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July 29 is the 210th day of the year (211th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 155 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

  • 587 BC – The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple.
  • 238 – The Praetorian Guard storm the palace and capture Pupienus and Balbinus. They are dragged through the streets of Rome and executed. On the same day, Gordian III, age 13, is proclaimed emperor, the sixth emperor of the year.
  • 615Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12.
  • 904Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.
  • 923Battle of Firenzuola: Lombard forces under King Rudolph II and Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, defeat the dethroned Emperor Berengar I of Italy at Firenzuola (Tuscany).
  • 1014Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6.
  • 1018 – Count Dirk III defeats an army sent by Emperor Henry II in the Battle of Vlaardingen.
  • 1030Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad: King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
  • 1148 – The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the Second Crusade.
  • 1565 – The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • 1567 – The infant James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
  • 1588Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
  • 1693War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen: France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
  • 1775 – Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps: General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army.
  • 1818 – French physicist Augustin Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.
  • 1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.
  • 1848Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt: In County Tipperary, Ireland, then in the United Kingdom, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
  • 1851Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
  • 1858 – United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
  • 1864American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
  • 1871 – The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
  • 1899 – The First Hague Convention is signed.
  • 1900 – In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.[1]
  • 1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9 and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
  • 1914 – The Cape Cod Canal opened.
  • 1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
  • 1921Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
  • 1932Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
  • 1937Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.
  • 1945 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
  • 1948Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
  • 1950Korean War: After four days, the No Gun Ri Massacre ends when the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment is withdrawn.
  • 1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
  • 1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
  • 1959 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
  • 1965Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
  • 1967 – Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
  • 1967 – During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
  • 1973Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
  • 1973 – Driver Roger Williamson is killed during the Dutch Grand Prix, after a suspected tire failure causes his car to pitch into the barriers at high speed.
  • 1976 – In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
  • 1980 – Iran adopts a new "holy" flag after the Islamic Revolution.
  • 1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
  • 1981 – After impeachment on June 21, Abolhassan Banisadr flees with Massoud Rajavi to Paris, in an Iranian Air Force Boeing 707, piloted by Colonel Behzad Moezzi, to form the National Council of Resistance of Iran.[2]
  • 1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
  • 1987 – Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
  • 1993 – The Supreme Court of Israel acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
  • 1996 – The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.
  • 2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.
  • 2010 – An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths.
  • 2013 – Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people.
  • 2019 – The 2019 Altamira prison riot between rival Brazilian drug gangs leaves 62 dead.[3]

