Historical Events
- Jul 1 SDAP wins 4 chairs in Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
- Jul 1 Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 3 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen of France takes her 6th Wimbledon singles title with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Briton Joan Fry
- Jul 4 MLB New York Yankees Herb Pennock beats Philadelphia A's Lefty Grove 1-0 in 15 innings in first game of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium
- Jul 4 The former Dreyfus Hotel collapses in Boston, Massachusetts, killing 44 of an estimated 200 patrons dancing in the second floor Pickwick Club
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 4 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In an all-French final René Lacoste beats Jean Borotra 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 8-6
Event of Interest
Jul 10 Jury selection takes place in US John T. Scopes evolution trial
- Jul 10 Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
- Jul 10 USSR's official news agency TASS forms
Appointment of Interest
Jul 11 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands names Hendrikus Colijn of the Anti-Revolutionary Party as head of Dutch government
Baseball Record
Jul 17 Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
Mein Kampf
Jul 18 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf, original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice"
Test of Time for the Date of Creation
Jul 21 John T. Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in the “Scopes monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, fined $100 and costs
Baseball Trade
Jul 22 NY Yankees buy future Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Leo Durocher from Hartford Senators (Eastern League)
Lou Gehrig 1st Grand Slam
Jul 23 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers
- Jul 31 Last allied occupying troops leave German Ruhr region
- Jul 31 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in Britain
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 1 Art McNally, American Pro Football HOF referee and executive (NFL Head of Officiating 1968-91), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2023)
- Jul 1 Farley Granger, American actor (Arnold, Rope, Deathmask), born in San Jose, California (d. 2011)
- Jul 1 Frank Lowson, England cricket batsman (7 Tests, 2 x 50s; Yorkshire CCC), born in Bradford, England (d. 1984)
- Jul 2 Marvin Rainwater, American country singer (Ozark Jubilee), born in Wichita, Kansas (d. 2013)
Medgar Evers (1925-1963)
Jul 2 American civil rights activist and NAACP official who was assassinated, born in Decatur, Mississippi
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
Jul 2 Congolese politician and independence leader who was the 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960), born in Onalua, Belgian Congo
- Jul 3 Michael Oliver, British cardiologist (linked cholesterol with coronary artery disease), born in Borth, Wales (d. 2015)
Bill Haley (1925-1981)
Jul 6 American rock vocalist known as the father of Rock 'n' Roll ("Rock Around the Clock"), born in Highland Park, Michigan
- Jul 6 Huub Jacobse, Dutch politician and member of Dutch 2nd chamber (Liberal), born in Zeist, Netherlands (d. 1993)
- Jul 6 Merv Griffin, American TV host (Merv Griffin Show), born in San Mateo, California (d. 2007)
- Jul 6 Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (Mother and Son), born in Maitland (d. 2002)
- Jul 7 Wally Phillips, American radio personality (d. 2008)
- Jul 7 Yvonne Mitchell, English actress and writer (Johnny Nobody, Genghis Khan), born in London, England (d. 1979)
- Jul 9 Alan Dale, American pop singer ("Cheery Pink and Apple Blossom White"), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2002)
- Jul 9 Borislav Stanković, Serbian Basketball Hall of Fame administrator (International Basketball Federation secretary general 1976-2002), born in Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina (d. 2020)
- Jul 9 Guru Dutt [Vasanth Padukone], Indian Bollywood actor, regarded as one of the greatest film directors of all time (Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool), born in Bangalore, Kingdom of Mysore (d. 1964)
- Jul 9 Peter Ludwig, German businessman and art collector, born in Koblenz, Germany (d. 1996)
- Jul 9 Tom Luken, American politician (U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 2018)
Mahathir bin Mohamad (98 years old)
Jul 10 Prime Minister of Malaysia (1981-2003 and 2018-20), born in Alor Setar, Malaysia
- Jul 11 Mattiwilda Dobbs, American soprano, born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2015)
- Jul 11 Nicolai Gedda, Swedish opera tenor (Opera Two to Six), born in Stockholm (d. 2017)
- Jul 11 Ruth Niehaus, German actress, born in Krefeld, Germany (d. 1994)
- Jul 12 Roger Smith, CEO (General Motors), born in Colombus, Ohio (d. 2007)
- Jul 12 Yasushi Akutagawa, Japanese composer (Orpheus of Hiroshima, Ellora Symphony), born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1989)
- Jul 13 Hilary Grover Barratt Brown, British conservationist (d. 1997)
- Jul 14 Luis Antonio Escobar, Colombian composer and musicologist, born in Villapinzón, Cundinamarca, Colombia (d. 1993)
- Jul 15 Phil Carey, American actor (One Life to Live), born in Hackensack, New York (d. 2009)
- Jul 15 [Donn Alan] DA Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (Don't Look Back), born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 2019)
