Historical Events
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Jul 1 Animated film "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" directed by Carlos Saldanha and Mike Thurmeieris with voices by Ray Romano and John Leguizamo is released
- Jul 3 Mark II.5 Skytrain cars enter service in Metro Vancouver.
Statue of Liberty
Jul 4 The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after 8 years, due to security reasons following the World Trade Center attacks
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 4 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Serena Williams beats older sister Venus 7-6, 6-2 for her 3rd Wimbledon singles title
- Jul 5 Ethnic rioting breaks out in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 5 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roger Federer beats Andy Roddick of the US 5-7, 7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 16-14 for a record 15th Grand Slam singles title
- Jul 6 Jadranka Kosor became first female prime minister of Croatia
- Jul 12 US Open Women's Golf, Saucon Valley CC: Eun-Hee Ji of South Korea wins her lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of American runner-up Candie Kung
- Jul 14 80th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Busch Stadium, St Louis
- Jul 14 Singapore experiences a seasonally adjusted and annualised growth of 20.4% in the second quarter as a result of increased pharmaceuticals production and construction, bringing the country out of the recession
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Jul 15 "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", the 6th film based on the books by J. K. Rowling is released worldwide
- Jul 15 A 7.9 Magnitude earthquake registers 160km west of Invercargill, New Zealand, creating a small tsunami
- Jul 17 Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4 foreigners
- Jul 18 Five members of one family are found murdered at Epping, New South Wales.
ESPY Awards
Jul 19 17th ESPY Awards: Michael Phelps, Nastia Liukin wins
British Golf Open
Jul 19 British Open Men's Golf, Turnberry: American Stewart Cink wins his only major championship by 6 strokes in a 4-hole playoff with 5-time champion Tom Watson
- Jul 19 The Wesley Impact: black spot the size of Earth discovered on Jupiter after unknown object crashed onto the planet
- Jul 23 42nd San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
- Jul 23 Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox becomes the 18th pitcher to throw a perfect game in MLB history, defeating Tampa Bay Rays 5-0
- Jul 23 The Bank of Canada announces the end of the recession even though it remains nascent and still dependent on government stimulus money
- Jul 24 FINA Congress votes to ban all body-length swimsuits; men's suits to maximally cover from the waist to knee, and women's from shoulder to knee; fabric must be a "textile" or woven material; effective 1 January 2010
- Jul 26 96th Tour de France won by Alberto Contador of Spain
Senior Open Championship
Jul 26 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Sunningdale: American Loren Roberts wins his second Open Senior title in a playoff with Mark McNulty and Fred Funk
Famous Weddings
Chris Pratt & Anna Faris
Jul 9 American "Scary Movie" actress Anna Faris (32) weds second husband American actor Chris Pratt (30) in a small ceremony in Bali, Indonesia; divorce in 2018
- Jul 11 "Rushmore" actor Jason Schwartzman (30) weds fashion designer Brady Cunningham in San Fernando Valley
- Jul 11 "Step Up" actor Channing Tatum (32) weds actress Jenna Dewan (31) at Church Estate Vineyards in Malibu, California
Robert Redford
Jul 11 Actor and film director Robert Redford (71) weds second wife, artist Sibylle Szaggars (51) at the luxurious Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany
- Jul 25 "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" actor Marc Blucas (37) weds journalist Ryan Haddon (38) in Erie, Pennsylvania
Famous Divorces
- Jul 6 Actress Rachael Bella (25) divorces "Terminator 2" actor Eddie Furlong (31) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
- Jul 1 Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer (3-weight world champion), dies of self inflicted gun wound at 57
- Jul 1 Karl Malden [Mladen George Sekulovich], American actor (Streets of San Francisco; A Streetcar Named Desire; American Express commercials), dies of natural causes at 97
- Jul 1 Marwa El-Sherbini, Egyptian housewife (b. 1977 or 1976)
- Jul 1 Mollie Sugden, English actress (Are You Being Served?), dies at 86
- Jul 1 Onni Palaste, Finnish writer, dies at 91
- Jul 2 Herbert Klein, American journalist and press secretary for Richard Nixon, dies at 91
