1821 – Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
1871 – Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (Dog at a Rope)
1913 – Jan Slot, Dutch mayor (Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede)
1918 – Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner (1962-90) and South African President (1994-99), born in Mvezo, Umtatu, South Africa (d. 2013)
1938 – Dudu Pukwana, [Mtutuzel], South African/British saxophonist/composer
1951 – Margo Martindale, American actress
1956 – Razor Shines, American baseball player, manager and coach
1962 – Engelbert Linder, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1979 – Deion Branch, American football player
1983 – Carlos Diogo, Uruguayan footballer
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 17th July 2018
1885 – Benjamin James Dale, composer
1932 – Wojciech Kilar, Lwów, Second Polish Republic, composer (The Pianist), (d. 2013)
1932 – Hal Riney, American advertising executive (d. 2008)
1942 – Don Kessinger, American baseball player
1945 – Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
1949 – Mick Tucker, rock drummer (Sweet Harlesden), born in London, England
1952 – Chet McCracken, rocker (Doobie Brothers), born in Seattle, Washington
1958 – Wong Kar-wai, Chinese film director (In the Mood for Love), born in Shanghai
1970 – Bronwyn Roye, Australian rower (Olympics 1996)
1985 – Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
Famous Birthdays for 16th July 2018
1723 – Joshua Reynolds, England, portrait painter (Simplicity)
1907 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (Dynasty II, Big Valley, Thorn Birds), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1990)
1915 – Barnard Hughes, Bedford Hills NY, (Tron, Where’s Poppa, Best Friends)
1915 – Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, deputy speaker (House of Lords)
1928 – Ray Thornton, (Rep-D-Arkansas)
1950 – Valery Yevgenyevich Maksimenko, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1968 – Ariel Solomon, NFL center/guard (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1976 – Michael Petkovic, Australian soccer goalie (Olyroos, Olympics 1996)
1982 – Michael Umaña, Costa Rican footballer
1984 – Hayanari Shimoda, Japanese racing driver
Famous Birthdays for 15th July 2018
1273 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (d. 1352)
1700 – Johann Christoph Richter, composer
1898 – Norman Demuth, composer
1906 – Edmund Davies, British lord of appeal
1915 – Alexander Durie, vice president (British AA)
1915 – Ron Smith, union leader (British Postal Workers)
1957 – Kate Kellaway, English literary critic
1960 – Kim Alexis, American supermodel (Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover) and actress, born in Lockport, New York
1961 – Scott Ritter, UN weapons inspector in Iraq
1969 – Richard Fletcher Pride III, Tuscaloosa AL, PGA golfer (1994 Fed Exp)
Famous Birthdays for 14th July 2018
1671 – Jacques D’Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)
1801 – Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858)
1818 – Nathaniel Lyon, American Brigadier General (Union Army), 1st Union General to die in battle, born in Ashford, Connecticut (d. 1861)
1918 – Arthur Laurents, American playwright (West Side Story, Gypsy), born in NYC, New York
1939 – Karel Gott, Czech singer
1941 – Andreas Khol, Austrian politician
1962 – Jeff Olson, American musician
1966 – Tayna Donelly, rocker (Belly)
1967 – Patrick J. Kennedy, politician
1985 – Phoebe Waller-Bridge, English actress, writer and director (Fleabag), born in London, England
Famous Birthdays for 13th July 2018
1776 – Caroline of Baden, queen of Bavaria (d. 1841)
1798 – Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1860)
1858 – Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)
1889 – Louise of Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden (d. 1965)
1898 – Julius Schreck, member of the Nazi party (d. 1936)
1901 – Tillie Ehrlich Lewin, leading industrialist (tomato queen)
1941 – Jacques Perrin, actress (Cinema Paradiso, 317th Platoon), born in Paris, France
1945 – Jean-Pierre E Plooij, Dutch writer (Duvelsmoer)
1948 – Tony Kornheiser, American sports journalist
1967 – Benny Benassi, Italian disc jockey
Famous Birthdays for 12th July 2018
1644 – Arnold Moonen, Dutch vicar/literature (David’s holy saint graduals)
1876 – Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944)
1895 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers, born in NYC, New York
1902 – Gunther Anders, writer
1909 – 2nd viscount Camrose, British Conserv Lower house leader (1941-45)
1928 – Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1951 – Cheryl Ladd, Huron SD, actress (Charlie’s Angels, Purple Hearts)
1972 – Jake Wood, English actor
1974 – Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer (Within Temptation)
1978 – Michelle Rodriguez, American actress
Famous Birthdays for 11th July 2018
1866 – R Beer-Hofmann, writer
1913 – Cordwainer Smith, American writer (d. 1966)
1916 – Gough Whitlam, (ALP) Australia, PM (1972-75)
1924 – Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)
1931 – Thurston Harris, vocalist (Little Bitty Pretty One), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
1946 – Edward J Markey, (Rep-D-MA, 1976- )
1960 – David Baerwald American songwriter/composer
1967 – Donne Wall, Potosi MO, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1977 – Brandy Gold, Northridge California, actress (Annie-Baby Makes 5)
1984 – Tanith Belbin, Canadian ice dancer
Famous Birthdays for 10th July 2018
1723 – William Blackstone, jurist (Blackstone’s Commentaries), born in London, England
1834 – James A McNeill Whistler, US/British painter (Whistler’s Mother)
1902 – Günther Weisenborn, German writer and German Resistance fighter, born in Velbert (d. 1969)
1917 – Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (d. 2000)
1921 – Eunice Shriver, founder (Special Olympics)
1927 – Don Revie, English soccer manager (Leeds and England)
1942 – Ronnie James Dio [Ronald James Padavona], American singer, songwriter, and musician (Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, and Heaven and Hell)
1945 – Jean-Marie Poiré, French film director
1952 – Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician
1964 – Urban Meyer, American football coach
Famous Birthdays for 9th July 2018
1775 – Matthew Lewis, English novelist (d. 1818)
1911 – John A. Wheeler, American physicist (d. 2008)
1914 – Bill Tallon, cricketer (brother of Don, Queensland leggie)
1926 – Murphy Anderson, American comic artist (DC Comics), born in Asheville, North Carolina (d. 2015)
1947 – Haruomi Hosono, Japanese musician
1950 – Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian politician (President of Ukraine from 2010 until ouster in 2014 revolution), born in Yenakiyevo, Ukraine
1961 – Mohammad Aslam, UAE cricketer batsman (1996 World Cup)
1966 – Pamela Adlon, American voice actress
1971 – Chadrick Brown, NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1978 – Linda Park, Korean-born actress