Thursday, 10th July 2025 in London

10th July in the Stars – Star Sign Cancer

Today, the zodiac sign Cancer celebrates its birthday.

Personality Profile

Personality Those born on 10 July blend emotional depth with quiet determination. These Cancer natives are sensitive and intuitive, immediately sensing the moods around them. Their inner world is rich with feeling and memory.

Strengths & Weaknesses Strengths: Empathy, reliability and protective instinct define these people. Weaknesses: They tend toward mood swings and can get lost in worry. Sometimes they seem overly reserved to others.

Love July 10th-borns crave emotional security and deep trust. They are loyal partners who want to create safety. Romance matters less to them than genuine connection and mutual understanding.

Caree & Finance Numerology 8 gives them business sense and ambition. They thrive in roles combining compassion with responsibility. Financially cautious, they enjoy building a secure nest.

Health These water signs should take emotional health seriously. Stress often manifests physically in them. Regular breaks in familiar settings help them maintain balance.

That night, the moon was in its waning crescent phase.

Chinese year of the Snake (Wood).

Fun Facts About 10th July

Name Days in Your Language: Emanuel, Emmanuel, Gage, Immanuel, Manuel, Manuela

Someone born on this day would be just 327 days old today — roughly 7,871 hours, 472,303 minutes, or 28,338,193 seconds spent on Earth so far.

It's the 191. day of the year. In 2025, 10th July falls on a Thursday.

There are 174 days still to come.

We’re currently in Week 28 — the year marches on.

Famous Birthdays on 10th July

On this day, 271 notable people were born on 10th July — spanning from 1419 to 2024. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

10/07/2024

Moo Deng, Thai celebrity pygmy hippopotamus

Moo Deng is a pygmy hippopotamus residing at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Si Racha, Chonburi, Thailand. She gained widespread attention as an internet meme at two months old, after photos of her went viral online in September 2024.

10/07/2007

Mason Thames, American actor

Mason Thames is an American actor. He made his acting debut in 2017 and gained recognition for his performance in the lead role of Finney Blake in the horror film The Black Phone (2021), a breakthrough role he reprised in its 2025 sequel. In 2025, he received increased attention for his portrayal of Hiccup in the live-action fantasy How to Train Your Dragon – for which he received a nomination for a Saturn Award – and for his romantic lead role in Regretting You.

10/07/2002

Reece Walsh, Australian rugby league player

Reece Walsh is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a fullback for the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL. He has also represented Queensland in the State of Origin series, and Australia in the 2025 Kangaroo tour of England.

10/07/2001

Isabela Merced, American actress

Isabela Yolanda Moner, known professionally as Isabela Merced since 2019, is an American actress and singer. She played the lead role in the Nickelodeon television series 100 Things to Do Before High School (2014–2016), and went on to feature in the films Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Instant Family (2018), and Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018). She starred as the titular character in the adventure film Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019) and played main roles in the films Madame Web, Turtles All the Way Down, and Alien: Romulus. In 2025, she had a starring role in the second season of the HBO series The Last of Us and played Hawkgirl in the DCU film Superman and series Peacemaker.

10/07/1999

April Ivy, Portuguese composer and singer

Mariana Barreiros dos Santos Gonçalves, better known for her stage name, April Ivy, is a Portuguese singer-songwriter.

San, South Korean singer and dancer

Choi San, known mononymously as San, is a South Korean singer and dancer. He is a member of the boy group Ateez, formed by KQ Entertainment.

10/07/1998

Angus Cloud, American actor (died 2023)

Conor Angus Cloud Hickey was an American actor. He was best known for his role as Fezco O'Neill in the HBO drama series Euphoria (2019–2026), and had roles in the films North Hollywood (2021), The Line (2023), Abigail and The Garfield Movie. He also appeared in music videos by Noah Cyrus, Juice Wrld, Becky G, and Karol G. At age 25, Cloud died from an accidental overdose in Oakland, California.

10/07/1994

Chae Soo-bin, South Korean actress

Bae Soo-bin, known professionally as Chae Soo-bin (채수빈), is a South Korean actress. She first gained recognition for her role in the television series Love in the Moonlight (2016), and transitioned into leading roles, with The Rebel (2017), Strongest Deliveryman (2017), Where Stars Land (2018), and When the Phone Rings (2024).

10/07/1992

Han Yu, Chinese pool player

Han Yu is a Chinese professional pool player. She is a four-time world pool champion, having won the WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship in 2013, 2016 and 2018, and the WPA Women's World Heyball Championship in 2018. Han has also reached the final of the WPA World Ten-ball Championship in 2023, and the semi-finals of three further Women's World Championships: the nine-ball event in 2017, and the ten-ball events in 2011 and 2014.

10/07/1991

Daishōmaru Shōgo, Japanese sumo wrestler

Daishōmaru Shōgo is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Hirano-ku, Osaka. He made his debut in March 2014 at an elevated rank known as makushita tsukedashi and wrestles for Oitekaze stable.

10/07/1990

Adam Reynolds, Australian rugby league player

Adam Robert Reynolds is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who captains and plays as a halfback for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League (NRL).

Trent Richardson, American football player

Trenton Jamond Richardson is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, where he was recognized as a unanimous All-American and was a member of two BCS National Championship teams.

Chiyonokuni Toshiki, Japanese sumo wrestler

Chiyonokuni Toshiki is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Iga, Mie. He made his professional debut in May 2006 and reached the top makuuchi division for the first time in January 2012. He reached the highest rank of maegashira 1, but he has also been restricted by injuries, falling to the sandanme division in 2015. He staged another comeback and then once again had a serious injury in 2019, which sent him down the ranks. He made a final comeback which saw him stagnate in the second half of the jūryō division before his demotion and retirement. He is a member of Kokonoe stable where he is an elder under the name Sanoyama.

10/07/1988

Antonio Brown, American football player

Antonio Tavaris Brown Sr., nicknamed "AB", is an American former professional football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. During his first nine seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Brown developed a reputation as one of the greatest receivers of his era, but his career was also marked by various controversies.

Heather Hemmens, American actress, director, and producer

Heather Hemmens is an American actress, film director, and film producer. She is best known for her role as Alice Verdura in The CW series Hellcats (2010–2011). She starred as Stacy Collins in the Netflix comedy Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! opposite Jamie Foxx and starred as Maria DeLuca in the series Roswell, New Mexico (2019–2022). Previous credits include the OWN series, If Loving You Is Wrong, where she played Marcie Holmes for five seasons.

Sarah Walker, New Zealand BMX rider

Sarah Louise Walker is a New Zealand BMX racer. A competitor at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, she won silver in the Women's BMX at the latter event. Missing out on selection for the 2016 Summer Olympics due to injury, she was elected onto the IOC Athletes' Commission during those Games. In 2022, she was elected as its second vice-chair.

10/07/1985

Park Chu-young, South Korean footballer

Park Chu-young is a South Korean retired footballer who played as a forward.

B. J. Crombeen, American ice hockey player

Brandon James Crombeen is an American-born Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who last played for the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played in the NHL for the Dallas Stars, St. Louis Blues and Tampa Bay Lightning, drafted by the former in the second round, 54th overall, in 2003.

Mario Gómez, German footballer

Mario Gómez García is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker. He represented the Germany national team over a period of 11 years between 2007 and 2018.

Funda Oru, Belgian politician

Funda Oru is a Belgian politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of Vooruit, she has represented Limburg since June 2024.

10/07/1984

Nikolaos Mitrou, Greek footballer

Nikolaos Mitrou is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

10/07/1983

Giuseppe De Feudis, Italian footballer

Giuseppe De Feudis is an Italian former professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.

Matthew Egan, Australian footballer

Matthew Egan is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He served as interim senior coach at the Essendon Football Club after the resignation of James Hird for the final three rounds of the 2015 season. He served as head of development at the Melbourne Football Club from September 2016 until 2020.

Gabi, Spanish footballer

Gabriel Luis Fernández Arenas, known as Gabi, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, currently a manager.

Kim Hee-chul, Korean entertainer and singer

Kim Hee-chul, better known mononymously as Heechul, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper, presenter, and actor. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Super Junior and has further participated in its subgroup Super Junior-T as well as project group Universe Cowards with Min Kyung-hoon and Woojoo jjokkomi with Lee Soo-geun. He was also a member of the disbanded pop rock duo Kim Heechul & Kim Jungmo.

Joelson José Inácio, Brazilian footballer

Joelson José Inácio, known as just Joelson, is a Brazilian footballer who played as a forward, and current head coach of Serie D club Real Calepina.

Doug Kramer, Filipino basketball player

Douglas Rimorin Kramer is a Filipino former basketball player. Playing power forward for the Ateneo Blue Eagles, he then played for eight teams in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Anthony Watmough, Australian rugby league player

Anthony Watmough is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative forward, he played the majority of his career with the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, winning both the 2008 NRL Premiership and the 2011 NRL Premiership with them.

Sherif Ekramy, Egyptian footballer

Sherif Ekramy Ahmed Ahmed El-Shahat is an Egyptian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Pyramids FC. He has also played for the Egypt national team.

10/07/1982

Alex Arrowsmith, American guitarist and producer

Alex Michael Arrowsmith is a rock/pop musician from Portland, Oregon. He is best known for his work with the Minders and the Shaky Hands, as well as his solo catalog.

Juliya Chernetsky, Ukrainian-American television host

Juliya Chernetsky Denning, is a television personality best known for her stage name Mistress Juliya and the popularity on the music-themed network Fuse.

Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer

Sebastian Mila is a Polish former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He was most recently the assistant coach of the Poland national team.

Jeffrey Walker, Australian actor and director

Jeffrey Walker (born 10 July 1982) is an Australian director and former actor, best known to the Australian public for his appearances as a child actor in Ocean Girl and Round the Twist. He moved on to direct episodes of Australian soaps Neighbours, Home and Away, and H2O: Just Add Water, and now directs feature films and TV series in Australia and the US. He is married to American-born Australian actress Brooke Harman-Walker.

10/07/1981

Aleksandar Tunchev, Bulgarian footballer

Aleksandar Blagov Tunchev is a Bulgarian professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back. He is currently in charge of Arda Kardzhali.

10/07/1980

Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer-songwriter and keyboard player

Alejandro Millán Montoya is the singer, keyboardist, and composer for the band Hello Madness. After winning a music production contest by CONARTE, he released the album "Light and Life After Dusk". He founded the progressive band Elfonía in 2002, releasing the albums Elfonía and This Sonic Landscape.

Adam Petty, American race car driver (died 2000)

Adam Kyler Petty was an American professional stock car racing driver. A member of the Petty racing family, he was the fourth generation from the Petty family to drive in races in the highest division of NASCAR racing, mostly in what was then known as the NASCAR Busch Series. He was believed to be the first fourth-generation athlete in all of modern American professional sports.

Claudia Leitte, Brazilian singer-songwriter

Cláudia Cristina Leite Inácio is a Brazilian singer and television personality. She rose to fame in late 2002 as the lead vocalist of the Axé music group Babado Novo. The group achieved a string of consecutive diamond-certified hit singles in Brazil and five golden and platinum albums from 2003 to 2007, as granted by the Brazilian Association of Record Producers (ABPD).

James Rolfe, American actor, director, and producer

James D. Rolfe is an American YouTuber, filmmaker, and actor. He is best known for creating and starring in the comedic retro gaming web series Angry Video Game Nerd (2004–present). His spin-off projects include reviews of retro films, television series, and board games. He is considered a pioneer of online gaming content and is noted for his widespread influence on YouTube after the series premiered on the site in 2006.

Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer

Jessica Ann Johnson is an American singer, actress, and fashion designer. After performing in church choirs as a child, Simpson signed with Columbia Records in 1997, aged seventeen. Her debut studio album, Sweet Kisses (1999), sold two million copies in the United States and was led by the Billboard Hot 100-top three single "I Wanna Love You Forever". Simpson adopted a more mature image for her second studio album, Irresistible (2001), and its title track peaked within the top 20 of the chart. The album received gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Simpson's third studio album, In This Skin (2003), sold three million copies in the United States.

10/07/1979

Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer

Simon Pierre Mvondo Atangana is a Cameroonian former footballer who played as a forward for many clubs across multiple countries. His career began in native Cameroon, playing for Olympic Mvolyé and Tonnerre Yaoundé with a spell in Saudi Arabia with Al-Fateh separating the two stints. He earned a move to Scotland, signing for Dundee United in 2000. He went out on loan to English club Port Vale in 2002. Upon leaving Dundee United, Atangana joined Colchester United before moving to English non-League clubs Grays Athletic and Halstead Town. He later played in Eastern Europe for Luch-Energiya and Terek Grozny in Russia and Lokomotiv Minsk in Belarus. He retired in 2006, returning from retirement in 2010 to play for French club CO Saint-Dizier.

Gong Yoo, Korean actor

Gong Ji-cheol, known professionally as Gong Yoo (공유), is a South Korean actor. He is known for his starring roles in the television series Coffee Prince (2007), Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (2016–2017), the Netflix series Squid Game (2021–2025), and the films Silenced (2011), The Suspect (2013), Train to Busan (2016), and The Age of Shadows (2016).

10/07/1977

Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor

Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor is a British actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. In 2008, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and in 2015, he was advanced to Commander (CBE) for his services to the arts.

10/07/1976

Edmílson, Brazilian footballer

José Edmílson Gomes de Moraes, known simply as Edmílson, is a Brazilian football executive and former professional footballer. He is currently a technical consultant for São Caetano.

Elijah Blue Allman, American singer and guitarist

Elijah Sky Blue Allman, known professionally as P. Exeter Blue I , is an American musician known for leading the group Deadsy.

Ludovic Giuly, French footballer

Ludovic Vincent Giuly is a French former professional footballer who played as a winger.

Adrian Grenier, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Adrian Sean Grenier is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Vincent Chase in the television series Entourage (2004–2011). He has appeared in films such as Drive Me Crazy (1999), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Trash Fire (2016), and Marauders (2016), as well as the Netflix series Clickbait (2021).

Brendon Lade, Australian footballer and coach

Brendon Lade is a former Australian rules footballer with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is currently a senior assistant coach with the Western Bulldogs Football Club.

Lars Ricken, German footballer

Lars Ricken is a German retired footballer and the current managing director of Borussia Dortmund. From 2008 to 2024, he was the youth coordinator at Dortmund.

10/07/1975

Andrew Firestone, American businessman

Andrew Boulton Firestone is an American television personality and businessman.

Brendan Gaughan, American race car driver

William Brendan Gaughan is an American former professional racing driver who has competed in off-road and stock cars. He is the grandson of Vegas gaming pioneer Jackie Gaughan, and son of Michael Gaughan, a hotel and casino magnate.

Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Alain Jean-Paul Mohammed Nasreddine is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played as a defenceman in the NHL.

Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (died 2018)

Stefán Karl Stefánsson was an Icelandic actor and singer. He was best known for portraying Robbie Rotten, the antagonist of the children's television series LazyTown.

Richard Westbrook, English race car driver

Richard Westbrook is a British professional racing driver noted for his success in racing Porsche and International sports cars. As a junior, he attended St Joseph's College, Ipswich. He has won both the Porsche Supercup international championship and the Porsche Carrera Cup in his native Britain (2004). At the end of the 2007 season, Richard signed a factory contract deal with the German marque Porsche, and the British ace proceeded to take on the world's best on the other side of the Atlantic. The next year (2009), Westbrook won the highly coveted FIA GT2 Championship, taking four victories in the process, establishing himself firmly on the World motor sport stage and in the upper echelons of elite sports car drivers.

10/07/1974

Imelda May, Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer

Imelda Mary Higham, professionally known as Imelda May, is an Irish singer, songwriter, television presenter and multi-instrumentalist. She became known for her musical style of rockabilly revival and has also been compared to female jazz musicians such as Billie Holiday.

Brian Thompson, American insurance executive (died 2024)

Brian Thompson, the CEO of the American health insurance company UnitedHealthcare, was shot to death in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on December 4, 2024. The shooting occurred early in the morning outside an entrance to the New York Hilton Midtown.

10/07/1972

Peter Serafinowicz, English actor

Peter Szymon Serafinowicz is an English actor, comedian and writer. He is known for his roles as the voice of Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Pete in Shaun of the Dead (2004), Garthan Saal in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), the voice of Big Daddy in Sing (2016) and Sing 2 (2021), The Sommelier in John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) and Spitelout in the live-action remake How to Train Your Dragon (2025).

Sofía Vergara, Colombian-American actress and producer

Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara is a Colombian and American actress and television personality. She has received five nominations each at the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards. She is one of the highest-paid actresses in the United States.

Tilo Wolff, German-Swiss singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

Tilo Wolff is a German musician and artist. He was born in Frankfurt am Main and currently lives in Switzerland.

10/07/1971

Adam Foote, Canadian ice hockey player

Adam David Vernon Foote is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. As a player, he was best known for his physical presence and gritty play as a stay-at-home defenceman. He was most recently active as a coach with the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL), serving initially as an assistant coach starting in 2023 and subsequently for the 2025–26 season as the team's head coach. He was also the former head coach of the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League (WHL).

