* July 2 – Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer ( b. 1520 )

1520 – 2 July 1591 ) was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and the father of the famous astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei and of the lute virtuoso and composer Michelagnolo Galilei.

* July 2 – Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer, lutenist and music theorist, father of Galileo ( born 1520 )

Alessandro Algardi ( 31 July 1598 – 10 June 1654 ) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was the major rival of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610 ) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610.

140 bis of the Italian consumers ' code and will be in force from 1 July 2009.

This delineation existed until July 1932, when the Italian government expanded the Chianti zone to include the outlying areas of Barberino Val d ' Elsa, Chiocchio, Robbiano, San Casciano in Val di Pesa and Strada.

* 1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10, 1973.

The Italian Eritreans strongly rejected the Ethiopian annexation of Eritrea after the war: the Party of Shara Italy was established in Asmara in July 1947 and the majority of the members were former Italian soldiers with many Eritrean Ascari ( the organization was even backed up by the government of Italy ).

Fabio Taglioni ( September 10, 1920 – July 18, 2001 ) was an Italian engineer.

Francesco I Sforza ( July 23, 1401 – March 8, 1466 ) was an Italian condottiero, the founder of the Sforza dynasty in Milan, Italy.

The next day, 3 July, Rommel ordered the Afrika Korps to resume its attack on the Ruweisat ridge with the Italian XX Motorised Corps on its southern flank.

As President of the Republic, Cossiga was Head ( and also Knight Grand Cross with Grand Cordon ) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( from 3 July 1985 to 28 April 1992 ), Military Order of Italy, Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, Order of Merit for Labour and Order of Vittorio Veneto and Grand Cross of Merit of the Italian Red Cross.

In July 2011, Italian newspaper Corierre della Sera reported, based on American and Turkish sources, that Hezbollah was behind a bombing in Istanbul in May 2011 that wounded eight Turkish civilians.

On July 1, 2012, against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Brewers wore green batting practice uniforms with red and white trim, a nod to the Italian flag, as part of " Italian Heritage Day ".

Matilda of Tuscany ( Italian: Matilde, Latin: Matilda, Mathilda ) ( 1046 – 24 July 1115 ) was an Italian noblewoman, the principal Italian supporter of Pope Gregory VII during the Investiture Controversy.

Michele Columbu ( 8 February 1914 – 10 July 2012 ) was an Italian politician and writer from Ollolai, Sardinia.

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.

It was announced in July 2009 that the Belgian dredging company Jan De Nul, together with a consortium of contractors consisting of the Spanish Sacyr Vallehermoso, the Italian Impregilo, and the Panamanian company Grupo Cusa, had been awarded the contract to build the six new locks.

On the following day, 31 July 1944, in view of the likely invasion by German forces, the state sent three letters of protest: one to Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to Serafino Mazzolini, a high-ranking diplomat in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

* From May to July 1997, Slovenia contributed to Operation ALBA in Albania with a 25-person medical unit, which was well received and commended by the Italian commander.

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski () ( July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950 ) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist.

Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

Gary Arlen Kildall ( May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994 ) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP / M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc. ( DRI ).

James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS, Ph. D ( born 26 July 1919 ) is an independent scientist, environmentalist and futurologist who lives in Devon, England.

NASA sent a scientist on Jacques Piccard's Ben Franklin submarine in the Gulf Stream in July and August 1969, to learn how six people would live in an enclosed space for four weeks.

* July 17 – The New York Times publicly takes back the ridicule of the rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard published in 13 Jan 1920 that spaceflight is impossible.

* July 2 – Richard Axel, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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

* July 6 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1982 )

* July 23 – Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1875 )

* July 15 – Albert Ghiorso, American nuclear scientist ( d. 2010 )

* July 7 – Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Russian poet, scientist and revolutionary ( d. 1946 )

* July 27 – Jacob van der Hoeden, Dutch-Israeli veterinary scientist ( d. 1968 )

* July 2 – Stephen Walt, American political scientist

* July 28 – Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 2011 )

* July 12 – Peeter Põld, Estonian pedagogical scientist and politician ( d. 1930 )

* July 1 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician ( d. 1716 )

* July 18 – Robert Hooke, English scientist ( d. 1703 )

* July 16 – John Cocke, American computer scientist ( b. 1925 )

* July 14 – Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoire about the molecular content of gases.

* July 10 – Eva Ekeblad, Swedish scientist ( d. 1786 )

* July 21 – Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist ( d. 1792 )

Camillo Golgi ( July 7, 1843 – January 21, 1926 ) was an Italian physician, pathologist, scientist, and Nobel laureate.

Alexander Dallas Bache ( July 19, 1806 – February 17, 1867 ) was an American physicist, scientist and surveyor who erected coastal fortifications and conducted a detailed survey mapping of the United States coastline.

Jean-Paul Marat (; 24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793 ), born in the Principality of Neuchâtel, was a physician, political theorist, and scientist best known for his career in France as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution.