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July 14 in history

203 sourced entries recorded on July 14, from 664 CE to 2023 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 756Xuan Zong flees the capital of Chang'an (along with the imperial court) for Sichuan, as rebel forces advance through the Tongguan Pass toward the city. Meanwhile, An Lushan is ailing, perhaps with diabetes. He is nearly blind and suffers from extreme irascibility.source
  • 1098Donation of Altavilla: Bohemond I grants commercial privileges and the right to use warehouses (fondaco) to the Republic of Genoa. This marks the beginning of Italian merchant settlements in the Levant.source
  • 1187Conrad of Montferrat, an Italian nobleman, arrives in Tyre which ends the surrender negotiations with Saladin. He finds the remnants of the Crusader army (after the battle of Hattin) and makes the Tyrians swear loyalty to him. Reginald of Sidon and several other nobles give their support, Reginald goes to refortify his own castle of Beaufort on the Litani River.source
  • 1314The Italian cardinals participating in the papal conclave in France walk out after weeks of harassment by supporters of a French candidate for pope. The rest of the College of Cardinals disperse to Avignon, seat of the Papacy; Orange, in the modern-day département of Vaucluse, and Valence in the modern-day département of Drôme. The conclave will not meet again for two years, during which time there is no Pope.source
  • 1326Wartislaw IV, Duke of Pomerania, makes an alliance with Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg, who has taken control of Denmark after the overthrow of King Christopher II. Wartislaw becomes ill and dies 18 days later.source
  • 1346July 12–18 – The English raid and burn neighbouring towns and villages in the Cotentin Peninsula.source
  • 1387The Chinese Army commander, General Feng Sheng, leads troops across the Liao River defeats Naghachu's Mongol troops and takes Naghachu as a prisoner of war.source
  • 1425The English Parliament closes as King Henry VI gives royal assent to the Labourers Act 1425, the River Lee Navigation Act 1425 and laws requiring a royal license for exportation of sheep and for exportation of butter and cheese.source
  • 1455In the Thirteen Years' War, the Teutonic Order wins the Battle for Kneiphof, though the Order will eventually lose with the signing of a treaty at Thorn.source
  • 1469The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III issues a decree nullifying the 1466 Treaty of Soldin between Brandenburg and Pomerania.source
  • 1471At the Battle of Shelon, the forces of Muscovy defeat the Republic of Novgorod.source
  • 1500The Muscovites defeat the Lithuanians and the Poles in the Battle of Vedrosha.source
  • 1518Dancing plague of 1518: A case of dancing mania breaks out in Strasbourg as a woman identified as "Frau Troffea" begins constant dancing that lasts for six days, after which fellow residents begin to join in. According to some historians, several people die from constant dancing.source
  • 1557July 10 – July 19: Thomas Radclyffe (newly succeeded as Earl of Sussex), Lord Deputy of Ireland, campaigns against the O'Connors of Offaly.source
  • 1570Pope Pius V issues Quo primum, promulgating the 1570 edition of the Roman Missal.source
  • 1571In what is now the state of Kerala in India, the Siege of Chaliyam begins as the Zamorin of Kozhikode, Mana Vikrama, sends troops to starve out the Portuguese Empire's Chale fortress. The Portuguese defender, Dom Jorge de Castro, is allowed to surrender the fort in November and the Portuguese are allowed to march out of the fort. De Castro is executed by the Portuguese Governor-General after returning to Portuguese controlled Goa.source
  • 1581English Jesuit Edmund Campion is arrested.source
  • 1597Scottish poet Alexander Montgomerie is declared an outlaw, after the collapse of a Catholic plot.source
  • 1597poet Alexander Montgomerie is declared an outlaw after the collapse of a Catholic plot.source
  • 1644Queen Henrietta Maria leaves the country for France.source
  • 1650Decree against counterfeit coin imported into the Spanish Netherlands from the territory of Liègesource
  • 1652Jacobus de la Torre consecrates the new Capuchin church in Brussels, designed by Fr Charles of Brussels.source
  • 1677Battle of Landskrona: Sweden and its 13,000 troops, under the command of King Charles XI, successfully repel a 12,000-man invasion force from Denmark, commanded by King Christian V.source
  • 1683A 173,000-man Ottoman force arrives at Vienna, and starts to besiege the city.source
