Baby Names Book Famous July Birthdays
Famous July Birthdays |
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Hot July brings cooling showers, apricots and gillyflowers. ~ Sara Coleridge, Pretty Lessons in Verse July is the fun month of picnics, ball games and summer vacations. Famous folks born this month include Thurgood Marshall, Neil Simon, Jessica Simpson and Jane Lynch. See more celebrities born in July below...
Pamela Anderson (1967): Baywatch babe, Playboy Playmate and ex-wife of rocker Tommy Lee Carl Lewis (1961): U.S. athlete won 9 gold medals in track and field events July 2 Lindsay Lohan (1986): child actress-turned-train wreck, starred in 1998’s The Parent Trap Thurgood Marshall (1908): first African-American U.S. Supreme Court justice July 3 Gloria Allred (1941): American lawyer famous for taking high-profile cases, particularly those dealing with the defense of women's rights Tom Cruise (1962): movie actor of Risky Business, Top Gun and Mission Impossible fame July 4 Malia Obama (1998): elder daughter of President Barack Obama Neil Simon (1927): New York playwright of The Odd Couple; won a Pulitzer Prize for Lost in Yonkers
Megan Rapinoe (1985): American soccer midfielder and former member of the U.S. women’s national soccer team Huey Lewis (1950): Frontman for The Power of Love musical group Huey Lewis and the News July 6 Della Reese (1931): jazz singer-turned-actress, played Tess on Touched by an Angel Merv Griffin (1925): Entertainment entrepreneur/media mogul; created shows such as Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune among others July 7 Michelle Kwan (1980): most decorated figure skater in U.S. history, medaled in the 1998 and 2002 Olympics Ringo Starr (1940): replaced Pete Best to become the famous drummer of The Beatles July 8 Anjelica Huston (1951): won an Oscar for Prizzi’s Honor; once involved with Jack Nicholson Toby Keith (1961): country music singer; founded Mad Dog Nashville music label
Courtney Love (1964): rocker, actress and widow of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain Tom Hanks (1956): versatile movie actor; won back-to-back Academy Awards for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump July 10 Jessica Simpson (1980): pop star-turned-fashion designer; mother of one child, daughter Maxwell, with fiancé Eric Johnson Nikola Tesla (1956): Austrian scientist; invented the electrical motor, arc lighting and AC power July 11 Nadya Suleman (1975): single welfare mother who conceived 14 children (eight of them at once) via in-vitro fertilization; known as Octomom Yul Brynner (1920): Russian-born actor starred in The King and I, The Ten Commandments and The Magnificent Seven July 12 Cheryl Ladd (1951): TV actress best known for replacing Farrah Fawcett on Charlie’s Angels Oscar Hammerstein II (1895): lyricist of Broadway hits with partner Richard Rodgers; together they were known as Rodgers and Hammerstein Popular unisex baby names for boys and girls
Simone Veil (1927): a French lawyer and politician; survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp Harrison Ford (1942): American movie actor of Indiana Jones and Star Wars fame July 14 Jane Lynch (1960): Emmy-winning actress best known as Sue Sylvester in Glee Ingmar Bergman (1918): Swedish film director of The Seventh Seal; wrote most of the 60 films he directed July 15 Linda Ronstadt (1946): versatile singer known as the First Lady of Rock Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606): Dutch painter of religious and historical masterpieces July 16 Phoebe Cates (1963): actress best known for her topless scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High; married to actor Kevin Kline Corey Feldman (1971): young actor of Gremlins and Goonies fame Popular African-American baby names
Diahann Carroll (1935): African-American actress, starred in Julia and Dynasty John Jacob Astor (1763): shrewd businessman, became the first American multimillionaire July 18 Priyanka Chopra (1982): Miss World 2000 and glamorous Bolllywood actress, starred in Dostana Hunter S. Thompson (1937): drugged-up journalist who wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; committed suicide after George Bush was elected July 19 Lizzie Borden (1860): accused and eventually acquitted of killing her parents with a hatchet Edgar Degas (1834): French impressionist painter of ballerinas July 20 Natalie Wood (1938): Hollywood beauty played Maria in West Side Story; died by drowning while vacationing on a yacht Gregor Mendel (1822): research scientist from the Czech Republic, considered the founder of modern genetics
Brandi Chastain (1968): professional soccer player who stripped off her jersey in the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup Isaac Stern (1920): famed Ukrainian violinist; helped discover Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma July 22 Louise Fletcher (1934): won Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Nurse Ratched in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Alex Trebek (1940): long-time host of TV quiz show Jeopardy July 23 Monica Lewinsky (1973): infamous White House intern involved with President Clinton Daniel Radcliffe (1989): English actor who earned more than $878 million as the beloved Harry Potter July 24 Lynda Carter (1951): was Miss World USA 1972 before portraying TV’s first female superhero, Wonder Woman Michael Richards (1969): will be forever known as Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld East Coast baby names for boys and girls
Louise Brown (1978): the world’s first “test tube baby” Matt LeBlanc (1967): actor best known for playing Joey Tribbiani on Friends July 26 Vivian Vance (1909): remembered as Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy Stanley Kubrick (1928): director of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Lolita July 27 Bobbie Gentry (1944): female singer of Ode to Billie Joe and I’ll Never Fall in Love Again Johann Bernoulli (1667): Swiss mathematician credited as the inventor of calculus and the first to use the term “integral” July 28Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929): widow of President Kennedy, later married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis Animal-inspired baby namesJuly 29 Clara Bow (1905): alluring
silent film star known as the It Girl Benito Mussolini (1833): Italian dictator allied with Hitler during WWII, credited as a creator of fascism July 30 Delta Burke (1956): former beauty queen best known as Suzanne Sugarbaker on Designing Women Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947): former Mr. Universe turned actor, elected governor of California in 2003 July 31 Evonne Goolagong (1951): Australian tennis champion; won 14 Grand Slam titles in the 1980s Curt Gowdy (1919): Hall of Fame radio and TV sports broadcaster More famous birthdaysMore famous people born in July |
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