July 22

July 22 is the 203rd day of the year (204th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 162 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 838 – Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
• 1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
• 1209 – Massacre at Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
• 1298 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
• 1456 – Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade: John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire
• 1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
• 1499 – Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeat the army of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1587 – Roanoke Colony: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
• 1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
• 1706 – The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries' Parliaments, led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
• 1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
• 1797 – Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated.
• 1802 – Emperor Gia Long conquers Hanoi and unified Viet Nam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
• 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Cape Finisterre: An inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
• 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War: Battle of Salamanca: British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
• 1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot.
• 1916 – Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.
• 1934 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
• 1937 – New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
• 1942 – Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
• 1943 – World War II: Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.
• 1944 – The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
• 1946 – King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
• 1951 – Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, "Gypsy") are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
• 1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
• 1963 – Crown Colony of Sarawak achieve self governance.
• 1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
• 1977 – Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
• 1983 – Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
• 1991 – Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
• 1992 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
• 1993 – Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
• 1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
• 2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.
• 2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
• 2011 – Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
• 2013 – A series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others.
• 2015 – Three people die and 17 are injured in a collision between a Pendolino train and a lorry that occurred near Studénka, north Moravia, in the Czech Republic

Births

• 1210 – Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (d. 1238)
• 1478 – Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
• 1510 – Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
• 1535 – Catherine Stenbock, Swedish wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
• 1559 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian priest and saint (d. 1619)
• 1621 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (d. 1683)
• 1651 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1711)
• 1702 – Alessandro Besozzi, Italian oboe player and composer (d. 1775)
• 1711 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German-Russian physicist and academic (d. 1753)
• 1713 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, designed the Panthéon (d. 1780)
• 1733 – Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and historian (d. 1790)
• 1755 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1839)
• 1784 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
• 1839 – Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist (d. 1907)
• 1844 – William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (d. 1930)
• 1848 – Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
• 1849 – Emma Lazarus, American poet and educator (d. 1887)
• 1856 – Octave Hamelin, French philosopher (d. 1907)
• 1862 – Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Scottish fencer (d. 1931)
• 1863 – Alec Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1952)
• 1878 – Janusz Korczak, Polish pediatrician and author (d. 1942)
• 1882 – Edward Hopper, American painter and etcher (d. 1967)
• 1884 – Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (d. 1967)
• 1886 – Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author (d. 1954)
• 1887 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• 1888 – Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (d. 1950)
• 1888 – Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