  • 1698Darien scheme: The first Scottish settlers leave for an ill-fated colony in Panama.source
  • 1705The newly-elected 2nd Parliament of Queen Anne in England, last to serve before the union with Scotland that produces Great Britain, is opened by the Queen.source
  • 1708Joseph Trapp becomes first Oxford Professor of Poetry.source
  • 1720July 14 (July 3 O.S.) – The Treaty of Frederiksborg is signed between Denmark–Norway and Sweden, restoring the occupied portion of Swedish Pomerania to Sweden and ending the Great Northern War.source
  • 1720Denmark–Norway leaves the Great Northern War after the Treaty of Frederiksborg.source
  • 1728The First Kamchatka Expedition, led by Vitus Bering and his crew sail northward on the ship Archangel Gabriel from the Kamchatka Peninsula, through the Bering Strait, and round Cape Dezhnev.source
  • 1728Vitus Bering begins his first exploration aboard the ship Gabriel and sailed northward from the Kamchatka Peninsula and through the strait that now bears his name.source
  • 1742William Pulteney is created 1st Earl of Bath in Great Britain.source
  • 1742William Pulteney is created 1st Earl of Bath.source
  • 1768The massacre of Polish people (most likely by the Russians) at the village of Balta, now a part of Ukraine but at the time an Ottoman Empire town on the frontier with Poland, leads to the Russo-Turkish War.source
  • 1773The first annual conference of American Methodists is convened at Philadelphia in St. George's Church.source
  • 1776Capture and rescue of Jemima Boone.source
  • 1786Convention of London between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain: British settlements on the Mosquito Coast of Central America are to be evacuated; Spain expands the territory available to the British in Belize on the Yucatán Peninsula, for cutting mahogany.source
  • 1786Convention of London between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain: British settlements on the Mosquito Coast of Central America are to be evacuated; Spain expands the territory available to the British in Belize on the Yucatán Peninsula for cutting mahogany.source
  • 1789Survivors of the mutiny on the Bounty, including Captain William Bligh and 18 others, reach Timor after a nearly 4,000 mi journey in an open boat.source
  • 1789French Revolution: Storming of the Bastille – Citizens of Paris storm the fortress of the Bastille, and free the only seven prisoners held. In rural areas, peasants attack the manors of the nobility.source
  • 1790French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation, in the Fête de la Fédération.source
  • 1790The Fête de la Fédération is held.source
  • 1791July 14–17 – Priestley Riots against Dissenters in Birmingham, England.source
  • 1796The de Portolá Expedition sets out from San Diego (modern-day San Diego, California) to find the Port of Monterey (modern-day Monterey, California).source
  • 1798United States Consulate in Edinburgh opens.source
  • 1798The fourth of the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Sedition Act of 1798 is signed into law, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.source
  • 1798The Alien and Sedition Acts become United States law, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.source
  • 1808Finnish War: Swedish troops under Colonel Adlercreutz force the Russians to withdraw in Lapua.source
  • 1811David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Columbia River, finding Fort Astoria under construction.source
  • 1811Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about the molecular content of gases.source
  • 1817Robert Williams composes the famous hymn-tune Llanfair (formerly named Bethel).source
  • 1827The Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu is founded in the Kingdom of Hawaii.source
  • 1833At Oxford University, John Keble preaches a sermon against the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act 1833. Keble's sermon, published afterwards published as National Apostasy, is traditionally considered as the beginning of the Oxford Movement of High Church Anglicans.source
  • 1833John Keble preaches a sermon on "National Apostasy" (in part a protest against the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act 1833), launching the Oxford Movement within the Church of England.source
  • 1835The universal Catholic Apostolic Church is organized, initially in the U.K.source
  • 1847Faversham guncotton explosion kills 18.source
  • 1851Sir William Denison, Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania writes to Earl Grey supporting a continuation of transportation.source
