General Events and Observations of July 1

251: Decius, Roman Emperor (b. 207)
251: Herennius Etruscus, Roman Emperor (b. ca. 227)
868: Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (b. 828)
1109: King Alfonso VI of Castile (b. 1040)
1277: Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1223)
1592: Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer
1614: Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)
1622: William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575)
1681: Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (b. 1629)
1708: Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
1774: Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (b. 1705)
1782: Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1730)
1784: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
1819: Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1752)
1860: Charles Goodyear, American inventor (b. 1800)
1863: John Fulton Reynolds, American Civil War general (b. 1820)
1894: Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)
1896: Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (b. 1811)
1925: Erik Satie, French composer (b. 1866)
1944: Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (b. 1930)
1948: Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (b. 1904)
1950: Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1873)
1950: Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (b. 1865)
1961: Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)
1964: Pierre Monteux, French conductor (b. 1875)
1965: Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
1968: Fritz Bauer, German judge and prosecutor (b. 1903)
1971: William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
1974: Juan Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
1976: Anneliese Michel, German woman said to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
1978: Kurt Student, German Luftwaffe general (b. 1890)
1981: Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921)
1981: Rushton Moreve, American bass player (b. 1948)
1983: R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and philosopher (b. 1903)
1984: Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born educator (b. 1904)
1987: Snakefinger, British-born musician (b. 1949)
1991: Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
1992: Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissauan politician (b. 1933)
1992: Franco Cristaldi, Italian film producer (b. 1924)
1995: Wolfman Jack, American radio personality (b. 1939)
1996: Margaux Hemingway, American actress and model (b. 1954)
1996: Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter (b. 1942)
1996: William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1904)
1997: Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)
1999: Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-born film director (b. 1908)
1999: Forrest Mars Sr., American candy magnate (b. 1904)
1999: Guy Mitchell, American popular singer (b. 1927)
1999: Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
2000: Sarah Payne, British murder victim (b. 1992)
2000: Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
2001: Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
2003: Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (b. 1930)
2003: N!xau, Namibian actor (b. 1944)
2003: Wesley Mouzon, American boxer (b. 1927)
2004: Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924)
2004: Peter Barnes, English writer (b. 1931)
2004: Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (b. 1909)
2005: Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951)
2005: Obie Benson, American musician (b. 1936)
2006: Fred Trueman, English cricketer (b. 1931)

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