Historical Events
- Jul 1 Cleveland Indians veteran hurler Bob Feller pitches his 3rd career no-hitter beating Detroit Tigers, 2-1
- Jul 2 Bill Veeck buys St Louis Browns from Bill & Charlie DeWitt
- Jul 2 "Bob & Ray show" premieres on NBC radio
- Jul 2 Worcestershire cricket wicketkeeper Hugo Yarnold makes a record 6 stumpings in an innings in a 1st-class match vs Scotland at Dundee
- Jul 2 Island advisor of Curacao installed
- Jul 2 Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system
Golf Major
- Jul 5 Dodgers sweep the Giants & lead by 7½ games (Giants will win pennant)
Historic Invention
Jul 5 Dr William Shockley invents the junction transistor (Murray Hill, NJ)
William Shockley
Event of Interest
Jul 9 US President Harry Truman asks Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
Harry Truman
- Jul 10 18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
- Jul 10 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
- Jul 12 Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero, Illinois
- Jul 12 NY Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleveland Indians, 8-0
- Jul 14 "Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater NYC after 37 performances
- Jul 14 "Make a Wish" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 102 performances
- Jul 14 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
- Jul 14 Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
- Jul 14 George Washington Carver monument unveiled
- Jul 16 King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates
- Jul 16 Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Surrey at The Oval
Historic Publication
Jul 16 Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published by Little Brown and Company
J. D. Salinger
Event of Interest
Jul 18 Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion
Jersey Joe
Event of Interest
Jul 21 Dalai Lama returns to Tibet
Tenzin Gyatso
Film Release
Jul 28 Walt Disney's animated musical film "Alice In Wonderland" released
Walt Disney
- Jul 29 38th Tour de France won by Hugo Koblet of Switzerland
- Jul 31 Japan Airlines is established
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 1 Daryl Anderson, actor (Animal-Lou Grant), born in Seattle, Washington
- Jul 1 Fred Schneider, Newark Ga, vocalist/guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster)
- Jul 1 Trevor Eve, Wales, actor (Shadow Chasers)
- Jul 1 Anne Feeney, American protest singer
- Jul 1 Terrence Mann, American actor and dancer
- Jul 2 Joey Puerta, rocker (Ambrosia)
- Jul 2 Michele Santoro, Italian TV journalist
- Jul 2 Sylvia Rivera, American gay liberation and transgender activist and drag queen, born in NYC, New York (d. 2002)
- Jul 3 Mike Corby [Michael John], Windsor, Berkshire, English guitarist/keyboardist (The Babys)
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Jul 3 Jean-Claude Duvalier [Baby Doc], Deposed Haitian president-for-life (1971-86), born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (d. 2014)
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Richard Hadlee
Jul 3 Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricket all rounder (431 wickets), born in Christchurch, New Zealand
Richard Hadlee
- Jul 4 Ralph Johnson, rock drummer (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star)
- Jul 4 Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American Democratic politician and Lieutenant Governor of Maryland (1995-2003), born in Greenwich, Connecticut
- Jul 5 Geert Jan Hessing, Dutch rock drummer (Catapult)
- Jul 5 Richard "Goose" Gossage, relief pitcher (Yankees, Padres, A's)
- Jul 5 Keiko Fuji, Japanese enka singer
Geoffrey Rush
Jul 6 Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor (Shakespeare in Love, The King's Speech), born in Toowoomba, Queensland
Geoffrey Rush
- Jul 7 Roz Ryan, actress (Amelia-Amen, Occupied), born in Detroit, Michigan
Anjelica Huston
Jul 8 Anjelica Huston, American actress (Prizzi's Honor, The Adams Family), born in Los Angeles, California
Anjelica Huston
- Jul 8 Greg T Walker, rock bassist (Blackfoot)
- Jul 8 Pleas Ned Sublette, composer
- Jul 9 Chris Cooper, American actor (Thousand Pieces of Gold, Matewan), born in Kansas City, Missouri
- Jul 10 Phyllis Smith, American actress
- Jul 10 Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
- Jul 11 Lawrence J Delucas, PhD/astronaut (STS 50), born in Syracuse, New York
- Jul 11 Sridharan Jeganathan, cricketer (two Tests for Sri Lanka v NZ 1983)
