Historical Events
- Jul 1 Rev Martin Niemöller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany
Event of Interest
Jul 1 Spanish bishops support Francisco Franco and his fascist movement
Francisco Franco
- Jul 2 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Don Budge beats Germany's Gottfried von Cramm 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 for first of back-to-back titles
Event of Interest
Jul 2 Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear flying over the Pacific Ocean en route to Howland Island. Noonan is declared dead the following year, and Earhart is declared the year after (1939)
Amelia Earhart
- Jul 3 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Dorothy Round of England beats Poland's Jadwiga Jędrzejowska 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 for her second Wimbledon title
Event of Interest
Jul 3 Del Mar Turf Club, with crooner Bing Crosby as president and actor Pat O'Brien as a club officer, opens for racing
Bing Crosby
- Jul 5 117°F (47°C), Medicine Lake, Montana (state record)
Baseball Record
Jul 5 NY Yankees outfielder Joe DiMaggio hits 20th HR of the season but 1st career grand slam in 8-4 win vs Boston Red Sox
Joe DiMaggio
Event of Interest
Jul 7 5th MLB All Star Game, Griffin Stadium, Washington: AL wins 8-3, Lou Gehrig drives in 4 runs with HR & double
Lou Gehrig
Event of Interest
Jul 10 Dutch Django Reinhardt's "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club"
Django Reinhardt
Election of Interest
Jul 22 Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections
Éamon de Valera
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Jul 23 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
- Jul 24 Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
- Jul 25 31st Tour de France won by Roger Lapebie of France
- Jul 26 End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
- Jul 27 32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1)
- Jul 28 Eddie Paynter scores 322 for Lancashire against Sussex
- Jul 28 Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire
- Jul 29 Japanese troops occupies Peking and Tientsin
- Jul 29 Tongzhou Incident: East Hopei Army mutinies against Japanese troops and civilians
- Jul 30 Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base and registers no put outs
- Jul 30 Russian Politburo issues NKVD Order no. 00447, to repress former kulak and anti-soviets, 269,100 to be arrested, 76,000 to be shot. Part of the Great Purge.
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 1 Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, South African ANCer and Umkhonto we Sizwe-leader, born in Durban, South Africa
- Jul 2 Dick Berardino, baseball player
- Jul 2 Polly Holliday, Jasper Ala, actress (Flo-Alice, Flo-Flo)
- Jul 2 Richard Petty, American auto racer (7 x NASCAR Championship, 7 x Daytona 500), born in Level Cross, North Carolina
Tom Stoppard
Jul 3 Tom Stoppard, Czech-born British playwright (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern-1968 Tony), born in Zlín, Czechoslovakia
Tom Stoppard
- Jul 4 Thomas Nagel, American philosopher and University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, born in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- Jul 5 Brooke Hayward, American author (Haywire), born in Los Angeles, California
- Jul 5 Frouwke J. Laning-Boersema, Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber
- Jul 5 Nita Lowey, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), born in NYC, New York
- Jul 6 Gene Chandler [Eugene Dixon], American rocker (Duke of Earl), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Jul 6 Ned Beatty, American actor (Deliverance, Repossed, Network), born in Louisville, Kentucky
- Jul 6 Tony Lewis, Welsh cricketer (England batsman, captain 1972-73), born in Swansea, Wales
- Jul 6 Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor (Tchaikovsky-1962), born in Gorky, Russia
- Jul 6 Bessie Head, Botswana writer (When Rain Clouds Gather, Maru, A Question of Power), born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (d. 1986)
- Jul 7 Carroll Hubbard Jr, American politician (Rep-D-KY, 1975-93), born in Murray, Kentuckey
- Jul 8 Barbara Ann Loden, actress (Ernie Kovac's Show)
- Jul 9 Clemon Daniels, American football halfback and AFL player of year 1963 (Oak, Dallas, San Francisco), born in McKinney, Texas
David Hockney
Jul 9 David Hockney, English artist (Pop Art), born in Bradford, England
David Hockney
- Jul 9 Marty Springstead, American Major League baseball umpire and umpire supervisor, born in Nyack, New York
- Jul 10 Sandy Stewart, American singer (Sing Along With Mitch, Mr President), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Jul 11 Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer (Taipei People), born in Guilin, China
Bill Cosby
Jul 12 Bill Cosby, American actor and comedian (Cosby Show, I Spy, Leonard Part 6), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bill Cosby
- Jul 12 Mickey Edwards, American Republican congressman (Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee), born in Cleveland, Ohio
- Jul 12 Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France (1997-2002), born in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
- Jul 12 Michel Louvain, French Canadian singer (Buenas Noches Mi Amor), born in Quebec, Canada
- Jul 13 Charles Coody, American golfer (US Masters 1971), born in Stamford, Texas
- Jul 13 Cal Ramsey, American basketball broadcaster, small forward (NY Knicks), born in Selma, Alabama (d. 2019)
- Jul 14 Khalid Hassan, Pak cricket leg-spinner (took 2-116 at 16 in only Test)
- Jul 14 Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician
- Jul 16 Richard Bryan, American attorney and politician (25th Governor of Nevada), born in Washington, D.C.
