July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining.
It is the middle day of a non-leap year, because there are 182 days before and 182 days after. It has the same day of week as new year's day (of non-leap year) and new year's eve.
Events
Births
- 419 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor
- 1644 - Abraham a Santa Clara[?], court vicar (+ 1709)
- 1714 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer (+ 1787)
- 1724 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (+ 1803)
- 1821 - Sir Charles Tupper, Father of Canadian Confederation, sixth Prime Minister of Canada
- 1862 - William Henry Bragg[?], physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1915 (+ 1942)
- 1865 - Lily Braun[?], writer (+ 1916)
- 1877 - Hermann Hesse, writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1946 (+ 1962)
- 1900 - Tyrone Guthrie[?], actor, Artistic Director of Canada's Stratford Festival[?], (+ 1971)
- 1903 - Olav V, King of Norway (+ 1991)
- 1903 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the UK (+ 1995)
- 1908 - Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice (+ 1993)
- 1925 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo (Leopoldville) (+ 1961)
- 1925 - Medgar Evers, civil rights activist (+ 1963)
- 1927 - Ruth Berghaus[?], choreographer, film director (+ 1996)
- 1929 - Imelda Marcos[?], shoe collector
- 1931 - Robert Ito[?], actor, ballet dancer
- 1932 - Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's International[?]
- 1937 - Richard Petty, NASCAR driver
- 1947 - Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld
- 1956 - Jerry Hall[?], actress, wife of Mick Jagger
Deaths
- 1566 - Michel de Nostradame (AKA Nostradamus), seer
- 1833 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader
- 1932 - King Manuel II of Portugal
- 1937 - Amelia Earhart, aviator, disappears
- 1961 - Ernest Hemingway, author, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature (1954)
- 1973 - Betty Grable, actress
- 1977 - Vladimir Nabokov, writer
- 1989 - Andrei Gromyko[?], Soviet foreign minister
- 1991 - Lee Remick, actress
- 1997 - James Stewart, actor
- 1999 - Mario Puzo, author
Holidays and observances
See Also:
July 1 - July 3 - June 2 - August 2 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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