  • 1853Japan allows Commodore Perry to come ashore and begin negotiations.source
  • 1856July 14–15 – In Spain, General Leopoldo O'Donnell takes control of the government, bringing an end to the bienio progresista.source
  • 1861Osckar Becker attempts assassination of William I of Prussia in Baden-Baden.source
  • 1865First ascent of the Matterhorn: The summit of the Matterhorn in the Alps is reached for the first time, by a party of 7 led by the Englishman Edward Whymper; 4 die in a fall during the descent.source
  • 1865a party led by Edward Whymper makes the first ascent of the Matterhorn.source
  • 1867Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel demonstrates dynamite in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey, having patented it in the UK on 7 May.source
  • 1870The Ems Dispatch is published, serving as casus belli for a war between Prussia and France.source
  • 1874The Chicago Fire of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council.source
  • 1877July 9–19 – The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club stages the first Wimbledon Championships in lawn tennis. English cricketer Spencer Gore becomes first Wimbledon gentlemen's singles champion (the only event held).source
  • 1880Dorchester Penitentiary opens in Canada.source
  • 1881Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett, outside Fort Sumner, New Mexico.source
  • 1881July 14–20 – The London Social Revolutionary Congress is held; delegates include Marie Le Compte, Peter Kropotkin, Errico Malatesta, Saverio Merlino, Louise Michel, Nikolai Tchaikovsky and Émile Gautier.source
  • 1884German administration is established in Cameroon.source
  • 1884Commencement of German administration in Cameroon (Kamerun).source
  • 1885Sarah E. Goode is the first African-American woman to apply for and receive a patent, for the invention of the hideaway bed.source
  • 1887A strict protectionist tariff is established in Italy in an attempt to support fledgling industry, applicable from 1 January 1888. It marked the start of a tariff war with France that led to the economic crisis of 1888-1894.source
  • 1889International Workers Congresses of Paris open, and establish the Second International.source
  • 1896Di Rudini reforms his Cabinet, getting support from Giovanni Giolitti and Giuseppe Zanardelli. Luigi Luzzatti becomes Minister of the Treasury and Luigi Pelloux Minister of War.source
  • 1899Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias proclaims the First Republic of Acre, breaching the terms of the Treaty of Ayacucho between Brazil and Bolivia.source
  • 1902Agustín Lizárraga discovers Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas".source
  • 1902St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapses.source
  • 1902St Mark's Campanile, the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, one of the most recognizable symbols of the city, collapses.source
  • 1903the Dongqing Railway was opened to traffic.source
  • 1905In New Zealand, the first known suicide attack by a civilian (as opposed to sacrifices made in military combat) takes place in Murchison.source
  • 1905The government of France institutes its first government assistance program for elderly and disabled persons.source
  • 1906Gary, Indiana is founded by the United States Steel Corporation.source
  • 1908July 13–25 – The 1908 Summer Olympics are held in London. (Originally scheduled to be in Rome, but changed due to the Mount Vesuvius eruption of 1906. Figure skating events are held in London from October 28–29.)source
  • 1914The Government of Ireland Bill completes its passage through the House of Lords in the U.K. It allows Ulster counties to vote on whether or not they wish to participate in Home Rule from Dublin. Because of the outbreak of war in Europe and later developments in Ireland, the Act is never implemented in its original form.source
  • 1915The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence between Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca and the British official Sir Henry McMahon concerning the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire begins; in exchange for assistance against the Ottomans, the British offer bin Ali their recognition of an independent Arab kingdom, although clear terms are never agreed.source
  • 1916The Club Deportivo Ferroviarios is founded.source
  • 1918The film The Glorious Adventure is released in the United States, featuring Mammy Lou, who becomes one of the oldest people ever to star in a film, at a claimed age of 114.source
