July 4 Deaths |
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| July 4th, 2008 (July 04 2008) | Death | Charles Wheeler, British journalist (born in 1923) | |
| July 4th, 2008 (July 04 2008) | Death | Jesse Helms, American politician (born in 1921) | |
| July 4th, 2008 (July 04 2008) | Death | Terrence Kiel, American Football Player (born in 1980) | |
| July 4th, 2008 (July 04 2008) | Death | Thomas M. Disch, American science fiction author (born in 1940) | |
| July 4th, 2007 (July 04 2007) | Death | Bar?s Akarsu, Turkish rock musician (born in 1979) | |
| July 4th, 2007 (July 04 2007) | Death | Bill Pinkney, American singer and performer (born in 1925) | |
| July 4th, 2005 (July 04 2005) | Death | Hank Stram, American football coach (born in 1923) | |
| July 4th, 2004 (July 04 2004) | Death | Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (born in 1920) | |
| July 4th, 2004 (July 04 2004) | Death | Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), an eccentric street entertainer in Nottingham, England (born in 1932) | |
| July 4th, 2003 (July 04 2003) | Death | Barry White, American singer (born in 1944) | |
| July 4th, 2003 (July 04 2003) | Death | Andre Claveau, French singer (born in 1915) | |
| July 4th, 2002 (July 04 2002) | Death | Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American general (born in 1912) | |
| July 4th, 2002 (July 04 2002) | Death | Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (born in 1951) | |
| July 4th, 2002 (July 04 2002) | Death | Winnifred Quick, American Titanic survivor (born in 1904) | |
| July 4th, 2001 (July 04 2001) | Death | Keenan Milton, Professional Skater (born in 1974) | |
| July 4th, 2000 (July 04 2000) | Death | Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Polish writer (born in 1919) | |
| July 4th, 1999 (July 04 1999) | Death | Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b.1917) | |
| July 4th, 1997 (July 04 1997) | Death | Charles Kuralt, American television presenter (born in 1934) | |
| July 4th, 1997 (July 04 1997) | Death | John Zachary Young, English zoologist (born in 1907) | |
| July 4th, 1995 (July 04 1995) | Death | Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (born in 1919) | |
| July 4th, 1995 (July 04 1995) | Death | Bob Ross, American artist and television host (born in 1942) | |
| July 4th, 1994 (July 04 1994) | Death | Joey Marella, American professional wrestling referee (born in 1964) | |
| July 4th, 1993 (July 04 1993) | Death | Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician and historian (born in 1903) | |
| July 4th, 1992 (July 04 1992) | Death | Astor Piazzolla, Argentinian composer (born in 1921) | |
| July 4th, 1991 (July 04 1991) | Death | Victor Chang, Australian physician (born in 1936) | |
| July 4th, 1988 (July 04 1988) | Death | Adrian Adonis, American professional wrestler (born in 1954) | |
| July 4th, 1986 (July 04 1986) | Death | Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (born in 1899) | |
| July 4th, 1986 (July 04 1986) | Death | Flor Peeters, Belgian composer, organist, and teacher (born in 1903) | |
| July 4th, 1984 (July 04 1984) | Death | Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (born in 1949) | |
| July 4th, 1982 (July 04 1982) | Death | Terry Higgins, early British AIDS death (born in 1945) | |
| July 4th, 1980 (July 04 1980) | Death | Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (born in 1895) | |
| July 4th, 1979 (July 04 1979) | Death | Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer (born in 1905) | |
| July 4th, 1977 (July 04 1977) | Death | Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (born in 1918) | |
| July 4th, 1976 (July 04 1976) | Death | Antoni Slonimski, Polish poet (born in 1895) | |
| July 4th, 1975 (July 04 1975) | Death | Georgette Heyer, English author (born in 1902) | |
| July 4th, 1971 (July 04 1971) | Death | August Derleth, American writer and editor (born in 1909) | |
| July 4th, 1970 (July 04 1970) | Death | Barnett Newman, American artist (born in 1905) | |
| July 4th, 1970 (July 04 1970) | Death | Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (born in 1884) | |
| July 4th, 1963 (July 04 1963) | Death | Bernard Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand (born in 1889) | |
| July 4th, 1948 (July 04 1948) | Death | Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (born in 1882) | |
| July 4th, 1946 (July 04 1946) | Death | Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer (born in 1922) | |
| July 4th, 1941 (July 04 1941) | Death | Antoni Lomnicki, Polish mathematician (born in 1881) | |
