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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Paul Allaire
Business
21-Jul-1938   Twice CEO of Xerox
Les Aspin
Politician
21-Jul-1938 21-May-1995 US Secretary of Defense, 1993-94
Arija Bareikis
Actor
21-Jul-1966   The Myth of Fingerprints
John Barrasso
Politician
21-Jul-1952   US Senator from Wyoming
Justin Bartha
Actor
21-Jul-1978   National Treasure
Jim Bates
Politician
21-Jul-1941   Congressman from California, 1983-91
Robert R. Beezer
Judge
21-Jul-1928 30-Mar-2012 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1984-96
Greg Behrendt
Comic
21-Jul-1963   He's Just Not That Into You
Paul Burke
Actor
21-Jul-1926 13-Sep-2009 Det. Adam Flint on Naked City
William S. Burroughs, Jr.
Relative
21-Jul-1947 3-Mar-1981 Son of William S. Burroughs
John Marshall Butler
Politician
21-Jul-1897 14-Mar-1978 US Senator from Maryland, 1951-63
David Carr
Football
21-Jul-1979   Carolina Panthers QB
George W. Casey, Jr.
Military
21-Jul-1948   US Army Chief of Staff, 2007-11
Brandi Chastain
Soccer
21-Jul-1968   Pioneer of sports-bra exhibitionism
Frances Cleveland
First Lady
21-Jul-1864 29-Oct-1947 Wife of US President Grover Cleveland
Jim Clyburn
Politician
21-Jul-1940   Congressman, South Carolina 6th
George D. Clyde
Politician
21-Jul-1898 2-Apr-1972 Governor of Utah, 1957-65
Wendy Cope
Poet
21-Jul-1945   If I Don't Know
Hart Crane
Poet
21-Jul-1899 27-Apr-1932 Industrial and urban poet
Rory Culkin
Actor
21-Jul-1989   Kid in Signs
Racquel Darrian
Pornstar
21-Jul-1968   Doggie Me Deeply, Hershe Highway #3
John Duncan
Politician
21-Jul-1947   Congressman, Tennessee 2nd
Marcus Eoin
Electronic Musician
21-Jul-1971   Boards of Canada
Ahmet Ertegün
Business
21-Jul-1923 14-Dec-2006 Atlantic Records co-founder
Rebecca Ferguson
Singer
21-Jul-1986   Heaven
Jacques Feyder
Film Director
21-Jul-1885 24-May-1948 Carnival in Flanders
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Actor
21-Jul-1971   La Bϋche
John Gardner
Novelist
21-Jul-1933 14-Sep-1982 Grendel
Sprague Grayden
Actor
21-Jul-1980   Heather Lisinski on Jericho
Sanford J. Grossman
Business
21-Jul-1953   CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies
Lance Guest
Actor
21-Jul-1960   The Last Starfighter
Jay Hammond
Politician
21-Jul-1922 2-Aug-2005 Governor of Alaska, 1974-82
Josh Hartnett
Actor
21-Jul-1978   The Virgin Suicides
Ernest Hemingway
Author
21-Jul-1899 2-Jul-1961 The Old Man And The Sea
Edward Herrmann
Actor
21-Jul-1943   Richard Gilmore on Gilmore Girls
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Politician
21-Jul-1896 4-Sep-1971 Governor and Senator from Iowa
Art Hindle
Actor
21-Jul-1948   Paradise Falls
Herbert E. Ives
Physicist
21-Jul-1882 13-Nov-1953 Facsimile machine
Norman Jewison
Film Director
21-Jul-1926   Moonstruck
Allyn Joslyn
Actor
21-Jul-1901 21-Jan-1981 Only Angels Have Wings
Ross Kemp
Actor
21-Jul-1964   Grant Mitchell on EastEnders
David M. Kennedy
Government
21-Jul-1905 1-May-1996 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1969-71
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Novelist
21-Jul-1885 3-Jul-1970 All That Glitters
Don Knotts
Actor
21-Jul-1924 24-Feb-2006 Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show
Ali Landry
Actor
21-Jul-1973   Repli-Kate
Leigh Lawson
Actor
21-Jul-1945   Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Friedrich Leibacher
Criminal
21-Jul-1944 28-Sep-2001 Killed 14 Swiss politicians on a rampage
Vanessa Lengies
Actor
21-Jul-1985   Roxanne Bojarski on American Dreams
Blake Lewis
Singer
21-Jul-1981   Beatboxer, American Idol runner-up
Gene Littler
Golf
21-Jul-1930   Winner, 1961 US Open
Terry L. Long
Football
21-Jul-1959 7-Jun-2005 Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman
Jon Lovitz
Comic
21-Jul-1957   Yeaaaah, that's the ticket!
