General Events and Observations of July 3

683: Pope Leo II
1570: Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist
1642: Maria de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
1672: Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
1704: Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
1749: William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
1778: Anna Maria Walburga Mozart née Pertl, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus
1790: Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (b. 1736)
1795: Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b.
1795: Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
1809: Joseph Quesnel, French Canadian composer, poet and playwright (b
1858: Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
1863: George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
1904: Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
1904: Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)
1914: Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)
1916: Hetty Green, American businesswoman (b. 1834)
1918: Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
1933: Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
1935: André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
1942: Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)
1954: Siegfried Handloser, German physician (b. 1895)
1957: Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
1969: Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (drowned) (b.
1971: Jim Morrison, American poet, singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
1977: Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (b. 1891
1978: James Daly, American actor (b. 1918)
1979: Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
1981: Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (b. 1920)
1985: Frank Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (b. 1893)
1986: Rudy Vallee, American singer (b. 1901)
1989: Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
1993: Don Drysdale, baseball player (b. 1936)
1993: Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
1994: Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
1995: Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1995: Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
1998: Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
1999: Mark Sandman, American musician (b. 1952)
2000: Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
2001: Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
2001: Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
2003: Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914)
2004: Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut (b. 1929)
2005: Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)
2005: Gaylord Nelson, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1916)
2006: Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
2006: Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
2007: Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (b. 1915)
2007: Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)

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