Historical Events
- Jul 1 Ranji (230) & Newham (153) add 344 for 7th wkt, Sussex v Essex
- Jul 1 US Congress passes the Philippines Government Act, providing that the Philippines be governed by a commission appointed by the President, with consent from the senate; Filipinos are to be treated as citizens of their land, no the USA
Wimbledon Women's Cham
Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Muriel Robb wins her only major title with a 7-5, 6-1 defeat of fellow Briton Charlotte Cooper
Civil Government
Jul 4 Civil government is established in the Philippines by a proclamation from US President Theodore Roosevelt, who offers a general amnesty to insurgents
- Jul 5 All-rounder Monty Noble takes 6 for 52 as Australia wins the one and only cricket Test played at Sheffield's Bramall Lane, England
Sports History
Jul 8 Baltimore manager John McGraw is accused by AL President Ban Johnson of trying to wreck the Orioles & Washington Senators; negotiates his release from the Orioles, having already signed with NY Giants
British History
Jul 11 British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury resigns
Event of Interest
Jul 12 Arthur Balfour succeeds Lord Salisbury, who retired as British Prime Minister on 11 July
- Jul 14 The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta (reconstructed 1912)
- Jul 15 Indian born England Test batsman K S Ranjitsinhji scores 180 before lunch for Sussex v Surrey in a county cricket match at Hastings; finishes unbeaten on 234
- Jul 16 John McGraw officially becomes manager of MLB New York Giants; 30 year tenure begins (1902-32)
- Jul 17 Lord Tennyson, son of the poet, is named to succeed Lord Hopetown, first governor general of Australia
- Jul 17 Orioles forfeit to St Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL
- Jul 23 Dutch Excelsior soccer club is established in Rotterdam (Eerste Divisie winners 1973-4, 78-79, 2005-06)
- Jul 24 In Turkey, the Sultan Abdul-Hamid, under pressure from within the Ottoman Empire, appoints a commission to consider reforms that might pacify Macedonian revolutionaries
Cricket History
Jul 24 Victor Trumper scores a century for Australia before lunch 4th Test Cricket v England
Jeffries KOs Fitzsimmons
Jul 25 3 years after winning the title from English boxer Bob Fitzsimmons, American champion James J. Jeffries repeats the dose with an 8th round KO in San Francisco for the heavyweight crown
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 1 José Luis Sert, Spanish-American architect and urban developer, born in Barcelona (d. 1983)
William Wyler (1902-1981)
Jul 1 American film director (Ben-Hur, Mrs Miniver), born in Mülhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire
- Jul 3 Jack Newman, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (3 Tests; Test selector 1958-63; president NZ Cricket Council 1964-67), born in Brightwater, NZ (d. 1996)
George Murphy (1902-1992)
Jul 4 American politician (US Senator, California), actor and dancer (MGM Parade), born in New Haven, Connecticut
Meyer Lansky (1902-1983)
Jul 4 Polish-born American mobster known as the "Mob's Accountant", born in Grodno, Russian Empire
- Jul 4 Vince Barnett, American actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1977)
- Jul 5 Frank Waters, American writer, born in Colorado Springs, Colorado (d. 1995)
- Jul 5 Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician (Sen-R) and ambassador (West Germany, Vietnam & UN), born in Nahant, Massachusetts (d. 1985)
- Jul 7 James McCartney, father of Beatle Paul McCartney, born in Everton, Liverpool, England (d. 1976)
- Jul 7 Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- Jul 9 Gerhard Pohl, German writer (Crazy Ferdinand), born in Trachenberg, Silesia (d. 1966)
- Jul 10 Günther Weisenborn, German writer and German Resistance fighter, born in Velbert (d. 1969)
- Jul 10 Jacobus Wouterus van Dieren, Dutch biologist (specializing in study of dune formation, particularly on West Frisian Island of Terschelling), born in Amsterdam (d. 1935)
- Jul 10 Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), born in Königshütte, Upper Silesia (d. 1958)
- Jul 11 Leo Collard, Belgian controversial minister of Education (1946/54-58), born in Aulnois, Belgium (d. 1981)