Monica C. Lozano
Publisher
21-Jul-1956   Publisher of La Opinión
Dan Malloy
Politician
21-Jul-1955   Governor of Connecticut
Rudolph A. Marcus
Chemist
21-Jul-1923   Electron-transfer reactions
Damian Marley
Singer
21-Jul-1978   Reggae singer, son of Bob Marley
Donald Marron
Business
21-Jul-1934   PaineWebber CEO
Stanley Matthews
Judge
21-Jul-1824 22-Mar-1889 US Supreme Court Justice, 1881-89
Ken Maynard
Actor
21-Jul-1895 23-Mar-1973 Flashy cowboy idol
Henry McCullough
Guitarist
21-Jul-1943   Guitarist for Joe Cocker and Wings
Ross McElwee
Film Director
21-Jul-1947   Idiosyncratic documentary filmmaker
Marshall McLuhan
Author
21-Jul-1911 31-Dec-1980 The medium is the message
Jonathan Miller
Film Director
21-Jul-1934   Beyond the Fringe
John Atta Mills
Head of State
21-Jul-1944 24-Jul-2012 President of Ghana, 2009-12
Gary W. Moore
Author
21-Jul-1954   Playing with the Enemy
Mick Mulvaney
Politician
21-Jul-1967   Congressman, South Carolina 5th
Johnston Murray
Politician
21-Jul-1902 16-Apr-1974 Governor of Oklahoma, 1951-55
John Negroponte
Diplomat
21-Jul-1939   US Ambassador to the UN, 2001-04
Philip Neri
Religion
21-Jul-1515 26-May-1595 Congregation of the Oratory
Josephine Premice
Actor
21-Jul-1926 13-Apr-2001 Calypso singer, Broadway actress
Henri-Victor Regnault
Chemist
21-Jul-1810 19-Jan-1878 Properties of gases
Janet Reno
Government
21-Jul-1938   Clinton's US Attorney General
Paul Julius Reuter
Journalist
21-Jul-1816 25-Feb-1899 Founder of Reuters News Agency
Phil Roe
Politician
21-Jul-1945   Congressman, Tennessee 1st
John Salazar
Politician
21-Jul-1953   Congressman from Colorado, 2005-11
Howard B. Schaffer
Diplomat
21-Jul-1929   US Ambassador to Bangladesh, 1984-87
Tony Scott
Film Director
21-Jul-1944 19-Aug-2012 Top Gun
James C. Shannon
Politician
21-Jul-1896 6-Mar-1980 Governor of Connecticut, 1948-49
James D. Shelton
Business
21-Jul-1953   CEO of Triad Hospitals, 1999-2007
Pope Sixtus IV
Religion
21-Jul-1414 12-Aug-1484 Roman Catholic Pope, 1471-84
C. Aubrey Smith
Actor
21-Jul-1863 20-Dec-1948 The Four Feathers
Joseph T. Sneed
Judge
21-Jul-1920 9-Feb-2008 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1973-87
Kay Starr
Singer
21-Jul-1922   Jazz singer
Ken Starr
Government
21-Jul-1946   Special Prosecutor, Clinton's impeachment
Isaac Stern
Violinist
21-Jul-1920 22-Sep-2001 Violin virtuoso
Cat Stevens
Singer/Songwriter
21-Jul-1948   Morning Has Broken
Kaye Stevens
Singer
21-Jul-1932 28-Dec-2011 Ruckus at the Riviera
Mollie Sugden
Actor
21-Jul-1922 1-Jul-2009 Mrs. Slocombe on Are You Being Served?
Juno Temple
Actor
21-Jul-1989   St. Trinian's
Edolphus Towns
Politician
21-Jul-1934   Congressman, New York 10th
Bob Traxler
Politician
21-Jul-1931   Congressman from Michigan, 1974-93
Diana Trilling
Critic
21-Jul-1905 23-Oct-1996 Literary critic, The Nation
Garry Trudeau
Cartoonist
21-Jul-1948   Doonesbury
George Wallace
Comic
21-Jul-1952   Vegas standup comic
Paul Wellstone
Politician
21-Jul-1944 25-Oct-2002 US Senator from Minnesota, 1991-2002
Robin Williams
Comic
21-Jul-1952   Mork from Ork




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