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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Joshua Alba
Actor
8-Jul-1982   Actor, brother of Jessica Alba
Richard Aldington
Poet
8-Jul-1892 27-Jul-1962 Death of a Hero
John Anderson
Politician
8-Jul-1882 4-Jan-1958 Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1943-45
George Antheil
Composer
8-Jul-1900 12-Feb-1959 Le Ballet mécanique
Roone Arledge
Sports Figure
8-Jul-1931 5-Dec-2002 Created Wide World of Sports
Alan Ashby
Baseball
8-Jul-1951   Former catcher, Houston Astros
Kevin Bacon
Actor
8-Jul-1958   Everybody cut Footloose
Gerald L. Baliles
Politician
8-Jul-1940   Governor of Virginia, 1986-90
Beck
Musician
8-Jul-1970   Loser
Gwendolyn Bennett
Author
8-Jul-1902 30-May-1981 Harlem Renaissance writer
Ernst Bloch
Philosopher
8-Jul-1885 4-Aug-1977 Principle of Hope
Hugo Boss
Fashion Designer
8-Jul-1885 9-Aug-1948 Designed Nazi uniforms
Frank B. Brandegee
Politician
8-Jul-1864 14-Oct-1924 US Senator, committed suicide
J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr.
Economist
8-Jul-1939   President of the Richmond Fed, 1993-2004
A. Whitney Brown
Comic
8-Jul-1952   SNL, The Daily Show
Pamela Brown
Actor
8-Jul-1917 18-Sep-1975 Lust for Life
Sophia Bush
Actor
8-Jul-1982   One Tree Hill
John Calley
Film/TV Producer
8-Jul-1930 13-Sep-2011 CEO of Sony Pictures, 1996-2003
Gerald P. Carmen
Government
8-Jul-1930   Carmen Group International
Rocky Carroll
Actor
8-Jul-1963   Leon Vance on NCIS
Julia Carson
Politician
8-Jul-1938 15-Dec-2007 Congresswoman from Indiana, 1997-2007
Henri Cartan
Mathematician
8-Jul-1904 13-Aug-2008 Leader of the math Bourbakistes
Joseph Chamberlain
Politician
8-Jul-1836 3-Jul-1914 British pol revered in Birmingham
John David Crow
Football
8-Jul-1935   Winner, 1957 Heisman Trophy
Billy Crudup
Actor
8-Jul-1968   Almost Famous and Stage Beauty
Kim Darby
Actor
8-Jul-1947   True Grit
Richard Deane
Military
8-Jul-1610 1-Jun-1653 Signed Charles I's death warrant
Harrison Dillard
Track and Field
8-Jul-1923   Olympic hurdler
Edward D. DiPrete
Politician
8-Jul-1934   Governor of Rhode Island, 1985-91
Alexis Dziena
Actor
8-Jul-1984   Kira Underlay on Invasion
Virgil Earp
Government
8-Jul-1843 19-Oct-1905 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Bruce Eckel
Computer Programmer
8-Jul-1957   Thinking in Java
Billy Eckstine
Singer
8-Jul-1914 8-Mar-1993 First African-American singing idol
Faye Emerson
Actor
8-Jul-1917 9-Mar-1983 Namesake of the Emmy award
Marty Feldman
Comic
8-Jul-1933 2-Dec-1982 Eye-gor in Young Frankenstein
Schuyler Fisk
Actor
8-Jul-1982   Orange County
Thom Fitzgerald
Film Director
8-Jul-1968   The Hanging Garden
Andrew Fletcher
Musician
8-Jul-1961   Keyboardist, Depeche Mode
Nick Gillespie
Journalist
8-Jul-1963   Reason magazine
Ian Gilmour
Politician
8-Jul-1926 21-Sep-2007 Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar
Percy Grainger
Composer
8-Jul-1882 20-Feb-1961 Country Gardens
Phil Gramm
Politician
8-Jul-1942   US Senator from Texas, 1985-2002
Shirley Ann Grau
Novelist
8-Jul-1929   The Keepers of the House
Lance Gross
Actor
8-Jul-1981   Calvin Payne on House of Payne
Thomas M. Hardiman
Judge
8-Jul-1965   3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
Lambert Hillyer
Film Director
8-Jul-1889 5-Jul-1969 Dracula's Daughter
Lester C. Hunt
Politician
8-Jul-1892 19-Jun-1954 US Senator, committed suicide
Anjelica Huston
Actor
8-Jul-1951   The Grifters
Philip Johnson
Architect
8-Jul-1906 25-Jan-2005 The Glass House
Pyotr Kapitsa
Physicist
8-Jul-1894 8-Apr-1984 Discovered superfluidity
Toby Keith
Country Musician
8-Jul-1961   Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue
Walter Kerr
Critic
8-Jul-1913 9-Oct-1996 New York Times drama critic
Robert Knepper
Actor
8-Jul-1959   T-Bag on Prison Break
Käthe Kollwitz
Artist
8-Jul-1867 22-Apr-1945 German graphic aritst
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Activist
8-Jul-1926 24-Aug-2004 On Death And Dying
Jean de la Fontaine
Poet
8-Jul-1621 13-Apr-1695 Fables and Contes
Jack Lambert
Football
8-Jul-1952   Pittsburgh Steeler, Hall of Famer
Antonio Lamer
Judge
8-Jul-1933 24-Nov-2007 Chief Justice of Canada, 1990-2000
Glenn Langan
Actor
8-Jul-1917 19-Jan-1991 The Amazing Colossal Man
Steve Lawrence
Singer
8-Jul-1935   The Steve Lawrence Show
Lung Leg
Actor
8-Jul-1963   That girl on the cover of EVOL
David E. Lilienthal
Government
8-Jul-1899 15-Jan-1981 TVA Chairman, 1941-46
Eli Lilly
Business
8-Jul-1838 6-Jun-1898 Founder of Eli Lilly & Co.
