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==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[657]] – [[First Fitna]]: In the [[Battle of Siffin]], troops led by [[Ali|Ali ibn Abu Talib]] clash with those led by [[Muawiyah I]].
* [[811]] – [[Battle of Pliska]]: [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine Emperor]] [[Nikephoros I]] is killed and his heir [[Staurakios]] is seriously wounded.
* [[920]] – Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from [[Navarre]] and [[León, Spain|Léon]] against the Muslims at the [[Battle of Valdejunquera]].
*[[1309]] – [[Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor|Henry VII]] is recognized [[King of the Romans]] by [[Pope Clement V]].
*[[1509]] – The Emperor [[Krishnadevaraya]] ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the [[Vijayanagara Empire]].
*[[1529]] – [[Francisco Pizarro González]], Spanish conquistador, is appointed governor of Peru.
*[[1579]] – [[Francis Drake]], the English explorer, discovers a major bay on the coast of California ([[San Francisco]]). <ref>{{cite book|first=Clifton|last=Daniel|title=Chronicle of America|publisher=Chronicle publication|year=1989|page=34|ISBN=0-13-133745-9}}</ref>
*[[1581]] – [[Act of Abjuration|Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration)]]: The northern [[Low Countries]] declare their independence from the Spanish king, [[Philip II of Spain|Philip II]].
===1601-1900===
*[[1703]] – During the ''[[Bavarian Rummel]]'' the rural population of [[County of Tyrol|Tyrol]] drove the [[History of Bavaria#Absolutism|Bavarian]] Prince-Elector [[Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria|Maximilian II Emanuel]] out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the [[Bavarian Army]], which was allied with [[History of France#Louis XIV (1643–1715)|France]], from marching as planned on [[Vienna]] during the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].
*[[1745]] – The first recorded [[History of women's cricket|women's cricket]] match takes place near [[Guildford]], England.
*[[1758]] – [[French and Indian War]]: The [[Siege of Louisbourg (1758)|Siege of Louisbourg]] ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the [[Gulf of Saint Lawrence]].
*[[1775]] – The office that would later become the [[United States Post Office Department]] is established by the [[Second Continental Congress]]. [[Benjamin Franklin]] of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.
*[[1788]] – New York ratifies the [[United States Constitution]] and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
*[[1803]] – The [[Surrey Iron Railway]], arguably the world's first public [[Rail transport|railway]], opens in south London, United Kingdom.
*[[1814]] – The [[Swedish–Norwegian War (1814)|Swedish–Norwegian War]] begins.
*[[1822]] – [[José de San Martín]] arrives in [[Guayaquil]], [[Ecuador]], to [[Guayaquil Conference|meet]] with [[Simón Bolívar]].
* 1822 – First day of the three-day [[Battle of Dervenakia]], between the [[Ottoman Empire]] force led by [[Mahmud Dramali Pasha]] and the [[Greek War of Independence|Greek Revolutionary]] force led by [[Theodoros Kolokotronis]].
*[[1847]] – [[Liberia]] declares its independence.
*[[1861]] – [[American Civil War]]: [[George B. McClellan]] assumes command of the [[Army of the Potomac]] following a disastrous [[Union Army|Union]] defeat at the [[First Battle of Bull Run]].
*[[1863]] – American Civil War: [[Morgan's Raid]] ends; At [[Salineville, Ohio]], [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] cavalry leader [[John Hunt Morgan]] and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
*[[1882]] – Premiere of [[Richard Wagner]]'s opera ''[[Parsifal]]'' at [[Bayreuth]].
* 1882 – The Republic of [[Stellaland]] is founded in Southern Africa.
*[[1887]] – Publication of the ''[[Unua Libro]]'', founding the Esperanto movement.
*[[1890]] – In [[Buenos Aires|Buenos Aires, Argentina]] the [[Revolution of the Park|Revolución del Parque]] takes place, forcing President [[Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman]]'s resignation.
*[[1891]] – France annexes [[Tahiti]].
*[[1892]] – [[Dadabhai Naoroji]] is elected as the first Indian [[British House of Commons|Member of Parliament]] in Britain.<ref>{{citation |date=26 Jul 2013 |title=From the archive, 26 July 1892: Britain's first Asian MP elected |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/jul/26/election-naoroji-finsbury-1892 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2 May 2018 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
*[[1897]] – [[Anglo-Afghan War]]: The [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] [[fakir]] [[Saidullah]] leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a [[Siege of Malakand|siege of the British garrison]] in the [[Malakand Agency]] of the [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|North West Frontier Province]] of India.
*[[1899]] – [[Ulises Heureaux]], the 27th [[President of the Dominican Republic]], is assassinated.
===1901-present===
*[[1908]] – [[United States Attorney General]] [[Charles Joseph Bonaparte]] issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]).
*[[1918]] – [[Emmy Noether]]'s paper, which became known as [[Noether's theorem]] was presented at [[Göttingen]], Germany, from which [[conservation law]]s are deduced for symmetries of [[angular momentum]], [[Momentum|linear momentum]], and [[energy]].
*[[1936]] – [[Spanish Civil War]]: [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] and [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] decide to intervene in the war in support for [[Francisco Franco]] and the [[Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)|Nationalist faction]].
* 1936 – King [[Edward VIII]], in one of his few official duties before he [[Edward VIII abdication crisis|abdicates]] the throne, officially unveils the [[Canadian National Vimy Memorial]].
*[[1937]] – Spanish Civil War: End of the [[Battle of Brunete]] with the Nationalist victory.
*[[1941]] – [[World War II]]: In response to the Japanese occupation of [[French Indochina]], the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments.
*[[1944]] – World War II: The [[Red Army]] enters [[Lviv]], a major city in western [[Ukraine]], capturing it from the [[Nazism|Nazis]]. Only 300 [[Jews]] survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
*[[1945]] – The [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] wins the [[1945 United Kingdom general election|United Kingdom general election of July 5]] by a landslide, removing [[Winston Churchill]] from power.
* 1945 – World War II: The [[Potsdam Declaration]] is signed in [[Potsdam]], Germany.
* 1945 – World War II: {{HMS|Vestal|J215|6}} is the last British [[Royal Navy]] ship to be sunk in the war.
* 1945 – World War II: The {{USS|Indianapolis|CA-35|6}} arrives at [[Tinian]] with components and [[enriched uranium]] for the [[Little Boy]] nuclear bomb.
*[[1946]] – [[Aloha Airlines]] begins service from [[Honolulu International Airport]].
*[[1947]] – [[Cold War]]: U.S. President [[Harry S. Truman]] signs the [[National Security Act of 1947]] into [[Law of the United States|United States law]] creating the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], [[United States Department of Defense]], [[United States Air Force]], [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]], and the [[United States National Security Council]].
*[[1948]] – U.S. President [[Harry S. Truman]] signs [[Executive Order 9981]], desegregating the military of the United States.
*[[1951]] – [[Walt Disney]]'s 13th [[Animation|animated film]], ''[[Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'', premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
*[[1952]] – King [[Farouk of Egypt]] abdicates in favor of his son [[Fuad II of Egypt|Fuad]].
*[[1953]] – Cold War: [[Fidel Castro]] leads an unsuccessful attack on the [[Moncada Barracks]], thus beginning the [[Cuban Revolution]]. The movement took the name of the date: [[26th of July Movement]]
* 1953 – [[Arizona]] Governor [[John Howard Pyle]] orders an anti-[[polygamy]] law enforcement crackdown on residents of [[Colorado City, Arizona|Short Creek, Arizona]], which becomes known as the [[Short Creek raid]].
* 1953 – Soldiers from the [[2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment]] repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the [[Battle of the Samichon River]], just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the [[Korean War]].
*[[1956]] – Following the [[World Bank]]'s refusal to fund building the [[Aswan Dam]], [[Egypt]]ian leader [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] nationalizes the [[Suez Canal]], [[Suez crisis|sparking international condemnation]].
*[[1957]] – [[Carlos Castillo Armas]], dictator of [[Guatemala]], is assassinated.
*[[1958]] – [[Explorer program]]: ''[[Explorer 4]]'' is launched.
*[[1963]] – [[Syncom#Syncom 2|Syncom 2]], the world's first [[geosynchronous satellite]], is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
* 1963 – An [[1963 Skopje earthquake|earthquake]] in [[Skopje]], [[Yugoslavia]] (present-day [[North Macedonia]]) leaves 1,100 dead.
* 1963 – The [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] votes to admit [[Japan]].
*[[1968]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[South Vietnam]]ese opposition leader [[Trương Đình Dzu]] is sentenced to five years [[Penal labour#Prison labour|hard labor]] for advocating the formation of a [[coalition government]] as a way to move toward an end to the war.
*[[1971]] – [[Apollo program]]: Launch of [[Apollo 15]] on the first Apollo "[[List of Apollo missions#Alphabetical mission types|J-Mission]]", and first use of a [[Lunar Roving Vehicle]].
*[[1974]] – [[Prime Minister of Greece|Greek Prime Minister]] [[Konstantinos Karamanlis]] forms the country's first civil government after [[Greek military junta of 1967–74|seven years of military rule]].
*[[1977]] – The National Assembly of [[Quebec]] imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
*[[1989]] – A federal [[grand jury]] indicts [[Cornell University]] student [[Robert Tappan Morris|Robert T. Morris, Jr.]] for releasing the [[Morris worm]], thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 [[Computer Fraud and Abuse Act]].
*[[1990]] – The [[Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990]] is signed into law by President [[George H.W. Bush]].
*[[1993]] – [[Asiana Airlines Flight 733]] crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at [[Mokpo Airport]], [[South Korea]]. Sixty-eight of the 116 people onboard are killed.
*[[1999]] – [[Kargil War|Kargil conflict]] officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
*[[2005]] – [[Space Shuttle program]]: [[STS-114]] Mission: Launch of [[Space Shuttle Discovery|''Discovery'']], [[NASA]]'s first scheduled flight mission after the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster|''Columbia'' Disaster]] in [[2003]].
* 2005 – [[Mumbai]], India receives [[Maharashtra floods of 2005|99.5cm of rain]] (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.
*[[2008]] – Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the [[2008 Ahmedabad bombings|Ahmedabad bombings in India]].
*[[2009]] – The militant [[Nigeria]]n [[Islamism|Islamist]] group [[Boko Haram]] attacks a police station in [[Bauchi]], leading to reprisals by the [[Nigeria Police Force]] and [[2009 Boko Haram Uprising|four days of violence]] across multiple cities.
*[[2011]] – A [[Royal Moroccan Air Force]] [[Lockheed C-130 Hercules]] [[2011 Royal Moroccan Air Force C-130 crash|crashes]] near [[Guelmim Airport]] in [[Guelmim]], [[Morocco]]. All 80 people on board are killed.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed C-130H Hercules CNA-OQ Goulimime Airport (GLN)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20110726-0|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-24|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[2016]] – The [[Sagamihara stabbings]] occur in [[Kanagawa Prefecture]] in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.
