Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 2

Births

 * 1925 – Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1961)
 * 1925 – Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
 * 1929 – Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines
 * 1937 – Richard Petty, American race car driver
 * 1939 – Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet (d. 1976)
 * 1942 – Vicente Fox, (pictured) President of Mexico
 * 1947 – Larry David, American television actor and producer
 * 1957 – Bret "Hitman" Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
 * 1983 – Michelle Branch, American musician
 * 1986 – Lindsay Lohan, American actress and musician

Deaths

 * 1778 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (b. 1712)
 * 1937 – Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared) (b. 1897)
 * 1961 – Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

Recent days: July 1 – June 30 – June 29