Births[]

  • 869Muhammad al-Mahdi, Iraqi 12th Imam (d. 941)
  • 996Fujiwara no Norimichi, Japanese nobleman (d. 1075)
  • 1166Henry II, French nobleman and king of Jerusalem (d. 1197)
  • 1356Martin the Elder, king of Aragon, Valencia and Majorca (d. 1410)
  • 1537Pedro Téllez-Girón, Spanish nobleman (d. 1590)
  • 1573Philip II, duke of Pomerania-Stettin (d. 1618)
  • 1580Francesco Mochi, Italian sculptor (d. 1654)
  • 1605Simon Dach, German poet and hymn-writer (d. 1659)
  • 1646Johann Theile, German organist and composer (d. 1724)
  • 1744Giulio Maria della Somaglia, Italian cardinal (d. 1830)
  • 1763Philip Charles Durham, Scottish admiral and politician (d. 1845)
  • 1797Daniel Drew, American businessman and financier (d. 1879)
  • 1801George Bradshaw, English cartographer and publisher (d. 1853)
  • 1805Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and philosopher (d. 1859)
  • 1806Horace Abbott, American businessman and banker (d. 1887)
  • 1817Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian-Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1900)
  • 1817 – Martin Körber, Baltic German pastor, composer, and conductor (d. 1893)
  • 1841Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician (d. 1912)
  • 1843Johannes Schmidt, German linguist and academic (d. 1901)
  • 1846Sophie Menter, German pianist and composer (d. 1918)
  • 1846 – Isabel, Brazilian princess (d. 1921)
  • 1849Max Nordau, Hungarian physician, author, and critic, co-founded the World Zionist Organization (d. 1923)
  • 1860Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (d. 1940)
  • 1867Berthold Oppenheim, Moravian rabbi (d. 1942)
  • 1869Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist (d. 1946)
  • 1871Jakob Mändmets, Estonian writer and journalist (d. 1930)
  • 1872Eric Alfred Knudsen, American author, lawyer, and politician (d. 1957)
  • 1874J. S. Woodsworth, Canadian minister and politician (d. 1942)
  • 1876Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-American actress and acting teacher (d. 1949)
  • 1878Don Marquis, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1937)
  • 1883Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and author (d. 1942)
  • 1883 – Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist revolutionary and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1945)
  • 1884Ralph Austin Bard, American financier and politician, 2nd Under Secretary of the Navy (d. 1975)
  • 1885Theda Bara, American actress (d. 1955)
  • 1887Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-American pianist and composer (d. 1951)
  • 1888Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer, invented the Iconoscope (d. 1982)
  • 1891Bernhard Zondek, German-Israeli gynecologist and academic (d. 1966)
  • 1892William Powell, American actor and singer (d. 1984)
  • 1896Maria L. de Hernández, Mexican-American rights activist (d. 1986)
  • 1897Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general (d. 1983)
  • 1898Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
  • 1899Walter Beall, American baseball player (d. 1959)
  • 1900Mary V. Austin, Australian community worker and political activist (d. 1986)
  • 1900 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976)
  • 1900 – Teresa Noce, Italian labor leader, activist, and journalist (d. 1980)
  • 1900 – Don Redman, American composer, and bandleader (d. 1964)
  • 1904Mahasi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher (d. 1982)
  • 1904 – J. R. D. Tata, French-Indian pilot and businessman, founded Tata Motors and Tata Global Beverages (d. 1993)
  • 1905Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
  • 1905 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
  • 1905 – Stanley Kunitz, American poet and translator (d. 2006)
  • 1906Thelma Todd, American actress and singer (d. 1935)
  • 1907Melvin Belli, American lawyer (d. 1996)
  • 1909Samm Sinclair Baker, American author (d. 1997)
  • 1909 – Chester Himes, American-Spanish author (d. 1984)
  • 1910Gale Page, American actress (d. 1983)
  • 1911Foster Furcolo, American lawyer and politician, 60th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1995)
  • 1911 – Archbishop Iakovos of America (d. 2005)
  • 1913Erich Priebke, German war criminal, leader of the 1944 Ardeatine massacre (d. 2013)
  • 1914Irwin Corey, American actor and activist (d. 2017)
  • 1915Bruce R. McConkie, American colonel and religious leader (d. 1985)
  • 1915 – Francis W. Sargent, American soldier and politician, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1998)
