Anniversaries 7 July

Birth

Robert Gilfillan1

British poet and songwriter 1798–1850

Abraham Cahan2

Journalist, novelist, short story writer, memoirist 1860–1951

Gustav Mahler5

late-Romantic Austrian composer 1860–1911

Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.19

American industrial engineer 1868–1924

Seebohm Rowntree2

British philanthropist industrialist and sociologist writer 1871–1954

Marc Chagall35

French artist and painter 1887–1985

Tadamichi Kuribayashi8

Japanese general 1891–1945

Vladimir Mayakovsky14

Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist and stage and f… 1893–1930

Miroslav Krleža2

Croatian writer 1893–1981

Steven Runciman3

British historian 1903–2000

William Feller30

Croatian-American mathematician 1906–1970

Satchel Paige9

American baseball player and coach; Negro Leagues 1906–1982

Eduardo de Castro1

Filipino actor and film director 1907–1955

László Tisza1

Hungarian physicist 1907–2009

Robert A. Heinlein557

American science fiction author 1907–1988

Revilo P. Oliver37

American philologist 1908–1994

Robert T. Oliver2

American academic 1909–2000

William Kunstler2

American lawyer and civil rights activist 1919–1995

David Eddings43

American novelist 1931–2009

Joe Zawinul7

austrian composer and pianist 1932–2007

Jan Assmann1

German egyptologist 1938

Eleanor Clift10

American journalist 1940

Dick Armey1

American politician 1940

Ringo Starr22

British musician, former member of the Beatles 1940

Michael Howard4

British politician 1941

Ian Wilmut5

embryologist 1944

Kathy Reichs27

American writer 1948

Norman Solomon3

American journalist, media critic, antiwar activist 1951

Robert M. Price17

American theologian 1954

Mullah Krekar1

Islamic scholar 1956

Pu Tze-chun1

Taiwanese admiral 1956

Matt Rosendale2

Member of the Montana House of Representatives 1960

Eric Jerome Dickey16

American author 1961

Christopher Gérard9

1962

Robert Newman3

British comedian, born 1964 1964

Zoë Heller6

British writer 1965

Jim Gaffigan21

comedian, actor, author 1966

Edison Rijna1

Dutch politician on Bonaire 1967

Jeff VanderMeer24

American writer 1968

Jorja Fox2

American actress 1968

Darius von Guttner Sporzynski2

Historian 1971

Melissa de la Cruz60

American writer 1971

Natsuki Takaya72

Manga artist 1973

Ben Mitchell1

New Zealand actor 1978

Michelle Kwan3

American figure skater 1980

MS Dhoni40

Indian cricket player 1981

Steven Crowder45

American actor 1987

Jack Whitehall3

British comedian, television presenter and actor 1988

Death

Edward I of England2

King of England 1239–1307

William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath1

English politician 1684–1764

Richard Brinsley Sheridan58

Irish-British politician, playwright and writer 1751–1816

Johanna Spyri6

author of children's stories, best known for her book Heidi 1827–1901

Montgomery Schuyler1

American architecture critic 1843–1914

Arthur Conan Doyle166

Scottish physician and author 1859–1930

Gottfried Benn1

German novelist, poet 1886–1956

Max Horkheimer61

German philosopher and sociologist 1895–1973

W. V. D. Hodge1

British mathematician 1903–1975

Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz1

German journalist, poet and prisoner in Dachau concentratio… 1906–1991

Peace Pilgrim23

American non-denominational spiritual teacher 1908–1981

George Oppen6

American poet 1908–1984

Charles P. Kindleberger5

American economic historian 1910–2003

John Money1

psychologist, sexologist and author 1921–2006

Herman Kahn27

American futurist 1922–1983

John Szarkowski1

American curator 1925–2007

Alfredo Di Stéfano11

Argentine association football player 1926–2014

Eduard Shevardnadze2

Georgian politician and diplomat 1928–2014

Syd Barrett12

English musician 1946–2006

MC Daleste3

Brazilian funk and rap musician 1992–2013