• 1889 – James Whale, English actor and director (d. 1957)
• 1890 – Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist (d. 1995)
• 1892 – Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player (d. 1983)
• 1893 – Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach (d. 1978)
• 1893 – Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (d. 1990)
• 1895 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet, journalist, and diplomat (d. 1976)
• 1898 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet and author (d. 1943)
• 1899 – Sobhuza II of Swaziland (d. 1982)
• 1908 – Amy Vanderbilt, American author (d. 1974)
• 1909 – Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano and actress (d. 2014)
• 1909 – Dorino Serafini, Italian race car driver (d. 2000)
• 1913 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bassist, songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1995)
• 1915 – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Indian-Pakistani politician and diplomat (d. 2000)
• 1916 – Gino Bianco, Brazilian race car driver (d. 1984)
• 1916 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
• 1921 – William V. Roth, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Alan Stephenson Boyd, American businessman and politician, 1st United States Secretary of Transportation
• 1923 – Mukesh, Indian singer and actor (d. 1976)
• 1923 – Bob Dole, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
• 1923 – César Fernández Ardavín, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1923 – The Fabulous Moolah, American wrestler (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Margaret Whiting, American singer (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Jack Matthews, American author, playwright, and academic (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Joseph Sargent, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
• 1926 – Bryan Forbes, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Wolfgang Iser, German scholar, literary theorist (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Johan Ferner, Norwegian sailor (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Pierre Granier-Deferre, French director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Orson Bean, American actor
• 1928 – Jimmy Hill, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2015)
• 1929 – John Barber, English race car driver
• 1929 – Leonid Stolovich, Russian-Estonian philosopher and academic (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Neil Welliver, American painter (d. 2005)
• 1931 – Leo Labine, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
• 1931 – Perry Lopez, American actor (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Louise Fletcher, American actress
• 1935 – Tom Cartwright, English-Welsh cricketer and coach (d. 2007)
• 1936 – Harold Rhodes, English cricketer
• 1936 – Tom Robbins, American author
• 1937 – Chuck Jackson, American singer-songwriter (The Del-Vikings)
• 1937 – Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese-American wrestler and manager (d. 1999)
• 1937 – Vasant Ranjane, Indian cricketer (d. 2011)
• 1938 – Terence Stamp, English actor and singer
• 1939 – Gila Almagor, Israeli actress and author
• 1940 – Judith Walzer Leavitt, American historian and academic
• 1940 – Alex Trebek, Canadian-American game show host and producer
• 1941 – Estelle Bennett, American singer (The Ronettes) (d. 2009)
• 1941 – Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (d. 1975)
• 1941 – George Clinton, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Parliament-Funkadelic)
• 1941 – David M. Kennedy, American historian and author
• 1941 – Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey
• 1942 – Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, English-Australian politician (d. 2012)
• 1942 – Peter Habeler, Austrian mountaineer and skier
• 1942 – Les Johns, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1943 – Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Kay Bailey Hutchison, American lawyer and politician
• 1943 – Bobby Sherman, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1944 – Rick Davies, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Supertramp)
• 1944 – Sparky Lyle, American baseball player and manager
• 1944 – Anand Satyanand, New Zealand lawyer, judge, and politician, 19th Governor-General of New Zealand
• 1945 – Philip Cohen, English biochemist and academic
• 1946 – Danny Glover, American actor, director, and producer
• 1946 – Mireille Mathieu, French singer
• 1946 – Paul Schrader, American director and screenwriter
• 1946 – Paul-Loup Sulitzer, French financier and author
• 1946 – Rolando Joven Tria Tirona, Filipino archbishop
• 1946 – Johnson Toribiong, Palauan lawyer and politician, 7th President of Palau
• 1947 – Albert Brooks, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1947 – Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
• 1947 – Don Henley, American singer-songwriter and drummer (The Eagles)
• 1948 – S. E. Hinton, American author
• 1948 – Otto Waalkes, German actor, singer, director, and screenwriter