  • 1916Budd Boetticher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
  • 1916 – Charlie Christian, American guitarist (d. 1942)
  • 1916 – Rupert Hamer, Australian politician, 39th Premier of Victoria (d. 2004)
  • 1917Rochus Misch, German SS officer (d. 2013)
  • 1918Don Ingalls, American writer and producer (d. 2014)
  • 1918 – Edwin O'Connor, American journalist and author (d. 1968)
  • 1918 – Mary Lee Settle, American novelist, essayist, and memoirist (d. 2005)
  • 1920Neville Jeffress, Australian businessman (d. 2007)
  • 1921Richard Egan, American actor (d. 1987)
  • 1921 – Chris Marker, French photographer and journalist (d. 2012)
  • 1923George Burditt, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
  • 1923 – Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (d. 2014)
  • 1923 – Jim Marshall, English businessman, founded Marshall Amplification (d. 2012)
  • 1923 – Gordon Mitchell, American bodybuilder and actor (d. 2003)
  • 1924Lloyd Bochner, Canadian-American actor (d. 2005)
  • 1924 – Robert Horton, American actor (d. 2016)[4]
  • 1925Harold W. Kuhn, American mathematician and academic (d. 2014)
  • 1925 – Ted Lindsay, Canadian ice hockey player, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2019)
  • 1925 – Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
  • 1926Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig, Scottish physician, academic, and politician (d. 2015)
  • 1927Harry Mulisch, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (d. 2010)
  • 1930Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2018)
  • 1931Kjell Karlsen, Norwegian pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2020)
  • 1932Leslie Fielding, English diplomat
  • 1932 – Nancy Kassebaum, American businesswoman and politician
  • 1933Lou Albano, Italian-American wrestler, manager, and actor (d. 2009)
  • 1933 – Colin Davis, English race car driver (d. 2012)
  • 1933 – Robert Fuller, American actor and rancher
  • 1933 – Randy Sparks, American folk singer-songwriter and musician
  • 1935Peter Schreier, German tenor and conductor (d. 2019)
  • 1936Elizabeth Dole, American lawyer and politician, 20th United States Secretary of Labor
  • 1937Daniel McFadden, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate
  • 1938Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist and author (d. 2005)
  • 1938 – Jean Rochon, Canadian physician and politician
  • 1940Betty Harris, American chemist
  • 1940 – Winnie Monsod, Filipina economist and political commentator
  • 1941Jennifer Dunn, American engineer and politician (d. 2007)
  • 1941 – Goenawan Mohamad, Indonesian poet and playwright
  • 1941 – David Warner, English actor
  • 1942Doug Ashdown, Australian singer-songwriter
  • 1943David Taylor, English snooker player and sportscaster
  • 1944Jim Bridwell, American rock climber and mountaineer
  • 1945Sharon Creech, American author and educator
  • 1945 – Mircea Lucescu, Romanian footballer, coach, and manager
  • 1946Ximena Armas, Chilean painter
  • 1946 – Stig Blomqvist, Swedish race car driver
  • 1946 – Neal Doughty, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
  • 1946 – Alessandro Gogna, Italian mountaineer and adventurer
  • 1946 – Diane Keen, English actress
  • 1946 – Aleksei Tammiste, Estonian basketball player
  • 1947Dick Harmon, American golfer and coach (d. 2006)
  • 1948John Clarke, New Zealand-Australian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
  • 1949Leslie Easterbrook, American actress
  • 1949 – Jamil Mahuad, Ecuadorian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Ecuador
  • 1950Jenny Holzer, American painter, author, and dancer
  • 1951Susan Blackmore, English psychologist and theorist
  • 1951 – Dan Driessen, American baseball player and coach
  • 1951 – Dean Pitchford, American actor, director, screenwriter, and composer
  • 1952Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell, English businessman and politician
  • 1952 – Joe Johnson, English snooker player and sportscaster
  • 1952 – Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Greek politician
  • 1953Ken Burns, American director and producer
  • 1953 – Geddy Lee, Canadian musician
  • 1953 – Frank McGuinness, Irish poet and playwright
  • 1953 – Tim Gunn, American television host and actor
  • 1954Patti Scialfa, American musician[5]
  • 1955Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor, director, and screenwriter
  • 1955 – Dave Stevens, American illustrator (d. 2008)
  • 1955 – Stephen Timms, English politician, Minister of State for Competitiveness
  • 1956Teddy Atlas, American boxer, trainer, and sportscaster
