• Build a Scarecrow Day (Date stays the same each year.)
  • An excellent Web site with lots of scarecrow information: www.kinderkorner.com/scarecrow.html
• Canada Day / Dominion Day (Date stays the same each year.)  Canada became a nation on July 1, 1867.
  • Dominion Day:  www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/jfa-ha/dominion_e.cfm
  • Canada Day:  www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/jfa-ha/canada_e.cfm
• Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day (July 1st - Date stays the same each year.)
  • Source: www.allabouticecream.com/History/nationaldays.html
• Financial Freedom Day - Observed July 1st each year
  • www.onlineorganizing.com/CalendarHoliday.asp?holiday=24
• International Joke Day (Date stays the same each year.)

Celebrity Birthdays July 1st:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 1st:

• Dan Aykroyd, 1952
• Pamela Lee Anderson, 1967
• Karen Black, 1942 (Actress)
• Olivia DeHavilland, 1916
• Princess Diana, 1961 - Click Here for biography
• Tommy Dorsey
• Jamie Farr, 1934 (Actor)
• Deborah Harry, 1945 (Singer)
• Estee Lauder, 1906. Created Estee Lauder Cosmetics. Died April 24, 2004.
• Carl Lewis
• Pat McCormick
• Liv Tyler, 1977

• Marlon Brando (actor) died July 1, 2004. Born April 3, 1924.
• Walter Matthau, (actor) died July 1, 2001. Born 1920. Official Web site: www.matthau.com
• Luther Vandross, R&B singer, died July 1, 2005 at the age of 54 from complications of a stroke

• Idaho became the 43rd state, 1890

Celebrity Birthdays July 3rd:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 3rd:

• Laura Branigan, 1957 (singer "Gloria") Died August 26, 2004 from an aneurysm.
• George M. Cohan, 1878 (Composer)
• John S. Copley, 1738 (American painter)
• Tom Cruise, 1962 (Actor)
• Montel Williams, 1956 (TV Personality)

• Jim Backus, actor, best known as Thurston Howell III on Gilligan's Island, died July 3, 1989 at the age of 76.

• Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, and John Hancock signed it, July 4, 1776
• Independence Day US - 4th of July - See ButlerWebs' special page for Independence Day

  • Greeting Cards for The 4th of July:
    www.123greetings.com/events/fourth_of_july/

  • See these special pages from ButlerWebs:
    • Independence Day (4th of July)
    • Patriotic Songs - Lyrics
    • Patriotic Recipes
    • Declaration of Independence
• Work began on the Erie Canal, 1817

Celebrity Birthdays July 4th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 4th:

• Louis Armstrong (Note correct date for Louis Armstrong's birthday - thank you Curtis for bringing this to our attention!)
  • "It was recently determined that Louis Armstrong's birthday is August 4, 1901. Armstrong himself is on record as stating his birthday as July 4, 1900." (Source: Click Here.)
  • "Louis himself believed that he was born on July 4th, 1900 and that date is still found in many jazz histories and reference books. In the mid-1980s, Armstrong expert Tad Jones discovered in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in New Orleans a baptismal certificate that indicates compellingly that Louis was actually born on August 4th, 1901." (Source:  www.satchmo.net.)
• Calvin Coolidge, 1872 (30th US President, born in Plymouth Notch, Vermont)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804 (American Author)
• Stephen Foster, 1826 (American songwriter of about 200 songs including "Oh! Susannah", "Camptown Races", "Beautiful Dreamer" (Died January 13, 1864 at the age of 37)
• Ann Landers, 1918 (Twin Sister of Abigail VanBuren, Advice Columnist)
• Gina Lollobrigida, 1927
• Mitch Miller, 1911
• Geraldo Revera, 1943
• Eva Marie Saint, 1924
• Pam Shriver
• Neil Simon, 1927 (Tony award-winning playright: "The Odd Couple", "Barefoot in the Park", "The Goodbye Girl"
• George Steinbrenner, 1930 (Owner of the New York Yankees)
• Abigail VanBuren, 1918 (Twin sister of Ann Landers & Advice Columnist)

• John Adams (Second US President) died July 4, 1826 - only hours after Thomas Jefferson died. (He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1735.)
• Thomas Jefferson died July 4, 1826 - the 50th anniversary of the signing of The Declaration of Independence.
• Barry White, Singer. Died July 4, 2003 at the age of 58. Born September 12, 1944 in Galveston TX, grew up in Los Angeles CA.

