| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| Horatio Alger |
Author |
13-Jan-1832 |
18-Jul-1899 |
Ragged Dick |
| Jane Austen |
Author |
16-Dec-1775 |
18-Jul-1817 |
Pride and Prejudice |
| Buddy Baer |
Boxing |
11-Jun-1915 |
18-Jul-1986 |
Jack and the Beanstalk |
| Alvise Cadamosto |
Explorer |
1432 |
18-Jul-1488 |
Discovered Cape Verde islands |
| Caravaggio |
Painter |
28-Sep-1573 |
18-Jul-1610 |
Temperamental painter |
| Lionel Casson |
Scholar |
22-Jul-1914 |
18-Jul-2009 |
The Ancient Mariners |
| Paul Coverdell |
Politician |
29-Jan-1939 |
18-Jul-2000 |
US Senator from Georgia, 1993-2000 |
| Georgine Darcy |
Actor |
14-Jan-1931 |
18-Jul-2004 |
Miss Torso in Rear Window |
| Anne Gorsuch |
Government |
21-Apr-1942 |
18-Jul-2004 |
Reagan's EPA administrator forced to resign |
| Jerry Hadley |
Singer |
16-Jun-1952 |
18-Jul-2007 |
Operatic tenor |
| Jack Hawkins |
Actor |
14-Sep-1910 |
18-Jul-1973 |
Land of the Pharaohs |
| Corneille Heymans |
Scientist |
28-Mar-1892 |
18-Jul-1968 |
Aortic and carotid chemoreceptors |
| John Paul Jones |
Military |
6-Jul-1747 |
18-Jul-1792 |
Has not yet begun to fight |
| Benito Juárez |
Head of State |
21-Mar-1806 |
18-Jul-1872 |
President of Mexico, 1861-72 |
| Machine Gun Kelly |
Criminal |
18-Jul-1895 |
18-Jul-1954 |
Notorious bank robber, kidnapper |
| Rajesh Khanna |
Actor |
29-Dec-1942 |
18-Jul-2012 |
Anand |
| Mary Jo Kopechne |
Victim |
26-Jul-1940 |
18-Jul-1969 |
Dead woman in Ted Kennedy's car |
| Karl Menninger |
Psychiatrist |
22-Jul-1893 |
18-Jul-1990 |
The Human Mind |
| Oskar Minkowski |
Doctor |
13-Jan-1858 |
18-Jul-1931 |
Linked pancreas to diabetes |
| Jean Negulesco |
Film Director |
26-Feb-1900 |
18-Jul-1993 |
Three Coins in the Fountain |
| Richard Ney |
Actor |
12-Nov-1916 |
18-Jul-2004 |
Mrs. Miniver |
| Nico |
Musician |
16-Oct-1938 |
18-Jul-1988 |
The Velvet Underground and Nico |
| George M. O'Brien |
Politician |
17-Jun-1917 |
18-Jul-1986 |
Congressman from Illinois, 1973-86 |
| Jim Parker |
Football |
3-Apr-1934 |
18-Jul-2005 |
Lineman, NFL Hall of Famer |
| Rebecca Schaeffer |
Actor |
6-Nov-1967 |
18-Jul-1989 |
Actress murdered by stalker |
| Isaac Shelby |
Military |
11-Dec-1750 |
18-Jul-1826 |
Twice Governor of Kentucky |
| George Sutherland |
Judge |
25-Mar-1862 |
18-Jul-1942 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1922-38 |
| Carl Van Doren |
Author |
10-Sep-1885 |
18-Jul-1950 |
The American Novel |
| Antoine Watteau |
Painter |
10-Oct-1684 |
18-Jul-1721 |
Rococo painter of fêtes galantes |
| William Westmoreland |
Military |
26-Mar-1914 |
18-Jul-2005 |
Commanded US Army in Vietnam War |