Famous July Birthdays
Who was Born in July on Your Birthday?
Do you know who was born on your birthday? There are many famous July birthdays displayed below. We hope you find famous and historic people who share your special day. See who was born in your birth month below.
Did You Know? The song “Happy Birthday to You” was first sung on June 27, 1859
Famous July Birthdays
July 1, 1908 – Estee Lauder, cosmetics magnate.
July 1, 1916 – Olivia De Havilland, actress
July 1, 1934 – Jamie Farr, actor, played “Klinger” on TV Series “Mash”
July 1, 1942 – Karen Black, actress
July 1, 1952 – Dan Aykroyd, actor
July 1, 1961 – Princess Diana, Princess of Wales, married Prince Charles
July 1, 1961 – Carl Lewis, Olympic champion, track star
July 1, 1967 – Pamela Anderson, actress, “Baywatch”
July 2, 1908 -Thurgood Marshall, first African-American Supreme Court justice
July 2, 1932 – Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s
July 2, 1937 – Richard Petty, auto racer
July 2, 1986 – Lindsey Lohan, actress
July 2, 1937 – Ron Silver, actor, director
July 3, 1927 – Ken Russell, director
July 3, 1930 – Pete Fountain, jazz musician
July 3, 1947- Dave Barry, humorist
July 3, 1956 – Montel Williams, TV personality
July 3, 1962 – Tom Cruise, actor , “Mission Impossible” movies
July 3, 1963 – Taylor Dayne, singer
July 4, 1872 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. President (1923-1929)
July 4, 1911 – Mitch Miller, Big bandleader, “Sing along with Mitch”
July 4, 1918 – Ann Landers, advice columnist
July 4, 1918 – Abigail Van Buren, advice columnist
July 4, 1927 – Gina Lollobrigida, actress
July 4, 1927 – Neil Simon, playwright
July 4, 1929 – Al Davis, “Raiders” NFL football executive
July 4, 1930 – George Steinbrenner, NY Yankees owner
July 4, 1943 – Geraldo Rivera, journalist, Talk show host
July 4, 1998 – Malia Obama, daughter of former President Barack Obama.
July 5, 1810 – P. T. Barnum, showman, circus founder
July 5, 1853 – Cecil Rhodes, millionaire financier and politician
July 5, 1902 – Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., senator, UN ambassador
July 5, 1951 – Huey Lewis, singer
July 6, 1747 – John Paul Jones, Revolutionary War, Father of the U.S. Navy
July 6, 1923 – Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States
July 6, 1925 – Merv Griffin, Talk show host
July 6, 1927 – Janet Leigh, actress
July 6, 1931 – Della Reese, singer, actress
July 6, 1935 – Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader
July 6, 1937- Ned Beatty, actor
July 6, 1945 – Burt Ward, actor
July 6, 1946 – George W. Bush, 43rd U.S. President (2001-present)
July 6, 1946 – Sylvester Stallone, actor/director
July 7, 1906 – Satchel Paige, baseball pitcher
July 7, 1907 – Robert Heinlein, science fiction writer
July 7, 1922 – Pierre Cardin, fashion designer
July 7, 1927 – Doc Severinsen, bandleader
July 7, 1940 – Ringo Starr, drummer, “The Beatles”
July 7, 1947 – Shelley Duvall, actress
July 7, 1980 – Michelle Kwan, champion figure skater
July 8, 1831 – John Pemberton, Chemist, invented Coca-Cola
July 8, 1838 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, aeronautical engineer, airship designer
July 8, 1839 – John D. Rockefeller, American business tycoon, philanthropist
July 8, 1908 – Nelson Rockefeller, NY governor, vice president of the United States
July 8, 1931 – Jerry Vale, singer
July 8, 1935 – Steve Lawrence, singer
July 8, 1951 – Anjelica Huston, actress, director
July 8, 1958 – Kevin Bacon, actor
July 8, 1961 – Toby Keith, 2003-2004 Country Music’s Entertainer of the Year
July 9, 1819 – Elias Howe, invented the sewing machine
July 9, 1927 – Ed Ames, actor, singer
July 9, 1928 – Vince Edwards, actor
July 9, 1938 – Brian Dennehy, actor
July 9, 1945 – Dean Koontz, writer
July 9, 1947 – O. J. Simpson, NFL running back, sportscaster
July 9, 1952 – John Tesh, musician, composer
July 9, 1955 – Jimmy Smits, actor, TV series “NYPD Blue” and “LA Law”
July 9, 1956 – Tom Hanks, actor
July 9, 1964 – Courtney Love, singer, actress
July 9, 1976 – Fred Savage, actor, TV series “Wonder Years”
July 9, 1839 – Adolphus Busch, American brewer, Busch Beer.
