Historical Events
- Jul 15 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Reigning champion John Hartley beats Herbert Lawford 6-2, 6-3, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3
- Jul 16 Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practise medicine in Canada.
- Jul 19 San Francisco Public Library starts lending books
- Jul 21 Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY
- Jul 24 1st commercial hydroelectric power plant in the world begins generating electricity in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Jul 27 Alexander P. Ashbourne patents a process for refining coconut oil
- Jul 27 Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson is wounded, breaks out
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 2 Albert Szirmai, Hungarian operetta composer, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1967)
- Jul 3 Carl Schuricht, German conductor and composer, born in Gdańsk, Poland (d. 1967)
- Jul 4 George Mullin, American baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers; no-hitter 1912), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1944)
- Jul 4 Pat Rooney, American vaudevillian and actor (Night Club), born in NYC, New York (d. 1962)
- Jul 5 Jan Kubelik, Czech composer and violinist, born in Michle (d. 1940)
Otto Frederick Rohwedder
Jul 7 Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer (invented the bread-slicing machine), born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1960)
Otto Frederick Rohwedder
- Jul 12 Tod Browning, American film director (Dracula), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1962)
- Jul 14 Donald Meek, Scottish actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1946)
- Jul 18 Otto Vrieslander, German composer, born in Münster, Germany (d. 1950)
- Jul 20 Hermann earl Keyserling, German philosopher/writer
- Jul 21 Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (d. 1919)
- Jul 24 Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born American composer (MacBeth, Schelomo, Israel), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1959)
- Jul 24 Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1946)
- Jul 26 Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman, born in Yelisavetgrad, Russian Empire (d. 1951)
- Jul 27 Joe Tinker, American professional baseball player and manager, born in Muscotah, Kansas (d. 1948)
- Jul 27 Jack Doscher, American baseball pitcher (1st son of a major leaguer to play MLB), born in Troy, New York (d. 1971)
- Jul 30 Robert R. McCormick, American editor and publisher (Chicago Tribune), born in Chicago (d. 1955)
- Jul 31 Munshi Premchand [Dhanpat Rai], Indian author, born in Lamhi, Benares State, British India (d. 1936)