Gregory Goodridge, Barbadian footballer and coach

Gregory Ronald St Clair Goodridge is a Barbadian former professional footballer. He has captained the Barbados national team and played professionally in the English Football League.

10/07/1970

Gary LeVox, American singer-songwriter

Gary LeVox is an American singer and songwriter. He is best known for being the lead vocalist of the contemporary country music band Rascal Flatts, and his stage name was taken from the studio-console label for his lead vocal track.

Jason Orange, English singer-songwriter and dancer

Jason Thomas Orange is an English retired singer. He is best known for being a member of the pop group Take That from the band's creation in 1990 until their split in 1996, and again from their reunion in 2005 until he retired from entertainment in September 2014.

John Simm, English actor

John Ronald Simm is an English actor, director, and musician. He is best known for playing Sam Tyler in Life on Mars, the Master in Doctor Who, and Det Supt Roy Grace in Grace. His other television credits include State of Play, The Lakes, Crime and Punishment, Exile, Prey, and Cracker. His film roles include Wonderland, Everyday, Boston Kickout, Human Traffic and 24 Hour Party People. He has twice been nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor and has won the 2014 Royal Television Society award in the Best Performance in a Single Drama or Drama Series (Male) category for his work on the crime thriller series Prey..

10/07/1969

Marty Cordova, American baseball player

Martin Kevin Cordova is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays, Cleveland Indians, and Baltimore Orioles. He was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. Before embarking on a major league career, Cordova played six seasons in the minor leagues.

Gale Harold, American actor

Gale Morgan Harold III is an American actor, known for his leading and recurring roles on Queer as Folk, Deadwood, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, The Secret Circle and Defiance. He also starred in the romantic comedy Falling for Grace.

10/07/1967

Tom Meents, American professional monster truck driver

Thomas William Meents is an American former professional monster truck driver. He primarily drove Monster Patrol (1993-1998), Bulldozer (1999), Goldberg (2000-2001), Team Meents (2001-2002), and Maximum Destruction/ Max-D (2003-2024) in a 31 year career as a Monster Truck driver in Monster Jam. He won 14 Monster Jam World Finals championships during his career in three different trucks. Tom is often referred to as the professor, and the GOAT of monster trucks.

Rebekah Del Rio, American singer-songwriter (died 2025)

Rebekah Del Rio was an American singer-songwriter and actress from Chula Vista, California.

Gillian Tett, English journalist and author

Gillian Romaine Tett is a British author and journalist who serves as a member of the editorial board for the Financial Times and provost of King's College, Cambridge. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. Tett co-founded Moral Money, the paper's sustainability newsletter.

Ikki Sawamura, Japanese model, actor and television presenter

Kōzo Nomura , known professionally as Ikki Sawamura , is a Japanese model, film and television actor, and television presenter signed to Ken-On.

John Yoo, South Korean-American lawyer, author, and educator

John Choon Yoo is a South Korean-born American legal scholar and former government official who is the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. While serving in the George W. Bush administration, he became known for his legal opinions concerning executive power, warrantless wiretapping, and the Geneva Conventions.

10/07/1966

Clive Efford, English politician

Clive Stanley Efford is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eltham and Chislehurst, previously Eltham, since 1997.

Johnny Grunge, American wrestler (died 2006)

Michael Lynn Durham was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Johnny Grunge. He is known for his appearances with Eastern/Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation as one-half of the tag team The Public Enemy with Rocco Rock. In the course of his career, Grunge held championships such as the ECW World Tag Team Championship and WCW World Tag Team Championship.

Christian Stangl, Austrian skier and mountaineer

Christian Stangl is an Austrian alpine style mountaineer and mountain guide. He has become known as Skyrunner by numerous exceptionally fast ascents of high mountains. His major success was in 2013, when he became the first person to ascend the three highest mountains on all seven continents, the so-called "Triple Seven Summits".

Anna Bråkenhielm, Swedish business executive

Anna Birgitta Bråkenhielm, during a period of time Anna Carrfors Bråkenhielm, is a Swedish business leader and producer of television programming. She was also owner and CEO of the magazine Passion for Business and presented the radio show Sommar i P1.

10/07/1965

Scott McCarron, American golfer

Scott Michael McCarron is an American professional golfer. McCarron was formerly a member of the PGA Tour but now plays on the PGA Tour Champions.

Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark, European Princess

Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark is the eldest child of Constantine II and Anne-Marie, who were King and Queen of Greece from 1964 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1973. She was heiress presumptive to the Greek throne from her birth in 1965 until the birth of her brother Crown Prince Pavlos in 1967.

Ken Mellons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Kenneth Edward Mellons is an American country music artist who released his self-titled debut album in 1994. This album produced the single "Jukebox Junkie", a Top Ten hit on the Hot Country Songs charts. Mellons followed up his debut album with three more albums – 1995's Where Forever Begins, 2001's The Best of Ken Mellons and 2004's Sweet — in addition to charting six more singles on the country charts.

10/07/1964

Martin Laurendeau, Canadian tennis player and coach

Martin Laurendeau is a tennis coach and a former professional player and captain of the Canada Davis Cup team.

Urban Meyer, American football player and coach

Urban Frank Meyer III is an American sportscaster and former football coach. He spent most of his coaching career at the collegiate level, having served as the head coach of the Bowling Green Falcons from 2001 to 2002, the Utah Utes from 2003 to 2004, the Florida Gators from 2005 to 2010, and the Ohio State Buckeyes from 2012 to 2018. He retired from coaching in 2019 at the end of the Rose Bowl, and stayed at Ohio State as an assistant athletic director and was also an analyst for Fox Sports, appearing weekly on their Big Noon Kickoff pregame show. In 2021, Meyer came out of retirement to take his first National Football League (NFL) job as head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, but was fired 13 games into his first and only season, after going 2–11 and being involved in both on- and off-field controversies. He then went back to Fox Sports to resume his broadcasting career.

Wilfried Peeters, Belgian cyclist

Wilfried Peeters is a former Belgian professional road bicycle racer. Nowadays, he is sporting director of the Quick Step team. During his cycling-career, he was a major help for Johan Museeuw in classics such as the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix.

10/07/1963

Ian Lougher, Welsh motorcycle racer

Ian Lougher is a retired Welsh motorcycle racer, noted for 8 victories at the North West 200, 10 wins at the Isle of Man TT Races and 32 wins at the Southern 100 Races in his career.

10/07/1961

Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and film actor

Jacky Cheung Hok-yau is a Hong Kong singer and actor. One of the most influential artists in the Greater China region, Cheung is widely regarded as a Heavenly King of Cantopop music and an icon of Hong Kong popular culture. He is often dubbed as the "God of Songs" for his vocal delivery and live performances.

Marc Riley, English guitarist and radio DJ

Marc Riley is an English radio DJ, alternative rock critic, musician, and former music businessman. He currently presents on BBC Radio 6 Music.

10/07/1960

Ariel Castro, Puerto Rican-American convicted kidnapper and rapist (died 2013)

Between 2002 and 2004, Ariel Castro abducted Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus from the roads of Cleveland, Ohio, United States, and later held them captive in his home at 2207 Seymour Avenue in the city's Tremont neighborhood. All three young women were imprisoned at Castro's home until 2013, when Berry successfully escaped with her six-year-old daughter, to whom she had given birth while captive, and contacted the police. Police rescued Knight and DeJesus, and arrested Castro a few hours later.

10/07/1959

Ellen Kuras, American director and cinematographer

Ellen Kuras is an American cinematographer, known for documentary and narrative film, as well as music videos and commercials, both from studio and independent media.

Sandy West, American singer, drummer and songwriter (died 2006)

Sandra Sue Pesavento, known professionally as Sandy West was an American singer, drummer and songwriter. She was one of the founding members of the Runaways, a teenage all-girl rock band that achieved some success in the 1970s.

10/07/1958

Béla Fleck, American banjo player and songwriter

Béla Anton Leoš Fleck is an American virtuoso banjo player whose work blends bluegrass with other genres, including jazz, and who is known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Fleck has won 18 Grammy Awards and been nominated 41 times.

Fiona Shaw, Irish actress and director

Fiona Shaw is an Irish actress in screen and stage. She did extensive work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, as well as in film and television. In 2020, she was listed at No. 29 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. She was made an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2001.

10/07/1957

Derry Grehan, Canadian rock guitarist and songwriter

Dermot Fergus "Derry" Grehan is a Canadian guitarist best known as a member of the rock band Honeymoon Suite. The band was co-founded by Johnnie Dee, keyboardist and vocalist Brad Bent, and drummer Mike Lengyell in 1981.

10/07/1956

Tom McClintock, American lawyer and politician

Thomas Miller McClintock II is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 5th congressional district since 2009. His district stretches from the Sacramento suburbs to the outer suburbs of Fresno; it includes Yosemite National Park. A member of the Republican Party, McClintock served as a California state assemblyman from 1982 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2000, when he became a California state senator, a position he held until 2008. He unsuccessfully ran for governor of California in the 2003 recall election and for Lieutenant Governor of California in the 2006 election.

K. Rajagopal, Malaysian football manager

Datuk K. Rajagobal is a Malaysian football manager and former player. He is the former head coach of the Malaysia national team and the under-23 football team, guiding the team to win the 2010 AFF Championship earning the nickname "King Gopal."

10/07/1955

Nic Dakin, English educator and politician

Sir Nicholas Dakin is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Scunthorpe since 2024, having previously served from 2010 to 2019. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Vice-Chamberlain of the Household since September 2025.

Geoff Gerard, Australian rugby league player

Geoff Gerard is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. An Australia international and New South Wales State of Origin representative forward, he played his club football with Sydney clubs Parramatta, Manly Warringah and Penrith, and also spent time with English clubs Wakefield Trinity and Hull FC. From the time of his retirement in early 1989 to mid-1994 he held the record for the most career New South Wales Rugby League premiership first-grade games until overtaken by Terry Lamb. He holds the distinction of playing in the most first-grade grand finals (four) without ever winning one.

10/07/1954

Tommy Bowden, American football player and coach

Tommy Pearce Bowden is an American former college football coach. He served as the head coach at Clemson University from 1999 until October 13, 2008. He is a son of Bobby Bowden, former head football coach of Florida State University, against whom he coached in games nicknamed the "Bowden Bowl." He is also a brother of Terry Bowden, who served as the head coach of Auburn.

Andre Dawson, American baseball player

Andre Nolan Dawson, nicknamed "the Hawk" and "Awesome Dawson", is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for four different teams as a center and right fielder, spending most of his career with the Montreal Expos and Chicago Cubs.

Neil Tennant, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player

Neil Francis Tennant is an English singer, songwriter, and co-founder of the synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, which he formed with Chris Lowe in 1981. He is the lead singer and main lyricist of the group. He was a music journalist for Smash Hits and became assistant editor in the early 1980s.

10/07/1953

Rik Emmett, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Richard Gordon Emmett is a Canadian vocalist, guitarist, and member of the hard rock band Triumph.

Zoogz Rift, American musician and wrestler (died 2011)

Zoogz Rift was an American musician, painter and professional wrestling personality.

10/07/1952

Kim Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Joseph Kim Mitchell is a Canadian rock musician. He was the lead singer and guitarist for the band Max Webster before going on to a solo career. His 1984 single, "Go for Soda", was his only charted song on the US Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 86. Several other singles such as "Patio Lanterns", "Rock and Roll Duty", and "Rockland Wonderland", reached the top 20 in Canada.

Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician

Erik Peter van Heemst is a Dutch politician. From 1991 to 2006 he was a member of the House of Representatives for the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA). Since the municipal elections of 2006 he was the leader of the PvdA in Rotterdam, until his resignation on 27 March 2014.

10/07/1951

Cheryl Wheeler, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Cheryl Wheeler is an American singer-songwriter of contemporary folk music. She has recorded thirteen folk albums to date and has toured extensively throughout the United States since the mid-1970s.

Rajnath Singh, Indian Politician and Union Home Minister of India

Rajnath Singh is an Indian politician and lecturer who has served as the 29th Minister of Defence since 2019 and as the Deputy Leader of the House, Lok Sabha since 2014. He is a Member of Parliament from Lucknow since 2014. He previously served as the 25th Union Minister of Home Affairs in the first Modi ministry from 2014 to 2019, making him the first person born after Indian independence to hold the office. He was President of the Bharatiya Janata Party from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2014. Singh is a veteran leader of the BJP who started his career as a swayamsevak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

10/07/1950

Tony Baldry, English colonel, lawyer, and politician, British Minister of State for Agriculture

Sir Antony Brian Baldry, is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Banbury from 1983 to 2015.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos, President of Greece, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister for the Interior

Prokopios "Prokopis" Pavlopoulos is a Greek retired politician, who served as the president of Greece from 2015 to 2020. A member of New Democracy, he previously was Minister of the Interior from 2004 to 2009. He was succeeded by Katerina Sakellaropoulou on 13 March 2020, who became the first woman to serve as President of Greece.

10/07/1949

Anna Czerwińska, Polish mountaineer and author (died 2023)

Anna Czerwińska was a Polish climber. She is known for being the then-oldest woman to summit Mount Everest, doing so at the age of 50. She also published several books about mountaineering.

Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer and sportscaster

Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer. He captained the Indian national cricket team while representing India and Mumbai from 1971 to 1987. He was the first batsman to pass 10,000 runs in Test cricket. Gavaskar is acknowledged as one of the greatest opening batsmen of all time.

Greg Kihn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)

Gregory Stanley Kihn was an American rock musician, radio personality, and novelist. He founded and led the Greg Kihn Band and he wrote several popular horror novels. He is best known for the hits "The Breakup Song " in 1981 and "Jeopardy" in 1983.

10/07/1948

Ronnie Cutrone, American painter (died 2013)

Ronnie Cutrone was an American Neo-pop painter and nightclub impresario. He began his career as Pop Artist Andy Warhol's assistant before becoming known for his own paintings of cartoon characters. He was a performer with Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable that also featured The Velvet Underground. Cutrone also helped run the New York City nightclub Mudd Club and later operated his own short term bar/dance club/cabaret space/tapas lounge nightclub called The Rubber Monkey at 279 Church Street in TriBeCa. His memories play a part in the history of punk rock book Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain.

Chico Resch, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

Glenn Allan "Chico" Resch is a Canadian–American former professional ice hockey player and television sportscaster. He played as a goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1973 to 1987, and won a Stanley Cup with the New York Islanders in 1979–80. He has served as the color commentator for telecasts of New Jersey Devils games on MSG Network and MSG Plus.

Natalya Sedykh, Russian figure skater, ballet dancer, actor

Natalya Yevgenyevna Sedykh is a Russian retired figure skater, ballet dancer, and film actor.

John Whitehead, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2004)

John Cavadus Whitehead was an American singer and songwriter. He was best known as one of the key members of the Philadelphia International record label, and was one-half of the successful team of McFadden & Whitehead with Gene McFadden.

10/07/1947

Arlo Guthrie, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

Arlo Davy Guthrie is an American folk singer-songwriter. He is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice, and storytelling while performing songs, following the tradition of his father, Woody Guthrie. Guthrie's best-known work is his debut piece, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a satirical talking blues song of about 18 minutes that has since become a Thanksgiving anthem. His only top-40 hit is a cover of Steve Goodman's "City of New Orleans". His song "Massachusetts" was named the official folk song of the state, in which he has lived most of his adult life. Guthrie has also made several acting appearances. He is the father of four children, who have also had careers as musicians.

10/07/1946

Jean-Pierre Jarier, French race car driver

Jean-Pierre Jacques Jarier is a French former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1971 to 1983.

Chin Han, Taiwanese actor

Chin Han, is a Taiwanese actor whose birth name is Sun Siang-chong (孫祥鐘), and got his first stage name Kang Kai (康凱) from Li Han-hsiang (李翰祥) at the beginning of his acting career. He changed his stage name to Sun Ge (孫戈) during the shooting of Five Brothers from Tangshan. It was director Yao Feng-Pan (姚鳳磐) who gave him the stage name Chin Han, which he kept ever since. In Chin’s long acting career, he is best known for starring in literary romantic (愛情文藝) films and TV series, adaptations from novels by Qiong Yao (瓊瑤) and other writers in the 1970s and 1980s. With Charlie Chin (秦祥林), Brigitte Lin (林青霞) and Joan Lin (林鳳嬌), the four eventually became known as the "Two Chins and Two Lins" (二秦二林) for their extensive roles in the genre of literary romantic film.

10/07/1945

Ron Glass, American actor (died 2016)

Ronald Earle Glass was an American actor. He was known for his roles as literary Detective Ron Harris in the television sitcom Barney Miller (1975–1982), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and as the Shepherd Book, in the science fiction series Firefly (2002) and its sequel film Serenity (2005).

Hal McRae, American baseball player and manager

Harold Abraham McRae is an American former designated hitter, outfielder, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for the Cincinnati Reds and Kansas City Royals (1973–87).

