Deaths on 7 July
2000s
Wayne Dobson
2025
English magician (1957–2025)
Roman Starovoyt
2025
Russian politician (1972–2025)
Norman Tebbit
2025
British politician (1931–2025)
Jane McAlevey
2024
American labor organizer and author (1964–2024)
Robert Downey Sr.
2021
American filmmaker and actor (1936–2021)
Dilip Kumar
2021
Indian actor (1922–2021)
Jovenel Moïse
2021
President of Haiti from 2017 to 2021
Maria Barroso
2015
First Lady of Portugal from 1986 to 1996
Bob MacKinnon
2015
American baseball player and coach (1927–2015)
Alfredo Di Stéfano
2014
Argentine footballer (1926–2014)
Eduard Shevardnadze
2014
Georgian politician and diplomat (1928–2014)
Peter Underwood
2014
Australian jurist and Governor of Tasmania (1937–2014)
Artur Hajzer
2013
Polish mountaineer (1962–2013)
Robert Hamerton-Kelly
2013
South African-American theologian (1938–2013)
Donald J. Irwin
2013
American politician
Ben Pucci
2013
American football player (1925–2013)
Dennis Flemion
2012
American independent rock percussionist
Ronaldo Cunha Lima
2012
Brazilian poet and politician
Doris Neal
2012
American baseball player (1928–2012)
Jerry Norman (sinologist)
2012
American sinologist and linguist (1936–2012)
Leon Schlumpf
2012
Swiss politician (1925–2012)
Allan W. Eckert
2011
American novelist
Dick Williams
2011
American baseball player and manager (1929–2011)
Bruce Conner
2008
American artist (1933–2008)
Dorian Leigh
2008
American fashion model
Anne McLaren
2007
British scientist
Donald Michie
2007
British artificial intelligence researcher
Syd Barrett
2006
English musician (1946–2006)
Juan de Ávalos
2006
Spanish sculptor
John Money
2006
New Zealand psychologist and sexologist (1921–2006)
Izhak Graziani
2003
Israeli music conductor (1924–2003)
Fred Neil
2001
American singer-songwriter (1936–2001)
Kenny Irwin Jr.
2000
American racing driver (1969–2000)
1900s
Vikram Batra
1999
Indian Army officer, recipient of Param Vir Chakra (1974–1999)
Julie Campbell Tatham
1999
American writer (1908–1999)
Moshood Abiola
1998
Nigerian businessman and politician (1937–1998)
Carlo Chiti
1994
Italian engineer and car designer (1924–1994)
Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte
1994
German military officer, academic and politician (1907–1994)
Rıfat Ilgaz
1993
Turkish teacher, writer and poet (1911-1993)
Mia Zapata
1993
American singer (1965–1993)
Bill Cullen
1990
American radio and television personality (1920–1990)
Cazuza
1990
Brazilian singer-songwriter (1958–1990)
Germaine Thyssens-Valentin
1987
Dutch-born classical pianist (1902-1987)
George Oppen
1984
American poet (1908–1984)
Bhakti Hridaya Bon
1982
Indian writer (1901–1982)
Dore Schary
1980
American dramatist and film producer (1905-1980)
Francisco Mendes
1978
Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 1973 to 1978
Max Horkheimer
1973
German philosopher and sociologist (1895–1973)
Veronica Lake
1973
American actress (1922–1973)
Athenagoras I of Constantinople
1972
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1948 to 1972
Claude Gauvreau
1971
Canadian writer
Laura Knight
1970
English artist (1877–1970)
Jo Schlesser
1968
French racing driver (1928–1968)
Moshe Sharett
1965
Prime Minister of Israel from 1954 to 1955
Lillian Copeland
1964
American athlete (1904–1964)
Francis Browne
1960
Irish Jesuit priest and photographer
Gottfried Benn
1956
German writer and physician (1886–1956)
Ali Naci Karacan
1955
Turkish journalist and publisher
Fats Navarro
1950
American jazz trumpeter (1923–1950)
Deacon White
1939
American baseball player and manager (1847–1939)
Alexander Grin
1932
Russian writer (1880–1932)
Henry Eyster Jacobs
1932
American religious educator, Biblical commentator and Lutheran theologian
Arthur Conan Doyle
1930
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
Gösta Mittag-Leffler
1927
Swedish mathematician (1846–1927)
Clarence Hudson White
1925
American photographer
Cathal Brugha
1922
Irish revolutionary and republican politician (1874–1922)
Edward Burd Grubb Jr.
1913
American Union Army colonel
Johanna Spyri
1901
Swiss novelist (1827–1901)
1800s
Henri Nestlé
1890
German-Swiss businessman (1814-1890)
George Atzerodt
1865
American assassin (1835–1865)
David Herold
1865
Accomplice of John Wilkes Booth (1842–1865)
Lewis Powell (conspirator)
1865
American soldier and conspirator (1844–1865)
Mary Surratt
1865
American convicted murder conspirator (1823–1865)
William Mulready
1863
Irish genre painter (1786–1863)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1816
Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and politician (1751–1816)
Before 1800
François Hemsterhuis
1790
Dutch writer on aesthetics and moral philosophy
Jeremiah Markland
1776
English classical scholar
William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath
1764
English politician and peer (1684–1764)
Marthanda Varma
1758
Maharaja of Travancore from 1729 to 1758
Olivier Levasseur
1730
French pirate (c. 1689 – 1730)
Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia
1718
Russian Tsarevich (1690–1718)
Henry Compton (bishop)
1713
English clergyman (c. 1632–1713)
William Stoughton (judge)
1701
New England magistrate and colonial administrator
Thomas Hooker
1647
English religious and colonial leader (1586–1647)
Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire
1607
English noblewoman (1563–1607)
Thomas Lucy
1600
Politician and magistrate in 16th-century England
Mohammed Bagayogo
1593
Malian academic
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
1573
Italian architect (1507–1573)
Sigismund II Augustus
1572
Ruler of Poland and Lithuania from 1529 to 1572
William Turner (naturalist)
1568
English Protestant reformer, physician and natural historian (c. 1509–1568)
Tilman Riemenschneider
1531
German sculptor and woodcarver (c.1460–1531)
Momchil
1345
Bulgarian brigand
Edward I
1307
King of England from 1272 to 1307
Pope Benedict XI
1304
Head of the Catholic Church from 1303 to 1304
Tile Kolup
1285
Holy Roman Emperor imposter
Haakon II
1162
King of Norway from 1157 to 1162
Fujiwara no Akimitsu
1021
Japanese bureaucrat (944–1021)
Crescentius the Elder
984
Italian noble and aristocrat (920–984)