* 2016 – [[Hillary Clinton]] becomes the first female nominee for [[President of the United States]] by a major political party at the [[Democratic National Convention]] in [[Philadelphia]].
* 2016 – [[Solar Impulse 2]] becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the [[Earth]].
==Births==
===Pre-1600===
*[[1030]] – [[Stanislaus of Szczepanów]], Polish bishop and saint (d. 1079)
*[[1400]] – [[Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester]], English noble (d. 1439)
*[[1502]] – [[Christian Egenolff]], German printer (d. 1555)
===1601-1900===
*[[1678]] – [[Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. 1711)
*[[1711]] – [[Lorenz Christoph Mizler]], German physician, mathematician, and historian (d. 1778)
*[[1739]] – [[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]], American general and politician, 4th [[Vice President of the United States]] (d. 1812)
*[[1782]] – [[John Field (composer)|John Field]], Irish pianist and composer (d. 1837)
*[[1791]] – [[Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart]], Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1844)
*[[1796]] – [[George Catlin]], American painter, author, and traveler (d. 1872)
*[[1802]] – [[Mariano Arista]], Mexican general and politician, 42nd [[President of Mexico]] (d. 1855)
*[[1819]] – [[Justin Holland]], American guitarist and educator (d. 1887)
*[[1829]] – [[Auguste Beernaert]], Belgian politician, 14th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1912)
*[[1841]] – [[Carl Robert Jakobson]], Estonian journalist and politician (d. 1882)
*[[1842]] – [[Alfred Marshall]], English economist and academic (d. 1924)
*[[1844]] – [[Stefan Drzewiecki]], Ukrainian-Polish engineer and journalist (d. 1938)
*[[1854]] – [[Philippe Gaucher]], French dermatologist and academic (d. 1918)
*[[1855]] – [[Ferdinand Tönnies]], German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1936)
*[[1856]] – [[George Bernard Shaw]], Irish playwright and critic, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1950)
*[[1858]] – [[Tom Garrett]], Australian cricketer and lawyer (d. 1943)
*[[1863]] – [[Jāzeps Vītols]], Latvian composer (d. 1948)
*[[1865]] – [[Philipp Scheidemann]], German journalist and politician, 10th [[Chancellor of Germany]] (d. 1939)
* 1865 – [[Rajanikanta Sen]], Indian poet and composer (d. 1910)
*[[1874]] – [[Serge Koussevitzky]], Russian-American bassist, composer, and conductor (d. 1951)
*[[1875]] – [[Carl Jung]], Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (d. 1961)
* 1875 – [[Ernesta Di Capua]], Italian botanist and explorer (d. 1943)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friis |first1=Ib |last2=Ryding |first2=Olof |title=Biodiversity Research in the Horn of Africa Region: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea at the Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen, August 25-27, 1999 |date=2001 |publisher=Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab |isbn=978-8-77876-246-7 |page=116}}</ref>
* 1875 – [[Antonio Machado]], Spanish poet and academic (d. 1939)
* 1877 – [[Jesse Lauriston Livermore]], American investor and security analyst, "Great Bear of Wall Street" (d. 1940)
*[[1878]] – [[Ernst Hoppenberg]], German swimmer and water polo player (d. 1937)
*[[1879]] – [[Shunroku Hata]], Japanese field marshal and politician, 48th [[Ministry of War of Japan|Japanese Minister of War]] (d. 1962)
*[[1880]] – [[Volodymyr Vynnychenko]], Ukrainian playwright and politician, 1st [[List of Prime Ministers of Ukraine|Prime Minister of Ukrainian People's Republic]] (d. 1951)
*[[1882]] – [[Albert Dunstan]], Australian politician, 33rd [[Premier of Victoria]] (d. 1950)
*[[1885]] – [[Roy Castleton]], American baseball player (d. 1967)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lammers |first1=Craig |title=Roy Castleton {{!}} Society for American Baseball Research |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/01ef1537 |website=sabr.org |access-date=26 March 2019}}</ref>
* 1885 – [[André Maurois]], French soldier and author (d. 1967)
*[[1886]] – [[Lars Hanson]], Swedish actor (d. 1965)
*[[1888]] – [[Reginald Hands]], South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1918)
*[[1890]] – [[Daniel J. Callaghan]], American admiral, [[Medal of Honor]] recipient (d. 1942)
*[[1892]] – [[Sad Sam Jones]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1966)
*[[1893]] – [[George Grosz]], German painter and illustrator (d. 1959)
*[[1894]] – [[Aldous Huxley]], English novelist and philosopher (d. 1963)
*[[1895]] – [[Gracie Allen]], American actress and comedian (d. 1964)
*[[1896]] – [[Tim Birkin]], English soldier and race car driver (d. 1933)
*[[1897]] – [[Harold D. Cooley]], American lawyer and politician (d. 1974)
* 1897 – [[Paul Gallico]], American journalist and author (d. 1976)
*[[1900]] – [[Sarah Kafrit]], Israeli politician and teacher (d. 1983)
===1901-present===
*[[1903]] – [[Estes Kefauver]], American lawyer and politician (d. 1963)
*[[1904]] – [[Edwin Albert Link]], American industrialist and entrepreneur, invented the [[flight simulator]] (d. 1981)
*[[1906]] – [[Irena Iłłakowicz]], German-Polish lieutenant (d. 1943)
*[[1908]] – [[Lucien Wercollier]], Luxembourger sculptor (d. 2002)
*[[1909]] – [[Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft]], English lawyer and politician, [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] (d. 1994)
* 1909 – [[Vivian Vance]], American actress and singer (d. 1979)
*[[1913]] – [[Kan Yuet-keung]], Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012)
*[[1914]] – [[C. Farris Bryant]], American soldier, lawyer, and politician, [[List of Governors of Florida|34th Governor of Florida]] (d. 2002)
* 1914 – [[Erskine Hawkins]], American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1993)
* 1914 – [[Ellis Kinder]], American baseball player (d. 1968)
*[[1916]] – [[Dean Brooks]], American physician and actor (d. 2013)
* 1916 – [[Jaime Luiz Coelho]], Brazilian archbishop (d. 2013)
*[[1918]] – [[Marjorie Lord]], American actress (d. 2015)
*[[1919]] – [[Virginia Gilmore]], American actress (d. 1986)
* 1919 – [[James Lovelock]], English biologist and chemist
*[[1920]] – [[Bob Waterfield]], American football player and coach (d. 1983)
*[[1921]] – [[Tom Saffell]], American baseball player and manager (d. 2012)
* 1921 – [[Jean Shepherd]], American radio host, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
*[[1922]] – [[Blake Edwards]], American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
* 1922 – [[Jim Foglesong]], American record producer (d. 2013)
* 1922 – [[Jason Robards]], American actor (d. 2000)
*[[1923]] – [[Jan Berenstain]], American author and illustrator (d. 2012)
* 1923 – [[Hoyt Wilhelm]], American baseball player and coach (d. 2002)
*[[1925]] – [[Jerzy Einhorn]], Polish-Swedish physician and politician (d. 2000)
* 1925 – [[Joseph Engelberger]], American physicist and engineer (d. 2015)
* 1925 – [[Gene Gutowski]], Polish-American film producer (d. 2016)
* 1925 – [[Ana María Matute]], Spanish author and academic (d. 2014)
*[[1926]] – [[James Best]], American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
* 1926 – [[Dorothy E. Smith]], Canadian sociologist<ref>{{Cite thesis|last=Smyth|first=Deirdre Mary|title=A Few Laced Genes: Sociology, the Women's Movement and the Work of Dorothy E. Smith|date=1999|degree=Doctor of Philosophy|publisher=University of Toronto|url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/14239/1/NQ53916.pdf|page=43}}</ref>
*[[1927]] – [[Gulabrai Ramchand]], Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
*[[1928]] – [[Don Beauman]], English race car driver (d. 1955)
* 1928 – [[Francesco Cossiga]], Italian academic and politician, 8th [[President of Italy]] (d. 2010)
* 1928 – [[Elliott Erwitt]], French-American photographer and director
* 1928 – [[Ibn-e-Safi]], Indian-Pakistani author and poet (d. 1980)
* 1928 – [[Joe Jackson (manager)|Joe Jackson]], American talent manager, father of [[Michael Jackson]] (d. 2018)
* 1928 – [[Stanley Kubrick]], American director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 1999)
* 1928 – [[Peter Lougheed]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th [[Premier of Alberta]] (d. 2012)
* 1928 – [[Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes]], Irish-born English politician
* 1928 – [[Bernice Rubens]], Welsh author (d. 2004)
*[[1929]] – [[Marc Lalonde]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th [[Minister of Justice (Canada)|Canadian Minister of Justice]]
* 1929 – [[Alexis Weissenberg]], Bulgarian-French pianist and educator (d. 2012)
*[[1930]] – [[Plínio de Arruda Sampaio]], Brazilian lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
* 1930 – [[Barbara Jefford]], English actress (d. 2020)
*[[1931]] – [[Telê Santana]], Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2006)
*[[1934]] – [[Tommy McDonald (American football)|Tommy McDonald]], American football player (d. 2018)
*[[1936]] – [[Tsutomu Koyama]], Japanese volleyball player and coach (d. 2012)
* 1936 – [[Lawrie McMenemy]], English footballer and manager
*[[1938]] – [[Bobby Hebb]], American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
* 1938 – [[Keith Peters (physician)|Keith Peters]], Welsh physician and academic
*[[1939]] – [[Jun Henmi]], Japanese author and poet (d. 2011)
* 1939 – [[John Howard]], Australian lawyer and politician, 25th [[Prime Minister of Australia]]
* 1939 – [[Bob Lilly]], American football player and photographer
* 1939 – [[Richard Marlow]], English organist and conductor (d. 2013)
*[[1940]] – [[Dobie Gray]], American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2011)
* 1940 – [[Brian Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney]], Northern Irish-British academic and politician, [[Secretary of State for Transport]] (d. 2019)
* 1940 – [[Bobby Rousseau]], Canadian ice hockey player
*[[1941]] – [[Jean Baubérot]], French historian and sociologist
* 1941 – [[Darlene Love]], American singer and actress
* 1941 – [[Brenton Wood]], American R&B singer-songwriter and keyboard player
*[[1942]] – [[Vladimír Mečiar]], Slovak politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Slovakia]]
* 1942 – [[Teddy Pilette]], Belgian race car driver
*[[1943]] – [[Peter Hyams]], American director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
* 1943 – [[Mick Jagger]], English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
*[[1945]] – [[Betty Davis]], American singer-songwriter