• Amendment 26 passed setting the voting age at 18 in the United States, 1971
• "Seinfeld" TV Series premiered July 5, 1989
• Venezuela's Independence Day

Celebrity Birthdays July 5th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 5th:

• P. T. Barnum, 1810 (American circus owner)
• Julie Nixon Eisenhower
• Huey Lewis, 1950
• Warren Oates, 1928

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• Republican Day (The Republican Party was formed, 1854)

Celebrity Birthdays July 6th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 6th:

• Ned Beatty, 1937 (Actor)
• George W. Bush, 43rd US President. Born July 6, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut, and grew up in Midland and Houston, Texas. He is married to Laura Bush and has twin daughters, Jenna & Barbara. For bio, see White House Web site - Click Here.
• Sebastian Cabot, 1918
• Gene Chandler
• Merv Griffin, 1925
• Shelly Hack
• Bill Haley, 1925 (Singer, musician)
• John Paul Jones, 1747 (American naval hero)
• Janet Leigh, 1927 (actress) - best known for the shower scene in the movie Pyscho. She was married to Tony Lee Curtis at one time and was the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis. She died October 3, 2004 from inflammation of the blood vessels at the age of 77.
• Pat Paulsen
• Nancy Reagan, 1921 - Former US First Lady, married to former US President Ronald Reagan.
• Della Reese, 1931
• Sylvester Stallone, 1946

• Buddy Ebsen (actor/dancer) died July 6, 2003. He was born April 2, 1908 and was best known for his TV role as Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies.
• Roy Rogers, Actor, Singer - died July 6, 1998 in Apple Valley, California.  He was born Leonard Slye on November 5, 1911 in Duck Run, Ohio. Official Web site www.royrogers.com.

• Bonza Bottler Day.  An excuse to celebrate. This happens every month when the day and the date are the same number. (May 5, June 6, July 7, etc.)
• Chocolate Day
  • Source: www.candyusa.org/Classroom/calendar.asp
• National Strawberry Sundae Day - July 7 (Date stays the same each year.)
  • Source: www.allabouticecream.com/History/nationaldays.html

Celebrity Birthdays July 7th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 7th:

• Pierre Cardin
• Shelly Duvall, 1949
• Satchell Paige
• Doc Severinsen, born in Arlington, Oregon on July 7, 1927. Musician and band leader (He was the band leader for the Tonight Show when Johnny Carson hosted it.) www.docseverinsen.com
• Ringo Starr, 1940

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• Wall Street Journal premiers, 1889

Celebrity Birthdays July 8th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 8th:

• Kevin Bacon, 1958
• Marty Feldman
• Anjelica Huston, 1951
• Steve Lawrence, 1935
• John D. Rockefeller, 1839
• Nelson Rockefeller, 1908
• Jerry Vale

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• Argentina's Independence Day
• Rock N Roll Day
  • Source: www.123greetings.com/events/rock_n_roll_day

Celebrity Birthdays July 9th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 9th:

• Ed Ames (Actor)
• Brian Dennehy, 1940 (Actor)
• Elias Howe, 1819 (American inventor)
• Courtney Love, 1965
• Kelly McGillis, 1957 (Actress)
• Tom Hanks, 1956 (Actor)
• Fred Savage, 1976
• O. J. Simpson, 1947
• Jimmy Smits, 1955 (Actor)
• John Tesh, 1952
• Courtney Love, 1965
• Dean Koontz, 1945 (Author)

• Isabel Sanford (Actress - TV Series The Jefferson's & All In The Family) died July 9, 2004 at the age of 86. Born August 29, 1917.

