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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
J. Brian Atwood
Government
25-Jul-1942   USAID Administrator, 1993-99
Arthur Balfour
Head of State
25-Jul-1848 19-Mar-1930 UK Prime Minister, 1902-05
Willard L. Beaulac
Diplomat
25-Jul-1899 Aug-1990 US Ambassador to Argentina, 1956-60
David Belasco
Playwright
25-Jul-1853 14-May-1931 Madame Butterfly
Walter Brennan
Actor
25-Jul-1894 21-Sep-1974 Three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor
Mary Beth Buchanan
Government
25-Jul-1963   US Attorney, Western Pennsylvania
David P. Buckson
Politician
25-Jul-1920   Governor of Delaware for 19 days
Ron Burton
Football
25-Jul-1936 13-Sep-2003 Former Patriots RB
Elias Canetti
Author
25-Jul-1905 14-Aug-1994 Crowds and Power
Alfredo Casella
Composer
25-Jul-1883 5-Mar-1947 Rejuvinated Vivaldi
Frank Church
Politician
25-Jul-1924 7-Apr-1984 US Senator from Idaho, 1957-81
Roger Clinton
Relative
25-Jul-1956   Black sheep in Clinton family
Morris Raphael Cohen
Philosopher
25-Jul-1880 28-Jan-1947 Reason and Nature
Jon Crosby
Musician
25-Jul-1976   VAST
Martin L. Davey
Politician
25-Jul-1884 31-Mar-1946 Governor of Ohio, 1935-39
John R. Davis, Jr.
Diplomat
25-Jul-1927   US Ambassador to Poland, 1983-90
Midge Decter
Journalist
25-Jul-1927   Neoconservative maven
Illeana Douglas
Actor
25-Jul-1965   Grace of My Heart
Thomas Eakins
Painter
25-Jul-1844 25-Jun-1916 Realist painter, The Gross Clinic
Jay R. Ferguson
Actor
25-Jul-1974   Ponyboy Curtis on The Outsiders
Dani Filth
Singer
25-Jul-1973   Cradle of Filth
Alexis Fire
Pornstar
25-Jul-1964   Lactating contortionist-cum-prostitute
Maureen Forrester
Singer
25-Jul-1930 16-Jun-2010 Contralto, interpreter of Mahler
Rosalind Franklin
Chemist
25-Jul-1920 16-Apr-1958 Photographed DNA's structure
Lynne Frederick
Actor
25-Jul-1954 27-Apr-1994 The Prisoner of Zenda
Estelle Getty
Actor
25-Jul-1923 22-Jul-2008 The Golden Girls
John Gibson
Journalist
25-Jul-1946   The Big Story with John Gibson
Jack Gilford
Actor
25-Jul-1908 2-Jun-1990 Save the Tiger
Jane Hamsher
Blogger
25-Jul-1959   Firedoglake.com founder
Jim Harrick
Basketball
25-Jul-1938   Former UCLA and UGA head coach
Barbara Harris
Actor
25-Jul-1935   Freaky Friday
Anna Harrison
First Lady
25-Jul-1775 25-Feb-1864 Wife of US President William Henry Harrison
Chushiro Hayashi
Astronomer
25-Jul-1920 28-Feb-2010 Big Bang astrophysicist
Warren Hellman
Business
25-Jul-1934   Hellman & Friedman
Johnny Hines
Actor
25-Jul-1895 24-Oct-1970 Silent film comedian
Johnny Hodges
Jazz Musician
25-Jul-1907 11-May-1970 Jazz alto saxophonist
Eric Hoffer
Author
25-Jul-1902 21-May-1983 The True Believer
Iman
Model
25-Jul-1955   Somali supermodel wife of David Bowie
Adnan Khashoggi
Business
25-Jul-1935   Saudi billionaire, arms merchant
Henry Knox
Government
25-Jul-1750 25-Oct-1806 US Secretary of War, 1785-94
James Lafferty
Actor
25-Jul-1985   Nathan on One Tree Hill
Katherine Kelly Lang
Actor
25-Jul-1961   The Bold and the Beautiful
Arthur B. Langlie
Politician
25-Jul-1900 24-Jul-1966 Twice Governor of Washington
Matt LeBlanc
Actor
25-Jul-1967   Joey on Friends
Lila Lee
Actor
25-Jul-1901 13-Nov-1973 Male and Female
Arthur Lubin
Film Director
25-Jul-1898 12-May-1995 Phantom of the Opera
Charles Major
Novelist
25-Jul-1856 13-Feb-1913 When Knighthood Was in Flower
Janet Margolin
Actor
25-Jul-1943 17-Dec-1993 Take the Money and Run
Rita Marley
Singer/Songwriter
25-Jul-1946   Reggae vocalist, Bob Marley's widow
Tom McCamus
Actor
25-Jul-1955   I Love a Man in Uniform
Thurston Moore
Musician
25-Jul-1958   Sonic Youth
Anne Morgan
Philanthropist
25-Jul-1873 29-Jan-1952 Friend of the French
Jerry Paris
Actor
25-Jul-1925 31-Mar-1986 Jerry Helper on The Dick Van Dyke Show
Maxfield Parrish
Artist
25-Jul-1870 10-Mar-1966 American book and magazine illustrator
Tera Patrick
Pornstar
25-Jul-1976   Nuttin' Hunnies
Walter Payton
Football
25-Jul-1954 1-Nov-1999 Sweetness
Harold Peary
Actor
25-Jul-1908 30-Mar-1985 Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve
Gavrilo Princip
Assassin
25-Jul-1894 28-Apr-1918 Assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Christine C. Quinn
Politician
25-Jul-1966   Speaker, New York City Council
Dotson Rader
Author
25-Jul-1942   I Ain't Marchin' Anymore!
Brad Renfro
Actor
25-Jul-1982 15-Jan-2008 The Client
John Robinson
Football
25-Jul-1935   LA Rams, NCAA head coach
Wendy Raquel Robinson
Actor
25-Jul-1967   Tasha Mack on The Game
Joseph Sargent
Film Director
25-Jul-1925   The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
August Schellenberg
Actor
25-Jul-1936   Black Robe
Miriam Shor
Actor
25-Jul-1971   Cricket Caruth-Reilly on GCB
Alison Skipworth
Actor
25-Jul-1863 5-Jul-1952 Broadway and character actress
Frank J. Sprague
Inventor
25-Jul-1857 25-Oct-1934 Streetcars and express elevators
Ken Swofford
Actor
25-Jul-1933   Quentin Morloch on Fame
Jack Thompson
Attorney
25-Jul-1951   Video game decency barrator
Nate Thurmond
Basketball
25-Jul-1941   NBA Hall of Famer
Emmett Till
Victim
25-Jul-1941 28-Aug-1955 Black boy, murdered brutally in Mississippi
Lionel Van Deerlin
Politician
25-Jul-1914 17-May-2008 Congressman from California, 1963-81
Johnnie Walker
Business
25-Jul-1805 1857 Whiskey maker
Margaret Floy Washburn
Psychologist
25-Jul-1871 29-Oct-1939 First female American psychologist
Michael Welch
Actor
25-Jul-1987   Luke on Joan of Arcadia
Michael C. Williams
Actor
25-Jul-1973   The Blair Witch Project
D. B. Woodside
Actor
25-Jul-1969   President Wayne Palmer on 24
Carroll D. Wright
Sociologist
25-Jul-1840 20-Feb-1909 The Industrial Evolution of the United States
Claude Zidi
Film Director
25-Jul-1934   The Wing and the Thigh
Robert Zoellick
Government
25-Jul-1953   World Bank president, 2007-12




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