Anniversaries 1 July

Birth

Babak Khorramdin2

Persian revolutionary 798–838

Joseph Hall10

British bishop 1574–1656

Gottfried Leibniz29

German mathematician and philosopher 1646–1716

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg137

German scientist, satirist 1742–1799

Peter Mere Latham16

English physician and educator 1789–1875

Gideon Welles1

United States Secretary of the Navy 1802–1878

George Sand38

French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore D… 1804–1876

William Paine Lord1

American politician 1838–1911

Robert Stawell Ball6

Irish astronomer 1840–1913

Florence Earle Coates22

American writer and poet 1850–1927

Bidhan Chandra Roy16

Former Chief Minister of West Bengal, India 1882–1962

Dorothea Mackellar1

Poet 1885–1968

James M. Cain8

Novelist, short story writer, journalist 1892–1977

Ilya Bolotowsky1

artist 1907–1981

Juan Carlos Onetti1

Uruguayan novelist 1909–1994

Alun Lewis7

Welsh poet 1915–1944

Willie Dixon5

American blues musician 1915–1992

Arnold Meri1

Estonian soldier allied with the Soviet Union 1919–2009

Walter Kaufmann7

American philosopher 1921–1980

Shikaripura Ranganatha Rao1

Indian archaeologist 1922–2013

Robert Fogel5

American economist, historian 1926–2013

Fernando J. Corbató11

American computer scientist 1926–2019

Stanislav Grof11

Czech pychiatrist 1931

Alex Hershaft2

American activist 1934

David Prowse2

English bodybuilder, weightlifter, and actor 1935

Wally Amos1

American author 1936

Frederick Wolfe1

researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-2801-6413 1936

Hariprasad Chaurasia27

Indian bansuri player 1938

Twyla Tharp8

American choreographer 1941

Myron Scholes1

Canadian economist 1941

Mike Malloy6

American radio broadcaster 1942

Lew Rockwell12

American libertarian author and editor 1944

David Norris10

Irish scholar, independent Senator, and gay and civil right… 1944

William Rathje1

American archaeologist 1945–2012

Floris Cohen1

Dutch historian 1946

Steve Shutt2

ice hockey player 1952

Dan Aykroyd7

Canadian film actor 1952

David McNally23

Canadian political scientist 1953

Harryette Mullen1

American writer 1953

Victor Henry Thakur1

Indian clergyman, archbishop of Raipur 1954

Lisa Scottoline29

American writer 1955

John S. Chen1

American businessman 1955

Louise Penny23

Canadian woman writer 1958

Carl Lewis2

US track & field athlete 1961

Diana, Princess of Wales22

First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales 1961–1997

Augusto Paolo Lojudice1

Italian Catholic Archbishop 1964

Pamela Anderson7

Canadian-American model, producer, author, former showgirl 1967

Sufjan Stevens35

American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist 1975

Adam Mansbach1

author 1976

Liv Tyler5

American actress, producer and former model 1977

Patrik Baboumian6

German strength-athlete 1979

Léa Seydoux1

French actress 1985

Alok Vaid-Menon2

American performance artist, and LGBTQ rights activist 1991

Maxim Mernes5

Russian businessman, investor, blogger 1996

Death

Ali al-Hadi24

imam 829–868

Josiah Quincy III1

American politician 1772–1864

Harriet Beecher Stowe87

Abolitionist, author 1811–1896

George Frederick Watts1

British painter and sculptor 1817–1904

Thomas Francis Meagher3

Irish nationalist & American politician 1823–1867

John Hay6

American statesman, diplomat, author and journalist 1838–1905

Erik Satie6

French composer and pianist 1866–1925

Pierre Monteux20

French conductor 1875–1964

Bidhan Chandra Roy16

Former Chief Minister of West Bengal, India 1882–1962

Edwin Boring20

American psychologist 1886–1968

Ernst Röhm12

German Nazi and military officer 1887–1934

Thea von Harbou1

German actress 1888–1954

Kurt Student6

German Luftwaffe general during World War II 1890–1978

Louis-ferdinand Céline88

French writer 1894–1961

Buckminster Fuller171

American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inv… 1895–1983

Learie Constantine1

West Indian cricketer, lawyer, politician and diplomat 1901–1971

C. P. Snow7

British writer 1905–1980

Pauli Murray3

American writer, activist and lawyer 1910–1985

Joshua Nkomo1

Zimbabwean politician 1917–1999

Robert Mitchum8

American film actor, author, composer and singer 1917–1997

William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw2

British Conservative politician, former Home Secretary and … 1918–1999

Philip Rieff16

American sociologist 1922–2006

Marlon Brando35

American screen and stage actor 1924–2004

Fred Trueman1

English cricketer 1931–2006

Peter Barnes2

British writer 1931–2004

Norman L. Geisler1

American evangelical theologian 1932–2019

Walter Dean Myers8

American writer 1937–2014

Eric Zencey3

American writer 1953–2019