July 21
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July 21 is the 202nd day of the year (203rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 163 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1414 – Pope Sixtus IV (d. 1484)
- 1515 – Philip Neri, Italian saint (d. 1595)
- 1620 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)
- 1664 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (d. 1721)
- 1693 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1768)
- 1808 – Simion Barnutiu, Romanian philosopher, liberal politician, jurist and historian (d. 1864)
- 1810 – Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist and physicist (d. 1878)
- 1816 – Paul Reuter, German-British journalist (d. 1899)
- 1821 – Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian poet, dramatist and politician (d. 1890)
- 1843 – Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal (d. 1884)
- 1851 – Sam Bass, American train robber and outlaw (d. 1878)
- 1858 – Maria Christina of Austria, Queen of Spain (d. 1929)
- 1858 – Lovis Corinth, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1925)
- 1864 – Frances Folsom Cleveland, First Lady of the United States (d. 1947)
- 1870 – Emil Orlik, Czech painter and graphic artist (d. 1932)
- 1893 – Hans Fallada, German writer (d. 1947)
- 1899 – Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
- 1899 – Ernest Hemingway, American writer (d. 1961)
- 1903 – Roy Neuberger, American financier and art collector (d. 2010)
- 1908 – Ljerko Spiller, Argentine conductor and violinist (d. 2008)
- 1911 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author (d. 1980)
- 1914 – Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Italian screenwriter (d. 2010)
- 1920 – Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (d. 2001)
- 1922 – Jay Hammond, Governor of Alaska (d. 2005)
- 1922 – Molly Sugden, British actress (d. 2009)
- 1923 – Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist
- 1924 – Don Knotts, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1925 – Anne Meacham, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1926 – Norman Jewison, Canadian film director
- 1933 – John Gardner, American author (d. 1982)
- 1935 – Norbert Blüm, German politician
- 1938 – Janet Reno, United States Attorney General
- 1939 – Helmut Haller, German footballer (d. 2012)
- 1941 – Martin Bandier, music publisher
- 1943 – Edward Herrmann, actor
- 1944 – John Atta Mills, President of Ghana (d. 2012)
- 1944 – Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (d. 2002)
- 1945 – Lydia Shum, Hong Kong actress and singer (d. 2008)
- 1947 – Co Adriaanse, Dutch football manager
- 1948 – Ed Hinton, sportswriter
- 1948 – Yusuf Islam, English singer, formerly known as Cat Stevens
- 1948 – Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
- 1951 – Robin Williams, American comedian
- 1953 – John Salazar, American politician
- 1955 – Marcelo Bielsa, Argentine footballer and manager
- 1957 – Jon Lovitz, American comedian
- 1960 – Lance Guest, American actor
- 1964 – Ross Kemp, British actor
- 1968 – Brandi Chastain, American soccer player
- 1968 – Lyle Odelein, hockey player
- 1971 – Charlotte Gainsbourg, French actress
- 1972 – Catherine Ndereba, Kenyan long-distance runner
- 1973 – Roberto Bisconti, Belgian footballer
- 1977 – Paul Casey, British golfer
- 1978 – Gary Teale, Scottish footballer
- 1978 – Josh Hartnett, American actor
- 1979 – David Carr, American football player
- 1979 – Dorinel Gurbina, Romanian handball player
- 1979 – Andriy Voronin, Ukrainian footballer
- 1980 – CC Sabathia, American baseball player
- 1982 – Mao Kobayashi, Japanese actress
- 1983 – Kellen Winslow Jr., American football player
- 1983 – Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer and composer
- 1984 – Liam Ridgewell, English footballer
- 1985 – Paloma Faith, British singer
- 1986 – Anthony Annan, Ghanaian footballer
- 1986 – Rebecca Ferguson, English singer
- 1989 – Rory Culkin, American actor
- 1992 – Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
Deaths [change]
- 1403 – Henry Percy, English nobleman and soldier (b. 1364)
- 1425 – Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350)
- 1793 – Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
- 1796 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
