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)
Category: Famous Birthdays
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
Famous Birthdays for 8th July 2021
1604 – Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien)
1792 – Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
1851 – Arthur J Evans, English archaeologist (Crete)
1894 – Clemens VI Trefois, Flemish architect/sociologist
1909 – Petar Segedin, Croatian novelist (Holy Devil)
1957 – Clyde Butts, Guyanan cricketer (West Indies off-spinner late eighties), born in Perseverance, Guyana
1963 – Mike Ridley, Canadian NHL center (Vancouver Canucks), born in Winnipeg, Canada
1969 – Ernie Young, outfielder (Oakland A’s), born in Chicago, Illinois
1970 – Beck [Bek David Campbell], American singer (Morning Phase), born in Los Angeles
1972 – Tom Hutton, NFL punter/kicker (Philadelphia Eagles)
Famous Birthdays for 7th July 2021
1806 – Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education
1933 – Murray Halberg, New Zealand, 5K runner (Olympic gold 1960)
1940 – Richard K Armey, (Rep-R-Texas, 1985- )
1944 – Warren Entner, rock vocalist/guitarist (Grass Roots), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1946 – Jim Day, Canadian equestrian show jumper (Olympic gold 1968)
1949 – Shelley Duvall, actress (Popeye, Faery Tale Theater), born in Houston, Texas
1968 – Reggie Cobb, American NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars), born in Knoxville, Tennessee
1970 – Wayne McCullough, Irish boxer, born in Belfast, United Kingdom
1970 – Robia LaMorte, American actress and dancer, born in Queens, New York
1979 – Carl Breeze, British racing driver, born in King’s Lynn, United Kingdom
Famous Birthdays for 6th July 2021
1864 – Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer and conductor (Artemis), born in Fortaleza, State of Ceará, Brazil (d. 1920)
1887 – Marc Chagall, Russian-French artist (I and The Village), born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire (d. 1985)
1903 – Axel Theorell, Swedish biochemist (Nobel 1955-discovering the oxidation enzyme and its effects), born in Linköping, Sweden (d. 1982)
1923 – Cathy O’Donnell [Ann Steely], American film noir actress (Miniver Story, Man from Laramie), born in Siluria, Alabama (d. 1970)
1924 – Louie Bellson, American jazz drummer and orchestra leader (Pearl Bailey Show), born in Rock Falls, Illinois (d. 2009)
1930 – George Armstrong, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame centre (Stanley Cup 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1966–67 Toronto Maple Leafs; 7 x NHL All Star), born in Bowlands, Ontario (d. 2021)
1944 – Byron Berline, American world premier fiddle player, born in Caldwell, Kansas
1952 – Jesse Harms, American musician and songwriter (The Waboritas), born in Massachusetts
1970 – Martin Smith, English singer (Delirious?), born in London, England
1977 – Craig Handley, British film director (On All Floors), born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
Famous Birthdays for 5th July 2021
1586 – Thomas Hooker, American colonial clergyman (known as “the father of Connecticut”), born in Marefield, Leicestershire, England (d. 1647)
1675 – Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials, born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1720)
1853 – Cecil Rhodes, British businessman, diamond merchant and imperialist politician who was Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (1890-96), born in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England (d. 1902)
1886 – Willem Drees, Dutch statesman of the Labour Party (PvdA) and Prime Minister of the Netherlands, born in Amsterdam (d. 1988)
1904 – Milburn Stone, American actor (Gunsmoke, Pickup on South Street), born in Burrton, Kansas (d. 1980)
1933 – Terence Cooper, British actor (Casino Royale), born in Carnmoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland (d. 1997)
1937 – Brooke Hayward, American author (Haywire), born in Los Angeles, California
1946 – Pierre-Marc Johnson, Québéc lawyer, physician and politician (24th Premier of Quebec), born in Montreal, Quebec
1967 – Silvia Ziche, Italian comics artist (Italian Donald Duck comics), born in Thiene, Italy
1985 – Stephanie McIntosh, Australian pop singer and actress, born in Malvern, Australia
Famous Birthdays for 4th July 2021
1804 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (House of 7 Gables, The Scarlet Letter), born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1864)
1872 – Calvin Coolidge [Silent Cal], 30th US President (R) (1923-29), born in Plymouth Notch, Vermont (d. 1933)
1883 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist who made the easy outrageously difficult (Pulitzer Prize 1948), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1970)
1910 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (Titanic) and founder of the Screen Actors Guild, born in Santa Monica, California (d. 2010)
1918 – Buster Davis, American choral director (Garry Moore Show), born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (d. 1987)
1943 – Emerson Boozer, College Hall of Fame and NFL running back (NY Jets 1966-75), born in Augusta, Georgia
1970 – Tony Vidmar, Australian former footballer, born in Adelaide, Australia
1973 – Michael Johnson, English-born Jamaican footballer, born in St. Louis, Missouri
1976 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer, born in Saitama, Japan (d. 2003)
1984 – Gina Glocksen, American singer, born in Tinley Park, Illinois