What happened on July 2 ?

862 - St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester

1298 - Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg, King of the Romans

1504 - ?tefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434)

1566 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)

1582 - Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (b. 1528)

1591 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)

1621 - Thomas Harriot, English astronomer and mathematician

1656 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b. 1611)

1674 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)

1684 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)

1743 - Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, English statesman

1746 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656)

1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (b. 1712)

1778 - Bathsheba Ruggles, American murderer (executed)

1833 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1757)

1843 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755)

1850 - Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1788)

1912 - Tom Richardson, English cricket player (b. 1870)

1915 - Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (b. 1830)

1920 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)

1926 - ÿmile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857)

1932 - King Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)

1934 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (b. 1887)

1937 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared) (b. 1897)

1961 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (b. 1899)

1964 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1929)

1966 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)

1972 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1876)

1973 - Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)

1977 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (b. 1899)

1989 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet foreign minister (b. 1909)

1991 - Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)

1994 - Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (murdered) (b. 1967)

1997 - James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)

1999 - Mario Puzo, American author (b. 1920)

2000 - Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)

2004 - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese writer and poet (b. 1919)

2004 - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (b. 1919)

2005 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (b. 1915)

2006 - Jan Murray, American comedian (b. 1916)