John Motson, English sportscaster (died 2023)

John Walker Motson was an English football commentator. Beginning as a television commentator with the BBC in 1971, he commentated on over 2000 games on television and radio. From the late 1970s to 2008, Motson was the dominant football commentary figure at the BBC, apart from a brief spell in the mid-1990s.

Jean-Marie Poiré, French director, producer, and screenwriter

Jean-Marie Poiré, also credited as Jean-Marie Gaubert, is a French film director, and screenwriter. He is the son of the producer Alain Poiré.

Virginia Wade, English tennis player and sportscaster

Sarah Virginia Wade is a British former professional tennis player. She won three major tennis singles championships and four major doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all four majors. She was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world in singles, and No. 1 in the world in doubles.

10/07/1944

Mick Grant, English motorcycle racer

Michael Grant is an English former professional motorcycle road racer and TT rider. A works-supported rider for Norton, Kawasaki, Honda and Suzuki, he is a seven-time winner of the Isle of Man TT motorcycle race on various makes, including 'Slippery Sam', a three-cylinder Triumph Trident. The son of a coal miner, the soft-spoken, down-to-earth Yorkshireman from Wakefield, was a sharp contrast to the brash, playboy image presented by Londoner Barry Sheene during the 1970s.

Norman Hammond, English archaeologist and academic

Norman Hammond is a British archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar, noted for his publications and research on the pre-Columbian Maya civilization.

10/07/1943

Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and journalist (died 1993)

Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. was an American professional tennis player. He won three Grand Slam titles in singles and two in doubles. Ashe was the first Black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team, and the only Black man ever to win the singles titles at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open. He retired in 1980.

Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika, Zambian politician

Princess Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika is a Zambian politician who has served as Ambassador of the Republic of Zambia to the United States of America. She presented her credentials to U.S. President George W. Bush on 26 February 2003.

Jerry Miller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)

Jerry Miller was an American songwriter, guitarist and vocalist. He performed as a solo artist and as a member of the Jerry Miller Band. He was also a founding member of the 1960s San Francisco band Moby Grape, which continues to perform occasionally. Rolling Stone included Miller at number 68 on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time and Moby Grape's album Moby Grape at number 124 on their 2012 list of 500 greatest albums of all time. Miller's longtime guitar was a Gibson L-5 CES Florentine guitar which he called "Beulah".

10/07/1942

Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2010)

Ronald James Padavona, known professionally as Ronnie James Dio, was an American heavy metal singer. He fronted numerous bands throughout his career, including Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio and Heaven & Hell.

Pyotr Klimuk, Belarusian general, pilot, and astronaut

Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk is a former Soviet cosmonaut and the first Belarusian to travel in space. Klimuk made three flights into space. From 1991 to 2003, he headed the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

Sixto Rodriguez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023)

Sixto Diaz Rodríguez, mononymously known as Rodríguez, was an American musician from Detroit, Michigan.

Lopo do Nascimento, Angolan politician; 1st Prime Minister of Angola

Lopo Fortunato Ferreira do Nascimento is an Angolan retired politician. He served as the first Prime Minister of Angola from 11 November 1975 to 9 December 1978 and was Secretary-General of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).

10/07/1941

Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer (died 2012)

Jake Eberts, OC was a Canadian film producer, executive and financier. He was known for his work on Academy Award-winning titles Chariots of Fire, Gandhi (1982), Dances with Wolves (1990), and the successful animated feature Chicken Run (2000). According to Filmink magazine "he was responsible for some of the greatest British films of all time."

David G. Hartwell, American anthologist, author, and critic (died 2016)

David Geddes Hartwell was an American critic, publisher, and editor of thousands of science fiction and fantasy novels. He was best known for work with Signet, Pocket, and Tor Books publishers. He was also noted as an award-winning editor of anthologies. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction describes him as "perhaps the single most influential book editor of the past forty years in the American [science fiction] publishing world".

Robert Pine, American actor and director

Robert Pine is an American actor. He is best known as Sgt. Joseph Getraer on the television series CHiPs (1977–1983). Including CHiPs, Pine has appeared in over 400 episodes of various television shows.

Ian Whitcomb, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2020)

Ian Timothy Whitcomb was an English entertainer, singer-songwriter, record producer, writer, broadcaster and actor. As part of the British Invasion, his hit song "You Turn Me On" reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1965.

10/07/1940

Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, Indian-English economist and politician

Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai was an Indian-born British economist and Labour politician.

Helen Donath, American soprano and actress

Helen Jeanette Donath is an American soprano with a career spanning fifty years.

Brian Priestley, English pianist and composer

Brian Priestley is an English jazz writer, pianist, and arranger.

Keith Stackpole, Australian cricketer (died 2025)

Keith Raymond Stackpole MBE was an Australian cricketer who played in 43 Test matches and six One Day Internationals between 1966 and 1974. He went on to become a cricket commentator on radio and television in the 1980s and '90s. His father, Keith Stackpole Sr. also played first-class cricket and was a noted Australian rules footballer for Collingwood and Fitzroy.

10/07/1939

Phil Kelly, Irish-English footballer and manager (died 2012)

James Philip Vincent Kelly was an Irish footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a full back.

Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish political scientist, journalist and educator (died 1999)

Ahmet Taner Kışlalı was a Turkish professor, politician, and commentator. He served in the Parliament of Turkey in 1977 and was minister of culture in 1978 and 1979. He was killed in 1999.

Mavis Staples, American singer

Mavis Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer and civil rights activist. She rose to fame as a member of her family's band the Staple Singers, of which she is the last surviving member. During her time in the group, she recorded the hit singles "I'll Take You There" and "Let's Do It Again". In 1969, Staples released her self-titled debut solo album.

10/07/1938

Paul Andreu, French architect (died 2018)

Paul Andreu was a French architect, known for his designs of multiple airports such as Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, and multiple prestigious projects in China, including the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.

Lee Morgan, American trumpet player and composer (died 1972)

Edward Lee Morgan was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s and a cornerstone of the Blue Note label, Morgan came to prominence in his late teens, recording with bandleaders like John Coltrane, Curtis Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Mobley, and Wayne Shorter, and playing in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.

10/07/1937

Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (died 2014)

Erle Edwards Barham was a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate. He first won the Senate seat in December 1975 beating L. B. Loftin by just 89 votes.

Gun Svensson, Swedish politician

Gun Brynhild Svensson is a Swedish politician and blogger. She was born in Stensele and is a Pirate Party member and blogs under the name Farmor Gun i Norrtälje. In 2009, she won "Stora bloggpriset" in the category Politics and Society. And in the 2010 Swedish General elections she was a candidate for the Riksdagen for the Pirate Party.

10/07/1936

Herbert Boyer, American businessman, co-founded Genentech

Herbert Wayne "Herb" Boyer is an American biotechnologist, researcher and entrepreneur in biotechnology. Along with Stanley N. Cohen and Paul Berg, he discovered recombinant DNA, a method to coax bacteria into producing foreign proteins, which aided in jump-starting the field of genetic engineering. By 1969, he had performed studies on a couple of restriction enzymes of E. coli with especially useful properties.

Tunne Kelam, Estonian journalist and politician

Tunne-Väldo Kelam is an Estonian politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Estonia. He is a member of the Pro Patria and Res Publica Union, part of the European People's Party.

10/07/1935

Margaret McEntee, American Catholic religious sister and educator

Margaret C. McEntee SR. SC., also known by her confirmation name Marita James, is an American Catholic religious sister and educator who is known as being the inspiration for the character of Sister James in the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley. The 2008 film adaptation is dedicated to her.

Wilson Tuckey, Australian politician

Charles Wilson Tuckey is an Australian politician who was a member of the House of Representatives from 1980 to 2010, representing the seat of O'Connor in Western Australia for the Liberal Party. He was a minister in the Howard government.

Wilson Whineray, New Zealand rugby player and businessman (died 2012)

Sir Wilson James Whineray was a New Zealand business executive and rugby union player. He was the longest-serving captain of the national rugby union team, the All Blacks, until surpassed by Richie McCaw in 2014. Rugby writer Terry McLean considered him the All Blacks' greatest captain.

10/07/1934

Marshall Brodien, American actor (died 2019)

Marshall Brodien was an American professional magician who played Wizzo the Wizard, a wizard clown character which appeared on WGN-TV's Bozo's Circus and The Bozo Show from 1968 to 1994.

Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (died 2012)

Jerry Nelson was an American puppeteer, best known for his work with the Muppets. Known for his wide range of characters and singing abilities, he performed Muppet characters on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and various Muppet movies and specials.

10/07/1933

Jumpin' Gene Simmons, American rockabilly singer-songwriter (died 2006)

Morris Eugene Simmons, better known as Jumpin' Gene Simmons, was an American singer and songwriter best known for his 1964 novelty single "Haunted House".

C.K. Yang, Taiwanese decathlete and pole vaulter (died 2007)

Yang Chuan-kwang, or C.K. Yang, was a Taiwanese Olympian decathlete. Yang attended college at UCLA, where he trained and competed with teammate and Olympian Rafer Johnson and was coached by Elvin C. Drake.

10/07/1932

Carlo Maria Abate, Italian race car driver (died 2019)

Carlo Maria Abate was an Italian auto racing driver. He was one of the best Ferrari 250 GTO specialists. Abate preferred to be addressed as "Carlo Mario Abate" instead of his christened name.

Neile Adams, Filipino-American actress, singer and dancer

Maria Ruby Neilam Arrastia y Salvador, known as Neile Adams, is a Filipina-American actress, singer, and dancer who made more than 20 appearances in films and television series between 1952 and 1991.

Manfred Preußger, German athlete

Manfred Preußger is a retired East German athlete. He competed in the men's pole vault at the 1956, 1960 and the 1964 Summer Olympics.

10/07/1931

Nick Adams, American actor and screenwriter (died 1968)

Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock, better known as Nick Adams, was an American film and television actor and screenwriter. He was noted for his roles in several Hollywood films during the 1950s and 1960s, including Rebel Without a Cause along with his starring role in the ABC television series The Rebel (1959–1961). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Twilight of Honor (1963). He also led the cast of several Japanese productions, including Frankenstein Conquers the World, Invasion of Astro-Monster and The Killing Bottle.

Jerry Herman, American composer and songwriter (died 2019)

Gerald Sheldon Herman was an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway theatre.

Julian May, American author (died 2017)

Julian Clare May was an American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer who also used several literary pseudonyms. She is best known for her Saga of Pliocene Exile and Galactic Milieu Series books.

Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)

Alice Ann Munro was a Canadian short story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her work tends to move forward and backward in time, with integrated short story cycles.

10/07/1930

Bruce Boa, Canadian actor (died 2004)

Andrew Bruce Boa was a Canadian actor, who found success playing the token American in British films and television, usually playing military types. Boa's most notable film role is in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as General Carlist Rieekan. On television, his most notable role is probably as the brash, plain-speaking American guest, Mr. Harry Hamilton, in the Fawlty Towers episode "Waldorf Salad".

Janette Sherman, American physician, author, and pioneer in occupational and environmental health (died 2019)

Janette Dexter Sherman was a physician, toxicologist, author, and activist in the U.S. She researched pesticides, nuclear radiation, birth defects, breast cancer, and illnesses caused by toxins in homes and was a pioneer in the field of occupational and environmental health. Sherman was an expert witness or consultant in 5,000 workers' compensation cases about deadly chemicals, contaminated water, and toxic pesticides.

Josephine Veasey, English soprano and actress (died 2022)

Josephine Veasey CBE was a British mezzo-soprano, particularly associated with Wagner and Berlioz roles.

10/07/1929

Winnie Ewing, Scottish lawyer and politician (died 2023)

Winifred Margaret Ewing was a Scottish lawyer and politician who figured prominently in the Scottish National Party.

George Clayton Johnson, American author and screenwriter (died 2015)

George Clayton Johnson was an American science fiction writer, who co-wrote with William F. Nolan the novel Logan's Run, the basis for the MGM 1976 film. He also wrote television scripts for The Twilight Zone, and the first telecast episode of Star Trek, entitled "The Man Trap". He also wrote the story and screenplay on which the 1960 film Ocean's 11 and its 2001 remake were based.

Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (died 2004)

Murray Irwin "Moe" Norman was a Canadian professional golfer whose accuracy and ability to hit shot after shot perfectly straight gave him the reputation as a golf swing "genius" with the nicknames, "Pipeline Moe" and golf's savant "Rain Man". During his career, Norman won 65 Canadian Golf Tour tournaments and set 33 course records.

José Vicente Rangel, Venezuelan politician; 21st Vice President of Venezuela (died 2020)

José Vicente Rangel Vale was a Venezuelan politician. He ran for president three times in the 1970s and 1980s and later supported Hugo Chávez. He served under Chávez as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2001, as Minister of Defense from 2001 to 2002, and as the vice president from 2002 to 2007.

10/07/1928

Don Bolles, American investigative reporter (died 1976)

Donald Fifield Bolles was an American investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic newspaper who was known for his coverage of organized crime in and around Phoenix, Arizona, especially by the Chicago Outfit. His murder in a car bombing was suspected to have been mob-related but was later found to be connected to his reporting on real estate fraud by local contractors.

Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (died 1999)

Bernard Buffet was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. An extremely prolific artist, he produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative and is often classified as Expressionist or "miserabilist".

Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentinian-Italian race car driver and businessman, founded De Tomaso (died 2003)

Alejandro de Tomaso was an Argentine racing driver and businessman. His name is sometimes seen in an Italianised form as Alessandro de Tomaso. He participated in two Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 13 January 1957, but scored no championship points. He later founded the Italian sports car company De Tomaso Automobili in 1959.

Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (died 2010)

Moshe Greenberg was an American rabbi, Bible scholar, and professor emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

John Glenn, American baseball player (died 2023)

John Glenn was an American professional baseball player who played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder. Over the course of 15 minor league seasons, he made appearances in 32 games for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1960.

10/07/1927

Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician and academic (died 2018)

Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt was a Russian mathematician.

David Dinkins, American soldier and politician, 106th Mayor of New York City (died 2020)

David Norman Dinkins was an American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 107th mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993.

William Smithers, American actor

William Smithers is an American actor, perhaps best known for his recurring role as Jeremy Wendell in the television series Dallas. He appeared in the series in 1981 and from 1984 to 1989.

10/07/1926

Carleton Carpenter, American actor, magician, songwriter, and novelist (died 2022)

Carleton Upham Carpenter Jr. was an American film, television and stage actor, magician, songwriter, and novelist.

Fred Gwynne, American actor (died 1993)

Frederick Hubbard Gwynne was an American actor, artist, and author, who is widely known for his roles in the 1960s television sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You? and The Munsters, as well as his later film roles in The Cotton Club (1984), Pet Sematary (1989), and My Cousin Vinny (1992).

10/07/1925

Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysian physician and politician, 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia

Mahathir bin Mohamad is a Malaysian politician, physician and author who served as the fourth and seventh prime minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and again from 2018 to 2020. He was the country's longest-serving prime minister, serving for a cumulative total of 24 years. His political career has spanned more than 75 years, from joining protests opposing citizenship policies for non-Malays in the Malayan Union in the 1940s to forming the Gerakan Tanah Air coalition in 2022. During his premiership, Mahathir was granted the title "Father of Modernisation" for his pivotal role in transforming the country's economy and infrastructure. At 100 years old, he is the second-oldest living former state leader in the world and the first Malaysian prime minister to reach that age.

Ernest Bertrand Boland, American Roman Catholic bishop (died 2023)

Ernest Bertrand Boland OP was an American Roman Catholic bishop.

10/07/1924

Johnny Bach, American basketball player and coach (died 2016)

John William Bach was an American professional basketball player and coach. A swingman, Bach played college basketball at Fordham University and Brown University. He was selected by the Boston Celtics in the 1948 Basketball Association of America (BAA) Draft, and played 34 games for the Celtics.

Bobo Brazil, American wrestler (died 1998)

Houston Harris was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Bobo Brazil. Credited with breaking down barriers of racial segregation in professional wrestling, Harris is considered one of the first black professional wrestlers to be a marquee name in North America.

10/07/1923

Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer and actress (died 2001)

Amalia Mendoza García, nicknamed as La Tariácuri, was a Mexican singer and actress. "Échame a mi la culpa" and "Amarga navidad" were some of her greatest hits. Her best friend since her youth was Martha de Miranda Jiménez, "Martuquia" as she called her, who was her companion for many years when Amalia was on tour.

John Bradley, American soldier (died 1994)

John Henry "Jack" "Doc" Bradley was a United States Navy Hospital corpsman who was awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism while serving with the Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. During the battle, he was a member of the patrol that captured the top of Mount Suribachi and raised the first U.S. flag on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945.

Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian actress and producer (died 2003)

Suzanne Cloutier was a Canadian film actress.

G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author and academic (died 1987)

G. A. Kulkarni, or known simply as "GA", was an Indian Sahitya Akademi Award winner Marathi writer of short stories.

10/07/1922

Jean Kerr, American author and playwright (died 2003)

Jean Kerr was an American author and playwright who authored the 1957 bestseller Please Don't Eat the Daisies and the plays King of Hearts in 1954 and Mary, Mary in 1961.