- Jul 16 Cal Tjader, American Latin jazz vibraphonist, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1982)
- Jul 16 Phillip Pine, American actor (Set-Up, Under the Ground), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 2006)
- Jul 18 Glen Wood, American auto racer, team owner (Wood Bros Racing), born in Stuart, Virginia (d. 2019)
- Jul 18 Hubert Doggart, English cricket batsman (2 Tests; Cambridge University CC, Sussex CCC) and executive (President MCC 1981–82), born in London, England (d. 2018)
- Jul 18 Jaime de Mora y Aragón, Spanish actor and publicist (Last Judgement), born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1995)
- Jul 18 Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (Olympic gold 80m hurdles 1952, 56; 4 x 100m relay 1956), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 2004)
- Jul 19 Sue Thompson [Eva Sue McKee], American pop and country music singer ("Sad Movies (Make Me Cry")), born in Nevada, Missouri (d. 2021)
- Jul 20 Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher (The Wretched of the Earth), born in Martinique, France (d. 1961)
- Jul 20 Jacques Delors, French economist, and chairman European Committee (1985-95), born in Paris, France
- Jul 21 Al Checco, American actor (Extreme Close-up), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2015)
- Jul 21 Johnny Peirson, Canadian ice hockey right wing (NHL All Star 1950, 51; Boston Bruins) and broadcaster (WBZ and WSBK), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba (d. 2021)
- Jul 21 Lovro Zupanovic, Croatian composer, born in Šibenik, Croatia (d. 2004)
- Jul 23 Gloria DeHaven, American musical actress (Step Lively), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2016)
- Jul 23 Pierre Baugniet, Belgian pairs ice skater (Olympic gold 1948), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1981)
- Jul 24 Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (Gran Sol, Caballo the Pica), born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (d. 1969)
- Jul 25 (William) "Benny" Benjamin, American session drummer (Motown's Funk Brothers), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 1969) [1]
- Jul 25 Jerry Paris, American director (Happy Days) and actor (Dick Van Dyke Show - "Jerry"), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1986)
- Jul 25 Scotch Taylor, South African cricket batsman (1 Test; Transvaal) and executive (president South African Hockey Union), born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 2004)
- Jul 26 Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician, born in Częstochowa, Poland (d. 2000)
- Jul 28 Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American scientist, (1976 Nobel laureate for Physiology or Medicine for work on Hepatitis B), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2011)
- Jul 28 Bruce Matthews, Australian newspaper executive who worked for Rupert Murdoch, born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 1996) [1]
- Jul 28 Larry Pruden, New Zealand composer, born in New Plymouth, New Zealand (d. 1982)
- Jul 29 Arnie Ferrin, American College Basketball HOF guard (NCAA C'ship, Final Four MOB 1944 Uni of Utah; NBA C'ship Minneapolis Lakers 1949, 50), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2022)
- Jul 29 Mikis Theodorakis, Greek classical and film music composer (Zorba the Greek; Mauthausen Trilogy; Serpico), born on the island of Chios, Greece (d. 2021)
Ted Lindsay (1925-2019)
Jul 29 Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame left wing (Art Ross Trophy 1950, NHL Players Association pioneer), born in Renfrew, Ontario
- Jul 30 Antoine Duhamel, French composer, born in Valmondois, Val-d'Oise, France (d. 2014)
- Jul 30 Jacques Sernas [Jokūbas Bernardas Šernas], Lithuanian actor (La Dolce Vita, Helen of Troy), born in Kaunas, Lithuania (d. 2015)
Famous Weddings
Margaret Mitchell
Jul 4 American "Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell (24) weds 2nd husband John Marsh (29) in the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, until her death in 1949
Walt Disney
Jul 13 Film producer and co-founder of Walt Disney Productions Walt Disney (23) weds Lillian Bounds (26) at Lewiston's Episcopal Church of the Nativity in Lewiston, Idaho
Famous Deaths
- Jul 1 Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (Music In The Shape OF A Pear; Dreamy Fish), dies at 59
- Jul 1 Jan P. Veth, Dutch painter, etcher, lithographer and art historian, dies at 61
- Jul 4 Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Catholic beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1990, dies of polio at 24
- Jul 5 Hjalmar Borgstrom, composer, dies at 61
- Jul 7 Clarence Hudson White, American photographer, dies at 54
- Jul 13 Gerben Postma, Frisian-Dutch poet (Swealtsjeblommen - Swallowtail Flowers) and lexicograper (Lytse Fryske Spraekleare - Little Frisian Language Learner), dies at 78
- Jul 14 Pancho Villa [Francisco Guilledo], Filipino world boxing champion, dies at 23
- Jul 18 Louis Nazaire Bégin, Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1840)
- Jul 26 Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver, dies at 36
- Jul 26 Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (Begriffsschrift), dies at 76
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
Jul 26 American orator and statesman known as "The Great Commoner", dies at 65
