July 1901 calendar

Events

• 02 Jul 1901 Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner, Montana
• 12 Jul 1901 Cy Young wins his 300th game
• 15 Jul 1901 New York Giants Christy Mathewson no-hits Saint Louis, 5-0.
• 22 Jul 1901 Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro
• 24 Jul 1901 O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
• 29 Jul 1901 The Socialist Party of America is founded.
• 31 Jul 1901 Abraham Kuyper becomes Premier of the Netherlands

Famous Birthday

• Vittorio de Sica

  Italian actor / director (Boccacio 70).

• Jean Dubuffet

  French painter, a sophisticated primitive, painting full time after 1942.

• Yvonne-Aimee de Malestroit
• Barbara Cartland

  British author of hundreds of books on philosophy, history, sociology, cooking, drama, verse and autobiographies - but primarily, romance...

• Nicola Abbagnano

  Italian philosopher, an existentialist in the tradition of Heidegger and Jaspers.

• Charles Weidman

  American dancer, one of the three leaders of the revolt in dance in the 1930s along with Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey.

• Gustav Knuth

  German actor who made his debut in "Der Ammenkonig" in 1935.

• Claude Aveline

  French writer, publisher, editor, poet and member of the French Resistance.

• Véra Korène
• Rudy Vallee

  Vermont, United States -- Singer (Vagabond Dreams, My Time Is Your Time).

• Ermenegildo Florit

  Italian ecclesiastic, a Roman Catholic priest and the Archbishop of Florence 1962-1977.

• James Kirsch

  American Jungian analyst and author.

• Corentin Celton
• Bruno Jasienski

  Polish poet (d. 1938).

• Mickey "Toy

  Bulldog" Walker welterweight boxing champion (1922-26).

• Walter Breedveld / Reinier de Muntel

  Writer (Een ship vergaat).

• Dame Barbara Cartland

  English novelist (d. 2000).

• Sandor Vandor

  Composer.

• Vehbi Koc

  Indistrialist / philanthropist.

• Robert Allenby

  Melbourne, Victoria -- Golfer.

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Famous Deaths

• John Fiske [Edmund Fisk Green]

  US Historian / philosopher.

• John Farmer

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Alfredo Carlo Piatti

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst

  Chancellor of Germany (Born 1819).

• William Cosmo Monkhouse

  English poet and critic (Born 1840).

• Johanna Spyri

  Swiss-born author of stories for children, widely known for her book "Heidi".

• Johannes Schmidt

  German linguist (Born 1843).

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Top #3 songs in the USA

1. Cal Stewart - Jim Lawson's Horse Trade with Deacon Witherspoon
2. Arthur Collins & Joe Natus - I Never Trouble Trouble Until Trouble Troubles Me
3. Dan Quinn - You Can't Keep a Good Man Down