Herb McKenley, Jamaican sprinter (died 2007)

The Hon. Herbert Henry McKenley OM was a Jamaican track and field sprinter. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics in six events in total, and won one gold and three silver medals.

Jake LaMotta, American boxer and actor (died 2017)

Giacobbe "Jake" LaMotta was an American professional boxer who was world middleweight champion between 1949 and 1951. Nicknamed "the Bronx Bull" or "Raging Bull" for his technique of constant stalking, brawling and inside fighting, he developed a reputation for being a "bully"; he was what is often referred to today as a swarmer and a slugger.

10/07/1921

Harvey Ball, American illustrator, created the Smiley (died 2001)

Harvey Ross Ball was an American commercial artist. In 1963, he created a design for a pin back button, that played a pivotal role in the adoption of the modern day smiley face. Ball was approached by marketing director Joy Young of State Mutual Life Assurance Company in 1963, with the instructions to design “a little smile”.

Jeff Donnell, American actress (died 1988)

Jean Marie "Jeff" Donnell was an American actress.

John K. Singlaub, U.S. Army Major General (died 2022)

Major General John Kirk Singlaub was a major general in the United States Army, founding member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and a highly decorated officer in the former Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, co-founded the Special Olympics (died 2009)

Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver was an American philanthropist. Shriver was a member of the Kennedy family by birth, and a member of the Shriver family through her marriage to Sargent Shriver, who was the United States ambassador to France and the final Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1972. She was a sister of U.S. president John F. Kennedy, U.S. senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy, and U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith.

10/07/1920

David Brinkley, American journalist (died 2003)

David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.

Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006)

Owen Chamberlain was an American physicist who shared with Emilio Segrè the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle.

Cyril Grant, English footballer (died 2002)

Cyril Grant was an English professional footballer. He was born in Wath, Yorkshire.

10/07/1919

Pierre Gamarra, French author, poet, and critic (died 2009)

Pierre Gamarra was a French poet, novelist and literary critic, a long-time chief editor and director of the literary magazine Europe.Gamarra is best known for his poems and novels for the youth and for narrative and poetical works deeply rooted in his native region of Midi-Pyrénées.

Ian Wallace, English actor and singer (died 2009)

Ian Bryce Wallace OBE was an English bass-baritone opera and concert singer, actor and broadcaster of Scottish extraction.

10/07/1918

James Aldridge, Australian-English journalist and author (died 2015)

Harold Edward James Aldridge was an Australian-British writer and journalist. His World War II despatches were published worldwide and he was the author of over 30 books, both fiction and non-fiction works, including war and adventure novels and books for children.

Chuck Stevens, American baseball player (died 2018)

Charles Augustus Stevens Jr. was an American professional baseball player in Major League Baseball (MLB).

Frank L. Lambert, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Occidental College (died 2018)

Frank L. Lambert was an American academic who was Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Occidental College, Los Angeles. He is known for his advocacy of changing the definition of thermodynamic entropy as "disorder" in US general chemistry texts to its replacement by viewing entropy as a measure of energy dispersal. He died in December 2018 at the age of 100.

Fred Wacker, American race driver and engineer (died 1998)

Frederick G. Wacker Jr. was an engineer and former president of two large Chicago companies. He was also a prominent Chicago socialite, a jazz musician, and a racing driver. He participated in five Formula One World Championship races, debuting on June 21, 1953. He scored no championship points. He also participated in several non-Championship Formula One races.

10/07/1917

Hugh Alexander, American baseball player and scout (died 2000)

Hugh Alexander was an American professional baseball player and scout. He was an outfielder during his brief playing career, but after he suffered a career-ending injury at the age of 20 he became one of baseball's most celebrated scouts.

Don Herbert, American television host known as "Mr. Wizard" (died 2007)

Donald Jeffry Herbert, better known as Mr. Wizard, was an American television host. He was the creator and host of Watch Mr. Wizard and Mr. Wizard's World (1983–1990), which were educational television programs for children devoted to science and technology. He also produced many short video programs about science and authored several popular books about science for children. It was said that no fictional hero was able to rival the popularity and longevity of "the friendly, neighborly scientist". In Herbert's obituary, Bill Nye wrote, "Herbert's techniques and performances helped create the United States' first generation of homegrown rocket scientists just in time to respond to Sputnik. He sent us to the moon. He changed the world." Herbert is credited with turning "a generation of youth" in the 1950s and early 1960s on to "the promise and perils of science".

Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (died 1998)

Reginald Smyth was a British cartoonist who created the popular, long-running Andy Capp comic strip.

10/07/1916

Judith Jasmin, Canadian journalist (died 1972)

Judith Jasmin was a journalist from Quebec. Born in Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada, she was the first woman from Quebec to become a grand reporter.

10/07/1914

Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (died 1992)

Joseph Shuster was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with Jerry Siegel, in Action Comics #1.

Rempo Urip, Indonesian film director (died 2001)

Rempo Urip was an Indonesian film director. He began his career in the theatre, serving as an extra and footballer for the Dardanella theatre company beginning in 1934. After six years and three troupes, Urip entered the film industry, working as a distributor for Oriental Film and assistant director for Java Industrial Film. He returned to the theatre during the Japanese occupation (1942–1945) and national revolution (1945–1949). In 1951 he joined Djamaluddin Malik's Persari as a director, completing thirteen films for the company before it closed in 1958. He continued as a freelance director until 1977.

10/07/1913

Salvador Espriu, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (died 1985)

Salvador Espriu i Castelló was a Catalan poet from Spain.

10/07/1911

Terry-Thomas, English comedian and character actor (died 1990)

Terry-Thomas was an English character actor and comedian who became internationally known through his films during the 1950s and 1960s. He often portrayed disreputable members of the upper classes, especially cads, toffs and bounders, using his distinctive voice; his costume and props tended to include a monocle, waistcoat and cigarette holder. His striking dress sense was set off by a 1⁄3-inch (8.5 mm) gap between his two upper front teeth.

Cootie Williams, American trumpeter and bandleader (died 1985)

Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams was an American jazz, jump blues, and rhythm and blues trumpeter.

10/07/1909

Donald Sinclair, English lieutenant and businessman (died 1981)

Donald William Sinclair was an English naval officer and hotel owner. He was the co-proprietor of the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay in Devon. He helped manage the hotel after an extensive career as an officer in the Merchant Navy and the Royal Navy. During the Second World War, Sinclair twice survived the sinking of the ships on which he was serving.

10/07/1907

Blind Boy Fuller, American singer and guitarist (died 1941)

Fulton Allen, known as Blind Boy Fuller, was an American blues guitarist and singer. Fuller was one of the most popular of the recorded Piedmont blues artists, along with Blind Blake, Josh White, and Buddy Moss.

10/07/1905

Mildred Benson, American journalist and author (died 2002)

Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson was an American journalist and writer of children's books. She wrote some of the earliest Nancy Drew mysteries and created the detective's adventurous personality. Benson wrote under the Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name Carolyn Keene from 1929 to 1953 and contributed to 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew mysteries, which were bestsellers.

Thomas Gomez, American actor (died 1971)

Thomas Gomez was an American actor.

Wolfram Sievers, German physician (died 1948)

Wolfram Sievers was a Nazi and convicted war criminal for medical atrocities carried out while he was managing director of the Ahnenerbe from 1935–1945. He was convicted of war crimes in the Doctors' Trial in 1947 and executed by hanging in 1948.

10/07/1904

Lili Damita, French-American actress (died 1994)

Lili Damita was a French-American actress, singer, and dancer who appeared in 33 films between 1922 and 1937.

10/07/1903

Werner Best, German SS officer and jurist (died 1989)

Karl Rudolf Werner Best was a German jurist, police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer, Nazi Party leader, and theoretician from Darmstadt. He was the first chief of Department 1 of the Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret police, and initiated a registry of all Jews in Germany. As a deputy of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, he organized the SS-Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads that carried out mass-murder in Nazi-occupied territories.

John Wyndham, English author (died 1969)

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. His best known works include The Day of the Triffids (1951), filmed in 1962, and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), which was filmed in 1960 as Village of the Damned, in 1995 under the same title, and again in 2022 in Sky Max under its original title.

10/07/1902

Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)

Kurt Alder was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

Nicolás Guillén, Cuban poet, journalist, and activist (died 1989)

Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista was a Cuban poet, journalist and political activist. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.

10/07/1900

Mitchell Parish, Lithuanian-American songwriter (died 1993)

Mitchell Parish was an American lyricist, notably as a writer of songs for stage and screen.

Sampson Sievers, Russian monk and mystic (died 1979)

Sampson Sievers, July 10, 1900 – August 24, 1979 was a Russian Orthodox Christian elder, hieromonk, priest, confessor of Russian patriarch and higher clergy, and mystic of English ancestry, who was imprisoned and sent to Soviet forced labor camps.

10/07/1899

John Gilbert, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1936)

John Gilbert was an American actor, screenwriter and director. He rose to fame during the silent era and became a popular leading man known as "The Great Lover". His breakthrough came in 1925 with his starring roles in The Merry Widow and The Big Parade. At the height of his career, Gilbert rivaled Rudolph Valentino as a box office draw.

Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (died 1978)

Heinrich 'Heiri' Suter was a Swiss road racing cyclist. Excelling mainly in the classics, Suter was the first non-Belgian winner of the Tour of Flanders in 1923. Two weeks after his win in the Tour of Flanders, he won Paris–Roubaix, becoming the first cyclist to win both classics in the same year. He also holds a record six victories in Züri-Metzgete, Switzerland's most important one-day race.

10/07/1898

Renée Björling, Swedish actress (died 1975)

Renée Björling was a Swedish film actress. She was born in Lovö, Sweden and died in Täby.

10/07/1897

Legs Diamond, American gangster (died 1931)

Jack "Legs" Diamond, also known as John Nolan and Gentleman Jack, was an Irish-American gangster in Philadelphia and New York City during the Prohibition era. A bootlegger and close associate of gambler Arnold Rothstein, Diamond survived a number of attempts on his life between 1916 and 1931, causing him to be known as the "clay pigeon of the underworld". In 1930, Diamond's nemesis Dutch Schultz remarked to his own gang, "Ain't there nobody that can shoot this guy so he don't bounce back?"

Karl Plagge, German general and engineer (died 1957)

Karl Plagge was a German officer who rescued Jews during the Holocaust in Lithuania by issuing work permits to non-essential workers. A partially disabled veteran of World War I, Plagge studied engineering and joined the Nazi Party in 1931 in hopes of helping Germany rebuild from the economic collapse following the war. After being dismissed from the position of lecturer for being unwilling to teach racism and his opposition to Nazi racial policies, he stopped participating in party activities in 1935 and left the party when the war broke out.

10/07/1896

Thérèse Casgrain, Canadian politician (died 1981)

Marie Thérèse Casgrain was a Canadian feminist, reformer, politician and senator. She was a leader in the fight for women's right to vote in the province of Quebec, as well as the first woman to lead a political party in Canada. In her later life she opposed nuclear weapons and was a consumer activist. A strong federalist, one of her last political actions, at age 83, was to intervene on the "No" side in the 1980 Quebec sovereignty referendum.

10/07/1895

Carl Orff, German composer and educator (died 1982)

Carl Heinrich Maria Orff was a German composer and music educator, who composed the cantata Carmina Burana (1937). The concepts of his Schulwerk were influential for children's music education.

10/07/1894

Jimmy McHugh, American composer (died 1969)

James Francis McHugh was an American composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he is credited with over 500 songs. His songs were recorded by many artists, including Chet Baker, June Christy, Bing Crosby, Marlene Dietrich, Deanna Durbin, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Adelaide Hall, Billie Holiday, Beverly Kenney, Bill Kenny, The Everly Brothers, Peggy Lee, Carmen Miranda, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, and Dinah Washington.

10/07/1891

Edith Quimby, American medical researcher and physicist (died 1982)

Edith Smaw Quimby was an American medical researcher and physicist, best known as one of the founders of nuclear medicine. Her work involved developing diagnostic and therapeutic applications of X-rays. One of her main concerns was protecting both those handling the radioactive material and making sure that those being treated were given the lowest dose necessary.

10/07/1888

Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and set designer (died 1978)

Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico was a Greek-Italian artist and writer born in Volos, Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His best-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective. His imagery reflects his affinity for the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and of Friedrich Nietzsche, and for the mythology of his birthplace.

Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese evangelist, author, and activist (died 1960)

Toyohiko Kagawa was a Japanese Evangelical Christian pacifist, Christian reformer, and labour activist. Kagawa wrote, spoke, and worked at length on ways to employ Christian principles in the ordering of society and in cooperatives. His vocation to help the poor led him to live among them. He advocated for women's suffrage and promoted a peaceful foreign policy.

10/07/1883

Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (died 1948)

Johannes Albrecht Blaskowitz was a German Generaloberst during World War II. After joining the Imperial German Army in 1901, Blaskowitz served throughout World War I, where he earned the Iron Cross for bravery. During WWII, Blaskowitz led the 8th Army during the Invasion of Poland and was the Commander in Chief of Occupied Poland from 1939 to 1940. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. He commanded Army Group G during the Allied invasion of Southern France and Operation Nordwind, the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front. Blaskowitz later commanded the remnants of Army Group H as it withdrew to Northern Netherlands before surrendering to Allied forces.

Hugo Raudsepp, Estonian playwright and politician (died 1952)

Hugo Raudsepp was an influential and prolific Estonian playwright and politician. In 1951 he was deported to the Irkutsk region by the Soviet authorities, where he died.

10/07/1882

Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts (died 1975)

Ima Hogg, known as "The First Lady of Texas", was an American society leader, philanthropist, mental health advocate, patron and collector of the arts, and one of the most respected women in Texas during the 20th century. Hogg was an avid art collector, and owned works by Picasso, Klee, and Matisse, among others. Hogg donated hundreds of pieces of artwork to Houston's Museum of Fine Arts and served on a committee to plan the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. An enthusiastic collector of early American antiques, she also served on a committee tasked with locating historical furniture for the White House. She restored and refurbished several properties, including the Varner plantation and Bayou Bend, which she later donated to Texas arts and historical institutions who maintain the facilities and their collections today. Hogg received numerous awards and honors, including the Louise E. du Pont Crowninshield Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Santa Rita Award from the University of Texas System, and an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Southwestern University.

10/07/1878

Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (died 1943)

Otto Freundlich was a German painter and sculptor of Jewish origin. One of the first generation of abstract artists, Freundlich deeply admired cubism and spent much of his life in France. He was murdered at the Majdanek concentration camp during the Holocaust.

10/07/1877

Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (died 1935)

Ernst Ludwig Bresslau was a German zoologist. He was the son of historian Harry Bresslau.

10/07/1875

Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (died 1955)

Mary McLeod Bethune was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, and proceeded to establish the Aframerican Women's Journal, which was the flagship journal of the organization. She presided over other African-American women's organizations, including the National Association for Colored Women. Shortly after joining the National Youth Administration in 1935, Bethune became the first Black woman to lead a federal agency when she was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as the head of a department within the NYA.

Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian politician (died 1973)

Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám de Dancka was a conservative Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister and temporary Minister of Finance of the second counter-revolutionary government in Szeged for one month in 1919. His government commissioned Miklós Horthy to Supreme Commander of the National Army.

10/07/1874

Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (died 1971)

Sergey Timofeyevich Konenkov, also Sergei Konyonkov was a Russian and Soviet sculptor. He was often called "the Russian Rodin".

10/07/1871

Marcel Proust, French novelist, critic, and essayist (died 1922)

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu, which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.

10/07/1867

Prince Maximilian of Baden (died 1929)

Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, also known as Max von Baden, was a German aristocrat, general and politician. A member of the House of Baden, in October and November 1918 he briefly served as the last chancellor of the German Empire and minister-president of Prussia.

10/07/1864

Austin Chapman, Australian businessman and politician, 4th Australian Minister for Defence (died 1926)

Sir Austin Chapman was an Australian politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1901 until his death in 1926. He held ministerial office in the governments of Alfred Deakin and Stanley Bruce, serving as Minister for Defence (1903–1904), Postmaster-General (1905–1907), Minister for Trade and Customs, and Minister for Health (1923–1924).

10/07/1856

Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American electrical and mechanical engineer (died 1943)

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

10/07/1839

Adolphus Busch, German brewer, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (died 1913)

Adolphus Busch was the German-born co-founder of Anheuser-Busch with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser. He introduced numerous innovations, building the success of the company in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became a philanthropist, using some of his wealth for education and humanitarian needs. His great-great-grandson, August Busch IV, is a former CEO of Anheuser-Busch.

10/07/1835

Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (died 1880)

Henryk Wieniawski was a Polish virtuoso violinist, composer, and pedagogue, who is regarded amongst the most distinguished violinists in history. His younger brother Józef Wieniawski and nephew Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski were also accomplished musicians, as was his daughter Régine, who became a naturalised British subject upon marrying into the peerage and wrote music under the name Poldowski.

