1707 – Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, French composer and violinist, born in Maroilles, France (d. 1802)
1839 – Edward Sydney Smith, composer
1859 – Willy Hess, German violinist, born in Mannheim, Germany (d. 1928)
1898 – A. B. “Happy” Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
1902 – Truman J Hedding, US vice-admiral (WWII)
1917 – Arthur Leavins, English violinist, leader of the BBC Concert Orchestra (d. 1995)
1925 – Luis Antonio Escobar, Colombian composer and musicologist, born in Villapinzón, Cundinamarca (d. 1993)
1929 – George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher
1960 – Anna Bligh, Australian politician, 1st woman Premier of Queensland (2007-12), born in Warwick, Australia
1972 – Lou Roe, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons)
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Famous Birthdays for 13th July 2020
1913 – Ladislav Holoubek, composer
1924 – Carlo Bergonzi, Italian singer
1928 – Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz bassist
1937 – Charles Coody, American golfer (US Masters 1971), born in Stamford, Texas
1941 – Jacques Perrin, actress (Cinema Paradiso, 317th Platoon), born in Paris, France
1959 – Danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL, Little Man Tate, Limit Up)
1966 – Myong Hui Choe, North Korea, gymnast (Olympic-1980)
1969 – Ewan Beaton, 60 kg judoka (Olympics-9-92, 96), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba
1969 – Kakhi Kakhiashvili, Georgian-born Greek weightlifter
1974 – Deborah Cox, Canadian RandB singer
Famous Birthdays for 12th July 2020
1864 – George Washington Carver, African-American agricultural scientist (studied the peanut), born in Diamond Grove, Missouri [or Jan 10] (d. 1934)
1904 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971), born in Parral, Chile (d. 1973)
1909 – Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer, born in Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1999)
1922 – Clark MacGregor, American Republican politician (involved in Watergate), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 2003)
1927 – Pavle Merku, Italian-Slovene composer and ethnomusicologist, born in Trieste (d. 2014)
1935 – Hans Tilkowski, German soccer goalkeeper (39 caps, West Germany; Westfalia Herne, Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Frankfurt), born in Husen, Germany (d. 2020)
1948 – Jay Thomas [Jon Thomas Terrell], American actor and comedian (Cheers, Murphy Brown), born in Kermit, Texas (d. 2017)
1957 – Buddy Foster, actor (Hondo, Mayberry RFD)
1967 – Richard Herring, English comedian
1997 – Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize recipient, born in Mingora, North-West Frontier Province
Famous Birthdays for 11th July 2020
1723 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer, born in Bort-les-Orgues, France (d. 1799)
1811 – William Robert Grove, Welsh physicist and inventor of the first fuel cell, born in Swansea, Wales (d. 1896)
1888 – Lyman Bryson, Valentine Nebr, educator (UN Casebook)
1916 – Howard Brubeck, American composer (Dialogues for Jazz Combo and Orchestra), born in Concord, California (d. 1993)
1924 – Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)
1932 – Alex Hassilev, American actor and folk musician (The Limeliters), born in Paris, France
1939 – Larry Laoretti, American golfer (US Senior Open 1992), born in Mahopac, New Jersey
1952 – Stephen Lang, American actor (Another You, Death of a Salesman), born in NYC, New York
1960 – Ariel Castro, Puerto Rican-born American criminal famous for kidnapping 3 women between 2002-4, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico (d. 2013)
1966 – Greg Grunberg, American actor
Famous Birthdays for 10th July 2020
1592 – Pierre d’Hozier, French genealogist, born in Marseille, France (d. 1660)
1682 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (Newton–Cotes formulas), born in Burbage, Leicestershire, England (d. 1716)
1871 – Marcel Proust, French intellectual and novelist (Remembrance of Things Past), born in Paris, France (d. 1922)
1909 – Donald William Sinclair, co–proprietor of the Gleneagles Hotel and the inspiration for the character Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers (d. 1981)
1922 – Jake LaMotta, American boxer (world middleweight champion 1949-51, immortalised in ‘Raging Bull’), born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)
1927 – Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2018)
1930 – Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist and composer, born in Aracati, Ceará, Brazil (d. 1982)
1932 – Carlo Mario Abate, Italian racing driver, born in Turin, Italy
1974 – Chiwetel Ejiofor, English film and theatre actor (“Twelve Years a Slave”), born in London
1975 – Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
Famous Birthdays for 9th July 2020