July 10, 1834 – James Whistler, American painter, painted Whistler’s Mother.
July 10, 1920 – David Brinkley, TV anchor, journalist
July 10, 1926 – Fred Gwynne, actor, “Herman Munster on the TV series “The Munsters”
July 10, 1943 – Arthur Ashe, tennis champion
July 10, 1947 – Arlo Guthrie, folk singer, songwriter
July 10, 1980 – Jessica Simpson, singer
Who was born in July?
July 11, 1767 – John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. President (1825-1829)
July 11, 1834 – James Whistler, painter, “Whistler’s Mother”
July 11, 1899 – E. B. White, children’s author
July 11, 1920 – Yul Brynner, actor
July 11, 1931 – Tab Hunter, actor
July 11, 1936 – Giorgio Armani, fashion designer
July 11, 1953 – Leon Spinks, heavyweight boxing champion
July 11, 1958 – Mark Lester, actor
July 11, 1959 – Suzanne Vega, singer, songwriter
July 12, 100 BC – Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor
July 12, 1817 – Henry David Thoreau, author, philosopher
July 12, 1854 – George Eastman, Photography, founder of Eastman Kodak Company
July 12, 1864 – George Washington Carver, American Botanist
July 12, 1895 – Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist, “Rodgers and Hammerstein”
July 12, 1908 – Milton Berle, comedian
July 12, 1909 – “Curly” Joe DeRita, comedian, one of the “Three Stooges”
July 12, 1934 – Van Cliburn, pianist
July 12, 1938 – Bill Cosby, actor, comedian
July 12, 1948 – Richard Simmons, actor, weight loss guru
July 12, 1948 – Jay Thomas, actor
July 12, 1951 – Cheryl Ladd, actress, TV series “Charlies Angels”
July 12, 1957 – Mel Harris, actress
July 12, 1971 – Kristi Yamaguchi, Olympic champion figure skater
July 13, 1940 -Robert Forster, actor
July 13, 1940 – Patrick Stewart, English actor, Star Trek’s Captain Picard
July 13, 1942 – Harrison Ford, actor, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, more
July 13, 1942 – Roger McGuinn, singer, musician, member of the “Byrds”
July 13, 1944 – Erno Rubik, invented “Rubik’s Cube”
July 13, 1946 – Cheech Marin, actor, writer, “Cheech and Chong”
July 13, 1954 – Louise Mandrell, country singer
July 14, 1910 – William Hanna, “Hanna-Barbera”, creators of the “Flintstones” and the “Jetsons”
July 14, 1912 – Woody Guthrie, folk singer, songwriter
July 14, 1913 – Gerald Ford, 38th U.S. President (1974-1977)
July 14, 1917 – Douglas Edwards, TV journalist
July 14, 1918 – Ingmar Bergman, director, screenwriter
July 14, 1927 – John Chancellor, TV journalist
July 14, 1930 – Polly Bergen, actress
July 14, 1966 – Matthew Fox, actor
July 15, 1606 – Rembrandt Van Rijn, painter
July 15, 1850 – Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini (Mother Cabrini), first American saint
July 15, 1931 – Clive Cussler, author, marine historian
July 15, 1944 – Jan-Michael Vincent, actor
July 15, 1946 – Linda Ronstadt, singer
July 15, 1951 – Jesse Ventura, WWF wrestler, MN governor
July 15, 1960 – Kim Alexis, model
July 15, 1961 – Forest Whitaker, actor
July 15, 1973 – Brian Austin Green, actor
July 16, 1872 – Roald Amundsen, polar explorer
July 16, 1907 – Barbara Stanwyck, actress
July 16, 1911 – Ginger Rogers, actress, dancer
July 16, 1924 – Bess Myerson, panelist on “I’ve Got a Secret”
July 16, 1943 – Jimmy Johnson, NFL football coach
July 16, 1967 – Will Ferrell, actor, Comedian, SNL
July 17, 1763 – John Jacob Astor, fur banker, real estate investor