10/07/1832

Alvan Graham Clark, American astronomer (died 1897)

Alvan Graham Clark was an American astronomer and telescope-maker.

10/07/1830

Camille Pissarro, Danish-French painter (died 1903)

Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.

10/07/1823

Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (died 1908)

Sir Louis-Napoléon Casault was a Quebec lawyer, judge, professor and political figure. He represented Bellechasse in the 1st Canadian Parliament from 1867 to 1870 as a Conservative member.

10/07/1809

Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (died 1889)

Friedrich August von Quenstedt was a German geologist and palaeontologist.

10/07/1804

Emma Smith, American religious leader (died 1879)

Emma Hale Smith Bidamon was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement and a prominent member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as well as the first wife of Joseph Smith, the movement's founder. In 1842, when the Ladies' Relief Society of Nauvoo was formed as a women's service organization, she was elected by its members as the organization's first president.

10/07/1802

Robert Chambers, Scottish geologist and publisher, co-founded Chambers Harrap (died 1871)

Robert Chambers was a Scottish publisher, geologist, evolutionary thinker, author and journal editor who, like his elder brother and business partner William Chambers, was highly influential in mid-19th-century scientific and political circles.

Alfred Ronalds, British fly fishing author, artisan and Australian pioneer (died 1860)

Alfred Ronalds was an English writer, artisan, and Australian pioneer, best known for his book The Fly-fisher's Entomology.

10/07/1792

George M. Dallas, American lawyer and politician, 11th Vice President of the United States (died 1864)

George Mifflin Dallas was an American politician and diplomat who served as the 11th vice president of the United States from 1845 to 1849. He also served as the mayor of Philadelphia from 1828 to 1829, and as the U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom from 1856 to 1861. Dallas is possibly the namesake of Dallas, Texas.

10/07/1752

David Humphreys (soldier), American Revolutionary War colonel, politician, foreign minister and entrepreneur.

David Humphreys was an American Revolutionary War colonel and aide de camp to George Washington, a secretary and intelligence agent for Benjamin Franklin in Paris, American minister to Portugal and then to Spain, entrepreneur who brought Merino sheep to America, and member of the Connecticut state legislature. He also was a prolific poet and author and a member of the Hartford Wits. As secretary and speechwriter to George Washington during his administration, Humphreys was the nation's first U.S. presidential speechwriter.

St. George Tucker, United States federal judge (died 1827)

St. George Tucker was a Bermudian-born American lawyer, military officer and professor who taught law at the College of William & Mary. He strengthened the requirements for a law degree at the college, as he believed lawyers needed deep educations. He served as a judge of the General Court of Virginia and later on the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.

10/07/1724

Eva Ekeblad, Swedish noble and agronomist (died 1786)

Eva Ekeblad was a Swedish agriculturist and salon hostess. She discovered a method to make alcohol and flour from potatoes, significantly reducing Sweden's incidence of famine. She became the first female member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

10/07/1723

William Blackstone, English lawyer, judge, and politician (died 1780)

Sir William Blackstone was an English jurist, justice, and Tory politician most noted for his Commentaries on the Laws of England, which became the best-known description of the doctrines of the English common law. Born into a middle-class family in London, Blackstone was educated at Charterhouse School before matriculating at Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1738. After switching to and completing a Bachelor of Civil Law degree, he was made a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, on 2 November 1743, admitted to Middle Temple, and called to the Bar there in 1746. Following a slow start to his career as a barrister, Blackstone was involved heavily in university administration, becoming accountant, treasurer, and bursar on 28 November 1746, and Senior Bursar in 1750. Blackstone is considered responsible for completing the Codrington Library and the Warton Building, and for simplifying the complex accounting system used by the college. On 3 July, 1753, he formally gave up his practice as a barrister, and embarked on a series of lectures on English law, the first of their kind. These talks were massively successful, earning him £453 ; they led to the publication of An Analysis of the Laws of England in 1756, which sold out repeatedly. It was used to preface his later works.

10/07/1682

Roger Cotes, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1716)

Roger Cotes was an English mathematician, known for working closely with Isaac Newton by proofreading the second edition of his famous book, the Principia, before publication. He also devised the quadrature formulas known as Newton–Cotes formulas, which originated from Newton's research, and made a geometric argument that can be interpreted as a logarithmic version of Euler's formula. He was the first Plumian Professor at Cambridge University from 1707 until his death.

10/07/1666

John Ernest Grabe, German theologian and academic (died 1711)

John Ernest Grabe, Anglican divine, was born at Königsberg, where his father, Martin Sylvester Grabe, was professor of theology and history.

10/07/1638

David Teniers III, Flemish painter (died 1685)

David Teniers III, also referred to as David Teniers Junior was a Flemish painter and tapestry designer who was mainly active in Antwerp, Madrid and Brussels. He is known for his portraits, religious compositions and genre scenes.

10/07/1625

Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (died 1703)

Jean Hérault, Baron of Gourville was a French adventurer and aristocrat.

10/07/1614

Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, Irish-English politician (died 1686)

Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, PC was an Anglo-Irish royalist statesman. After short periods as President of the Council of State and Treasurer of the Navy, he served as Lord Privy Seal between 1673 and 1682 for Charles II. He succeeded his father as 2nd Viscount Valentia in 1660, and he was created Earl of Anglesey in 1661.

10/07/1592

Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist and historian (died 1660)

Pierre d'Hozier, seigneur de la Garde, was a French genealogist.

10/07/1533

Antonio Possevino, Italian diplomat (died 1611)

Antonio Possevino was a Jesuit protagonist of Counter-Reformation, serving as a papal diplomat, Jesuit controversialist, polemicist, encyclopedist, and bibliographer. He was the first Jesuit to visit Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Livonia, Hungary, Pomerania, and Saxony in amply documented papal missions between 1578 and 1586 where he championed the enterprising policies of Pope Gregory XIII.

10/07/1517

Odet de Coligny, French cardinal (died 1571)

Odet de Coligny was a French aristocrat, cardinal, Bishop-elect of Beauvais, Peer of France, and member of the French Royal Council. From 1534 he was usually referred to as the Cardinal of Châtillon.

10/07/1515

Francisco de Toledo, Viceroy of Peru (died 1582)

Francisco Álvarez de Toledo, also known as The Viceroyal Solon, was an aristocrat and soldier of the Kingdom of Spain and the fifth Viceroy of Peru. Often regarded as the "best of Peru's viceroys", he is as often denounced for the negative impact his administration had on the Indigenous peoples of Peru.

10/07/1509

John Calvin, French pastor and theologian (died 1564)

John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was the principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism, including its doctrines of predestination and of God's absolute sovereignty in the salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation. Calvinist doctrines were influenced by and elaborated upon Augustinian and other Christian traditions. Various Reformed Church movements, including Continental Reformed, Congregationalism, Presbyterianism, Waldensians, Baptist Reformed, Calvinist Methodism, and Reformed Anglican Churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world.

10/07/1501

Cho Sik, Korean poet and scholar (died 1572)

Cho Sik was a Korean philosopher, poet, and politician during the Joseon period. He was a Neo-Confucian scholar who had a major influence on the Northerners in the Joseon Dynasty factional politics.

10/07/1451

James III of Scotland (died 1488)

James III was King of Scots from 1460 until his death at the Battle of Sauchieburn in 1488. He inherited the throne as a child following the death of his father, King James II, at the siege of Roxburgh Castle. James III's reign began with a minority that lasted almost a decade, during which Scotland was governed by a series of regents and factions who struggled for possession of the young king before his personal rule began in 1469.

10/07/1419

Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (died 1471)

Emperor Go-Hanazono was the 102nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1428 through 1464.

Lives Remembered on 10th July

On 10th July, 109 remarkable people passed away — from 138 to 2025. Remember the lives and legacies of those we lost on this day.

10/07/2025

David Gergen, American political consultant (born 1942)

David Richmond Gergen was an American political commentator and longtime presidential adviser who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. He was later a senior political analyst for CNN and a professor of public service and the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Gergen was also the former editor at large of U.S. News & World Report and a contributor to CNN and Parade Magazine. He was twice a member of election coverage teams that won Peabody awards: in 1988 with MacNeil–Lehrer, and in 2008 with CNN.

10/07/2024

Joe Engle, American Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (born 1932)

Joseph Henry Engle was an American pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut. He was the commander of two Space Shuttle missions including STS-2 in 1981, the program's second orbital flight. He also flew two flights in the Shuttle program's 1977 Approach and Landing Tests. Engle was one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA.

Alex Janvier, Native American Artist (born 1935)

Alexan Simeon Janvier was a First Nations painter in Canada. A member of the Indian Group of Seven, he helped pioneer contemporary Aboriginal art in Canada.

Dave Loggins, American musician (born 1947)

David Allen Loggins was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known for his 1974 hit single "Please Come to Boston" as well as his 1984 duet with Anne Murray, "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do".

10/07/2022

Maurice Boucher, Canadian outlaw biker (born 1953)

Maurice Boucher was a Canadian gangster, convicted murderer, reputed drug trafficker, and outlaw biker. He was once president of the Quebec Nomads chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. Boucher led Montreal's Hells Angels against the rival Rock Machine biker gang during the Quebec Biker War of 1994 through 2002 in Quebec, Canada. In 2002, Boucher was convicted on two counts of first degree murder for ordering the murders of two Quebec prison officers in an effort to destabilize the Quebec Justice system.

10/07/2020

Lara van Ruijven, Dutch short track speed skater (born 1992)

Lara Victoria van Ruijven was a Dutch short track speed skater. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she was part of the Dutch 3000 metres relay team that won a bronze medal. She won gold at the World Championships one year later. By doing so, she became the first Dutch woman to win a world short track title at an individual event.

Jack Charlton, English footballer and manager (born 1935)

John Charlton was an English professional footballer and manager who played as a centre-back for Leeds United. He was part of the England national team that won the 1966 World Cup and managed the Republic of Ireland national team from 1986 to 1996, taking them to two World Cups and one European Championship. He was given Irish citizenship in 1996. He was the elder brother of Manchester United forward Bobby Charlton and one of his teammates in England's World Cup final victory.

10/07/2019

Denise Nickerson, American former child actress known for playing Violet Beauregarde in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (born 1957)

Denise Marie Nickerson was an American former actress. Starting her career as a child actress, at the age of 13, she starred as Violet Beauregarde in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. She later played Allison on The Electric Company, and had recurring roles as Amy Jennings, Nora Collins, and Amy Collins in the soap opera Dark Shadows and many numerous appearances on television and films. She later worked as a receptionist and office manager.

10/07/2018

Henry Morgenthau III, American author and television producer (born 1917)

Henry Morgenthau III was an American author and television producer, and scion of the Morgenthau dynasty and member of the Lehman family.

10/07/2016

Katharina Focke, German politician (born 1922)

Katharina Focke was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth from 1972 to 1976.

10/07/2015

Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor and director (born 1944)

Roger Rees was a Welsh-American actor and director. He won an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for his performance as the lead in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. He also received Obie Awards for his role in The End of the Day and as co-director of Peter and the Starcatcher. Rees was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in November 2015.

Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (born 1932)

Omar Sharif was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as his country's greatest male film star. He began his career in Egypt in the early 1950s. He is best known for his appearances in American, British, French, and Italian productions, and has been described as "the first Egyptian and Arab to conquer Hollywood". His career encompassed over 100 films spanning 50 years, and brought him many accolades including three Golden Globe Awards and a César Award for Best Actor.

Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor (born 1926)

Jonathan Stewart Vickers, known professionally as Jon Vickers, was a world renowned Canadian heldentenor.

10/07/2014

Robert C. Broomfield, American lawyer and judge (born 1933)

Robert Cameron Broomfield was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.

Juozas Kazickas, Lithuanian-American businessman and philanthropist (born 1918)

Juozas Petras Kazickas or Joseph P. Kazickas was a Lithuanian-American businessman, self-made multi-millionaire and philanthropist. With assets estimated worth over 3 billion litas, he was considered to be the wealthiest Lithuanian in 2006.

Paul G. Risser, American ecologist and academic (born 1939)

Paul Gillan Risser was an American ecologist and academic from Oklahoma. He served as president of Miami University and Oregon State University before becoming chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education.

Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (born 1912)

Zohra Mumtaz Sehgal was an Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer. Having begun her career as a member of a contemporary dance troupe, she transitioned into acting roles beginning in the 1940s. Sehgal appeared in several British films, television shows, and Bollywood productions in a career that spanned over eight decades.

Gloria Schweigerdt, American baseball player (born 1934)

Gloria June "Tippy" Schweigerdt was an American pitcher who played from 1950 through 1952 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m), 120 lb, she batted and threw right-handed.

10/07/2013

Philip Caldwell, American businessman (born 1920)

Philip Caldwell was the first person to run the Ford Motor Company who was not a member of the Ford family. He orchestrated one of the most dramatically successful turnarounds in business history.

Józef Gara, Polish poet and linguist (born 1929)

Józef Gara was a miner who spoke an endangered language of Wilamowice, Wymysorys, which had only 70 native speakers, and created the Wymysorys alphabet. He also wrote poetry in Wymysorys. In 2003 he published Zbiór wierszy oraz słownik języka wilamowskiego. In 2004 he collected old Wymysorys songs, corrected and extended the old ones with a view of releasing them. Between 2004 and 2006 he taught Wymysorys in a primary school in Wilamowice.

Concha García Campoy, Spanish journalist (born 1958)

Concepción García Campoy, also known as Concha García Campoy, was a Spanish radio and television journalist and personality.

Caroline Duby Glassman, American lawyer and jurist (born 1922)

Caroline Duby Glassman was an American attorney and former jurist in the state of Maine. A native of Oregon, she completed college and law school in that state before moving to Portland, Maine, where she practiced law with her husband Harry P. Glassman. In 1983, she became the first woman to serve on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Ku Ok-hee, South Korean golfer (born 1956)

Ku Ok-hee was a South Korean professional golfer who played on the LPGA of Japan Tour and the LPGA Tour.

Gokulananda Mahapatra, Indian author and academic (born 1922)

Gokulananda Mahapatra was an Indian scientist and science fiction writer, who popularized science in the Odia language. Mahapatra has authored over 95 science fiction and children science books. Some of his notable contributions are Krutrima Upagraha, Prithibi bahare Manisha, Chandra ra Mrutyu, Nishabda Godhuli, Madam Curie and Nila Chakra Bala Sapare. He was the founding member of Orissa Bigyana Prachar Samhiti with the objective of making science popular in the state of Orissa. He received Orissa Sahitya Akademy Award for his book E juga ra sreshtha abiskara.

10/07/2012

Dolphy, Filipino actor, singer, and producer (born 1928)

Rodolfo Vera Quizon Sr., known professionally as Dolphy, was a Filipino comedian and actor. Widely regarded by Philippine media as the country's "King of Comedy", he starred in a long list of comedy films and television series over a career spanning more than six decades.

Peter Kyros, American lawyer and politician (born 1925)

Peter Nicholas Kyros was an American attorney, politician, and lobbyist who served as a Democratic U.S. representative from Maine from 1967 to 1975.

Berthe Meijer, German-Dutch journalist and author (born 1938)

Berthe Meijer was a Dutch Holocaust survivor and author. In her memoir of her time imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, she wrote of knowing Anne Frank, which was corroborated by other camp survivors. She was also a culinary journalist and published a cookbook.

Fritz Langanke, German lieutenant (born 1919)

The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded for a wide range of reasons and across all ranks, from a senior commander for skilled leadership of his troops in battle to a low-ranking soldier for a single act of extreme gallantry. A total of 7,321 awards were made between its first presentation on 30 September 1939 and its last bestowal on 17 June 1945. This number is based on the analysis and acceptance of the order commission of the Association of Knight's Cross Recipients (AKCR). Presentations were made to members of the three military branches of the Wehrmacht—the Heer (Army), Kriegsmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe —as well as the Waffen-SS, the Reichsarbeitsdienst and the Volkssturm. There were also 43 recipients in the military forces of allies of the Third Reich.

Viktor Suslin, Russian-German composer (born 1942)

Viktor Yevseyevich Suslin was a Russian composer. An associate of Sofia Gubaidulina's, together with her and Vyacheslav Artyomov he formed the improvisatory ensemble 'Astraea' in 1975. He emigrated to Germany in 1981.

10/07/2011

Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano and educator (born 1921)

Pierrette Alarie, was a French Canadian coloratura soprano. She was married to the French-Canadian tenor Léopold Simoneau.

Roland Petit, French dancer and choreographer (born 1924)

Roland Petit was a French ballet company director, choreographer and dancer. He trained at the Paris Opera Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets.

10/07/2009

Ebba Haslund, Norwegian writer (born 1917)

Ebba Margareta Haslund Halvorsen was an American-Norwegian novelist, writer of short stories, playwright, essayist, children's writer, literary critic, radio speaker and politician.