| July 4th, 1938 (July 04 1938) | Death | Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic politician (born in 1881) | |
| July 4th, 1938 (July 04 1938) | Death | Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (born in 1899) | |
| July 4th, 1934 (July 04 1934) | Death | Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics (born in 1867) | |
| July 4th, 1931 (July 04 1931) | Death | Buddie Petit, American jazz musician (born in 1895) | |
| July 4th, 1931 (July 04 1931) | Death | Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (born in 1869) | |
| July 4th, 1926 (July 04 1926) | Death | Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint (born in 1901) | |
| July 4th, 1922 (July 04 1922) | Death | Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (born in 1894) | |
| July 4th, 1916 (July 04 1916) | Death | Alan Seeger, American war poet (born in 1888) | |
| July 4th, 1910 (July 04 1910) | Death | Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (born in 1833) | |
| July 4th, 1910 (July 04 1910) | Death | Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (born in 1835) | |
| July 4th, 1905 (July 04 1905) | Death | Elisee Reclus, French anarchist (born in 1830) | |
| July 4th, 1902 (July 04 1902) | Death | Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader (born in 1863) | Swami Vivekananda Quotes |
| July 4th, 1901 (July 04 1901) | Death | Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (born in 1843) | |
| July 4th, 1891 (July 04 1891) | Death | Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (born in 1809) | |
| July 4th, 1882 (July 04 1882) | Death | Joseph Brackett, American composer (born in 1797) | Joseph Brackett Quotes |
| July 4th, 1881 (July 04 1881) | Death | Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (born in 1806) | |
| July 4th, 1857 (July 04 1857) | Death | William L. Marcy, American statesman (born in 1786) | |
| July 4th, 1854 (July 04 1854) | Death | Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (born in 1781) | |
| July 4th, 1850 (July 04 1850) | Death | William Kirby, English entomologist (born in 1759) | |
| July 4th, 1848 (July 04 1848) | Death | Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, French writer (born in 1768) | Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand Quotes |
| July 4th, 1831 (July 04 1831) | Death | James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (born in 1758) | James Monroe Quotes |
| July 4th, 1826 (July 04 1826) | Death | John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (born in 1735) | John Adams Quotes |
| July 4th, 1826 (July 04 1826) | Death | Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States (born in 1743) | Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| July 4th, 1821 (July 04 1821) | Death | Richard Cosway, English artist (born in 1742) | |
| July 4th, 1787 (July 04 1787) | Death | Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, Marshal of France (born in 1715) | |
| July 4th, 1780 (July 04 1780) | Death | Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (born in 1712) | |
| July 4th, 1761 (July 04 1761) | Death | Samuel Richardson, English writer (born in 1689) | Samuel Richardson Quotes |
| July 4th, 1754 (July 04 1754) | Death | Philippe Nericault Destouches, French dramatist and author (born in 1680) | |
| July 4th, 1742 (July 04 1742) | Death | Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (born in 1671) | |
| July 4th, 1648 (July 04 1648) | Death | Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (born in 1601) | |
| July 4th, 1623 (July 04 1623) | Death | William Byrd, English composer | William Byrd Quotes |
| July 4th, 1603 (July 04 1603) | Death | Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (born in 1521) | |
| July 4th, 1546 (July 04 1546) | Death | Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the Ottoman Navy (born in 1478) | |
| July 4th, 1541 (July 04 1541) | Death | Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish explorer (born in 1495) | |
| July 4th, 1187 (July 04 1187) | Death | Raynald of Chatillon, Prince of Antioch | |
| July 4th, 0973 (July 04 0973) | Death | Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (born in 890) | |
| July 4th, 0965 (July 04 0965) | Death | Pope Benedict V, Italian Roman Catholic Pope (born in unknown) | |
| July 4th, 0943 (July 04 0943) | Death | Taejo of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (born in 877) | |
| July 4th, 0907 (July 04 0907) | Death | Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria | |
