On this day: 2 July
Events, births and deaths on 2 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Julian McMahon
- Deaths · Sophia Hutchins
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Elie Wiesel
- Deaths · Michael Cimino
- Deaths · Rudolf E. Kálmán
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Émile Coué
- Births · Octavian Paler
- Births · Lee Allen
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 936 · Deaths · Henry I the Fowler
Events · 25
- 626(Julian date)Xuanwu Gate Incident — 626 coup d'état in China
- 866(Julian date)Battle of Brissarthe — 866 middle ages battle
- 1298(Julian date)Battle of Göllheim — 1298 battle
- 1582(Julian date)Battle of Yamazaki — 1582 battle between the forces of Akechi Mitsuhide and Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- 1644Battle of Marston Moor — 1644 battle of the First English Civil War
- 1645Battle of Alford — 1645 battle
- 1779Capture of Grenada — 1779 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1863Little Round Top — Hill fought over during the Battle of Gettysburg
- 1881assassination of James A. Garfield — 1881 murder of the 20th President of the United States
- 1931Wanpaoshan Incident — highly sensationalized dispute between Chinese and Korean farmers
- 1950Kinkaku-ji arson incident — 1950 arson in Kyoto, Japan
- 1964Civil Rights Act of 1964 — landmark U.S. civil rights and labor law
- 1976Vietnam — country in Southeast Asia
- 1986Aeroflot Flight 2306 — aviation accident
- 1986Quemados case — 1986 attack on protestors in Chile
- 19901990 Mecca tunnel tragedy — Crowd crush incident
- 1993Sivas massacre — massacre in Turkey
- 1994USAir Flight 1016 — 1994 aviation accident
- 19971997 Asian financial crisis — financial crisis in many East/Southeast Asian countries starting in 1997
- 1998Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — 1998 novel by J. K. Rowling
- 2000Mexican general election, 2000 — general election held in Mexico
- 2005Live 8 — benefit concerts held in 2005
- 20132013 Aceh earthquake — earthquake that struck Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia in 2013
- 20202020 Hpakant jade mine disaster — landslide
- 20242024 Hathras stampede — stampede on 2 July 2024 during a satsang in Mughal Garhi, Hathras district, Uttar Pradesh, India
Births · 60
- 419(Julian date)Valentinian III — emperor of the Western Roman Empire (419-455)
- 1486(Julian date)Jacopo Sansovino — Italian artist (1486–1570)
- 1489(Julian date)Thomas Cranmer — leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1714Christoph Willibald von Gluck — opera composer (1714–1787)
- 1724Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock — German poet, writer and linguist
- 1821Charles Tupper — 6th Prime Minister of Canada (1821-1915)
- 1862William Henry Bragg — British scientist (1862–1942)
- 1876Wilhelm Cuno — German chancellor (1876-1933)
- 1877Hermann Hesse — Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
- 1894André Kertész — Hungarian photographer (1894–1985)
- 1903Alec Douglas-Home — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964
- 1903Olav V of Norway — king of Norway (1957–1991)
- 1904René Lacoste — French tennis player
- 1906Hans Bethe — German-American nuclear physicist
- 1908Thurgood Marshall — Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 to 1991 (1908–1993)
- 1916Hans-Ulrich Rudel — German World War II Stuka pilot and neo-Nazi activist (1916–1982)
- 1922Pierre Cardin — French-Italian fashion designer (1922–2020)
- 1923Wisława Szymborska — Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner (1923–2012)
- 1923Cyril M. Kornbluth — American science fiction author (1923-1958)
- 1925Patrice Lumumba — Congolese politician and independence leader (1925–1961)
- 1925Medgar Evers — African-American civil rights activist (1925-1963)
- 1929Imelda Marcos — Philippine former First Lady (born 1929)
- 1930Carlos Menem — Argentinean president between 1989 and 1999
- 1930Ahmad Jamal — American jazz pianist (1930-2023)
- 1936Omar Suleiman — Egyptian head of intelligence and vice president (1936–2012)
Deaths · 60
- 863(Julian date)Swithun — English Roman Catholic bishop of Winchester and saint
- 866(Julian date)Robert the Strong — Frankish noble
- 936(Julian date)Henry I the Fowler — King of East Francia (919–936); Duke of Saxony (912–936)
- 1298(Julian date)Adolf, King of the Romans — King of Germany (1292-1298), count of Nassau (1276-1298)
- 1504(Julian date)Stephen III of Moldavia — Prince of Moldavia from 1457 to 1504
- 1566(Julian date)Nostradamus — French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
- 1582(Julian date)Akechi Mitsuhide — 16th-century samurai; assassin of Oda Nobunaga
- 1591Vincenzo Galilei — Italian lutenist, composer and music theorist
- 1621Thomas Harriot — British scientist (*~1560 – †1621)
- 1674(Julian date)Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg — Duke of Württemberg (1614-1674)
- 1743(Julian date)Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington — Prime Minister of Great Britain
- 1778Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
- 1833Gervasio Antonio de Posadas — Argentine politician
- 1843Samuel Hahnemann — German physician known for creating homeopathy
- 1850Robert Peel — Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1788–1850)
- 1857Carlo Pisacane — Italian revolutionary and socialist (1818-1857)
- 1914Joseph Chamberlain — British politician (1836-1914)
- 1915Porfirio Díaz — President of Mexico (1830–1915)
- 1924Matsukata Masayoshi — Japanese politician (1835-1924)
- 1926Émile Coué — French psychologist and pharmacist (1857-1926)
- 1929Gladys Brockwell — American actress (1893-1929)
- 1932Manuel II of Portugal — King of Portugal (1889–1932)
- 1947Nikolai Chebotaryov — Russian mathematician (1894–1947)
- 1949Georgi Dimitrov — Bulgarian politician (1882–1949)
- 1961Ernest Hemingway — American author and journalist (1899–1961)
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