July 2
Birthdays:
1986 ~ Lindsay Lohan (née Lindsay Dee Lohan), American actress. She was born in New York, New York.
1984 ~ Johnny Weir (né John Garvin Weir), American figure skater. He was born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.
1983 ~ Michelle Branch (née Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch), American musician and pop singer. She was born in Sedona, Arizona.
1970 ~ Yancy Butler (née Yancy Victoria Butler), American actress. She was born in New York, New York.
1956 ~ Jerry Hall (née Geraldine Faye Hall), American actress and model. She was a wife of the Rolling Stones, Mick Jaggar. In 2016, she married Rupert Murdoch. She was born in Gonzales, Texas.
1947 ~ Larry David (né Lawrence Gene David), American actor and screenwriter. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1946 ~ Ron Silver (né Ronald Arthur Silver; d. Mar. 15, 2009), American veteran actor who was a maverick political activist. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died of esophageal cancer at age 62.
1946 ~ Richard Axel, American neuroscientist and recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the olfactory system. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1942 ~ Martin Zweig (né Martin Edward Zweig; d. Feb. 18, 2013), American stock advisor and advisor who forecast the Black Monday crash. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He died of cancer at age 70 in Fisher Island, Florida.
1942 ~ Vicente Fox, 35th President of Mexico. He was elected President of Mexico on his 58th birthday, and he took Office in December. He served as President from December 2000 until November 2006. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico.
1939 ~ John H. Sununu (né John Henry Sununu), 14th White House Chief of Staff. He served under President George H.W. Bush from January 1989 until December 1991. He had previously served as the 75th Governor of New Hampshire. He was born in Havana, Cuba while his parents were visiting the country on a business trip.
1937 ~ Polly Holliday (née Polly Dean Holliday), American actress best known for her role as Flo on the sit-com Alice. She was born in Jasper, Alabama.
1936 ~ Omar Suleiman (d. July 19, 2012), the wily Egyptian spy chief who served Mubarak’s regime. He served as the Vice President of Egypt from January 2011 until February 2011. He died 17 days after his 76th birthday in Cleveland, Ohio.
1932 ~ Dave Thomas (né Rex David Thomas; d. Jan. 8, 2002), American fast-food entrepreneur and founder of Wendy’s Restaurant. He named his restaurant after his daughter, whose nickname was Wendy. He was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He died of cancer at age 69 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
1930 ~ Carlos Menem (né Carlos Saúl Menem; d. Feb. 14, 2021), 50th President of Argentina. He was President from July 1989 until December 1999. He was born in Anillaco, Argentina. He died at age 90 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1929 ~ Chuck Stobbs (né Charles Klein Stobbs; d. July 11, 2008), American baseball pitcher who gave up baseball’s longest home run. On April 17, 1953, he pitched to Mickey Mantle, who blasted a 565-foot hit that is regarded as the longest home run ever. He played for the Boston Red Sox from 1947 to 1851. He was born in Wheeling, West Virginia. He died of throat cancer in Sarasota, Florida just 9 days after his 79th birthday.
1929 ~ Abraham Avigdorov (d. Sept. 4, 2012), Israeli soldier. He was born in Mitzpa, Israel. He died at age 83 in Haifa, Israel.
1929 ~ Imelda Marcos (née Imelda Remedios Romuáldez y Trinidad), 10th First Lady of the Philippines and wife of dictator Ferdinand Marcos. She is best known for her huge collection of shoes. She was born in Manila, Philippines.
1925 ~ Patrice Lumumba (né Élias Okit’Asomvo; d. Jan. 17, 1961), 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was executed by firing squad at age 35.
1925 ~ Medgar Evers (né Medgar Wiley Evers; d. June 12, 1963), American civil rights activist who was murdered. He was born in Decatur, Mississippi. He was killed in Jackson, Mississippi 20 days before his 38th birthday. It would be decades before his murder was brought to justice.
