Historical Events
- Jul 1 Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers is suspended for 20 games and fined $50k for shoving a cameraman - sentence later overturned
Live 8 Concert
Jul 2 10 Live 8 concerts held around the world organised by Bob Geldof to raise awareness of poverty
- Jul 2 Live 8 concert at Chateau de Versailles, Paris, France; performers include Andrea Bocelli, Dido, Sahakira, Youssou N'Dour, The Cure, and Zucchero
- Jul 2 Live 8 concert at Circus Maximus, Rome, Italy; performers include Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, and Zucchero
- Jul 2 Live 8 concert at Hyde Park, London, England; performers include Paul McCartney, U2, Coldplay, Elton John, Sting, Madonna, The Who, Pink Floyd, and R.E.M.
- Jul 2 Live 8 concert at Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan; performers include Björk, Good Charlotte, Dreams Come True, Do As Infinity, and McFly
- Jul 2 Live 8 concert at Park Place in Barrie, Ontario, Canada; performers include Neil Young, Bryan Adams; The Tragically Hip; Motley Crue; Gordon Lightfoot; Deep Purple, and Bruce Cockburn
- Jul 2 Live 8 concert at the Eden Project, Cornwall, England; performers included Daara J, Thomas Mapfumo, Youssou N'Dour, Angelique Kidjo, and Coco Mbassi
- Jul 2 Live 8 concert at the Victory Column in Tiergarten Park, Berlin, Germany; performers include Green Day; a-ha; Brian Wilson, Roxy Music, Audioslave, and Herbert Grönemeyer
- Jul 2 Live 8 concert in front of Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; performers include Stevie Wonder, Bon Jovi, The Black-Eyed Peas, Keith Urban, Dave Matthews Band, Maroon 5, and Linkin Park
- Jul 2 Live 8 concert In Mercy Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa; performers include Lucky Dube, Mahotella Queens, Orchestra Baobob, Zola, and Vusi Mahlasela
- Jul 2 Live 8 concert in Red Square, Moscow, Russia; performers include Pet Shop Boys, Agata Kristi, Splean, and Red Elvises
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Venus Williams beats fellow American Lindsay Davenport 4-6, 7-6, 9-7 for the 3rd of her 5 Wimbledon singles titles
- Jul 3 The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 3 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roger Federer makes it 3 straight Wimbledon titles beating American Andy Roddick 6-2, 7-6, 6-4
- Jul 4 The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1
- Jul 6 IOC awards London the right to host the Games of the XXX Olympiad in 2012 with a vote of 54 to 50 over Paris on the fourth and final ballot.
- Jul 6 Live 8 concert at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland; performers include Wet Wet Wet, Annie Lennox, James Brown, the Corrs, and The Proclaimers
- Jul 7 Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike London's public transport system during the morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 700
- Jul 7 Influenced by global Live 8 concerts, G8 leaders pledge to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010
The Fantastic Four
Jul 8 Marvel superhero film "The Fantastic Four" starring Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis premieres
- Jul 10 Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage
Senior Players Championship
Jul 10 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Michigan: Peter Jacobsen wins his second Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke from Hale Irwin
Wedding Crashers
Jul 15 "Wedding Crashers", starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, premieres
Appointment of Interest
Jul 15 After declining an offer to remain with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Mike Babcock is named head coach of the Detroit Red Wings
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Jul 16 "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", the 6th book in the series by J. K. Rowling, is published worldwide. 9 million copies sell in 24 hrs
ESPY Awards
Jul 17 13th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Annika Sörenstam win
British Golf Open
Jul 17 British Open Golf, St. Andrews: Tiger Woods wins his 10th major title wire-to-wire by 5 shots from Scotsman Colin Montgomerie
- Jul 17 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Glen Arbour GC: South Korean Meena Lee wins by 1 from Australian Katherine Hull
- Jul 20 Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent
- Jul 21 Four terrorist bombers target London's public transportation system, exactly two weeks after the July 7 bombings. All four bombs fail to detonate leading to the capture of all the bombers.