* 1945 – [[Helen Mirren]], English actress <ref>{{cite news |title=Mirren seeks Oscar glory |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1866625.stm |work=BBC News |date=11 March 2002 |access-date=19 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[1946]] – [[Emilio de Villota]], Spanish race car driver
*[[1948]] – [[Luboš Andršt]], Czech guitarist and songwriter
* 1948 – [[Herbert Wiesinger]], German figure skater
*[[1949]] – [[Thaksin Shinawatra]], Thai businessman and politician, 23rd [[Prime Minister of Thailand]]
* 1949 – [[Roger Taylor (Queen drummer)|Roger Taylor]], English singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
*[[1950]] – [[Nelinho]], Brazilian footballer and manager
* 1950 – [[Nicholas Evans]], English journalist, screenwriter, and producer
* 1950 – [[Susan George (actress)|Susan George]], English actress and producer
* 1950 – [[Anne Rafferty]], English lawyer and judge
* 1950 – [[Rich Vogler]], American race car driver (d. 1990)
*[[1951]] – [[Rick Martin]], Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2011)
*[[1952]] – [[Glynis Breakwell]], English psychologist and academic
*[[1953]] – [[Felix Magath]], German footballer and manager
* 1953 – [[Robert Phillips (guitarist)|Robert Phillips]], American guitarist
* 1953 – [[Henk Bleker]], Dutch politician
* 1953 – [[Earl Tatum]], American professional basketball player
*[[1954]] – [[Vitas Gerulaitis]], American tennis player and coach (d. 1994)
*[[1955]] – [[Aleksandrs Starkovs]], Latvian footballer and coach
* 1955 – [[Asif Ali Zardari]], Pakistani businessman and politician, 11th [[President of Pakistan]]
*[[1956]] – [[Peter Fincham]], English screenwriter and producer
* 1956 – [[Dorothy Hamill]], American figure skater
* 1956 – [[Tommy Rich]], American wrestler
* 1956 – [[Tim Tremlett]], English cricketer and coach
*[[1957]] – [[Norman Baker]], Scottish politician
* 1957 – [[Nana Visitor]], American actress
*[[1958]] – [[Monti Davis]], American basketball player (d. 2013)
* 1958 – [[Angela Hewitt]], Canadian-English pianist
*[[1959]] – [[Rick Bragg]], American author and journalist
* 1959 – [[Kevin Spacey]], American actor and director
*[[1961]] – [[Gary Cherone]], American singer-songwriter
* 1961 – [[Andy Connell]], English keyboard player and songwriter
* 1961 – [[Felix Dexter]], Caribbean-English comedian and actor (d. 2013)
*[[1963]] – [[Jeff Stoughton]], Canadian curler
*[[1964]] – [[Sandra Bullock]], American actress and producer
* 1964 – [[Ralf Metzenmacher]], German painter and designer (d. 2020)
* 1964 – [[Anne Provoost]], Belgian author
*[[1965]] – [[Jeremy Piven]], American actor and producer
* 1965 – [[Jim Lindberg]], American singer and guitarist
*[[1966]] – [[Angelo di Livio]], Italian footballer
*[[1967]] – [[Martin Baker (organist)|Martin Baker]], English organist and conductor
* 1967 – [[Tim Schafer]], American video game designer, founded [[Double Fine Productions]]
* 1967 – [[Jason Statham]], English actor
*[[1968]] – [[Frédéric Diefenthal]], French actor and director
* 1968 – [[James Naismith (chemist)|Jim Naismith]], Scottish biologist and academic
* 1968 – [[Olivia Williams]], English actress
*[[1969]] – [[Greg Colbrunn]], American baseball player and coach
* 1969 – [[Tanni Grey-Thompson]], Welsh baroness and wheelchair racer
*[[1971]] – [[Khaled Mahmud]], Bangladeshi cricketer and coach
* 1971 – [[Chris Harrison]], American television personality
*[[1972]] – [[Nathan Buckley]], Australian footballer and coach
*[[1973]] – [[Kate Beckinsale]], English actress
* 1973 – [[Mariano Raffo]], Argentinian director and producer
*[[1974]] – [[Iron & Wine]], American singer-songwriter
* 1974 – [[Kees Meeuws]], New Zealand rugby player and coach
* 1974 – [[Dean Sturridge]], English footballer and sportscaster
*[[1975]] – [[Ingo Schultz]], German sprinter
* 1975 – [[Joe Smith (basketball)|Joe Smith]], American basketball player
* 1975 – [[Elizabeth Truss]], English accountant and politician,
*[[1976]] – [[Elena Kustarova]], Russian ice dancer and coach
*[[1977]] – [[Joaquín Benoit]], Dominican baseball player
* 1977 – [[Martin Laursen]], Danish footballer and manager
* 1977 – [[Tanja Szewczenko]], German figure skater
*[[1979]] – [[Friedrich Michau]], German rugby player
* 1979 – [[Derek Paravicini]], English pianist
* 1979 – [[Peter Sarno]], Canadian ice hockey player
* 1979 – [[Erik Westrum]], American ice hockey player
* 1979 – [[Juliet Rylance]], English actress
*[[1980]] – [[Jacinda Ardern]], 40th [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Jacinda Ardern {{!}} Biography, Facts, & Partner |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jacinda-Ardern |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=20 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* 1980 – [[Dave Baksh]], Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
* 1980 – [[Robert Gallery]], American football player
*[[1981]] – [[Abe Forsythe]], Australian actor, director, and screenwriter
* 1981 – [[Maicon Sisenando]], Brazilian footballer
*[[1982]] – [[Gilad Hochman]], Israeli composer
* 1982 – [[Christopher Kane]], Scottish fashion designer
*[[1983]] – [[Kelly Clark]], American snowboarder
* 1983 – [[Stephen Makinwa]], Nigerian footballer
* 1983 – [[Roderick Strong]], American wrestler
* 1983 – [[Naomi van As]], Dutch field hockey player
* 1983 – [[Ken Wallace (canoeist)|Ken Wallace]], Australian kayaker<ref>{{cite web|title=Ken Wallace|url=https://www.olympic.org/ken-wallace|publisher=International Olympic Committee|access-date=4 June 2020}}</ref>
* 1983 – [[Delonte West]], American basketball player
*[[1984]] – [[Kyriakos Ioannou]], Cypriot high jumper
* 1984 – [[Benjamin Kayser]], French rugby player
* 1984 – [[Sabri Sarıoğlu]], Turkish footballer
*[[1985]] – [[Marcus Benard]], American football player
* 1985 – [[Gaël Clichy]], French footballer
* 1985 – [[Audrey De Montigny]], Canadian singer-songwriter
* 1985 – [[Mat Gamel]], American baseball player
*[[1986]] – [[Leonardo Ulloa]], Argentinian footballer
* 1986 – [[John White (footballer, born 1986)|John White]], English footballer
*[[1987]] – [[Panagiotis Kone]], Greek footballer
* 1987 – [[Jordie Benn]], Canadian ice hockey player
* 1987 – [[Fredy Montero]], Colombian footballer
*[[1988]] – [[Yurie Omi]], Japanese announcer and news anchor
* 1988 – [[Sayaka Akimoto]], Filipino–Japanese actress and singer
*[[1991]] – [[Tyson Barrie]], Canadian ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Tyson Barrie |url=http://www.espn.com/nhl/player/_/id/5181/tyson-barrie |website=ESPN.com |access-date=20 October 2020}}</ref>
*[[1992]] – [[Marika Koroibete]], Fijian rugby player<ref>{{cite web |title=Ratu Marika Koroibete |url=http://en.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/player/27083.html?source=opta |website=ESPN scrum |access-date=20 October 2020}}</ref>
*[[1993]] – [[Raymond Faitala-Mariner]], New Zealand rugby league player<ref>{{cite web |title=Raymond Faitala-Mariner |url=https://www.nrl.com/players/internationals/new-zealand/raymond-faitala-mariner/ |website=National Rugby League |access-date=20 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1994]] – [[Ella Leivo]], Finnish tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Tennis Ella Leivo - ESPN |url=http://m.espn.com/general/tennis/playercard?playerId=4223&src=desktop |website=m.espn.com |access-date=20 October 2020 |language=EN}}</ref>
*[[1996]] – [[Olivia Breen]], British Paralympic athlete<ref>{{cite web |title=GB Paralympic team for Rio - who's in? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/35621008 |website=BBC Sport |access-date=26 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[2000]] – [[Thomasin McKenzie]], New Zealand actress <ref name="issue">{{cite web |title=THOMASIN MCKENZIE |url=https://issuemagazine.com/thomasin-mckenzie/#/ |work=ISSUE Magazine |quote=BIRTH DATE: 26/07/2000 BIRTH PLACE: Wellington NZ |access-date=October 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109140101/https://issuemagazine.com/thomasin-mckenzie/#/ |archive-date=November 9, 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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==Deaths==
===Pre-1600===
* [[342]] – [[Emperor Cheng of Jin|Cheng of Jin]], emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 321)
* [[432]] – [[Pope Celestine I|Celestine I]], pope of the Catholic Church
* [[811]] – [[Nikephoros I]], Byzantine emperor
* [[899]] – [[Li Hanzhi]], Chinese warlord (b. 842)
* [[943]] – [[Prince Motoyoshi|Motoyoshi]], Japanese nobleman and poet (b. 890)
* [[990]] – [[Fujiwara no Kaneie]], Japanese statesman (b. 929)
*[[1380]] – [[Emperor Kōmyō|Kōmyō]], emperor of Japan (b. 1322)
*[[1450]] – [[Cecily Neville, Duchess of Warwick|Cecily Neville]], duchess of Warwick (b. 1424)
*[[1471]] – [[Pope Paul II|Paul II]], pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1417)<ref>{{cite web |title=Paul II {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-II |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1533]] – [[Atahualpa]], Inca emperor abducted and murdered by [[Francisco Pizarro]] (b. ca. 1500)
*[[1592]] – [[Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron|Armand de Gontant]], French marshal (b. 1524)
===1601-1900===
*[[1605]] – [[Miguel de Benavides]], Spanish archbishop and sinologist (b. 1552)
*[[1611]] – [[Horio Yoshiharu]], Japanese daimyō (b. 1542)
*[[1630]] – [[Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy|Charles Emmanual I]], duke of Savoy (b. 1562)
*[[1659]] – [[Mary Frith]], English female criminal (b. 1584)
*[[1680]] – [[John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester]], English poet and courtier (b. 1647)
*[[1684]] – [[Elena Cornaro Piscopia]], Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1646)
*[[1693]] – [[Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark]], queen of Sweden (b. 1656)
*[[1712]] – [[Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds]], English politician, [[Lord High Treasurer]] (b. 1631)
*[[1723]] – [[Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven]], English politician, [[Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster]] (b. 1660)
*[[1801]] – [[Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria|Maximilian Francis]], archduke of Austria (b. 1756)
*[[1863]] – [[Sam Houston]], American general and politician, 7th [[Governor of Texas]] (b. 1793)
*[[1867]] – [[Otto, King of Greece|Otto]], king of Greece (b. 1815)