  • 1921A Massachusetts jury finds Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder following a widely publicized trial whose verdict will spark protests around the world.source
  • 1925July 10–21 – Scopes trial: in a staged test case (the "Monkey Trial") in Dayton, Tennessee, United States, John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher (technically arrested on May 5 and indicted on May 25) is accused of assigning a reading from a (state-mandated) textbook on Darwinian evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law, the "Butler Act". He is found guilty and fined $100, though the verdict is later overturned on a technicality. The trial makes explicit the fundamentalist–modernist controversy within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, with William Jennings Bryan (who dies on July 26) being challenged by the liberal Clarence Darrow.source
  • 1928The schooner Isabella de Fraine capsizes on the bar at the entrance to Hokianga harbour, with the loss of all eight crew.source
  • 1933The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring is enacted, allowing compulsory sterilization of citizens suffering from a list of alleged genetic disorders.source
  • 1933Formation of new political parties is forbidden.source
  • 1934July 29 – Zürich 1934 chess tournament took placesource
  • 1936Egil Børre Johnsen, writersource
  • 1936July 13–14 – Peak of July 1936 heat wave: The U.S. states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana all set new state records for high temperature. At Mio in northern Michigan, it soars to 113 °F.source
  • 1937Transpolar flight of Gromov, Yumashev and Danilin lands near San Jacinto, Californiasource
  • 1938Moshe Safdie, Israeli-American architect and urban designersource
  • 1938Howard Hughes sets a new record, by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.source
  • 1941World War II: The Armistice of Saint Jean d'Acre (also known as the "Convention of Acre") is signed on at the "Sidney Smith Barracks" on the outskirts of the city of Acre, ending the Allied invasion of Vichy French-controlled Syria and Lebanon.source
  • 1942Atılay tragedy. Submarine Atılay sank because of a naval mine in the Strait of Çanakkale (Dardanelles)source
  • 1942Germany introduces the Ostvolk Medal for Soviet personnel in the Wehrmacht.source
  • 1947Ion Mihalache and other leaders of the National Peasants' Party are arrested in the Tămădău affair.source
  • 1948The attempted assassination of Palmiro Togliatti, general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, results in numerous strikes all over the country.source
  • 1950July 14–21 – Korean War: Battle of Taejon – North Korean forces capture the city held by the U.S. 24th Infantry Division, but the delay allows establishment of the Pusan Perimeter.source
  • 1957Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.source
  • 1958An 18-year-old student named Aída Curi, is thrown from the 12th floor of an Avenida Atlântica building by boys in a Copacabana neighborhood.source
  • 1959Groups of Kurdish and communist militias rebel in Kirkuk, Iraq against the central government.source
  • 1959In Kirkuk, a rally to celebrate the first anniversary of the 1958 revolution degenerated into a three-day-long massacre of ethnic Turks by the Kurds. At least 30 people were killed, and over 100 injured. The event was ultimately referred to as the Kirkuk Massacre. On the same day, Iraq became the first Arab nation to appoint a woman to a ministerial post, with Dr. Naziha ad-Dulaimi becoming Minister of Rural Affairs.source
  • 1960The United Nations Security Council decides to send troops to Katanga to oversee the withdrawal of Belgian troops.source
  • 1962Norma Nolan of Argentina is crowned Miss Universe 1962.source
  • 1964According to Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, a Katsushima Warehouse caught fire and explode in Shinagawa, Tokyo, total 19 person were human fatalities and 117 persons were wounded.source
  • 1965The Israeli left-wing political party Rafi is founded by David Ben-Gurion, who breaks with Mapai, the ruling party, and leads a breakaway group of eight members of the Knesset, including Moshe Dayan, Shimon Peres, Chaim Herzog, and Teddy Kollek, amongst others.source
  • 1965U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 flies by Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to return images from the Red Planet.source
  • 1965Sheikh Abdullah kept at custody in Kodaikanal for two years from July 1965 - June 1967.source
