| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Tony Armas |
Baseball |
2-Jul-1953 |
|
Venezuelan MLB hitter |
| Richard Axel |
Scientist |
2-Jul-1946 |
|
Odorant receptors and olfactory organization |
| Clarence W. Barron |
Publisher |
2-Jul-1855 |
2-Oct-1928 |
Wall Street Journal proprietor, 1903-28 |
| Hans Bethe |
Physicist |
2-Jul-1906 |
6-Mar-2005 |
Atomic scientist |
| William Bragg |
Physicist |
2-Jul-1862 |
12-Mar-1942 |
Analyzed crystal structures |
| Michelle Branch |
Singer/Songwriter |
2-Jul-1983 |
|
Are You Happy Now? |
| Ed Bullins |
Playwright |
2-Jul-1935 |
|
In the Wine Time |
| Yancy Butler |
Actor |
2-Jul-1970 |
|
Witchblade |
| Jose Canseco |
Baseball |
2-Jul-1964 |
|
Troubled Oakland A's player |
| Mike Castle |
Politician |
2-Jul-1939 |
|
Congressman from Delaware, 1993-2011 |
| Jonathan Cilley |
Politician |
2-Jul-1802 |
24-Feb-1838 |
US Congressman from Maine, 1837-38 |
| Kenneth Clarke |
Politician |
2-Jul-1940 |
|
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1993-97 |
| John Cooper |
Football |
2-Jul-1937 |
|
OSU Head Coach, 1988-2000 |
| Thomas Cranmer |
Religion |
2-Jul-1489 |
21-Mar-1556 |
First Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Wilhelm Cuno |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1876 |
3-Jan-1933 |
German Chancellor 1922-23 |
| Ken Curtis |
Actor |
2-Jul-1916 |
29-Apr-1991 |
Festus Haggen on Gunsmoke |
| Larry David |
Film/TV Producer |
2-Jul-1947 |
|
Seinfeld co-creator, Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| Andrew Divoff |
Actor |
2-Jul-1955 |
|
Wishmaster |
| Lewis W. Douglas |
Politician |
2-Jul-1894 |
7-Mar-1974 |
US Ambassador to the UK, 1947-50 |
| Alec Douglas-Home |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1903 |
9-Oct-1995 |
UK Prime Minister, 1963-64 |
| Junior Durkin |
Actor |
2-Jul-1914 |
4-May-1935 |
Huckleberry Finn |
| Medgar Evers |
Activist |
2-Jul-1925 |
12-Jun-1963 |
Civil rights activist murdered in 1963 |
| Vicente Fox |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1942 |
|
President of Mexico, 2000-06 |
| Evan Griffith Galbraith |
Business |
2-Jul-1928 |
21-Jan-2008 |
US Ambassador to France, 1981-85 |
| Anne Garrels |
Journalist |
2-Jul-1951 |
|
NPR senior foreign correspondent |
| Christoph Willibald Gluck |
Composer |
2-Jul-1714 |
15-Nov-1787 |
Orfeo ed Eurydice |
| Ron Goldman |
Victim |
2-Jul-1968 |
12-Jun-1994 |
Murder victim, OJ Simpson trial |
| Tyrone Guthrie |
Theater Director |
2-Jul-1900 |
15-May-1971 |
Influential Anglo-Irish theatre director |
| Jerry Hall |
Model |
2-Jul-1956 |
|
Second wife of Mick Jagger |
| Bret Hart |
Wrestling |
2-Jul-1957 |
|
The Hitman |
| Ralph E. Herseth |
Politician |
2-Jul-1909 |
24-Jul-1969 |
Governor of South Dakota, 1959-61 |
| Hermann Hesse |
Author |
2-Jul-1877 |
9-Aug-1962 |
Siddhartha |
| Glen A. Holden |
Business |
2-Jul-1927 |
|
US Ambassador to Jamaica, 1989-93 |
| Polly Holliday |
Actor |
2-Jul-1937 |
|
Somebody, kiss her grits already |
| Sam Hornish, Jr. |
Auto Racing |
2-Jul-1979 |
|
Winner, 2006 Indianapolis 500 |
| Luci Baines Johnson |
Relative |
2-Jul-1947 |
|
Daughter of LBJ |
| Phil Karlson |
Film Director |
2-Jul-1908 |
12-Dec-1985 |
Walking Tall |
| Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock |
Poet |
2-Jul-1724 |
14-Mar-1803 |
Messias |
| Meyer Lansky |
Criminal |
2-Jul-1902 |
15-Jan-1983 |
The brains behind the Mafia's money |
| Lindsay Lohan |
Actor |
2-Jul-1986 |
|
Mean Girls |
| Patrice Lumumba |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1925 |
17-Jan-1961 |
First Prime Minister of Congo |
| Imelda Marcos |
First Lady |
2-Jul-1929 |
|
Former First Lady of the Philippines |
| Thurgood Marshall |
Judge |
2-Jul-1908 |
24-Jan-1993 |
First black US Supreme Court justice |
| Catherine McLeod |
Actor |
2-Jul-1921 |
11-May-1997 |
I've Always Loved You |
| Kenneth McMillan |
Actor |
2-Jul-1932 |
8-Jan-1989 |
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen |
| Jimmy McNichol |
Actor |
2-Jul-1961 |
|
Actor, brother of Kristy McNichol |
| Edwin L. Mechem |
Politician |
2-Jul-1912 |
27-Nov-2002 |
Three-time Governor of New Mexico |
| Carlos Menem |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1930 |
|
President of Argentina, 1989-99 |
| George Cardinal Mundelein |
Religion |
2-Jul-1872 |
2-Oct-1939 |
Archbishop of Chicago, 1915-39 |
| Richard Nugent |
Author |
2-Jul-1906 |
27-May-1987 |
Harlem Renaissance writer |
| Olav V |
Royalty |
2-Jul-1903 |
17-Jan-1991 |
King of Norway, 1957-91 |
| David Owen |
Politician |
2-Jul-1938 |
|
UK Foreign Secretary, 1977-79 |
| David Palmer |
Musician |
2-Jul-1937 |
|
Transsexual keyboardist, Jethro Tull |
| Brock Peters |
Actor |
2-Jul-1927 |
23-Aug-2005 |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Richard Petty |
Auto Racing |
2-Jul-1937 |
|
Seven-time NASCAR Champion |
| Lynn Forester de Rothschild |
Business |
2-Jul-1954 |
|
Telecom executive |
| Saul Rubinek |
Actor |
2-Jul-1948 |
|
Ticket to Heaven |
| Jay Sarno |
Business |
2-Jul-1922 |
1984 |
Creator of Caesars Palace |
| Wendy Schaal |
Actor |
2-Jul-1954 |
|
Francine Smith on American Dad! |
| Jim Schwartz |
Football |
2-Jul-1966 |
|
Head Coach, Detroit Lions |
| Ron Silver |
Actor |
2-Jul-1946 |
15-Mar-2009 |
Wiseguy |
| Richard Henry Stoddard |
Novelist |
2-Jul-1825 |
12-May-1903 |
Abraham Lincoln, An Horatian Ode |
| John H. Sununu |
Government |
2-Jul-1939 |
|
George H.W. Bush's Chief of Staff |
| Wislawa Szymborska |
Poet |
2-Jul-1923 |
1-Feb-2012 |
Polish poet |
| Ann Taylor |
Politician |
2-Jul-1947 |
|
Leader, House of Commons, 1997-98 |
| Dave Thomas |
Business |
2-Jul-1932 |
8-Jan-2002 |
Founder of Wendy's Hamburgers |
| Joe Thornton |
Hockey |
2-Jul-1979 |
|
San Jose Sharks |
| Ashley Tisdale |
Actor |
2-Jul-1985 |
|
Maddie on Zack and Cody |
| Erich Topp |
Military |
2-Jul-1914 |
26-Dec-2005 |
World War II U-Boat commander |
| Charles Tupper |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1821 |
30-Oct-1915 |
Prime Minister of Canada, 1896 |
| Joseph Volpe |
Administrator |
2-Jul-1940 |
|
GM Metropolitan Opera, 1990-2006 |
| Francis A. Walker |
Economist |
2-Jul-1840 |
5-Jan-1897 |
The Wages Question |
| Kim M. Wardlaw |
Judge |
2-Jul-1954 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Alan Webb |
Actor |
2-Jul-1906 |
22-Jun-1982 |
English character actor |
| Johnny Weir |
Figure Skating |
2-Jul-1984 |
|
Olympic figure skater |
| John Whitehead |
Musician |
2-Jul-1948 |
11-May-2004 |
Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now |
| Frank Williams |
Actor |
2-Jul-1931 |
|
Vicar on Dad's Army |
| Paul Williams |
Singer |
2-Jul-1939 |
17-Aug-1973 |
The Temptations |
| Andrea Yates |
Criminal Defendant |
2-Jul-1964 |
|
Drowned her five children |
| Owain Yeoman |
Actor |
2-Jul-1978 |
|
Wayne Rigsby on The Mentalist |