- Jul 12 Cheryl Ladd, Huron SD, actress (Charlie's Angels, Purple Hearts)
- Jul 12 Jamey Sheridan, actor (Another World), born in Pasadena, California
- Jul 12 Brian Grazer, American film producer
- Jul 12 Sylvia Sass, Hungarian soprano
- Jul 13 Didi Conn, [Bernstein], American actress (Denise-Benson, Grease), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Jul 13 Rob Bishop, American politician
- Jul 14 Esther Dyson, computer publisher (Release 1.0), born in Zurich, Switzerland
- Jul 14 Judi Brown, E Lansing Mich, 400m hurdler (Olympic silver 1984)
- Jul 14 Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)
- Jul 15 Jesse Ventura, [James Janos], wrestler, actor and politician (Governor of Minnesota 1999-2003), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Jul 16 Esther M Friesner[-Stutzman], American sci-fi author (Witchwood Cradle)
- Jul 16 Lorraine Chase, actress/model (Lame Ducks, Love & Bullets)
- Jul 16 Jean-Luc Mongrain, French-Canadian journalist
- Jul 17 Lucie Arnaz, actress (Kim-Here's Lucy, Jazz Singer), born in Los Angeles, California
- Jul 18 Bruce Alan Lietzke, Kansas City KS, PGA golfer (1978 Canadian Open)
- Jul 18 Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician
- Jul 18 Margo Martindale, American actress
- Jul 19 Abel Ferrara, American filmmake
- Jul 19 Jayson Stark, American sportswriter
- Jul 20 Larry Black, 4x100 runner (Olympic gold 1972), born in Miami, Florida
- Jul 20 Jeff Rawle, English actor
- Jul 21 Diana Dennis, body builder (Women Physique World), born in Portland, Oregon
- Jul 21 Doug Collins, American basketball player (Olympic silver 1972)
- Jul 21 Slick Watts, NBA (Seattle SuperSonic)
Robin Williams
Jul 21 Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (Mork & Mindy, Jumanji, Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2014)
Robin Williams
- Jul 22 Tisa Farrow, actress (Zombie, Fingers, Grim Reaper), born in Los Angeles, California
- Jul 22 Steven Springer, Port of Spain, Trinidad, guitarist and songwriter (Sir Lancelot Pinard), (d. 2012)
- Jul 23 Edie McClurg, actress (Cinderella-1985, Hogan Family), born in Kansas City, Missouri
- Jul 23 Terry Davis, American actress (Stacey Winthrop-Another World), born in NYC, New York
- Jul 24 Chris Smith, New Zealand politician (Labour), born in Auckland, New Zealand
- Jul 24 Lynda Carter, American actress (Wonder Woman, Sky High) and Miss USA (1973), born in Phoenix, Arizona
- Jul 25 Vanessa, [Conny Witteman], Dutch model/singer
- Jul 25 Verdine White, US bassist (Earth, Wind & Fire)
- Jul 26 Robert Edwin Wadkins, PGA golfer (1994 Kemper Open-2nd), born in Richmond, Virginia
- Jul 26 William Surles "Bill" McArthur Jr, NC, astro (STS 58, 74, sk: 92)
- Jul 27 Janet Eilber, actress (Hard to Hold, Romantic Comedy), born in Detroit, Michigan
- Jul 28 Greg Gluffria, rock keyboardist (House of Lords-Sahara), born in Washington, D.C.
- Jul 28 Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
- Jul 28 Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
- Jul 29 Dean Pitchford, rocker
- Jul 29 Deborah Pryor, California, actress (The Godson)/(Rep-R-Ohio)
- Jul 29 Dan Driessen, American baseball player
- Jul 31 Barry Van Dyke, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Diag Murder), born in Atlanta, Georgia
- Jul 31 Evonne Goolagong Cawley, NSW Aust, tennis player (Wimbledon 1971)
- Jul 31 Gerald Anthony, American actor (Marco Dane-General Hospital, One Life to Live), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
Jul 3 Author Maya Angelou (23) weds Thomas J. Angelos
Maya Angelou
Wedding of Interest
Jul 31 Musician Ray Charles (20) weds Eileen Williams in Georgia
Ray Charles
Famous Deaths
Arnold Schoenberg
Jul 13 Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (Verklärte Nacht) and painter associated with the expressionist movement, dies at 76
Arnold Schoenberg
- Jul 14 Sammy Jones, cricketer (last survivor of the 1882 Oval Test), dies
- Jul 19 Max Ettinger, Jewish-German composer (Jiddische Requiem), dies at 77
- Jul 20 Abdullah Ibn Hussein, Jordan's King (1946-51), killed in Jerusalem
- Jul 20 Mustafa Shuqri Ashu, tailor/murderer of king Abdullah, shot to death
- Jul 20 Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany (b. 1882)
- Jul 23 Philippe Pétain, French marshal and Chief of the French State (1940-44), dies at 95
- Jul 23 Robert Flaherty, American documentary filmmaker (Nanook of North), dies at 67
- Jul 31 J of Oudshoorn, [John K Feylbrief], writer (Maze of Sentences), dies