Historical Events
Wimbledon Men's Championship
Jul 4 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Laurence Doherty beats Frank Riseley 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 for his 5th straight Wimbledon singles title
- Jul 5 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats May Sutton 6-3, 9-7 for her 3rd of 7 Wimbledon singles titles
Murder of Interest
Jul 11 The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy"
Event of Interest
Jul 12 Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France
- Jul 15 Republic museum opens Rembrandt hall in Amsterdam
Election of Interest
Jul 17 Clement Armand Fallieres is elected President of France, but power lies with Georges Clémenceau
Famous Birthdays
Estée Lauder (1906-2004)
Jul 1 American entrepreneur (Estée Lauder cosmetics), born in Corona, Queens, New York City
- Jul 2 Alan Webb, British stage and screen character actor (King Lear; Taming of Shrew; Challenge of Lassie), born in York, England (d. 1982)
- Jul 2 Hans Bethe, German-American quantum physicist (Nobel 1967), born in Strassburg, Germany (d. 2005)
- Jul 2 Robert Levine Sanders, American composer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1974)
- Jul 3 F. Gwendolen Rees, Welsh zoologist and parasitologist, born in Abercynon, Wales (d. 1994)
- Jul 3 Francis Steegmuller, American biographer (Cocteau), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1994)
- Jul 3 George Sanders, Russian actor (All About Eve-Academy Award 1950), born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1972)
- Jul 3 Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer known as "The World's Tallest Man", born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1952)
- Jul 4 Vincent Joseph Schaefer, American chemist and meteorologist (cloud seeding), born in Schenectady, New York (d. 1993)
- Jul 6 Elisabeth Lutyens, English composer, born in London (d. 1983)
- Jul 7 Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (The Third Man), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1985)
Satchel Paige (1906-1982)
Jul 7 American Baseball HOF pitcher (6 x Negro League, 2 x MLB All Star; World Series 1948 Cleveland Indians), born in Mobile, Alabama
- Jul 7 William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d. 1970)
- Jul 8 Philip Johnson, American architect (International and Postmodern Style: 1st Pritzker Prize - 1979), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2005)
- Jul 9 Beene Dubbelboer, Dutch writer (Secret Resistance), born in Tweede Exloërmond, Netherlands (d. 1982)
- Jul 9 Joe Darensbourg, Cajun-American dixieland-style jazz clarinetist (Jelly Roll Morton; Louis Armstrong), born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (d. 1985)
- Jul 9 Walter Sande, American actor (To Have and Have Not), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1971)
- Jul 11 Harry Von Zell, American radio announcer and actor (The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1981)
- Jul 11 Herbert Wehner, German politician (Member of the Bundestag, 1949-83; chairman of the SPD, 1969-83), born in Dresden, Germany (d. 1990)
- Jul 13 Harry Sosnik, American orchestra leader (Jack Carter Show, Your Hit Parade), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1996)
- Jul 14 Arthur Hutchings, English composer and musicologist, born in Sunbury-on-Thames, England (d. 1989)
- Jul 14 Tom Carvel, Greek born American ice cream mogul (Carvels), born in Athens, Greece (d. 1990)
- Jul 15 Edmund Davies, British judge (as Lord Justice of appeal, tried the Great Train Robbers, Edmund-Davies police pay review), born in Mountain Ash, Wales (d. 1992)
- Jul 15 Rudolf "Rudi" Uhlenhaut, German automotive engineer and test driver (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1989)
- Jul 16 Vincent Sherman, American film director (Mr. Skeffington), born in Vienna, Georgia (d. 2006)
- Jul 17 John Carroll [Julian LaFaye], American actor (Flying Tigers, Go West), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1979)
- Jul 18 Belle Stewart, Scottish traditional singer, born in Caputh, Blairgowrie, Scotland (d. 1997)
- Jul 18 Clifford Odets, American dramatist (1961 Award of Merit-Golden Boy), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1963)
- Jul 18 S. I. Hayakawa, U.S. senator from California (1977–83) and educator (Language in Action), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 1992)
- Jul 19 Klaus Egge, Norwegian composer (Noregsonger), born in Gransherad, Telemark, Norway (d. 1979)
- Jul 19 Wim van Doorne, Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF Trucks), born in Griendtsveen, Limburg, Netherlands (d. 1978)
- Jul 21 Daniel Ayala Perez, Mexican composer and violinist, born in Abalá, Yucatán (d. 1975)
- Jul 23 Chandra Sekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (Hindustan Socialist Republican Army), born in Bhavra, Central India Agency, British India (d. 1931)
- Jul 23 Clancy Cooper, American actor (Enchanted Forest, Girls in Chains), born in Boise, Idaho (d. 1975)
- Jul 23 Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss organic chemist (Nobel 1975), born in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary (d. 1998)
- Jul 23 Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist, born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1980)
- Jul 26 Armando José Fernandes, Portuguese neoclassical composer, born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1983)
- Jul 26 Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1943)
- Jul 27 Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist, born in La Grande, Oregon (d. 1999)
- Jul 27 Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and political activist, born in Minsk, Russian Empire (d. 2000)
Leo Durocher (1906-1991)
Jul 27 American Baseball HOF shortstop (MLB All Star 1936, 38, 40; World Series 1928, 34; NY Yankees, St.Louis Cardinals), manager (World Series 1954 NY Giants) and coach (World Series 1963 LA Dodgers), born in West Springfield, Massachusetts
- Jul 28 Gottlob Frick, German opera singer, born in Ölbronn-Dürrn (d. 1994)
- Jul 29 Thelma Todd [Alison Loyd], American actress (Dangerous Female), born in Lawrence, Massachusetts (d. 1935)
- Jul 30 Ľudovít Rajter, Slovak composer and conductor, born in Pezinok, Kingdom of Hungary (d. 2000)
- Jul 30 Serafin Pro, Cuban composer, born in La Habana (d. 1977)
Famous Weddings
Joseph Stalin
Jul 28 Future dictator of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin (27) weds Ekaterina Svanidze (21) at St. David's Church in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia)
Famous Deaths
- Jul 5 Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist (optics), committed suicide at 42
- Jul 12 Henrique Alves de Mesquita, Brazilian composer, conductor and educator, dies at 70
- Jul 15 William Painter, American inventor (crown cork bottle cap and opener), dies at 67
- Jul 19 Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic, dies at 57
- Jul 29 Alexandre Luigini, French violinist, conductor (Lyon Grand Théâtre, 1877-97; Opéra-Comique Paris, 1897-1906), composer (Ballet égyptien), and pedagogue, dies at 56