- Jul 22 Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers. See 7 July 2005 London bombings and 21 July 2005 London bombings
- Jul 23 Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people
- Jul 24 92nd Tour de France: no winner; Lance Armstrong retires after winning a record seventh consecutive victory but disqualified in 2012 for doping
Senior Open Championship
Jul 24 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Aberdeen: Tom Watson wins his second Open Senior title in a playoff with Ireland's Des Smyth
- Jul 26 Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days
- Jul 26 Samir Geagea, the Lebanese Forces (LF) leader, is released after spending 11 years in a solitary confinement; his release came after Syria ends occupation of Lebanon
- Jul 26 Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission - Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003
- Jul 27 STS-114: NASA grounds the Space shuttle, pending an investigation of the external tank's continued foam-shedding problem
- Jul 28 A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
- Jul 28 The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland
- Jul 29 Astronomers announce their discovery of dwarf planet Eris
- Jul 31 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: Jeong Jang of South Korea leads wire-to-wire to win her first LPGA event and lone major title, 4 strokes ahead of Sophie Gustafson
- Jul 31 US Senior Open Men's Golf, NCR CC: Allen Doyle wins by 1 stroke ahead of Loren Roberts and D. A. Weibring for his 3rd Champions Tour major title
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 12 Issac Ryan Brown, American actor (Raven's Home), born in Detroit, Michigan
Famous Weddings
- Jul 9 American "Beverly Hills 90210" actress Tiffani Thiessen (31) weds American actor and author Brady Smith (33) at a private estate in Montecito, California
- Jul 9 American "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" actress Diane Neal (28) weds Irish "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" actor Marcus Fitzgerald on a beach in the Dominican Republic; divorce in 2014
Lennox Lewis
Jul 15 Heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis (39) weds former Miss Jamaica runner-up Violet Chang at William Knibb Memorial Baptist Church in Falmouth, Jamaica
Sandra Bullock
Jul 16 Academy award-winning actress Sandra Bullock (40) weds "Monster Garage" host Jesse James (36) at sunset on the grounds of The Folded Hills Ranch in Gaviota, California
- Jul 17 Actor Ethan Embry (27) weds actress Sunny Mabrey (29)
- Jul 21 Tennis star player Lleyton Hewitt (24) weds "Home and Away" TV actress Bec Cartwright (22) at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia
- Jul 30 Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph (49) weds Pennsylvania Senator Vincent Hughes (48) at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles
Famous Deaths
- Jul 1 Gus Bodnar, Canadian NHL center (NHL record 3 assists in 21 seconds 1952), dies at 82
Luther Vandross (1951-2005)
Jul 1 American soul singer, songwriter ("Endless Love"; "Dance With My Father"), and vocal arranger (David Bowie - Young Americans), dies of a heart attack at 54
- Jul 1 Renaldo "Obie" Benson, American singer (The Four Tops - "I Can't Help Myself"), and songwriter ("What's Going On"), dies from lung cancer at 69
- Jul 2 Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (North by Northwest), dies at 89
- Jul 3 Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director, dies at 90
- Jul 3 Gaylord Nelson, American politician (founder of Earth Day, dies at 89
- Jul 4 Hank Stram, American Pro Football Hall of Fame coach (KC Chiefs Super Bowl 1970), dies of diabetes complications at 82
- Jul 4 Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author and activist (Das Spiegellabyrinth), dies at 90
- Jul 4 John Stubblefield, American jazz saxophonist, flute and oboe player (Mingus Big Band), dies at 60
- Jul 4 June Haver [Stovenour], American actress (Dolly Sisters, Girl Next Door), dies at 79
- Jul 5 Baloo Gupte, Indian cricket leg spin bowler (3 Tests, 3 wickets; Bombay, Bengal, Railways), dies at 70
- Jul 5 James Stockdale, U.S. Navy vice admiral (b. 1923)
- Jul 5 Shirley Goodman, American R&B and disco singer (Shirley & Lee - "Feels So Good"; Shirley & Company - "Shame, Shame, Shame"), dies at 69
- Jul 6 Bruno Augenstein, German-born mathematician (b. 1923)
- Jul 6 Claude Simon, Malagasy-French writer, (Nobel Prize Literature 1985), dies at 91
- Jul 6 Ed McBain [Evan Hunter], American writer (Blackboard Jungle), dies at 78
- Jul 6 L. Patrick Gray III, American lawyer and bureaucrat (Acting FBI Director, 1972-73), dies at 88
- Jul 6 Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
- Jul 7 Al Downing, American rockabilly piano player and singer (Big Al & The Chartbusters), dies at 65 [1]
- Jul 9 Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
- Jul 9 Kevin Hagen, American actor (Little House on the Prairie), dies at 77
- Jul 9 Rafiq Zakaria, Indian politician and Islamic religious cleric, dies at 86
- Jul 9 Yevgeny Grishin, Russian speed skater (4 Olympic gold 1956, 60), dies at 74
- Jul 10 A. J. Quinnell [Philip Nicholson], English writer (Man on Fire), dies at 65
- Jul 10 Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
- Jul 10 Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
- Jul 10 Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin, airshow performers
