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Famous Birthdays
- Jul 5 Jack Broughton, English bare knuckle boxer (Champion of England 1736-50; published first boxing code), born in Cirencester, England (d. 1789)
- Jul 15 August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German theologist and missionary (organized Moravian Church in North America), born in Klettenberg (d. 1792)
- Jul 16 John Kay, English inventor (developed the flying shuttle), born in Lancashire, England (d. around 1779)
- Jul 31 Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1752)
Famous Deaths
- Jul 3 Sophia Alekseyevna, Regent of Russia (1682-89), dies at 46
- Jul 9 Yan Ruoqu, Chinese scholar of Qing dynasty, dies at 67
- Jul 17 Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer (Minnesota River Valley), dies of yellow fever
- Jul 20 Peregrine White, First English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, dies at 83
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