- Jul 11 Samuel Abraham Gouldsmit, Dutch-American physicist (formulated concept of electron spin), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1978)
- Jul 12 Günther Anders, German Jewish philosopher, born in Breslau, German Empire (d. 1992)
- Jul 14 Paul Guilfoyle, American actor and director (White Heat, Cyrano de Bergerac), born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 1961)
- Jul 14 Truman J. Hedding, US vice-admiral (WWII) (d. 1995)
- Jul 15 Jean Rey, Belgian politician (President of the European Commission 1967-70), born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1983)
- Jul 15 Raymond Hackett, American husband of Blanche Sweet and actor (Faithless Lover), born in New York City (d. 1958)
- Jul 16 Alexander Luria, Russian neuropsychologist (Higher Cortical Functions in Man), born in Kazan, Russian Empire (d. 1977)
- Jul 16 Mary Philbin, American silent film actress (Phantom of the Opera), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1993)
- Jul 17 Arnold Pihlak, Estonian soccer forward (44 caps; FK Austria Wien), born in Tallinn, Estonia (d. 1985)
- Jul 17 Christina Stead, Australia, novelist (Man Who Loved Children), born in Rockdale, Australia (d. 1983)
- Jul 18 (Theodore Childress) "Chill" Wills, American pop baritone singer (Avalon Boys), and actor (The Alamo; Rounders), born in Seagoville, Texas (d. 1978)
- Jul 18 Karel Mengelberg, Dutch composer and conductor, born in Utrecht (d. 1984)
- Jul 19 (William) "Buster" Bailey, American jazz clarinetist (WC Handy; King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band; Fletcher Henderson; Noble Sissle; John Kirby), and bandleader, born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1967)
- Jul 19 Gerard Rutten, Dutch film director (Miraculous Life of Willem Parel), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1982)
- Jul 20 Dilys Powell, English film critic and travel writer (Descent from Parnassus), born in Bridgnorth, England (d. 1995)
- Jul 20 Jimmy Kennedy, Irish singer-songwriter ("Teddy Bears' Picnic"; "My Prayer"), born in Omagh, Ireland (d. 1984)
- Jul 22 Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, Russian composer, born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1960)
- Jul 23 Walter Burle Marx, Brazilian pianist and composer, born in São Paulo, Brazil (d. 1990)
- Jul 24 Hans Chemin-Petit, German composer, born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany (d. 1981)
- Jul 24 Nora Swinburne [Leonora Mary Johnson], British actress (Quo Vardis, Dinner at Ritz, River), born in Bath, Somerset (d. 2000)
- Jul 25 Eric Hoffer, American longshoreman and author (The True Believer), born in New York City (d. 1983)
- Jul 26 Gus Aiken, American jazz and blues trumpeter (Jenkins Orphanage Band), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1973)
Karl Popper (1902-1994)
Jul 28 Austrian-British philosopher (The Logic of Scientific Discovery; The Poverty of Historicism), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary
- Jul 28 Kenneth F. Fearing, American poet (Dead Reckoning), born in Oak Park, Illinois (d. 1961)
- Jul 28 Vibart Wight, West Indian cricket batsman (2 Tests; v/c WI first touring team v England 1928), born in Georgetown, British Guiana (d. 1969)
- Jul 31 Sir G O "Gubby" Allen, English cricket all-rounder (25 Tests; refused to bowl 'Bodyline' tactics 1932), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1989)
Famous Weddings
John Jellicoe
Jul 1 British admiral John Jellicoe (42) weds Gwendoline Cayzer at Holy Trinity in London
Famous Deaths
- Jul 4 Swami Vivekananda, Indian Hindu spiritual leader and a key figure in the introduction of Yoga to the Western world, dies while meditating at 39
- Jul 6 Leopoldo Miguez, Brazilian composer, dies at 51
- Jul 9 Mark Antokolsky, Russian sculptor (Peter the Great monument) dies at 58
- Jul 10 Albert, King of Saxony (1873-1902), dies at 74
- Jul 12 Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway), dies at 74
- Jul 14 William Still, African-American abolitionist, businessman and conductor of the Underground Railroad, dies at 80
- Jul 18 John White, American organist and composer based in Germany, dies at 47
- Jul 22 Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal, dies at 79
