Famous People Who Died on July 1st in History

Dying is just like taxes in the respect that it is going to happen to you and me. Over history, we realize it doesn't matter who you are, you are going to face death. Famous people have no secret weapon against death. They are just like you and I. They will die. We will die. Death is a part of life. However, many of us look forward to eternal life in Heaven. After we all pass from this world, I hope to meet each one of you in a better place called Heaven.


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What Happened Today in History?

1862 -- American Civil War: the Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign

1863 -- American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.

1881 -- The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

1963 -- ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail

1968 -- Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO

Deaths

1730-1782 -- Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marques of Rockingham, British statesman and noble

1710-1784 -- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer, the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach

1752-1819 -- Jemima Wilkinson was a charismatic American evangelist who preached total sexual abstinence and the Ten Commandments to her congregation of "Universal Friends." Her family were strict Quakers; most of her views were from her upbringing in the Quaker religion

1800-1860 -- Charles Goodyear, American inventor

1819-1894 -- Allan Pinkerton, American private detective-was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, the first detective agency of the United States.

1811-1896 -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, American abolitionist and writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin

1952-1976 -- Anneliese Michel was a German Catholic woman who was said to be possessed by demons and subsequently underwent an exorcism. Two motion pictures, The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Requiem, are loosely based on Michel's story, On July 1, 1976, Anneliese died in her sleep. The autopsy report stated her cause of death as malnutrition and dehydration from almost a year of semi-starvation while the rites of exorcism were performed. She weighed 68 pounds

1948-1981 -- Rushton Moreve, American bass player (Steppenwolf)

1936-1991 -- Michael Landon, American actor, he played Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza, Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie and Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven, he died from pancreatic cancer

1938-1995 -- Wolfman Jack, American radio personality

1954-1996 -- Margaux Hemingway, American actress and model

1917-1997 -- Robert Mitchum, American actor

1904-1999 -- Forrest Mars Sr., American candy magnate, best known for inventing M&M's and the Mars bar

1920-2000 -- Walter Matthau, American actor

1924-2004 -- Marlon Brando, American actor

1951-2005 -- Luther Vandross, American singer

1929-2010 -- Ilene Woods, American actress, Cinderella

1913-2010 -- Arnold Friberg, American patriotic illustrator

This is series of famous people who died was inspired by Faye Farley who writes about famous people who were born on the same dates. Each day I will make a list of the famous people who died on the particular day with a link to her story about who was born on a particular day. Today's famous deaths will be linked to her September 27 story because she has not made it to October yet. Click hereto check out Faye's writing

Sources

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