1766 – Johanna Schopenhauer, German writer and mother of Arthur Schopenhauer, born in Gdańsk, Royal Prussia, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (d. 1838)
1791 – Nicolás Ledesma, composer, born in Grisel, Spain (d. 1883)
1879 – Carlos Chagas, Brazilian sanitary physician, born in Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Empire of Brazil (d. 1934)
1908 – Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani scholar, orator and philosopher, born in Hyderabad, India (d. 1973)
1937 – Marty Springstead, American Major League baseball umpire and umpire supervisor, born in Nyack, New York
1953 – Margie Gillis, Canadian dancer and choreographer, born in Montreal, Quebec
1957 – Marc Almond, English vocalist (Soft Cell), born in Southport, Lancashire, England
1970 – Masami Tsuda, Japanese manga author
1985 – Paweł Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer
1991 – Mitchel Musso, American actor
Famous Birthdays for 8th July 2020
1574 – Giovanni Battista Stefanini, composer
1593 – Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian baroque painter, born in Rome (d. 1653)
1907 – Kishio Hirao, composer
1914 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician
1948 – Kim Darby, American actress (True Grit, Enola Gay, Rich Man Poor Man), born in Hollywood, California
1949 – Dale Hoganson, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 – Anjelica Huston, American actress (Prizzi’s Honor, The Adams Family), born in Los Angeles, California
1968 – Billy Crudup, American actor
1982 – Hakim Warrick, American basketball player (Leones de Ponce, Memphis Grizzlies), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1983 – Jaroslav Janiš, Czech racing car driver
Famous Birthdays for 7th July 2020
1119 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
1856 – George Hearne, cricketer (brother of Frank and Alec, Test for England)
1931 – David Eddings, American sci-fi author (Belgariad, Malloreon)
1933 – Murray Halberg, New Zealand, 5K runner (Olympic gold 1960)
1940 – Samuel Little, American serial killer, born in Reynolds, Georgia
1960 – Ralph Sampson, American basketball center (NBA All-Star 1984–87; Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets), born in Harrisonburg, Virginia
1969 – Sylke Otto, German luger, born in Chemnitz, Germany
1971 – Alistair Potts, British rower, born in Chertsey, United Kingdom
1972 – Stoney Case, American NFL quarterback (Arizona Cardinals), born in Odessa, Texas
1982 – George Owu, Ghanaian footballer, born in Accra, Ghana
Famous Birthdays for 6th July 2020
1881 – Josef Winckler, German dentist and writer (Quadriga, Pumpernickel), born in Bentlage, Rheine (d. 1966)
1904 – Robert Whitney, American conductor (Sospiro do Roma), born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England (d. 1986)
1922 – Francisco Moncion, American dancer, born in La Vega, Dominican Republic (d. 1995)
1924 – Louie Bellson, American jazz drummer and orchestra leader (Pearl Bailey Show), born in Rock Falls, Illinois (d. 2009)
1925 – Merv Griffin, American TV host (Merv Griffin Show), born in San Mateo, California (d. 2007)
1951 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor (Shakespeare in Love, The King’s Speech), born in Toowoomba, Queensland
1954 – James Kiberd, American actor (Trevor Dillon-Loving, All My Children), born in Providence, Rhode Island
1957 – Mario Martinez, US Olympic weightlifter (Olympic-4th-1988), born in Salinas, California
1967 – David Whitmore, American NFL strong safety (Philadelphia Eagles), born in Daingerfield, Texas
1985 – Ranveer Singh, Bollywood actor (Bajirao Mastani), born in Mumbai, India
Famous Birthdays for 5th July 2020
1717 – Pedro III, King of Portugal and the Algarves (1777-86) and consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal, born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1786)
1852 – Stefano Gobatti, Italian composer, born in Bergantino, Italy (d. 1913)
1900 – Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal of Utrecht Netherlands, born in Nijkerk, Netherlands (d. 1987)
1918 – George Rochberg, American composer (Concord Quartet), born in Paterson, New Jersey (d. 2005)
1931 – James “Jimmy the Gent” Burke, Irish American gangster (inspiration for Jimmy Conway character in Goodfellas), born in New York City (d. 1996)
1937 – Brooke Hayward, American author (Haywire), born in Los Angeles, California
1940 – Arthur Blythe, American jazz saxophonist, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2017)
1945 – Humberto Benítez Treviño, Mexican politician and Attorney General of the Republic of Mexico, born in Zacualpan, Mexico
1975 – Kip Gamblin, Australian dancer and actor (Home and Away), born in Sydney, Australia
1982 – Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer and coach (Rezzato), born in Biella, Italy