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July 27
1824 Alexandre Dumas (Fils),
novelist/playwright (Paris, France; died 1895)
1905 Leo Durocher, baseball
player/manager (West Springfield, MA; died 1991)
1922 Norman Lear, TV writer/producer
and political activist (New Haven, CT)
1931 Jerry Van Dyke, actor
(Danville, IL)
1942 Bobbie Gentry, singer/songwriter
(Chicasaw County, MS)
1948 Peggy Fleming, Olympic
champion figure skater/sportscaster (San Jose, CA)
Betty Thomas, actress/director (St. Louis, MO)
1949 Maureen McGovern, singer
(Youngstown, OH)
1958 Christopher Dean, Olympic
champion ice dancer as member of Torvill and Dean (Nottingham, England)
July 28
1866 Beatrix Potter, children's
author/illustrator (London, England; died 1943)
1901 Rudy Vallee, singer/saxophone
player (Island Point, VT; died 1986)
1929 Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis,
first lady of the United States and widow of Pres. John F. Kennedy (Southampton,
NY; died 1994)
1931 Darryl Hickman, actor
(Los Angeles, CA)
1941 Riccardo Muti, conductor
(Naples, Italy)
1943 Bill Bradley, basketball
player, former NJ senator, presidential aspirant, and writer (Crystal City,
MO)
1945 Jim Davis, cartoonist
and creator of Garfield (Marion, IN)
1948 Sally Struthers, actress
(Portland, OR)
1964 Lori Loughlin, actress
(Long Island, NY)
July 29
1805 Alexis de Tocqueville,
writer/political scientist/historian (Paris, France; died 1859)
1869 Booth Tarkington, novelist
(Indianapolis, IN; died 1946)`
1883 Benito Mussolini, Italian
Fascist leader (Dovia, Italy; died 1945)
1905 Dag Hammarskjold, statesman/UN
secretary general (Sweden; died 1961)
1930 Paul Taylor, dancer/choreographer
(Allegheny County, PA)
1936 Elizabeth Hanford Dole,
former Red Cross president, cabinet member(Salisbury, NC)
1938 Peter Jennings, TV anchor
(Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
1941 David Warner, actor (Manchester,
England)
1953 Ken Burns, documentary
filmmaker (New York, NY)
1972 Wil Wheaton, actor (Burbank,
CA)
July 30
1818 Emily Bronte, novelist
(Haworth, Yorkshire, England; died 1848)
1857 Thorstein Veblen, economist/social
philosopher (Valders, WI; died 1929)
1863 Henry Ford, auto maker/industrialist
(Wayne County, MI; died 1947)
1890 Casey Stengel, baseball
player/manager (Kansas City, MO; died 1975)
1898 Henry Moore, sculptor
(Castleford, Yorkshire, England; died 1986)
1914 Lord Killanin, International
Olympic Committee president (London, England; died 1999)
1934 Bud Selig, baseball commissioner
(Milwaukee, WI)
1939 Peter Bogdanovich, producer/director
(Kingston, NY)
1941 Paul Anka, singer/songwriter
(Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
1945 David Sanborn, saxophonist/composer
(Tampa, FL)
1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger,
actor/bodybuilder (Graz, Austria)
1954 Ken Olin, actor (Chicago,
IL)
1956 Delta Burke, actress
(Orlando, FL)
1961 Laurence Fishburne, actor
(Augusta, GA)
July 31
1900 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
writer and aviator (France; died 1944)
1912 Milton Friedman, economist/author
(Brooklyn, NY)
1919 Curt Gowdy, sportscaster
(Green River, WY)
1929 Don Murray, actor (Hollywood,
CA)
1943 William J. Bennett, former
education secretary/drug czar and author (Brooklyn, NY)
1944 Geraldine Chaplin, actress
(Santa Monica, CA)
Sherry Lansing, producer (Chicago, IL)
1951 Evonne Goolagong, tennis
champion (Griffith, Australia)
1963 Wesley Snipes, actor
(Orlando, FL)
1966 Dean Cain, actor (Mount
Clemens, MI)
August 1
1770 William Clark, soldier/explorer
with Meriwether Lewis (Caroline County, VA; died 1838)
1779 Francis Scott Key, attorney/social
worker/poet and author of the national anthem (Frederick County,
MA; died 1843)
1818 Maria Mitchell, astronomer/educator
(Nantucket, MA; died 1889)
1819 Herman Melville, novelist
(New York, NY; died 1891)
1922 Arthur Hill, actor (Melfort,
Saskatchewan, Canada)
1933 Dom DeLuise, actor/comedian
(Brooklyn, NY)
1936 Yves Saint Laurent, fashion
designer (Oran, Algeria)
1937 Alfonse D'Amato, former
NY senator (Brooklyn, NY)
1939 Robert James Waller,
writer (Rockford, IA)
1942 Jerry Garcia, guitarist
and member of the Grateful Dead (San Francisco, CA; died 1995)
Giancarlo Giannini,
actor (Spezia, Italy)
1963 Coolio, rap singer (Los
Angeles, CA)
1973 Tempestt Bledsoe, actress
(Chicago, IL)
August 2
1754 Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Revolutionary
War officer, architect/engineer, and designer of the plan for Washington,
DC (Paris, France; died 1825)
1905 Myrna Loy, actress (near
Helena, MT; died 1993)
1918 Beatrice Straight, actress
(Old Westbury, NY)
1924 James Baldwin, author/playwright
(New York, NY; died 1987)
Carroll O'Connor, actor
(New York, NY; died 2001)
1932 Peter O'Toole, actor
(Connemara, Ireland)
1944 Joanna Cassidy, actress
(Camden, NJ)
1949 James Fallows, journalist/magazine
editor (Philadelphia, PA)
1964 Mary-Louise Parker, actress
(Fort Jackson, SC)
1977 Edward Furlong, actor
(Glendale, CA)
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