Historical Events
Douglass Minister to Haiti
Jul 1 Frederick Douglass named US Minister to Haiti
- Jul 1 US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens
- Jul 4 Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 6 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Blanche Bingley-Hillyard beats Lena Rice 4-6, 8-6, 6-4
Sullivan vs. Kilrain
Jul 8 John L. Sullivan successfully defends last officially sanctioned, bare-knuckle world heavyweight prizefighting championship; Jake Kilrain's trainer throws in towel after 75 x 1-minute rounds near Hattiesburg, Mississippi
- Jul 8 Wall Street Journal begins publishing
- Jul 8 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw wins his 7th Wimbledon singles title; beats twin brother Ernest Renshaw 6-4, 6-1, 3-6, 6-0
- Jul 11 Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 2 Cor Hermus, Dutch actor, director and writer (Bleeke Bet, William of Orange, Jantes, A Mother), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1953)
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
Jul 5 French poet, filmmaker and painter (Les Enfants Terribles), born in Maisons-Laffitte, France
- Jul 8 Eugene Pallette, American actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Mark of Zorro), born in Winfield, Kansas (d. 1954)
- Jul 9 Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian hockey executive, born in Bourbonnais, Illinois (d. 1964)
- Jul 10 Robert [Harriot] Barrat, American actor (Bad Lands, Go West, Distant Drums), born in New York City (d. 1970)
- Jul 11 Alfred E. Green, American film director (Copacabana, The Jolson Story), born in Perris, California (d. 1960)
- Jul 12 Marty Friedman, American Basketball Hall of Fame guard and coach (tied World C'ship series, New York Whirlwinds 1921), born in New York City (d. 1986)
- Jul 13 Louise of Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden (d. 1965)
- Jul 13 Stan Coveleski, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1920; AL ERA leader 1923, 25; AL strikeout leader 1920; Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators), born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania (d. 1984)
Ante Pavelić (1889-1959)
Jul 14 Croatian leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia, born in Bradina, Austria-Hungary
- Jul 15 Marjorie Rambeau, American stage, silent and sound screen actress (Primrose Path; Torch Song), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1970)
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970)
Jul 17 American detective writer (Perry Mason), born in Malden, Massachusetts
- Jul 17 Joe Dawson, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1912), born in Odon, Indiana (d. 1946)
- Jul 20 John Charles Reith, 1st Baron Reith, British broadcasting executive and 1st director-general of BBC (1927-38), born in Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Scotland (d. 1971)
- Jul 22 Frederick Preston Search, American cellist, composer and conductor (Bridge Builders), born in Pueblo, Colorado (d. 1959)
- Jul 22 James Whale, English film director (Frankenstein, Show Boat), born in Dudley, England (d. 1957)
- Jul 29 Karl Otten, German Expressionist writer, born in Oberkrüchten (d. 1963)
- Jul 29 Lajos Asztalos, Hungarian chess player (International Chess Master 1950), born in Pécs, Hungary (d. 1956)
- Jul 30 Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-American inventor of the cathode-ray tube for television, born in Murom, Russia (d. 1982)
- Jul 31 Donald Foster, American actor (Hazel, Lord Love A Duck), born in Oil City, Pennsylvania (d. 1969)
Famous Deaths
- Jul 4 Auguste Mermet, French opera composer, dies at 79
- Jul 7 Giovanni Bottesini, Italian Romantic composer, conductor and a double bass virtuoso, dies at 67
- Jul 10 Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of President John Tyler (1841-45), dies at 69
- Jul 11 Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author and poet, dies at 34
- Jul 13 Carli Zoeller, German composer, dies at 49
- Jul 13 Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (b. 1830)
- Jul 16 Michele Amari, Sicilian patriot, Italian revolutionary and historian, dies at 83
- Jul 21 Nelson Dewey, American politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
- Jul 30 Charles Absolom, English cricketer (Test for England), dies in a port accident at 43