*[[1899]] – [[Ulises Heureaux]], 22nd, 26th, and 27th [[President of the Dominican Republic]] (b. 1845)
===1901-present===
*[[1915]] – [[James Murray (lexicographer)|James Murray]], Scottish lexicographer and philologist (b. 1837)
*[[1919]] – [[Edward Poynter]], English painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
*[[1921]] – [[Howard Vernon (Australian actor)|Howard Vernon]], Australian actor (b. 1848)
*[[1925]] – [[Antonio Ascari]], Italian race car driver (b. 1888)
* 1925 – [[Gottlob Frege]], German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1848)
* 1925 – [[William Jennings Bryan]], American lawyer and politician, 41st [[United States Secretary of State]] (b. 1860)
*[[1926]] – [[Robert Todd Lincoln]], American lawyer and politician, 35th [[United States Secretary of War]], son of [[Abraham Lincoln]] (b. 1843)
*[[1930]] – [[Pavlos Karolidis]], Greek historian and academic (b. 1849)
*[[1932]] – [[Fred Duesenberg]], German-American businessman, co-founded the [[Duesenberg|Duesenberg Company]] (b. 1876)
*[[1934]] – [[Winsor McCay]], American cartoonist, animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1871)
*[[1941]] – [[Henri Lebesgue]], French mathematician and academic (b. 1875)
*[[1942]] – [[Roberto Arlt]], Argentinian author and playwright (b. 1900)
*[[1951]] – [[James Mitchell (Australian politician)|James Mitchell]], Australian politician, 13th [[Premier of Western Australia]] (b. 1866)
*[[1952]] – [[Eva Perón]], Argentinian politician, 25th [[First Lady of Argentina]] (b. 1919)
*[[1953]] – [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician, 135th [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (b. 1883)
*[[1957]] – [[Carlos Castillo Armas]], Authoritarian ruler of Guatemala (1954-1957)
*[[1960]] – [[Cedric Gibbons]], British art director and production designer (b. 1893)
*[[1964]] – [[Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe]], English race car driver and politician (b. 1884)
*[[1968]] – [[Cemal Tollu]], Turkish lieutenant and painter (b. 1899)
*[[1970]] – [[Robert Taschereau]], Canadian lawyer and jurist, 11th [[Chief Justice of Canada]] (b. 1896)
*[[1971]] – [[Diane Arbus]], American photographer and academic (b. 1923)
*[[1984]] – [[George Gallup]], American mathematician and statistician, founded the [[Gallup (company)|Gallup Company]] (b. 1901)
* 1984 – [[Ed Gein]], American serial killer (b. 1906)
*[[1986]] – [[W. Averell Harriman]], American politician and diplomat, 11th [[United States Secretary of Commerce]] (b. 1891)
*[[1988]] – [[Fazlur Rahman Malik]], Pakistani philosopher, scholar, and academic (b. 1919)
*[[1992]] – [[Mary Wells]], American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
*[[1993]] – [[Matthew Ridgway]], American general (b. 1895)
*[[1994]] – [[James Luther Adams]], American theologian and academic (b. 1901)
*[[1995]] – [[Laurindo Almeida]], Brazilian-American guitarist and composer (b. 1917)
* 1995 – [[Raymond Mailloux]], Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
* 1995 – [[George W. Romney]], American businessman and politician, 43rd [[Governor of Michigan]] (b. 1907)<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/27/obituaries/george-romney-dies-at-88-a-leading-gop-figure.html | title=George Romney Dies at 88; A Leading G.O.P. Figure | last=Rosenbaum | first=David E. | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=July 27, 1995 | access-date=July 19, 2020}}</ref>
*[[1996]] – [[Max Winter]], American businessman and sports executive (b. 1903)
*[[1999]] – [[Walter Jackson Bate]], American author and critic (b. 1918)
* 1999 – [[Phaedon Gizikis]], Greek general and politician, [[List of heads of state of Greece|President of Greece]] (b. 1917)
*[[2000]] – [[John Tukey]], American mathematician and academic (b. 1915)
*[[2001]] – [[Rex T. Barber]], American colonel and pilot (b. 1917)
* 2001 – [[Peter von Zahn]], German journalist and author (b. 1913)
*[[2004]] – [[William A. Mitchell]], American chemist, created [[Pop Rocks]] and [[Cool Whip]] (b. 1911)
*[[2005]] – [[Alexander Golitzen]], Russian-born American production designer and art director (b. 1908)
* 2005 – [[Jack Hirshleifer]], American economist and academic (b. 1925)
* 2005 – [[Gilles Marotte]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
*[[2007]] – [[Lars Forssell]], Swedish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1928)
* 2007 – [[Skip Prosser]], American basketball player and coach (b. 1950)
*[[2009]] – [[Merce Cunningham]], American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919)
*[[2010]] – [[Sivakant Tiwari]], Indian-Singaporean politician (b. 1945)
*[[2011]] – [[Joe Arroyo]], Colombian singer-songwriter and composer (b. 1955)
* 2011 – [[Richard Harris (American football)|Richard Harris]], American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1948)
* 2011 – [[Sakyo Komatsu]], Japanese author and screenwriter (b. 1931)
* 2011 – [[Margaret Olley]], Australian painter and philanthropist (b. 1923)
*[[2012]] – [[Don Bagley]], American bassist and composer (b. 1927)
* 2012 – [[Karl Benjamin]], American painter and educator (b. 1925)
* 2012 – [[Miriam Ben-Porat]], Russian-Israeli lawyer and jurist (b. 1918)
* 2012 – [[Lupe Ontiveros]], American actress (b. 1942)
* 2012 – [[James D. Watkins]], American admiral and politician, 6th [[United States Secretary of Energy]] (b. 1927)
*[[2013]] – [[Luther F. Cole]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
* 2013 – [[Harley Flanders]], American mathematician and academic (b. 1925)
* 2013 – [[Sung Jae-gi]], South Korean philosopher and activist (b. 1967)
* 2013 – [[George P. Mitchell]], American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1919)
*[[2014]] – [[Oleh Babayev]], Ukrainian businessman and politician (b. 1965)
* 2014 – [[Charles R. Larson]], American admiral (b. 1936)
* 2014 – [[Richard MacCormac]], English architect, founded [[MJP Architects]] (b. 1938)
* 2014 – [[Sergei O. Prokofieff]], Russian anthropologist and author (b. 1954)
* 2014 – [[Roland Verhavert]], Belgian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
*[[2015]] – [[Bijoy Krishna Handique]], Indian lawyer and politician, [[Ministry of Mines (India)|Indian Minister of Mines]] (b. 1934)
* 2015 – [[Flora MacDonald (politician)|Flora MacDonald]], Canadian banker and politician, 10th [[Minister of Communications (Canada)|Canadian Minister of Communications]] (b. 1926)
* 2015 – [[Leo Reise, Jr.]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
* 2015 – [[Ann Rule]], American police officer and author (b. 1931)
*[[2017]] – [[June Foray]], American voice actress (b. 1917)
* 2017 – [[Patti Deutsch]], American voice artist and comedic actress (b. 1943)<ref name="latobit">{{cite news|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=patti-deutsch-ross&pid=186216724|title=Patti Deutsch Ross Obituary|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=July 28, 2017}}</ref>
* 2017 – [[Ronald Phillips (murderer)|Ronald Phillips]], American criminal (b. 1973)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/lethal-injection/ronald-phillips-executed-ohio-ending-three-year-break-n786676|title=Ohio executed a prisoner for the first time in three years|work=NBC News|access-date=July 26, 2017|language=en}}</ref>
*[[2018]] – [[Adem Demaci]], [[Kosovo Albanian]] politician and writer (b. 1936) <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/celebrities/recent-notable-deaths-1.1236203|title= Adem Demaci|date=2018-08-10|newspaper=Newsday Entertainment/Celebrities}}</ref>
* 2018 – [[John Kline (basketball)|John Kline]], American basketball player (b. 1931)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/notable-deaths.html|title=Notable Deaths 2018|newspaper=The New York Times Obituraries|access-date=2018-09-12 }}</ref>
*[[2019]] – [[Russi Taylor]], American voice actress (b. 1944)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/arts/russi-taylor-minnie-mouse-dead.html|title=Russi Taylor, the Voice of Minnie Mouse and 'Simpsons' Characters, Dies at 75|last=Taylor|first=Derrick Bryson|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 28, 2019}}</ref>
* 2019 – [[Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino]], Cuban Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1936)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jaime-lucas-ortega-y-alamino-catholic-cardinal-in-cuba-dies-at-82/2019/07/26/2bce1d56-afbb-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html|title=Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Catholic cardinal in Cuba, dies at 82|last1=Rodriguez|first1=Andrea|last2=Orsi|first2=Peter|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=July 26, 2019}}</ref>
*[[2020]] – [[Olivia de Havilland]], American actress (b. 1916)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/movies/olivia-de-havilland-dead.html|title=Olivia de Havilland, a Star of 'Gone With the Wind,' Dies at 104|last=Berkvist|first=Robert|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 26, 2020|access-date=2020-07-26}}</ref>
*[[2021]] – [[Joey Jordison]], American musician (b. 1975)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/9606945/joey-jordison-dead-slipknot-drummer|title=Ex-Slipknot Drummer Joey Jordison Dies at 46|last=Atkinson|first=Katie|newspaper=Billboard|date=July 27, 2021}}</ref>
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==Holidays and observances==
*Christian [[Calendar of saints|feast day]]:
**[[Andrew of Phú Yên]]
**[[Saint Anne|Anne]] ([[Western Christianity]])
**[[Bartolomea Capitanio]]
**[[Beatification|Blessed]] [[Maria Pierina]]
**[[Joachim]] ([[Western Christianity]])
**[[Paraskevi of Rome]] ([[Eastern Orthodox Church]])
**[[Saint Venera|Venera]]
**[[July 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]]
*[[Emancipation Day#Caribbean|Day of National Significance]] ([[Barbados]])
*[[Day of the National Rebellion]] ([[Cuba]])
*[[Esperanto Day]]
*[[Independence Day (Liberia)]], celebrates the independence of [[Liberia]] from the American Colonization Society in 1847.
*[[Independence Day (Maldives)]], celebrates the independence of [[Maldives]] from the United Kingdom in 1965.
*[[Kargil Vijay Diwas|Kargil Victory Day]] or ''Kargil Vijay Diwas'' ([[India]])
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==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[657]] – [[First Fitna]]: In the [[Battle of Siffin]], troops led by [[Ali|Ali ibn Abu Talib]] clash with those led by [[Muawiyah I]].