1923 ~ Wisława Szymborska (née Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska; d. Feb. 1, 2012), Polish poet and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. She died at age 88 in Kraków, Poland.
1922 ~ Starke Taylor (né Austin Starke Taylor, Jr.; d. Oct. 27, 2014), Mayor of Dallas, Texas. He was Mayor from 1983 until 1987. He was born in Paris, Texas. He died at age 92 in Dallas, Texas.
1922 ~ Pierre Cardin (né Pietro Costante Cardin; d. Dec. 29, 2020), Italian-born French bold fashion designer who remade the fashion trade. He was born in San Biaglio di Callalta, Italy. He died at age 98 in Nueilly-sur-Seine, France.
1908 ~ Thurgood Marshall (d. Jan. 24, 1993), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was appointed to the High Court by President Lyndon Johnson. He was the first African-American Justice to be appointed to the Court. He replaced Justice Tom C. Clark on the High Court. He was succeeded by Clarence Thomas. He served on the Court from October 1967 until his retirement in 1991. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He died at age 84 in Bethesda, Maryland.
1906 ~ Hans Bethe (né Hans Albrecht Bethe; d. Mar. 6, 2005), German-born physicist who helped invent the atomic bomb. He was the recipient of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was the last surviving member of the Manhattan Project. He was a refugee from Nazi Germany. He was born in Strasbourg, Germany. He died at age 98 in Ithaca, New York.
1904 ~ René Lacoste (né Jean René Lacoste; d. Oct. 12, 1996), French tennis player. He created the polo shirt and was a co-founder of Lacoste clothing. He was nicknamed “the Crocodile” due to the way he treated his opponents, hence the logo of the Lacoste polo shirts. He was born in Paris, France. He died at age 92.
1903 ~ Olav V, King of Norway (né Prince Alexander Edward Christian Frederik of Denmark; d. Jan. 17, 1991). He reigned as King from September 1957 until his death in January 1991. He became heir apparent to the Norwegian throne when his father, Haakon VII was elected King of Norway in 1905. He was married to Princess Märtha of Sweden (1901 ~ 1954). They married in 1929. They were the parents of Harald V, King of Norway. He was of the House of Glücksburg. He was the son of Haakon VII, King of Norway and Maud of Wales. He died at age 87.
1903 ~ Alec Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel (né Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home; d. Oct. 9, 1995), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served as Prime Minister from October 1963 until October 1964 during the reign of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom. He was born in London, England. He died at age 92.
1899 ~ Evan Esar (d. Dec. 9, 1995), American humorist. He died at age 96.
1877 ~ Hermann Hesse (né Hermann Karl Hesse; d. Aug. 9, 1962), German-born writer and recipient of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His is best known for his novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha. He died about a month after his 85thbirthday.
1876 ~ Harriet Brooks (d. Apr. 17, 1933), Canadian nuclear physicist. She was Canada’s first nuclear physicist. She is best known for her research in radioactivity. She discovered atomic recoil and transmutation of elements in radioactive decay. She was born in Exeter, Ontario, Canada. She died at age 56 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1862 ~ Sir William Henry Bragg (d. Mar. 12, 1942), English physicist and mathematician. He was the recipient of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics. He shared the Nobel Prize with his son, William Lawrence Bragg (1890 ~ 1971), who was 25 years old at the time. He died at age 79 in London, England.
1849 ~ Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (d. Feb. 3, 1919), Queen consort of Bavaria. She was married to Ludwig III, King of Bavaria (1845 ~ 1921). They were the last monarchs of Bavaria. When they married in 1868, he was the Prince Ludwig of Bavaria. They had 13 children together. She was of the House of Austria-Este. She was the daughter of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este and Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria. She was Catholic. She died at age 69.
1821 ~ Charles Tupper, Jr. (d. Oct. 30, 1915), 6th Prime Minister of Canada. He served as Prime Minister briefly from May 1896 until July 8, 1996. He was also a medical doctor. He was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia. He died in England at age 94.