10/07/2008

Hiroaki Aoki, Japanese-American wrestler and businessman, founded Benihana (born 1938)

Hiroaki Aoki , better known as Rocky Aoki, was a Japanese-American restaurateur, professional offshore powerboat racer and amateur wrestler. He was the founder of the Japanese cuisine restaurant chain Benihana and Genesis magazine.

Mike Souchak, American golfer (born 1927)

Michael Souchak was an American professional golfer. He won fifteen events on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s and represented the United States for the Ryder Cup in 1959 and 1961.

10/07/2007

Abdul Rashid Ghazi, chancellor of Faridia University. (born 1964)

Abdul Rashid Ghazi was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and diplomat-turned Islamist dissident who served as Khatib of Lal Masjid, the Chief Executive of Jamia Faridia University, the Chairman of Defense of Human Rights Pakistan (DHR), a member of UNICEF Committee on preventive healthcare and a leader of Difa-e-Pakistan Council. Prior to this he had worked for the Ministry of Education and was a diplomat affiliated with UNESCO, a specialized agency of the United Nations.

Doug Marlette, American cartoonist and author (born 1949)

Douglas Nigel Marlette was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American editorial cartoonist who, at the time of his death, had also published two novels and was "finding his voice in writing long-length fiction." His popular comic strip Kudzu, distributed by Tribune Media Services from 1981 to 2007, was adapted into a musical comedy.

10/07/2006

Shamil Basayev, Chechen terrorist rebel leader (born 1965)

Shamil Salmanovich Basayev, also known by his kunya Abu Idris, was a Chechen guerrilla leader who served as a senior military commander in the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. He held the rank of brigadier general in the Armed Forces of Ichkeria, and was posthumously declared generalissimo. As a military commander in the separatist armed forces of Chechnya, one of his most notable battles was the separatist recapture of Grozny in 1996, which he personally planned and commanded together with Aslan Maskhadov. He also masterminded several of the worst terrorist attacks that occurred in Russia.

Lennart Bladh, Swedish politician (born 1920)

Lennart Villiam Bladh was a Swedish politician who served as member of the Riksdag (MP) from 1974 to 1985.

10/07/2005

A. J. Quinnell, English author (born 1940)

Philip Nicholson, known by his pen name A. J. Quinnell, was an English novelist. He is best known for his novel Man on Fire, which has been adapted to film twice and a television series. Later in life he spent much of his time in Gozo, Malta, where he died.

10/07/2004

Pati Behrs, Russian-American ballerina and actress (born 1922)

Pati Behrs Eristoff was a Russian-American prima ballerina and actress.

10/07/2003

Winston Graham, English author (born 1908)

Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime, was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall, though he also wrote numerous other works, including contemporary thrillers, period novels, short stories, non-fiction and plays. Graham was the author's pseudonym until he changed his name by deed poll from Grime to Graham on 7 May 1947.

Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, German-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (born 1902)

Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross,, known from 1945 to 1959 as Sir Hartley Shawcross, was an English barrister and Labour politician who served as the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal. He also served as Britain's principal delegate to the United Nations immediately after the Second World War and as Attorney General for England and Wales.

10/07/2002

Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (born 1926)

Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre Côté was a Canadian parliamentarian and the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.

Evangelos Florakis, Greek general (born 1943)

Evangelos Florakis was a Greek Army officer who rose to the rank of lieutenant general. After retiring from the Hellenic Army, from 2000 until his death in a helicopter accident in 2002 he commanded the Cypriot National Guard.

Laurence Janifer, American author (born 1933)

Laurence Mark Janifer was an American science fiction author, with a career spanning over 50 years.

10/07/2000

Vakkom Majeed, Indian journalist and politician (born 1909)

Vakkom Majeed was an Indian freedom fighter, politician and a former member of the Travancore-Cochin State Assembly. He was born into one of the most prominent aristocratic Muslim families in Travancore. Influenced by the works of his uncle, Vakkom Moulavi, he became involved in social and political reform movements. Majeed was one of the early architects of the Indian National Congress in Travancore, eventually becoming the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Attingal constituency (1948–1952). Regarded as one of the great Indian nationalists of 20th century, Majeed belonged to a tradition of politics that was intrinsically value-based, secular and humanistic.

10/07/1996

Eno Raud, Estonian author (born 1928)

Eno Raud was an Estonian children's writer. His works are considered classics in Estonia as well as in the other former Soviet countries. Raud was included in International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Honour List in 1974.

10/07/1995

Mehmet Ali Aybar, Turkish lawyer and politician (born 1908)

Mehmet Ali Aybar was a lawyer, member of the Turkish parliament, the second president of the Workers Party of Turkey, the founder and President of the Socialist Revolution Party, and a member of the Russell Tribunal against the war crimes of the United States in Vietnam. He is known as one of the most prominent proponents of democratic socialism in Turkish political history.

10/07/1993

Ruth Krauss, American author and poet (born 1901)

Ruth Ida Krauss was an American writer of children's books, including The Carrot Seed, and of theatrical poems for adult readers. Many of her books are still in print.

Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter and producer (born 1924)

Samuel Harris Rolfe was an American screenwriter best known for creating the 1950–60s highly rated CBS television series Have Gun – Will Travel, as well as his work on the 1960s NBC television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Eleventh Hour.

10/07/1989

Mel Blanc, American voice actor (born 1908)

Melvin Jerome Blanc was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over sixty years. Referred to as "The Man of a Thousand Voices", he is regarded as the greatest and most influential voice actor of all time. Blanc is best known for providing voices for Looney Tunes cartoons by Warner Bros. during the golden age of American animation.

10/07/1987

John Hammond, American record producer, critic, and activist (born 1910)

John Henry Hammond Jr. was an American record producer, civil rights activist, and music critic active from the 1930s to the early 1980s. As a talent scout, Hammond became one of the most influential figures in 20th-century popular music. He is the father of blues musician John P. Hammond.

10/07/1986

Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer and author (born 1940)

Tadeusz Piotrowski was a Polish mountaineer and author of several books related to the subject. He has been referred to as "perhaps the finest winter mountaineer of his day".

10/07/1985

Fernando Pereira, Dutch photographer (born 1950)

Fernando Pereira was a Portuguese-Dutch freelance photographer, who drowned when French intelligence (DGSE) detonated a bomb and sank the Rainbow Warrior, owned by the environmental organisation Greenpeace on 10 July 1985.

10/07/1980

Joseph Krumgold, American author and screenwriter (born 1908)

Joseph Quincy Krumgold was an American writer of books and screenplays. He was the first person to win two annual Newbery Medals for the most distinguished new American children's book.

10/07/1979

Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (born 1894)

Arthur Fiedler was an American conductor known for his association with both the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops orchestras. With a combination of musicianship and showmanship, he made the Boston Pops one of the best-known orchestras in the United States. Fiedler was sometimes criticized for over-popularizing music, particularly when adapting popular songs or editing portions of the classical repertoire, but he kept performances informal and sometimes self-mocking to attract a bigger audience.

10/07/1978

John D. Rockefeller III, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Asia Society (born 1906)

John Davison Rockefeller III was an American philanthropist. Rockefeller was the eldest son and second child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller as well as a grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. He was engaged in a wide range of philanthropic projects, many of which his family had launched, as well as supporting organizations related to East Asian affairs. Rockefeller was also a major supporter of the Population Council, and the committee that created the Lincoln Center in Manhattan.

10/07/1976

Costas Georgiou, Cypriot-born British mercenary in the Angolan Civil War (born 1951)

Costas Georgiou, also known by his alias Colonel Callan, was a Greek Cypriot turned-mercenary who was executed following the Luanda Trial for activities during the Angolan Civil War after being captured by MPLA forces.

10/07/1972

Lovie Austin, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1887)

Cora "Lovie" Austin was an American Chicago bandleader, session musician, composer, singer, and arranger during the 1920s classic blues era. She and Lil Hardin Armstrong are often ranked as two of the best female jazz blues piano players of the period.

10/07/1971

Laurent Dauthuille, French boxer (born 1924)

Laurent Dauthuille was a French boxer.

10/07/1970

Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic academic and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Iceland (born 1908)

Bjarni Benediktsson was an Icelandic politician of the Independence Party who served as prime minister of Iceland from 1963 to 1970. He was born to Benedikt Sveinsson (1877–1954), a leader in the independence movement of Iceland and a member of the Althingi from 1908 to 1931, and Guðrún Pétursdóttir frá Engey, a nationally renowned poet.

10/07/1963

Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster (born 1893)

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Blythe Thornhill Wakelam, known as Teddy Wakelam, was an English sports broadcaster and rugby union player who captained Harlequin F.C.

10/07/1962

Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and politician (born 1875)

Yehuda Leib Maimon was an Israeli rabbi, politician and leader of the Religious Zionist movement. He was Israel's first Minister of Religion.

10/07/1960

Sæbjørn Buttedahl, Norwegian actor and sculptor (born 1876)

Sæbjørn Buttedahl was a Norwegian stage and film actor who later found prominence as a sculptor.

10/07/1956

Joe Giard, American baseball player (born 1898)

Joseph Oscar Giard was an American Major League Baseball pitcher.

10/07/1954

Calogero Vizzini, Italian mob boss (born 1877)

Calogero Vizzini, also commonly known as "Don Calò", was a Sicilian Mafia boss of Villalba in the province of Caltanissetta, Sicily. He was considered to be one of the most influential and legendary Mafia bosses of Sicily after World War II until his death in 1954. In the media, Don Calò was often depicted as the "boss of bosses" – although such a position does not exist in the loose structure of Cosa Nostra.

10/07/1952

Rued Langgaard, Danish organist and composer (born 1893)

Rued Langgaard was a late-Romantic Danish composer and organist. His then-unconventional music was at odds with that of his Danish contemporaries but was recognized 16 years after his death.

10/07/1950

Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer (born 1882)

Richard Fontaine Maury was an American railway engineer and naturalized Argentine. He became known for the project of the Argentine "Ramal C-14" of the Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano and the touristic Tren a las Nubes.

10/07/1941

Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1890)

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American blues and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of Louisiana Creole descent. Morton was jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential characteristics when notated. His composition "Jelly Roll Blues", published in 1915, was one of the first published jazz compositions. He also claimed to have invented the genre.

Huntley Wright, English actor (born 1868)

Huntley Wright was an English stage and film actor, comedian, dancer and singer, best known for creating roles in many important Edwardian musical comedies.

10/07/1938

Arthur Barclay, 15th president of Liberia (born 1854)

Arthur Barclay was the 15th president of Liberia from 1904 to 1912.

10/07/1929

Ève Lavallière, French actress (born 1866)

Ève Lavallière was a French stage actress and later a noteworthy Catholic penitent and member of the Secular Franciscan Order.

10/07/1920

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, British admiral (born 1841)

Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher,, commonly known as Jacky or Jackie Fisher, was a Royal Navy officer. Fisher was chiefly recognised as an innovator, strategist, and architect of naval reform rather than as an operational admiral, although he held combat commands throughout his career. Appointed First Sea Lord in 1904, Fisher played a critical role in the Anglo-German naval arms race, helping to modernise the British navy ahead of the First World War.

10/07/1915

Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch painter (born 1831)

Hendrik Willem Mesdag was a Dutch marine painter.

10/07/1908

Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (born 1839)

Phoebe Knapp was an American composer of music for hymns and an organist. She composed the music for over five hundred hymns.

10/07/1884

Paul Morphy, American chess player (born 1837)

Paul Charles Morphy was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. Later commentators have concluded that he was far ahead of his time.

10/07/1881

Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and academic (born 1812)

Georg Hermann Nicolai was a German architect and educator, Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts on the Brühl Terrace in Dresden from 1850 until his death.

10/07/1863

Clement Clarke Moore, American author and educator (born 1779)

Clement Clarke Moore was an American writer, scholar and real estate developer. He is best known as author of the Christmas poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which first named each of Santa Claus's reindeer.

10/07/1851

Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (born 1787)

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was a French scientist, artist and photographer recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography. Though he is most famous for his contributions to photography, he was also an accomplished painter, scenic designer, and a developer of the diorama theatre.

10/07/1806

George Stubbs, English painter and academic (born 1724)

George Stubbs was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough. Stubbs' output includes history paintings, but his greatest skill was in painting animals, perhaps influenced by his love and study of anatomy. His series of paintings on the theme of a lion attacking a horse are early and significant examples of the Romantic movement that emerged in the late 18th century. He enjoyed royal patronage. His painting Whistlejacket hangs in the National Gallery, London.

10/07/1794

Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French general (born 1754)

Gaspard Augustin René Bernard de Marigny was a French officer and Vendéen general.

10/07/1776

Richard Peters, English lawyer and minister (born 1704)

Richard Peters, born in Liverpool became an attorney, Anglican minister, and civil servant. In 1735 he emigrated to Pennsylvania, where he served in numerous posts for the Penn family, including on the Governor's Council from 1749 to 1775, and eventually became rector of Christ Church in Philadelphia.

10/07/1686

John Fell, English bishop and academic (born 1625)

John Fell was an English churchman and influential academic. He served as Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and later concomitantly as Bishop of Oxford.

10/07/1683

François Eudes de Mézeray, French historian and author (born 1610)

François Eudes de Mézeray was a French historian.

10/07/1680

Louis Moréri, French priest and scholar (born 1643)

Louis Moréri was a French priest and encyclopedist. Moreri was the author of Le Grand Dictionaire historique, ou le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane. At least 24 editions of the encyclopedia were published between 1674 and 1759 and the encyclopedia was translated into a number of languages, including English, German, Dutch and Spanish.

10/07/1653

Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (born 1600)

Gabriel Naudé was a French librarian and scholar. He was a prolific writer who produced works on many subjects including politics, religion, history and the supernatural. In 1627, he published an influential book in the field of library science called Advice on Establishing a Library. Naudé was later able to put into practice all the ideas he had put forth in Advice when he was given the opportunity to build and maintain the Bibliothèque Mazarine, the library of Cardinal Mazarin at Paris.

10/07/1621

Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, French commander (born 1571)

Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy was a military commander who fought for the Spanish Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War and for the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.

10/07/1603

Joan Terès i Borrull, Spanish archbishop and academic (born 1538)

Joan Terès i Borrull was presbyter of Vic, auxiliary bishop of Morocco (1575–1579), bishop of Elne (1579–1586) and of Tortosa (1586–1587), and archbishop of Tarragona (1587–1603). He was viceroy of Catalonia (1602–1603) and councillor of King Philip III of Spain.

10/07/1594

Paolo Bellasio, Italian organist and composer (born 1554)

Paolo Bellasio was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. He is generally considered to be a member of the Roman School, though unusually for the group he seems to have written only madrigals.

10/07/1590

Charles II, archduke of Austria (born 1540)

Charles II Francis of Austria was an Archduke of Austria and a ruler of Inner Austria from 1564. He was a member of the House of Habsburg.

10/07/1584

William I, Dutch nobleman (born 1533)

William the Silent or William the Taciturn, more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange and in the Dutch National anthem as Willem van Nassau, was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648. Born into the House of Nassau, he became Prince of Orange in 1544 and is thereby the founder of the Orange-Nassau branch and the ancestor of the monarchy of the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, he is also known as Father of the Fatherland.

10/07/1576

Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo, Italian noble (born 1553)

Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo or Leonor Álvarez de Toledo Osorio, more often known as "Leonora" or "Dianora", was the daughter of García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca, Duke of Fernandina. Leonora was born in Florence, where she was raised by Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his wife Eleanor of Toledo, her aunt and namesake.

10/07/1559

Henry II, king of France (born 1519)

Henry II was King of France from 1547 until his death in 1559. The second son of Francis I and Claude, Duchess of Brittany, he became Dauphin of France upon the death of his elder brother Francis in 1536.

10/07/1510

Catherine Cornaro, queen of Cyprus (born 1454)

Catherine Cornaro was the last monarch of the Kingdom of Cyprus, also holding the titles of Queen of Jerusalem and Queen of Armenia. She became queen consort of Cyprus by marriage to James II of Cyprus, and then regent of Cyprus during the minority of her son James III of Cyprus in 1473–1474, and finally queen regnant of Cyprus upon his death. She reigned from 26 August 1474 to 26 February 1489 and was declared a "Daughter of Saint Mark" in order that the Republic of Venice could claim control of Cyprus after the death of her husband.

10/07/1480

René of Anjou, French nobleman (born 1400)

René I of Anjou was Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence from 1434 to 1480, who also reigned as King of Naples from 1435 to 1442. Having spent his last years in Aix-en-Provence, he is known in France as the Good King René.

10/07/1473

James II, king of Cyprus

James II was the penultimate King of Cyprus (usurper), reigning from 1460/1464 until his death.

10/07/1461

Thomas, king of Bosnia (born 1411)

Stephen Thomas, a member of the House of Kotromanić, reigned from 1443 until his death as the penultimate king of Bosnia.

