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July Birthdays Through History

July Birthdays

  • 7/1/1633 :Johann H. Heidegger, theologist of reformation.
  • 7/1/1646 :Gottfried Leibnitz, German philosopher.
  • 7/1/1804 :George Sand (Amandine Aurore Lucile (Dupin) Dudevant), French novelist.
  • 7/1/1807 :Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer and agriculturist.
  • 7/1/1853 :Cecil John Rhodes, South African millionaire.
  • 7/1/1872 :Louis Bleriot, French aviator (first to fly the English channel).
  • 7/1/1892 :James M. Cain.
  • 7/1/1899 :Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr, fictional archeologist.
  • 7/1/1908 :Estee Lauder, cosmetics executive.
  • 7/1/1916 :Olivia de Havilland, actress.
  • 7/1/1922 :Jean-Pierre Rampal, musician.
  • 7/1/1925 :Farley Granger, actor.
  • 7/1/1931 :Leslie Caron, actress-dancer.
  • 7/1/1934 :Jamie Farr (Jameel Farah), actor.
  • 7/1/1934 :Jean Marsh, actress.
  • 7/1/1934 :Sydney Pollack, movie director.
  • 7/1/1941 :Twyla Tharp, actor-choreographer.
  • 7/1/1942 :Karen Black, actress.
  • 7/1/1945 :Deborah Harry, rock singer.
  • 7/1/1952 :Dan Aykroyd, actor-comedian.
  • 7/1/1960 :Evelyn “Champagne” King, singer.
  • 7/1/1961 :Carl Lewis, track athlete.
  • 7/1/1961 :Princess Diana, Princess of Wales.
  • 7/2/1489 :Thomas Cranmer, English clergyman.
  • 7/2/1714 :Christoph Willibald Ritters von Gluck, German composer.
  • 7/2/1877 :Herman Hesse, German novelist.
  • 7/2/1903 :King Olav V of Norway.
  • 7/2/1905 :Rene Lacoste, tennis player.
  • 7/2/1908 :Thurgood Marshall, former US Supreme Court Justice.
  • 7/2/1922 :Dan Rowan, comedian.
  • 7/2/1925 :Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of Congo.
  • 7/2/1926 :Medgar Evers, civil rights activist.
  • 7/2/1927 :Brock Peters, actor-singer.
  • 7/2/1929 :Imelda Marcos, former Philipine first lady.
  • 7/2/1937 :Polly Holiday, actress.
  • 7/2/1939 :John H. Sununu, former US White House chief of staff.
  • 7/2/1939 :Michael N. Castle, Delaware Congressman.
  • 7/2/1946 :Ron Silver.
  • 7/2/1947 :Luci Baines Johnson Turpin, daughter of Lyndon Baines Johnson.
  • 7/2/1961 :Jimmy McNichol, actor.
  • 7/2/1964 :Jose Canseco, baseball player.
  • 7/3/1731 :Samuel Huntington, president of Continental Congress.
  • 7/3/1860 :Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
  • 7/3/1871 :William Henry Davies, Welsh poet and writer.
  • 7/3/1878 :George M. Cohan, playwright and songwriter.
  • 7/3/1883 :Franz Kafka, German novelist.
  • 7/3/1900 :John Mason Brown, author.
  • 7/3/1906 :George Sanders, actor.
  • 7/3/1908 :M.F.K. Fisher.
  • 7/3/1909 :Stavros Spyros Niarchos, shipping executive.
  • 7/3/1927 :Ken Russell, movie director.
  • 7/3/1930 :Pete Fountain, musician.
  • 7/3/1937 :Tom Stoppard, playwright.
  • 7/3/1947 :Betty Buckley, actress.
  • 7/3/1951 :Jean-Claude Duvalier, exiled Haitian dictator.
  • 7/3/1952 :Alan Autry.
  • 7/3/1957 :Laura Branigan, singer.
  • 7/3/1959 :Andreas Wisniewski, actor.
  • 7/3/1962 :Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, actor (“Top Gun”).
  • 7/4/1804 :Nathaniel Hawthorne, author.
  • 7/4/1826 :Stephen Foster, songwriter (Oh! Susanna”).
  • 7/4/1847 :James Bailey, circus operator.
  • 7/4/1872 :Calvin Coolidge, 30th US president.
  • 7/4/1883 :Rube Goldberg, newspaper cartoonist.
  • 7/4/1885 :Louis B. Mayer, film producer.
  • 7/4/1900 :Louis Armstrong, jazz musician.
  • 7/4/1911 :Mitch Miller, conductor.
  • 7/4/1912 :Virginia Graham, TV personality.
  • 7/4/1918 :Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Esther Friedman), advice columnist.
  • 7/4/1918 :Ann Landers (Mrs. Esther Pauline [Friedman] Lederer), advice
  • :columnist.
  • 7/4/1920 :Leona Helmsley, hotel executive.
