Historical Events
- Jul 1 Bronx acquires Hutton Square
The Balloon Expedition to the North Pole
Jul 11 Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen by balloon headed for the North Pole
Report on the Jameson Raid
Jul 16 The South African Committee, investigating the Jameson Raid releases its report finding that it was conducted almost implicitly through the support and encouragement of Cecil Rhodes and the mining houses in the Transvaal
- Jul 17 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon
- Jul 18 Cap Anson is 1st to get 3,000 hits
- Jul 21 Tate Gallery opens in England
- Jul 25 Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories
- Jul 26 37.5 cm rainfall at Jewell, Maryland (state record)
- Jul 27 14.75" (37.5 cm) of rainfall, Jewell, Maryland (state 24-hr record)
- Jul 27 Dutch government of Pierson/Goeman Borgesius resigns
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 5 Paul Ben-Haim [Frankenburger], Israeli composer, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1984)
- Jul 6 Richard Krautheimer, American art historian and Byzantinist, born in Fürth, Germany (d. 1994)
- Jul 7 Anna Luther, American silent screen actress (Sinners in Silk), born in New Jersey (d. 1960)
- Jul 10 Jack "Legs" Diamond, American gangster and bootlegger, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1931)
- Jul 10 John Gilbert [Pringle], American silent film screenwriter, director (Love's Penalty), and actor, known as "The Great Lover" (The Merry Widow The Big Parade; Flesh and the Devil), born in Logan, Utah (d. 1936)
- Jul 10 Karl Plagge, German officer and Nazi Party member who during World War II used his position as a staff officer in the German Army to employ and protect some 1,240 Jews, born in Darmstadt, Germany (d. 1957)
- Jul 10 Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, born in Nutley, New Jersey (d. 1987)
- Jul 11 Bull Connor, American law enforcement official (d. 1973)
- Jul 11 Johnny Marvin, American jazz, pop, and country ukulele player, singer, and vaudevillian, born in Butler Oklahoma Territory (d. 1944)
- Jul 12 Fred Enke, American College basketball coach (University of Arizona 1925–1961, record 522–344), born in Olmsted County, Minnesota (d. 1985)
- Jul 17 Elbert Parr Tuttle, American lawyer, judge and civil rights champion (one of the Fifth Circuit Four), born in Pasadena, California (d. 1996) [1]
- Jul 18 Ernest Eldridge, British auto racer (world land speed record 1924 at Arpajon, France; 1 mile −145.89 mph), born in Hampstead, London (d. 1935)
- Jul 18 Stephen Gill Spottswood, American African Methodist Episcopal Zion bishop, and civil rights leader (NAACP Chairman, 1961-74), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1974)
- Jul 20 Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1950 - isolation and discovery of cortisone ), born in Wloclawek, Poland (d. 1996) [1]
Amelia Earhart (1897-1939)
Jul 24 American aviator (1st woman to fly solo across the Atlantic), born in Atchison, Kansas
- Jul 24 Elmar Berkovich, Hungarian-Dutch industrial designer (Eindhoven Theatre) (d. 1967)
- Jul 24 Karl von Mechow, German writer (Auf Dem Wege, Vorsommer), born in Bonn, Germany (d. 1960)
- Jul 25 Hermann Ambrosius, German composer, born in Hamburg, Germany Empire (d. 1983)
- Jul 26 Paul Gallico, American novelist (The Snow Goose), born in New York City (d. 1976)
- Jul 27 Biz Mackey, American Baseball HOF catcher (5 × East-West All-Star Game; NgL World Series 1925 Hilldale Daisies, 1946 Newark Eagles), born in Eagle Pass, Texas (d. 1965)
- Jul 28 Emmy Arbous [Emilia J Henke], Dutch actress (Little Rascal), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1954)
- Jul 29 Neil Ritchie, British general (Eighth Army commander WWII) (d. 1983), born in British Guiana (d. 1983)
- Jul 30 Jacques de Kadt, Dutch politician and writer (Fascism is War!), born in Oss, Netherlands (d. 1988)
Famous Deaths
- Jul 12 Félix Godefroid, Belgian harpist and composer, dies at 78
- Jul 14 John Franklin Farnsworth, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 77
- Jul 16 Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert, dies at 1897
- Jul 20 Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820)
- Jul 20 Philip Dale Roddey, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 71
- Jul 25 Athol Estes Porter, American wife of writer O. Henry, dies of tuberculosis at about 29
- Jul 29 Joost Gerard Kist, Dutch lawyer and president of High Council (1885-97), dies at 74