10/07/1460

Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English commander and politician, Lord High Constable of England (born 1402)

Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 6th Earl of Stafford, 7th Baron Stafford of Stafford Castle in Staffordshire, was an English nobleman and a military commander in the Hundred Years' War and the Wars of the Roses. Through his mother he was of royal descent from King Edward III, his great-grandfather, while from his father, he inherited, at an early age, the earldom of Stafford. By his marriage to a daughter of Ralph, Earl of Westmorland, Humphrey was related to the powerful Neville family and to many of the leading aristocratic houses of the time. He joined the English campaign in France with King Henry V in 1420. Following Henry V's death two years later he became a councillor for the new king, the nine-month-old Henry VI. Stafford acted as a peacemaker during the factional politics of the 1430s, when Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, vied with Cardinal Beaufort for political supremacy. Stafford also took part in the eventual arrest of Gloucester in 1447.

John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, English nobleman (born c. 1413)

John Talbot was the 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, 2nd Earl of Waterford, 8th Baron Talbot, KG was an English nobleman and soldier and the son of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, 1st Earl of Waterford, 7th Baron Talbot, 10th Baron Strange of Blackmere, and Maud Neville, 6th Baroness Furnivall.

10/07/1290

Ladislaus IV, king of Hungary (born 1262)

Ladislaus IV of Hungary, also known as Ladislaus the Cuman, was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1272 to 1290. His mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of a chieftain from the pagan Cumans who had settled in Hungary. At the age of seven, he married Elisabeth, a daughter of King Charles I of Sicily. Ladislaus was only 9 when a rebellious lord, Joachim Gutkeled, kidnapped and imprisoned him.

10/07/1103

Eric I, king of Denmark (born 1060)

Eric I, also known as Eric the Good or Eric Evergood, was King of Denmark following his brother Olaf I Hunger in 1095. He was a son of Sweyn II. His mother's identity remains unknown. He married Boedil Thurgotsdatter.

10/07/1086

Canute IV, king of Denmark (born 1043)

Canute IV, later known as Canute the Holy or Saint Canute, was King of Denmark from 1080 until 1086. Canute was an ambitious king who sought to strengthen the Danish monarchy, devotedly supported the Roman Catholic Church, and wanted the English throne. Slain by rebels in 1086, he was the first Danish king to be canonized. He was recognized by the Roman Catholic Church as patron saint of Denmark in 1101.

10/07/0994

Leopold I, margrave of Austria

Leopold I, known as the Illustrious founder of medieval Austria was a member of the House of Babenberg who ruled as Margrave of Austria from 976 until his death. He was the first margrave of the Babenberg dynasty which ruled the March and Duchy of Austria until its extinction in 1246.

10/07/0983

Benedict VII, pope of the Catholic Church

Pope Benedict VII was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from October 974 to his death on 10 July 983.

10/07/0831

Zubaidah bint Ja`far, Abbasid Princess

Zubaidah bint Ja`far ibn al-Mansur was the best known of the Abbasid princesses, and the wife and double cousin of Harun al-Rashid. She is particularly remembered for the series of wells, reservoirs and artificial pools that provided water for Muslim pilgrims along the route from Baghdad to Mecca and Medina, which was renamed the Darb Zubaidah in her honor. The exploits of her and her husband, Harun al-Rashid, form part of the basis for The Thousand and One Nights.

10/07/0772

Amalberga of Temse, Frankish noblewoman

Amalberga of Temse was probably a Frisian venerated Christian woman who was likely a Frankish subject from the Ardennes, located in Francia. She was a consecrated virgin, and probably the superior abbess of nuns in a religious community. She is considered as a saint in both the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, despite never being officially canonized as a saint. Raised by Saint Landrada, who founded Munsterbilsen Abbey, she is known for her refusal of Charlemagne's offer of marriage. Amalberga became a nun under Landrada and either succeeded her as abbess or governed a community of nuns on her own lands.

10/07/0649

Tai Zong, Chinese emperor (born 598)

Emperor Taizong of Tang, previously Prince of Qin, personal name Li Shimin, was the second emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, ruling from 626 to 649. He is traditionally regarded as a co-founder of the dynasty for his role in encouraging his father Li Yuan to rebel against the Sui dynasty at Jinyang in 617. Taizong subsequently played a pivotal role in defeating several of the dynasty's most dangerous opponents and solidifying its rule over China proper.

10/07/0645

Soga no Iruka, Japanese politician

Soga no Iruka was the son of Soga no Emishi, a statesman in the Asuka Period of Japan.

10/07/0138

Hadrian, Roman emperor (born 76)

Year 138 (CXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Niger and Camerinus. The denomination 138 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Celebrations & Special Days Worldwide on 10th July

Armed Forces Day (Mauritania)

An Armed Forces Day, alongside its branch-specific variants often referred to as Army or Soldier's Day, Navy or Sailor's Day, and Air Force or Aviator's Day, is a holiday dedicated to honoring the armed forces, or one of their branches, of a sovereign state, including their personnel, history, achievements, and sacrifices. It's often patriotic or nationalistic in nature, carrying information value outside of the conventional boundaries of a military's subculture and into the wider civilian society. Many nations around the world observe this day. It is usually distinct from a Veterans or Memorial Day, as the former is dedicated to those who previously served and the latter is dedicated to those who perished in the fulfillment of their duties.

Christian feast day: Amalberga of Maubeuge

Saint Amalberga of Maubeuge was a Merovingian nun and saint who lived in the 7th century.

Christian feast day: Canute IV of Denmark

Canute IV, later known as Canute the Holy or Saint Canute, was King of Denmark from 1080 until 1086. Canute was an ambitious king who sought to strengthen the Danish monarchy, devotedly supported the Roman Catholic Church, and wanted the English throne. Slain by rebels in 1086, he was the first Danish king to be canonized. He was recognized by the Roman Catholic Church as patron saint of Denmark in 1101.

Christian feast day: Rufina and Secunda

Rufina and Secunda were Roman virgin-martyrs and Christian saints. Their feast day is celebrated on 10 July.

Christian feast day: Seven Brothers

Felicitas of Rome, also anglicized as Felicity, is a saint numbered among the Christian martyrs. Apart from her name, the only thing known for certain about this martyr is that she was buried in the Cemetery of Maximus, on the Via Salaria on a 23 November. However, a legend presents her as the mother of the seven martyrs whose feast is celebrated on 10 July. The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates their martyrdom on 25 January.

Christian feast day: Victoria, Anatolia, and Audax

Saints Victoria, Anatolia, and Audax are venerated as martyrs and saints by the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church.

Christian feast day: July 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 9 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 11

Independence Day (Bahamas), celebrates the independence of the Bahamas from the United Kingdom in 1973.

The holidays in The Bahamas include the following:

Nikola Tesla Day

Nikola Tesla is portrayed in many forms of popular culture. The Serbian-American engineer has particularly been depicted in science fiction, a genre which is well suited to address his inventions; while often exaggerated, the fictionalized variants build mostly upon his own alleged claims or ideas. A popular, growing fixation among science fiction, comic book, and speculative history storytellers is to portray Tesla as a member of a secret society, along with other luminaries of science. The impacts of the technologies invented by Nikola Tesla are a recurring theme in the steampunk genre of alternate technology science-fiction.

Statehood Day (Wyoming)

A state of the United States is one of the 50 constituent entities that shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside, due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names.

What Happened on 10th July?

69 significant events took place on Monday, 10th July — stretching from 138 to 2019. Explore the moments that shaped history on this day.

10/07/2019

The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.

The Volkswagen Beetle, officially the Volkswagen Type 1, is a small family car produced by the German company Volkswagen from 1938 to 2003. A global cultural icon known for its bug-like design, the Beetle is widely regarded as one of the most influential cars of the 20th century. Its production period of 65 years is the longest for any single generation of automobile. With 21.5 million units produced over twenty locations worldwide, the Beetle is the best-selling car of a single platform in history and the second best-selling car nameplate of the 20th century.

10/07/2018

Tham Luang cave rescue: A group of Thai school children and their football coach are all rescued from a cave after being stuck there for 18 days; one Thai Navy SEAL diver dies during the rescue mission.

In June 2018, a junior association football team became trapped in Tham Luang Nang Non, a cave system in Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand. Twelve members of the team, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old assistant coach entered the cave on 23 June after a practice session. Shortly after they entered, heavy rainfall began and partially flooded the cave system, blocking their way out and trapping them deep within.

10/07/2017

Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of Iraq.

The War in Iraq (2013–2017) was an armed conflict between Iraq and its allies and the Islamic State. Following December 2013, the insurgency escalated into a full-scale war following clashes in parts of western Iraq, which culminated in the Islamic State offensive into Iraq in June 2014, leading to the capture of the cities of Mosul, Tikrit and other cities in western and northern Iraq by the Islamic State. Between 4–9 June 2014, the city of Mosul was attacked and later fell; following this, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called for a national state of emergency on 10 June. However, despite the security crisis, Iraq's parliament did not allow Maliki to declare a state of emergency; many legislators boycotted the session because they opposed expanding the prime minister's powers. Ali Ghaidan, a former military commander in Mosul, accused al-Maliki of being the one who issued the order to withdraw from the city of Mosul. At its height, ISIL held 56,000 square kilometers of Iraqi territory, containing 4.5 million citizens.

10/07/2016

Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.

The Portugal national football team has represented Portugal in men's international football competition since 1921. The national team is controlled by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF), the governing body for football in Portugal. Portugal's home stadium is the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, located next to its primary training ground and the FPF headquarters, but the team usually plays its home matches in more modern stadiums throughout the country. The head coach is Roberto Martínez, and the captain is Cristiano Ronaldo, who holds the team records for most caps and most goals.

10/07/2012

The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage.

The Episcopal Church (TEC), also known as the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion, based in the United States. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Sean W. Rowe.

10/07/2011

Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in the Volga River near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.

Bulgaria was a class 785/OL800 Russian river cruise ship which operated in the Volga-Don basin. On 10 July 2011, Bulgaria sank in the Kuybyshev Reservoir of the Volga River near Syukeyevo, Kamsko-Ustyinsky District, Tatarstan, Russia, with 201 passengers and crew aboard when sailing from the town of Bolgar to the regional capital, Kazan. The catastrophe led to 122 confirmed deaths.

Amid widespread backlash to revelations of phone hacking, the British weekly tabloid newspaper News of the World publishes its final issue and shuts down after nearly 168 years in print.

Beginning in the 1990s, and going as far as its shutdown in 2011, employees of the now-defunct newspaper News of the World engaged in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories.

10/07/2008

Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal.

Ljube Boškoski is a Macedonian politician and former Minister of Internal Affairs of Macedonia.

10/07/2007

Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.

Erden Eruç is a Turkish-American adventurer who became the first person in history to complete an entirely solo and entirely human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth on 21 July 2012 in Bodega Bay, California, United States. The journey had started from Bodega Bay a little more than five years earlier on 10 July 2007. The modes of transport included a rowboat to cross the oceans, a sea kayak for shorelines, a bicycle on the roads and hiking on trails, along with canoes for a few river crossings. The route he followed was 66,299 km (41,196 mi) long, crossed the equator twice and all lines of longitude, and passed over twelve pairs of antipodal points, meeting all the requirements for a true circumnavigation of the globe. Guinness World Records has officially recognized Eruç for the "First solo circumnavigation of the globe using human power" on a journey that lasted 5 years 11 days 12 hours and 22 minutes.

10/07/2006

A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45 people on board.

Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688 was a domestic passenger flight from Multan to Islamabad with a stopover in Lahore, operated by Pakistan's flag carrier Pakistan International Airlines. On 10 July 2006, the aircraft operating the route, a Fokker F27, crashed into a mango orchard after one of its two engines failed shortly after takeoff from Multan International Airport. All 41 passengers and four crew on board were killed.

10/07/2002

The Massacre of the Innocents, a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, is sold at a Sotheby's auction for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.

The Massacre of the Innocents is the subject of two paintings by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the episode of the biblical Massacre of the Innocents of Bethlehem, as related in the Gospel of Matthew (2:13–18). The first, measuring 142 x 182 cm, was painted after his return to his native Antwerp in 1608, following eight years spent in Italy.

10/07/2000

EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.

Airbus SE is a European aerospace corporation. While the company's primary business is the design and manufacture of commercial aircraft, it also operates separate divisions for Defence and Space and Helicopters. Airbus has long been the world's leading helicopter manufacturer and, in 2019, emerged as the world's largest manufacturer of airliners.

Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria.

Bashar Hafez al-Assad is a Syrian former politician, doctor, and military officer who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his overthrow in 2024 after the Syrian civil war. As president, Assad was commander-in-chief of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces and secretary-general of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He is the son of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria from 1970 to 2000.

10/07/1999

In women's association football, the United States defeats China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Watched by 90,185 spectators, the final sets a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.

Association football, more commonly known as just football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a ball around a pitch.

10/07/1998

Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claim they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.

Reports of the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy and members of religious orders have been documented in numerous countries. Beginning in the late 20th century, allegations and subsequent investigations revealed long-term patterns of misconduct and, in some instances, failures by Church authorities to address or disclose allegations. Victims were primarily boys, though girls were also affected, with reported ages ranging from early childhood to adolescence. Public awareness increased as many adults came forward years after the alleged incidents, prompting criminal prosecutions, civil litigation, and internal Church reviews.

10/07/1997

In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

Deoxyribonucleic acid is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix. The polymer carries genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of all known organisms and many viruses. DNA and ribonucleic acid (RNA) are nucleic acids. Alongside proteins, lipids and complex carbohydrates (polysaccharides), nucleic acids are one of the four major types of macromolecules that are essential for all known forms of life.

Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.

Miguel Ángel Blanco Garrido was a Spanish economist and municipal politician and a member of the People's Party, in Ermua, the Basque Country. He was kidnapped and murdered by the Basque separatist group ETA.

10/07/1995

Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also referred to as Burma, is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by India and Bangladesh to the northwest, China to the northeast, Laos and Thailand to the east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to the south and southwest. The country's capital city is Naypyidaw, while its largest city is Yangon.

The NIOSH air filtration ratings update with the enactment of 42 CFR 84, previously published in the Federal Register. The new regulation includes rules governing the new N95 respirator standard.

The NIOSH air filtration rating is the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)'s classification of filtering respirators. The ratings describe the ability of the device to protect the wearer from solid and liquid particulates in the air. The certification and approval process for respiratory protective devices is governed by Part 84 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Respiratory protective devices so classified include air-purifying respirators (APR) such as filtering facepiece respirators and chemical protective cartridges that have incorporated particulate filter elements.

10/07/1992

In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.

Miami is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida. It is the second-most populous city proper in Florida, with a population of 442,241 at the 2020 census. The Miami metropolitan area in South Florida has an estimated 6.39 million residents, ranking as the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the Southeast and eighth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Miami has the third-largest skyline in the U.S. with over 300 high-rises, 70 of which exceed 491 ft (150 m). It is the county seat of Miami-Dade County.

10/07/1991

The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.

The South Africa men's national cricket team, also known as the Proteas, represents South Africa in men's international cricket and is administered by Cricket South Africa. South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council. The team's nickname derives from South Africa's national flower, Protea cynaroides, commonly known as the "King Protea". South Africa are the current World Test Champions.

Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1961 to 1990. He later stood as a political independent, during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with liberalism.

A Beechcraft Model 99 crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 people on board.

On July 10, 1991, a L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C99, flying as Flight 508 originating in New Orleans, and in transit from Mobile to Birmingham, crashed while attempting to make an ILS approach to Runway 5 at Birmingham Municipal Airport in Birmingham, Alabama. The plane crashed in the Fairview area near Five Points West in the Ensley neighborhood and subsequently injured four persons on the ground, as well as destroying two homes. Of the 15 occupants on board, there were 13 fatalities. The cause of the crash was attributed to the captain's decision to attempt an instrument approach into severe thunderstorms resulting in a loss of control of the airplane. To date it is the deadliest commercial aviation accident in Alabama history.

10/07/1985

The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.

Greenpeace is a global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity", and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, anti-war, and anti-nuclear issues. It uses direct action, advocacy, research, and ecotage to achieve its goals. The network comprises 26 independent national/regional organisations in over 55 countries across Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific, as well as a coordinating body, Greenpeace International, based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.

Aeroflot Flight 5143 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between the Soviet cities of Karshi and Leningrad with a stopover in Ufa, operated by the Uzbek division of Aeroflot. On July 10, 1985, the Tupolev Tu-154 operating the flight crashed due to a high-altitude stall in the Kyzylkum Desert, near the city of Uchquduq. The crash resulted in the deaths of all 200 occupants onboard the flight, making it the deadliest accident in the Soviet Union and Uzbekistan, and the deadliest crash of a Tu-154.

10/07/1978

President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.

Moktar Ould Daddah was a Mauritanian politician who served as the country's first President after it gained its independence from France. Moktar served as the country's first Prime Minister from 1957 to 1961 and as its first President of Mauritania, a position he held for 18 years until he was deposed in a military coup d'etat in 1978.

10/07/1976

Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the western coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country after Brazil in both total area and population and is the seventh-largest country in Africa. It is bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Angola has an exclave province, the province of Cabinda, that borders the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital and most populous city is Luanda.

10/07/1974

An EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes at Cairo International Airport, killing all six people on board.