• Wyoming became the 44th state, 1890

Celebrity Birthdays July 10th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 10th:

• Arthur Ashe
• David Brinkley, 1920
• David Brinkley, 1920 (TV journalist.) He died June 11, 2003 after a fall.
• Ron Glass, 1945
• Fred Gwynne, 1926
• Arlo Guthrie, 1947
• Jean Kerr, writer (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) - born July 10, 1923. She died January 5, 2003 from pneumonia.
• Edward Lowe, Inventor of kitty litter - was born July 10, 1920 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He died on October 4, 1995. www.lowe.org
• J. A. M. Whistler, 1834 (American painter)

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• The movie "Beach Blanket Bingo" opened in 1965.

Celebrity Birthdays July 11th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 11th:

• John Quincy Adams, 1767 (6th President of the United States, born in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts. He died February 23, 1848.
• Yul Brynner, 1915 (July 12?)
• Leon Spinks, 1953

• Alexander Hamilton was killed by Aaron Burr in a duel, July 11, 1804.
• George Gershwin born in Brooklyn NY on 9/26/1898, died in Hollywood on 7/11/1937.
• Laurance Rockefeller (philanthropist) died July 11, 2004. Born May 26, 1910.

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Celebrity Birthdays July 12th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 12th:

• Milton Berle, 1908
• Yul Brynner, 1915 (Actor)
• George Washington Carver
• Bill Cosby, 1937
• George Eastman, 1854 (Inventor)
• Oscar Hammerstein
• Richard Simmons, 1948
• Henry David Thoreau, 1817
• Andrew Wyeth, 1917 (American painter)

• Lon Chaney, Jr. "The Master Monster" died July 12, 1973. He was born Creighton Tull Chaney on February 10, 1906 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and was was the son of silent screen star Lon Chaney. See Web site: www.lonchaney.com

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Celebrity Birthdays July 13th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 13th:

• Bob Crane, 1928
• Harrison Ford, 1942
• Cheech Marin, 1946
• Patrick Stewart, 1940

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• Bastille Day - France
  • Here's a link to a good Web site - What is Bastille Day?
• Pandemonium Day
  • Source:  www.123greetings.com/events/pandemonium_day/

Celebrity Birthdays July 14th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 14th:

• Ingmar Bergman, 1918
• John Chancellor, 1927
• Gerald R. Ford, 1913 (38th President of the United States, born in Omaha, Nebraska)
• Rosie Greer, 1932
• Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie - famed traveler and song writer "This Land Is Your Land")
• William Hanna, 1911

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• Cow Appreciation Day
  • Send an online card:  www.greeting-cards.com
  • See ButlerWebs page for Cows
• Gummi Worm Day
  • Source: www.candyusa.org/Classroom/calendar.asp

Celebrity Birthdays July 15th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 15th:

• Willie Ames, 1960
• Scott Foley, 1972
• Brian Austin Green, 1973
• Alex Karras
• Ken Kercheval (Actor)
• Brigitte Nielsen, 1963 (Actress)
• Rembrandt (Artist)
• Linda Ronstadt, 1946 (Singer)
• Jan-Michael Vincent, 1944
• Forest Whitaker, 1961 (Actor)

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• District of Columbia was established, 1790

Celebrity Birthdays July 16th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 16th:

• Corey Feldman, 1971
• Will Ferrell, 1967 (actor, Saturday Night Live)
• Orville Redenbacher (Popcorn) Born July 16, 1907. Died September 19, 1995 - drowned in bathtub after a heart attack. 
• Ginger Rogers, 1911
• Barbara Stanwyk, 1907

• Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Born January 7, 1966 (Died July 16, 1999 at the age of 33 in a plane crash along with her sister and husband, John F. Kennedy, Jr.
• John F. Kennedy, Jr. - Died July 16, 1999 in a plane crash along with his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and his sister-in-law.

