Historical Events
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 1 Verney Lovett Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), born in Radipole, Dorset, England (d. 1894)
- Jul 8 Mary Johnson Lincoln, American cooking teacher and author (Boston Cooking School), born in n South Attleboro, Massachusetts (d. 1921)
- 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)
- Jul 23 Harriet Williams Russell Strong, American inventor, agricultural entrepreneur (created dams and reservoirs in California), women’s rights activist, born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1926) [1]
Ilya Repin (1844-1930)
Jul 24 Ukrainian-Russian painter (Barge Haulers on the Volga, Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks), born in Chuguev, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
Jul 25 American artist (The Gross Clinic), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Famous Deaths
- Jul 11 Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
- Jul 12 Charles-Louis Panckoucke, French publisher, dies at 63
- Jul 13 Johann Baptist Gansbacher, Austrian composer, dies at 66
- Jul 15 Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
- Jul 19 Heinrich Domnich, German hornist and composer, dies at 77
- Jul 23 Christian Gobrecht, 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office
John Dalton (1766-1844)
Jul 27 English physicist and chemist who developed the atomic theory of matter and researched colour blindness, dies at 77