  • 7/4/1924 :Eva Marie Saint, actress.
  • 7/4/1927 :Neil Simon, playwright.
  • 7/4/1928 :Gina Lolabrigida, actress.
  • 7/4/1929 :Al Davis, football team executive.
  • 7/4/1930 :George Steinbrenner, New York Yankees owner.
  • 7/4/1943 :Geraldo Rivera, TV reporter.
  • 7/4/1946 :Ron Kovic.
  • 7/4/1957 :Jawann Oldhem, basketball player.
  • 7/4/1962 :Pam Shriver, tennis player.
  • 7/4/1965 :Harvey Grant, basketball player.
  • 7/4/1965 :Horace Junior Grant, basketball player.
  • 7/5/1755 :Sarah Siddons, English actress.
  • 7/5/1781 :Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore.
  • 7/5/1801 :David Farragut, first US Navy Admiral.
  • 7/5/1810 :Phineas Taylor Barnum, showman.
  • 7/5/1857 :Clara Zetkin, German women’s rights advocate.
  • 7/5/1879 :Dwight Davis, founder of the Davis cup tennis tournament.
  • 7/5/1889 :Jean Cocteau, French writer and film director.
  • 7/5/1902 :Henry Cabot Lodge Jr, politician-diplomat.
  • 7/5/1904 :Milburn Stone, actor.
  • 7/5/1924 :Janos Starker, musician.
  • 7/5/1933 :Terence Cooper, Irish actor.
  • 7/5/1934 :Katherine Helmond, actress.
  • 7/5/1937 :Shirley Knight, actress.
  • 7/5/1942 :Eliot Feld, dancer.
  • 7/5/1944 :Robbie Robertson, musician and actor.
  • 7/5/1948 :Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
  • 7/5/1951 :Huey Lewis (Hugh Anthony Cregg III), singer.
  • 7/5/1951 :Richard “Goose” Gossage, baseball player.
  • 7/5/1956 :James Lofton, football player.
  • 7/6/1747 :John Paul Jones, founder of the US Navy.
  • 7/6/1866 :(Helen) Beatrix Potter, author (“The Tale of Peter Rabbit”).
  • 7/6/1915 :Laverne Andrews, singer.
  • 7/6/1919 :Dorothy Kirsten, opera singer.
  • 7/6/1922 :William Schallert, actor.
  • 7/6/1923 :Nancy Davis Reagan (Anne Francis Robbins), former US first lady.
  • 7/6/1923 :Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish army officer and political leader.
  • 7/6/1925 :Bill Haley, rock ‘n’ roll pioneer.
  • 7/6/1925 :Merv Griffin, TV personality.
  • 7/6/1927 :Janet Leigh, actress.
  • 7/6/1927 :Pat Paulsen, comedian.
  • 7/6/1932 :Della Reese (Deloreese Patricia Early), singer.
  • 7/6/1937 :Ned Beatty, actor.
  • 7/6/1945 :Burt Ward, actor (“Batman”).
  • 7/6/1946 :Fred Dryer, football player and actor.
  • 7/6/1946 :Sylvester Stallone, actor.
  • 7/6/1952 :Grant Goodeve, actor.
  • 7/6/1954 :Allyce Beasley, actress.
  • 7/7/1860 :Gustav Mahler, composer.
  • 7/7/1887 :Marc Chagall, painter.
  • 7/7/1899 :George Cukor, film director.
  • 7/7/1906 :Satchel Paige, baseball player.
  • 7/7/1907 :Robert Heinlein, science fiction author.
  • 7/7/1911 :Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian composer.
  • 7/7/1919 :William M. Kuntsler, attorney.
  • 7/7/1922 :Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer.
  • 7/7/1927 :Alan J. Dixon, former Illinois Senator.
  • 7/7/1927 :Doc Severinson, bandleader.
  • 7/7/1928 :Vince Edwards, actor.
  • 7/7/1933 :David McCullough, historian and author.
  • 7/7/1940 :Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), former Beatle.
  • 7/7/1946 :Joe Spano, actor.
  • 7/7/1949 :Shelley Duvall, actress.
  • 7/7/1958 :Matt Suhey, football player.
  • 7/7/1959 :Jessica Hahn, secretary.
  • 7/7/1960 :Ralph Lee Sampson, basketball player.
  • 7/7/1969 :Cree Summer, actress.
  • 7/8/1621 :La Fontaine.
  • 7/8/1838 :Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, dirigible inventor.
  • 7/8/1839 :John D. Rockefeller, oil magnate.
  • 7/8/1857 :Alfred Binet, French psychologist.
  • 7/8/1908 :Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, former US vice president.
  • 7/8/1913 :Walter Kerr, drama critic.
  • 7/8/1914 :Billy Eckstine, jazz singer.
  • 7/8/1917 :George Wilcken Romney, former Michigan Governor.
  • 7/8/1929 :Shirley Ann Grau.