July 17, 1899 – James Cagney, actor
July 17, 1912 – Art Linkletter, TV actor
July 17, 1917 – Phyllis Diller, actress, comedian
July 17, 1934 – Donald Sutherland, actor
July 17, 1935 – Diahann Carroll, actress, singer
July 17, 1935 – Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
July 17, 1947 – Camilla Parker Bowles, second wife of England’s Prince Charles
July 17, 1951 – Lucie Arnaz, actress
July 17, 1952 – David Hasselhoff, actor, “Baywatch”
July 17, 1954 – Angela Merkel, German Chancellor
July 18, 1913 – Red Skelton, comedian, and actor
July 18, 1918 – Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist, President
July 18, 1921 – John Glenn, astronaut, Ohio Senator
July 18, 1927 – Kurt Masur, conductor
July 18, 1941 – James Brolin, actor (Los Angeles, CA)
July 18, 1943 – Calvin Peete, golfer
July 18, 1947 – Malcolm “Steve” Forbes Jr., publisher, presidential candidate
July 18, 1957 – Nick Faldo, golfer
July 18, 1961 – Elizabeth McGovern, actress
July 19, 1814 – Samuel Colt, Colt Manufacturing Company
July 19, 1860 – Lizzie Borden, accused ax murderer
July 19, 1898 – Herbert Marcuse, political philosopher
July 19, 1922 – George McGovern, presidential candidate, South Dakota Senator
July 19, 1924 – Pat Hingle, actor
July 19, 1941 – Vikki Carr, singer
July 19, 1946 – Ilie Nastase, tennis player
July 19, 1962 – Anthony Edwards, “Dr. Greene” on TV series “ER”
July 20, 356 B.C. – Alexander the Great, King of Ancient Macedonia
July 20, 1919 – Sir Edmund Hillary, explorer, mountaineer, first to reach the peak of Mount Everest
July 20, 1924 – Thomas Berger, writer
July 20, 1938 – Diana Rigg, actress
July 20, 1938 – Natalie Wood, actress
July 20, 1947 – Carlos Santana, musician
July 21, 1899 – Ernest Hemingway, novelist
July 21, 1920 – Isaac Stern, violinist
Who was born on your July birthday?
July 21, 1924 – Don Knotts, actor, Andy Griffith Snow
July 21, 1938 – Janet Reno, U.S. Attorney General
July 21, 1943 – Edward Hermann, actor
July 21, 1946 – Kenneth Starr, independent counsel investigated Clinton administration scandal
July 21, 1948 – Cat Stevens, singer, songwriter
July 21, 1949 – Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, created “Doonesbury”
July 21, 1952 – Robin Williams, actor
July 21, 1957 – Jon Lovitz, actor
July 22, 1890 – Rose Kennedy, mother of President John F. Kennedy
July 22, 1923 – Robert Dole, U.S. Senate majority leader, presidential candidate
July 22, 1932 – Oscar De La Renta, fashion designer
July 22, 1934 – Louise Fletcher, actress
July 22, 1940 – Alex Trebek, host of TV game show “Jeopardy”
July 22, 1946 – Danny Glover, actor, “Lethal Weapon” movie series
July 22, 1947 – Albert Brooks, actor, comedian
July 22, 1947 – Danny Glover, actor
July 22, 1947 – Don Henley, singer, songwriter, member of the “Eagles”
July 22, 1955 – Willem Dafoe, actor
July 22, 1963 – Rob Estes, actor
July 22, 1965 – David Spade, actor
July 23, 1918 – Pee Wee Reese, baseball player
July 23, 1925 – Gloria DeHaven, actress
July 23, 1936 – Don Drysdale, baseball pitcher,
July 23, 1961 – Woody Harrelson, actor
July 23, 1973 – Monica Lewinsky, Clinton administration Whitehouse
July 23, 1989 – Daniel Radcliffe, “Harry Potter” in Harry Potter movies
July 24, 1897 – Amelia Earhart, pioneer aviator
July 24, 1921 – Billy Taylor, jazz pianist
July 24, 1936 – Ruth Buzzi, actress, comedian
July 24, 1947 – Robert Hays, actor
July 24, 1951 – Lynda Carter, actress, “Wonder Woman”
July 24, 1963 – Karl Malone, NBA basketball player
July 24, 1964 – Barry Bonds, baseball player
July 24, 1970 – Jennifer Lopez, actress, singer, “J-Lo”
July 25, 1844 – Thomas Eakins, painter
July 25, 1894 – Walter Brennan, actor, “The Real McCoys”
July 25, 1907 – Jack Gilford, actor
July 25, 1925 – Estelle Getty, actress
July 25, 1935 – Barbara Harris, actress
July 25, 1954 – Walter Payton, NFL football player
July 25, 1967 – Matt LeBlanc, actor, TV series “Friends”
July 25, 1978 – Louise Brown, first test-tube baby
July 25, 1982 – Brad Renfro, actor
July 26, 1796 – George Catlin, painter
July 26, 1894 – Aldous Huxley, writer, wrote “Brave New World”
July 26, 1906 – Gracie Allen, actress, comedian, wife of George Burns
July 26, 1909 – Vivian Vance, actress,
July 26, 1922 – Blake Edwards, producer, director
July 26, 1922 – Jason Robards, actor
July 26, 1928 – Stanley Kubrick, director, writer
July 26, 1943 – Mick Jagger, lead singer of the “Rolling Stones”
July 26, 1956 – Dorothy Hamill, Champion Olympic figure skater
July 26, 1964 – Sandra Bullock, actress
July 27, 1824 – Alexandre Dumas, novelist
July 27, 1905 – Leo Durocher, baseball player, manager
July 27, 1922 – Norman Lear, writer, producer
July 27, 1931 – Jerry Van Dyke, actor, brother of Dick Van Dyke
July 27, 1942 – Bobbie Gentry, singer, songwriter
July 27, 1948 – Peggy Fleming, Champion Olympic figure skater
July 27, 1948 – Betty Thomas, actress, director
July 27, 1949 – Maureen McGovern, singer
July 27, 1972 – Maya Rudolph, actress, comedian, SNL
July 27, 1975 – Alex Rodriguez, MLB NY Yankees baseball player, “A-Rod”
July 28, 1866 – Beatrix Potter, children’s author
July 28, 1901 – Rudy Vallee, singer
July 28, 1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, first husband- U.S Pres. John F. Kennedy, second – shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis
July 28, 1945 – Jim Davis, cartoonist, created “Garfield”
July 28, 1948 – Sally Struthers, actress
July 28, 1964 – Lori Loughlin, actress
July 29, 1883 – Benito Mussolini, Italian Fascist leader during WWII
July 29, 1936 – Elizabeth Hanford Dole, Red Cross president, U.S. cabinet member
July 29, 1938 – Peter Jennings, TV news anchor
July 29, 1966 – Martina McBride, country singer
July 29, 1972 – Wil Wheaton, Actor, “Star Trek” and “Big Bang Theory”
July 30, 1863 – Henry Ford, automaker, industrialist
July 30, 1890 – Casey Stengel, baseball player, manager
July 30, 1898 – Henry Moore, sculptor
July 30, 1934 – Bud Selig, baseball commissioner
July 30, 1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, producer, director
July 30, 1941 – Paul Anka, singer
July 30, 1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, weightlifter, actor, Governor of California, quote: “I’ll be back!”
July 30, 1956 – Delta Burke, actress
July 30, 1961 – Laurence Fishburne, actor
July 30, 1963 – Lisa Kudrow, actress “Phoebe” on TV series “Friends”
July 31, 1912 – Milton Friedman, economist
July 31, 1919 – Curt Gowdy, sportscaster
July 31, 1929 – Don Murray, actor
July 31, 1951 – Evonne Goolagong, tennis champion
July 31, 1962 – Wesley Snipes, actor
July 31, 1965 – J.K. Rowling, author of “The Harry Potter” series
July 31, 1966 – Dean Cain, actor “Superman “on TV series “Lois and Clark”
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