  • 1966Gwynfor Evans, President of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, becomes Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for Carmarthen, taking the previously Labour-held Welsh seat at a by-election with a majority of 2,435 on an 18% swing and giving his party its first representation at Westminster in its forty-one year history.source
  • 1969The Act of Free Choice for West Irian commences in Merauke, Indonesia.source
  • 1969Football War: After Honduras loses an association football match against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18, which takes effect on July 20.source
  • 1971Libya severs its diplomatic ties with Morocco.source
  • 1972July 10–14 – The Democratic National Convention meets in Miami Beach. Senator George McGovern, who backs the immediate and complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam, is nominated for president. He names fellow Senator Thomas Eagleton as his running mate.source
  • 1983July 12–15 – Typhoon Bebeng, The monsoon spawns a tropical depression on July 12, east of the Philippines. It heads westward, strengthening to a tropical storm that night and a typhoon on the 13th. Vera makes landfall on the 14th as an 85 mph (137 km/h) typhoon in the Philippines, weakens over the islands, especially Luzon, and strengthens over the South China Sea to a 100 mph (160 km/h) typhoon. Damages amounting to a total of US$9 million in the Philippines. The typhoon leaves 45 people dead.source
  • 1984New Zealand Prime Minister Rob Muldoon calls a snap election and is defeated by opposition Labour leader David Lange.source
  • 1989France celebrated the bicentennial of the French Revolution, notably with a monumental show on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, directed by French designer Jean-Paul Goude. President François Mitterrand acted as host for invited world leaders.source
  • 1999the Big Blue crane collapse happened during the construction of Miller Park, killing three iron workers.source
  • 2000July 11–25 – A summit meeting takes place at Camp David between United States president Bill Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat, ending without an agreement.source
  • 2000A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.source
  • 2001Agra Summit: India and Pakistan begin talks to improve relations. The summit ends inconclusively on July 16.source
  • 2011South Sudan joins the United Nations as the 193rd member.source
  • 2011July 14–23 – Two frontal systems enter south-central Chile causing great snowfalls that leaves thousand of people isolated.source
  • 2015Iranian nuclear deal: Iran agrees to long-term limits of its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.source
  • 2015NASA's New Horizons spacecraft performs a close flyby of Pluto, becoming the first spacecraft in history to visit the distant world.source
  • 2022July 7 – July 17 – The 2022 World Games is held in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.source
  • 2023SAG-AFTRA announces it will begin a strike against the major film and TV studios in protest of low compensation, ownership of work, and generative AI.source
  • 2023July 14–30 – The 2023 World Aquatics Championships took place in Fukuoka, Japan. Léon Marchand broke the world record in the men's 400-meter individual medley, which was previously held by Michael Phelps.source

Births

  • 926Murakami, emperor of Japan (died 967)source
  • 1410Arnold, Duke of Guelders, Duke of Guelders (1423–1465 and 1471–1473) (died 1473)source
  • 1448Philip, Elector Palatine (died 1508)source
  • 1454Poliziano, Italian humanist (died 1494)source
  • 1515Philip I, Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast (died 1560)source
  • 1544Henry Compton, 1st Baron Compton, English politician (died 1589)source
  • 1602Cardinal Mazarin, French statesman (died 1661)source
  • 1610Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1670)source
  • 1671Jacques d'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (died 1732)source
  • 1671Jacques d'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (died 1732)source
  • 1675Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (died 1747)source
  • 1752Andreas Joseph Hofmann, German philosopher and revolutionary (died 1849)source
  • 1801Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (died 1858)source
  • 1816Arthur de Gobineau, French diplomat, author (died 1882)source
  • 1833Alfred Biliotti, Italian Levantine British consular officer and archaeologist (died 1915)source
  • 1858Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette, mother of Christabel, Sylvia and Adela Pankhurst (died 1928)source
  • 1862Gustav Klimt, Austrian artist (died 1918)source