  • 1956 – Ronnie Musgrove, American lawyer and politician, 62nd Governor of Mississippi
  • 1956 – Faustino Rupérez, Spanish cyclist
  • 1957Liam Davison, Australian author and educator (d. 2014)
  • 1957 – Viktor Gavrikov, Lithuanian-Swiss chess player (d. 2016)
  • 1957 – Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast and coach
  • 1958Gail Dines, English-American author, activist, and academic
  • 1958 – Simon Nye, English screenwriter and producer
  • 1958 – Cynthia Rowley, American fashion designer
  • 1959Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor, singer, and producer
  • 1959 – Ruud Janssen, Dutch blogger and illustrator
  • 1959 – Dave LaPoint, American baseball player and manager
  • 1959 – John Sykes, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1960Didier Van Cauwelaert, French author
  • 1962Carl Cox, English DJ and producer
  • 1962 – Frank Neubarth, German footballer and manager
  • 1962 – Scott Steiner, American wrestler
  • 1962 – Vincent Rousseau, Belgian runner
  • 1963Hans-Holger Albrecht, Belgian-German businessman
  • 1963 – Jim Beglin, Irish footballer and sportscaster
  • 1963 – Julie Elliott, English politician
  • 1963 – Azeem Hafeez, Pakistani cricketer
  • 1963 – Alexandra Paul, American actress and producer
  • 1963 – Graham Poll, English footballer, referee, and journalist
  • 1964Jaanus Veensalu, Estonian footballer
  • 1965Luis Alicea, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach
  • 1965 – Dean Haglund, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1965 – Adam Holloway, English captain and politician
  • 1965 – Stan Koziol, American soccer player (d. 2014)
  • 1965 – Chang-Rae Lee, South Korean-American author and academic
  • 1965 – Xavier Waterkeyn, Australian author
  • 1965 – Woody Weatherman, American guitarist and songwriter
  • 1966Sally Gunnell, English hurdler and sportscaster
  • 1966 – Stuart Lampitt, English cricketer
  • 1966 – Martina McBride, American singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1968Gideon Henderson, English geologist and academic
  • 1968 – Paavo Lötjönen, Finnish cellist and educator
  • 1970Adele Griffin, American author
  • 1970 – Andi Peters, English journalist, actor, and producer
  • 1970 – John Rennie, Zimbabwean cricketer
  • 1971Andrea Philipp, German sprinter
  • 1972Wil Wheaton, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1973Stephen Dorff, American actor and producer[6]
  • 1973 – Denis Urubko, Kazakh mountaineer
  • 1975Yoshihiro Akiyama, Japanese mixed martial artist
  • 1975 – Lanka de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
  • 1975 – Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer
  • 1975 – Jaanus Sirel, Estonian footballer
  • 1978Mike Adams, American baseball player
  • 1978 – Marina Lazarovska, Macedonian tennis player
  • 1979Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer
  • 1979 – Ronald Murray, American basketball player
  • 1979 – Juris Umbraško, Latvian basketball player
  • 1980Ryan Braun, Canadian-American baseball player
  • 1980 – Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
  • 1980 – Ben Koller, American drummer
  • 1980 – John Morris, Australian rugby league player
  • 1981Fernando Alonso, Spanish race car driver
  • 1981 – Andrés Madrid, Argentinian footballer
  • 1981 – Troy Perkins, American soccer player
  • 1982Janez Aljančič, Slovenian footballer
  • 1982 – Jônatas Domingos, Brazilian footballer
  • 1982 – Allison Mack, American actress and criminal[7]
  • 1983Jason Belmonte, Australian bowler
  • 1983 – Inés Gómez Mont, Mexican journalist and actress
  • 1983 – Alexei Kaigorodov, Russian ice hockey player
  • 1983 – Jerious Norwood, American football player
  • 1983 – Elise Testone, American singer-songwriter
  • 1984Oh Beom-seok, South Korean footballer
  • 1984 – Chad Billingsley, American baseball player
  • 1984 – Wilson Palacios, Honduran footballer
  • 1985Besart Berisha, Albanian footballer
  • 1985 – Okinoumi Ayumi, Japanese sumo wrestler
  • 1985 – Simon Santoso, Indonesian badminton player
  • 1988Tarjei Bø, Norwegian biathlete
  • 1989Grit Šadeiko, Estonian heptathlete
  • 1991Dale Copley, Australian rugby league player
  • 1991 – Irakli Logua, Russian footballer
  • 1992Karen Torrez, Bolivian swimmer
  • 1993Nicole Melichar, American tennis player
  • 1994Liam O'Brien, Canadian ice hockey player

Deaths[]

  • 238Balbinus, Roman emperor (b. 165)
  • 238 – Pupienus, Roman emperor (b. 178)
  • 451Tuoba Huang, prince of Northern Wei (b. 428)
  • 796Offa of Mercia (b. 730)
  • 846Li Shen, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
