1887 – Sigmund Romberg, Nagykanizsa Hungary, operetta composer (Blossom Time)
1905 – Clara Bow, American silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1965)
1906 – Thelma Todd [Alison Loyd], American actress (Dangerous Female), born in Lawrence, Massachusetts (d. 1935)
1910 – Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist who developed protein crystallography, 3rd woman to win a Nobel Prize (1964), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1994)
1911 – Stephen McNally, American attorney and actor (Split Second, 30 Seconds over Tokyo), born in NYC, New York (d. 1994)
1919 – Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005)
1934 – Alfred Scott, West Indian cricket leg-spinner (son of O C, Test 0-140)
1951 – Deborah Pryor, California, actress (The Godson)/(Rep-R-Ohio)
1957 – Virginia Maria “Ginni” Rometty, American chairwoman, president and CEO of IBM, born in Chigago, Illinois
1957 – Alessandra Marc, American operatic soprano
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 28th July 2019
1659 – Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1715)
1809 – Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, American astronomer and Union Major General, born in Union County, Kentucky (d. 1862)
1916 – Laird Cregar, actor (Charley’s Aunt, Hangover Square), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1926 – Charlie Biddle, American-born Quebec jazz bassist (d. 2003)
1931 – Darryl Hickman, American actor (Human Comedy, Tea and Sympathy), born in Hollywood, California
1938 – Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru (1990-2000), born in Lima, Peru
1943 – Lawrence Elkins, football player FL (Houston Oilers)
1947 – Miguelina Cobian, Cuban 4x100m runner (Olympic silver 1968), born in Santiago de Cuba
1949 – Simon Kirke, rock drummer (Bad Company), born in London, England
1964 – Dave Alexander, NFL center (NY Jets)
Famous Birthdays for 27th July 2019
1518 – Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury and builder of country houses, born in Derbyshire, England (d. 1608)
1784 – George Onslow, English-French composer (chamber music), born in Clermont-Ferrand, France (d. 1853)
1801 – George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and 7th Astronomer Royal, born in Alnwick, Northumberland, England (d. 1892)
1903 – Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician and 1st President of Greece, born in Kalamata, Kingdom of Greece (d. 2002)
1906 – Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants), born in West Springfield, Massachusetts
1917 – Isabelle Kelley, American social worker credited with instigating the US Federal Food Stamp Program, born in Ellington, Connecticut (d. 1997)
1932 – Curnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker’s union leader, born in Matatiele, South Africa (d. 2002)
1939 – Irv Cross, American NFL sportscaster (CBS-TV), born in Hammond, Indiana
1946 – Gwynne Gilford, American actress (Linda Harris-Waverly Wonders), born in Los Angeles, California
1948 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater (Olympic gold 1968, 3-time world champion), born in San Jose, California
Famous Birthdays for 26th July 2019
1796 – George Catlin, American author and painter (American Indian scenes), born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (d. 1872)
1875 – Carl Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist (founded analytic psychology), born in Kesswil, Switzerland (d. 1961)
1922 – Hoyt Wilhelm [James], American Major League Baseball player and knuckleball pitcher (New York Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers), born in Huntersville, North Carolina (d. 2002)
1925 – Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician, born in Częstochowa, Poland (d. 2000)
1928 – Don Beauman, British Formula One racing driver, born in Farnborough, Hampshire, England (d. 1955)
1929 – Marc Lalonde, French Canadian politician (30th Minister of Finance), born in Île Perrot, Quebec
1944 – Kiel Martin, American actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1990)
1957 – Wayne Grady, Australian golfer (PGA C’ship 1990), born in Brisbane, Queensland
1967 – Jason Statham, British actor (The Transporter, Crank), born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire
1973 – Kate Beckinsale, British actress (Underworld series), born in London
Famous Birthdays for 25th July 2019
1816 – Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), born in Unterkaka, Meineweh, Germany (d. 1895)
1861 – Andrew Cowper Lawson, Scottish-Canadian Geologist who was the first person to identify and name the San Andreas Fault, born in Anstruther ,Scotland (d. 1952)
1907 – Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1970)
1916 – Lucien Saulnier, Canadian politician, born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (d. 1989)
