Famous Weddings
- Jul 2 Zulu-leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi marries Irene Mzila
June Carter Cash
Jul 9 American country singer June Carter (23) weds American singer Carl "Mr. Country" Smith (25); divorce 1956
Fred Rogers
Jul 9 American educator, Presbyterian minister and TV host Fred Rogers (24) weds American pianist and college sweetheart Sara Joanne Byrd until his death in 2003
- Jul 15 Gerald Lascelles, son of English Princess Mary, weds Angela Dowding