Historical Events
Franklin Returns to Philadelphia
Jul 23 Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 20 William Jones, British composer and clergyman, born in Lowick, England (d. 1800)
Famous Deaths
- Jul 8 Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer, dies at 49
- Jul 8 John Ker, Scottish spy who spied for the British government against the Jacobites, dies in a debtors' prison at 52
- Jul 22 Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia
- Jul 31 Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