1714 ~ Christoph Gluck (né Christoph Willibald Gluck; d. Nov. 15, 1787), German composer. He died at age 73.
1492 ~ Elizabeth Tudor (d. Sept. 14, 1495), member of the British royal family. She was of the House of Tudor. She was the second daughter and fourth child of Henry VII, King of England and Elizabeth of York. Her brother became Henry VIII, King of England. She died at age 3.
1489 ~ Thomas Cranmer (d. Mar. 21, 1556), Archbishop of Canterbury who was burned at the stake on grounds of treason against Henry VIII. He died at age 66.
1363 ~ Maria, Queen of Sicily (d. May 25, 1401). She reigned over Sicily from July 1377 until her death in 1401. She was married to Martin the Younger (1370s ~ July 25, 1409). She was his first wife. After their marriage, he became King of Sicily. She was of the House of Aragon. She was the daughter of Frederick III, King of Sicily, also known as Frederick the Simple and Infanta Constance of Aragon. She died at age 37.
814 ~ Wuzong (d. Apr. 22, 846), Chinese emperor of the Tang Dynasty. He died at age 31.
Events that Changed the World:
2015 ~ Cecil, a male African lion who lived in the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, was shot and killed by an American dentist and recreational big-game hunter. Cecil was being studied and tracked by a research team from the University of Oxford as part of a long-term study. The killing caused international outrage against the hunter.
2013 ~ A 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit in Indonesia injuring over 400 people.
2000 ~ Vicente Fox Quesada (b. 1942) was elected President of Mexico on his 58th birthday. He would take the Office of President in December and would serve through November 2006.
1976 ~ North Vietnam annexed the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1964 ~ President Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 ~ 1973) signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, thereby prohibiting segregation in public places. It would take decades before its effects to be felt.
1962 ~ The first Wal-Mart store opened in Rogers, Arkansas.
1937 ~ Aviator Amelia Earhart (1897 ~ 1937) and her navigator Fred Noonan (1893 ~ 1937) disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. She would formally be declared dead on January 5, 1939.
1934 ~ The Night of the Long Knives in Nazi Germany ended with the death of Nazi officer Ernest Röhm (1887 ~ 1934).
1921 ~ President Warren G. Harding (1865 ~ 1923) signed the Knox-Porter Resolution, which formally ended the World War I between the United States and Germany.
1900 ~ Finlandia by Jean Sibelius (1865 ~ 1957) was played for the first time in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society.
1900 ~ The maiden voyage of the dirigible, invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838 ~ 1917), took place over Lake Constance, Germany.
1897 ~ Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi (1874 ~ 1937) received a patent for the radio.
1890 ~ The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed by the United States Congress. The Act was designed to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies.
1881 ~ James Garfield (1831 ~ 1881), United States President, was shot in an assassination attempt. He died contracted an infection and died September 19, 1881.
1865 ~ The Salvation Army was founded in the East End of London, England.
1840 ~ A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck in Turkey. The earthquake also impacted a volcanic eruption on Mount Ararat. Over 10,000 people were killed in this combined earthquake-volcanic eruption.
1777 ~ Vermont became the first American territory to abolish slavery.
1776 ~ The Continental Congress adopted a resolution severing ties with the Great Britain. The formal Declaration of Independence would be approved 2 days later, on July 4, 1776.
1698 ~ Thomas Savery (1650 ~ 1715) patented the first steam engine.
Good-Byes:
2019 ~ Lee Iacocca (né Lido Anthony Iacocca; b. Oct. 15, 1924), American businessman and master salesman who saved Chrysler. He was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He died at age 94 in Los Angeles, California.
2016 ~ Michael Cimino (b. Feb. 3, 1939), American director and perfectionist who directed The Deer Hunter, for which he won an Oscar. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 77 in Beverly Hills, California.
2016 ~ Michel Rocard (d. Aug. 23, 1930), French politician and Prime Minister of France. He died at age 85 in Paris, France.