  • 1030Olaf II of Norway (b. 995)
  • 1095Ladislaus I of Hungary (b. 1040)
  • 1099Pope Urban II (b. 1042)
  • 1108Philip I of France (b. 1052)
  • 1236Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France (b. 1175)
  • 1326Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster (b. 1259)
  • 1504Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (b. 1435)
  • 1507Martin Behaim, German-Bohemian geographer and astronomer (b. 1459)
  • 1573John Caius, English physician and academic (b. 1510)
  • 1612Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
  • 1644Pope Urban VIII (b. 1568)
  • 1752Peter Warren, Irish admiral and politician (b. 1703)
  • 1781Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
  • 1792René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, French lawyer and politician, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
  • 1813Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
  • 1833William Wilberforce, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1759)
  • 1839Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1755)
  • 1844Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1791)
  • 1856Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (b. 1810)
  • 1857Thomas Dick, Scottish minister, astronomer, and author (b. 1774)
  • 1887Agostino Depretis, Italian politician, 9th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1813)
  • 1890Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
  • 1895Floriano Peixoto, Brazilian general and politician, 2nd President of Brazil (b. 1839)
  • 1900Umberto I of Italy (b. 1844)[1]
  • 1908Marie Adam-Doerrer (b. 1838)
  • 1913Tobias Asser, Dutch lawyer and jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1838)
  • 1918Ernest William Christmas, Australian-American painter (b. 1863)
  • 1924Sotirios Krokidas, Greek educator and politician, 110th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1852)
  • 1934Didier Pitre, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
  • 1938Nikolai Krylenko, Russian lawyer, jurist, and politician, Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR (b. 1885)
  • 1950Joe Fry, English race car driver (b. 1915)
  • 1951Ali Sami Yen, Turkish footballer and manager, founded Galatasaray S.K. (b. 1886)
  • 1954Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
  • 1960Hasan Saka, Turkish politician, 7th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1885)
  • 1962Ronald Fisher, English biologist and statistician (b. 1890)
  • 1962 – Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian-American flute player and educator (b. 1875)
  • 1964Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
  • 1966Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian general and politician, 2nd Head of State of Nigeria (b. 1924)
  • 1966 – Adekunle Fajuyi, Nigerian colonel (b. 1926)
  • 1970John Barbirolli, English cellist and conductor (b. 1899)
  • 1973Norm Smith, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1915)
  • 1973 – Roger Williamson, English race car driver (b. 1948)
  • 1974Cass Elliot, American singer (b. 1941)
  • 1974 – Erich Kästner, German author and poet (b. 1899)
  • 1976Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
  • 1978Andrzej Bogucki, Polish actor, operetta singer, and songwriter (b. 1904)
  • 1979Herbert Marcuse, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1898)
  • 1979 – Bill Todman, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1916)
  • 1981Robert Moses, American urban planner, designed the Northern State Parkway and Southern State Parkway (b. 1888)
  • 1982Harold Sakata, American wrestler and actor (b. 1920)
  • 1982 – Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer, invented the Iconoscope (b. 1889)
  • 1983Luis Buñuel, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1900)
  • 1983 – Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1896)
  • 1983 – David Niven, English military officer and actor (b. 1910)
  • 1984Fred Waring, American television host and bandleader (b. 1900)
  • 1987Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1894)
  • 1990Bruno Kreisky, Austrian academic and politician, 22nd Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
  • 1992Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1952)
  • 1994John Britton, American physician (b. 1925)
  • 1994 – Dorothy Hodgkin, Egyptian-English biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
  • 1995Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1917)
  • 1996Ric Nordman, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1919)
  • 1996 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1920)