* [[811]] – [[Battle of Pliska]]: [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine Emperor]] [[Nikephoros I]] is killed and his heir [[Staurakios]] is seriously wounded.
* [[920]] – Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from [[Navarre]] and [[León, Spain|Léon]] against the Muslims at the [[Battle of Valdejunquera]].
*[[1309]] – [[Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor|Henry VII]] is recognized [[King of the Romans]] by [[Pope Clement V]].
*[[1509]] – The Emperor [[Krishnadevaraya]] ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the [[Vijayanagara Empire]].
*[[1529]] – [[Francisco Pizarro González]], Spanish conquistador, is appointed governor of Peru.
*[[1579]] – [[Francis Drake]], the English explorer, discovers a major bay on the coast of California ([[San Francisco]]). <ref>{{cite book|first=Clifton|last=Daniel|title=Chronicle of America|publisher=Chronicle publication|year=1989|page=34|ISBN=0-13-133745-9}}</ref>
*[[1581]] – [[Act of Abjuration|Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration)]]: The northern [[Low Countries]] declare their independence from the Spanish king, [[Philip II of Spain|Philip II]].
===1601-1900===
*[[1703]] – During the ''[[Bavarian Rummel]]'' the rural population of [[County of Tyrol|Tyrol]] drove the [[History of Bavaria#Absolutism|Bavarian]] Prince-Elector [[Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria|Maximilian II Emanuel]] out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the [[Bavarian Army]], which was allied with [[History of France#Louis XIV (1643–1715)|France]], from marching as planned on [[Vienna]] during the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].
*[[1745]] – The first recorded [[History of women's cricket|women's cricket]] match takes place near [[Guildford]], England.
*[[1758]] – [[French and Indian War]]: The [[Siege of Louisbourg (1758)|Siege of Louisbourg]] ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the [[Gulf of Saint Lawrence]].
*[[1775]] – The office that would later become the [[United States Post Office Department]] is established by the [[Second Continental Congress]]. [[Benjamin Franklin]] of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.
*[[1788]] – New York ratifies the [[United States Constitution]] and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
*[[1803]] – The [[Surrey Iron Railway]], arguably the world's first public [[Rail transport|railway]], opens in south London, United Kingdom.
*[[1814]] – The [[Swedish–Norwegian War (1814)|Swedish–Norwegian War]] begins.
*[[1822]] – [[José de San Martín]] arrives in [[Guayaquil]], [[Ecuador]], to [[Guayaquil Conference|meet]] with [[Simón Bolívar]].
* 1822 – First day of the three-day [[Battle of Dervenakia]], between the [[Ottoman Empire]] force led by [[Mahmud Dramali Pasha]] and the [[Greek War of Independence|Greek Revolutionary]] force led by [[Theodoros Kolokotronis]].
*[[1847]] – [[Liberia]] declares its independence.
*[[1861]] – [[American Civil War]]: [[George B. McClellan]] assumes command of the [[Army of the Potomac]] following a disastrous [[Union Army|Union]] defeat at the [[First Battle of Bull Run]].
*[[1863]] – American Civil War: [[Morgan's Raid]] ends; At [[Salineville, Ohio]], [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] cavalry leader [[John Hunt Morgan]] and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
*[[1882]] – Premiere of [[Richard Wagner]]'s opera ''[[Parsifal]]'' at [[Bayreuth]].
* 1882 – The Republic of [[Stellaland]] is founded in Southern Africa.
*[[1887]] – Publication of the ''[[Unua Libro]]'', founding the Esperanto movement.
*[[1890]] – In [[Buenos Aires|Buenos Aires, Argentina]] the [[Revolution of the Park|Revolución del Parque]] takes place, forcing President [[Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman]]'s resignation.
*[[1891]] – France annexes [[Tahiti]].
*[[1892]] – [[Dadabhai Naoroji]] is elected as the first Indian [[British House of Commons|Member of Parliament]] in Britain.<ref>{{citation |date=26 Jul 2013 |title=From the archive, 26 July 1892: Britain's first Asian MP elected |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/jul/26/election-naoroji-finsbury-1892 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2 May 2018 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
*[[1897]] – [[Anglo-Afghan War]]: The [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] [[fakir]] [[Saidullah]] leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a [[Siege of Malakand|siege of the British garrison]] in the [[Malakand Agency]] of the [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|North West Frontier Province]] of India.
*[[1899]] – [[Ulises Heureaux]], the 27th [[President of the Dominican Republic]], is assassinated.
===1901-present===
*[[1908]] – [[United States Attorney General]] [[Charles Joseph Bonaparte]] issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]).
*[[1918]] – [[Emmy Noether]]'s paper, which became known as [[Noether's theorem]] was presented at [[Göttingen]], Germany, from which [[conservation law]]s are deduced for symmetries of [[angular momentum]], [[Momentum|linear momentum]], and [[energy]].
*[[1936]] – [[Spanish Civil War]]: [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] and [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] decide to intervene in the war in support for [[Francisco Franco]] and the [[Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)|Nationalist faction]].
* 1936 – King [[Edward VIII]], in one of his few official duties before he [[Edward VIII abdication crisis|abdicates]] the throne, officially unveils the [[Canadian National Vimy Memorial]].
*[[1937]] – Spanish Civil War: End of the [[Battle of Brunete]] with the Nationalist victory.
*[[1941]] – [[World War II]]: In response to the Japanese occupation of [[French Indochina]], the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments.
*[[1944]] – World War II: The [[Red Army]] enters [[Lviv]], a major city in western [[Ukraine]], capturing it from the [[Nazism|Nazis]]. Only 300 [[Jews]] survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
*[[1945]] – The [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] wins the [[1945 United Kingdom general election|United Kingdom general election of July 5]] by a landslide, removing [[Winston Churchill]] from power.
* 1945 – World War II: The [[Potsdam Declaration]] is signed in [[Potsdam]], Germany.
* 1945 – World War II: {{HMS|Vestal|J215|6}} is the last British [[Royal Navy]] ship to be sunk in the war.
* 1945 – World War II: The {{USS|Indianapolis|CA-35|6}} arrives at [[Tinian]] with components and [[enriched uranium]] for the [[Little Boy]] nuclear bomb.
*[[1946]] – [[Aloha Airlines]] begins service from [[Honolulu International Airport]].
*[[1947]] – [[Cold War]]: U.S. President [[Harry S. Truman]] signs the [[National Security Act of 1947]] into [[Law of the United States|United States law]] creating the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], [[United States Department of Defense]], [[United States Air Force]], [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]], and the [[United States National Security Council]].
*[[1948]] – U.S. President [[Harry S. Truman]] signs [[Executive Order 9981]], desegregating the military of the United States.
*[[1951]] – [[Walt Disney]]'s 13th [[Animation|animated film]], ''[[Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'', premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
*[[1952]] – King [[Farouk of Egypt]] abdicates in favor of his son [[Fuad II of Egypt|Fuad]].
*[[1953]] – Cold War: [[Fidel Castro]] leads an unsuccessful attack on the [[Moncada Barracks]], thus beginning the [[Cuban Revolution]]. The movement took the name of the date: [[26th of July Movement]]
* 1953 – [[Arizona]] Governor [[John Howard Pyle]] orders an anti-[[polygamy]] law enforcement crackdown on residents of [[Colorado City, Arizona|Short Creek, Arizona]], which becomes known as the [[Short Creek raid]].
* 1953 – Soldiers from the [[2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment]] repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the [[Battle of the Samichon River]], just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the [[Korean War]].
*[[1956]] – Following the [[World Bank]]'s refusal to fund building the [[Aswan Dam]], [[Egypt]]ian leader [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] nationalizes the [[Suez Canal]], [[Suez crisis|sparking international condemnation]].
*[[1957]] – [[Carlos Castillo Armas]], dictator of [[Guatemala]], is assassinated.
*[[1958]] – [[Explorer program]]: ''[[Explorer 4]]'' is launched.
*[[1963]] – [[Syncom#Syncom 2|Syncom 2]], the world's first [[geosynchronous satellite]], is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
* 1963 – An [[1963 Skopje earthquake|earthquake]] in [[Skopje]], [[Yugoslavia]] (present-day [[North Macedonia]]) leaves 1,100 dead.
* 1963 – The [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] votes to admit [[Japan]].
*[[1968]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[South Vietnam]]ese opposition leader [[Trương Đình Dzu]] is sentenced to five years [[Penal labour#Prison labour|hard labor]] for advocating the formation of a [[coalition government]] as a way to move toward an end to the war.
*[[1971]] – [[Apollo program]]: Launch of [[Apollo 15]] on the first Apollo "[[List of Apollo missions#Alphabetical mission types|J-Mission]]", and first use of a [[Lunar Roving Vehicle]].
*[[1974]] – [[Prime Minister of Greece|Greek Prime Minister]] [[Konstantinos Karamanlis]] forms the country's first civil government after [[Greek military junta of 1967–74|seven years of military rule]].
*[[1977]] – The National Assembly of [[Quebec]] imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
*[[1989]] – A federal [[grand jury]] indicts [[Cornell University]] student [[Robert Tappan Morris|Robert T. Morris, Jr.]] for releasing the [[Morris worm]], thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 [[Computer Fraud and Abuse Act]].
*[[1990]] – The [[Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990]] is signed into law by President [[George H.W. Bush]].
*[[1993]] – [[Asiana Airlines Flight 733]] crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at [[Mokpo Airport]], [[South Korea]]. Sixty-eight of the 116 people onboard are killed.
*[[1999]] – [[Kargil War|Kargil conflict]] officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
*[[2005]] – [[Space Shuttle program]]: [[STS-114]] Mission: Launch of [[Space Shuttle Discovery|''Discovery'']], [[NASA]]'s first scheduled flight mission after the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster|''Columbia'' Disaster]] in [[2003]].
* 2005 – [[Mumbai]], India receives [[Maharashtra floods of 2005|99.5cm of rain]] (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.
*[[2008]] – Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the [[2008 Ahmedabad bombings|Ahmedabad bombings in India]].
*[[2009]] – The militant [[Nigeria]]n [[Islamism|Islamist]] group [[Boko Haram]] attacks a police station in [[Bauchi]], leading to reprisals by the [[Nigeria Police Force]] and [[2009 Boko Haram Uprising|four days of violence]] across multiple cities.
*[[2011]] – A [[Royal Moroccan Air Force]] [[Lockheed C-130 Hercules]] [[2011 Royal Moroccan Air Force C-130 crash|crashes]] near [[Guelmim Airport]] in [[Guelmim]], [[Morocco]]. All 80 people on board are killed.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed C-130H Hercules CNA-OQ Goulimime Airport (GLN)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20110726-0|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-24|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[2016]] – The [[Sagamihara stabbings]] occur in [[Kanagawa Prefecture]] in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.
* 2016 – [[Hillary Clinton]] becomes the first female nominee for [[President of the United States]] by a major political party at the [[Democratic National Convention]] in [[Philadelphia]].
