What happened on July 7 ?

1304 - Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)

1307 - King Edward I of England (b. 1239)

1537 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)

1572 - King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (b. 1520)

1573 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507)

1647 - Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (b. 1586)

1663 - Thomas Baltzar, German violinist

1701 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)

1713 - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)

1764 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)

1776 - Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693)

1790 - François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721)

1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)

1855 - Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)

1880 - Lydia Child, American novelist and abolitionist (b. 1802)

1901 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)

1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (b. 1859)

1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)

1949 - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)

1956 - Gottfried Benn, German poet (b. 1886)

1964 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (b. 1904)

1965 - Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)

1971 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)

1971 - Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)

1972 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1886)

1972 - King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)

1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)

1973 - Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1919)

1980 - Dore Schary, American film producer and writer (b. 1905)

1990 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)

1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965)

2000 - Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)

2001 - Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)

2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)

2006 - Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)

2006 - Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. (b. 1914)