  • 1996 – Jason Thirsk, American singer and bass player (b. 1967)
  • 1998Jerome Robbins, American director, producer, and choreographer (b. 1918)
  • 2001Edward Gierek, Polish soldier and politician (b. 1913)
  • 2001 – Wau Holland, German computer scientist, co-founded Chaos Computer Club (b. 1951)
  • 2003Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean soldier, founded the Revolutionary United Front (b. 1937)
  • 2004Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (b. 1923)
  • 2007Mike Reid, English comedian, actor, and author (b. 1940)
  • 2007 – Michel Serrault, French actor (b. 1928)
  • 2007 – Tom Snyder, American journalist and talk show host (b. 1936)
  • 2007 – Marvin Zindler, American journalist (b. 1921)
  • 2008Bruce Edward Ivins, American scientist and bio-defense researcher (b. 1946)
  • 2010Charles E. Wicks, American chemist and academic (b. 1925)
  • 2012Tatiana Egorova, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1970)
  • 2012 – August Kowalczyk, Polish actor and director (b. 1921)
  • 2012 – Chris Marker, French photographer and journalist (b. 1921)
  • 2012 – James Mellaart, English archaeologist and author (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – John Stampe, Danish footballer and coach (b. 1957)
  • 2013Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1986)
  • 2013 – Peter Flanigan, American banker and civil servant (b. 1923)
  • 2013 – Tony Gaze, Australian soldier, pilot, and race car driver (b. 1920)
  • 2013 – Munir Hussain, Indian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1929)
  • 2014M. Caldwell Butler, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1925)
  • 2014 – Jon R. Cavaiani, English-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1943)
  • 2014 – Giorgio Gaslini, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1929)
  • 2014 – María Antonia Iglesias, Spanish journalist and author (b. 1945)
  • 2014 – Péter Kiss, Hungarian engineer and politician (b. 1959)
  • 2014 – Idris Muhammad, American drummer and composer (b. 1939)
  • 2014 – Thomas R. St. George, American soldier and author (b. 1919)
  • 2015Antony Holland, English-Canadian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1920)
  • 2015 – Peter O'Sullevan, Anglo-Irish sportscaster (b. 1918)
  • 2015 – Mike Pyle, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1939)
  • 2015 – Franklin H. Westervelt, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic (b. 1930)
  • 2018Oliver Dragojević, a Croatian recording artist (b. 1947) [8]
  • 2018 – Nikolai Volkoff, Yugoslav-born American professional wrestler (b. 1947)[9]

Holidays and observances[]

  • Christian feast day:
    • Lupus of Troyes
    • Martha of Bethany (Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran Church)
    • Mary of Bethany
    • Olaf II of Norway
    • Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix
    • July 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Earliest day on which Somer's Day can fall, while August 4 is the latest; celebrated on Friday before the first Monday in August. (Bermuda)
  • International Tiger Day[10]
  • Mohun Bagan Day (India)
  • National Anthem Day (Romania)
  • National Thai Language Day (Thailand)
  • Ólavsøka or Olsok, opening of the Løgting session. (Faroe Islands and the Nordic countries)

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Newton, Michael (2014). Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. p. 588. ISBN 978-1-61069-286-1. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  2. Bani-Sadr escapes to Paris[1]
  3. Jonathan Watts (2019-07-29). "Gang violence leaves more than 50 dead in Brazil prison riot". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
  4. "Robert Horton, actor - obituary". The Telegraph. 20 March 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  5. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/patti-scialfa-mn0000747507/biography
  6. "Stephen Dorff Biography (1973-)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved June 13, 2012.
  7. Artvoice (8 April 2019). "Alllison Mack pleads guilty to racketeering; avoids sex trafficking charges; 'I thought Keith Raniere was trying to help people, I was wrong'". Artvoice.
  8. Thomas, Mark. "Oliver Dragojevic dies after losing battle with cancer - The Dubrovnik Times". www.thedubrovniktimes.com. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
  9. "Josip Peruzovic". Newsday Entertainment/Celebrities. 2018-08-10.
  10. "International Tiger Day". wwf.org.uk. WWF-UK. Retrieved 25 July 2020.

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