July 7

Pre-1600

 * 1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
 * 1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
 * 1520 – Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
 * 1534 – Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
 * 1575 – The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.
 * 1585 – The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.

1601–1900

 * 1667 – An English fleet completes the destruction of a French merchant fleet off Fort St Pierre, Martinique during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
 * 1770 – The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
 * 1777 – American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
 * 1798 – As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".
 * 1807 – The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is signed, ending hostilities between the two countries in the War of the Fourth Coalition.
 * 1834 – In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
 * 1846 – US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California.
 * 1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
 * 1865 – Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
 * 1892 – The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
 * 1898 – US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.

1901–present

 * 1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
 * 1911 – The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
 * 1915 – The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
 * 1915  – Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
 * 1916 – The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
 * 1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
 * 1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
 * 1930  – The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement organises the Peasant March demonstration in Helsinki to put pressure on the government to prohibit communist activities.
 * 1937 – The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (Lugou Bridge) provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War (China-Japan War).
 * 1937  – The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
 * 1941 – The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK's occupation.
 * 1944 – World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
 * 1946 – Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
 * 1946  – Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
 * 1952 – The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
 * 1953 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
 * 1958 – US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
 * 1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
 * 1962 – Alitalia Flight 771 crashes in Junnar, Maharashtra, India, killing 94 people.
 * 1963 – Buddhist crisis: Police commanded by Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.
 * 1978 – The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
 * 1980 – Institution of sharia law in Iran.
 * 1980  – During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
 * 1981 – US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
 * 1983 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
 * 1985 – Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.
 * 1991 – Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
 * 1992 – The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
 * 1997 – The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
 * 2003 – NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
 * 2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.
 * 2007 – The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
 * 2012 – At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
 * 2013 – A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
 * 2016 – Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.
 * 2017 – The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted with 122 countries voting in favour.
 * 2019 – The United States women's national soccer team defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Final in Lyon, France.
 * 2022 – Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party following days of pressure from the Members of Parliament (MPs) during the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.

Pre-1600

 * 611 – Eudoxia Epiphania, daughter of Byzantine emperor Heraclius
 * 1053 – Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
 * 1119 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
 * 1207 – Elizabeth of Hungary (d. 1231)
 * 1482 – Andrzej Krzycki, Polish archbishop (d. 1537)
 * 1528 – Archduchess Anna of Austria (d. 1590)
 * 1540 – John Sigismund Zápolya, King of Hungary (d. 1571)
 * 1585 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland (d. 1646)
 * 1588 – Wolrad IV, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (d. 1640)