2016 ~ Elie Wiesel (né Eliezer Wiesel; b. Sept. 30, 1928), Romanian-born Jewish-American writer and Holocaust survivor who refused to let the world forget. His book, Night, was based on his experience in the Auschwitz, Buna and Buchenwald concentration camps during the Holocaust. He was the recipient of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. He was born in Sighet, Kingdom of Romania. He died at age 87 in New York, New York.
2014 ~ Harold W. Kuhn (né Harold William Kuhn; b. July 29, 1925), American mathematician. He was born in Santa Monica, California. He died 27 days before his 89th birthday in New York, New York.
2014 ~ Louis Zamperini (né Louis Silvie Zamberini; b. Jan. 26, 1917), American Olympian who survived Japan’s brutal POW camps during World War II. He was a long-distance racer in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He was also a Christian Evangelist. He was born in Olean, New York. He died of pneumonia at age 97 in Los Angeles, California.
2013 ~ Douglas Engelbart (né Douglas Carl Engelbart; b. Jan. 30, 1925), American computer scientist and inventor of the computer mouse. He was also responsible for laying out the principles of computer networking. He was born in Portland, Oregon. He died at age 88 in Atherton, California.
2007 ~ Beverly Sills (née Belle Mariam Silverman; b. May 25, 1929), American soprano and opera singer. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died of lung cancer at age 78.
2006 ~ Jan Murray (né Murray Janofsky; b. Oct. 4, 1916), American comedian and game show host. He was born in The Bronx, New York. He died at age 89 in Beverly Hills, California.
1999 ~ Mario Puzo (né Mario Gianluigi Puzo; b. Oct. 15, 1920), American author best known for his novel The Godfather. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 78 in West Bay Shore, New York.
1997 ~ Jimmy Stewart (né James Maitland Stewart; b. May 20, 1908), American actor. He was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He died of a pulmonary embolism at age 89 in Beverly Hills, California.
1993 ~ Fred Gwynne (né Frederick Hubbard Gwynne; b. July 10, 1926), American actor. He is best known for his role in The Munsters. He was born in New York, New York. He died 8 days before his 67th birthday of pancreatic cancer in Taneytown, Maryland.
1991 ~ Lee Remick (née Lee Ann Remick; b. Dec. 14, 1935), American actress. She was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. She died at age 55 of kidney cancer in Los Angeles, California.
1989 ~ Andrei Gromyko (b. July 18, 1909), Soviet politician. He died two weeks before his 80th birthday in Moscow, Russia.
1988 ~ Vibert Douglas (née Alice Vibert Douglas; b. Dec. 15, 1894), Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She died at age 93 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
1977 ~ Vladimir Nabokov (b. Apr. 22, 1899), Russian novelist, best known for Lolita. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. He died at age 78.
1973 ~ Betty Grable (née Elizabeth Ruth Grable; b. Dec. 18, 1916), American actress and pin-up girl. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She died at age 56 of lung cancer in Santa Monica, California.
1966 ~ Minnie D. Craig (née Minnie Davenport; b. Nov. 4, 1883), American politician. In 1923, she was elected to the North Dakota House of Representatives. Ten years later, she was elected to be the Speaker of the House of Representatives. She was the first person to be elected as Speaker in any State of the Union. She was born in Phillips, Maine. She attended the Farmington State Normal School and became a schoolteacher. After she married, she and her husband moved to North Dakota. She was born in Philips, Maine. She died in Farmington, Maine at age 82.
1961 ~ Ernest Hemingway (né Ernest Miller Hemingway; b. July 21, 1899), American novelist and recipient of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He died by suicide three weeks before his 62nd birthday in Ketchum, Idaho.
1949 ~ Georgi Dimitrov (b. June 18, 1882), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was the first Communist leader of Bulgaria. He was in office from December 1946 until July 1949. He died 14 days after his 67th birthday.
1947 ~ Nikolai Chebotaryov (d. June 15, 1894), Ukrainian mathematician. He died 17 days after his 53rd birthday in Moscow, Russia.