  • 7/8/1931 :Roone Arledge, president of ABC News and Sports.
  • 7/8/1932 :Jerry Vale, singer.
  • 7/8/1934 :Edward D. Diprete, Rhode Island Governor.
  • 7/8/1935 :Steve Lawrence (Sidney Liebowitz), singer-actor.
  • 7/8/1940 :Gerald L. Baliles, former Virginia Governor.
  • 7/8/1942 :William Philip (Phil) Gramm, Texas Senator.
  • 7/8/1943 :Alyce Faye Wattleton, executive director of Planned Parenthood
  • :Federation of America.
  • 7/8/1946 :Cynthia Gregory, ballet dancer.
  • 7/8/1948 :Kim Darby, actress.
  • 7/8/1948 :Raffi Cavoukian, children’s singer and songwriter.
  • 7/8/1951 :Anjelica Huston, actress.
  • 7/8/1958 :Fred Young.
  • 7/8/1958 :Kevin Bacon, actor.
  • 7/8/1965 :Corey Parker.
  • 7/9/1764 :Ann Ward Radcliffe, English novelist (“The Romance of the
  • :Forest”).
  • 7/9/1819 :Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine.
  • 7/9/1879 :Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer.
  • 7/9/1887 :Samuel Eliot Morison, historian.
  • 7/9/1904 :Barbara Cartland, English romance novelist.
  • 7/9/1916 :Edward Heath, former British prime minister.
  • 7/9/1924 :Leonard Pennario, musician and composer.
  • 7/9/1926 :Mathilde Krim, geneticist and philanthropist.
  • 7/9/1927 :Ed Ames, actor-singer.
  • 7/9/1936 :James Hampton, actor.
  • 7/9/1937 :David Hockney, English artist.
  • 7/9/1940 :Brian Dennehy, actor.
  • 7/9/1947 :O.J. Simpson, football player and actor.
  • 7/9/1951 :Angelica Huston, actress. (7/8?)
  • 7/9/1952 :John Tesh, “Entertainment Tonight” host and composer.
  • 7/9/1953 :Margaret Gillis, dancer and choreographer.
  • 7/9/1956 :Jimmy Smits, actor.
  • 7/9/1956 :Tom Hanks, actor.
  • 7/9/1957 :Kelly McGillis, actress.
  • 7/9/1976 :Fred Savage, actor.
  • 7/10/1509:John Calvin, Protestant theologian.
  • 7/10/1792:George Mifflin Dallas, 11th US vice president.
  • 7/10/1834:James Abbott McNeill Whistler, US painter.
  • 7/10/1871:Marcel Proust, French novelist.
  • 7/10/1875:Edmund Clerihew Bentley, journalist and author.
  • 7/10/1875:Mary McLeod Bethune, black educator.
  • 7/10/1882:Ima Hogg, founder of the Houston Symphony.
  • 7/10/1915:Saul Bellow, novelist.
  • 7/10/1920:David Brinkley, TV news anchor and commentator.
  • 7/10/1921:Jake LaMotta, boxer.
  • 7/10/1923:Jean Kerr, author.
  • 7/10/1926:Fred Gwynne, actor.
  • 7/10/1927:David N. Dinkins, New York City Mayor.
  • 7/10/1931:Alice Munro.
  • 7/10/1933:Jerry Herman, Broadway composer.
  • 7/10/1943:Arthur Ashe, tennis star.
  • 7/10/1945:Virginia Wade, tennis player.
  • 7/10/1946:Sue Lyon, actress.
  • 7/10/1947:Arlo Guthrie, singer and composer.
  • 7/10/1954:Andre Dawson, baseball player.
  • 7/10/1960:Roger Timothy Craig, football player.
  • 7/11/1754:Dr. Thomas Bowdler, self-appointed censor.
  • 7/11/1767:John Quincy Adams, 6th US president.
  • 7/11/1899:E.B. White, author (“Charlotte’s Web”).
  • 7/11/1920:Yul Brynner, actor.
  • 7/11/1925:Nicolai Gedda, opera singer.
  • 7/11/1927:Theodore Maiman, physicist and inventor of the laser.
  • 7/11/1930:Harold Bloom, literary critic.
  • 7/11/1931:Tab Hunter (Arthur Gelien), actor.
  • 7/11/1951:Bonnie Pointer, singer.
  • 7/11/1953:Leon Spinks, boxer.
  • 7/11/1959:Richie Sambora.
  • 7/11/1959:Suzanne Vega, singer.
  • 7/12/-100:Julius Caesar, Roman emperor.
  • 7/12/1730:Josiah Wedgewood, English pottery designer and manufacturer.
  • 7/12/1817:Henry David Thoreau, US writer.
  • 7/12/1849:Sir William Osler, physician and teacher.
  • 7/12/1854:George Eastman, photography pioneer.
  • 7/12/1884:Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor.