- Jul 10 Richard Eastham, American actor (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Falcon Crest), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 89
- Jul 10 Roland Bengtsson, Swedish guitarist, lute player and double bassist, dies at 88
- Jul 11 Frances Langford, American singer (I'm In The Mood For Love), entertainer (Armed Forces Hour; USO tours), actress (All-American Co-Ed; Born To Dance), and philanthropist, dies of congestive heart failure at 92
- Jul 11 Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
- Jul 11 Jesús Iglesias, Argentine professional racing driver (b. 1922)
- Jul 12 John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, British businessman and CEO of British Airways after its privatization, dies at 87
- Jul 13 Mickey Owen, American baseball catcher (4 × MLB All-Star 1941–44 Brooklyn Dodgers), dies at 89
Cicely Saunders (1918-2005)
Jul 14 English Nurse, physician and writer who founded the first modern hospice, dies of cancer at 87
- Jul 14 Dorothy Bolden, American civil and women's rights activist, and founder of the National Domestic Worker's Union of America, dies at 81
- Jul 14 Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger, dies at 80
- Jul 15 Arthur Crook, British editor (Times Literary Supplement), dies at 93
- Jul 16 Blue Barron [Harry Freidman], American "sweet music" orchestra leader ("Cruising Down The River"), dies at 91
- Jul 16 Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish baritone pop and schlager singer ("Bonjour les amies" / "Hello Friends"), lyricist, translator ("I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "Komm, gib mir deine Hand"'; She Loves You" / "Sie liebt dich"), and broadcaster, dies at 84
- Jul 16 Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
- Jul 16 Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931)
- Jul 17 (Lorenzo) "Laurel" Aitken, Cuban-Jamaican singer and one of the pioneers of Caribbean pop and ska music, dies of a heart attack at 78
Edward Heath (1916-2005)
Jul 17 British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1970-74), dies of cancer at 89
- Jul 17 Gavin Lambert, British-American screenwriter (Inside Daisy Clover), dies at 80
- Jul 17 Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish actress (Pawnbroker, Easy Money), dies of complications from Alzheimer's disease at 91
- Jul 17 Joe Vialls, Australian writer (b. 1944)
- Jul 18 Bill Hicke, Canadian NHL right wing (3-time NHL All Star), dies of cancer at 67
William Westmoreland (1914-2005)
Jul 18 American general and commander of American forces in the Vietnam War between 1964-68, dies at 91
- Jul 19 Alain Bombard, French biologist, physician, and politician who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat to test his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive without provisions, dies at 80
- Jul 19 Edward Bunker, American Crime novelist (No Beast So Fierce; Animal Factory), actor (Straight Time; Reservoir Dogs), screenwriter, and felon, dies at 71
- Jul 19 Frank Rogers, English newspaper executive (IPC, NPA Telegraph), dies at 85
- Jul 19 John Tyndall, British fascist political activist (Chairman of the British National Party, 1982- 99), dies of heart failure at 71
- Jul 20 Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1926)
- Jul 20 James Doohan, Canadian actor (Star Trek), dies from Pulmonary fibrosis at 85
- Jul 20 Kayo Hatta, American film director (b. 1958)
- Jul 21 Long John Baldry, British blues musician ("Don't Try to Lay No Boogie"), dies at 64
- Jul 21 Lord Alfred Hayes, English pro wrestler, manager and commentator (WWF), dies from a stroke at 76
- Jul 22 Eugene Record American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
- Jul 22 Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician killed by Scotland Yard (b. 1978)
- Jul 23 Myron Floren, American accordionist (The Lawrence Welk Show), dies at 85
- Jul 23 Ted Greene, American jazz guitarist and teacher (b. 1946)
- Jul 24 Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems), dies at 92
- Jul 25 Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist, dies at 76
- Jul 25 Eddie Crook Jr., American boxer (Olympic gold middleweight 1960), dies at 76
- Jul 26 Alexander Golitzen, American art director (b. 1908)
- Jul 26 Betty Astell, British actress (b. 1912)
- Jul 26 Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
- Jul 26 Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925)
- Jul 27 Al Held, American painter and sculptor (hard edge-style), dies at 76
- Jul 27 Marten Toonder, Dutch comic writer and cartoonist (Tom Puss), dies at 93
- Jul 27 Swami Shantanand, Mahasamadhi Day, Indian Saint, Philosopher (b. 1934)
- Jul 28 Ronald MacDonald, British major-general (WWII), dies at 93
- Jul 29 Hildegarde [Sell], American cabaret vocalist (“Leave It To The Girls"; "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup"), dies at 99
- Jul 29 Pat McCormick, American comedy writer (Red Skeleton; Get Smart; The Tonight Show; Don Rickles Show), and actor (Smokey and the Bandit), dies at 78
- Jul 30 (Eli) "Lucky" Thompson, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist (Stan Kenton - Cuban Fire!; Milt Jackson; Miles Davis - Walkin'), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 81
- Jul 30 Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
- Jul 30 John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)
- Jul 31 Les Braid, English bass guitarist and singer (Swinging Blue Jeans - "Hippie-Hippie Shake), dies of lung cancer at 67
- Jul 31 Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker (b. 1935)