• 1949 – Alan Menken, American pianist and composer
• 1949 – Lasse Virén, Finnish runner and police officer
• 1951 – Richard Bennett, American guitarist and producer (The Notorious Cherry Bombs)
• 1951 – Patriarch Daniel of Romania
• 1953 – Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress, singer, director, and screenwriter
• 1953 – Brian Howe, English singer-songwriter (Bad Company)
• 1954 – Al Di Meola, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Return to Forever)
• 1954 – Steve LaTourette, American lawyer and politician
• 1954 – Pierre Lebeau, Canadian actor
• 1954 – Lonette McKee, American actress and singer
• 1955 – Richard J. Corman, American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (d. 2013)
• 1955 – Willem Dafoe, American actor
• 1956 – Mick Pointer, English drummer (Marillion and Arena)
• 1956 – Scott Sanderson, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1957 – Álvaro Corcuera, Mexican priest (d. 2014)
• 1957 – Dave Stieb, American baseball player
• 1958 – Tatsunori Hara, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1958 – David Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1984)
• 1959 – Grant Forsberg, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1960 – Barbara Cassani, American businesswoman
• 1960 – Jon Oliva, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and Jon Oliva's Pain)
• 1961 – Calvin Fish, English race car driver and sportscaster
• 1961 – Keith Sweat, American singer-songwriter and producer (LSG)
• 1962 – Alvin Robertson, American basketball player
• 1962 – Martine St. Clair, Canadian singer and actress
• 1963 – Emilio Butragueño, Spanish footballer
• 1963 – Rob Estes, American actor and director
• 1963 – Olivier Gourmet, Belgian actor
• 1963 – Emily Saliers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Indigo Girls)
• 1964 – Adam Godley, English actor
• 1964 – Bonnie Langford, English actress and dancer
• 1964 – John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – David Spade, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Teruyoshi Uchimura, Japanese comedian
• 1965 – Derrick Dalley, Canadian educator and politician
• 1965 – Patrick Labyorteaux, American actor and screenwriter
• 1965 – Shawn Michaels, American wrestler, trainer, and actor
• 1965 – Richard B. Poore, New Zealand humanitarian
• 1965 – Doug Riesenberg, American football player and coach
• 1966 – Tim Brown, American football player and manager
• 1966 – Shaun Cohen, South African-American wrestler
• 1967 – Irene Bedard, American actress
• 1967 – Lauren Booth, English journalist and activist
• 1968 – Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor and singer (Super Furry Animals)
• 1969 – Despina Vandi, German-Greek singer and actress
• 1970 – Jason Becker, American guitarist and songwriter (Cacophony)
• 1970 – Steve Carter, Australian rugby player
• 1970 – Devendra Fadnavis, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• 1970 – Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player and coach
• 1971 – Kristine Lilly, American soccer player
• 1972 – Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor, director, and producer
• 1972 – Seth Fisher, American illustrator (d. 2006)
• 1972 – Keyshawn Johnson, American football player and sportscaster
• 1972 – Niclas Weiland, German footballer
• 1973 – Brian Chippendale, American singer and drummer (Lightning Bolt and Mindflayer)
• 1973 – Ronald Ray Howard, American murderer (d. 2005)
• 1973 – Daniel Jones, English-Australian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Savage Garden)
• 1973 – Petey Pablo, American rapper and actor
• 1973 – Mike Sweeney, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1973 – Ece Temelkuran, Turkish journalist and author
• 1973 – Rufus Wainwright, American-Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1974 – Sonija Kwok, Hong Kong-Canadian actress
• 1974 – Franka Potente, German actress and singer
• 1975 – Aile Asszonyi, Estonian soprano
• 1975 – Sam Jacobson, American basketball player
• 1976 – Kokia, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
• 1976 – Nino Alejandro, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor
• 1976 – Janek Tombak, Estonian cyclist
• 1977 – Ezio Galon, Italian rugby player
• 1977 – Ingo Hertzsch, German footballer
• 1977 – Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer
• 1978 – A. J. Cook, Canadian actress
• 1978 – Martyn Lee, English radio host and producer
• 1978 – Runako Morton, Nevisian cricketer (d. 2012)
• 1978 – Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
• 1979 – Anna Bieleń-Żarska, Polish tennis player
• 1979 – Lucas Luhr, German race car driver
• 1979 – Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player
• 1979 – James Mason, English wrestler
• 1980 – Tablo, South Korean-Canadian rapper, producer, and actor (Epik High)
• 1980 – Scott Dixon, New Zealand race car driver
• 1980 – Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
• 1980 – Kate Ryan, Belgian singer-songwriter
• 1981 – Fandango, American wrestler
• 1981 – Ala Ghawas, Bahraini singer-songwriter
