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July 1

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Event anniversary

110

Battle of the Somme

110 years ago

Born this day

1961

Diana, Princess of Wales

Would be 65

Oldest record

654th

Jan Hus

birth anniversary

Famous births13

1372 · 654 yrs

Jan Hus

Jan Hus (Czech:; c.

ReligionWould be 654

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1742 · 284 yrs

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (German:; 1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. He was the first person in Germany to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics.

ScienceWould be 284

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1804 · 222 yrs

George Sand

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (French:; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (French:), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist.

LiteratureWould be 222

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1818 · 208 yrs

Ignaz Semmelweis

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (German:; Hungarian: Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp; 1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865) was a Hungarian medical doctor and scientist of German descent who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures, known as the "saviour of mothers".

ScienceWould be 208

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1916 · 110 yrs

Olivia de Havilland

Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland (July 1, 1916 – July 26, 2020) was a British, American, and French actress. She appeared in 49 feature films throughout her career, with the major works of her cinematic career spanning from 1935 to 1988.

FilmWould be 110

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1934 · 92 yrs

Sydney Pollack

Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor.

FilmWould be 92

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1955 · 71 yrs

Li Keqiang

Li Keqiang (Chinese: 李克强; pinyin: Lǐ Kèqiáng; 3 July 1955 – 27 October 2023) was a Chinese politician and economist who served as premier of China from 2013 to 2023 and was the second-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s Politburo Standing Committee from 2012 to 2022.

PoliticsWould be 71

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1961 · 65 yrs

Diana, Princess of Wales

Member of the British royal family known for her humanitarian work and global popularity.

RoyaltyWould be 65

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1961 · 65 yrs

Carl Lewis

Frederick Carlton Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold.

SportsAge 65

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1967 · 59 yrs

Pamela Anderson

Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian-American actress, model and media personality. She came to prominence after being selected as the February 1990 Playboy Playmate of the Month following her appearance on the cover of the magazine's October 1989 issue.

FashionAge 59

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1976 · 50 yrs

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Rutgerus Johannes Martinus van Nistelrooij (Dutch pronunciation:; born 1 July 1976), commonly known by his anglicised name of Ruud van Nistelrooy, is a Dutch professional football manager and former player. He is currently working as an assistant coach of the Netherlands national football team.

SportsAge 50

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1977 · 49 yrs

Liv Tyler

Liv Rundgren Tyler (born Liv Rundgren; July 1, 1977) is an American actress. She began her career as a model before making her film debut in Silent Fall (1994).

FilmAge 49

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1986 · 40 yrs

Agnez Mo

Agnes Monica Muljoto (born 1 July 1986), known professionally as Agnez Mo (previously Agnes Monica), is an Indonesian singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Jakarta, she started her career as a child singer in the 1990s.

MusicAge 40

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Famous deaths11

1566 · 460 yrs

Nostradamus

Michel de Nostredame (December 1503 – July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events.

ScienceWould be 522

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1839 · 187 yrs

Mahmud II

Mahmud II (Ottoman Turkish: محمود ثانى Maḥmûd-u s̠ânî; Turkish: II. Mahmud; 20 July 1785 – 1 July 1839) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. Often described as the "Peter the Great of Turkey", Mahmud instituted extensive administrative, military, and fiscal reforms.

Notable PeopleWould be 241

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1876 · 150 yrs

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 July 1876) was a Russian revolutionary anarchist and political philosopher. He is among the most influential figures of anarchism and a major figure in the revolutionary socialist, social anarchist, and collectivist anarchist tendencies.

ActivismWould be 212

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1896 · 130 yrs

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the Beecher family and wrote a popular novel called Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans.

LiteratureWould be 215

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1961 · 65 yrs

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline ( say-LEEN; French: ), was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician.

LiteratureWould be 132

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1971 · 55 yrs

William Lawrence Bragg

Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British X-ray crystallographer who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his father William Henry Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays", an important step in the…

ScienceWould be 136

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1974 · 52 yrs

Juan Perón

Juan Domingo Perón (UK:, US:, Spanish:; 8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974) was an Argentine military officer and politician who was the 29th and 40th president of Argentina, serving from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and from 1973 until his death in 1974.

PoliticsWould be 130

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1997 · 29 yrs

Robert Mitchum

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor and singer. He is known for his antihero roles and film noir appearances.

FilmWould be 109

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2001 · 25 yrs

Nikolay Basov

Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (Russian: Николай Геннадиевич Басов; 14 December 1922 – 1 July 2001) was a Soviet physicist and educator.

ScienceWould be 103

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2004 · 22 yrs

Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor.

FilmWould be 102

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2024 · 2 yrs

Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare (Albanian:; 28 January 1936 – 1 July 2024) was an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright.

LiteratureWould be 90

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Events4

1863 · 163 yrs

Battle of Gettysburg

The Battle of Gettysburg (locally ) (July 1–3, 1863) was fought in the American Civil War between the Union and Confederate armies in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

War

1916 · 110 yrs

Battle of the Somme

The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme; German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Republic against the German Empire.

War

1967 · 59 yrs

War of Attrition

The War of Attrition (Arabic: حرب الاستنزاف, romanized: Ḥarb al-Istinzāf; Hebrew: מלחמת ההתשה, romanized: Milḥemet haHatashah) involved fighting between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and their allies from 1967 to 1970.

War

2012 · 14 yrs

UEFA Euro 2012 finals

The UEFA Euro 2012 final was the final match of Euro 2012, the fourteenth edition of the European Championship, UEFA's competition for national football teams. The match was played at the Olympic Stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 1 July 2012, and was contested between defending champions Spain and Italy.

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