* July 23-John Hopkins, film and television writer

* July 23-John Babcock, Canada's last surviving World War I veteran ( d. 2010 )

The resignation of the Rev. Warren I. Densmore, headmaster of St. Stephen's Episcopal Day School in Coconut Grove, becomes effective July 15.

National Schools Tree Day is held on the last Friday of July for schools and National Tree Day the last Sunday in July throughout Australia.

National Tree Planting Day is on July 22.

National Tree Day is on the 2nd Thursday of July.

New Zealand's first Arbor Day planting was in Greytown in the Wairarapa on 3 July 1890.

Bastille Day is the name given in English-speaking countries to the French National Day, which is celebrated on the 14th of July each year.

The Bastille Day Military Parade is the French military parade that has been held on the morning of 14 July each year in Paris since 1880.

:* New York City has numerous Bastille Day celebrations each July, including Bastille Day on 60th Street hosted by the French Institute Alliance Française between Fifth and Lexington Avenues on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Bastille Day on Smith Street in Brooklyn, and Bastille Day in Tribeca.

Cartagena de Indias established a junta on May 22, 1810, followed others, including the viceregal capital, Bogotá, on July 20 ( today Colombia's Independence Day ).

Canada Day () is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act, 1867 ( today called the Constitution Act, 1867, in Canada ), which united three colonies into a single country called Canada within the British Empire.

Under the federal Holidays Act, Canada Day is observed on July 1 unless that date falls on a Sunday, in which case July 2 is the statutory holiday, although celebratory events generally take place on July 1 even though it is not the legal holiday.

Other events fell on the same day coincidentally, such as the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 — shortly after which Newfoundland recognized July 1 as Memorial Day to commemorate the Newfoundland Regiment's heavy losses during the battle — and the enactment of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923 — leading Chinese-Canadians to refer to July 1 as Humiliation Day and boycott Dominion Day celebrations until the act was repealed in 1947.

Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

" Meanwhile, Overkirk took the port of Ostend on 4 July thus opening a direct route to the English Channel for communication and supply, but the Allies were making scant progress against Dendermonde whose governor, the Marquis de Valée, was stubbornly resisting.

Rather, in modern times, the various autonomous houses have formed themselves loosely into congregations ( for example, Cassinese, English, Solesmes, Subiaco, Camaldolese, Sylvestrines ) that in turn are represented in the Benedictine Confederation that came into existence through Pope Leo XIII's Apostolic Brief " Summum semper " on July 12, 1883.

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.

Barney Bubbles ( born Colin Fulcher, 30 July 1942 – 14 November 1983 ) was a radical English graphic artist whose work encompassed graphic design and music video direction.

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

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.

A combination of miscalculation, misfortune, and an attack of English fire ships on 29 July off Gravelines which dispersed the Spanish ships to the northeast defeated the Armada.

On 28 July Leicester, who was in overall command of the English land troops, asked for instructions regarding Oxford, stating that " he seems most willing to hazard his life in this quarrel ".

As soon as Elihu Yale took over the administration of Fort St George on July 26, 1687, he implemented an order dated January 14, 1685 which required the English at Fort St George to make all attempts at procurement of the town of St Thome on lease.

Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM, FRS ( 8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004 ) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 together with James D. Watson.

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.

George Fox ( July 1624 – 13 January 1691 ) was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.

Henry Mayhew ( 25 November 1812-25 July 1887 ) was an English social researcher, journalist, playwright and advocate of reform.

"( Re ) defining the English Reformation ," Journal of British Studies, July 2009, Vol.

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris ( 10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969 ) was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes.

Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA ( 16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792 ) was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the " Grand Style " in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect.

James Whale ( 22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957 ) was an English film director, theatre director and actor.

Josiah Wedgwood ( 12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795 ) was an English potter, founder of the Wedgwood company, credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of pottery.

