Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known 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 |