* 2016 – [[Solar Impulse 2]] becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the [[Earth]].
==Births==
===Pre-1600===
*[[1030]] – [[Stanislaus of Szczepanów]], Polish bishop and saint (d. 1079)
*[[1400]] – [[Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester]], English noble (d. 1439)
*[[1502]] – [[Christian Egenolff]], German printer (d. 1555)
===1601-1900===
*[[1678]] – [[Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. 1711)
*[[1711]] – [[Lorenz Christoph Mizler]], German physician, mathematician, and historian (d. 1778)
*[[1739]] – [[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]], American general and politician, 4th [[Vice President of the United States]] (d. 1812)
*[[1782]] – [[John Field (composer)|John Field]], Irish pianist and composer (d. 1837)
*[[1791]] – [[Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart]], Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1844)
*[[1796]] – [[George Catlin]], American painter, author, and traveler (d. 1872)
*[[1802]] – [[Mariano Arista]], Mexican general and politician, 42nd [[President of Mexico]] (d. 1855)
*[[1819]] – [[Justin Holland]], American guitarist and educator (d. 1887)
*[[1829]] – [[Auguste Beernaert]], Belgian politician, 14th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1912)
*[[1841]] – [[Carl Robert Jakobson]], Estonian journalist and politician (d. 1882)
*[[1842]] – [[Alfred Marshall]], English economist and academic (d. 1924)
*[[1844]] – [[Stefan Drzewiecki]], Ukrainian-Polish engineer and journalist (d. 1938)
*[[1854]] – [[Philippe Gaucher]], French dermatologist and academic (d. 1918)
*[[1855]] – [[Ferdinand Tönnies]], German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1936)
*[[1856]] – [[George Bernard Shaw]], Irish playwright and critic, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1950)
*[[1858]] – [[Tom Garrett]], Australian cricketer and lawyer (d. 1943)
*[[1863]] – [[Jāzeps Vītols]], Latvian composer (d. 1948)
*[[1865]] – [[Philipp Scheidemann]], German journalist and politician, 10th [[Chancellor of Germany]] (d. 1939)
* 1865 – [[Rajanikanta Sen]], Indian poet and composer (d. 1910)
*[[1874]] – [[Serge Koussevitzky]], Russian-American bassist, composer, and conductor (d. 1951)
*[[1875]] – [[Carl Jung]], Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (d. 1961)
* 1875 – [[Ernesta Di Capua]], Italian botanist and explorer (d. 1943)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friis |first1=Ib |last2=Ryding |first2=Olof |title=Biodiversity Research in the Horn of Africa Region: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea at the Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen, August 25-27, 1999 |date=2001 |publisher=Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab |isbn=978-8-77876-246-7 |page=116}}</ref>
* 1875 – [[Antonio Machado]], Spanish poet and academic (d. 1939)
* 1877 – [[Jesse Lauriston Livermore]], American investor and security analyst, "Great Bear of Wall Street" (d. 1940)
*[[1878]] – [[Ernst Hoppenberg]], German swimmer and water polo player (d. 1937)
*[[1879]] – [[Shunroku Hata]], Japanese field marshal and politician, 48th [[Ministry of War of Japan|Japanese Minister of War]] (d. 1962)
*[[1880]] – [[Volodymyr Vynnychenko]], Ukrainian playwright and politician, 1st [[List of Prime Ministers of Ukraine|Prime Minister of Ukrainian People's Republic]] (d. 1951)
*[[1882]] – [[Albert Dunstan]], Australian politician, 33rd [[Premier of Victoria]] (d. 1950)
*[[1885]] – [[Roy Castleton]], American baseball player (d. 1967)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lammers |first1=Craig |title=Roy Castleton {{!}} Society for American Baseball Research |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/01ef1537 |website=sabr.org |access-date=26 March 2019}}</ref>
* 1885 – [[André Maurois]], French soldier and author (d. 1967)
*[[1886]] – [[Lars Hanson]], Swedish actor (d. 1965)
*[[1888]] – [[Reginald Hands]], South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1918)
*[[1890]] – [[Daniel J. Callaghan]], American admiral, [[Medal of Honor]] recipient (d. 1942)
*[[1892]] – [[Sad Sam Jones]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1966)
*[[1893]] – [[George Grosz]], German painter and illustrator (d. 1959)
*[[1894]] – [[Aldous Huxley]], English novelist and philosopher (d. 1963)
*[[1895]] – [[Gracie Allen]], American actress and comedian (d. 1964)
*[[1896]] – [[Tim Birkin]], English soldier and race car driver (d. 1933)
*[[1897]] – [[Harold D. Cooley]], American lawyer and politician (d. 1974)
* 1897 – [[Paul Gallico]], American journalist and author (d. 1976)
*[[1900]] – [[Sarah Kafrit]], Israeli politician and teacher (d. 1983)
===1901-present===
*[[1903]] – [[Estes Kefauver]], American lawyer and politician (d. 1963)
*[[1904]] – [[Edwin Albert Link]], American industrialist and entrepreneur, invented the [[flight simulator]] (d. 1981)
*[[1906]] – [[Irena Iłłakowicz]], German-Polish lieutenant (d. 1943)
*[[1908]] – [[Lucien Wercollier]], Luxembourger sculptor (d. 2002)
*[[1909]] – [[Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft]], English lawyer and politician, [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] (d. 1994)
* 1909 – [[Vivian Vance]], American actress and singer (d. 1979)
*[[1913]] – [[Kan Yuet-keung]], Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012)
*[[1914]] – [[C. Farris Bryant]], American soldier, lawyer, and politician, [[List of Governors of Florida|34th Governor of Florida]] (d. 2002)
* 1914 – [[Erskine Hawkins]], American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1993)
* 1914 – [[Ellis Kinder]], American baseball player (d. 1968)
*[[1916]] – [[Dean Brooks]], American physician and actor (d. 2013)
* 1916 – [[Jaime Luiz Coelho]], Brazilian archbishop (d. 2013)
*[[1918]] – [[Marjorie Lord]], American actress (d. 2015)
*[[1919]] – [[Virginia Gilmore]], American actress (d. 1986)
* 1919 – [[James Lovelock]], English biologist and chemist
*[[1920]] – [[Bob Waterfield]], American football player and coach (d. 1983)
*[[1921]] – [[Tom Saffell]], American baseball player and manager (d. 2012)
* 1921 – [[Jean Shepherd]], American radio host, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
*[[1922]] – [[Blake Edwards]], American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
* 1922 – [[Jim Foglesong]], American record producer (d. 2013)
* 1922 – [[Jason Robards]], American actor (d. 2000)
*[[1923]] – [[Jan Berenstain]], American author and illustrator (d. 2012)
* 1923 – [[Hoyt Wilhelm]], American baseball player and coach (d. 2002)
*[[1925]] – [[Jerzy Einhorn]], Polish-Swedish physician and politician (d. 2000)
* 1925 – [[Joseph Engelberger]], American physicist and engineer (d. 2015)
* 1925 – [[Gene Gutowski]], Polish-American film producer (d. 2016)
* 1925 – [[Ana María Matute]], Spanish author and academic (d. 2014)
*[[1926]] – [[James Best]], American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
* 1926 – [[Dorothy E. Smith]], Canadian sociologist<ref>{{Cite thesis|last=Smyth|first=Deirdre Mary|title=A Few Laced Genes: Sociology, the Women's Movement and the Work of Dorothy E. Smith|date=1999|degree=Doctor of Philosophy|publisher=University of Toronto|url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/14239/1/NQ53916.pdf|page=43}}</ref>
*[[1927]] – [[Gulabrai Ramchand]], Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
*[[1928]] – [[Don Beauman]], English race car driver (d. 1955)
* 1928 – [[Francesco Cossiga]], Italian academic and politician, 8th [[President of Italy]] (d. 2010)
* 1928 – [[Elliott Erwitt]], French-American photographer and director
* 1928 – [[Ibn-e-Safi]], Indian-Pakistani author and poet (d. 1980)
* 1928 – [[Joe Jackson (manager)|Joe Jackson]], American talent manager, father of [[Michael Jackson]] (d. 2018)
* 1928 – [[Stanley Kubrick]], American director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 1999)
* 1928 – [[Peter Lougheed]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th [[Premier of Alberta]] (d. 2012)
* 1928 – [[Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes]], Irish-born English politician
* 1928 – [[Bernice Rubens]], Welsh author (d. 2004)
*[[1929]] – [[Marc Lalonde]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th [[Minister of Justice (Canada)|Canadian Minister of Justice]]
* 1929 – [[Alexis Weissenberg]], Bulgarian-French pianist and educator (d. 2012)
*[[1930]] – [[Plínio de Arruda Sampaio]], Brazilian lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
* 1930 – [[Barbara Jefford]], English actress (d. 2020)
*[[1931]] – [[Telê Santana]], Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2006)
*[[1934]] – [[Tommy McDonald (American football)|Tommy McDonald]], American football player (d. 2018)
*[[1936]] – [[Tsutomu Koyama]], Japanese volleyball player and coach (d. 2012)
* 1936 – [[Lawrie McMenemy]], English footballer and manager
*[[1938]] – [[Bobby Hebb]], American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
* 1938 – [[Keith Peters (physician)|Keith Peters]], Welsh physician and academic
*[[1939]] – [[Jun Henmi]], Japanese author and poet (d. 2011)
* 1939 – [[John Howard]], Australian lawyer and politician, 25th [[Prime Minister of Australia]]
* 1939 – [[Bob Lilly]], American football player and photographer
* 1939 – [[Richard Marlow]], English organist and conductor (d. 2013)
*[[1940]] – [[Dobie Gray]], American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2011)
* 1940 – [[Brian Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney]], Northern Irish-British academic and politician, [[Secretary of State for Transport]] (d. 2019)
* 1940 – [[Bobby Rousseau]], Canadian ice hockey player
*[[1941]] – [[Jean Baubérot]], French historian and sociologist
* 1941 – [[Darlene Love]], American singer and actress
* 1941 – [[Brenton Wood]], American R&B singer-songwriter and keyboard player
*[[1942]] – [[Vladimír Mečiar]], Slovak politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Slovakia]]
* 1942 – [[Teddy Pilette]], Belgian race car driver
*[[1943]] – [[Peter Hyams]], American director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
* 1943 – [[Mick Jagger]], English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
*[[1945]] – [[Betty Davis]], American singer-songwriter
* 1945 – [[Helen Mirren]], English actress <ref>{{cite news |title=Mirren seeks Oscar glory |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1866625.stm |work=BBC News |date=11 March 2002 |access-date=19 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[1946]] – [[Emilio de Villota]], Spanish race car driver