1601–1900

 * 1616 – John Leverett, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1679)
 * 1752 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French merchant, invented the Jacquard loom (d. 1834)
 * 1766 – Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (d. 1815)
 * 1831 – Jane Elizabeth Conklin, American poet and religious writer (d. 1914)
 * 1833 – Félicien Rops, Belgian painter and illustrator (d. 1898)
 * 1843 – Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
 * 1846 – Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian physician and author (d. 1916)
 * 1848 – Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician, 5th President of Brazil (d. 1919)
 * 1851 – Charles Albert Tindley, American minister and composer (d. 1933)
 * 1855 – Ludwig Ganghofer, German author and playwright (d. 1920)
 * 1859 – Rettamalai Srinivasan, Indian politician (d. 1945)
 * 1860 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1911)
 * 1861 – Nettie Stevens, American geneticist (d. 1912)
 * 1869 – Rachel Caroline Eaton, American academic (d. 1938)
 * 1869  – Fernande Sadler, French painter and mayor (d. 1949)
 * 1874 – Erwin Bumke, German lawyer and jurist (d. 1945)
 * 1880 – Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer, invented sliced bread (d. 1960)
 * 1882 – Yanka Kupala, Belarusian poet and writer (d. 1941)
 * 1883 – Toivo Kuula, Finnish conductor and composer (d. 1918)
 * 1884 – Lion Feuchtwanger, German author and playwright (d. 1958)
 * 1891 – Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese general and poet (d. 1945)
 * 1891  – Virginia Rappe, American model and actress (d. 1921)
 * 1893 – Herbert Feis, American historian and author (d. 1972)
 * 1893  – Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1981)
 * 1898 – Arnold Horween, American football player and coach (d. 1985)
 * 1899 – George Cukor, American director and producer (d. 1983)
 * 1900 – Maria Bard, German stage and silent film actress (d. 1944)
 * 1900  – Earle E. Partridge, American general (d. 1990)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Sam Katzman, American director and producer (d. 1973)
 * 1901  – Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and director (d. 1974)
 * 1901  – Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese cinematographer and producer (d. 1970)
 * 1902 – Ted Radcliffe, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
 * 1904 – Simone Beck, French chef and author (d. 1991)
 * 1905 – Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, French mathematician (d. 1972)
 * 1906 – William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1970)
 * 1906  – Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (d. 1985)
 * 1906  – Satchel Paige, American baseball player and coach (d. 1982)
 * 1907 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (d. 1988)
 * 1908 – Revilo P. Oliver, American author and academic (d. 1994)
 * 1909 – Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis player (d. 1976)
 * 1910 – Doris McCarthy, Canadian painter and author (d. 2010)
 * 1911 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-American composer (d. 2007)
 * 1913 – Pinetop Perkins, American singer and pianist (d. 2011)
 * 1915 – Margaret Walker, American novelist and poet (d. 1998)
 * 1917 – Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadoran general and politician, President of El Salvador (d. 2003)
 * 1917  – Iva Withers, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2014)
 * 1918 – Bob Vanatta, American head basketball coach (d. 2016)
 * 1918  – Jing Shuping, Chinese businessman (d. 2009)
 * 1919 – Jon Pertwee, English actor (d. 1996)
 * 1921 – Ezzard Charles, American boxer (d. 1975)
 * 1921  – Adolf von Thadden, German lieutenant and politician (d. 1996)
