Anniversaries 2 July

Birth

Thomas Cranmer2

leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterb… 1489–1556

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock2

German poet, writer and linguist 1724–1803

Jules Van Praet2

Belgian diplomat 1806–1887

George Law Curry1

American politician 1820–1878

Richard Henry Stoddard9

American poet 1825–1903

Theodore Chickering Williams2

American hymnwriter 1855–1915

William Henry Bragg1

British scientist 1862–1942

Hermann Hesse168

German writer 1877–1962

Anthony McAuliffe2

American general 1898–1975

Muhammad Asad35

Austro-Hungarian writer and academic 1900–1992

Tyrone Guthrie2

English actor and director 1900–1971

Alec Douglas-Home14

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1903–1995

Hans Bethe2

German-American nuclear physicist 1906–2005

Thurgood Marshall11

Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1908–1993

Jean Craighead George2

American novelist and nature writer 1919–2012

Wisława Szymborska92

Polish writer 1923–2012

Patrice Lumumba5

Congolese Prime Minister, cold war leader, executed 1925–1961

Elizabeth Jennings3

poet 1926–2001

Mihajlo D. Mesarovic10

Serbian academic 1928

Imelda Marcos27

Former First Lady of the Philippines 1929

Carlos Menem24

Argentine politician who was President of Argentina from 19… 1930

Robert Gilpin41

Political scientist 1930–2018

Tom Springfield15

English musician, songwriter and record producer 1934

Alexandros Panagoulis3

Greek politician and poet 1939–1976

Ferdinand Mount1

British writer 1939

Ken Clarke3

British Conservative politician 1940

Ivar Ekeland18

French mathematician 1944

Larry David13

American comedian, writer, actor, and television producer 1947

Doron Zeilberger11

Israeli mathematician 1950

Lee Maracle1

Canadian writer 1950

Stephen R. Lawhead46

American writer 1950

Stephen M. Walt4

American political scientist 1955

Cynthia Kadohata1

Japanese-American children's writer 1956

J. Michael Bailey1

American psychologist 1957

Bret Hart2

Canadian professional wrestler, writer, and actor 1957

Julián Hernández2

1960

José Canseco2

Cuban-American baseball player 1964

Jennifer Lee1

American motion picture writer and director. 1971

Peter Kay6

English writer, producer, actor and comedian 1973

Moon So-ri4

South Korean actress 1974

Matthew Reilly2

Australian author 1974

Andy McDermott1

British writer 1974

Carlton Mellick III1

American writer 1977

Owain Yeoman2

British actor 1978

Michelle Branch10

American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1983

Johnny Weir7

figure skater 1984

Ashley Tisdale4

American actress, singer 1985

Kendrick Farris2

American weightlifter 1986

Lindsay Lohan6

American actress and pop singer 1986

Ruslana Koršunova9

fashion model 1987–2008

Alex Morgan11

American soccer player 1989

Margot Robbie5

Australian actress 1990

Death

Najmuddin Kubra1

Iranian sufi poet and philosopher 1145–1221

Nostradamus6

French apothecary and reputed seer 1503–1566

Jean Jacques Rousseau91

Genevan philosopher 1712–1778

Samuel Hahnemann2

German physician best known for creating a system of altern… 1755–1843

Robert Peel14

British Conservative statesman 1788–1850

Porfirio Díaz1

President of Mexico 1830–1915

Joseph Chamberlain44

British businessman, politician, and statesman 1836–1914

Washington Gladden14

American pastor 1836–1918

Élie Metchnikoff1

Russian-French immunologist, embriologist, biologist, Nobel… 1845–1916

Herbert Beerbohm Tree10

English actor and theatre manager 1852–1917

Emile Coué9

French psychologist and pharmacist 1857–1926

Anton Chekhov222

Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860–1904

William McFee19

American writer 1881–1966

Georgi Dimitrov8

Bulgarian politician 1882–1949

Alfonso Uribe Misas1

Colombian lawyer, politician and writer 1886–1984

George Seldes10

American journalist 1890–1995

Gene Fowler9

American journalist 1890–1960

Amelia Earhart19

American aviation pioneer and author 1897–1937

Ernest Hemingway501

American author and journalist 1899–1961

Vladimir Nabokov193

Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977

Jimmy Stewart11

American film and stage actor 1908–1997

Kay Thompson1

American actress, singer, composer and writer 1909–1998

Andrei Gromyko2

Soviet diplomat 1909–1989

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen1

Portuguese poet and writer 1919–2004

Mario Puzo53

American Novelist 1920–1999

Lee Iacocca10

American businessman 1924–2019

Douglas Engelbart13

American engineer and inventor 1925–2013

Elie Wiesel155

writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and … 1928–2016

Beverly Sills19

opera soprano 1929–2007

Rudolf E. Kálmán5

Hungarian-born American electrical engineer 1930–2016

Itamar Franco3

Brazilian politician 1930–2011

Beryl Bainbridge5

English novelist 1932–2010

Israel Shahak8

Israeli academic 1933–2001