  • 7/12/1895:Oscar Hammerstein II, American librettist.
  • 7/12/1895:R. Buckminster Fuller, author-architect and inventor of the
  • :geodesic dome.
  • 7/12/1904:Pablo Neruda.
  • 7/12/1908:Milton Berle (Milton Berlinger), comedian.
  • 7/12/1917:Andrew Wyeth, US painter.
  • 7/12/1921:Ellen Douglas.
  • 7/12/1922:Mark O. Hatfield, Oregon Senator.
  • 7/12/1925:Roger B. Smith, General Motors Chairman.
  • 7/12/1934:Van Cliburn (Harvey Lavan, Jr), pianist.
  • 7/12/1937:William (“Bill”) Henry Cosby Jr, comedian.
  • 7/12/1943:Christine McVie, singer and musician.
  • 7/12/1948:Richard Simmons, TV personality.
  • 7/12/1951:Cheryl Ladd (Cheryl Stoppelmoor), actress.
  • 7/12/1957:Mel Harris, actress.
  • 7/12/1971:Kristi Yamaguchi, Olympic gold medal figure skater.
  • 7/13/1587:Doctor John Dee.
  • 7/13/1729:John Parker, captain of the minutemen.
  • 7/13/1821:Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate cavalry commander.
  • 7/13/1873:Mary Emma Wooley, American educator.
  • 7/13/1928:Bob Crane, actor (“Hogan’s Heroes”).
  • 7/13/1933:David Storey, author and playwright.
  • 7/13/1934:Wole Soyinka, author.
  • 7/13/1935:Jack Kemp, former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
  • 7/13/1940:Patrick Stewart, actor.
  • 7/13/1941:Robert Forster, actor.
  • 7/13/1942:Harrison Ford, actor.
  • 7/13/1942:Roger McGuinn (James Joseph McGuinn), guitarist and singer.
  • 7/13/1944:Erno Rubik, inventor (Rubik’s cube).
  • 7/13/1946:Cheech Marin, comedian.
  • 7/13/1954:Louise Mandrell, singer.
  • 7/13/1957:Cameron Crowe.
  • 7/13/1963:Spud (Anthony Jerome) Webb, basketball player.
  • 7/14/1486:Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter.
  • 7/14/1858:Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette.
  • 7/14/1903:Irving Stone, author.
  • 7/14/1904:Isaac Bashevis Singer, author.
  • 7/14/1912:Woodrow Wilson “Woodie” Guthrie, folk singer.
  • 7/14/1913:Gerald Rudolph Ford (Leslie King), 38th US president.
  • 7/14/1917:Edward Douglas, broadcast journalist.
  • 7/14/1918:Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director.
  • 7/14/1927:John Chancellor, NBC-TV news broadcaster.
  • 7/14/1930:Polly Bergen, actress and singer.
  • 7/14/1931:Robert Stephens, actor and director.
  • 7/14/1932:Rosey Grier, football player and actor.
  • 7/14/1947:Steve Stone, sportscaster.
  • 7/14/1963:John Dopson, baseball player.
  • 7/14/1970:Missy Gold, actress.
  • 7/15/1573:Inigo Jones, English architect.
  • 7/15/1606:Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter.
  • 7/15/1779:Clement Clarke Moore, US author (“A Visit from St. Nicholas”).
  • 7/15/1796:Thomas Bullfinch.
  • 7/15/1850:Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, first US Roman Catholic saint.
  • 7/15/1905:Dorothy Fields, lyricist.
  • 7/15/1919:Iris Murdoch.
  • 7/15/1933:Julian Bream, musician.
  • 7/15/1935:Alex Karras, football player and actor.
  • 7/15/1935:Ken Kercheval, actor.
  • 7/15/1936:George V. Voinovich, Ohio Governor.
  • 7/15/1944:Jan-Michael Vincent, actor.
  • 7/15/1946:Linda Ronstadt, singer.
  • 7/15/1960:Kim Alexis, model.
  • 7/15/1960:Willie Aames, actor.
  • 7/15/1969:Rain Pryor, actress.
  • 7/15/1973:Brian Austin Green, actor.
  • 7/16/1723:Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter.
  • 7/16/1821:Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church.
  • 7/16/1872:Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer.
  • 7/16/1888:Percy Kilbride, actor (“Pa Kettle”).
  • 7/16/1907:Barbara Stanwyck (Ruby Stevens), actress.
  • 7/16/1907:Orville Redenbacher.
  • 7/16/1911:Ginger Rogers (Virginia Katherine McNath), actress-dancer.
  • 7/16/1915:Barnard Hughes, actor.
  • 7/16/1924:Bess Myerson, former Miss America (1945).
  • 7/16/1928:Anita Brookner.
  • 7/16/1932:Dick Thornburgh, former US Attorney General.
  • 7/16/1934:Katherine D. Ortega, Treasurer of the US.
