What happened on July 3 ?

683 - St. Leo II, pope

1570 - Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist

1642 - Maria de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)

1672 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)

1704 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)

1749 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)

1778 - Anna Maria Walburga Mozart née Pertl, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)

1790 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (b. 1736)

1795 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)

1795 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)

1858 - Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)

1863 - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)

1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)

1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)

1918 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)

1933 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)

1935 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)

1942 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)

1969 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (drowned) (b. 1942)

1971 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)

1977 - Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (b. 1891)

1979 - Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)

1986 - Rudy Vallee, American singer (b. 1901)

1989 - Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)

1993 - Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)

1994 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)

1995 - Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)

1998 - Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)

1999 - Mark Sandman, American musician (b. 1952)

2000 - Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)

2001 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)

2003 - Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914)

2004 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut (b. 1929)

2005 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)

2005 - Gaylord Nelson, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1916)

2006 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b.1950)