1850 – Reginald Heber Roe, 1st Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland and 2nd Headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School, born in Blandford, Dorset, England (d. 1926)
1887 – Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (Lithuania, The Soldier), born in Rugby, England (d. 1915)
1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official, born in The Bronx, New York (d. 1999)
1921 – Marilyn Maxwell, American actress and entertainer (Champion, The Lemon Drop Kid, East of Sumatra), born in Clarinda, Iowa (d. 1972)
1924 – Max van der Stoel, Dutch politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs (PvdA), born in Voorschoten, Netherlands (d. 2011)
1926 – Tony Bennett [Benedetto], American Grammy and Emmy Award-winning pop and jazz singer (“I Left My Heart in San Francisco”; “Steppin’ Out With My Baby”), and painter, born in Long Island City, Queens, New York (d. 2023)
1946 – Jacques Teugels, Belgian soccer defender (13 caps; RSC Anderlecht, RWD Molenbeek), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 2024)
1956 – Kirk Brandon, British punk rock and new wave singer-songwriter (Theatre of Hate; Spear of Destiny – Outland), born in Westminster, London
1967 – Mathieu Kassovitz, French actor (Amélie) and director (La Haine), born in Paris, France
1973 – Kurt Grote, American swimmer (Olympic gold 4×100m medley 1996; World C’ship gold 200m breaststroke 1998), born in Palo Alto, California
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 2nd August 2025
1552 – Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (1598-1605) and chief adviser to Tsar Fyodor I, born in Vyazma, Russia (d. 1605)
1802 – Nicholas Wiseman, 1st archbishop of Westminster (1860-65), born in Sevilla, Spain (d. 1865)
1890 – Marin Sais, American actress (The Pony Express Girl), born in San Rafael, California (d. 1971)
1924 – Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger, born in The Bronx, New York (d. 2005)
1928 – Malcolm Hilton, English cricket slow left-arm (4 Tests), born in Chadderton, Lancashire (d. 1990)
1938 – Pierre de Bané, French Canadian politician (Senator for De la Vallière, Quebec. 1984-2013; Member of Parliament. 1968-84), born in Haifa, British Mandate for Palestine (d. 2019)
1939 – Benjamin Barber, American political theorist (Jihad vs. McWorld), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2017)
1948 – Andy Fairweather Low, Welsh session and touring guitarist (Amen Corner; Roger Waters; Eric Clapton; George Harrison), born in Ystrad Mynach, Wales
1952 – Paul David Crews, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), born in South Carolina (d. 2022)
1992 – Hallie Eisenberg, American actress, born in East Brunswick, New Jersey
Famous Birthdays for 1st August 2025
1881 – Rose Macaulay, English writer (The Towers of Trebizond), born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England (d. 1958)
1902 – Hendrik Johan Kruls, Dutch general and chief military authority (1944-46), born in Amsterdam (d. 1975)
1903 – Paul Horgan, American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Mountain Standard Time), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1995)
1911 – Ronald MacDonald, British major-general (WWII), born in Quetta, British India (d. 2005)
1931 – Monty Losowsky, British physician and medical educator (St. James University Hospital in Leeds, 1962-96), born in London (d. 2020)
1933 – Richard Lloyd Jones, British Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Office (1985–93), born in Sculcoates, England
1940 – Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer and umpire, born in Nailsea, Somerset
1951 – Robin Heifetz, American contemporary classical composer, born in Los Angeles, California
1963 – Demián Bichir, Mexican-American actor (A Better Life), born in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico
1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player (Indianapolis Colts), born in Immokalee, Florida
Famous Birthdays for 31st July 2025
1578 – Catharina Belgica of Nassau, Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg and daughter of William of Orange, born in Antwerp (d. 1648)
1830 – František Zdeněk Skuherský, Czech composer, born in Opočno, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1892)
1848 – Jean Robert Planquette, French composer (Bells of Corneville), born in Paris (d. 1903)