 * 1922 – Alan Armer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
 * 1922  – James D. Hughes, American Air Force lieutenant general (d. 2024)
 * 1923 – Liviu Ciulei, Romanian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
 * 1923  – Whitney North Seymour Jr., American politician (d. 2019)
 * 1923  – Eduardo Falú, Argentinian guitarist and composer (d. 2013)
 * 1924 – Natalia Bekhtereva, Russian neuroscientist and psychologist (d. 2008)
 * 1924  – Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
 * 1924  – Karim Olowu, Nigerian sprinter and long jumper (d. 2019)
 * 1924  – Eddie Romero, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
 * 1925 – Geliy Korzhev, Russian painter (d. 2012)
 * 1925  – Wally Phillips, American radio host (d. 2008)
 * 1926 – Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician (d. 2019)
 * 1926  – Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi, Urdu poet (d. 2020)
 * 1927 – Alan J. Dixon, American lawyer and politician, 34th Illinois Secretary of State (d. 2014)
 * 1927  – Charlie Louvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
 * 1927  – Doc Severinsen, American trumpet player and conductor
 * 1928 – Patricia Hitchcock, English actress (d. 2021)
 * 1928  – Kapelwa Sikota Zambian nurse and health official (d. 2006)
 * 1929 – Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
 * 1929  – Sergio Romano, Italian writer, journalist, and historian
 * 1930 – Hamish MacInnes, Scottish mountaineer and author (d. 2020)
 * 1930  – Theodore Edgar McCarrick, American cardinal
 * 1930  – Hank Mobley, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1986)
 * 1930  – Biljana Plavšić, 2nd President of Republika Srpska
 * 1931 – David Eddings, American author and academic (d. 2009)
 * 1932 – T. J. Bass, American physician and author (d. 2011)
 * 1932  – Joe Zawinul, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer (d. 2007)
 * 1933 – David McCullough, American historian and author (d. 2022)
 * 1934 – Robert McNeill Alexander, British zoologist (d. 2016)
 * 1935 – Gian Carlo Michelini, Italian-Taiwanese Roman Catholic priest
 * 1936 – Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
 * 1936  – Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver (d. 1971)
 * 1936  – Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
 * 1937 – Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong businessman and politician, 1st Chief Executive of Hong Kong
 * 1938 – James Montgomery Boice, American pastor and theologian (d. 2000)
 * 1939 – Elena Obraztsova, Russian soprano and actress (d. 2015)
 * 1940 – Ringo Starr, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor
 * 1941 – Marco Bollesan, Italian rugby player and coach (d. 2021)
 * 1941  – Michael Howard, Welsh lawyer and politician
 * 1941  – John Fru Ndi, Cameroonian politician (d. 2023)
 * 1941  – Bill Oddie, English comedian, actor, and singer
 * 1941  – Jim Rodford, English bass player (d. 2018)
 * 1942 – Carmen Duncan, Australian actress (d. 2019)
 * 1943  – Joel Siegel, American journalist and critic (d. 2007)
 * 1944 – Tony Jacklin, English golfer and sportscaster
 * 1944  – Glenys Kinnock, English educator and politician (d. 2023)
 * 1944  – Feleti Sevele, Tongan politician; Prime Minister of Tonga
 * 1944  – Emanuel Steward, American boxer and trainer (d. 2012)
 * 1944  – Ian Wilmut, English-Scottish embryologist and academic (d. 2023)
 * 1945 – Michael Ancram, English lawyer and politician
 * 1945  – Adele Goldberg, American computer scientist and academic
 * 1945  – Helô Pinheiro,  inspiration for the song "The Girl from Ipanema"
 * 1947 – Gyanendra, King of Nepal
 * 1947  – Howard Rheingold, American author and critic
 * 1949 – Shelley Duvall, American actress, writer, and producer (d. 2024)
 * 1954 – Simon Anderson, Australian surfer
