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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[626]] – [[Li Jiancheng]], Chinese prince (b. 589) * 626 – [[Li Yuanji]], Chinese prince (b. 603) * [[649]] – [[Li Jing (Tang dynasty)|Li Jing]], Chinese general (b. 571) * [[862]] – [[Swithun]], English bishop and saint (b. 789) * [[866]] – [[Robert the Strong]], Frankish [[Nobility|nobleman]] * [[936]] – [[Henry the Fowler]], German king (b. 876) *[[1298]] – [[Adolf, King of the Romans]] (b. 1220) *[[1504]] – [[Stephen III of Moldavia]] (b. 1434) *[[1566]] – [[Nostradamus]], French astrologer and author (b. 1503) *[[1578]] – [[Thomas Doughty (explorer)|Thomas Doughty]], English explorer *[[1582]] – [[Akechi Mitsuhide]], Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1528) *[[1591]] – [[Vincenzo Galilei]], Italian [[lute]] player and composer (b. 1520) ===1601–1900=== *[[1619]] – [[Francis II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg]] (b. 1547) *[[1621]] – [[Thomas Harriot]], English astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer (b. 1560) *[[1656]] – [[François-Marie, comte de Broglie]], Italian-French general (b. 1611) *[[1674]] – [[Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg]] (b. 1614) *[[1743]] – [[Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington]], English politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1673)<ref>{{cite web |title=Spencer Compton, earl of Wilmington {{!}} English noble |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Spencer-Compton-earl-of-Wilmington-Viscount-Pevensey |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=1 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1746]] – [[Thomas Baker (antiquarian)|Thomas Baker]], English antiquarian and author (b. 1656) *[[1778]] – [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]], Swiss philosopher and composer (b. 1712) *[[1833]] – [[Gervasio Antonio de Posadas]], Argentinian lawyer and politician, 1st [[Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata]] (b. 1757) *[[1843]] – [[Samuel Hahnemann]], German physician and academic (b. 1755) *[[1850]] – [[Robert Peel]], English lieutenant and politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1788) *[[1857]] – [[Carlo Pisacane]], Italian soldier and philosopher (b. 1818) ===1901–present=== *[[1903]] – [[Ed Delahanty]], American baseball player (b. 1867) *[[1912]] – [[Tom Richardson (cricketer)|Tom Richardson]], English cricketer (b. 1870) *[[1914]] – [[Joseph Chamberlain]], English businessman and politician, [[Secretary of State for the Colonies]] (b. 1836) *[[1915]] – [[Porfirio Díaz]], Mexican general and politician, 29th [[President of Mexico]] (b. 1830) *[[1920]] – [[William Louis Marshall]], American general and engineer (b. 1846) *[[1926]] – [[Émile Coué]], French psychologist and pharmacist (b. 1857) *[[1929]] – [[Gladys Brockwell]], American actress (b. 1894) *[[1932]] – [[Manuel II of Portugal]] (b. 1889) *[[1950]] – [[Thomas William Burgess]], English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1872) *[[1955]] – [[Edward Lawson (VC)|Edward Lawson]], English soldier, [[Victoria Cross]] recipient (b. 1873) *[[1961]] – [[Ernest Hemingway]], American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1899) *[[1963]] – [[Alicia Patterson]], American publisher, co-founded ''[[Newsday]]'' (b. 1906) *[[1964]] – [[Fireball Roberts]], American race car driver (b. 1929) *[[1966]] – [[Jan Brzechwa]], Polish poet and author (b. 1900) *[[1970]] – [[Jessie Street]], Australian suffragette and feminist (b. 1889)<ref>{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |last1=Radi |first1=Heather |title=Street, Lady Jessie Mary (1889–1970) |id2=street-lady-jessie-mary-11789 |access-date=9 February 2020}}</ref> *[[1972]] – [[Joseph Fielding Smith]], American religious leader, 10th [[List of presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. 1876) *[[1973]] – [[Betty Grable]], American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1916) * 1973 – [[George McBride]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1880) * 1973 – [[Ferdinand Schörner]], German field marshal (b. 1892) *[[1975]] – [[James Robertson Justice]], English actor (b. 1907) *[[1977]] – [[Vladimir Nabokov]], Russian-born novelist and critic (b. 1899) *[[1978]] – [[Aris Alexandrou]], Greek author and poet (b. 1922) *[[1986]] – [[Peanuts Lowrey]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1917) *[[1988]] – [[Vibert Douglas]], Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1894) *[[1989]] – [[Andrei Gromyko]], Soviet economist and politician, [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union)|Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs]] (b. 1909) *[[1990]] – [[Snooky Lanson]], American singer (b. 1914) *[[1991]] – [[Lee