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
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