On This Day
Monday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
July 1 1968
Born on This Day
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Adnan Maral
Turkish-German actor (born 1968) · b. 1968
Days alive
0
Agnez Mo🇮🇩
Singer · b. 1986
Alejandro Garnacho
association football player · b. 2004
Ali Latif
deceasedpainter (1944-2009) · 1944–2009
Days lived
23,758
Antara Mali🇮🇳
actor · b. 1975
Augusto De Luca🇮🇹
Italian artist and photographer · b. 1955
Days alive
4,749
Bob Gould🇬🇧
deceasedWelsh rugby union player (1863-1931) · 1863–1931
Days lived
25,017
Caelestis Eichenseer🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Latin scholar (1924–2008) · 1924–2008
Days lived
30,533
Carl Hahn🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1926–2023
Days lived
35,261
Carl Lewis🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1961
Days alive
2,557
Catherine Garceau🇨🇦
Canadian synchronized swimmer · b. 1978
Charles Laughton
deceasedOscar Winners · 1899–1962
Days lived
23,177
Chris Jeffries🇨🇦
Canadian cross-country skier · b. 1978
David Prowse🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish bodybuilder, weightlifter, and actor (1935–2020) · 1935–2020
Days lived
31,197
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Debbie Harry🇺🇸
singer · b. 1945
Days alive
8,401
Diana, Princess of Wales🇬🇧
deceasedPrincess and humanitarian · 1961–1997
Days lived
13,210
DJ Delicious🇩🇪
rapper · b. 1974
Edward Brown Glass🇬🇧
deceasedAnglican Archdeacon · 1913–1995
Days lived
29,921
Glenn Douglas🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian football player (1928-2017) · 1928–2017
Days lived
32,416
Hans Werner Henze🇩🇪
deceasedGerman composer (1926–2012) · 1926–2012
Days lived
31,530
Harold Sakata🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican sportsman and actor (1920-1982) · 1920–1982
Days lived
22,673
Iosif Shklovsky🇬🇧
deceasedSoviet astronomer (1916–1985) · 1916–1985
Days lived
25,082
Iris Brosch🇩🇪
German photographer · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
Jack Grunsky🇨🇦
singer-songwriter · b. 1945
Days alive
8,401
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Jadranka Kosor🇭🇷
Croatian politician · b. 1953
Days alive
5,479
Jake Atz🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player (1879-1945) · 1879–1945
Days lived
24,066
John Attenborough🌍
deceasedNotable Person · 1666–1710
Days lived
15,960
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John Farnham🇬🇧
singer · b. 1949
Days alive
6,940
Juan Carlos Onetti🇪🇸
deceasedwriter · 1909–1994
Days lived
31,014
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Kent Bazemore🇺🇸
American basketball player · b. 1989
Kristen Welker🇺🇸
Television journalist · b. 1976
Lawrence Gonzi🇲🇹
Maltese politician · b. 1953
Days alive
5,479
Mainhardt Graf von Nayhauß🇩🇪
deceasedjournalist from Germany · 1926–2021
Days lived
34,546
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Marc Huster🇩🇪
German weightlifter · b. 1970
Marisa Monte🇧🇷
singer · b. 1967
Days alive
366
Michael Berrer🇩🇪
German tennis player · b. 1980
Missy Elliott🇺🇸
American rapper (born 1971) · b. 1971
Nancy Lieberman🇺🇸
American basketball player · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
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Olivia de Havilland🇺🇸
deceasedBritish actress (1916–2020) · 1916–2020
Days lived
38,011
Orlando Cruz🇺🇸
olympic boxer · b. 1981
Pablo d'Ors🇪🇸
Spanish writer · b. 1963
Days alive
1,827
Pamela Anderson🇨🇦
Canadian actress and model (born 1967) · b. 1967
Days alive
366
Paul Alsberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman anthropologist · 1883–1965
Days lived
29,769
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Plies🇺🇸
American rapper · b. 1976
Rosemarie Wenner🇩🇪
German methodist bishop · b. 1955
Days alive
4,749
Ruud van Nistelrooy
Dutch association football player and coach (born 1976) · b. 1976
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Steffi Nerius🇩🇪
German javelin thrower · b. 1972
Sufjan Stevens🇺🇸
American singer and musician (born 1975) · b. 1975
Sydney Pollack🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican film director, producer and actor (1934-2008) · 1934–2008
Days lived
26,993
Taeyong (Lee Tae-yong)🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (NCT) · b. 1995
Tate McRae
singer · b. 2003
Victor Willis🇺🇸
deceasedSinger · 1951–2026
Days lived
27,393
William Wyler🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1902–1981
Days lived
28,881
Willie Dixon🇺🇸
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1915–1992
Days lived
27,971
Yevgeni Kuritsyn🇷🇺
Russian footballer · b. 1991
Yulian Radionov🇧🇬
basketball player · b. 1979
Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl🇭🇺
deceasedartist · 1884–1975
Days lived
33,280
Died on This Day
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Ben Turpin🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor (1869-1940) · 1869–1940
Days lived
25,852
Buckminster Fuller🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1895–1983
Days lived
32,130
Charles I. D. Looff
deceasedentrepreneur · 1852–1918
Days lived
24,143
Christa Williams🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1926–2012
Days lived
31,558
Dennis Eagan🇬🇧
deceasedfield hockey player (1926-2012) · 1926–2012
Days lived
31,369
Edgar Julius Jung🇩🇪
deceasedGerman jurist and essayist (1894–1934) · 1894–1934
Days lived
14,726
Ernst Röhm🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Nazi politician, military officer and leader of the Sturmabteilung (1887-1934) · 1887–1934
Days lived
17,016
Ettore Cella🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss actor and film director (1913-2004) · 1913–2004
Days lived
33,165
Fritz Pauer🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian composer and pianist (1943–2012) · 1943–2012
Days lived
25,098
Fyodor Druzhinin🇷🇺
deceasedRussian composer and musician (1932–2007) · 1932–2007
Days lived
27,479
Georg Ratzinger🇩🇪
deceasedGerman musician and Catholic priest (1924-2020) · 1924–2020
Days lived
35,232
Karl Malden🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor (1912–2009) · 1912–2009
Days lived
35,530
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Marcel Breuer🇭🇺
deceasedHungarian-American architect (1902-1981) · 1902–1981
Days lived
28,896
Margot Werner🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian ballet dancer, singer and actor (1937–2012) · 1937–2012
Days lived
27,234
Marlon Brando
deceasedOscar Winners · 1924–2004
Days lived
29,309
Mick Bates🇬🇧
deceasedfootball player · 1947–2021
Days lived
26,949
Renate Hoy🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1930–2024
Days lived
34,151
René Sparenberg
deceasedDutch field hockey player · 1918–2013
Days lived
34,544
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Robert Mitchum🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1917–1997
Days lived
29,184
Slim Willet🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1919–1966
Days lived
17,014
Thea von Harbou
deceasedwriter · 1888–1954
Days lived
23,926
Walter Matthau🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor, comedian and director (1920–2000) · 1920–2000
Days lived
29,128
Willem Arondeus
deceasedDutch painter, writer and member of the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance (1894-1943) · 1894–1943
Days lived
17,844
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Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,184
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
Hans Reiter🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Nazi physician (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,413
Rudolf Pannwitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer and philosopher (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,076
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,855
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Digit🇷🇼
deceasedMountain gorilla · 1967–1977
Days lived
4,017
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
48,028
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,725
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,298
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,740
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,706
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,340
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,784
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,436
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,235
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,749
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,767
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,436
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,788
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,331
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,241
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,218
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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