What happened on July 1 ?

251 - Decius, Roman Emperor (b. 207)

251 - Herennius Etruscus, Roman Emperor (b. ca. 227)

868 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (b. 828)

1109 - King Alfonso VI of Castile (b. 1040)

1277 - Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1223)

1592 - Marc Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer

1614 - Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)

1622 - William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575)

1681 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (b. 1629)

1708 - Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)

1774 - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (b. 1705)

1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1730)

1784 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)

1819 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1752)

1860 - Charles Goodyear, American inventor (b. 1800)

1894 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)

1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (b. 1811)

1925 - Erik Satie, French composer (b. 1866)

1944 - Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (b. 1930)

1948 - Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (b. 1904)

1950 - Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1873)

1961 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)

1964 - Pierre Monteux, French conductor (b. 1875)

1965 - Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)

1971 - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)

1974 - Juan Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895)

1981 - Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921)

1981 - Rushton Moreve, American bass player (b. 1948)

1983 - R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and philosopher (b. 1903)

1984 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born educator (b. 1904)

1991 - Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)

1992 - Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissauan politician (b. 1933)

1995 - Wolfman Jack, American radio personality (b. 1939)

1996 - William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1904)

1997 - Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)

1999 - Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-born film director (b. 1908)

1999 - Guy Mitchell, American popular singer (b. 1927)

1999 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candy magnate (b. 1904)

1999 - Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)

2000 - Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)

2001 - Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)

2003 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (b. 1930)

2003 - Wesley Mouzon, American boxer (b. 1927)

2003 - N!xau, Namibian actor (b. 1944)

2004 - Peter Barnes, English writer (b. 1931)

2004 - Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924)

2005 - Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951)

2005 - Obie Benson, American musician (b. 1936)

2006 - Fred Trueman English cricketer (b. 1931)