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July 15 in history

215 sourced entries recorded on July 15, from 668 CE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 1099Iftikhar al-Dawla surrenders Jerusalem to Raymond IV in the Tower of David with a great sum of treasure in return for his life. He is escorted out of the city with his bodyguard.source
  • 1099The Crusaders breach the walls of Jerusalem after a two-pronged assault.source
  • 1116Ordelafo Faliero, doge of Venice, defeats Hungarian troops under King Stephen II, who have arrived to relieve Zadar; the remaining towns of Dalmatia surrender to Venice.source
  • 1116Venetian forces under Doge Ordelafo Faliero defeat forces connected with Stephen II near Zara. The victory strengthens Venetian control over parts of Dalmatia, although the conflict continues into the following year.source
  • 1149The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is consecrated, after reconstruction.source
  • 1162Ladislaus II, duke of Bosnia, is declared king of Hungary and Croatia. He is crowned by Archbishop Mikó and grants one-third of the kingdom to his brother, Stephen IV.source
  • 1205Pope Innocent III lays down the principle that Jews are doomed to perpetual servitude, because they had crucified Jesus.source
  • 1240Battle of the Neva: A Swedish army under Bishop Thomas sails up the Gulf of Finland in their longboats. They proceed into the Neva River with the aim of seizing control over Lake Ladoga and from there, striking at the city of Novgorod. Prince Alexander rallies his druzhina comparable to the 'household' of western European countries, and decisively routs the Swedish forces, saving the Novgorod Republic from a full-scale enemy invasion from the North. As a result, Alexander wins his first military victory at the age of 19 and receives the title of 'Nevsky'.source
  • 1244Siege of Jerusalem: Khwarazmian horsemen attack and sack the 'holy city' of Jerusalem. There is bloody fighting in the streets. The Khwarazmian force their way into the Armenian Quarter, where they decimate the Christian population, and drive out the Jews. The city is left in a state of ruin.source
  • 1305King Edward of England summons a new Parliament, to assemble on September 15.source
  • 1321In England, the "Parliament of Whitebands" convenes with only 38 barons present, to remove suspect counsellors to the King.source
  • 1326The Scottish Parliament meets at Cambuskenneth and votes to restore 10-year-old Robert Stewart, grandson of Robert the Bruce, to the line of succession to the throne of Scotland. Robert is granted lands in Argyll, Roxburghshire and the Lothians, and will eventually become King of Scotland in 1371.source
  • 1346July 12–18 – The English raid and burn neighbouring towns and villages in the Cotentin Peninsula.source
  • 1375During a plague in England, Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, sends a call for prayers to all churches, asking that believers "pour out unceasing prayers to The Most High for the cessation of this pestilence or epidemic and for the tranquility of peace, and to entreat mercy of Him with a humble heart," and adds "For prayer is an immediate defence, an immolation of the enemy, a solace to angels and a pleasing sacrifice to God, and assiduous appeals for mercy made by a just man very often carry great power."source
  • 1393A political crisis begins in the Republic of Genoa, with four different holders of the chief executive office over a period of several hours. Antoniotto di Montaldo, the "Lifetime Doge" for more than a year, resigns and directs that Pietro Fregoso shall be his successor. Fregoso takes office, but resigns the next day.source
  • 1401Jingnan campaign: Chinese Empire troops, led by Fang Zhao, launch a raid on the Yan principality capital at Beiping, forcing Yan PrinceZhu Di to bring his troops back north.source
  • 1406Ernst der Eiserne of the Habsburg line becomes the new Duke of Austria, specifically for Inner Austria comprising the duchies of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola, succeeding his father, the late Wilhelm the Courteous.source
  • 1410Battle of Grunwald (Žalgiris), also known as Battle of Tannenberg: Polish and Lithuanian forces under cousins Jogaila and Vytautas the Great decisively defeat the forces of the Teutonic Knights, whose power is broken.source
  • 1421A ceasefire is declared in the Great Frisian War as the representatives warring parties agree to a treaty at the city of Greetsiel in what is now the German region of Ostfriesland. A boundary is set at the Lauwers River in the Netherlands with the territory to the west (Friesland) going to the Frisian rebel group, the Skieringers. The lands to the east Groningen go the Fetkeapers.source