1932 ~ Manuel II, King of Portugal (b. Nov. 15, 1889). He ruled Portugal from 1908 until October 1910. He ascended to the throne following the assassination of his father. He was the last king of Portugal when the monarchy fell during the October 5 revolution. He fled the country and spent the rest of his life in exile in England. In 1913, he married Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern (1890 ~ 1966). There were no children of the marriage. He was of the House of Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He was the son of Carlos I, King of Portugal and Amélie of Orléans. He was Roman Catholic. He died unexpectedly at age 42.
1919 ~ Anna Howard Shaw (b. Feb. 14, 1847), British-born American suffragette. She was also one of the first ordained Methodist ministers in the United States. In addition, she was a physician. She was born in England. She died at age 72 in Moylan, Pennsylvania.
1917 ~ William Moody (né William Henry Moody; b. Dec. 23, 1853), Associate Justice of the United States. He was nominated to the United States Supreme Court by President Theodore Roosevelt. He replaced Henry Brown on the Court. He was succeeded by Joseph Lamar. He served on the Court from December 1906 until November 1910. He is known for serving in all three of the United States branches of government. He also served in President Theodore Roosevelt’s administration as the 45th United States Attorney General and the 35th United States Secretary of the Navy. He also served as a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He served in all three branches of the Federal government. He was born in Newbury, Massachusetts. He died in Haverhill, Massachusetts at age 63.
1915 ~ José de la Cruz Porfiro Díaz Mori (b. Sept. 15, 1830), President of Mexico. He was President from December 1884 until he was forced to resign May 1911 during the Mexican Revolution. He was born in Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. He died at age 84 in exile in Paris France.
1850 ~ Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (b. Feb. 5, 1788), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served two terms as Prime Minister, the first from December 1834 to April 1835 during the reign of King William IV, and second from August 1841 until June 1846 during the reign of Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom. He died at age 62 in Westminster, Middlesex, England.
1843 ~ Samuel Hahnemann (né Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann; b. Apr. 10, 1755), German physician best known for creating an alternative form of medicine now known as homeopathy. He died at age 88 in Paris, France.
1778 ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (b. June 28, 1712), French philosopher and writer during the Enlightenment period. His philosophy helped shape events that led to the French Revolution. He was born in Geneva, Republic of Geneva. He died 4 days after his 66th birthday.
1743 ~ Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (b. 1673), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was Prime Minister during the reign of King George II from February 1742 until his death on this date in 1743. The exact date of his birth is unknown. He died at age 70 in Westminster, England.
1621 ~ Thomas Harriot (b. 1560), British astronomer and mathematician. He was born in Oxford, England. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 60 or 61 at the time of his death. He died in London, England.
1566 ~ Nostradamus (né Michel de Nostredame; b. Dec. 14, 1503), French astrologer and seer who published collections of prophecies. The exact date of his birth is unknown; it is sometimes recorded as December 21, 1503. He was 62 when he died.
1298 ~ Adolf, King of Germany (b. 1255). He ruled over Germany from 1292 until he was deposed shortly before his death 1298. He was married to Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg (1255 ~ 1313). He was of the Royal House of Nassau. He was the son of Walram II, Count of Nassau and Adelheid of Katzenelnbogen. He was Roman Catholic. Adolf was killed in the Battle of Göllheim fighting against Albert of Habsburg, his successor. The exact date of his birth is not known, but he was believed to have been about age 43 at the time of his death.
936 ~ Henry the Fowler (b. 876), King of East Francia. He ruled from 919 until his death 17 years later. He was married twice. His first wife was Hatheburg of Merseburg (876 ~ 909). After their marriage dissolved, she entered the convent. His second wife was Matilda of Ringelheim (892 ~ 968). The date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been about age 59 or 60. He was the father of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.
866 ~ Robert the Strong (b. 830), Frankish nobleman and father of 2 kings of West Francia: Odo and Robert I of France. He was married to Adelaide of Tours (820 ~ 899). The date of his birth is not known. He was killed in battle at about age 35 or 36.
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