In deaths:
| July 4th 1768 | | Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide), dies at 58
| | July 4th 1780 | | Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen South Neth, dies at 67
| | July 4th 1787 | | Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71
| | July 4th 1789 | | Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian conductor, dies at 59
| | July 4th 1826 | | Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83
| | July 4th 1826 | | John Adams, 2nd president (1797-1801), dies at 90
| | July 4th 1831 | | James Monroe, 5th president (1817-25), dies at 73
| | July 4th 1845 | | Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies
| | July 4th 1848 | | Fran‡ois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies
| | July 4th 1851 | | Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer, dies at 67
| | July 4th 1854 | | Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian, dies at 72
| | July 4th 1856 | | Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor, dies at 64
| | July 4th 1863 | | Paul Joseph Revere, US grandson of Paul Revere/Union brig-gen, dies
| | July 4th 1888 | | Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Schimmelreiter), dies at 70
| | July 4th 1889 | | Auguste Mermet, composer, dies at 79
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