  • 7/16/1937:Richard H. Bryan, Nevada Governor.
  • 7/16/1942:Margaret Court, tennis player.
  • 7/16/1948:Pinchas Zuckerman, violinist.
  • 7/16/1948:Ruben Blades, singer and composer.
  • 7/16/1952:Stewart Copeland, rock drummer.
  • 7/16/1968:Barry Sanders, football player.
  • 7/16/1971:Corey Feldman, actor.
  • 7/17/1674:Isaac Watts, English clergyman and writer of “O God, Our Help in
  • :Ages Past.”
  • 7/17/1744:Elbridge Gerry, 5th US vice president.
  • 7/17/1763:John Jacob Astor, fur trader and financier.
  • 7/17/1859:Luis Munoz-Rivera, Puerto Rican patriot.
  • 7/17/1889:Erle Stanley Gardner, US mystery writer (Perry Mason series).
  • 7/17/1899:James Francis Cagney, actor.
  • 7/17/1902:Christina Stead, novelist (“The Man Who Loved Children”).
  • 7/17/1912:Art Linkletter, TV personality.
  • 7/17/1917:Lou Boudreau, baseball player.
  • 7/17/1917:Phyllis Diller (Phyllis Driver), comedian.
  • 7/17/1920:Juan Antonio Samaranch, chairman of the International Olympic
  • :Committee.
  • 7/17/1922:Tetsuro Tamba, actor.
  • 7/17/1934:Donald Sutherland, actor.
  • 7/17/1934:Pat McCormick, comedy writer.
  • 7/17/1935:Diahann Carroll (Carol Diahann Johnson), actress-singer.
  • 7/17/1951:Lucy Arnaz, actress.
  • 7/17/1952:David Hasselhoff, actor.
  • 7/17/1952:Nicolette Larson, singer.
  • 7/17/1952:Phoebe Snow, singer.
  • 7/17/1956:Bryan Trottier. (1966?)
  • 7/17/1963:Robert Thomas Thigpen, baseball player.
  • 7/18/1720:Gilbert White, father of British naturalists.
  • 7/18/1811:William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist (“Vanity Fair”).
  • 7/18/1906:Clifford Odets, American playwright.
  • 7/18/1909:Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Soviet president.
  • 7/18/1911:Hume Cronyn, actor and director.
  • 7/18/1913:Richard “Red” Skelton, comedian.
  • 7/18/1914:Harriet Hilliard Nelson, actress.
  • 7/18/1918:Nelson Mandela, South African president.
  • 7/18/1921:John Herschel Glenn Jr, astronaut and Ohio Senator.
  • 7/18/1921:Robert MacCrate, president, American Bar Association.
  • 7/18/1929:Dick Button, skating champion and commentator.
  • 7/18/1930:Burt Kwouk, actor.
  • 7/18/1933:Yevegeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko, Russian poet.
  • 7/18/1939:Brian Auger.
  • 7/18/1939:Dion Di Mucci, pop singer.
  • 7/18/1939:Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and editor.
  • 7/18/1940:James Brolin, actor.
  • 7/18/1941:Martha Reeves, pop singer.
  • 7/18/1943:Calvin Peete, golfer.
  • 7/18/1954:Ricky Skaggs, country singer.
  • 7/18/1961:Elizabeth McGovern, actress.
  • 7/18/1963:Mike Greenwell, baseball player.
  • 7/19/1814:Samuel Colt, US inventor of automatic firearms.
  • 7/19/1834:Edgar Degas, French painter.
  • 7/19/1860:Lizzie Borden, accused ax murderess.
  • 7/19/1865:Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo clinic.
  • 7/19/1893:Vladimir Mayakovsky.
  • 7/19/1896:A.J. Cronin, novelist (“The Citadel”).
  • 7/19/1922:George Stanley McGovern, politician.
  • 7/19/1924:Pat Hingle, actor.
  • 7/19/1926:Helen Gallagher, actress.
  • 7/19/1935:Philip Agee, former CIA agent.
  • 7/19/1941:Natalya Bessmertnova, Bolshoi prima ballerina.
  • 7/19/1941:Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta deCasilla), singer.
  • 7/19/1943:Dennis Cole, actor.
  • 7/19/1945:Edwin Schlossberg.
  • 7/19/1946:Ilie Nastase, tennis star.
  • 7/19/1959:Peter Barton, actor.
  • 7/20/1304:Petrarch, Italian poet.
  • 7/20/1890:Theda Bara, silent film actress.
  • 7/20/1919:Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, first man to conquer Mount Everest.
  • 7/20/1920:Elliot Lee Richardson, US Attorney General for Richard Nixon.
  • 7/20/1929:Mike Ilitch, Detroit Red Wings, Tigers, and Little Caesar’s pizza
  • :owner.
  • 7/20/1930:Sally Ann Howes, actress-singer.
  • 7/20/1932:Nam June Palk, video artist.