- 1865 – Davis Tutt, American gambler and salloon drinker (b. 1836)
- 1878 – Sam Bass, American train robber and outlaw (b. 1851)
- 1907 – Nicolae Grigorescu, Romanian painter (b. 1838)
- 1938 – Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
- 1944 – Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, leader of the July 20 plot to kill Hitler (b. 1907)
- 1944 – Ludwig Beck, German Chief of Staff (b. 1880)
- 1967 – Basil Rathbone, British actor (b. 1892)
- 1970 – Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
- 1972 – Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1928)
- 1973 – Ahmed Bouchiki, Algerian-born victim of mistaken identity, killed by the Mossad in Norway (b. 1943)
- 1998 – Alan Shepard, the first American to travel into space (b. 1923)
- 2004 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist (b. 1918)
- 2010 – Anthony Rolfe Johnson, British operatic tenor (b. 1940)
- 2010 – Luis Corvalan, Chilean Communist politician (b. 1916)
- 2011 – Kazimierz Świątek, former Catholic Cardinal of Belarus, Gulag survivor (b. 1914)
- 2011 – Bruce Sundlum, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1920)
Events [change]
- 356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (present-day Turkey), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is destroyed in an arson attack.
- 230 – Pope Pontian succeeds Pope Urban I.
- 285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Roman Caesar and co-ruler.
- 365 – After a magnitude 8 earthquake, and a tsunami, around 50,000 people are killed in and around Alexandria, Egypt.
- 1342 – The Magdalene flood leads to several rivers in central Europe to burst their banks. It is Europe's worst flood of the 2nd Millennium.
- 1831 – Leopold I, King of the Belgians becomes Belgium's first king.
- 1843 – Antwerp Zoo is founded, becoming the first zoo in Belgium.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The Battle of Bull Run at Manassas ends in Confederate victory.
- 1865 – Wild Bill Hickok shoots Davis Tutt in one of the first Western showdowns.
- 1873 – At Adair, Iowa Jesse James and the James Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the Old American West.
- 1914 – Romania, it is decided, is neutral in World War I, after a decision by the country's crown council.
- 1925 – Tennessee High School biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching the theory of Evolution, and is fined 100 dollars.
- 1938 – In a peace deal at the end of the Chaco War, Bolivia loses part of its territory to Paraguay which, as a result, doubles in size.
- 1944 – Leaders of the July 20 plot to kill Adolf Hitler, are executed.
- 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Guam begins.
- 1949 – The US Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
- 1951 – The Dalai Lama returns to Tibet from exile.
- 1954 – Publication of the first part of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
- 1959 – Pumpsie Green becomes the first African American to play for the Boston Red Sox baseball team.
- 1962 – British band, the Rolling Stones play their first show, at the Marquee Club in London.
- 1969 – At 2:56 am on this day (July 20 in the US), Apollo 11 lands, leading to Neil Armstrong becoming the first person to walk on the Moon.
- 1970 – In Egypt, the Aswan Dam is completed.
- 1983 – The lowest-measured temperature is recorded as -89.2 degrees Celsius at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica.
- 1994 – Tony Blair becomes leader of the British Labour Party.
- 1996 – Bjarne Riis becomes the first Scandinavian to win the Tour de France.
- 2001 – At the end of a fireworks display in Okura Beach, Akashi, Hyogo, Japan, the bridge connecting the beach to the JR Asagiri railway station becomes crowded, with the resulting crush killing 11 people and injuring 120.
- 2005 – Four suicide bombers fail to detonate their bombs on London's underground and bus systems.
- 2005 – Horst Koehler dissolves the Bundestag (German Parliament) ahead of an early election.
- 2008 – Former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is arrested on war crimes charges in Belgrade, after several years in disguise.
- 2011 – The Space Shuttle programme ends, as the Space Shuttle Atlantis returns safely to Earth on its last mission.
