Historical Anniversaries this Week

July 14

 Births (350 years ago today): 1675 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French general (died 1747)

 Births (200 years ago today): 1825 - Georgiana Hill, English cookery book writer (died 1903)^[53]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Bruce L. Douglas, American politician (died 2025)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Tim Hudson, American baseball player^[80]

 Deaths (450 years ago today): 1575 - Richard Taverner, English translator (born 1505)

 Deaths (0 years ago today): 2025 - Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian Politician, 7th & 15th president of Nigeria (born 1942)

July 15

 Events (50 years ago today): 1975 - Space Race: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Philip Carey, American actor (died 2009)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Taylor Hardwick, American architect, designed Haydon Burns Library and Friendship Fountain Park (died 2014)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (died 2019)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Evan Hultman, American politician (died 2025)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Antony Carbone, American actor (died 2020)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Pandel Savic, American football player (died 2018)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Cherry, American wrestler and manager

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Danny Law, English cricketer

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Ben Pepper, Australian basketball player

July 16

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Frank Jobe, American sergeant and surgeon (died 2014)^[54]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Rosita Quintana, Argentine actress (died 2021)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Cal Tjader, American jazz musician (died 1982)^[55]

July 17

 Events (50 years ago today): 1975 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Jimmy Scott, American singer and actor (died 2014)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Mohammad Hasan Sharq, Afghan politician

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Andre Adams, New Zealand cricketer

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Elena Anaya, Spanish actress

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Darude, Finnish DJ and producer

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Loretta Harrop, Australian triathlete

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Konnie Huq, English television presenter^[34]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Terence Tao, Australian-American mathematician^[35]

 Deaths (300 years ago today): 1725 - Thomas King, English and British soldier, MP for Queenborough, lieutenant-governor of Sheerness (born before 1660?).^[62]

 Deaths (100 years ago today): 1925 - Lovis Corinth, German painter (born 1858)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (born 1893)

July 18

 Events (100 years ago today): 1925 - Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Shirley Strickland, Australian runner and hurdler (died 2004)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Friedrich Zimmermann, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (died 2012)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Raymond Jones, Australian Modernist architect (died 2022)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Windy McCall, American baseball relief pitcher (died 2015)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Torii Hunter, American baseball player

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Daron Malakian, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - M.I.A., English rapper and producer^[44]

 Deaths (100 years ago today): 1925 - Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (born 1840)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 - Vaughn Bod?, American illustrator (born 1941)

Commemorations:
Nelson Mandela International Day

July 19

 Births (150 years ago today): 1875 - Alice Dunbar Nelson, American poet and activist (died 1935)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Sue Thompson, American singer (died 2021)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Luca Castellazzi, Italian footballer

 Deaths (100 years ago today): 1925 - John Indermaur, British lawyer (born 1851)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 - Lefty Frizzell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1928)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 - John Alan Coey, American mercenary and medic in the Rhodesian Bush War^[47]

July 20

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Jacques Delors, French economist and politician, 8th President of the European Commission (died 2023)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 - Frantz Fanon, French-Algerian psychiatrist and philosopher (died 1961)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Ray Allen, American basketball player and actor

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Judy Greer, American actress and producer

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Erik Hagen, Norwegian footballer

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Birgitta Ohlsson, Swedish journalist and politician, 5th Swedish Minister for European Union Affairs

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Jason Raize, American singer and actor (died 2004)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 - Yusuf ?im?ek, Turkish footballer and manager