Famous Deaths on 3 Jul

Famous Deaths on 3 Jul

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 - Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)
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)
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 - Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
2001 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
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 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
2006 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
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)