Historical Events
- Jul 3 1st NY Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine
- Jul 4 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Port Moody, British Columbia
- Jul 6 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public
- Jul 10 George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company
- Jul 13 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw beats Herbert Lawford for the 3rd straight year 6-0, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 for his 6th consecutive Wimbledon championship
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 17 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Blanche Bingley defeats 2-time defending champion Maud Watson 6–3, 6-3
Event of Interest
Jul 28 British government led by Lord Salisbury forms
Famous Birthdays
Nathaniel Niles (1886-1932)
Jul 5 American tennis player (US Open mixed doubles 1908; US Open men's singles 1917 runner-up) and figure skater (US C'ship gold singles 1918, 25, 27), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Jul 5 Willem Drees, Dutch statesman of the Labour Party (PvdA) and Prime Minister of the Netherlands, born in Amsterdam (d. 1988)
- Jul 7 Carlo Perrier, Italian mineralogist and chemist who co-discovered the element technetium, born in Turin, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1948)
- Jul 10 John Vereker, British-Irish aristocrat (6th Viscount Gort), decorated military officer (WWI, WW2), and administrator (Governor of Malta, 1942-44; High Commissioner of British Mandate of Palestine, 1944-45), born in London, England (d. 1946)
- Jul 11 Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
- Jul 12 Jean Hersholt, Danish actor (Heidi, Greed, Men in White, Aryan), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1956)
- Jul 15 Harry Green, English athlete (WR marathon 2:38:16.2 1913), born in Islington, Greater London, England (d. 1934)
- Jul 18 Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr, American lieutenant general of the 10th Army who was killed in action during the Battle of Okinawa, born in Munfordville, Kentucky (d. 1945)
- Jul 23 Arthur Whitten Brown, British aviator (first nonstop airplane crossing of the Atlantic with John W. Alcock), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1948)
- Jul 23 Jan Poortenaar, Dutch painter, etcher and cartoonist, born in Amsterdam (d. 1958)
- Jul 23 Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, Spanish writer (Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards) and diplomat, born in La Coruña, Spain (d. 1978)
- Jul 23 Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (Thermodynamik), born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1976)
- Jul 24 Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (Snow Dusting), born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo (d. 1965)
- Jul 26 Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (Flesh & Devil), born in Gothenburg, Sweden (d. 1965)
- Jul 27 Ernst May, German architect and city planner (New Frankfurt), born in Frankfurt am Main (d. 1970)
- Jul 30 Algot Haquinius, Swedish pianist, and composer, born in Sveg, Sweden (d. 1966)
- Jul 31 Constant Permeke, Flemish painter and statues artist (Sow), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1952)
- Jul 31 Fred Quimby, American film producer (Tom and Jerry), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1965)
- Jul 31 Larry Doyle, American baseball second baseman (NL MVP 1912, NL batting champion 1915; NY Giants), born in Caseyville, Illinois (d. 1974)
- Jul 31 Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American organized crime figure, born in Sicily, Italy (d. 1931)
Famous Deaths
- Jul 4 Pitikwahanapiwiyin [Poundmaker], Plains Cree chief (wrongly imprisoned for treason), dies at about 44 [1]
- Jul 5 Hendrik Gerhard, Dutch tailor, workers' rights activist (founder - Dutch Chapter of International Workingmen's Association), and "father of socialism in the Netherland " (Chairman of Dutch Social-Democratic (SDB) political party), dies at 57
- Jul 5 Henry Gerhard, founder (Social-Democratic Union), dies at 57
- Jul 12 Ferdinand Berthier, French deaf educator (founder of the Société Centrale des Sourds-muets), dies at 82
- Jul 16 Ned Buntline [Edward Zane Carroll Judson], author, dies
- Jul 29 Adolf Muller Sr., Austrian composer of operettas, dies at 84
- Jul 29 Solomon Gazfried, Ukrainian rabbi and author (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch), dies (b. 1804)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Jul 31 Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist (Faust Symphony), dies of heart disease at 74