July 20, 1919 – Explorer Edmund Hillary (the first person to climb Mt. Everest) is born in Auckland, New Zealand.
July 21, 1899 – Nobel Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway is born in Oak Park, Illinois.
July 24, 1783 – “The Liberator”, Simon Bolivar, is born in Caracas, Venezuela. He is known as the George Washington of South America for his efforts to liberate Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from the rule of Spain.
July 24, 1897 – American pilot Amelia Earhart (the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and to fly solo from Hawaii to California) is born in Atchison, Kansas.