Historical Events
- Jul 1 The Orange River Colony, known as the Orange Free State, is granted self-government by the British
- Jul 2 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Evelyn Sears beats fellow American Carrie Neely 6-3, 6-2 for her lone major singles title
- Jul 3 Pope decree forbids modernization of theology
Burns KOs Squires
Jul 4 Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires of Australia in round 1 in Colma, California, his 6th title defense
Wimbledon Men's Championship
Jul 4 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Australian Norman Brookes becomes the first non-Englishman and left-hander to win Wimbledon beating Arthur Gore 6-4, 6-2, 6-2
- Jul 5 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: American May Sutton avenges previous year's defeat, beating Dorothea Chambers 6-1, 6-4
- Jul 6 Tom Reece takes 5 weeks to compile the highest recorded billiards break in a match (499,135) in London, his 'cradle' cannon method is soon banned
- Jul 8 Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
- Jul 18 Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1907" premieres in NYC
- Jul 18 French troops occupy Casablanca
- Jul 19 Under pressure from the Japanese, the Emperor of Korea abdicates in favor of his son, a figurehead
- Jul 20 A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more
- Jul 23 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: Norman Brookes beats Herbert Roper Barrett 6-2, 6-0, 6-3 to give Australasia a 3-2 win over British Isles
- Jul 25 Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan
- Jul 29 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France
Event of Interest
Jul 29 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
- Jul 30 Russia and Japan sign an agreement guaranteeing freedom of China while recognizing each other's special interests
- Jul 30 Starting today, the French bombard Casablanca and land troops to occupy the Atlantic-coast region of Morocco after attacks on foreigners
- Jul 30 The Filipinos elect their first legislature; it will meet on 16 October
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 1 Bill Stern, American sportscaster (first televised college football game), born in Rochester, New York (d. 1971)
- Jul 2 Eppo Doeve, Dutch cartoonist and painter, born in Bandung, Indonesia (d. 1981)
- Jul 2 Leo O'Brien, Australian cricket batsman (5 Tests; Victoria), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 1997)
- Jul 3 Arthur Staal, Dutch architect (Group '32), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1993)
- Jul 3 Gene Gutche, German-born composer, born in Berlin (d. 2000)
- Jul 4 Elliott Sullivan, American actor (The Persuaders!, Fury Below, Sergeant), born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 1974)
- Jul 4 Gordon Griffith, American silent and sound screen child actor, first to portray Tarzan on film (as Young Tarzan in "Tarzan of the Apes" (1918)), assistant director, and film producer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1958)
- Jul 4 Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1996)
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
Jul 6 Mexican painter who explored questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender and race in Mexican society, born in Coyoacán, Mexico City
- Jul 7 Helene Johnson, American Harlem Renaissance poet, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1995)
- Jul 7 Robert A. Heinlein, American sci-fi author (4 Hugos, Red Planet), born in Butler, Missouri (d. 1988)
- Jul 8 George W. Romney, American politician (Gov-R-Michigan, US Secretary of HUD 1969-73), born in Colonia Dublán, Mexico (d. 1995)
- Jul 8 Kishio Hirao, Japanese composer, born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1953)
- Jul 13 Charles H. Zimmerman, American aeronautical engineer (NACA, NASA), born in Olathe, Kansas (d. 1996)
- Jul 14 (Henry) "Rubberlegs" Williams, American vaudeville dancer, and blues and jazz singer, born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1962)
- Jul 14 Annabella [Suzanne G Charpentier], French actress (Dinner at Ritz), born in Paris, France (d. 1996)
- Jul 16 Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (Dynasty II, Big Valley, Thorn Birds), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1990)
- Jul 16 Frances Horwich, American educator and television personality (Ding Dong School), born in Ottawa, Ohio (d. 2001)
Orville Redenbacher (1907-1995)
Jul 16 American popcorn magnate (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popcorn), born in Brazil, Indiana
- Jul 18 Yvonne Desportes, French composer, born in Coburg, Germany (d. 1993)
- Jul 19 Günter Bialas, German composer and music educator, born in Bielschowitz, Prussian Silesia (now Bielszowice, Poland) (d. 1995)
- Jul 19 Isabel Jewell, American actress (Gone With The Wind), born in Shoshoni, Wyoming (d. 1972)
- Jul 22 Perry Botkin, American jazz and session guitarist, banjo player, composer, and musical director (Bing Crosby), born in Springfield, Ohio (d. 1973)
- Jul 22 Zubir Said, Singaporean composer (Singapore's national anthem), born in Fort De Kock, Dutch East Indies (now Bukittinggi, Indonesia) (d. 1987)
- Jul 23 Elspeth Huxley, English author (The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard), born in London (d. 1997)
- Jul 24 Hughie Charles, English songwriter and impresario, born in Manchester, England (d. 1995)
- Jul 25 (Cornelius) "Johnny" Hodges, American jazz alto saxophonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1970)
- Jul 26 Gioconda de Vito, Italian-British violinist, born in Martina Franca, Italy (d. 1994)
- Jul 26 István Pelle, Hungarian gymnast (Olympic gold pommel horse & floor exercise 1932), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1986)
- Jul 27 Denis Rickett, British civil servant and private secretary to Clement Attlee, born in Hawthorns, Overton Road, Sutton, Surrey (d. 1997)
- Jul 27 Mollie Phillips, British figure skater and judge (first woman to referee a world championship), born in London, England (d. 1994)
- Jul 27 Ross Alexander, American stage and film actor (Boulder Dam, Captain Blood), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1937)
- Jul 28 Earl Tupper, American-born Costa Rican inventor and businessman (Tupperware), born in Berlin, New Hampshire (d. 1983)
- Jul 29 Melvin Belli, American lawyer known as "The King of Torts" and "Melvin Bellicose", born in Sonora, California (d. 1996)
Famous Deaths
- Jul 5 Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahler's eldest daughter, dies of scarlet fever at 5
- Jul 6 August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German Linguist, Theologian (b. 1826)
- Jul 7 James McGranahan, American composer, dies at 67
- Jul 14 William Perkin, English chemist and inventor (discovered aniline dyes), dies at 69
- Jul 15 Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer considered a national heroine in China, executed after a failed uprising at 32
- Jul 18 Ted Pooley, English cricket wicket-keeper (1st class records: 8 stumpings in a match 1878; 12 dismissals in a match 1868; Surrey CCC, Middlesex CCC), dies at 65
- Jul 19 Hector Malot, French writer (Alone in the World), dies at 77
- Jul 27 Edward Pettus, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 86
- Jul 28 James Henry Lane, US Brigadier General during Civil War (Confederate) and professor, dies at 74