The 1974 EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 crash occurred on 10 July 1974, when an Egyptair Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft crashed during a training flight near Cairo International Airport. This resulted in the deaths of all six crew members on board.

10/07/1973

The Bahamas gains full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic country in the Caribbean located within the Lucayan Archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. The country comprises 700 islands, and more than 2,500 cays in the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Cuba and north-west of the island of Hispaniola and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the US state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. The capital and largest city is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes the Bahamas' territory as encompassing 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi) of ocean space.

10/07/1967

New Zealand decimalises its former currency to the modern-day New Zealand dollar.

New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island and the South Island —and over 600 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area and lies east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland.

10/07/1966

The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago; as many as 60,000 people attend.

The Chicago Freedom Movement, also known as the Chicago open housing movement, was led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel and Al Raby. It was supported by the Chicago-based Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

10/07/1962

Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.

Telstar 1 is a defunct communications satellite launched by NASA on 10 July 1962. One of the earliest communications satellites, it was the first telecommunications satellite, achieving live transmission of broadcast television images between the United States and Europe. Telstar 1 remained active for only 7 months before it prematurely failed due to Starfish Prime, a high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States. Although the satellite is no longer operational, it remains in Earth orbit.

10/07/1951

Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.

The Korean War was an armed conflict fought on the Korean Peninsula between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, while South Korea was supported by the United Nations led by the United States under the auspices of the United Nations Command (UNC). The conflict was one of the first major proxy wars of the Cold War and one of its deadliest conflicts on non-combatants, as it is estimated that 1.5 to 3 million civilians were killed during the war. The war was the first time the United Nations Security Council authorized the use of force under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter.

10/07/1948

The official establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).: 121

Day of the Foundation of the Republic is the Republic Day and National day of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, held on 9 September.

10/07/1947

Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister, statesman, and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the inception of Pakistan on 14 August 1947, and then as Pakistan's first governor-general until his death a year later in 1948.

10/07/1943

World War II: Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, begins.

The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which Allied forces invaded the Italian island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis forces. The island was defended by the Italian 6th Army and the German XIV Panzer Corps. The invasion paved the way for the Allied invasion of mainland Italy and initiated the Italian campaign that removed Italy from the war.

10/07/1942

World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero"), which the US Navy then uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.

The Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" is a long-range carrier-capable fighter aircraft that was manufactured by Mitsubishi Aircraft Company, which was part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. It was operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from 1940 to 1945. The A6M was designated as the Mitsubishi Navy Type 0 carrier fighter , or the Mitsubishi A6M Rei-sen. The A6M was usually referred to by its pilots as the Reisen, "0" being the last digit of the imperial year 2600 (1940) when it entered service with the IJN. The official Allied reporting name was "Zeke", although the name "Zero" was used more commonly.

10/07/1941

Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.

The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941, during World War II and the early stages of the Holocaust. Estimates of the number of victims vary from 300 to 1,600, including women, children, and elderly, many of whom were locked in a barn and burned alive.

10/07/1940

World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.

World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, the latter enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the only nuclear weapons used in war. World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 60 to 75 million people. Millions died as a result of massacres, starvation, disease, and genocides, including the Holocaust. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.

World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks begin against British maritime convoys in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War. Throughout the ensuing conflict, Hitler was closely involved in the direction of German military operations and was central to the perpetration of the genocide of about six million Jews in the Holocaust as well as the deaths of millions of other victims.

10/07/1938

Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American aviator, aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He was one of the richest and most influential people in the world during his lifetime. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important figure in the aviation industry. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by his worsening obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness.

10/07/1927

Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, is assassinated by the IRA.

Kevin Christopher O'Higgins was an Irish politician who served as Vice-President of the Executive Council and Minister for Justice from 1922 to 1927, Minister for External Affairs from June 1927 to July 1927 and Minister for Economic Affairs from January 1922 to September 1922. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1918 to 1927.

10/07/1925

Scopes trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, commonly known as the Scopes trial or Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating the Butler Act, a Tennessee state law which outlawed the teaching of human evolution in public schools. The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he incriminated himself deliberately so the case could have a defendant. Scopes was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, which had offered to defend anyone accused of violating the Butler Act in an effort to challenge the constitutionality of the law.

10/07/1924

Paavo Nurmi wins the 1,500 m and 5,000 m events at the Paris Olympics, with just an hour between the two races.

Paavo Johannes Nurmi was a Finnish middle-distance and long-distance runner. He was called the "Flying Finn" because he dominated distance running in the 1920s. Nurmi set 22 official world records at distances between 1,500 metres and 20 kilometres, and won nine gold and three silver medals in his 12 events in the Summer Olympic Games. At his peak, Nurmi was undefeated for 121 races at distances from 800 m upwards. Throughout his 14-year career, he remained unbeaten in cross country events and the 10,000 metres.

10/07/1921

Belfast's Bloody Sunday occurs with 20 killings, at least 100 wounded and 200 homes destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Bloody Sunday or Belfast's Bloody Sunday was a day of violence in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 10 July 1921, during the Irish War of Independence. The violence erupted one day before a truce began, which ended the war in most of Ireland. With the truce nearing, police launched a raid against republicans, but were ambushed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and an officer was killed. In retaliation, Protestant loyalists attacked Catholic enclaves in west Belfast, burning homes and businesses. This sparked rioting and gun battles between Protestants and Catholics, including paramilitaries. There were also gun battles between republicans/nationalists and the police, and some police patrols fired indiscriminately at Catholic civilians. Seventeen people were killed or fatally wounded on 10 July, and a further three were killed or fatally wounded before the truce began at noon on 11 July. At least 100 people were wounded. About 200 houses were destroyed or badly damaged, most of them Catholic homes, leaving 1,000 people homeless.

10/07/1920

Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada.

Arthur Meighen was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the ninth prime minister of Canada from 1920 to 1921 and from June to September 1926. He led the Conservative Party from 1920 to 1926 and from 1941 to 1942.

10/07/1890

Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.

Wyoming is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It borders Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the south. With an estimated population of 587,618 as of 2024, Wyoming is the least populous state despite being the tenth-largest by area, and it has the second-lowest population density. The state capital and most populous city is Cheyenne.

10/07/1883

War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvian army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.

The War of the Pacific, also known by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884. Fought over Chilean claims on coastal Bolivian territory in the Atacama Desert, the war ended with victory for Chile, which gained a significant amount of resource-rich territory from Peru and Bolivia. The war demonstrated Chile's military-technological superiority over its opponents at the time.

10/07/1882

War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.

The War of the Pacific, also known by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884. Fought over Chilean claims on coastal Bolivian territory in the Atacama Desert, the war ended with victory for Chile, which gained a significant amount of resource-rich territory from Peru and Bolivia. The war demonstrated Chile's military-technological superiority over its opponents at the time.

10/07/1877

The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.

A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house that provided an escape from urban life. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming compounds, which were increasingly fortified in Late Antiquity, sometimes transferred to the Church for reuse as a monastery. They gradually re-evolved through the Middle Ages into elegant upper-class country homes. In the early modern period, any comfortable detached house with a garden near a city or town was likely to be described as a villa; most surviving villas have now been engulfed by suburbia. In modern parlance, "villa" can refer to various types and sizes of residences, ranging from the suburban semi-detached double villa to, in some countries, especially around the Mediterranean, residences of above average size in the countryside.

10/07/1850

U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.

Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853. He was the last president to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House, and the last to be neither a Democrat nor a Republican. A former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Fillmore was elected vice president in 1848, and succeeded to the presidency when Zachary Taylor died in 1850. Fillmore was instrumental in passing the Compromise of 1850, which led to a brief truce in the battle over the expansion of slavery.

10/07/1832

U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. He rose to fame as a U.S. Army general and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. His political philosophy, which dominated his presidency, became the basis for the rise of Jacksonian democracy. His legacy is controversial: he has been praised as an advocate for white working Americans and preserving the union of states, and criticized for his racist policies, particularly towards Native Americans.

10/07/1806

The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.

The Vellore mutiny, or Vellore Revolution, occurred on 10 July 1806 and was the first instance of a large-scale and violent mutiny by Indian sepoys against the East India Company, predating the Indian Rebellion of 1857 by half a century. The revolt, which took place in the Indian city of Vellore, lasted one full day, during which mutineers seized the Vellore Fort and killed or wounded 200 British troops. The mutiny was subdued by cavalry and artillery from Arcot. Total deaths amongst the mutineers were approximately 350; with summary executions of about 100 during the suppression of the outbreak, followed by the formal court-martial of smaller numbers.

10/07/1789

Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.

Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish explorer and fur trader known for accomplishing the first crossing of North America north of Mexico by a European in 1793. The Mackenzie River and Mount Sir Alexander are named after him. As a leading member of the North West Company, he aspired to extend the Company's operations into western Canada and sell furs gained from there in China. His ambitions competed with the monopoly positions of both the Hudson's Bay Company and the East India Company.

10/07/1778

American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.

The American Revolution (1765–1789) was a political movement in the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain. The movement began as a rebellion and evolved into a revolution resulting in the sovereign United States. These changes were the outcome of the associated American Revolutionary War. The Second Continental Congress, as the provisional government, established the Continental Army and appointed George Washington as its commander-in-chief in 1775. The following year, the Congress passed the Lee Resolution on July 2nd, then unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July. Throughout most of the war, the outcome appeared uncertain. However, in 1781, a decisive victory by Washington and the Continental Army in the Siege of Yorktown led King George III and the Fox–North coalition in government to negotiate the cessation of colonial rule and the acknowledgment of American sovereignty, formalized in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. The Constitution took effect in 1789 and the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791.

10/07/1668

Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1671): Notable Buccaneer Henry Morgan with an English Privateer force lands at Porto Bello in an attempt to capture the fortified and lucrative Spanish city.

The Anglo-Spanish War of 1654–1660 was fought between the Commonwealth of England and Habsburg Spain. It was driven by the economic and religious rivalry between the two countries, with each side attacking the other's commercial and colonial interests in various ways, such as privateering and naval expeditions.

10/07/1645

English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.

The English Civil War or Great Rebellion was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the struggle consisted of the First English Civil War and the Second English Civil War. The Anglo-Scottish war of 1650 to 1652 is sometimes referred to as the Third English Civil War.

10/07/1584

William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.

William the Silent or William the Taciturn, more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange and in the Dutch National anthem as Willem van Nassau, was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648. Born into the House of Nassau, he became Prince of Orange in 1544 and is thereby the founder of the Orange-Nassau branch and the ancestor of the monarchy of the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, he is also known as Father of the Fatherland.

10/07/1553

Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.

Lady Jane Grey, also known as Lady Jane Dudley after her marriage, and nicknamed as the "Nine Days Queen", was an English noblewoman who was proclaimed Queen of England and Ireland on 10 July 1553 and reigned until she was deposed by the Privy Council of England, which proclaimed her cousin, Mary I, as the new Queen on 19 July. Jane was later beheaded for high treason.

10/07/1519

Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.

Zhu Chenhao was a prince of the Ming dynasty, being a fifth-generation descendant of Zhu Quan, the seventeenth son of the founder and first emperor of the dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor. In 1499, he inherited the title of Prince of Ning and resided in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi. In July 1519, he started a rebellion by declaring the then Zhengde Emperor illegitimate and marching on Nanjing. Wang Yangming, governor of southern Jiangxi, quickly raised an army and occupied Nanchang. In August 1519, he crushed the rebel army, forcing them to retreat to the south. During the battle, Zhu Chenhao was captured and sentenced to execution, but the Emperor later commuted his sentence to suicide.

10/07/1512

The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta.

The Spanish conquest of the Iberian part of Navarre was initiated by Ferdinand II of Aragon and completed by his grandson and successor Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in a series of military campaigns lasting from 1512 to 1529. Ferdinand was both the king of Aragon and regent of Castile in 1512. When Pope Julius II declared a Holy League against France in late 1511, Navarre attempted to remain neutral. Ferdinand used this as an excuse to attack Navarre, conquering it while its potential protector, France, was beset by England, Venice, and Ferdinand's own Italian armies.

10/07/1499

The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.

Nicolau Coelho was an expert Portuguese navigator and explorer during the Age of Discovery. He participated in the discovery of the route to India by Vasco da Gama, where he commanded Berrio, the first caravel to return; he was captain of a ship in the fleet headed by Pedro Álvares Cabral, who landed in Brazil. He died at sea, possibly off the coast of Mozambique, while returning from India in the 5th Portuguese Armada with Francisco de Albuquerque.

10/07/1460

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, 6th Earl of Salisbury, known as Warwick the Kingmaker, was an English nobleman, administrator, landowner of the House of Neville fortune and military commander. The eldest son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, he became Earl of Warwick through marriage, and was the wealthiest and most powerful English peer of his age, with political connections that went beyond the country's borders. One of the leaders in the Wars of the Roses, originally on the Yorkist side but later switching to the Lancastrian side, he was instrumental in the deposition of two kings, which led to his epithet of "Kingmaker".

10/07/1290

Ladislaus IV, King of Hungary, is assassinated at the castle of Körösszeg (modern-day Cheresig in Romania).

Ladislaus IV of Hungary, also known as Ladislaus the Cuman, was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1272 to 1290. His mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of a chieftain from the pagan Cumans who had settled in Hungary. At the age of seven, he married Elisabeth, a daughter of King Charles I of Sicily. Ladislaus was only 9 when a rebellious lord, Joachim Gutkeled, kidnapped and imprisoned him.

10/07/1212

The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.

The City of London has experienced numerous serious fires in the course of its history.

10/07/0988

The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.

Glúniairn, in Old Norse Járnkné, was a Norse-Gael king of Dublin of the Uí Ímair kindred which ruled over much of the Scandinavianised and Norse-Gael parts of Great Britain and Ireland in the tenth century.

10/07/0645

Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.

The Isshi incident was a successful plot by Nakatomi no Kamatari, Prince Naka no Ōe and others who conspired to eliminate the main branch of the Soga clan, beginning with the assassination of Soga no Iruka. It takes its name from the zodiological name of the year 645 during which the Taika Reform, a transformative event in Japanese Imperial history, occurred.

10/07/0420

Having usurped the throne of Emperor Gong of Jin, Liu Yu proclaims himself Emperor of the Liu Song dynasty.

Year 420 (CDXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Theodosius and Constantius. The denomination 420 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

10/07/0138

Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.

Year 138 (CXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Niger and Camerinus. The denomination 138 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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April Ivy, Portuguese composer and singer

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Angus Cloud, American actor (died 2023)

Chae Soo-bin, South Korean actress

Han Yu, Chinese pool player

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Adam Reynolds, Australian rugby league player

Trent Richardson, American football player

Chiyonokuni Toshiki, Japanese sumo wrestler

Antonio Brown, American football player

Heather Hemmens, American actress, director, and producer

Sarah Walker, New Zealand BMX rider

Park Chu-young, South Korean footballer

B. J. Crombeen, American ice hockey player

Mario Gómez, German footballer

Funda Oru, Belgian politician

Nikolaos Mitrou, Greek footballer

Giuseppe De Feudis, Italian footballer

Matthew Egan, Australian footballer

Gabi, Spanish footballer

Kim Hee-chul, Korean entertainer and singer

Joelson José Inácio, Brazilian footballer

Doug Kramer, Filipino basketball player

Anthony Watmough, Australian rugby league player

Sherif Ekramy, Egyptian footballer

Alex Arrowsmith, American guitarist and producer

Juliya Chernetsky, Ukrainian-American television host

Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer

Jeffrey Walker, Australian actor and director

Aleksandar Tunchev, Bulgarian footballer

Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer-songwriter and keyboard player

Adam Petty, American race car driver (died 2000)

Claudia Leitte, Brazilian singer-songwriter

James Rolfe, American actor, director, and producer

Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer

Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer

Gong Yoo, Korean actor

Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor

Edmílson, Brazilian footballer

Elijah Blue Allman, American singer and guitarist

Ludovic Giuly, French footballer

Adrian Grenier, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Brendon Lade, Australian footballer and coach

Lars Ricken, German footballer

Andrew Firestone, American businessman

Brendan Gaughan, American race car driver

Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (died 2018)

Richard Westbrook, English race car driver

Imelda May, Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer

Brian Thompson, American insurance executive (died 2024)

Peter Serafinowicz, English actor

Sofía Vergara, Colombian-American actress and producer

Tilo Wolff, German-Swiss singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

Adam Foote, Canadian ice hockey player

Gregory Goodridge, Barbadian footballer and coach

Gary LeVox, American singer-songwriter

Jason Orange, English singer-songwriter and dancer

John Simm, English actor

Marty Cordova, American baseball player

Gale Harold, American actor

Tom Meents, American professional monster truck driver

Rebekah Del Rio, American singer-songwriter (died 2025)

Gillian Tett, English journalist and author

Ikki Sawamura, Japanese model, actor and television presenter

John Yoo, South Korean-American lawyer, author, and educator

Clive Efford, English politician

Johnny Grunge, American wrestler (died 2006)

Christian Stangl, Austrian skier and mountaineer

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