  • 7/20/1933:Chuck Daly, basketball coach.
  • 7/20/1933:Nelson Doubleday, baseball executive.
  • 7/20/1936:Barbara Ann Mikulski, Maryland Senator.
  • 7/20/1938:Diana Rigg, actress.
  • 7/20/1938:Natalie Wood, actress.
  • 7/20/1939:Judy Chicago (Judy Cohen), artist and feminist.
  • 7/20/1946:Kim Carnes, singer.
  • 7/20/1947:Carlos Santana, Latin-rock guitarist.
  • 7/20/1957:Donna Dixon, actress.
  • 7/20/1968:Perry Moore.
  • 7/20/1991:Scout LaRue Willis.
  • 7/21/1860:Chauncey Olcott, songwriter (“My Wild Irish Rose,” “When Irish
  • :Eyes Are Smiling”).
  • 7/21/1864:Frances Folsom Cleveland, Wife of Grover Cleveland.
  • 7/21/1881:Johnny Evers, baseball player.
  • 7/21/1899:Ernest Hemingway, author (“The Sun Also Rises”).
  • 7/21/1899:Hart Crane, poet.
  • 7/21/1911:(Herbert) Marshall McLuhan, university professor and author.
  • 7/21/1920:Isaac Stern, violinist.
  • 7/21/1922:Kay Starr, country rock singer.
  • 7/21/1924:Don Knotts, actor-comedian.
  • 7/21/1926:Norman Jewison, movie director.
  • 7/21/1933:John Gardner.
  • 7/21/1938:Janet Reno, US Attorney General.
  • 7/21/1938:Les Aspin, former US Secretary of Defense.
  • 7/21/1943:Edward Herrmann, actor.
  • 7/21/1948:Cat Stevens (Stephen Demetri Georgiou, Yosef Islam), singer.
  • 7/21/1952:Robin Williams, actor-comedian.
  • 7/21/1957:Jon Lovitz, comedian.
  • 7/22/1822:Gregor Mendel, Austrian monk (discovered first laws of heredity).
  • 7/22/1844:Rev. William Archibald Spooner, coined phrases like “swell foop.”
  • 7/22/1849:Emma Lazarus, poet (“The New Colossus” – on the base of the
  • :Statue of Liberty).
  • 7/22/1882:Edward Hopper, painter.
  • 7/22/1890:Rose Kennedy, Kennedy family matriarch.
  • 7/22/1893:Karl Menninger, psychiatrist. (7/23?)
  • 7/22/1898:Stephen Vincent Benet, American poet.
  • 7/22/1921:William V. Roth Jr, Delaware Senator.
  • 7/22/1923:Robert J. Dole, Kansas Senator.
  • 7/22/1924:Margaret Whiting, singer.
  • 7/22/1928:Orson Bean (Dallas Frederick Burroughs), actor.
  • 7/22/1932:Jack Schwartzman, film producer.
  • 7/22/1932:Oscar De La Renta, fashion designer.
  • 7/22/1939:Terence Stamp, British actor.
  • 7/22/1940:Alex Trebek, game show host.
  • 7/22/1945:Bobby Sherman, actor-singer.
  • 7/22/1946:James Edgar, Illinois Governor.
  • 7/22/1947:Albert Brooks (Albert Einstein), comedian and actor.
  • 7/22/1947:Don Henley, musician and songwriter.
  • 7/22/1955:Willem Dafoe, actor.
  • 7/23/1816:Charlotte Cushman, actress.
  • 7/23/1863:Samuel Kress, founder of the dime store chain.
  • 7/23/1884:Albert Warner, movie producer (“Warner Brothers”).
  • 7/23/1888:Raymond Chandler, detective novelist.
  • 7/23/1892:Haile Selassie, Ethiopian Emperor.
  • 7/23/1893:Karl Menninger, psychiatrist. (7/22?)
  • 7/23/1899:Norman Chandler, newspaper publisher.
  • 7/23/1912:Michael Wilding, actor.
  • 7/23/1915:Vincent Sardi Jr, Broadway restauranteur.
  • 7/23/1918:Pee Wee Reese, baseball player.
  • 7/23/1925:Gloria DeHaven, actress.
  • 7/23/1931:Arata Isozaki, architect.
  • 7/23/1934:Bert Convy, game show host and actor. (6/23?)
  • 7/23/1936:Anthony M. Kennedy, US Supreme Court Justice.
  • 7/23/1936:Don Drysdale, baseball player.
  • 7/23/1950:Belinda Montgomery, actress.
  • 7/23/1951:Edie McClurg, actress.
  • 7/23/1961:Woody Harrelson, actor.
  • 7/23/1968:Gary Dwayne Payton, basketball player.
  • 7/23/1972:Marlon Wayans, actor and comedian.
  • 7/24/1783:Simon Bolivar, South American revolutionary.
  • 7/24/1802:Alexandre Dumas, pere, French novelist (“The Three Musketeers”).