1944 – Robert C. Merton, American economist and Nobel laureate in Economics, born in New York City
1957 – Leon Durham, American baseball 1st baseman, outfielder (Chicago Cubs; MLB All Star 1982-83, born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1957 – Daniel Ash, British punk rock singer-songwriter (Bauhaus), born in Northampton, England
1958 – Mark Cuban, American businessman and basketball team owner (NBA’s Dallas Mavericks), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1962 – Troy Murray, Canadian NHL center, broadcaster (Chicago Black Hawks), born in Calgary, Alberta
1989 – Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player (Australian Open 2012-13), born in Minsk, Belarus
1992 – José Fernández, Cuban-American MLB player (Miami Marlins), born in Santa Clara, Cuba (d. 2016)
Famous Birthdays for 30th July 2025
1857 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899), born in Cato, Wisconsin (d. 1929)
1882 – Holmes Herbert, British actor (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Kiss), born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England (d. 1956)
1936 – Infanta Pilar of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz, daughter of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and Princess María Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, born in Cannes, France (d. 2020)
1938 – Hervé de Charette, French politician, born in Paris, France
1940 – Pat Schroeder, American politician (Rep-D-Colorado, 1973-97), and feminist, born in Portland, Oregon (d. 2023)
1949 – Joyce Jones, American soul singer (First Choice), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1958 – Daley Thompson, British athlete (Olympic gold decathlon 1980, 84), born in London, England
1973 – Markus Naslund, Swedish NHL right wing (Vancouver Canucks), born in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
1980 – Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player, born in San Donà di Piave, Italy
1999 – Tom Pidcock, English cyclist (Olympic gold mountain bike cross country 2020, 24; Cyclo-cross World C’ship gold 2022), born in Leeds, England
Famous Birthdays for 29th July 2025
1866 – George Morrison, American entrepreneur (owner of Mammoth Caves), born at the border of Ohio and Pennsylvania (d. 1937)
1870 – George Dixon, Canadian boxer (World Bantamweight title, 1892; World Featherweight champion, 1891-97 and 1898-1901; 1st Black athlete to win a World C’ship in any sport), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (d. 1908)
1872 – Eric Alfred Knudsen, American Hawaiian folklorist, born in Waiawa, Hawaii (d. 1957)
1884 – Henri Liebrecht, Belgian playwright and journalist, born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (d. 1955)
1915 – Francis Sargent, American politician (64th Governor of Massachusetts 1969-75), born in Hamilton, Massachusetts (d. 1998)
1921 – Aled Eames, Welsh maritime historian, born in Llandudno (d. 1996)
1928 – Li Ka-Shing, Hong Kong-Chinese business magnate and entrepreneur (CK Holdings), born in Chao’an, Guangdong, China
1933 – “Captain” Lou Albano, American professional wrestler, 1953-69, wrestler manager (1969-95), and actor (Cyndi Lauper music videos; Super Mario Brothers), born in Rome, Kingdom of Italy (d. 2009)
1966 – Sally Gunnell, British 400m hurdler, (Olympic gold 1992), born in Chigwell, England
1983 – Ashley McBryde, American country music singer-songwriter (“Girl Goin’ Nowhere”; “A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega”), born in Waldron, Arkansas
Famous Birthdays for 28th July 2025
1609 – Judith Leyster, Dutch Golden Age painter, baptized in Haarlem, Dutch Republic (d. 1660)
1896 – Barbara La Marr [Reatha Watson], American vaudeville and silent film actress (The White Moth), and screenwriter, born in Yakima, Washington (d. 1926)
1902 – Kenneth F. Fearing, American poet (Dead Reckoning), born in Oak Park, Illinois (d. 1961)
1932 – Natalie Babbitt, American children’s writer (Tuck Everlasting), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 2016)
1934 – Norman D. Shumway, American politician (Rep-R-California, 1979-91), born in Phoenix, Arizona (d. 2022)
1938 – George Cummings, American rock guitarist (Dr. Hook and Medicine Show, 1968-75 – “Cover of the Rolling Stone”), songwriter, and record producer, born in Meridian, Mississippi
1947 – Barbara Ferrell, American runnerr (Olympic gold 1968), born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
