July 3 - Deaths

Deaths

• 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 Pertl Mozart, 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)
• 1809 – Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)
• 1858 – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
• 1863 – George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
• 1904 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)
• 1904 – Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
• 1908 – Joel Chandler Harris, American writer (b. 1845)
• 1914 – Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)
• 1916 – Hetty Green, American businesswoman (b. 1834)
• 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)
• 1954 – Siegfried Handloser, German physician (b. 1895)
• 1957 – Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
• 1965 – Trigger, Roy Rogers' horse (b. 1932)
• 1969 – Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
• 1971 – Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
• 1977 – Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (b. 1891)
• 1978 – James Daly, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1979 – Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
• 1981 – Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (b. 1920)
• 1985 – Frank Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (b. 1893)
• 1986 – Rudy Vallee, American singer (b. 1901)
• 1989 – Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1993 – Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
• 1994 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
• 1995 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
• 1995 – Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• 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)
• 2001 – Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
• 2003 – Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Gaylord Nelson, American politician (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Ernie Cooksey, English footballer (b. 1980)
• 2008 – Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Clive Hornby, English soap actor ("Emmerdale") (b. 1944)
• 2008 – Oliver Schroer, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1956)
• 2009 – John A. Keel, American fortean, television scriptwriter, author of The Mothman Prophecies (b. 1930)