• Disneyland opened 1955
• Fingerprint was first used as a means of identification, July 17, 1858
• Peach Ice Cream Day (National) - July 17 every year
  • Source: www.allabouticecream.com/History/nationaldays.html
• Spain officially turned Florida over to the United States, July 17, 1821.
• Spanish Civil War began, July 17-18, 1936

Celebrity Birthdays July 17th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 17th:

• Lucy Arnez
• Camilla Parker-Bowles, 1947 (Now married to Prince Charles)
• James Cagney, 1899
• Diahann Carroll, 1935
• Phyllis Diller, 1917
• David Hasselhoff, 1952 (Actor, Singer, Director) - born July 17, 1952 in Baltimore, MD. www.davidhasselhoff.com
• Art Linkletter, 1912
• Donald Sutherland, 1934

• Dizzy Dean, Baseball Player. Born Jerome Hanna Dean on January 16, 1910 in Lucas, Arkansas. Died July 17, 1974 in Reno, Nevada. Baseball Hall of Fame 1953. www.dizzydean.com
• Billie Holiday, (Jazz singer) - Born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia PA and spent most of her young life in Baltimore MD. Died on July 17, 1959 at the age of 44. The unofficial Billie Holiday Web site: www.ladyday.net or Click Here

• Chrysanthemum Day
  • We've seen this observance on the greeting card sites but no reference to it on the National Chrysanthemum Society Web site: www.mums.org

Celebrity Birthdays July 18th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 18th:

• James Brolin), 1940
• Van Diesel, 1967
• John Glenn, 1921
• Nelson Mandela, 1918
• Elizabeth McGovern, 1961
• Hariette Nelson, 1912
• Martha Reeves, 1941
• Red Skelton, 1910

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• The first Woman's Rights Convention in the United States met at Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19, 1848
• Flitch Day (From an old custom from long ago whereby bacon was given to married couples who could prove they had lived in harmony and fidelity for one year. Very few "took home the bacon.")

Celebrity Birthdays July 19th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 19th:

• Vikki Carr
• Samuel Colt, 1814 (Firearms inventor)
• Anthony Edwards, 1962
• Charles Horace Mayo, Surgeon - born July 19, 1865 in Rochester, Minnesota. Died May 26, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois. Co-Founder of the Mayo Clinic.
• George McGovern

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• Ice Cream Day (3rd Sunday in July)
  • Source:  www.allabouticecream.com/History/nationaldays.html
  • Photos from Life Magazine  www.life.com/Life/classicpictures/icecream/
• National Lollipop Day
  • Source: www.candyusa.org/Classroom/calendar.asp
• Moon Day
  • First Man on the Moon - U.S. astronaut Neil A. Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon, July 20, 1969.  He placed the United States Flag on the moon on this date.

Celebrity Birthdays July 20th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 20th:

• Sir Edmund Hillary
• Diana Rigg
• Carlos Santana, 1947
• Natalie Wood, 1938

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• Belgium's Independence Day
• National Hot Dog Day
  • Source: www.theholidayspot.com/hotdog

Celebrity Birthdays July 21st:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 21st:

• Ernest Hemingway, 1899 (American author and winner of the Nobel Prize.)
• Don Knotts, 1924
• Jon Lovitz, 1957
• Damian (Jr. Gong) Marley, 1978 (musician)
• Rob Morrow, 1962
• Janet Reno, 1938
• Cat Stevens, 1947
• Robin Williams, 1952

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• Liberation Day - Poland

Celebrity Birthdays July 22nd:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 22nd:

• Orson Bean
• William Dafoe, 1955
• Oscar DeLaRenta, 1932
• Bob Dole, 1923
• Don Henley, 1947
• Danny Glover, 1947 (Actor)
• Rose Kennedy
• Bobby Sherman
• David Spade, 1965 (Actor)
• Alex Trebek, 1940

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• Amelia Earhart Day
  • Official Amelia Earhart Web Site:  www.ameliaearhart.com
• Cousins Day
  • Send an online greeting card to your cousin: www.greetingcards.com
• Pioneer Day (Utah only) (Date stays the same each year.)
  • The Mormons settled Salt Lake City, Utah - July 24, 1847

Celebrity Birthdays July 24th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 24th:

• Barry Bonds
• Ruth Buzzi, 1936
• Lynda Carter, 1951
• Amelia Earhart, 1898(97?) (American aviator and first woman to fly across the Atlantic.)
• Jennifer Lopez, 1970

• Peter Sellers, 1925 (Actor) died of a heart attack on July 24, 1980. He was born Richard Henry Sellers on September 8, 1925 in Southsea, Hampshire, England. www.petersellers.com

• Constitution Day - Puerto Rico
• System Administrator Day - Observed annually on last Friday of July.
  •   Source: www.sysadminday.com

Celebrity Birthdays July 25th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 25th:

• Walter Brennan, 1894
• Estelle Getty, 1923
• Matt LeBlanc, 1967
• Walter Payton

• Geoffrey Chaucer, 1400 (poet, died at the age of 57)
• Roger Miller, 1992 (died of cancer)
• John Schlesinger (Director "Midnight Cowboy" and others) died July 25, 2003 at the age of 77.