  • 1427The Siege of Montargis is started in France by 1,000 Englishmen led by the Earl of Warwick and lasts for seven weeks.source
  • 1458Magdalen College, Oxford, is founded.source
  • 1458foundation of Magdalen College, Oxford.source
  • 1490King Vladislaus of Bohemia is proclaimed as the new King of Hungary by a majority of the Hungarian nobility, prompting the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian to plan an invasion and conquest of the Hungarian Kingddom.source
  • 1521San Juan Bautista is founded as the new capital of the archipelago of Puerto Rico.source
  • 1535Archdeacon Charles Reynolds (cleric), envoy to James V, Charles V, and Pope Paul III, is buried in Rome. He died of malaria while lobbying for the excommunication of King Henry VIII for heresy.source
  • 1544Battle of the Shirts: The Clan Fraser of Lovat and Macdonalds of Clan Ranald fight over a disputed chiefship in Scotland; reportedly, five Frasers and eight or ten Macdonalds survive.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
  • 1566The Danes burn Falköping.source
  • 1585Composition of Connacht: A commission is given to Sir Richard Bingham, governor of Connacht, and others to make agreements with landowners in the province by 3 October. Murrough na dTuadh Ó Flaithbheartaigh is recognised as Chief of the Name of Ó Flaithbertaigh in Galway.source
  • 1588At Rouen, King Henry III of France gives in to the latest demands of the Catholic League and the Duke of Guise, and signs the Edict of Union, agreeing not to allow French Protestants to participate in government, in return for being able to return to Paris.source
  • 1591The Battle of the Berlengas takes place off of the coast of Portugal as the Earl of Cumberland's five English privateers are surprised by five Spanish galleys commanded by General Francisco Coloma, commander of the Armada de Guarda Costa. Cumberland's ship, the Golden Noble, is captured.source
  • 1602Claude de La Trémoille sells the Château de Sully-sur-Loire to Maximilien de Béthunesource
  • 1623Trịnh Tùng is deposed as ruler of the kingdom of Đại Việt in northern Vietnam after more than 50 years. His son, Trịnh Xuan, burns the palace. Trinh Tung is carried away by his servants in a sedan chair and abandoned in the road to die. Another son, Trịnh Tráng, succeeds to the throne of Đại Việt.source
  • 1639Great Council of Mechelen declares Louis of Egmont guilty of treasonsource
  • 1640The first university of Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku, is inaugurated in Turku.source
  • 1647the King is allowed (at the request of Fairfax) to meet his children (James, Duke of York, Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, and Princess Elizabeth) for what will be the last time, at the Greyhound Inn, Maidenhead.source
  • 1662The Royal Society, founded by King Charles II of England and Scotland receives an official charter in London.source
  • 1675The Narragansett tribe signs a peace treaty with Connecticut.source
  • 1695The siege of the Ottoman fortress at Azaq by the Russian Army begins, but is unsuccessful and is discontinued after October 2 (September 22 O.S.).source
  • 1705Al-Husayn I ibn Ali becomes the first Bey of Tunis, founding the Husainid dynasty that rules Tunisia until the abolition of the monarchy in 1957.source
  • 171015 July – 10 October - Capitulation of Estonia and Livoniasource
  • 1725Sir Richard Everard becomes the 4th Governor of North Carolina.source
  • 1733A hurricane off of the coast of the Florida Keys wrecks at least 17 Spanish ships.source
  • 1741Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska, and sends some men aboard his ship ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.source
  • 1745Fall of Ghent: The French army occupies Ghent.source
  • 1755Announcement, in England, of the capture of French troops on their way to Canada.source
  • 1769the Royal Hibernian Military School, founded in Dublin to educate orphaned children of members of the British armed forces in Ireland, is granted its Royal charter.source
  • 1791July 14–17 – Priestley Riots against Dissenters in Birmingham, England.source
  • 1799In the Egyptian port city of Rosetta, French Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone.source
  • 1801Concordat of 1801, agreement signed between France and Pope Pius VII that reaffirms the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and restores some of its civil status.source