Iyari Limon
Actor
8-Jul-1976   Kennedy on Buffy
Tzipi Livni
Politician
8-Jul-1958   Israeli Foreign Minister, 2006-09
Rachel Maines
Scholar
8-Jul-1950   The Technology of Orgasm
Sarah McClendon
Journalist
8-Jul-1910 8-Jan-2003 White House Reporter FDR to GWB
Jake McDorman
Actor
8-Jul-1986   Evan on Greek
James P. McGranery
Government
8-Jul-1895 23-Dec-1962 US Attorney General, 1952-53
Jim Miklaszewski
Journalist
8-Jul-1949   NBC Chief Pentagon Correspondent
William Vaughn Moody
Playwright
8-Jul-1869 17-Oct-1910 The Great Divide
Constance Berry Newman
Government
8-Jul-1935   US Asst. Secy. of State for Africa, 2004-05
Peter Orlovsky
Poet
8-Jul-1933 30-May-2010 Beat poet, lover of Allen Ginsberg
Joan Osborne
Singer/Songwriter
8-Jul-1962   One of Us
Eugene Pallette
Actor
8-Jul-1889 3-Sep-1954 The Adventures of Robin Hood
John S. Pemberton
Inventor
8-Jul-1831 16-Aug-1888 Creator of Coca-Cola
Emmanuel Philibert
Royalty
8-Jul-1528 30-Aug-1580 Duke of Savoy
Anna Quindlen
Columnist
8-Jul-1953   NYT columnist, later novelist
Helene Reynolds
Actor
8-Jul-1914 28-Mar-1990 Moontide
Kathleen Robertson
Actor
8-Jul-1973   Clare Arnold on Beverly Hills 90210
John D. Rockefeller
Business
8-Jul-1839 23-May-1937 Founder of Standard Oil
Nelson Rockefeller
Politician
8-Jul-1908 26-Jan-1979 Ford's Vice President
Marcia Rodd
Actor
8-Jul-1940   Claudia Zimmer on The Four Seasons
George W. Romney
Politician
8-Jul-1907 26-Jul-1995 Presidential candidate, admitted brainwashing
Walter Scheel
Politician
8-Jul-1919   President of Germany, 1974-79
Jaden Smith
Actor
8-Jul-1998   The Pursuit of Happyness
Craig Stevens
Actor
8-Jul-1918 10-May-2000 Peter Gunn
Thorvald Stoltenberg
Politician
8-Jul-1931   Norwegian Foreign Minister, 1990-93
Jeffrey Tambor
Actor
8-Jul-1944   Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show
Igor Y. Tamm
Physicist
8-Jul-1895 12-Apr-1971 Cherenkov radiation
Lee Tergesen
Actor
8-Jul-1965   Beecher in Oz
Giangiorgio Trissino
Scholar
8-Jul-1478 8-Dec-1550 Sofonisba
Amy Tuck
Politician
8-Jul-1963   Lt. Governor of Mississippi
John K. Turner
Business
8-Jul-1931 30-Sep-2004 Founder of Taco John's
Petr Ufimtsev
Physicist
8-Jul-1931   Physical Theory of Diffraction
Jerry Vale
Singer
8-Jul-1932   Romantic ballad singer
Milo Ventimiglia
Actor
8-Jul-1977   Adopts the superpowers of other Heroes
Harry Von Tilzer
Songwriter
8-Jul-1872 10-Jan-1946 Just Like The Girl Who Married Dear Old Dad
Faye Wattleton
Activist
8-Jul-1943   President, Planned Parenthood, 1978-92
Alec Waugh
Author
8-Jul-1898 3-Sep-1981 The Loom of Youth
Michael Weatherly
Actor
8-Jul-1968   Navy NCIS
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Business
8-Jul-1838 8-Mar-1917 Builder of rigid airships




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