• All or Nothing Day
  • Source:  www.kidzworld.com/site/p1097.htm
• Aunt & Uncle Day
  • We only found reference to this holiday on the greeting card Web sites.  Check out www.123greetings.com/events/aunts_and_uncles_day/
• Disability Independence Day - celebrating the anniversary of the signing of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Celebrity Birthdays July 26th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 26th:

• Gracie Allen, 1902
• Sandra Bullock, 1964
• Blake Edwards, 1922
• Mick Jagger, 1943
• Stanley Kubrick, 1928
• Jason Robards
• George Bernard Shaw, 1856
• Kevin Spacey, 1959
• Vivian Vance

• William S. Paley, 1990 (Founder of CBS at the age of 89)

• Accountant's Day
  • www.123greetings.com/events/accountants_day
• National Milk Chocolate Day
  • Source: www.candyusa.org/Classroom/calendar.asp
• Peru's Independence Day

Celebrity Birthdays July 28th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 28th:

• Elizabeth Berkley, 1972
• Lori Loughlin, 1964
• Jackie Kennedy Onassis, 1929
• Beatrix Potter, 1866
• Sally Struthers, 1948
• Rudy Vallee

• Jackson Beck, Died July 28, 2004 at the age of 92. (Voice of Bluto in the Popeye cartoons and voice saying "It's a bird, it's a plane" in the Superman cartoons.) Born July 23, 1912 in Manhattan NY. See bio Click Here
• William J. Mayo, Surgeon - born June 29, 1861 in Le Sueur, Minnesota. Died July 28, 1939. Co-founder of the Mayo Clinic. www.mayoclinic.com

• NASA's Anniversary
  • www.nasa.gov
• Rain Day (July 29th every year)
  • Source: The Internet's Official Rain Day Site: www.greenemessenger.com/rain/
• Prince Charles & Lady Diane were married, July 29, 1981.

Celebrity Birthdays July 29th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 29th:

• Ken Burns
• Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805 (Author of "Democracy in America")
• Henry Ford, 1863
• Peter Jennings, 1938
• Booth Tarkington, 1869 (American novelist)

• Cass Elliot (born Ellen Naomi Cohen) "Mama Cass" from the singing group, The Mama's and the Papa's, died on July 29, 1974 at the age of 32.  She was born September 19, 1941 in Baltimore, MD. www.casselliot.com

• Father-In-Law Day

Celebrity Birthdays July 30th:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 30th:

• Paul Anka, 1941
• Peter Bogdanovich
• Delta Burke, 1956
• Laurence Fishburne, 1961
• Henry Ford, 1863 in Michigan. Founder of The Ford Motor Company. Web site: www.hfmgv.org. Died April 7, 1947.
• Anita Hill
• Lisa Kudrow, 1963
• Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1947
• Casey Stengel

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• The first patent in the United States was registered on July 31, 1790 to Samuel Hopkins for an improvement "in the making Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process."
  • Source: www.me.utexas.edu/~lotario/paynter/hmp/The_First_Patent.html

Celebrity Birthdays July 31st:

Anniversaries of Deaths - July 31st:

• Peter Benenson, Founder of Amnesty International. Born July 31, 1921. Died February 25, 2005 at the age of 83. www.amnesty.org
• Gary Lewis
• Harry Potter
• Wesley Snipes, 1962

• Bobby Van, Entertainer. Born Robert Jack Stein on December 6, 1928 in the Bronx, NY. Died July 31, 1980 from a malignant brain tumor. Web site: www.bobbyvan.net