  • 1806Pike Expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike leads an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine, to explore the American West.source
  • 1815Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon boards HMS Bellerophon off Rochefort, and surrenders to Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland of the Royal Navy.source
  • 1818U.S. President James Monroe convenes a cabinet meeting, to discuss whether General Andrew Jackson's unauthorized invasion and conquest of Spanish Florida should be disavowed by the White House. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams persuades the President that the action is justifiable, in stopping terror caused by the Seminole tribes.source
  • 1823The Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome is almost completely destroyed by fire.source
  • 1826The Congress of Panama adjourns after 24 days without an agreement on creating a federation of Latin American nations.source
  • 1831The volcanic Graham Island briefly emerges in the Mediterranean.source
  • 1834The Spanish Inquisition, which began in the 15th century, is suppressed by royal decree.source
  • 1840The Austrian Empire, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Russian Empire sign the Convention of London with the Sublime Porte, ruler of the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1841Exposition des Produits le l'Industrie Nationale opens in Brussels.source
  • 1845Christian Holtermann Knudsen, typographer, newspaper editor, publisher, trade unionist and politician (died 1929)source
  • 1847St Peter's College, Adelaide is founded by members of the Anglican Church of Australia.source
  • 1849The first airstrike in history: Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.source
  • 1854The Glaspalast is opened in Munich. A giant glass building modelled on London's Crystal Palace, it houses an industrial exhibition.source
  • 1856Natal is made a separate British colony, after being part of Cape colony since 1843. Theophilus Shepstone becomes Secretary for Native Affairs.source
  • 1856July 14–15 – In Spain, General Leopoldo O'Donnell takes control of the government, bringing an end to the bienio progresista.source
  • 1856An underground explosion at the Cymmer Colliery in the Rhondda kills 114 men and boys.source
  • 1857Indian Rebellion of 1857: The second massacre at Kanpur takes place.source
  • 1867France declares Cambodia's independence from Siam; Cambodia becomes a protectorate of France and Britain.source
  • 1867Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau becomes the first premier of Quebec.source
  • 1869Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès files a patent for margarine in France.source
  • 1870Reconstruction Era: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate state of America to be readmitted to the Union.source
  • 1870The British government admits the former Hudson's Bay Company territory of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to the Dominion of Canada.source
  • 1870Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union, and the C.S.A. is dissolved.source
  • 1870General mobilisation in response to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian Warsource
  • 1871Phoebe Campbell murders her husband with an axe. She is hanged the next year.source
  • 1872Hochi Mail News, later Hochi Daily News, a Japanese language newspaper, is first published in Tokyo, although it changes coverage from general news to a sports newspaper from December 1949.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
  • 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
  • 1885The Reservation at Niagara Falls opens, enabling access to all for free. Thomas V. Welch is the first Superintendent of the Park.source
  • 1889The Emperor of Brazil, Pedro II, survives an assassination attempt in Rio de Janeiro.source
  • 1895Archie MacLaren scores an English County Championship cricket record innings of 424 for Lancashire, against Somerset, at Taunton. This record lasts until 1994.source
  • 1899Japan's first comprehensive copyright law takes effect and, on the same day, Japan agrees to join the Berne Convention.source
  • 1905The popular fictional character Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief, is introduced in France.source
  • 1907The London Electrobus Company starts running the first ever service of battery-electric buses between London's Victoria Station and Liverpool Street.source