1960 – Yōichi Takahashi, Japanese manga artist “Captain Tsubasa” and “Hungry Heart Wild Striker”, born in Katsushika, Japan
1967 – Alex Galtcheniouk, American hockey forward (Team Belarus, Olympics 1998), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1969 – Garth Snow, American ice hockey goaltender (Quebec Nordiques, Philadelphia Flyers, NY Islanders) and executive (GM NY Islanders 2006-18), born in Wrentham Massachusetts
Famous Birthdays for 27th July 2025
1625 – Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, English soldier, admiral and patron to Samuel Pepys, born in Barnwell (d. 1672)
1886 – Ernst May, German architect and city planner (New Frankfurt), born in Frankfurt am Main (d. 1970)
1890 – Judith Lowry, American actress (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds), born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma (d. 1976)
1908 – Hugh Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney, British MP of Arts (Labour), born in Enfield, Middlesex (d. 2004)
1913 – George L. Street III, American Navy Submariner and Medal of Honor recipient, born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2000)
1919 – Per Hjort Albertsen, Norwegian organist, composer, and educator, born in Trondheim, Norway (d. 2015)
1929 – Harvey Fuqua, American RandB singer-songwriter (The Moonglows – “Sincerely”), producer (Marvin Gaye), and record label executive (Motown), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2010)
1937 – Anna Dawson, British comedienne (Violet-Keeping Up Appearances), born in Bolton, Lancashire
1963 – Karrin Allyson, American jazz singer (Wild for You), born in Great Bend, Kansas
1968 – Christina Singer, German tennis star (1991 Futures GBR), born in Goppingen, Germany
Famous Birthdays for 26th July 2025
1727 – Horatio Gates, British-American soldier (general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War), born in Maldon, England (d. 1806)
1739 – George Clinton, American revolutionary war soldier and politician (US Vice-President, 1805-12; Governor of New York, 1777-95 and 1801-04), born in Little Britain, New York (d. 1812)
1885 – Andre Maurois [Emile Herzog], French writer (Balzac), born in Elbeuf, France (d. 1967)
1899 – Carel C. van Essen, Dutch archaeologist (Italian and Roman art), born in Amsterdam (d. 1963)
1921 – Jean Shepherd, American storyteller, radio personality (WOR-NYC, 1955-77), and writer (A Christmas Story; In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1999)
1924 – Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter and anti-apartheid activist, born in Phokoane, Sekhukhuneland, Northern Transvaal (d. 1994)
1928 – Elliott Erwitt [Elio Romano], French-American photographer (Gimme Shelter), and documentarian, born in Paris, France (d. 2023)
1959 – Kevin Spacey, American actor (American Beauty, House of Cards), born in South Orange, New Jersey
1968 – Mike Mohler, American baseball pitcher (Oakland A’s), born in Dayton, Ohio
1985 – Gaël Clichy, French footballer (İstanbul Başakşehir), born in Toulouse, France
Famous Birthdays for 25th July 2025
1683 – Pieter Langendijk, Dutch painter, etcher and playwright (Wiskunstenaars), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1756)
1750 – Henry Knox, American general (Continental Army and later the United States Army) and 1st US Secretary of War (1785-94), born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay (d. 1806)
1824 – Richard James Oglesby, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Oldham County, Kentucky (d. 1899)
1927 – Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (Governor of Punjab, 1973-75; Chief Minister of Punjab, 1975-77), born in Shimla, East Punjab British India (d. 2000)
1941 – Manuel “Manny” Charlton, Spanish hard rock guitarist (Nazareth – “Love Hurts”), born in La Línea, Andalusia, Spain
1957 – Daniel W. Bursch, NASA astronaut (STS 51, 68, 77), born in Bristol, Pennsylvania
1961 – Bobbie Eakes, American actress (The Bold and the Beautiful), born in Warner Robins, Georgia
1967 – Ed Sprague Jr., American baseball infielder (World Series 1992, 93 Toronto Blue Jays; MLB All Star 1999), born in Castro Valley, California
1974 – Gareth Thomas, Welsh ruby player, born in Sarn, Wales
1988 – Anthony Stokes, Irish soccer striker (9 caps Republic of Ireland; Celtic FC), born in Dublin, Ireland