July

Comte de Rochambeau (1725)

French general who fought in the American Revolution

George Sand (1804)

French writer

Sir Charles

Tupper (1821) a prime minister of Canada

Thurgood Marshall (1908) first black justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court

Alfred Korzybski

(1879) Polish-born scientist and author

George M. Cohan (1878) American writer, actor, and musical composer

Calvin Coolidge

(1872) 30th President of the United States

Louis Armstrong

(1900) American jazz singer and trumpet player

Who shares my birthday?

Is your birthday in July? The names of some of the famous people born in
July are shown on the calendar on this page and the next. What do you
know about the person who shares your birthday?

David G. Farragut (1801) first admiral of the U.S. Navy

P. T. Barnum (1810) American showman who called his circus “The
Greatest Show on Earth”

John Paul Jones

(1747) American naval hero who is known as the “Father of the American
Navy”

Gian Carlo Menotti (1911) American opera composer who wrote Amahl
and the Night Visitors

Ringo Starr (1940) English drummer with the Beatles

Jean de la Fontaine (1621) French author of fables

Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838) German inventor of airships

Elias Howe (1819)

American inventor of the first practical sewing machine

Nikola Tesla (1856) electrical engineer, born in Austria- Hungary

Mary Bethune

(1875) American

educator

Arthur Ashe (1943)

American tennis star

Robert Bruce

(1274) Scottish king who freed Scotland from England

John Quincy Adams (1767) 6th President of the United States

Julius Caesar (100? [b.c.)]{.smallcaps} Roman military leader and
statesman

Andrew Wyeth

(1917) American artist; paints pictures of rural America

Mary Emma Woolley (1863) American educator who was president of
Mount Holyoke College

James Abbott

McNeil Whistler

(1834) American painter

Gerald R. Ford

(1913) 38th President of the United States

Rembrandt van

Rijn (1606) Dutch painter

Maria Cabrini

(1850) first U.S. citizen to be made a Roman Catholic saint

Mary Baker Eddy

(1821) American founder of Christian Science

Roald Amundsen

(1872) Norwegian explorer; discovered the South Pole

Isaac Watts (1674) English preacher and hymn writer

John Jacob Astor

(1763) German-born fur trader

W. M. Thackeray (1811) English author who wrote Vanity Fair

John Glenn (1921) first American astronaut to orbit the earth

Samuel Colt (1814)

American who developed a pistol named after him

Edgar Degas (1834)

French painter

Petrarch (1304) Italian poet and scholar

Sir Edmund Hillary (1919) New Zealander; one of the first two men to
reach the top of Mount Everest

Ernest Hemingway

(1899) American author

Isaac Stern (1921)

American violinist; debuted with the San Francisco Orchestra at age 11

Gregor Mendel

(1822) Austrian botanist and monk who discovered rules of heredity

Stephen Vincent Benet (1898) American poet

Arthur W. Brown

(1886) British aviator who made the first transatlantic flight

Simon Bolivar

(1783) Venezuelan general who freed five nations

Amelia Earhart (1897) American; first woman to fly the Atlantic
Ocean alone

Henry Knox (1750) American patriot; directed Washington’s crossing
of the Delaware River

Thomas Eakins (1844) American artist

George Bernard Shaw (1856) Irish-born playwright and critic

Carl Jung (1875) Swiss psychologist

Charlotte Corday

(1768) French patriot

Leo Durocher

(1906) American baseball player and manager of several baseball teams

Beatrix Potter

(1866) British author and illustrator of Peter Rabbit and other
children’s books

Booth Tarkington

(1869) American author of Penrod and other books

William Beebe

(1877) American undersea explorer

Henry Ford (1863) American who founded Ford Motor Company

Casey Stengel

(1890) American baseball player and manager

John Ericsson

(1803) Swedish- American inventor

Evonne Goolagong Cawley (1951) Australian tennis player