*[[1948]] – [[Luboš Andršt]], Czech guitarist and songwriter
* 1948 – [[Herbert Wiesinger]], German figure skater
*[[1949]] – [[Thaksin Shinawatra]], Thai businessman and politician, 23rd [[Prime Minister of Thailand]]
* 1949 – [[Roger Taylor (Queen drummer)|Roger Taylor]], English singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
*[[1950]] – [[Nelinho]], Brazilian footballer and manager
* 1950 – [[Nicholas Evans]], English journalist, screenwriter, and producer
* 1950 – [[Susan George (actress)|Susan George]], English actress and producer
* 1950 – [[Anne Rafferty]], English lawyer and judge
* 1950 – [[Rich Vogler]], American race car driver (d. 1990)
*[[1951]] – [[Rick Martin]], Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2011)
*[[1952]] – [[Glynis Breakwell]], English psychologist and academic
*[[1953]] – [[Felix Magath]], German footballer and manager
* 1953 – [[Robert Phillips (guitarist)|Robert Phillips]], American guitarist
* 1953 – [[Henk Bleker]], Dutch politician
* 1953 – [[Earl Tatum]], American professional basketball player
*[[1954]] – [[Vitas Gerulaitis]], American tennis player and coach (d. 1994)
*[[1955]] – [[Aleksandrs Starkovs]], Latvian footballer and coach
* 1955 – [[Asif Ali Zardari]], Pakistani businessman and politician, 11th [[President of Pakistan]]
*[[1956]] – [[Peter Fincham]], English screenwriter and producer
* 1956 – [[Dorothy Hamill]], American figure skater
* 1956 – [[Tommy Rich]], American wrestler
* 1956 – [[Tim Tremlett]], English cricketer and coach
*[[1957]] – [[Norman Baker]], Scottish politician
* 1957 – [[Nana Visitor]], American actress
*[[1958]] – [[Monti Davis]], American basketball player (d. 2013)
* 1958 – [[Angela Hewitt]], Canadian-English pianist
*[[1959]] – [[Rick Bragg]], American author and journalist
* 1959 – [[Kevin Spacey]], American actor and director
*[[1961]] – [[Gary Cherone]], American singer-songwriter
* 1961 – [[Andy Connell]], English keyboard player and songwriter
* 1961 – [[Felix Dexter]], Caribbean-English comedian and actor (d. 2013)
*[[1963]] – [[Jeff Stoughton]], Canadian curler
*[[1964]] – [[Sandra Bullock]], American actress and producer
* 1964 – [[Ralf Metzenmacher]], German painter and designer (d. 2020)
* 1964 – [[Anne Provoost]], Belgian author
*[[1965]] – [[Jeremy Piven]], American actor and producer
* 1965 – [[Jim Lindberg]], American singer and guitarist
*[[1966]] – [[Angelo di Livio]], Italian footballer
*[[1967]] – [[Martin Baker (organist)|Martin Baker]], English organist and conductor
* 1967 – [[Tim Schafer]], American video game designer, founded [[Double Fine Productions]]
* 1967 – [[Jason Statham]], English actor
*[[1968]] – [[Frédéric Diefenthal]], French actor and director
* 1968 – [[James Naismith (chemist)|Jim Naismith]], Scottish biologist and academic
* 1968 – [[Olivia Williams]], English actress
*[[1969]] – [[Greg Colbrunn]], American baseball player and coach
* 1969 – [[Tanni Grey-Thompson]], Welsh baroness and wheelchair racer
*[[1971]] – [[Khaled Mahmud]], Bangladeshi cricketer and coach
* 1971 – [[Chris Harrison]], American television personality
*[[1972]] – [[Nathan Buckley]], Australian footballer and coach
*[[1973]] – [[Kate Beckinsale]], English actress
* 1973 – [[Mariano Raffo]], Argentinian director and producer
*[[1974]] – [[Iron & Wine]], American singer-songwriter
* 1974 – [[Kees Meeuws]], New Zealand rugby player and coach
* 1974 – [[Dean Sturridge]], English footballer and sportscaster
*[[1975]] – [[Ingo Schultz]], German sprinter
* 1975 – [[Joe Smith (basketball)|Joe Smith]], American basketball player
* 1975 – [[Elizabeth Truss]], English accountant and politician,
*[[1976]] – [[Elena Kustarova]], Russian ice dancer and coach
*[[1977]] – [[Joaquín Benoit]], Dominican baseball player
* 1977 – [[Martin Laursen]], Danish footballer and manager
* 1977 – [[Tanja Szewczenko]], German figure skater
*[[1979]] – [[Friedrich Michau]], German rugby player
* 1979 – [[Derek Paravicini]], English pianist
* 1979 – [[Peter Sarno]], Canadian ice hockey player
* 1979 – [[Erik Westrum]], American ice hockey player
* 1979 – [[Juliet Rylance]], English actress
*[[1980]] – [[Jacinda Ardern]], 40th [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Jacinda Ardern {{!}} Biography, Facts, & Partner |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jacinda-Ardern |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=20 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* 1980 – [[Dave Baksh]], Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
* 1980 – [[Robert Gallery]], American football player
*[[1981]] – [[Abe Forsythe]], Australian actor, director, and screenwriter
* 1981 – [[Maicon Sisenando]], Brazilian footballer
*[[1982]] – [[Gilad Hochman]], Israeli composer
* 1982 – [[Christopher Kane]], Scottish fashion designer
*[[1983]] – [[Kelly Clark]], American snowboarder
* 1983 – [[Stephen Makinwa]], Nigerian footballer
* 1983 – [[Roderick Strong]], American wrestler
* 1983 – [[Naomi van As]], Dutch field hockey player
* 1983 – [[Ken Wallace (canoeist)|Ken Wallace]], Australian kayaker<ref>{{cite web|title=Ken Wallace|url=https://www.olympic.org/ken-wallace|publisher=International Olympic Committee|access-date=4 June 2020}}</ref>
* 1983 – [[Delonte West]], American basketball player
*[[1984]] – [[Kyriakos Ioannou]], Cypriot high jumper
* 1984 – [[Benjamin Kayser]], French rugby player
* 1984 – [[Sabri Sarıoğlu]], Turkish footballer
*[[1985]] – [[Marcus Benard]], American football player
* 1985 – [[Gaël Clichy]], French footballer
* 1985 – [[Audrey De Montigny]], Canadian singer-songwriter
* 1985 – [[Mat Gamel]], American baseball player
*[[1986]] – [[Leonardo Ulloa]], Argentinian footballer
* 1986 – [[John White (footballer, born 1986)|John White]], English footballer
*[[1987]] – [[Panagiotis Kone]], Greek footballer
* 1987 – [[Jordie Benn]], Canadian ice hockey player
* 1987 – [[Fredy Montero]], Colombian footballer
*[[1988]] – [[Yurie Omi]], Japanese announcer and news anchor
* 1988 – [[Sayaka Akimoto]], Filipino–Japanese actress and singer
*[[1991]] – [[Tyson Barrie]], Canadian ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Tyson Barrie |url=http://www.espn.com/nhl/player/_/id/5181/tyson-barrie |website=ESPN.com |access-date=20 October 2020}}</ref>
*[[1992]] – [[Marika Koroibete]], Fijian rugby player<ref>{{cite web |title=Ratu Marika Koroibete |url=http://en.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/player/27083.html?source=opta |website=ESPN scrum |access-date=20 October 2020}}</ref>
*[[1993]] – [[Raymond Faitala-Mariner]], New Zealand rugby league player<ref>{{cite web |title=Raymond Faitala-Mariner |url=https://www.nrl.com/players/internationals/new-zealand/raymond-faitala-mariner/ |website=National Rugby League |access-date=20 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1994]] – [[Ella Leivo]], Finnish tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Tennis Ella Leivo - ESPN |url=http://m.espn.com/general/tennis/playercard?playerId=4223&src=desktop |website=m.espn.com |access-date=20 October 2020 |language=EN}}</ref>
*[[1996]] – [[Olivia Breen]], British Paralympic athlete<ref>{{cite web |title=GB Paralympic team for Rio - who's in? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/35621008 |website=BBC Sport |access-date=26 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[2000]] – [[Thomasin McKenzie]], New Zealand actress <ref name="issue">{{cite web |title=THOMASIN MCKENZIE |url=https://issuemagazine.com/thomasin-mckenzie/#/ |work=ISSUE Magazine |quote=BIRTH DATE: 26/07/2000 BIRTH PLACE: Wellington NZ |access-date=October 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109140101/https://issuemagazine.com/thomasin-mckenzie/#/ |archive-date=November 9, 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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==Deaths==
===Pre-1600===
* [[342]] – [[Emperor Cheng of Jin|Cheng of Jin]], emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 321)
* [[432]] – [[Pope Celestine I|Celestine I]], pope of the Catholic Church
* [[811]] – [[Nikephoros I]], Byzantine emperor
* [[899]] – [[Li Hanzhi]], Chinese warlord (b. 842)
* [[943]] – [[Prince Motoyoshi|Motoyoshi]], Japanese nobleman and poet (b. 890)
* [[990]] – [[Fujiwara no Kaneie]], Japanese statesman (b. 929)
*[[1380]] – [[Emperor Kōmyō|Kōmyō]], emperor of Japan (b. 1322)
*[[1450]] – [[Cecily Neville, Duchess of Warwick|Cecily Neville]], duchess of Warwick (b. 1424)
*[[1471]] – [[Pope Paul II|Paul II]], pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1417)<ref>{{cite web |title=Paul II {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-II |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1533]] – [[Atahualpa]], Inca emperor abducted and murdered by [[Francisco Pizarro]] (b. ca. 1500)
*[[1592]] – [[Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron|Armand de Gontant]], French marshal (b. 1524)
===1601-1900===
*[[1605]] – [[Miguel de Benavides]], Spanish archbishop and sinologist (b. 1552)
*[[1611]] – [[Horio Yoshiharu]], Japanese daimyō (b. 1542)
*[[1630]] – [[Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy|Charles Emmanual I]], duke of Savoy (b. 1562)
*[[1659]] – [[Mary Frith]], English criminal (b. 1584)
*[[1680]] – [[John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester]], English poet and courtier (b. 1647)
*[[1684]] – [[Elena Cornaro Piscopia]], Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1646)
*[[1693]] – [[Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark]], queen of Sweden (b. 1656)
*[[1712]] – [[Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds]], English politician, [[Lord High Treasurer]] (b. 1631)
*[[1723]] – [[Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven]], English politician, [[Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster]] (b. 1660)
*[[1801]] – [[Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria|Maximilian Francis]], archduke of Austria (b. 1756)
*[[1863]] – [[Sam Houston]], American general and politician, 7th [[Governor of Texas]] (b. 1793)
*[[1867]] – [[Otto, King of Greece|Otto]], king of Greece (b. 1815)
*[[1899]] – [[Ulises Heureaux]], 22nd, 26th, and 27th [[President of the Dominican Republic]] (b. 1845)
===1901-present===
*[[1915]] – [[James Murray (lexicographer)|James Murray]], Scottish lexicographer and philologist (b. 1837)
*[[1919]] – [[Edward Poynter]], English painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
*[[1921]] – [[Howard Vernon (Australian actor)|Howard Vernon]], Australian actor (b. 1848)