The present meaning of " Judeo-Christian " regarding ethics first appeared in print on July 27, 1939, with the phrase " the Judaeo-Christian scheme of morals " in the New English Weekly.

Michael George Francis Ventris, OBE ( 12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956 ) was an English architect who, along with John Chadwick and Alice Kober, deciphered Linear B, a previously unknown ancient script discovered at Knossos by Arthur Evans.

Governor Muñoz Marín inaugurated the new status called Estado Libre Asociado — or Free Associated State in English — and raised the Puerto Rican flag along with the national anthem of Puerto Rico for the first time on July 25, 1952 — date in which Puerto Ricans celebrate the Constitution of Puerto Rico ( see also: Holidays in Puerto Rico ).

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.

Elizabeth was persuaded to send a force into Scotland to aid the Protestant rebels, and though the campaign was inept, the resulting Treaty of Edinburgh of July 1560 removed the French threat in the north.

John Calvin (, born: 10 July 150927 May 1564 ) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation.

* July 16 – Anne Askew, English Protestant ( burned at the stake ) ( b. 1521 )

* July 3 – Under the terms of the Treaty of Ulm, the Protestant Union declares neutrality and ceases to support Frederick V of Bohemia.

On 29 July 1565 when Mary married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, some of the Protestant nobles rose up in rebellion including James Stewart.

* July 23 – John Day, English Protestant printer ( b. 1522 )

* July 28 – Charles Ancillon, French Protestant pastor ( d. 1715 )

* July 4 – John Frith, English Protestant priest and martyr ( b. 1503 )

* July 10 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant ( d. 1571 )

On 28 July 1683 in the Chapel Royal, Anne married the Protestant Prince George of Denmark, brother of King Christian V of Denmark ( and her second cousin once removed through Frederick II ).

But it was a general victory for William, and is still celebrated by the Protestant Orange Order on the Twelfth of July.

Mendocino Presbyterian Church on Main Street, dedicated on July 5, 1868, is one of the oldest continuously-used Protestant churches in California, and is designated as California Historical Landmark # 714.

Mary Baker Eddy ( July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910 ) was the founder of Christian Science ( 1879 ), a Protestant American system of religious thought and practice adopted by the Church of Christ, Scientist, and others.

The Protestant commanders decided they could not ignore the threat and combined their two largest armies near Augsburg on July the 12th, the Swabian-Alsatian Army under Gustav Horn and the so called Franconian Army under Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar.

In Northern Ireland, bonfires are lit on Halloween, October 31. and each 11 July, bonfires are lit by many Protestant communities to celebrate the victory of Williamite forces at the Battle of the Boyne, which took place on 12 July 1690.

Georg Fabricius ( April 23, 1516 – July 17, 1571 ), born Georg Goldschmidt, was a Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist.

So in July, 1788 he took a job at Fiquainville chateau in Normandy as tutor to the only son of the Comte d ' Héricy, a Protestant noble.

Worst of all for Frederick, on 3 July 1620, the Protestant Union signed the Treaty of Ulm ( 1620 ), thereby withdrawing their support for Frederick and declaring neutrality in the conflict between Frederick and the Catholic League.

Next to Edward Seymour, Prince Edward's maternal uncle, Dudley was one of the leaders of the Reformed party at court, and both their wives were among the friends of Anne Askew, the Protestant martyr destroyed by Bishop Stephen Gardiner in July 1546.

The feast day of St James is celebrated on 25 July on the liturgical calendars of the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran and certain Protestant churches.

Otto Pfleiderer ( September 1, 1839 – July 28, 1908 ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler, KH ( March 3, 1792 – July 8, 1854 ) was a Protestant German church historian.

Edouard Guillaume Eugène Reuss ( July 18, 1804 – April 15, 1891 ), was a Protestant theologian from Alsace.

On 9 July 1641 he addressed the Lords on behalf of the queen of Bohemia, expressing great loyalty to the king and royal family and urging the necessity of supporting the Protestant religion everywhere.