 * 1955 – Len Barker, American baseball player and coach
 * 1957 – Jonathan Dayton, American director and producer
 * 1957  – Berry Sakharof, Turkish-Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1958 – Alexander Svinin, Russian figure skater and coach
 * 1959 – Billy Campbell, American actor
 * 1960 – Kevin A. Ford, American colonel and astronaut
 * 1960  – Ralph Sampson, American basketball player and coach
 * 1963 – Vonda Shepard, American singer-songwriter and actress
 * 1964 – Dominik Henzel, Czech-Swedish actor and comedian
 * 1965 – Mo Collins, American actress, comedian and screenwriter
 * 1965  – Jeremy Kyle, English talk show host
 * 1966 – Jim Gaffigan, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1967 – Tom Kristensen, Danish race car driver
 * 1968 – Jorja Fox, American actress
 * 1969 – Sylke Otto, German luger
 * 1969  – Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1969  – Cree Summer, American-Canadian actress
 * 1970 – Wayne McCullough, Northern Irish boxer
 * 1970  – Min Patel, Indian-English cricketer
 * 1970  – Erik Zabel, German cyclist and coach
 * 1971 – Christian Camargo, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1972 – Lisa Leslie, American basketball player and actress
 * 1972  – Manfred Stohl, Austrian race car driver
 * 1972  – Kirsten Vangsness, American actress and writer
 * 1973 – José Jiménez, Dominican baseball player
 * 1974 – Patrick Lalime, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
 * 1975 – Tony Benshoof, American luger
 * 1975  – Louis Koen, South African rugby player
 * 1975  – Adam Nelson, American shot putter
 * 1976 – Bérénice Bejo, Argentinian-French actress
 * 1976  – Dominic Foley, Irish footballer
 * 1976  – Ercüment Olgundeniz, Turkish discus thrower and shot putter
 * 1976  – Vasily Petrenko, Russian conductor
 * 1978 – Chris Andersen, American basketball player
 * 1978  – Davor Kraljević, Croatian footballer
 * 1979 – Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh, Saudi Arabian terrorist (d. 2015)
 * 1979  – Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter
 * 1979  – Douglas Hondo, Zimbabwean cricketer
 * 1980 – John Buck, American baseball player
 * 1980  – Serdar Kulbilge, Turkish footballer
 * 1980  – Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
 * 1981 – Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
 * 1981  – Synyster Gates, American guitarist
 * 1982 – Jan Laštůvka, Czech footballer
 * 1982  – George Owu, Ghanaian footballer
 * 1982  – Asia O'Hara, American drag performer
 * 1983 – Justin Davies, Australian footballer
 * 1984 – Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler
 * 1984  – Alberto Aquilani, Italian footballer
 * 1984  – Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer
 * 1985 – Marc Stein, German footballer
 * 1986 – Ana Kasparian, American journalist and producer
 * 1986  – Udo Schwarz, German rugby player
 * 1986  – Sevyn Streeter, American singer-songwriter
 * 1988 – Kaci Brown, American singer-songwriter
 * 1988  – Lukas Rosenthal, German rugby player
 * 1989 – Landon Cassill, American race car driver
 * 1989  – Miina Kallas, Estonian footballer
 * 1989  – Karl-August Tiirmaa, Estonian skier
 * 1990 – Lee Addy, Ghanaian footballer
 * 1990  – Pascal Stöger, Austrian footballer
 * 1991 – Alesso, Swedish DJ, record producer and musician
 * 1992 – Ellina Anissimova, Estonian hammer thrower
 * 1992  – Dominik Furman, Polish footballer
 * 1994 – Nigina Abduraimova, Uzbekistani tennis player
 * 1994  – Timothy Cathcart, Northern Irish race car driver (d. 2014)
 * 1994  – Ashton Irwin, Australian musician
 * 1997 – Mizuho Habu, Japanese idol and model
 * 1997 –  James Marriott, English musician and online content creator
 * 1999 – Moussa Diaby, French footballer

