Historical Events
- Jul 3 Montenegro declares war on Turkey
- Jul 4 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco
- Jul 4 Batholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty
- Jul 7 Hamburg massacre: white farmers attack a black militia in Hamburg, South Carolina with 7 killed
- Jul 13 29th US Postmaster General: James N Tyner of Indiana takes office
- Jul 14 British battleship HMS Thunderer boiler explodes during full-power sea trial near Portsmouth, England; 45 sailors killed and 40 injured
- Jul 15 Baseball's first official no-hitter: George Bradley of the St Louis Brown Stockings no-hits the Hartford Dark Blues, 2-0
- Jul 20 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins
- Jul 31 US Coast Guard officers' training school established (New Bedford Massachusetts)
Famous Birthdays
Harry Ford Sinclair (1876-1956)
Jul 6 American industrialist who founded Sinclair Oil and implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal, born in Benwood, West Virginia
- Jul 12 Max Jacob, French poet and writer, born in Quimper, Brittany, France (d. 1944)
- Jul 17 Maxim Litvinov [Meir Genoch Moiseyevich Wallach], Russian statesman, revolutionary and diplomat (People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs.1930-39, Soviet Ambassador to the US 1940-43), born in Białystok, Russian Empire (d. 1951)
- Jul 17 Rosa Jackson Lumpkin, lived to be 115 years old, born in Flint, Georgia (d. 1991)
- Jul 17 Vittorio Gnecchi, Italian composer (Cassandra), born in Milan, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1954)
- Jul 19 John Gunn, English cricket medium pace bowler (6 Tests, 18 wickets, BB 5/76; Nottinghamshire CCC), born in Hucknall, England (d. 1963)
- Jul 19 Joseph Fielding Smith Jr., 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1972)
- Jul 20 Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician, journal editor (Mathematische Annalen, 1906-38) and university professor, born in Frankfurt, Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1944)
- Jul 23 William Gillies Whittaker, English composer, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (d. 1944)
- Jul 26 Ernest Schelling, American child piano prodigy, conductor, and composer (A Victory Ball), born in Belvidere, New Jersey (d. 1939)
- Jul 29 Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian actress (The Wolf Man, Waterloo Bridge), born in Tula, Russian Empire (d. 1949)
Famous Deaths
- Jul 1 Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary anarchist, dies at 62
- Jul 8 Josef Dessauer, Austrian composer, dies at 78
- Jul 11 Ottho Gerhard Heldring, Dutch preacher and reformer (Heldring Institutions), dies at 72
- Jul 14 Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder, dies at 60
- Jul 15 Aleksander Fredro, Polish poet and comedy writer (Zemstra), dies at 82
- Jul 21 Thomas Hayward, English cricket batsman (first English tours to North America 1859-60, Australia & NZ 1864-5; Cambridge Town Club), dies at 41
- Jul 24 Thomas Molleson Mudie, English composer, dies at 66
- Jul 27 Walter Channing, American physician who was the first to use anesthesia during childbirth, dies at 90