  • 7/24/1898:Amelia Earhart, US aviation pioneer.
  • 7/24/1920:Alexander H. Cohen, broadway producer.
  • 7/24/1920:Bella Abzug, feminist and former New York Congresswoman.
  • 7/24/1921:Billy Taylor, musician.
  • 7/24/1935:Pat Oliphant, political cartoonist.
  • 7/24/1936:Mark Goddard, actor (“Lost in Space”).
  • 7/24/1936:Ruth Buzzi, comedienne and actress.
  • 7/24/1940:Carroll A. Campbell Jr, South Carolina Governor.
  • 7/24/1942:Chris Sarandon, actor.
  • 7/24/1947:Peter Serkin, musician.
  • 7/24/1947:Robert Hays, actor.
  • 7/24/1948:Marc Racicot, Montana Governor.
  • 7/24/1949:Michael Richards.
  • 7/24/1951:Lynda Carter, actress.
  • 7/24/1958:Joe Barry Carroll, basketball player.
  • 7/24/1958:Pam Tillis.
  • 7/24/1962:Kevin Butler, football player.
  • 7/24/1963:Karl Malone, basketball player.
  • 7/24/1964:Barry Bonds.
  • 7/24/1965:Kadeem Hardison, actor.
  • 7/24/1968:Laura Leighton.
  • 7/25/1775:Anna Symmes Harrison, wife of William Henry Harrison.
  • 7/25/1870:Maxfield Parrish, artist.
  • 7/25/1894:Walter Brennan, actor.
  • 7/25/1905:Elias Canetti, writer.
  • 7/25/1913:Jack Gilford (Jacob Gellman), actor.
  • 7/25/1924:Estelle Getty, actress.
  • 7/25/1927:Midge Decter, journalist.
  • 7/25/1927:Stanley Dancer, harness racer.
  • 7/25/1941:Nate Thurmond, basketball player.
  • 7/25/1943:Janet Margolin, actress.
  • 7/25/1945:Donna Theodore, singer.
  • 7/25/1948:Steve Goodman.
  • 7/25/1954:Walter Payton, football player.
  • 7/25/1962:Douglas Dean Drabek, baseball player.
  • 7/25/1978:First recorded test tube baby (Louise Joy Brown, Oldham, England).
  • 7/25/1990:Evan James Springsteen.
  • 7/26/1739:George Clinton, 4th US vice president.
  • 7/26/1796:George Catlin, painter of American Indian scenes.
  • 7/26/1856:George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright.
  • 7/26/1875:Carl Jung, founder of analytic psychology.
  • 7/26/1894:Aldous Leonard Huxley, English novelist (“Brave New World”).
  • 7/26/1895:Robert Graves, poet and novelist (“I, Claudius”).
  • 7/26/1902:Gracie Allen (Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen). (1906?)
  • 7/26/1903:Estes Kefauver, Tennessee Senator.
  • 7/26/1912:Vivian Vance, actress.
  • 7/26/1922:Blake Edwards, movie producer.
  • 7/26/1922:Jason Robards Jr, actor.
  • 7/26/1928:Stanley Kubrick, film director (“2001 A Space Odyssey”).
  • 7/26/1929:Jean Shepherd, storyteller.
  • 7/26/1943:Mick (Michael Philip) Jagger, rock star.
  • 7/26/1950:Susan George, actress.
  • 7/26/1954:Vitas Gerulaitis, tennis player.
  • 7/26/1956:Dorothy Hamill.
  • 7/26/1962:Jody Reed, baseball player.
  • 7/27/1824:Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist.
  • 7/27/1857:Jose Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican physician and patriot.
  • 7/27/1870:Hilaire Belloc.
  • 7/27/1880:Joe Tinker, baseball player.
  • 7/27/1906:Leo Ernest “the Lip” Durocher, baseball player and manager.
  • 7/27/1916:Keenan Wynn, actor.
  • 7/27/1922:Adolfo Celi, actor.
  • 7/27/1922:Norman Lear, TV producer.
  • 7/27/1924:Vincent Canby, movie reviewer.
  • 7/27/1932:Jerry Van Dyke, actor.
  • 7/27/1937:Don Galloway, actor.
  • 7/27/1939:Irv Cross, sportscaster.
  • 7/27/1944:Bobbie Gentry (Roberta Streeter), singer and songwriter.
  • 7/27/1948:Betty Thomas, actress.
  • 7/27/1948:Peggy Fleming, figure skater.
  • 7/27/1949:Maureen McGovern, singer.
  • 7/28/1746:Thomas Heyward, American Revolutionary soldier.
  • 7/28/1844:Gerard Manley Hopkins.
  • 7/28/1887:Marcel Duchamp, surrealist artist.
  • 7/28/1892:Joe E. Brown, comedian.
  • 7/28/1901:Rudy Vallee (born Hubert Prior Vallee), singer-actor.
