Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

Despite the claims of decency activists, there are few eras of history in which there have not existed blue comedians ; notoriously offensive performers ( Petronius, Benny Bell, Le Pétomane, Redd Foxx and Lenny Bruce for example ).

Bruce R. McConkie was born on July 29, 1915 in Ann Arbor, Michigan to Oscar Walter McConkie and Margarat Vivian Redd.

Some of the celebrities shown included Bing Crosby, Andy Griffith, General Jimmy Doolittle, Burt Reynolds, Larry Hagman, Phil Harris, Bruce Jenner, Bert Jones, Redd Foxx, William Shatner, and Shelley Hack.

According to Bruce McConkie, a general authority of the LDS Church, " Mormonism is indistinguishable from Christianity.

The description almost immediately appears to be describing the persecution of Reformers and Protestant or pre-Protestant groups of people who suffered persecution and execution before, during, and after the Middle Ages, and this view seems to have been held by Bruce R. McConkie in his first edition of Mormon Doctrine.

Bruce R. McConkie, who was later ordained an apostle of the LDS Church, originally wrote his opinion that the Catholic Church was the great and abominable church, but very few in the LDS Church share his view today.

* McConkie, Bruce R, The Millennial Messiah, 1982, Chapter 16.

As explained by apostle Bruce R. McConkie:

However, Bruce R. McConkie stated in his controversial 1958 book, Mormon Doctrine, that God will " obviously " re-institute the practice of polygamy after the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

* McConkie, Bruce R, The Millennial Messiah, 1982, Chapter 16.

Bruce R. McConkie also describes each elder and member of the Church as an apostle:

According to prominent 20th-century Latter-day Saint Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, those who have their calling and election made sure " receive the more sure word of prophecy, which means that the Lord seals their exaltation upon them while they are yet in this life.

* McConkie, Bruce R., Mormon Doctrine, ( 1958 ), Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, ISBN 0-88494-446-8, 2nd edition 1966: ISBN 0-88494-062-4

" Bruce R. McConkie said:

Regarding the Joseph Smith Translation, Bruce R. McConkie ( 1915 – 1985 ) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said, " The Joseph Smith Translation, or Inspired Version, is a thousand times over the best Bible now existing on earth ".

Brown, James E. Talmage, Melvin J. Ballard, and Bruce R. McConkie.

" ( Bruce R. McConkie, lecture at Brigham Young University ).

Bruce R. McConkie famous Latter-day Saint scholar and an apostle wrote in his work Mormon Doctrine regarding the subject.

Their youngest daughter Amelia married Bruce R. McConkie ; McConkie became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles shortly after Smith's death.

One of Smith's granddaughters, Amelia Smith, married Bruce R. McConkie, who later became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Using traditional creationist reasoning, influential LDS leader Apostle Bruce R. McConkie came to a different conclusion, arguing that during the first " day " of creation ( not necessarily a 1000-year " day " in Kolob time ; with a " day " referring to a phase of creation ), the earth was formed and placed in orbit around the sun.

Following the death of apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Ballard was sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on October 6, 1985, and ordained an apostle of the LDS Church on October 10, 1985.

Grave marker of Bruce R. McConkie.

* Doctrines of Salvation, by President Joseph Fielding Smith, compiled by Bruce R McConkie: Volume 1, 1954 ; Volume 2, 1955 ; Volume 3, 1956.

This was Bruce Lee's final film appearance before his death on July 20, 1973.

In July 1997, Bruce Perens published the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

( A wood engraving made by Robert Bruce on 27 July 1866.

Robert I ( 11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329 ), popularly known as Robert the Bruce ( Medieval Gaelic: Roibert a Briuis ; modern Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Bruis ; Norman French: Robert de Brus or Robert de Bruys ), was King of Scots from 25 March 1306, until his death in 1329.

On 7 July, Bruce and his friends made terms with Edward by a treaty called the Capitulation of Irvine.

But, on 7 July, King Edward I died, leaving Bruce opposed by his son, Edward II.

On July 13, 2011 it was confirmed that Raimi along with Bruce Campbell and Rob Tapert would produce the remake of Raimi's classic, The Evil Dead.

* July 15 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( died 2006 )

* 1274 – July 11 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland ( d. 1329 )

Bruce Lee ( traditional: 李小龍 ) ( born Lee Jun-fan ; 27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973 ) was a Hong Kongese actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, founder of Jeet Kune Do, and the son of Cantonese opera star Lee Hoi-Chuen.

On July 1, 2007, the Liechtenstein Ruling Prince, Hans-Adam II, and Liechtenstein Prime Minister, Otmar Hasler, appointed Dr. Bruce S. Allen and Mr. Leodis C. Matthews, both in the United States of America, as the first two Honorary Consuls in history for the Principality of Liechtenstein.

* July 11 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland ( d. 1329 )

Ransford Braham is the new Attorney General of Jamaica as of July 6, 2011 when Senator Dorothy Lightbourne was sacked by Prime Minister Bruce Golding

On 5 July 2003 about 350 skiers and 70 skifield staff were trapped on the mountain overnight at Top o ' the Bruce when a sudden snow storm blew up and within a few minutes made the access road too dangerous to descend.

The July 4, 1966 edition of RPM Magazine ( published in Toronto ) notes that " Bruce Cockburn and Mr

" 4th of July, Asbury Park ( Sandy )", often known just as " Sandy ", is a 1973 song by Bruce Springsteen, originally appearing as the second song on his album The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle.

On the July 4 show in Gothenborg, Steven Van Zandt brought back the famous " double-mike " ditty he and Bruce used to do in the 1970s with the song's chorus.

After Lenny Bruce, arrests for obscene language on stage nearly disappeared until George Carlin was arrested on 21 July 1972 at Milwaukee's Summerfest after performing the routine " Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television " ( the case against Carlin was eventually dismissed ).

* Marie Castello ( 1915 – 2008 ), fortuneteller known as Madam Marie who was made famous in Bruce Springsteen's hit " 4th of July, Asbury Park ( Sandy )".

* Bruce Springsteen dedicated his 1978 performance of " Darkness on the Edge of Town " live at Winterland to Kovic, saying that he read Born on the Fourth of July, and " loved the book a whole lot.

On July 14, 2006, the township supervisors of Mahoning Township elected Bruce Keiper mayor to serve until January 1, 2008.

C. Bruce Littlejohn ( July 22, 1913-April 21, 2007 ) retired Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and author on South Carolina legal history is buried in the Pacolet First Baptist Church cemetery.

* Eric Clapton ( April – August 1965, November 1965 – July 1966 ) and Jack Bruce, both later reuniting in Cream,

Edward Balliol, son of King John Balliol, assisted by the English and Scottish nobles disinherited by Robert I, invaded Scotland inflicting heavy defeats on the Bruce party on 11 August 1332 at Dupplin Moor and then again at Halidon Hill on 10 July 1333.

Edward Balliol's forces delivered heavy defeats on the Bruce supporters at Dupplin Moor on 11 August 1332 and again at Halidon Hill on 19 July 1333, at which the 17-year-old Robert participated.