What Happened In July 2011 In History

Historical Events for July, 2011

• 8th » Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the STS-135 named final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
• 9th » South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
• 22nd » Norway is the victim of 2011 Norway attacks e.g twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.

Famous Deaths for July 2011

• 1st » Leslie Brooks, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
• 2nd » Itamar Franco, Brazilian politician, 33rd President of Brazil (b. 1930)
• 2nd » Chaturanan Mishra, Indian politician (b. 1925)
• 3rd » Ali Bahar, Bahraini singer and guitarist (Al Ekhwa) (b. 1960)
• 4th » Otto von Habsburg, Austrian-Hungarian son of Charles I of Austria (b. 1912)
• 5th » Cy Twombly, American painter (b. 1928)
• 6th » George Edward Kimball, American journalist and author (b. 1945)
• 6th » Karthigesu Sivathamby, Sri Lankan academic (b. 1932)
• 7th » Allan W. Eckert, American historian and author (b. 1931)
• 7th » Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1929)
• 8th » Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (b. 1924)
• 8th » Mary Fenech Adami, Maltese wife of Eddie Fenech Adami (b. 1933)
• 8th » Betty Ford, American wife of Gerald Ford, 40th First Lady of the United States (b. 1918)
• 9th » Würzel, English guitarist (Motörhead) (b. 1949)
• 9th » Don Ackerman, American basketball player (b. 1930)
• 9th » Facundo Cabral, Argentinian singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
• 10th » Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano (b. 1921)
• 10th » Roland Petit, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1924)
• 11th » Rob Grill, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Grass Roots) (b. 1943)
• 12th » Sherwood Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1916)
• 13th » Allan Jeans, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1933)
• 15th » Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress (b. 1917)
• 16th » Forrest Blue, American football player (b. 1944)
• 17th » David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (b. 1967)
• 18th » Georgess McHargue, American author and poet (b. 1941)
• 20th » Lucian Freud, German-English painter (b. 1922)
• 22nd » Linda Christian, Mexican actress (b. 1923)
• 22nd » Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (b. 1945)
• 23rd » Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (b. 1983)
• 24th » Frank Dietrich (politician) called Frank Dietrich, German politician (b. 1966)
• 24th » Dan Peek, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (America (band) e.g America) (b. 1950)
• 24th » David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author (b. 1961)
• 24th » G. D. Spradlin, American actor (b. 1920)
• 24th » Skip Thomas, American football player (b. 1950)
• 25th » Michael Cacoyannis, Cypriot-Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 26th » Richard Harris (American football) named Richard Harris, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1948)
• 26th » Sakyo Komatsu, Japanese author and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 26th » Margaret Olley, Australian painter (b. 1923)
• 27th » Bejaratana Rajasuda, Thai princess (b. 1925)
• 28th » Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan general (b. 1944)
• 30th » Bob Peterson (basketball) known as Bob Peterson, American basketball player (b. 1932)

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