Remick]], American actress (b. 1935) *[[1993]] – [[Fred Gwynne]], American actor (b. 1926) *[[1994]] – [[Andrés Escobar]], Colombian footballer (b. 1967) *[[1995]] – [[Lloyd MacPhail]], Canadian businessman and politician, 23rd [[Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island]] (b. 1920) *[[1997]] – [[James Stewart]], American actor (b. 1908) *[[1999]] – [[Mario Puzo]], American author and screenwriter (b. 1920) *[[2000]] – [[Joey Dunlop]], Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952) *[[2002]] – [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]], American bassist and composer (b. 1926) *[[2003]] – [[Briggs Cunningham]], American race car driver and businessman (b. 1907) *[[2004]] – [[Mochtar Lubis]], Indonesian journalist and author (b. 1922) *[[2005]] – [[Ernest Lehman]], American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1915) * 2005 – [[Norm Prescott]], American actor, composer, and producer, co-founded [[Filmation|Filmation Studios]] (b. 1927) *[[2006]] – [[Jan Murray]], American comedian, actor, and game show host (b. 1916) *[[2007]] – [[Beverly Sills]], American operatic soprano and television personality (b. 1929) *[[2008]] – [[Natasha Shneider]], Russian-American singer, keyboard player, and actress (b. 1956) * 2008 – [[Elizabeth Spriggs]], English actress and screenwriter (b. 1929) *[[2010]] – [[Beryl Bainbridge]], English screenwriter and author (b. 1932) *[[2011]] – [[Itamar Franco]], Brazilian engineer and politician, 33rd [[President of Brazil]] (b. 1930) *[[2012]] – [[Maurice Chevit]], French actor and screenwriter (b. 1923) * 2012 – [[Julian Goodman]], American journalist (b. 1922) * 2012 – [[Angelo Mangiarotti]], Italian architect and academic (b. 1921) * 2012 – [[Betty Meggers]], American archaeologist and academic (b. 1921) * 2012 – [[Ed Stroud]], American baseball player (b. 1939) *[[2013]] – [[Anthony G. Bosco]], American bishop (b. 1927) * 2013 – [[Douglas Engelbart]], American computer scientist, invented the [[mouse (computing)|computer mouse]] (b. 1925) * 2013 – [[Armand Gaudreault]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921) * 2013 – [[Anthony Llewellyn]], Welsh-American chemist, academic, and astronaut (b. 1933) *[[2014]] – [[Emilio Álvarez Montalván]], Nicaraguan ophthalmologist and politician (b. 1919) * 2014 – [[Manuel Cardona]], Spanish physicist and academic (b. 1934) * 2014 – [[Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe]] (b. 1915) * 2014 – [[Harold W. Kuhn]], American mathematician and academic (b. 1925) * 2014 – [[Louis Zamperini]], American runner and World War II [[United States Army Air Forces|US Army Air Forces]] captain (b. 1917) *[[2015]] – [[Ronald Davison]], New Zealand lawyer and judge, 10th [[Chief Justice of New Zealand]] (b. 1920) * 2015 – [[Charlie Sanders]], American football player and sportscaster (b. 1946) * 2015 – [[Jim Weaver (athletic director)|Jim Weaver]], American football player and coach (b. 1945) * 2015 – [[Jacobo Zabludovsky]], Mexican journalist (b. 1928) *[[2016]] – [[Caroline Aherne]], English actress and comedian (b. 1963) * 2016 – [[Michael Cimino]], American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1939) * 2016 – [[Patrick Manning]], 4th & 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1946) * 2016 – [[Elie Wiesel]], Holocaust survivor, activist, and author (b. 1928) *[[2017]] – [[Vladislav Rastorotsky]], a Russian (and former Soviet) artistic gymnastics coach, (b. 1933)<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.onthisday.com/deaths/july/2|title= Famous Deaths on July 2|website=On This Day|access-date=2020-08-29}}</ref> * 2017 – [[Smith Hart]], American-born Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1948)<ref>{{Cite news|last=Dormer|first=Dave|date=2017-07-02|title=Former Stampede Wrestling star Smith Hart dies at 68|work=CBC|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/smith-hart-cancer-death-1.4188445|access-date=2021-07-01}}</ref> *[[2018]] – [[Alan Longmuir]], Scottish musician (b. 1948)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.onthisday.com/deaths/july/2|title=Famous Deaths on July 2|website=On This Day|access-date=2020-08-25}}</ref> *[[2019]] – [[Lee Iacocca]], American automotive executive (b. 1924)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.onthisday.com/deaths/july/2|title=Famous Deaths on July 2|website=On This Day|access-date=2020-08-25}}</ref> *[[2020]] – [[Ángela Jeria]], Chilean archaeologist (b. 1926) * 2020 – [[Byron Bernstein]], American Twitch streamer (b. 1989)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53277733|title=Reckful: Twitch and gamers pay tribute after star's death|work=BBC News|date=3 July 2020}}</ref> <!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. 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