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July 1

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122

1904 Summer Olympics

122 years ago

Born this day

1961

Diana, Princess of Wales

Would be 65

Oldest record

784th

Chagatai Khan

death anniversary

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Famous births27

1372 · 654 yrs

Jan Hus

Jan Hus (Czech:; c.

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ReligionDied aged 43

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1481 · 545 yrs

Christian II of Denmark

Christian II (1 July 1481 – 25 January 1559) was a monarch under the Kalmar Union, reigning as King of Denmark and Norway from 1513 until 1523. He was briefly King of Sweden from 1520 until 1521.

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RoyaltyDied aged 77

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1742 · 284 yrs

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (German:; 1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. He was the first person in Germany to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics.

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ScienceDied aged 56

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1804 · 222 yrs

George Sand

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (French:; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (French:), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist.

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LiteratureDied aged 71

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1818 · 208 yrs

Ignaz Semmelweis

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (German:; Hungarian: Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp; 1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865) was a Hungarian medical doctor and scientist of German descent who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures, known as the "saviour of mothers".

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ScienceDied aged 47

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1899 · 127 yrs

Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English actor and director. Over his career he received an Academy Award and a Grammy Award as well as nominations for two BAFTAs and a Golden Globe.

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1902 · 124 yrs

William Wyler

William Wyler (born Willi Wyler (German:); July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981) was a German-born American film director and producer. Known for his work in numerous genres over five decades, he received numerous accolades, including the most nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director (12).

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1916 · 110 yrs100 Club

Olivia de Havilland

Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland (July 1, 1916 – July 26, 2020) was a British, American, and French actress. She appeared in 49 feature films throughout her career, with the major works of her cinematic career spanning from 1935 to 1988.

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1926 · 100 yrs

Robert Fogel

Robert William Fogel (July 1, 1926 – June 11, 2013) was an American economic historian and winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. As of his death, he was the Charles R.

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1934 · 92 yrs

Sydney Pollack

Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor.

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1945 · 81 yrs

Debbie Harry

Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Trimble; July 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie. Labelled the "Queen of New Wave" by American Songwriter, four of her songs with the band reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 between 1979 and 1981.

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1952 · 74 yrs

Dan Aykroyd

Daniel Edward Aykroyd ( AK-royd; born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian and American actor, comedian, screenwriter, musician and producer.

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Famous deaths22

1242 · 784 yrs

Chagatai Khan

Chagatai Khan (Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠲᠠᠶ; c. 1184 – 1242) was a son of Genghis Khan, a prominent figure in the early Mongol Empire, and the first khan of the Chagatai Khanate.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 58

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1277 · 749 yrs

Baibars

Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari (Arabic: الْمَلِك الظَّاهِر رُكْن الدِّين بَيْبَرْس الْبُنْدُقْدَارِيّ; 1223/1228 – 30 June 1277), commonly known as Baibars or Baybars (بَيْبَرْس) and nicknamed Abu al-Futuh (أَبُو الْفُتُوح, lit.

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MilitaryDied aged 53

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1566 · 460 yrs

Nostradamus

Michel de Nostredame (December 1503 – July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events.

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ScienceDied aged 62

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1736 · 290 yrs

Ahmed III

Ahmed III (Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثالث, Aḥmed-i sālis; Turkish: III. Ahmed; 30 December 1673 – 1 July 1736) was sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of sultan Mehmed IV (r. 1648–1687).

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PoliticsDied aged 62

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1839 · 187 yrs

Mahmud II

Mahmud II (Ottoman Turkish: محمود ثانى Maḥmûd-u s̠ânî; Turkish: II. Mahmud; 20 July 1785 – 1 July 1839) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. Often described as the "Peter the Great of Turkey", Mahmud instituted extensive administrative, military, and fiscal reforms.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 53

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1860 · 166 yrs

Charles Goodyear

Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860) was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844.

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TechnologyDied aged 59

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1876 · 150 yrs

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 July 1876) was a Russian revolutionary anarchist and political philosopher. He is among the most influential figures of anarchism and a major figure in the revolutionary socialist, social anarchist, and collectivist anarchist tendencies.

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ActivismDied aged 62

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1896 · 130 yrs

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the Beecher family and wrote a popular novel called Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans.

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LiteratureDied aged 85

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1934 · 92 yrs

Ernst Röhm

Ernst Julius Günther Röhm (German:; 28 November 1887 – 1 July 1934) was a German military officer, politician, and a leading member of the Nazi Party.

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PoliticsWould be 138

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1961 · 65 yrs

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline ( say-LEEN; French: ), was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician.

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1971 · 55 yrs

William Lawrence Bragg

Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British X-ray crystallographer who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his father William Henry Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays", an important step in the…

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1974 · 52 yrs

Juan Perón

Juan Domingo Perón (UK:, US:, Spanish:; 8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974) was an Argentine military officer and politician who was the 29th and 40th president of Argentina, serving from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and from 1973 until his death in 1974.

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Events5

1863 · 163 yrs

Battle of Gettysburg

The Battle of Gettysburg (locally ) (July 1–3, 1863) was fought in the American Civil War between the Union and Confederate armies in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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War

1904 · 122 yrs

1904 Summer Olympics

The 1904 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the III Olympiad and also known as St. Louis 1904) were an international multi-sport event held in St.

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Sports

1916 · 110 yrs

Battle of the Somme

The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme; German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Republic against the German Empire.

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War

1967 · 59 yrs

War of Attrition

The War of Attrition (Arabic: حرب الاستنزاف, romanized: Ḥarb al-Istinzāf; Hebrew: מלחמת ההתשה, romanized: Milḥemet haHatashah) involved fighting between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and their allies from 1967 to 1970.

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War

2012 · 14 yrs

UEFA Euro 2012 finals

The UEFA Euro 2012 final was the final match of Euro 2012, the fourteenth edition of the European Championship, UEFA's competition for national football teams. The match was played at the Olympic Stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 1 July 2012, and was contested between defending champions Spain and Italy.

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