  • 7/28/1902:Richard Rodgers, composer (“Oklahoma!”, “South Pacific”). (6/28?)
  • 7/28/1902:Sir Karl Raimund Popper, English philosopher.
  • 7/28/1909:Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (“Under the Volcano”).
  • 7/28/1922:Jacques Piccard, inventor and explorer.
  • 7/28/1927:John Ashbery.
  • 7/28/1929:Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former US first lady.
  • 7/28/1931:Darryl Hickman, actor.
  • 7/28/1934:Jacques D’Amboise, ballet dancer-choreographer.
  • 7/28/1937:Peter Duchin, dance band leader.
  • 7/28/1938:Alberto Fujimori, Peru president.
  • 7/28/1943:Bill Bradley, New Jersey Senator.
  • 7/28/1945:Jim Davis, cartoonist (“Garfield”).
  • 7/28/1945:Rick Wright, singer and musician.
  • 7/28/1946:Linda Kelsey, actress.
  • 7/28/1948:Georgia Engel, actress.
  • 7/28/1948:Sally Anne Struthers, actress.
  • 7/28/1949:Vida Blue, baseball player.
  • 7/28/1958:Terrence Stanley Fox, ran 3328 miles across Canada for cancer.
  • 7/28/1973:Scott Bloom, actor.
  • 7/29/1805:Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian.
  • 7/29/1861:Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, first wife of Theodore Roosevelt.
  • 7/29/1869:Booth Tarkington, US novelist.
  • 7/29/1883:Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator.
  • 7/29/1892:William Powell, actor.
  • 7/29/1905:Dag Hammarskjeld, UN Secretary-General.
  • 7/29/1905:Stanley Kunitz.
  • 7/29/1907:Melvin Belli, attorney.
  • 7/29/1918:Mary Lee Settle.
  • 7/29/1923:Richard Egan, actor.
  • 7/29/1930:Paul Taylor, dancer and choreographer.
  • 7/29/1932:Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Kansas Senator.
  • 7/29/1934:Robert Fuller, actor.
  • 7/29/1936:Elizabeth H. Dole, American Red Cross President.
  • 7/29/1938:Peter Jennings, ABC news anchor.
  • 7/29/1941:David Warner, actor.
  • 7/29/1949:Marilyn Tucker Quayle, wife of J. Danforth Quayle.
  • 7/29/1953:Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker.
  • 7/29/1956:Patti Scialfa, singer.
  • 7/29/1956:Michael Spinks, boxer.
  • 7/29/1972:Wil Wheaton, actor.
  • 7/29/1973:Stephen Dorff, actor.
  • 7/30/1818:Emily Bronte, English novelist (“Wuthering Heights”).
  • 7/30/1857:Thorstein Veblen, US economist.
  • 7/30/1863:Henry Ford, auto pioneer.
  • 7/30/1889:Casey Stengel, baseball player-manager.
  • 7/30/1889:Vladimir Zworykin, Russian inventor of the iconoscope.
  • 7/30/1898:Henry Moore, English sculptor.
  • 7/30/1929:Chris McGuire, singer (“McGuire Sisters”).
  • 7/30/1933:Edd “Kookie” Byrnes, actor.
  • 7/30/1936:Captain John Burton-Hall, QE2 captain.
  • 7/30/1939:Eleanor Marie Cutri Smeal, feminist activist.
  • 7/30/1939:Peter Bogdanovich, film director (“The Last Picture Show”).
  • 7/30/1940:Patricia Schroeder, Colorado Congresswoman.
  • 7/30/1941:Paul Anka, singer.
  • 7/30/1947:Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilder-actor.
  • 7/30/1954:Ken Olin, actor.
  • 7/30/1956:Delta Burke, actress.
  • 7/30/1957:Bill (James William) Cartwright, basketball player.
  • 7/30/1958:Kate Bush, singer.
  • 7/30/1961:Laurence Fishburne, actor.
  • 7/30/1963:Christopher Paul Mullin, basketball player.
  • 7/31/1763:James Kent, author and jurist.
  • 7/31/1837:William Quantrill, Confederate Army guerrilla leader.
  • 7/31/1900:Elmo Burns Roper Jr, pioneer pollster.
  • 7/31/1912:Irv Kupcinet, host and columnist.
  • 7/31/1912:Milton Friedman, economist.
  • 7/31/1919:Curt Gowdy, TV sportscaster and outdoorsman.
  • 7/31/1923:Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Record chairman.
  • 7/31/1929:Don Murray, actor.
  • 7/31/1939:France Nuyen, actress.
  • 7/31/1943:Susan Flannery, actress.
  • 7/31/1943:William J. Bennett, Drug Czar.
  • 7/31/1944:Geraldine Chaplin, actress.
  • 7/31/1945:Sherry Lansing, motion picture executive.
  • 7/31/1951:Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Australian tennis player.