  • 1868Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator (died 1926)source
  • 1889Ante Pavelić, Croatian fascist dictator (died 1959)source
  • 1897Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Thai field marshal, prime minister, and dictator (died 1964)source
  • 1898Happy Chandler, American politician (died 1991)source
  • 1904Asadollah Sanii, Iranian politician.source
  • 1912Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (died 1967)source
  • 1913Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (died 2006)source
  • 1968Hwang Sun-Hong, football player and managersource
  • 1988Conor McGregor, Irish mixed martial artistsource
  • 1999Adijat Adenike Olarinoye, weightliftersource

Deaths

  • 664Eorcenberht, king of Kentsource
  • 664The plague claims King Eorcenberht of Kent, who dies after a 24-year reign, and is succeeded by his son Ecgberht. Queen Seaxburh becomes regent, ruling Kent until Ecgberht comes of age.source
  • 809Ōtomo no Otomaro, Japanese general and Shōgun (born 731)source
  • 850Wei Fu, chancellor of the Tang Dynastysource
  • 937Arnulf I, duke of Bavariasource
  • 1086Toirdelbach Ua Briain, Irish king (born 1009)source
  • 1179Richard de Luci, Norman High Sheriff (born 1089)source
  • 1223Philip II (Augustus), king of France (born 1165)source
  • 1223Philip II, King of France dies of a fever while traveling to Paris. He is succeeded by his son Louis "the Lion", who takes the name King Louis VIII.source
  • 1262Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English nobleman and knight (born 1222)source
  • 1277Humbert of Romans, French friar and writersource
  • 1323Ralph Greystoke, English nobleman and knight (born 1299)source
  • 1349Alexander de Bicknor, Archbishop of Dublin.source
  • 1398In what is now central Turkey, Kadi Burhan al-Din, the vizier of and regent for the Sultanate of Eretnia, on a campaign to conquer the Emirate of Erzincan (eastern Turkey and western Armenia) and capture its Emir Mutahharten, is killed in battle by Qara Yuluk Uthman Beg.source
  • 1484Federico I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (1478–1484) (born 1441)source
  • 1486Margaret of Denmark, Scottish queen consort, daughter of Christian I of Denmark (born 1456)source
  • 1498Gentile Budrioli, Italian astrologer and herbalistsource
  • 1510Arthur Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the Scottish throne (born 1509)source
  • 1526John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, English noble (born 1499)source
  • 1584Balthasar Gérard, French assassin of William the Silent (executed; b. 1557)source
  • 1596King Dominicus Corea (Edirille Bandara) is beheaded by the Portuguese in Colombo, Ceylon.source
  • 1614Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (born 1550)source
  • 1671Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (born 1599)source
  • 1704Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (born 1657)source
  • 1742Richard Bentley, English scholar and critic (born 1662)source
  • 1758Abrahaam Kaauw (Boerhaave), Russian medic, personal physician of the Empress (b.1715)source
  • 1790Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (born 1717)source
  • 1816Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (born 1750)source
  • 1817Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, French writer (born 1766)source
  • 1824Kamehameha II, King of Hawaii (born 1797)source
  • 1827Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (born 1788)source
  • 1856Edward Vernon Utterson, English lawyer, literary antiquary, collector and editor (born 1775/1776)source
  • 1869Isidora Zegers (born 1803)source
  • 1881Billy the Kid, American gunslinger (born 1859)source
  • 1904Paul Kruger, South African military and political figure, 3rd President of South Africa (born 1825)source
  • 1918Quentin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's youngest son, is killed in action during the Second Battle of the Marne.source
  • 1951Andrew Caldecott, 17th Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements (born 1884).source
  • 1958July 14 – July 14 Revolution in Iraq: King Faisal II and several family members are executed. Abd al-Karim Qasim assumes power.source
  • 1965Adlai Stevenson II, American politician (born 1900)source
  • 1967Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (born 1880)source
  • 2002The only captive baiji dolphin dies as the species approaches extinction.source
  • 20162016 Nice truck attack: 86 people are killed and more than 400 others injured in a truck attack in Nice, France, during Bastille Day celebrations.source