In deaths:
| July 3rd 0683 | | Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies
| | July 3rd 1090 | | Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle
| | July 3rd 1570 | | Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67
| | July 3rd 1642 | | Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69
| | July 3rd 1778 | | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies
| | July 3rd 1801 | | Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56
| | July 3rd 1809 | | Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62
| | July 3rd 1816 | | Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65
| | July 3rd 1862 | | William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40
| | July 3rd 1863 | | Alonzo Hersford Cushing, US Union lt, dies in battle at about 22
| | July 3rd 1863 | | Lewis Addison Armistead, Conf brig-gen Gettysburg/dies in battle at 46
| | July 3rd 1863 | | Little Crow, [Ta-oya-te-duta], Santee Sioux indian chief, dies
| | July 3rd 1863 | | Richard Brooke Garnett, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 45
| | July 3rd 1863 | | Samuel Kosciuzko Zook, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 40
| | July 3rd 1873 | | Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer, dies at 57
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