1927 – Midge Decter, American journalist and author (The Liberated Woman and Other Americans), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota
1930 – Maureen Forrester, Canadian operatic contralto (Ressurection Symphony), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2010)
1931 – Kees [Cornelis Pieter] van Dijk, Dutch minister of the Interior, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 2008)
1936 – Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect (winner of Pritzker Architecture Prize 2002), born in London
1957 – Daniel W. Bursch, NASA astronaut (STS 51, 68, 77), born in Bristol, Pennsylvania
1971 – Billy Wagner, American MLB pitcher (Houston Astros), born in Tannersville, Virginia
Famous Birthdays for 24th July 2019
1870 – Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., American landscape architect, born in Staten Island, New York (d. 1957)
1878 – Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish sci-fi writer (Time and Gods), born in London (d. 1957)
1900 – Zelda Fitzgerald, American writer (This Side of Paradise) and wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, born in Montgomery, Alabama (d. 1948)
1915 – Frank Thistlethwaite, English academic and Vice Chancellor (University of East Anglia), born in Powell Street, Burnley, Lancashire (d. 2003)
1939 – Bob Lilly, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1967 – Jasper Teule, Dutch rock singer/bassist (Pilgrims-Once to Everything)
1969 – Rick Fox, NBA guard/forward (LA Lakers, Boston Celtics)
1971 – Patty Jenkins, American film director (Monster, Wonder Woman), born in Victorville, California
1981 – Summer Glau, American actress
1986 – Andrei Lutai, Russian figure skater
Famous Birthdays for 23rd July 2019
645 – Yazid I [Yazīd ibn Mu‘āwiya Lanatullah], second Umayyad caliph (680–683) (d. 683)
1834 – James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1921)
1849 – Geza Zichy, Hungarian composer and one-armed pianist, born at Sztára Castle (d. 1924)
1851 – Charles Bannerman, Australian cricket batsman (1st centurion), born in Woolwich, Kent, England (d. 1930)
1941 – Sergio Mattarella, Italian politician and President of Italy (2015-), born in Palermo, Italy
1943 – Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate, born in Huntsville, Alabama (d. 2007)
1968 – Nick Menza, American musician and drummer (Megadeth), born in Munich, West Germany (d. 2016)
1971 – Alison Krauss, American bluegrass musician (Raising Sand), born in Decatur, Illinois
1973 – Nomar Garciaparra, American MLB shortstop (6-time All Star), born in Whittier, California
1979 – Ricardo Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
Famous Birthdays for 22nd July 2019
1887 – Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925)
1889 – Frederick Preston Search, composer
1902 – Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer
1920 – Malcolm Hughes, British artist, born in Manchester, England (d. 1997)
1926 – Peter Michael Grayson, British showman, born in Manchester (d. 1996)
1956 – Mick Pointer, rock drummer (Marillion)
1967 – Shawn Wilbourn, US decathlete
1973 – Rufus Wainwright, Canadian American singer, born in Rhinebeck, New York
1980 – Tablo, Korean hip-hop musician (Epik High)
1982 – Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri lankan cricketer
Famous Birthdays for 21st July 2019
1817 – Joseph K Barnes, American Major General (Union Army), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1883)
1882 – David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (d. 1967)
1905 – Diana Trilling, writer
1915 – Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist
1926 – Gerald Ian Lacey, architect/town planner
1931 – Leon Schidlowsky, composer
1949 – Ludmila Smirnova, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic silver 1972)
1970 – Bryce Florie, Charleston FLA, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1977 – Allison Wagner, 200m/400m medley swimmer (Olympic silver 1996)
1978 – Kyoko Iwasaki, Japanese swimmer (Olympic gold 200m breaststroke 1992), born in Numazu, Japan
Famous Birthdays for 20th July 2019
1793 – Aleksander Fredro, Polish poet and comedy writer (Pan Jowiolski), born in Surochów, Poland (d. 1876)
1920 – Elliot L Richardson, Attorney General (1973)/Sec of Defense (1973)
1927 – Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Russian ‘Grandmother of Russian Human Rights’, born in Crimea, Russia (d. 2018)
1928 – Charles David Ganao, Djambala, French Equatorial Africa, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (1996-1997), (d. 2012)
1945 – Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (d. 2005)
1954 – Moira Harris, American actress
1962 – Carlos Alazraqui, American actor and comedian
1966 – Tracey Mcfarlane, US breaststroke swimmer (US record 100m)
1971 – William Deering Jr, South Bend Indiana, pole vaulter
1996 – Ben Simmons, Australian basketball point guard (2016 NBA Draft: #1 pick Philadelphia 76ers), born in Melbourne, Victoria