On this day: 7 July
Events, births and deaths on 7 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Norman Tebbit
10 years ago2016
- Events · 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers
- Events · TRA Local Train 1258
100 years ago1926
- Births · Nuon Chea
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1119 · Births · Emperor Sutoku
- 1053 · Births · Emperor Shirakawa
- 1021 · Deaths · Fujiwara no Akimitsu
Events · 30
- 1520(Julian date)Battle of Otumba — 1520 battle during the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs
- 1575(Julian date)Raid of the Redeswire — 1575 16th-century border skirmish between Scotland and England
- 1585Treaty of Nemours — 1585 treaty between King Henry III of France and the Catholic League
- 1770Battle of Chesma — 1770 battle
- 1770Battle of Larga — 1770 battle of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774
- 1777Battle of Hubbardton — 1777 battle
- 1798Quasi-War — 1798-1800 naval war during the French Revolutionary Wars
- 1807Treaties of Tilsit — peace treaties between Napoleonic France and (a) Russia and (b) Prussia
- 1892Katipunan — anti-Spanish revolutionary society founded in 1892 in the Philippines
- 1898Territory of Hawaii — organized incorporated territory of the United States, 1898–1959
- 1916New Zealand Labour Party — centre-left political party in New Zealand
- 1927Shanghai — provincial-level municipality in China
- 1930Peasant March — 1930 demonstration in Helsinki, Finland
- 1937Second Sino-Japanese War — Japanese invasion of China (1937–1945)
- 1937Marco Polo Bridge incident — 1937 initial battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War
- 1958An Act to provide for the admission of the State of Alaska into the Union — a public law enacted July 7, 1958
- 1962Alitalia Flight 771 — aviation accident
- 1963Double Seven Day scuffle — 1963 altercation between police and journalists in Saigon, South Vietnam
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup Final — Championship match of the 1974 FIFA World Cup
- 1980Safra massacre — 1980 battle during the Lebanese Civil War
- 1991Brioni Agreement — agreement which facilitated the cessation of hostilities between the JNA and Slovene forces in the Ten-Day War
- 19941994 Summer War — civil war in Yemen
- 20057 July 2005 London bombings — attacks on the London public transport system on 7 July 2005
- 20122012 Krasnodar Krai floods — flood event that took place in Krasnodar Krai in Russia
- 20132013 Rediske Air DHC-3 Otter crash — air accident in Alaska
- 20162016 shooting of Dallas police officers — multiple murder by Micah Xavier Johnson during protest rally
- 2016TRA Local Train 1258 — railway incident in Taiwan
- 20192019 FIFA Women's World Cup Final — 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup match
- 2019
- 2021assassination of Jovenel Moïse — 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in Port-au-Prince
Births · 60
- 1053(Julian date)Emperor Shirakawa — Emperor of Japan
- 1119(Julian date)Emperor Sutoku — Emperor of Japan
- 1207(Julian date)Elizabeth of Hungary — Catholic saint (1207−1231)
- 1528(Julian date)Archduchess Anna of Austria — Duchess of Bavaria (1528-1590)
- 1540John Sigismund Zápolya — King of Hungary and Prince of Transylvania
- 1752Joseph Marie Jacquard — French inventor
- 1833Félicien Rops — Belgian artist (1833-1898)
- 1843Camillo Golgi — Italian physician, pathologist, scientist, and Nobel laureate (1843-1926)
- 1848Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves — Brazilian politician (1848-1919)
- 1854Nikolay Morozov — Russian revolutionary, scientist, writer
- 1860Gustav Mahler — Austrian late-Romantic composer (1860–1911)
- 1861Nettie Stevens — American geneticist (1861–1912)
- 1882Yanka Kupala — Belarusian writer (1882–1942)
- 1884Lion Feuchtwanger — German writer (1884-1958)
- 1887Marc Chagall — Belarusian-French artist (1887–1985)
- 1891Tadamichi Kuribayashi — Japanese general (1891-1945)
- 1893Miroslav Krleža — Croatian writer (1893–1981)
- 1899George Cukor — American film director and producer (1899–1983)
- 1901Vittorio De Sica — Italian film director (1901-1974)
- 1901Eiji Tsuburaya — Japanese film director (1901-1970)
- 1907Robert A. Heinlein — American author and aeronautical engineer (1907–1988)
- 1911Gian Carlo Menotti — Italian-American composer and librettist (1911–2007)
- 1919Jon Pertwee — English actor (1919–1996)
- 1926Nuon Chea — Cambodian politician and convicted war criminal (1926-2019)
- 1930Biljana Plavšić — Bosnian Serb politician (1930–2026)
Deaths · 60
- 1162(Julian date)Haakon II of Norway — King of Norway
- 1304(Julian date)Benedict XI — pope of the Catholic Church from 1303 to 1304
- 1307(Julian date)Edward I of England — King of England from 1272 to 1307
- 1345(Julian date)Momchil — Bulgarian brigand
- 1531Tilman Riemenschneider — German sculptor and woodcarver (c.1460–1531)
- 1568(Julian date)William Turner — 16th century English Protestant reformer, physician and natural historian
- 1572(Julian date)Sigismund II Augustus — King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
- 1573(Julian date)Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola — Italian architect (1507–1573)
- 1718Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia — Russian Tsarevich (1690-1718)
- 1730Olivier Levasseur — French pirate
- 1764William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath — English politician (1684-1764)
- 1790François Hemsterhuis — Dutch philosopher (1721-1790)
- 1816Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Irish-British politician, playwright and writer (1751-1816)
- 1865Mary Surratt — Lincoln assassination conspirator
- 1865Lewis Powell — American soldier and conspirator (1844–1865)
- 1865David Herold — Conspirator (1842-1865)
- 1890Henri Nestlé — businessman (1814-2019)
- 1901Johanna Spyri — Swiss writer (1827–1901)
- 1922Cathal Brugha — Irish revolutionary and politician (1874-1922)
- 1925Clarence Hudson White — American photographer (1871-1925)
- 1927Gösta Mittag-Leffler — Swedish mathematician (1846–1927)
- 1928Yang Zengxin — Chinese politician (1867-1928)
- 1930Arthur Conan Doyle — British writer and physician (1859–1930)
- 1950Fats Navarro — American jazz trumpeter (1923–1950)
- 1956Gottfried Benn — German physician, poet, and essayist (1886–1956)
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