Historical Events
Famous Birthdays
Nikola Tesla
Jul 10 Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist, electrical engineer and inventor, developed alternating current and the Tesla Coil, born in Smiljan, Austrian Empire (now Croatia) (d. 1943)
- Jul 15 Owen Dunell, South African cricket batsman (South Africa's 1st Test captain; 2 Tests), born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa (d. 1929)
- Jul 21 Harry A P Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania)
- Jul 21 Louise Blanchard Bethune, 1st American woman architect, born in Waterloo, New York (d. 1915)
- Jul 23 Arthur H. Bird, American composer, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1923)
- Jul 23 Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian early nationalist leader, born in Ratnagiri, British India (d. 1920)
- Jul 24 Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician, born in Paris (d. 1941)
George Bernard Shaw
Jul 26 George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist (Pygmalion, Nobel Prize for Literature 1925), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1950)
- Jul 30 Richard Haldane, British viscount and lord-chancellor (Life of A Smith), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1928)
Famous Deaths
- Jul 4 Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor, dies at 64
Amedeo Avogadro
Jul 9 Amedeo Avogadro, Italian scientist who contributed to molecular theory, including what is known as Avogadro's law (6.022 x 10 ^ 23), dies at 79
Robert Schumann
Jul 29 Robert Schumann, German pianist, composer (Humoresque), and music critic (Neue Zeitschrift für Musik - New Journal for Music), dies at 46