• 1982 – Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1982 – Anna Chicherova, Russian high jumper
• 1983 – Aldo de Nigris, Mexican footballer
• 1983 – Dries Devenyns, Belgian cyclist
• 1983 – Nikos Ganos, Greek singer and model
• 1983 – Steven Jackson, American football player
• 1983 – Clemens von Grumbkow, German rugby player
• 1983 – Arsenie Todiraș, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
• 1983 – Sharni Vinson, Australian actress and dancer
• 1983 – Andreas Ulvo, Norwegian pianist (Eple Trio)
• 1984 – Stewart Downing, English footballer
• 1984 – Irina Kikkas, Estonian gymnast
• 1985 – Jessica Abbott, Australian swimmer
• 1985 – Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player
• 1985 – Akira Tozawa, Japanese wrestler
• 1986 – Steve Johnson, American football player
• 1986 – Cilla Kung, Hong Kong actress and singer
• 1986 – Haruka Suenaga, Japanese actress and model
• 1987 – Ilja Glebov, Estonian figure skater
• 1987 – Charlotte Kalla, Swedish skier
• 1988 – Paul Coutts, Scottish footballer
• 1988 – Thomas Kraft, German footballer
• 1988 – Sercan Temizyürek, Turkish footballer
• 1988 – Yuriko Yoshitaka, Japanese actress
• 1989 – Keegan Allen, American actor
• 1989 – Leandro Damião, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 – Matty James, English footballer
• 1992 – Anja Aguilar, Filipino actress and singer
• 1992 – Selena Gomez, American actress and singer (Selena Gomez & the Scene)
• 1992 – Junki Tozuka, Japanese actor
• 1993 – Amber Beattie, English actress and singer
• 1993 – Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Chechen-American terrorist
• 1996 – Skyler Gisondo, American actor
• 1996 – Jane Oineza, Filipino actress and singer
• 1997 – Field Cate, American actor
• 1998 – Madison Pettis, American actress
• 2002 – Prince Felix of Denmark
• 2013 – Prince George of Cambridge

Deaths

• 1362 – Louis, Count of Gravina (b. 1324)
• 1387 – Frans Ackerman, Flemish politician (b. 1330)
• 1461 – Charles VII of France (b. 1403)
• 1525 – Richard Wingfield, English courtier and diplomat, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1426)
• 1540 – John Zápolya, Hungarian king (b. 1487)
• 1619 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian priest and saint (b. 1559)
• 1633 – Trijntje Keever, Dutch giant (b. 1616)
• 1645 – Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (b. 1587)
• 1676 – Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
• 1726 – Hugh Drysdale, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia
• 1734 – Peter King, 1st Baron King, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1669)
• 1789 – Joseph Foullon de Doué, French politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1715)
• 1802 – Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (b. 1771)
• 1824 – Thomas Macnamara Russell, English admiral
• 1826 – Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1746)
• 1832 – Napoleon II, French emperor (b. 1811)
• 1833 – Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon (b. 1757)
• 1864 – James B. McPherson, American general (b. 1828)
• 1869 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (b. 1806)
• 1902 – Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish cardinal (b. 1822)
• 1903 – Cassius Marcellus Clay, American publisher, lawyer, and politician, United States Ambassador to Russia (b. 1810)
• 1904 – Wilson Barrett, English actor and playwright (b. 1846)
• 1906 – William Snodgrass, Canadian minister and academic (b. 1827)
• 1908 – Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
• 1915 – Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (b. 1827)
• 1916 – James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (b. 1849)
• 1918 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1898)
• 1920 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1849)
• 1922 – Jokichi Takamine, Japanese-American chemist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1932 – J. Meade Falkner, English author and poet (b. 1858)
• 1932 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and academic (b. 1866)
• 1932 – Errico Malatesta, Italian activist and author (b. 1853)
• 1932 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., American actor and producer (b. 1867)
• 1934 – John Dillinger, American gangster (b. 1903)
• 1937 – Ted McDonald, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1891)
• 1940 – Albert Young, American boxer and promoter (b. 1877)
• 1948 – Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player (b. 1909)
• 1950 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
• 1958 – Mikhail Zoshchenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and author (b. 1895)
• 1967 – Carl Sandburg, American journalist and author (b. 1878)
• 1968 – Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist and cartoonist (b. 1908)
• 1970 – George Johnston, Australian journalist and author (b. 1912)
• 1974 – Wayne Morse, American lawyer and politician (b. 1900)
• 1979 – J. V. Cain, American football player (b. 1951)
• 1979 – Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1929)