  • 1907Former Minister of Public Instruction, Nunzio Nasi, is imprisoned on charges of embezzling USD 300,000.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
  • 1912The first branches of the Commonwealth Bank open in Melbourne and country Victoria. The Prime Minister, Andrew Fisher, is the bank's first account holder and depositor.source
  • 1914Mexican Revolution: Victoriano Huerta resigns from the presidency of Mexico.source
  • 1916In Seattle, William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).source
  • 1919Naval sloops HMS Gentian and HMS Myrtle sunk by mines in the Gulf of Finland while assisting Estonia against the Bolsheviks, with nine crew lost.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
  • 1926Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Company in India introduces motor buses.source
  • 1927July Revolt of 1927: After police in Vienna fire on an angry crowd, 85 protesters (mostly members of the Social Democratic Party of Austria) and 5 policemen are left dead; more than 600 people are injured.source
  • 1932Takashimaya Department Store in Osaka Nanba was officially open.source
  • 1933The Four-Power Pact is signed by Britain, France, Germany and Italy.source
  • 1933The International Left Opposition (ILO) is renamed the International Communist League (ICL).source
  • 1937Buchenwald Concentration Camp openedsource
  • 1948The first London chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous is founded.source
  • 1949In an explosion at Prüm in Germany, the town is badly damaged and 12 people die. The explosion crater is one of the largest ever recorded.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
  • 1951According to National Police Agency of Japan official confirmed report, an extra bus plunge into Tenryu River, Urakawa Town, (now Tenryu-ku, Hamamatsu), Shizuoka Prefecture, official death toll is 28 persons.source
  • 1954The Boeing 367-80 (or Dash 80), prototype of the Boeing 707 series, makes its maiden flight.source
  • 1954Juan Fangio, Argentine driver for German Grand Prix team Mercedes-Benz, makes a new fastest lap of the Silverstone Circuit in England, with an average speed of 100.35 mph, the previous record being 100.16 mph.source
  • 19581958 Lebanon crisis: 5,000 United States Marines land in the Lebanese capital Beirut in support of the pro-Western government.source
  • 19641963-64 Balkans Cup: Albania is defeated by Romania 2-1 at Stadionul Giulești-Valentin Stănescu (1939), Bucharestsource
  • 1965Greek Prime minister Georgios Papandreou and his government are dismissed by King Constantine II.source
  • 1971American President Richard Nixon announces his 1972 visit to China.source
  • 1971The establishment of Dimerco.source
  • 1974The Greek military junta sponsors a coup d'état in Cyprus, replacing President Makarios III with Nikos Sampson. On that same day, reporter Christine Chubbuck commits suicide for the first-time-ever on live television.source
  • 1976Jimmy Carter is nominated for U.S. president at the Democratic National Convention in New York City.source
  • 1976Twenty-six Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver are abducted and buried in a box truck within a quarry in Livermore, California. The captives dig themselves free after 16 hours. The quarry-owner's son and two accomplices are arrested for the crime.source
  • 1979President Jimmy Carter addresses the nation in a televised speech talking about the "crisis of confidence in America today"; it would go on to be known as his "national malaise" speech.source
  • 1983The Orly Airport attack in Paris leaves eight dead and 55 injured.source
  • 1983Armenian terrorists bomb the Turkish Airlines check-in counter in Paris, resulting in 7 deaths.source
  • 1983Nintendo's Family Computer, also known as the Famicom, goes on sale in Japan.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
  • 1987Martial law in Taiwan ends after 38 years.source
  • 1988Jacques Poos is made Minister for Health.source
  • 1991Chemical Bank and Manufacturers Hanover Corporation amalgamate, becoming the largest bank merger in history.source
  • 19931993 child sexual abuse accusations against Michael Jackson: Evan Chandler institutes legal accusations against singer Michael Jackson of sexually molesting Jordan Chandler, Evan's 13-year-old son.source
  • 1996The 1996 Belgian Air Force Hercules accident at Eindhoven Airport resulted in the death of 34 passengers.source
  • 1997Spree killer Andrew Cunanan shoots fashion designer Gianni Versace dead outside Versace's Miami Beach residence.source
