Historical Events
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 17 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Joshua Pim retains his title beating 2-time champion Wilfred Baddeley 10-8, 6-2, 8-6
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 17 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Blanche Bingley-Hillyard beats Edith Austin 6-1 6-1 for her 3rd of 6 Wimbledon singles titles
- Jul 20 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 4 Henry "Doc" Carlson, American Basketball Hall of Fame collegiate coach (University of Pittsburgh, 1922-53: 367–248 [.597]), originated figure 8 play, born in Murray City, Ohio (d. 1964)
- Jul 9 Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist (Nobel Prize 1978), born in Kronshtadt, Russian Empire (d. 1984)
- Jul 10 Frank Zybach, American farmer and inventor of center-pivot irrigation, US's most widely used irrigation system, born in Lafayette, Oregon (d. 1980) [1]
- Jul 10 Jimmy McHugh, American composer ("I Can't Give You Anything But Love"; "On the Sunny Side of the Street"; "I'm In The Mood For Love"), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1969)
- Jul 11 Walter Wanger [Feuchtwanger], American film producer (Stagecoach, Cleopatra), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1968)
- Jul 13 Isaak Babel, Russian writer, playwright and journalist (Red Calvary) [OS Jun 30], born in Odessa, Russian Empire (d. 1940)
- Jul 15 Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
- Jul 17 Georges Lemaître, Belgian Catholic Priest, astronomer and physics professor, who initially proposed the universe expansion and big-bang theories, born in Charleroi, Belgium (d. 1966)
- Jul 18 Bernard Wagenaar, Dutch-American composer (3 Songs for Chinese), born in Arnherm, Netherlands (d. 1971)
- Jul 19 Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician, born in Kondrovo, Kaluga Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1959)
- Jul 19 Joris van Severen, Flemish politician and founder of the Alliance of Dietsche National Solidarists, born in Wakken, Belgium (d. 1940)
- Jul 19 Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan and President of Pakistan Muslim League, born in Dacca, Bengal, British India (d. 1964)
- Jul 19 Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor of the microwave, born in Howland, Maine (d. 1970) [1]
- Jul 22 Oskar Maria Graf, German-American writer (Wir sind Gefangene (We Are Prisoners)), born in Berg, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire (d. 1967)
- Jul 23 Arthur Treacher, British character actor (The Little Princess; Thank You, Jeeves), TV announcer/sidekick (The Merv Griffin Show, 1965-70), and fish and chips restaurant namesake, born in Brighton, England (d. 1975)
- Jul 24 Walter Schulthess, Swiss composer, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1971)
Gavrilo Princip (1894-1918)
Jul 25 Bosnian-Serb assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, born in Obljaj, Bosnia
- Jul 25 Walter Brennan, American actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point), born in Lynn, Massachusetts (d. 1974)
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
Jul 26 English author (Brave New World, Island), born in Godalming, Surrey
- Jul 26 Lodewijk Rogier, Dutch historian (Henric van Veldeken), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1974)
- Jul 27 Gerald F. Bogan, U.S. Navy aviator and vice admiral who served in World War I & II, born in Mackinac Island, Michigan (d. 1973)
- Jul 30 Blanche Knopf, American publisher, president of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and wife of publisher Alfred A. Knopf Sr., born in New York City (d. 1966)
- Jul 30 Carl Snavely, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (Bucknell, North Carolina, Cornell 180–96–16), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1975)
- Jul 31 Fred Keenor, Welsh footballer, born in Cardiff, Wales (d. 1972)
- Jul 31 Roy Bargy, American pianist and composer (Jimmy Durante Show), born in Newaygo, Michigan (d. 1974)
Famous Deaths
- Jul 1 Julius van Zuylen van Nyevelt, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 77
- Jul 5 Austen Henry Layard, British archaeologist and diplomat (work in Mesopotamia including rediscovery of Nineveh), dies at 77
- Jul 5 Betty Paoli, writer, dies
- Jul 8 Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, Russian composer, dies at 67
- Jul 13 Juventino Rosas, composer, dies at 26
- Jul 17 Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist, dies at 83
- Jul 18 Leconte de Lisle, French poet and writer, dies at 75
- Jul 30 Walter Pater, English aesthete and writer (Plato & Platonism), dies of rheumatic fever at 54