• 1986 – Floyd Gottfredson, American author and illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1986 – Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1987 – Fahrettin Kerim Gökay, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1900)
• 1988 – Duane Jones, American actor (b. 1936)
• 1989 – Martti Talvela, Finnish opera singer (b. 1935)
• 1990 – Manuel Puig, Argentinian author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 1992 – Wayne McLaren, American actor and stuntman (b. 1940)
• 1992 – David Wojnarowicz, American painter, photographer, and activist (b. 1954)
• 1995 – Harold Larwood, English-Australian cricketer (b. 1904)
• 1996 – Rob Collins, English keyboard player (The Charlatans) (b. 1956)
• 1998 – Rolf Botvid, Swedish actor and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Fritz Buchloh, German footballer and coach (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Hermann Prey, German actor and singer (b. 1929)
• 1999 – Gar Samuelson, American drummer (Megadeth) (b. 1958)
• 2000 – Eric Christmas, English-American actor (b. 1916)
• 2000 – Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Claude Sautet, French director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2001 – Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
• 2003 – Qusay Hussein, Iraqi soldier and politician (b. 1966)
• 2003 – Uday Hussein, Iraqi commander (b. 1964)
• 2003 – Wahome Mutahi, Kenyan journalist (b. 1954)
• 2004 – Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (b. 1933)
• 2004 – Illinois Jacquet, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician (b. 1978)
• 2005 – Eugene Record, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
• 2006 – José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountaineer (b. 1965)
• 2007 – Mike Coolbaugh, American baseball player and coach (b. 1972)
• 2007 – Jarrod Cunningham, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1968)
• 2007 – László Kovács, Hungarian-American director and cinematographer (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953)
• 2007 – Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (b. 1906)
• 2008 – Greg Burson, American voice actor (b. 1949)
• 2008 – Estelle Getty, American actress (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Richard M. Givan, American lawyer and judge (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947)
• 2010 – Kenny Guinn, American banker and politician, 27th Governor of Nevada (b. 1936)
• 2011 – Linda Christian, Mexican-American actress (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (b. 1945)
• 2012 – Jim Carlen, American football player and coach (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Ding Guangen, Chinese engineer and politician (b. 1929)
• 2012 – George Armitage Miller, American psychologist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Oswaldo Payá, Cuban engineer and activist (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Fern Persons, American actress (b. 1910)
• 2012 – Frank Pierson, American director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Ed Stevens, American baseball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Bohdan Stupka, Ukrainian actor (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Hugo Black, Jr., American lawyer and author (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Natalie de Blois, American architect, co-designed the Lever House (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Dennis Farina, American actor (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Ali Maow Maalin, Somalian health worker (b. 1954)
• 2013 – Lawrie Reilly, Scottish footballer (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Rosalie E. Wahl, American lawyer and judge (b. 1924)
• 2014 – John Blundell, English economist and businessman (b. 1952)
• 2014 – Johann Breyer, German SS officer (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Louis Lentin, Irish director and producer (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Robert Newhouse, American football player (b. 1950)
• 2014 – Nitzan Shirazi, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1971)
• 2015 – Christopher M. Fairman, American scholar, author, and academic (b. 1960)
• 2015 – Eddie Hardin, English singer-songwriter and pianist (The Spencer Davis Group and Axis Point) (b. 1949)
• 2015 – Marilyn C. Jones, American baseball player (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Daron Norwood, American singer-songwriter (b. 1965)

Holidays and observances

• Birthday of the Late King Sobhuza (Swaziland)
• Christian feast day:
  • Abd-al-Masih
  • Markella
  • Mary Magdalene
  • Saint Nohra (Maronite Church)
  • July 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Earliest day on which Parents' Day can fall, while 28 July is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Sunday in July. (United States)
• National Press Day (Azerbaijan)
• Pi Approximation Day, see also March 14
• Ratcatcher's Day (Hamelin, Germany)
• Revolution Day (The Gambia)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada