2, 19325 – Medgar Wiley Evers was an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi who was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith.
July 3, Robert Adam was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer.
July 4, 1776 – The United States of America
July 5, 1801 – David Glasgow Farragut was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
July 6, 1872 – John Campbell Greenway was an American mining, steel and railroad executive.
July 7, 1893 – Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright.
July 8, 1770 – Mary Ann McCracken was a social reformer. She was born in Belfast, the sister of the Irish rebel Henry Joy McCracken, who was executed in Belfast following his role in the Battle of Antrim in June 1798.