- Jul 17 Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer
- Jul 17 Elmer Fudd [originally Egghead], Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery and Chuck Jones (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debut as Egghead in "Egghead Rides Again"
- Jul 18 Roald Hoffmann, Polish-American chemist (Nobel 1981), born in Złoczów, Poland
- Jul 18 Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2005)
- Jul 19 George Hamilton IV, American country musician, born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (d. 2014)
- Jul 19 Larry Boxx, founder (Land B Computer Serv)
- Jul 19 Richard Jordan [Robert Anson Jordan Jr.], American actor (Dune, Gettysburg), born in NYC, New York
- Jul 20 Ken Ogata, Japanese actor
- Jul 22 John Price, England cricket fast-medium bowler (1964-72)
- Jul 22 V B Ranjane, Indian cricket fast bowler (early 1960's)
- Jul 22 Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
- Jul 23 Dave Webster, American football player (led his football team to a National Championship in 1958), born in Atlanta, Texas (d. 2006)
- Jul 23 Bruce Surtees, American cinematographer (Dirty Harry, Lenny), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2012)
- Jul 24 Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education
- Jul 24 Barry Lloyd Vercoe, New Zealand composer and computer scientist (MIT Media Lab), born in Wellington, New Zealand
- Jul 24 Quinlan Terry, architect
- Jul 25 Colin Renfrew, English archeologist (Anatolian hypothesis), born in Stockton-on-Tees, England
- Jul 27 Anna Dawson, British comedienne (Violet-Keeping Up Appearances), born in Bolton, Lancashire
- Jul 27 Chuck Jackson, American singer (Any Day Now, I Don't Want to Cry), born in Latta, South Carolina
- Jul 27 Don Galloway, American actor (Arrest & Trial, Ironside), born in Augusta, Kentucky (d. 2009)
- Jul 27 Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator
- Jul 28 Peter Duchin, American pianist and bandleader (Peter Duchin Orchestra), born in NYC, New York
- Jul 28 Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
- Jul 29 Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
Charles Schwab
Jul 29 Charles Schwab, American investor and entrepreneur (Charles Schwab Corporation), born in Sacramento, California
Charles Schwab
- Jul 31 Isabelle F Daniels, Jakin Georgia, 4X100m relayer (Olympic bronze 56)
Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
Jul 10 Actress Ingrid Bergman (21) weds dentist Petter Aron Lindström
Ingrid Bergman
- Jul 11 Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas (22) marries dancer Caitlin McNamara (22) in Penzance, Cornwall
Wedding of Interest
Jul 12 Explorer Jacques Cousteau (27) weds scuba diver Simone Melchior (18) at Saint-Louis-des-Invalides in Paris
Jacques Cousteau
Famous Deaths
- Jul 2 Fred L Noonan, US navigator, disappeared over Pacific Ocean
Chester Greenwood
Jul 5 Chester Greenwood, American inventor (invented earmuffs at 15), dies at 78
Chester Greenwood
- Jul 9 Oliver Law, first African-American commander of U.S. troops (b. 1899)
- Jul 10 Attilio Brugnoli, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 56
- Jul 10 Johan Bernard Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga), dies at 71
- Jul 11 George Gershwin [Jacob Gershvin], American composer (An American in Paris), dies at 38
- Jul 13 Emmett Dalton, American outlaw, member of the Dalton Gang in the American Old West, dies at 66
- Jul 15 Walter Gay, artist, dies
- Jul 17 Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne, composer, dies at 73
- Jul 18 Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908)
Guglielmo Marconi
Jul 20 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies of a heart attack at 63
Guglielmo Marconi
- Jul 22 Ted McDonald, cricketer (43 wickets for Australia), dies in car crash
- Jul 26 Gerda Taro (Gerta Pohorylle), German-born war photojournalist, dies covering Spanish Civil War aged 26
- Jul 28 Muslim Magomayev, Azerbaijani-Soviet composer, dies at 51
- Jul 28 Joseph Lee, Father of Playgrounds movement, dies at 88
Charles E. Hires
Jul 31 Charles E. Hires, American pharmacist, inventor and manufacturer of the Hires Root Beer beverage, dies at 85
Charles E. Hires