- Jul 3 John A. Keel, American Fortean, television scriptwriter, author of The Mothman Prophecies (b. 1930)
- Jul 4 Allen Klein, American record label executive (b. 1931)
- Jul 4 Brenda Joyce [Betty Graffina Leabo], American actress (Tarzan, The Rains Came), dies of complications from pneumonia at 92
- Jul 4 Drake Levin, American rock musician (b. 1946)
- Jul 4 Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese politician (b.1938)
- Jul 4 Jim Chapin, American jazz drummer, and author, dies at 89
- Jul 4 Khan Mohammad, Pakistani cricket fast bowler (13 Tests, 54 wickets; Pakistan's first ball and wicket in Test cricket), dies of prostate cancer at 81
- Jul 4 Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish writer and actor, dies at 74
- Jul 4 Steve McNair, American NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Titans), dies of gunshot woulds at 36
- Jul 5 Jack Ellory, British orchestral and session alto and bass flute player (Philharmonia Orchestra; The Beatles - "The Fool on the Hill"), dies at 89
- Jul 5 Lou Creekmur, American football player (Detroit Lions) and hall of famer, dies at 82
- Jul 6 Johnny Collins, British folk and maritime music singer (b. 1938)
- Jul 6 Leo Mol, Ukrainian Canadian artist and sculptor (b. 1915)
Robert McNamara (1916-2009)
Jul 6 American United States Secretary of Defense (1961-8), who played a major role in US escalation in Vietnam, dies at 93
- Jul 6 Vasily Aksyonov, Soviet-Russian novelist (The Burn), dies at 76
- Jul 9 Henry Cadbury Brown, English architect (Royal College of Art), dies at 96
- Jul 11 Arturo Gatti, Italian-Canadian professional boxer (b. 1972)
- Jul 11 Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer (b.1911)
- Jul 11 Valentinas Bagdonas, Lithuanian composer (Symphony of Peace), dies at 79
- Jul 12 Donald MacCormick, British broadcaster, dies at 70
- Jul 12 Simon Vinkenoog, Dutch writer and poet, dies at 80
- Jul 14 Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian sci-fi novelist (Sunburst), dies at 83
- Jul 14 Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Polish actor (b. 1934)
- Jul 17 Gordon Waller, Scottish pop singer (Peter & Gordon - "A World Without Love"), dies at 64
- Jul 17 Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher and writer (Conversations with the Devil), dies at 81
Walter Cronkite (1916-2009)
Jul 17 American broadcast journalist and news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81), dies of cerebrovascular disease at 92
- Jul 18 Henry Allingham, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran, dies at 113
- Jul 19 Frank McCourt, Irish-American Pulitzer Prize winning author (Angela's Ashes), and teacher, dies of cancer at 78
- Jul 20 Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist (introduced Anthropology of Space), dies at 95
- Jul 20 Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (b. 1957)
- Jul 22 Peter Krieg [Wilhelm Gladitz], German documentary filmmaker, and writer (September Wheat), dies at 60
- Jul 22 Richard M. Givan, American jurist (Indiana Supreme Court, 1969-94), dies at 88
- Jul 23 Danny McBride, American musician (Sha Na Na, 1975-80), dies at 63
- Jul 24 E. Lynn Harris, American Author (b. 1955)
- Jul 24 Marcel van Maele, Belgian poet and playwright, dies at 78
- Jul 25 Alexis Cohen, American Idol contestant (unsuccessful), viral phenomenon (b. 1984)
- Jul 25 Harry Patch, the last surviving soldier to have served in the trenches in World War I, dies at 111 (b. 1898)
- Jul 25 Stanley Middleton, British novelist (Holiday, Three Wise Men), dies at 89
- Jul 25 Vernon Forrest, Professional boxer, 2-division world champion (b. 1971)
- Jul 25 Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter (b. 1958)
- Jul 26 Marcey Jacobson, American photographer (b. 1911)
- Jul 26 Merce Cunningham, American choreographer (Acrobat in Every Soul is a Circus), dies at 90
- Jul 27 George Russell, American jazz pianist, composer, arranger (The Jazz Workshop; Jazz in the Space Age), and music theorist (Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization), dies of complications from Alzheimer's disease at 86
- Jul 28 Jim Johnson, American NFL Assistant Coach, Eagles Defensive Coordinator from 1999-2009 (b.1941)
- Jul 28 Peter Richard Tahourdin, English-Australian composer, dies at 80
- Jul 28 Reverend Ike [Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II], American televangelist (Joy of Living), dies at 74
- Jul 29 Gayatri Devi, 3rd Maharani consort of Jaipur, India (1940-49), dies of lung failure and gastric problems at 90
- Jul 30 Peter Zadek, German theatre director (b. 1926)
- Jul 31 Harry Alan Towers, English film producer and screenwriter (b. 1920)
- Jul 31 Sir Bobby Robson, English soccer forward, coach (20 caps; England manager 1982-90), dies of lung cancer at 76
