Fun Facts to Celebrate a July Birthday
Celebrating a July birthday? Download this July birth month fun facts sheet to display at a birthday party or give with a birthday gift. Included are the July birthstone and flower, a few fun holidays, interesting people born in July, and this month in history events.
July Birthstone
July’s birthstone is a ruby, which is also the gemstone designated for the 15th and 40th wedding anniversaries. Known for its fiery red color, it does come in a range of colors ranging from a deep, bright pink to magenta.
A secondary birthstone recognized for July is onyx, a hard black stone that was popularly used to make cameo jewelry in the Victorian era.
July Flower
The traditional birth flower for July is the larkspur (delphinium). Larkspur is associated with lightness and a carefree spirit. These flowers come in purple, pink, and white varieties.
July also has a secondary birth flower, the water lily (nymphaea). Common meanings associated with water lilies are innocence and renewal. As the name suggests, water lilies are often used in water gardens and come in white, pink, yellow, and red varieties.
July Quote or Poem
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
John Burroughs
July Fun Holidays
National Ice Cream Month
National Watermelon Month
National Etch-a-Sketch Day (7/12)
National Fortune Cookie Day (7/20)
Tell an Old Joke Day (7/24)
Famous July Birthdays
Marc Chagall (Russian-French early modernist)
Kristi Yamaguchi (ice-skating)
E.B. White (Charlotte’s Web)
Gustav Mahler (classical composer)
Frances Arnold (American chemical engineer)
Estée Lauder (co-founder of the Estée Lauder cosmetics company)
Erno Rubik (invented the Rubik’s cube)
George Washington Carver (developed techniques to improve soil)
Irene Fischer (Austrian-American mathematician and geodesist)
Rosalind Franklin (contributed to discovering the structure of DNA)
Milton Friedman (American economist who extolled the virtues of a free market system)
Henry Ford (founder of the Ford Motor Company and developer of the assembly line)
July Events in History
Declaration of Independence (1776)
IRS established (1862)
Air conditioner invented (1902)
Einstein’s theory of relativity (1905)
Boeing Company founded (1916)
Sliced bread created and marketed (1928)
Monopoly board game copyrighted (1933)
Silly Putty trademarked (1952)
Disneyland opened (1955)
First Walmart opened (1962)
Jeff Bezos founds Amazon (1994)
July Birth Month Fact Sheet
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