  • 1999T-Mobile Park (formerly known as Safeco Field) opens for the first time.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
  • 2004The use of magnetic resonance imaging to study the spin of a single electron is reported.source
  • 2008Prime minister Raila Odinga issued an order for "illegal" settlers of Mau Forest to be evicted.source
  • 2009Caspian Airlines Flight 7908, en route from Tehran, Iran, to Yerevan, Armenia crashes into the Jannatabad village in Qazvin Province; killing all 168 on board.source
  • 2011July 14–23 – Two frontal systems enter south-central Chile causing great snowfalls that leaves thousand of people isolated.source
  • 2012South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style.source
  • 2016July 15–16 – In Turkey, a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces that organized themselves as the Peace at Home Council, unsuccessfully stages a coup against the state institutions, resulting in the deaths of at least 240 people and triggering a series of unprecedented purges throughout the country.source
  • 20162016 Turkish coup d'état attemptsource
  • 2018France national football team wins the 2018 FIFA World Cup final 4–2 against the Croatia national football teamsource
  • 2020The Twitter accounts of prominent political figures, CEOs, and celebrities are hacked to promote a bitcoin scam.source
  • 2022July 7 – July 17 – The 2022 World Games is held in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.source
  • 202224 July: Djibouti at the 2022 World Athletics Championshipssource
  • 2024Former MPs Mduduzi Bacede Mabuza and Mthandeni Dube are sentenced to lengthy prison terms under the Suppression of Terrorism Act and the Sedition and Subversive Activities Act for allegedly inciting unrest during the 2021–2023 Eswatini protests.source

Births

  • 980Ichijō, emperor of Japan (died 1011)source
  • 1353Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (died 1410)source
  • 1359Antonio Correr, Spanish cardinal (died 1445)source
  • 1442Boček IV of Poděbrady, Bohemian nobleman, eldest son of King George of Podebrady (died 1496)source
  • 1455Queen Yun, Korean queen (died 1482)source
  • 1471Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (died 1494)source
  • 1478Barbara Jagiellon, Duchess consort of Saxony and Margravine consort of Meissen (1500–1534) (died 1534)source
  • 1497Francis of Denmark, Danish prince (died 1511)source
  • 1548George III, Count of Erbach-Breuberg (1564–1605) (died 1605)source
  • 1573Inigo Jones, English architect (died 1652)source
  • 1600Jan Cossiers, Flemish painter (died 1671)source
  • 1600Jan Cossiers, painter (died 1671)source
  • 1602John Bradshaw, English judge and regicide (died 1659)source
  • 1606Rembrandt (van Rijn), Dutch painter (died 1669)source
  • 1611Jai Singh I, Maharaja of Jaipur (died 1667)source
  • 1613Gu Yanwu, Chinese philologist and geographer (died 1682)source
  • 1631Richard Cumberland, English philosopher (died 1718)source
  • 1639Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran, Irish soldier (died 1686)source
  • 1661Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French founder of the colony of Louisiana (died 1706)source
  • 1704August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German theologian and minister (died 1792)source
  • 1745Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet, industrialist (died 1819)source
  • 1748Frederik Otto Scheel, military officer and civil servant (died 1803).source
  • 1793Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, American educator, scientist and writer (died 1884)source
  • 1844Enrique Mac Iver (died 1922)source
  • 1848Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist (died 1923)source
  • 1850Frances Xavier Cabrini, American saint (died 1917)source
  • 1879Alcides Arguedas, historian (died 1946)source
  • 1892Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and cultural critic (suicide 1940)source
  • 1912Aleksandar Goldštajn, law scholar, writer and constitutional court judge (died 2010)source
  • 1946Linda Ronstadt, American singer, songwriter ("You're No Good")source
  • 1953Jean-Bertrand Aristide, President of Haitisource

Deaths

  • 668Emperor Constans II is killed under mysterious circumstances in his bath, during a mutiny at Syracuse. The Byzantine court returns to Constantinople after an absence of 5 years, in which the Muslim-Arabs have made annual invasions and devastations of Anatolia. Probably assassinated by his chamberlain after a 27-year reign, Constans is succeeded by his son Constantine IV (the "Bearded"), alongside his brothers Heraclius and Tiberius as co-emperors.source
