* July 15-Thomas Bulfinch, American author best known for Bulfinch's Mythology ( died 1867 )

In July 2010 The Yacht Club held its first regatta since 1976 and its first on Lake Killamperpunna, a freshwater lake on Cooper Creek.

Cooper visited the island in July 1913 with the scientists Charles Montague Cooke, Jr., and Joseph F. Rock, who wrote up a scientific description of the atoll.

* July 9 – Chris Cooper, American actor

" The remaining members of the band — Smith, Gallup and Cooper — made several appearances as a trio before it was announced in June that Porl Thompson would be returning for the band's 2005 Festival summer shows, as well as their set at Live 8 in Paris on 2 July.

Little Port Cooper was used as an anchorage by most of the French ships working from Port Cooper in 1838 and in subsequent years, and it was apparently there that Langlois anchored when the Cachalot came into harbour in July 1838.

( He was promoted on July 21 to be one of the eventual seven full generals in the Confederate Army ; his date of rank made him the fifth most senior general, behind Samuel Cooper, Albert Sidney Johnston, Robert E. Lee, and Joseph E.

Marvin's parents, Marvin Gay, Sr. and Alberta Cooper, married on July 2, 1935.

In July 2011, Mark Cooper said that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is " on the defensive to prove it is doing its job of ensuring safety ".

They had two sons: Carter Vanderbilt Cooper ( January 27, 1965 – July 22, 1988 ) and CNN news anchor Anderson Hays Cooper ( born June 3, 1967 ).

It starred Robert Duvall as Augustus McCrae, Tommy Lee Jones as Woodrow F. Call, Rick Schroder as Newt, Diane Lane as Lorena Wood, Danny Glover as Joshua Deets, Robert Urich as Jake Spoon, Anjelica Huston as Clara Allen, Frederic Forrest as Blue Duck, Chris Cooper as July Johnson, and Barry Corbin as Roscoe Brown.

However, on July 11, 1991, Ken Scherer, CEO of Lynch / Frost productions, announced that the film was not going to be made because series star Kyle MacLachlan did not want to reprise his role of Special Agent Dale Cooper.

After he was widowed, Cronyn married author Susan Cooper in July 1996.

* William John Wills, the official date of death adopted by the Exploration Committee was Wednesday, 28 June 1861, but Wills probably died around Friday, 30 June or Saturday, 1 July 1861 at Breerily Waterhole, Cooper Creek.

* Robert O ' Hara Burke, the official date of death adopted by the Exploration Committee was Wednesday, 28 June 1861, but Burke probably died on Saturday, 1 July 1861 at Burke's Waterhole, Cooper Creek.

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury PC ( 22 July 1621 – 21 January 1683 ), known as Anthony Ashley Cooper from 1621 to 1631, as Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 2nd Baronet from 1631 to 1661, and as The Lord Ashley from 1661 to 1672, was a prominent English politician during the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles II.

Following the Royalist victory at the Battle of Roundway Down on 13 July 1643, Cooper was one of three commissioners appointed to negotiate the surrender of Dorchester when he negotiated a deal whereby the town agreed to surrender in exchange for being spared plunder and punishment.

In July 1644, the House of Commons gave Cooper permission to leave London, and he soon joined parliamentary forces in Dorset.

On 14 July, Cromwell appointed Cooper to the English Council of State, where he was a member of the Committee for the Business of the Law, which was intended to continue the reform work of the Hale Commission.

On 16 July, Helene Cooper of the Wall Street Journal warned of an impending " massive mobilization against globalization " being planned for the end-of-year Seattle WTO conference.

On July 7, 2011, firefighter Lt. Shannon Stone from Brownwood, Texas was attending the Rangers game against the Oakland Athletics with his six year old son, Cooper Stone, when outfielder Josh Hamilton threw him a ball, as the father had asked.

* July 27 – John Frost, British Chartist leader ( b. 1784 )

Finally, in July 1849, the House of Commons voted on the Chartist petition and rejected it by 222 votes to 17.

Among the factors that precipitated the rising were the House of Commons ' rejection of the first Chartist petition on 12 July 1839 and the conviction of the Chartist Henry Vincent for illegal assembly and conspiracy on 2 August.

They returned on 18 July to a London seething with Chartist unrest, and Darwin copied and scribbled changes to his " Sketch " until it was almost illegible.

* In his poem " Inniskeen Road: July Evening ", the poet Patrick Kavanagh likens his loneliness on the road to that of Selkirk:

Craig Joseph Charles ( born 11 July 1964 ) is an English actor, comedian, author, poet, television presenter and radio DJ.

* 1919 – Qateel Shifai, Pakistani Urdu poet, Lyricist ( d. 11 July 2001 )

30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848 ) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889 ) was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

Hermanus " Herman " Brood ( pronounced " Hairmon Broat " / bro: t /; November 5, 1946 – July 11, 2001 ) was a Dutch musician, painter, actor, poet and media personality.

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

Malden was discovered on 30 July 1825 by Captain The 7th Lord Byron ( a cousin of the famous poet ).

Mervyn Laurence Peake ( 9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968 ) was a British writer, artist, poet and illustrator.

Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945 ) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher.

Francesco Petrarca ( 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374 ), known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet, and one of the earliest humanists.

* July 18 – Alfian bin Sa ' at, Singaporean writer, poet and playwright

* July 7 – Karina Galvez, Ecuadorian poet

* July 23 – Thakin Kodaw Hmaing, Burmese poet and politician ( b. 1876 )

* July 14 – Léo Ferré, French poet and singer-songwriter ( b. 1916 )

* July 27 – Michael Longley, Irish poet

* July 10 – Salvador Espriu, Catalan poet ( d. 1985 )

* July 15 – Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish language poet and memoirist ( d. 2010 )

* July 17 – Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet ( died 1938 )

* July 20 – Paul Valéry, French poet ( b. 1871 )

* July 30 – Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Russian poet, scientist and revolutionary ( b. 1854 )

* July 11 – William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor ( b. 1849 )

* July 12 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1973 )

* July 5 – Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet ( b. 1845 )