*[[1925]] – [[Antonio Ascari]], Italian race car driver (b. 1888)
* 1925 – [[Gottlob Frege]], German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1848)
* 1925 – [[William Jennings Bryan]], American lawyer and politician, 41st [[United States Secretary of State]] (b. 1860)
*[[1926]] – [[Robert Todd Lincoln]], American lawyer and politician, 35th [[United States Secretary of War]], son of [[Abraham Lincoln]] (b. 1843)
*[[1930]] – [[Pavlos Karolidis]], Greek historian and academic (b. 1849)
*[[1932]] – [[Fred Duesenberg]], German-American businessman, co-founded the [[Duesenberg|Duesenberg Company]] (b. 1876)
*[[1934]] – [[Winsor McCay]], American cartoonist, animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1871)
*[[1941]] – [[Henri Lebesgue]], French mathematician and academic (b. 1875)
*[[1942]] – [[Roberto Arlt]], Argentinian author and playwright (b. 1900)
*[[1951]] – [[James Mitchell (Australian politician)|James Mitchell]], Australian politician, 13th [[Premier of Western Australia]] (b. 1866)
*[[1952]] – [[Eva Perón]], Argentinian politician, 25th [[First Lady of Argentina]] (b. 1919)
*[[1953]] – [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician, 135th [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (b. 1883)
*[[1957]] – [[Carlos Castillo Armas]], Authoritarian ruler of Guatemala (1954-1957)
*[[1960]] – [[Cedric Gibbons]], British art director and production designer (b. 1893)
*[[1964]] – [[Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe]], English race car driver and politician (b. 1884)
*[[1968]] – [[Cemal Tollu]], Turkish lieutenant and painter (b. 1899)
*[[1970]] – [[Robert Taschereau]], Canadian lawyer and jurist, 11th [[Chief Justice of Canada]] (b. 1896)
*[[1971]] – [[Diane Arbus]], American photographer and academic (b. 1923)
*[[1984]] – [[George Gallup]], American mathematician and statistician, founded the [[Gallup (company)|Gallup Company]] (b. 1901)
* 1984 – [[Ed Gein]], American serial killer (b. 1906)
*[[1986]] – [[W. Averell Harriman]], American politician and diplomat, 11th [[United States Secretary of Commerce]] (b. 1891)
*[[1988]] – [[Fazlur Rahman Malik]], Pakistani philosopher, scholar, and academic (b. 1919)
*[[1992]] – [[Mary Wells]], American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
*[[1993]] – [[Matthew Ridgway]], American general (b. 1895)
*[[1994]] – [[James Luther Adams]], American theologian and academic (b. 1901)
*[[1995]] – [[Laurindo Almeida]], Brazilian-American guitarist and composer (b. 1917)
* 1995 – [[Raymond Mailloux]], Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
* 1995 – [[George W. Romney]], American businessman and politician, 43rd [[Governor of Michigan]] (b. 1907)<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/27/obituaries/george-romney-dies-at-88-a-leading-gop-figure.html | title=George Romney Dies at 88; A Leading G.O.P. Figure | last=Rosenbaum | first=David E. | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=July 27, 1995 | access-date=July 19, 2020}}</ref>
*[[1996]] – [[Max Winter]], American businessman and sports executive (b. 1903)
*[[1999]] – [[Walter Jackson Bate]], American author and critic (b. 1918)
* 1999 – [[Phaedon Gizikis]], Greek general and politician, [[List of heads of state of Greece|President of Greece]] (b. 1917)
*[[2000]] – [[John Tukey]], American mathematician and academic (b. 1915)
*[[2001]] – [[Rex T. Barber]], American colonel and pilot (b. 1917)
* 2001 – [[Peter von Zahn]], German journalist and author (b. 1913)
*[[2004]] – [[William A. Mitchell]], American chemist, created [[Pop Rocks]] and [[Cool Whip]] (b. 1911)
*[[2005]] – [[Alexander Golitzen]], Russian-born American production designer and art director (b. 1908)
* 2005 – [[Jack Hirshleifer]], American economist and academic (b. 1925)
* 2005 – [[Gilles Marotte]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
*[[2007]] – [[Lars Forssell]], Swedish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1928)
* 2007 – [[Skip Prosser]], American basketball player and coach (b. 1950)
*[[2009]] – [[Merce Cunningham]], American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919)
*[[2010]] – [[Sivakant Tiwari]], Indian-Singaporean politician (b. 1945)
*[[2011]] – [[Joe Arroyo]], Colombian singer-songwriter and composer (b. 1955)
* 2011 – [[Richard Harris (American football)|Richard Harris]], American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1948)
* 2011 – [[Sakyo Komatsu]], Japanese author and screenwriter (b. 1931)
* 2011 – [[Margaret Olley]], Australian painter and philanthropist (b. 1923)
*[[2012]] – [[Don Bagley]], American bassist and composer (b. 1927)
* 2012 – [[Karl Benjamin]], American painter and educator (b. 1925)
* 2012 – [[Miriam Ben-Porat]], Russian-Israeli lawyer and jurist (b. 1918)
* 2012 – [[Lupe Ontiveros]], American actress (b. 1942)
* 2012 – [[James D. Watkins]], American admiral and politician, 6th [[United States Secretary of Energy]] (b. 1927)
*[[2013]] – [[Luther F. Cole]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
* 2013 – [[Harley Flanders]], American mathematician and academic (b. 1925)
* 2013 – [[Sung Jae-gi]], South Korean philosopher and activist (b. 1967)
* 2013 – [[George P. Mitchell]], American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1919)
*[[2014]] – [[Oleh Babayev]], Ukrainian businessman and politician (b. 1965)
* 2014 – [[Charles R. Larson]], American admiral (b. 1936)
* 2014 – [[Richard MacCormac]], English architect, founded [[MJP Architects]] (b. 1938)
* 2014 – [[Sergei O. Prokofieff]], Russian anthropologist and author (b. 1954)
* 2014 – [[Roland Verhavert]], Belgian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
*[[2015]] – [[Bijoy Krishna Handique]], Indian lawyer and politician, [[Ministry of Mines (India)|Indian Minister of Mines]] (b. 1934)
* 2015 – [[Flora MacDonald (politician)|Flora MacDonald]], Canadian banker and politician, 10th [[Minister of Communications (Canada)|Canadian Minister of Communications]] (b. 1926)
* 2015 – [[Leo Reise, Jr.]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
* 2015 – [[Ann Rule]], American police officer and author (b. 1931)
*[[2017]] – [[June Foray]], American voice actress (b. 1917)
* 2017 – [[Patti Deutsch]], American voice artist and comedic actress (b. 1943)<ref name="latobit">{{cite news|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=patti-deutsch-ross&pid=186216724|title=Patti Deutsch Ross Obituary|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=July 28, 2017}}</ref>
* 2017 – [[Ronald Phillips (murderer)|Ronald Phillips]], American criminal (b. 1973)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/lethal-injection/ronald-phillips-executed-ohio-ending-three-year-break-n786676|title=Ohio executed a prisoner for the first time in three years|work=NBC News|access-date=July 26, 2017|language=en}}</ref>
*[[2018]] – [[Adem Demaci]], [[Kosovo Albanian]] politician and writer (b. 1936) <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/celebrities/recent-notable-deaths-1.1236203|title= Adem Demaci|date=2018-08-10|newspaper=Newsday Entertainment/Celebrities}}</ref>
* 2018 – [[John Kline (basketball)|John Kline]], American basketball player (b. 1931)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/notable-deaths.html|title=Notable Deaths 2018|newspaper=The New York Times Obituraries|access-date=2018-09-12 }}</ref>
*[[2019]] – [[Russi Taylor]], American voice actress (b. 1944)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/arts/russi-taylor-minnie-mouse-dead.html|title=Russi Taylor, the Voice of Minnie Mouse and 'Simpsons' Characters, Dies at 75|last=Taylor|first=Derrick Bryson|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 28, 2019}}</ref>
* 2019 – [[Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino]], Cuban Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1936)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jaime-lucas-ortega-y-alamino-catholic-cardinal-in-cuba-dies-at-82/2019/07/26/2bce1d56-afbb-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html|title=Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Catholic cardinal in Cuba, dies at 82|last1=Rodriguez|first1=Andrea|last2=Orsi|first2=Peter|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=July 26, 2019}}</ref>
*[[2020]] – [[Olivia de Havilland]], American actress (b. 1916)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/movies/olivia-de-havilland-dead.html|title=Olivia de Havilland, a Star of 'Gone With the Wind,' Dies at 104|last=Berkvist|first=Robert|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 26, 2020|access-date=2020-07-26}}</ref>
*[[2021]] – [[Joey Jordison]], American musician (b. 1975)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/9606945/joey-jordison-dead-slipknot-drummer|title=Ex-Slipknot Drummer Joey Jordison Dies at 46|last=Atkinson|first=Katie|newspaper=Billboard|date=July 27, 2021}}</ref>
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==Holidays and observances==
*Christian [[Calendar of saints|feast day]]:
**[[Andrew of Phú Yên]]
**[[Saint Anne|Anne]] ([[Western Christianity]])
**[[Bartolomea Capitanio]]
**[[Beatification|Blessed]] [[Maria Pierina]]
**[[Joachim]] ([[Western Christianity]])
**[[Paraskevi of Rome]] ([[Eastern Orthodox Church]])
**[[Saint Venera|Venera]]
**[[July 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]]
*[[Emancipation Day#Caribbean|Day of National Significance]] ([[Barbados]])
*[[Day of the National Rebellion]] ([[Cuba]])
*[[Esperanto Day]]
*[[Independence Day (Liberia)]], celebrates the independence of [[Liberia]] from the American Colonization Society in 1847.
*[[Independence Day (Maldives)]], celebrates the independence of [[Maldives]] from the United Kingdom in 1965.
*[[Kargil Vijay Diwas|Kargil Victory Day]] or ''Kargil Vijay Diwas'' ([[India]])
==References==
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==External links==
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* {{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/26 |title=On This Day |publisher=BBC}}
* {{NYT On this day|month=07|day=26}}
* {{cite web |url=https://www.onthisday.com/events/july/26 |title=Historical Events on July 26 |publisher=OnThisDay.com}}
* {{cite web |url=http://canadachannel.ca/todayincanadianhistory/index.php/July_26 |title=Today in Canadian History |publisher=Canada Channel}}
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*[[1630]] – [[Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy|Charles Emmanual I]], duke of Savoy (b. 1562)
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