22nd July

Ambrose And His Orchestra record The Clouds Will Soon Roll By for Brunswick Records in London, UK.

Florenz Ziegfeld dies aged 65 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, from pleurisy related to a previous lung infection. Ziegfield was a hugely successful impresario, whose annual Broadway revue The Ziegfield Follies (based on The Folies Bergere in Paris, France) was an enduring success, earning him the nickname the "glorifier of the American girl".

Reginald Aubrey Fessenden dies in Bermuda, aged 65. In 1906 he sent the sound of a human voice by wireless telephony from a station at Brant Rock, eleven miles from Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, for hundreds of miles. The broadcast is said to have been heard by ships at sea. Fessenden is credited with originating the continuous-wave principle of wireless transmission and the heterodyne system of reception.