Historical Events
Event of Interest
Jul 25 The ship Marco Polo, once the fastest clipper in the world, runs aground on Prince Edward Island. Spectators of the event include Lucy Maud Montgomery. [1]
- Jul 28 Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroy 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 1 Arthur Borton, English soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross, born in Cheveney, Kent (d. 1933)
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
Jul 3 Czech author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary
- Jul 4 Maximilian Steinberg, Russian composer, born in Vilnius, Russian Empire (d. 1946)
Rube Goldberg (1883-1970)
Jul 4 American cartoonist who made the easy outrageously difficult (Pulitzer Prize 1948), born in San Francisco, California
- Jul 6 Ralph Morgan [Wupperman], American actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London), born in New York City (d. 1956)
- Jul 7 Toivo Kuula, Finnish composer, born in Vehkakoski (d. 1918)
- Jul 10 Johann Blaskowitz, German general (surrendered at Wageningen), born in Peterswalde, Germany (d. 1948)
- Jul 10 Sam Wood, American communist fighter and director (For Whom the Bell Tolls), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1949)
- Jul 12 Joseph Crehan, American actor (The Roaring Twenties, Meeting at Midnight), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1966)
- Jul 14 Alexandru Zirra, Romanian composer (On the Plain of Moldova), and pedagogue (Treaty of Harmony), born in Roman, Romania (d. 1946)
- Jul 16 Charles Sheeler, American Modernist-Precisionist artist, commercial photographer, and the avant-garde film maker (Manhatta), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1965)
- Jul 17 Bart de Ligt, Dutch pacificist and anti-militarist (Acting Peace), born in Schalkwijk, Netherlands (d. 1938)
- Jul 17 Mauritz Stiller [Moshe Stiller], Swedish actor and director (The Saga of Gösta Berling, Erotikon), born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 1928)
- Jul 19 Max Fleischer, Polish-American animator and film producer (Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor Man), born in Kraków, Austrian Poland (d. 1972)
- Jul 23 Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, British field marshal, born in Bragnieres-de-Bigorre, France (d. 1963)
- Jul 25 Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, conductor (Boston Pops, 1927-29), and composer (La Giara; Concerto Romana), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1947)
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
Jul 29 Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43), born in Predappio, Forlì, Italy
- Jul 29 Manuel Infante, Spanish composer and conductor, born in Osuna, Seville, Spain (d. 1958)
- Jul 29 Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
Famous Deaths
- Jul 1 Manuel Gregorio Tavárez, Puerto Rican composer, dies at 39
- Jul 5 Frederick Scotson Clark, English organist and composer, dies at 42
- Jul 9 Adrien Louis Boieldieu, French composer, dies at 67
- Jul 12 Hermann Zopff, German composer, dies at 57
- Jul 15 Charles Stratton [General Tom Thumb], American entertainer and famous small person (40"), worked with P. T. Barum, dies of a stroke at 44
Matthew Webb (1848-1883)
Jul 24 English long distance swimmer who was first to swim unassisted across the English Channel, drowns in the Niagara Falls whirlpool at 35
