1711 – Pierre-Joseph Le Blan, composer, born in Soignies, Belgium (d. 1765)
1895 – George Machine Gun Kelly [Georgio Barnes], American gangster, born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1954)
1918 – Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner (1962-90) and President of South Africa (1994-99), born in Mvezo, Umtatu, South Africa (d. 2013)
1920 – Eric Brandon, British racing driver, born in East Ham, Essex (d. 1982)
1927 – Carlo Franci, Italian composer and conductor, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 2019)
1946 – Tim Lynch, rocker (Flaming Groovies)
1948 – Hartmut Michel, German chemist (Nobel 1988 – determination of the structure of certain proteins that are essential for photosynthesis), born in Ludwigsburg, Germany
1955 – Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician
1956 – Razor Shines, American baseball player (Montreal Expos), born in Durham, North Carolina
1983 – Carlos Diogo, Uruguayan footballer
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Famous Birthdays for 17th July 2021
1763 – John Jacob Astor [Johann Jakob Astor] German-American businessman (first multi-millionaire in the United States), born in Walldorf, Electoral Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1848)
1832 – (Johan) August Söderman, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1876)
1915 – Catherine “Cass” Daley, American actress (Star Spangled Rhythm, Red Garters), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1975)
1915 – Dorothy Poynton-Hill, American platform diver (Olympic gold 1932)
1915 – Esther Williamson Ballou, American organist, composer and educator, born in Elmira, New York (d. 1973)
1945 – Fenneken Fockema Andreae, Dutch actress (Sea Gull)
1948 – Phillip Harris, rocker
1975 – Cécile de France, Belgian actress, born in Namur, Belgium
1987 – Moussa Dembélé, Belgian footballer, born in Pontoise, France
1987 – Darius Boyd, Australian rugby player, born in Gold Coast, Australia
Famous Birthdays for 16th July 2021
1715 – Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise, Marshal of France, born in Paris (d. 1787)
1834 – Carlo Angeloni, Italian composer, born in Lucca, Italy (d. 1901)
1858 – Eugene Ysaye, Belgian composer and violinist, born in Liège (d. 1931)
1882 – Felix Locher, Swiss actor (Frankenstein’s Daughter), born in Berne, Switzerland (d. 1969)
1917 – William Bishop, American actor (Black Eagle, Adventures in Silverado, It’s a Great Life), born in Oak Park, Illinois (d. 1959)
1925 – Cal Tjader, American Latin jazz musician, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1982)
1928 – Bella Davidovich, Jewish Soviet-American pianist (Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel), born in Baku, Azerbaijan
1929 – Michael Morland, High court judge
1954 – Jeanette Mott Oxford, American activist and politician, born in Eldorado, Illinois
1958 – Pierre Roland Renoir, Canadian artist, born in Monaco
Famous Birthdays for 15th July 2021
1856 – Owen Dunell, cricketer (South Africa’s 1st Test captain)
1870 – Ernest Walker, British composer, born in Bombay, British India (d. 1949)
1929 – Charles Anthony [Caruso], tenor (2,928 performances at Metropolitan Opera), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 2012)
1930 – Charles Kelly, chief constable (Staffordshire England)
1934 – Simon Gournlay, president (British National Farmer’s Union)
1943 – Diligenti quintuplets, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
1954 – Boris Polak, Israel, Men’s 50M Free Rifle 3 Positions (Olympic 20-1996)
1961 – Lolita Davidovich, actress (Blaze, Jungle2Jungle)
1971 – Ernest Dye, NFL tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1979 – Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer
Famous Birthdays for 14th July 2021
1721 – John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)
1743 – Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet and statesman, born in the Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1816)
1785 – Mordecai Manuel Noah, American playwright, writer and journalist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1851)
1890 – Ossip Zadkine [Zadkin], Russian French sculptor (Destroyed City), born in Vitsebsk, Russian Empire (d. 1967)
1898 – A. B. “Happy” Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
1912 – Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
1916 – Claude Harmon, American golfer (US Masters 1948), born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 1989)
1920 – Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (One Day at a Time), born in Kemp, Texas (d. 2006)
1938 – Jerry Rubin, American activist (Chicago 7), stockbroker, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1994)
1941 – Tatyana Kuznetsova, Soviet cosmonaut (youngest person selected for space training at 20 but never flew), born in Moscow, Soviet Union (d. 2018)
Famous Birthdays for 13th July 2021
1913 – Walter Landor, designer
1925 – Hilary Grover Barratt Brown, conservationist
1927 – Karl I Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor
1933 – Patsy Byrne, English actress (Stealing Heaven, Blackadder II), born in Ashford, (d. 2014)
1943 – Danny Lockin, American actor and dancer (Hello Dolly), born in Lanai, Hawaii (d. 1977)
1946 – Rodney Mills, American mastering engineer (The Doobie Brothers, Pearl Jam, Gucci Mane), born in Douglas, Georgia
1954 – David Thompson, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Seattle Supersonics)
1956 – Michael Spinks, American boxer (undisputed world light heavyweight title 1983-85; lineal world heavyweight title 1985-88; Olympic gold middleweight 1976), born in St. Louis, Missouri
1963 – Bobby Rock [Brock], rock drummer (Nelson-Love and Affection), born in Houston, Texas
1968 – Kai Bjorn, CFL offensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
Famous Birthdays for 12th July 2021
1813 – Claude Bernard, French physiologist involved in the founding of modern physiology (blind experiments), born in Saint-Julien, Rhône (d. 1878)
1876 – Max Jacob, French poet and writer, born in Quimper, Brittany, France (d. 1944)
1919 – Vera Ralston [Věra Helena Hrubá], Czech figure skater and actress (Dakota, Accused of Murder), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 2003)
1928 – Barbara Cowsill, singer and mother of The Cowsills, born in Cranston, Rhode Island (d. 1985)
1938 – Ron Fairly, American baseball utility and broadcaster (MLB All Star 1973, 77; LA Dodgers, Montreal Expos; Seattle Mariners), born in Macon, Georgia (d. 2019)
1965 – Eric Cullen, actor (Huntington Tower)
1965 – Sanjay Manjrekar, cricketer (son of Vijay Indian middle-order batsman)
1980 – Johanna Klum, German TV presenter
1984 – Michael McGovern, Northern Irish footballer
1991 – Erik Per Sullivan, American actor
Famous Birthdays for 11th July 2021
1866 – Richard Beer-Hofmann, Austrian writer, born in Vienna (d. 1945)
1892 – Hugo Myrtelius, Swedish conductor, composer, and educator, born in Nosaby, Sweden (d. 1977)
1895 – Dolly Wilde, English socialite (d. 1941)
1932 – Bob McGrath, American musician, voice artist and actor (Sesame Street), born in Ottawa, Illinois
1944 – Peter de Savary, English financier/multi-millionaire
1956 – Sela Ward, Meridian Miss, actress (Hilary-Emerald Point NAS, Sisters)
1957 – Peter Murphy, English singer and musician (Bauhaus), born in Northamptonshire, England
1964 – Earl Jones, Inkster Mich, 800m runner (Olympic bronze 1984)
1966 – Debbe Dunning, actress (Tool Time Girl-Home Improvement), born in Burbank, California
1981 – Mary Beth Arnold, gymnast (World-bronze-95), born in Reno, Nevada
Famous Birthdays for 10th July 2021
1882 – Ima Hogg, American society leader, Texas art patron and founder of Houston Symphony, born in Mineola, Texas (d. 1975)
1897 – Karl Plagge, German officer and Nazi Party member who during World War II used his position as a staff officer in the German Army to employ and protect some 1,240 Jews, born in Darmstadt, Germany (d. 1957)
1909 – Donald William Sinclair, co–proprietor of the Gleneagles Hotel and the inspiration for the character Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers (d. 1981)
1919 – Ralph “Rusty” Gill, American singer (Polka Time), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 2008)
1923 – G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (RamalKhuna), born in Examba, Karnataka (d. 1987)
1924 – Johnny Bach, American basketball player and coach, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2016)
1926 – Fred Gwynne, American actor (Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters), born in NYC, New York (d. 1993)
1929 – Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (Canadian Golf Hall of Fame), born in Kitchener, Ontario (d. 2004)
1961 – Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor (Bullet in the Head), born in Hong Kong
1970 – Gary LeVox, American singer (Rascal Flatts)
Famous Birthdays for 9th July 2021
1513 – John van Hembyze, Flemish Calvinist, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1584)
1578 – Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia and Hungary and German Emperor (1619-37), born in Graz, Austria (d. 1637)
1831 – Johan Philip van der Kellen, Dutch stamp cutter, lithographer and writer, born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1906)
1911 – Simon Fraser [Shimi], Lord Lovat, Scottish 25th head of clan Fraser and cattle breeder, born in Inverness, Scotland (d. 1995)
1925 – Peter Ludwig, German businessman and art collector, born in Koblenz, Germany (d. 1996)
1928 – Vince Edwards, American actor, director, and singer (Ben Casey, The Devil’s Brigade, Matt Lincoln, Firehouse), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1996)
1935 – Ronnie Burns, American actor and adopted son of George Burns, born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 2007)
1957 – Paul Merton, British writer, actor and comedian (Room 101), born in Parsons Green, London
1959 – Clive Stafford Smith, British human-rights lawyer, born in Cambridge
1986 – Kiely Williams, American singer and actress (Cheetah Girls), born in Alexandria, Virgina