  • 756Xuan Zong is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute Yang Guozhong, by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. He permits his consort Yang Guifei to be strangled by his chief eunuch. An Lushan also has other members of the emperor's family killed.source
  • 756Yang Guifei, consort of Xuan Zong (born 719)source
  • 998Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Persian mathematician (born 940)source
  • 1015Vladimir the Great, Grand Prince of Kievsource
  • 1015Vladimir the Great dies at Berestove after a 35-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Sviatopolk I as Grand Prince of Kiev.source
  • 1076Arnost (or Arnošt), bishop of Rochestersource
  • 1102Walter Giffard, 1st Earl of Buckingham, Anglo-Norman magnatesource
  • 1212John I (or Johann), German archbishopsource
  • 1274Bonaventure, Italian theologian and philosopher (born 1221)source
  • 1279William Langton (or Rotherfield), English archdeaconsource
  • 1291Rudolf I, king of Germany (House of Habsburg) (born 1218)source
  • 1299Eric II (Magnusson), king of Norway (born 1268)source
  • 1381John Ball, renegade priest (executed)source
  • 1388Agnes of Durazzo, titular Latin empress consort of Constantinople (died 1313)source
  • 1397Catherine of Henneberg, German ruler (born c. 1334)source
  • 1406William, Duke of Austriasource
  • 1410Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (in battle) (born 1360)source
  • 1411Jean Petit, theologian (born 1360)source
  • 1445Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotlandsource
  • 1472Johann II of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1429–1472) (born 1423)source
  • 1502Luka Radovanović, Catholic priest (born 1425)source
  • 1542Lisa del Giocondo, Florentine noblewoman, believed to be the subject of the Mona Lisa (born 1479)source
  • 1544René of Châlon, Prince of the House of Orange (born 1519)source
  • 1609Annibale Carracci, Italian Baroque painter (born 1560)source
  • 1673Helena Fourment, Dutch model, second wife of Peter Paul Rubens (born 1614)source
  • 1685James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, is executed at Tower Hill, London, England.source
  • 1685James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of England (beheaded) (born 1649)source
  • 1711John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, England (born 1662)source
  • 1732Woodes Rogers, English privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas (born c. 1679)source
  • 1743John Wynne, former Bishop of St Asaph and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, 85source
  • 1750Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman, ethnographer (born 1686)source
  • 1782Farinelli, Italian castrato (born 1705)source
  • 1802John de Verdion, London-based bookseller and language instructor (born 1740s)source
  • 1822Manuel Torres, first Colombian ambassador to the United States (born 1762)source
  • 1835Izabela Czartoryska, Polish magnate princess (born 1746)source
  • 1857Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (born 1791)source
  • 1866Paulino Soares de Sousa, 1st Viscount of Uruguai, politician and diplomat (born 1808).source
  • 1876Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican revolutionary and political activist.source
  • 1884Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, American educator, author (born 1793)source
  • 1888Eruption of Mount Bandai: An explosive eruption of the stratovolcano Mount Bandai in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan results in pyroclastic flows and the deaths of at least 477 people (according to Japanese government sources).source
  • 1904Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (born 1860)source
  • 1916July 15–19 – WWI: Battle of Delville Wood – 766 men from the South African Brigade are killed, in South Africa's biggest loss during the First World War.source
  • 1927Constance Markievicz, Irish politician (born 1868)source
  • 1948John J. Pershing, American general (born 1860)source
  • 1961A by-election is held after assemblyman Baharuddin bin Ariff died a few months earlier. The People's Action Party lost this by-election; the second in a row, with David Marshall from the Workers' Party winning the Anson seat.source
  • 1965Nicolas Biever, politician and trade unionistsource
  • 2024One sailor is killed and six others are reported missing after the Comoros-flagged oil tanker Prestige Falcon sinks off Ras Madrakah in the Arabian Sea. Nine sailors are rescued.source