Pre-1600

 * 984 – Crescentius the Elder, Italian politician and aristocrat
 * 1021 – Fujiwara no Akimitsu, Japanese bureaucrat (b. 944)
 * 1162 – Haakon II Sigurdsson, king of Norway (b. 1147)
 * 1285 – Tile Kolup, German impostor claiming to be Frederick II
 * 1304 – Benedict XI, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1240)
 * 1307 – Edward I, king of England (b. 1239)
 * 1345 – Momchil, Bulgarian brigand and ruler
 * 1531 – Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor (b. 1460)
 * 1568 – William Turner, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1508)
 * 1572 – Sigismund II Augustus, Polish king (b. 1520)
 * 1573 – Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect, designed the Church of the Gesù and Villa Farnese (b. 1507)
 * 1593 – Mohammed Bagayogo, Malian scholar and academic (b. 1523)
 * 1600 – Thomas Lucy, English politician (b. 1532)

1601–1900

 * 1607 – Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire, English noblewoman (b. 1563)
 * 1647 – Thomas Hooker, English minister, founded the Colony of Connecticut (b. 1586)
 * 1701 – William Stoughton, American judge and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1631)
 * 1713 – Henry Compton, English bishop (b. 1632)
 * 1718 – Alexei Petrovich, Russian tsarevich (b. 1690)
 * 1730 – Olivier Levasseur, French pirate (b. 1690)
 * 1758 – Marthanda Varma, Raja of Attingal (b. 1706)
 * 1764 – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician, Secretary at War (b. 1683)
 * 1776 – Jeremiah Markland, English scholar and academic (b. 1693)
 * 1790 – François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher and author (b. 1721)
 * 1816 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1751)
 * 1863 – William Mulready, Irish genre painter (b. 1786)
 * 1865 – George Atzerodt (b. 1833)
 * 1865  – David Herold (b. 1842)
 * 1865  – Lewis Payne (b. 1844)
 * 1865  – Mary Surratt (b. 1823)
 * 1890 – Henri Nestlé, German businessman, founded Nestlé (b. 1814)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)
 * 1913 – Edward Burd Grubb Jr., American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Spain (b. 1841)
 * 1922 – Cathal Brugha, Irish revolutionary and politician, active in the Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence; first Ceann Comhairle and first President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1874)
 * 1925 – Clarence Hudson White, American photographer and educator (b. 1871)
 * 1927 – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician and academic (b. 1846)
 * 1930 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (b. 1859)
 * 1932 – Alexander Grin, Russian author (b. 1880)
 * 1932  – Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian and educator (b. 1844)
 * 1939 – Deacon White, American baseball player and manager (b. 1847)
 * 1950 – Fats Navarro, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1923)
 * 1955 – Ali Naci Karacan, Turkish journalist and publisher (b. 1896)
 * 1956 – Gottfried Benn, German author and poet (b. 1886)
 * 1960 – Francis Browne, Irish priest and photographer (b. 1880)
 * 1964 – Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower and shot putter (b. 1904)
 * 1965 – Moshe Sharett, Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
 * 1968 – Jo Schlesser, French race car driver (b. 1928)
 * 1970 – Dame Laura Knight, English artist (b. 1877)
 * 1971 – Claude Gauvreau, Canadian poet and playwright (b. 1925)
 * 1972 – Athenagoras I of Constantinople (b. 1886)
 * 1973 – Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
 * 1973  – Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1922)
 * 1978 – Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1933)
 * 1980 – Dore Schary, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
 * 1982 – Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious writer (b. 1901)
 * 1984 – George Oppen, American poet and author (b. 1908)
 * 1987 – Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist (b. 1902)
 * 1990 – Bill Cullen, American television panelist and game show host (b. 1920)
 * 1990  – Cazuza, Brazilian singer and songwriter (b. 1958)
 * 1993 – Rıfat Ilgaz, Turkish author, poet, and educator (b. 1911)
 * 1993  – Mia Zapata, American singer (b. 1965)
 * 1994 – Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (b. 1924)
 * 1994  – Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German general (b. 1907)
 * 1998 – Moshood Abiola, Nigerian businessman and politician (b. 1937)
 * 1999 – Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra, Indian Army personnel (b. 1974)
 * 1999  – Julie Campbell Tatham, American author (b. 1908)
 * 2000 – Kenny Irwin Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
 * 2001 – Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
 * 2003 – Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian trumpet player and conductor (b. 1924)
 * 2006 – Syd Barrett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
 * 2006  – Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
 * 2006  – John Money, New Zealand-American psychologist and author (b. 1921)
 * 2007 – Anne McLaren, British scientist (b. 1927)
 * 2007  – Donald Michie, British scientist (b. 1923)
 * 2008 – Bruce Conner, American sculptor, painter, and photographer (b. 1933)
 * 2008  – Dorian Leigh, American model (b. 1917)
 * 2011 – Allan W. Eckert, American historian and author (b. 1931)
 * 2011  – Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1929)
 * 2012 – Dennis Flemion, American drummer (b. 1955)
 * 2012  – Ronaldo Cunha Lima, Brazilian poet and politician (b. 1936)
 * 2012  – Doris Neal, American baseball player (b. 1928)
 * 2012  – Jerry Norman, American sinologist and linguist (b. 1936)
 * 2012  – Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (b. 1927)
 * 2013 – Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer (b. 1962)
 * 2013  – Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, theologian, and author (b. 1938)
 * 2013  – Donald J. Irwin, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (b. 1926)
 * 2013  – Ben Pucci, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1925)
 * 2014 – Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1926)
 * 2014  – Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia (b. 1928)
 * 2014  – Peter Underwood, Australian lawyer and politician, 27th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1937)
 * 2015 – Maria Barroso, Portuguese actress and politician (b. 1925)
 * 2015  – Bob MacKinnon, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)
 * 2021 – Robert Downey Sr., American actor and director. Father of Robert Downey Jr. (b. 1936)
 * 2021 – Dilip Kumar, Indian film actor (b. 1922)
 * 2021 – Jovenel Moïse, Haitian entrepreneur and politician, President of Haiti (b. 1968)
 * 2024 &#x2013; Jane McAlevey, American labor organizer and author (b. 1964)
 * 2024 &#x2013; Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Æthelburh of Faremoutiers
 * Felix of Nantes
 * Illidius
 * Job of Manyava (Ukrainian Orthodox Church)
 * Blesseds Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with seven children (Catholic Church)
 * Willibald (Catholic Church)
 * July 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Solomon Islands from the United Kingdom in 1978.
 * Ivan Kupala Day (Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)
 * Saba Saba Day (Tanzania)
 * Tanabata (Japan)
 * World Chocolate Day