Events in History
- Jul 3 The last pair of Great Auks is killed
- Jul 27 Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, North Carolina
Birthdays in History
- Jul 1 Verney Lovett Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), born in Radipole, Dorset, England (d. 1894)
- Jul 8 Mary Johnson Lincoln, educator (Boston Cooking School)
- Jul 11 Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1903-21), born in Belgrade, Ottoman Tributary Principality of Serbia (d. 1921)
- Jul 22 William Archibald Spooner, English Oxford Don and reverend and inventor (spoonerisms), born in London, England (d. 1930)
Thomas Eakins
Jul 25 Thomas Eakins, American artist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1916)
Deaths in History
John Dalton
Jul 27 John Dalton, English physicist and chemist who developed the atomic theory of matter and researched colour blindness, dies at 77
- Jul 28 Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain, dies at 76
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