Did you know
Luther Vandross won eight Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year in 2004 for "Dance with My Father".
Notable Deaths on July 1
2005 — Luther Vandross
American singer-songwriter and producer (Change) (born 1951)
July 1 has 116 recorded notable deaths across history, from 552 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
116 source records
552 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on July 1
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- 1863 Slavery was abolished in the Dutch colony of Surinam, a date now celebrated as Ketikoti in independent Suriname. Source
- 1924 The National War Memorial for the Dominion of Newfoundland was inaugurated by Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig in St. John's, Newfoundland. The date commemorates the first day of the Battle of the Somme, where at Beaumont-Hamel, 86 percent of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment was wiped out. Source
- 1942 The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished. Source
- 1921 The Chinese Communist Party is founded by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), who seized power in Russia after the 1917 October Revolution, and the Far Eastern Secretariat of the Communist International. Source
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Harriet Beecher Stowe came from the Beecher family and wrote a popular novel called Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans.
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Chagatai Khan was a son of Genghis Khan, a prominent figure in the early Mongol Empire, and the first khan of the Chagatai Khanate.
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline's first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working-class speech.
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After the war, his agents played a significant role as strikebreakers – in particular during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 – a role that Pinkerton men would continue to play after the death of their founder.
More major people who died on July 1
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1896
Harriet Beecher Stowe
American author and activist (born 1811)
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist.
1242
Chagatai Khan
Mongol ruler (born 1183)
Chagatai Khan was a son of Genghis Khan, a prominent figure in the early Mongol Empire, and the first khan of the Chagatai Khanate.
1961
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
French physician and author (born 1894)
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician.
1884
Allan Pinkerton
Scottish-American detective and spy (born 1819)
Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish-American detective, spy, abolitionist, and cooper best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have obstructed the Baltimore Plot…
1978
Kurt Student
German general and pilot (born 1890)
Kurt Arthur Benno Student was a German general in the Luftwaffe during World War II.
1999
Edward Dmytryk
Canadian-American director and producer (born 1908)
Edward Dmytryk was a Canadian-born American film director and editor. He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Crossfire (1947).
1828
Lyncoya Jackson
a Muscogee war orphan adopted by Andrew Jackson
Lyncoya Jackson, also known as Lincoyer or Lincoya, was an Indigenous American from a family that was a part of the Upper Creek tribal-geographical grouping and more than likely affiliated with Red Stick political…
2010
Don Coryell
American football player and coach (born 1924)
Donald David Coryell was an American football coach. He coached in high school, college, and the professional ranks; his most notable NCAA post was with the San Diego State Aztecs for 12 seasons from 1961 to 1972 before…
1965
Wally Hammond
English cricketer (born 1903)
Walter Reginald Hammond was an English first-class cricketer who played for Gloucestershire in a career that lasted from 1920 to 1951.
2025
Alex Delvecchio
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1931)
Alexander Peter "Fats" Delvecchio was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach, and general manager who spent his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Detroit Red Wings.
1944
Tanya Savicheva
Russian author (born 1930)
Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva, commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva, was a Soviet Russian teenage diarist who wrote a diary for several months, whilst enduring the siege of Leningrad during World War II.
2015
Nicholas Winton
English lieutenant and humanitarian (born 1909)
Sir Nicholas George Winton was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue refugee children, mostly Jewish, whose families had fled persecution by Nazi Germany.
2014
Walter Dean Myers
American author and poet (born 1937)
Walter Dean Myers was an American writer best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and raised in Harlem, New York City.
1782
Charles Watson-Wentworth
2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1730)
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, styled The Honourable Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1739, Viscount Higham between 1739 and 1746, Earl of Malton between 1746 and 1750, and the Marquess of…
2012
Evelyn Lear
American operatic soprano (born 1926)
Evelyn Shulman Lear was an American operatic soprano. Between 1959 and 1992, she appeared in more than forty operatic roles, appeared with every major opera company in the United States and won a Grammy Award in 1966.
1974
Juan Perón
Argentinian general and politician, President of Argentina (born 1895)
Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer and politician who was the 29th and 40th president of Argentina, serving from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and from 1973 until his death in 1974.
1971
Learie Constantine
Trinidadian-English cricketer, lawyer and politician (born 1901)
Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine was a Trinidadian cricketer, lawyer and politician who served as Trinidad and Tobago's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and became the UK's first black peer.
1774
Henry Fox
1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (born 1705)
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, PC was an English peer and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War from 1746 to 1755.
1277
Baibars
Egyptian sultan (born 1223)
Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari, commonly known as Baibars or Baybars (بَيْبَرْس) and nicknamed Abu al-Futuh, was the fourth Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, ruling from 1260 to 1277.