology, dies at 71
• 1952 - Walter Long, dies at 73
• 1957 - Judy Tyler, actress (Princess-Howdy Doody), dies at 24 in car crash
• 1958 - Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79
• 1961 - Franklyn Farnum, dies of cancer at 83
• 1962 - Rex Bell, actor/lt-gov (Nevada), dies of heart attack at 56
• 1963 - Fritz Reuter, composer, dies at 66
• 1963 - Grant Richards, actor (Doug-Doorway to Danger), dies at 48
• 1970 - Harold Vanderbilt, America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85
• 1971 - Don McPherson, rocker, dies at 29
• 1971 - Joe Cox, cricketer (4 wickets in 3 Tests for South Africa), dies
• 1971 - Thomas C Hart, US admiral/commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94
• 1973 - Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39
• 1974 - Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/pres Com Palestine, dies
• 1982 - Sylvestre A Guzm n Fern ndez, pres Dominican Rep, commits suicide
• 1983 - Claus Adam, composer, dies at 65
• 1985 - John de Quay, Dutch premier (1959-63), dies at 83
• 1986 - Flor Peeters, Flemish baron/organist/composer, dies at 83
• 1988 - Adrian Adonis, [Keith Franke], WWF wrestler, killed in auto accident
• 1992 - Astor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (Tango Nuevo), dies at 71
• 1992 - Joe Newman, US jazz trumpetist (Count Basie), dies
• 1993 - Anne Shirley, actress (Stella Dallas), dies of lung cancer at 75
• 1993 - Charles Crain, actor, dies in Hollywood at 83
• 1993 - Felix White, choreographer (Black Vibrations Theatre), dies at 65
• 1994 - Arthur Berry, artist, dies at 69
• 1994 - Juan Gil Poet-Albert, dies at 90
• 1994 - Liesbeth Struppert, actress (Pipo the Clown, Anne Frank), dies at 55
• 1994 - Rupert Davies, methodist scholar, dies at 84
• 1994 - Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies
• 1995 - Bob Ross, artist, dies at 52
• 1995 - Eva Gabor, actress (Green Acres), dies at 74
• 1995 - Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar, dies at 85
• 1995 - Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez, tennis great, dies of stomach cancer at 67
• 1996 - Clay Jones, gardener, dies at 72
• 1996 - Leo Avery, abbot of Quarr, dies at 58
• 1997 - Charles Kuralt, news anchor (CBS Sunday Morning), dies at 62