Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702. On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union, two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, united as...
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, known as Yves Saint Laurent , August 1, 1936 – June 1, 2008), was a French fashion designer, and is regarded as one of the greatest names in fashion history. He is also credited with...
James Travis “Jim” Reeves (August 20, 1923 – July 31, 1964) was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter with records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s. Known as “Gentleman Jim”, his songs continued to chart for...
William Penn (14 October 1644 – 30 July 1718) was an English gentleman and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania. Under his direction, the city of Philadelphia was planned and developed. In 1681, King Charles II handed...
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television
William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was an English politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. He was born in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and began his political...
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician, journalist and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country from 1922 to his ousting in 1943. In 1926...
Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her children’s books such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit. As a child, summer holidays were spent in Scotland and in...
Christopher Colin Dean, OBE (born 27 July 1958) is a famous English ice dancer who won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner Jayne Torvill. They also won a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter...
María Eva Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952) was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, who with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets....
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco (24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830), commonly known as Simón Bolívar was a Venezuelan military and political leader. Bolívar played a key role...
Haile Selassie I (23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975), born Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, was Ethiopia’s regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974.
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American novelist and screen writer. Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive...
John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber in the Depression-era United States In 1933–34, Dillinger was the most notorious of all, standing out even among more violent criminals...
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in...
Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan 27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973) was a Chinese American, martial artist, action film actor, martial arts instructor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do and was the son of Cantonese opera star Lee Hoi-Chuen Lee...
Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and industrialist from Hartford, Connecticut, founder of Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (now known as Colt’s Manufacturing Company). When he died in 1862,he was one...
William Gilbert “W.G.” Grace, MRCS, LRCP (18 July 1848 – 23 October 1915) was an English amateur cricketer who is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest players of all time. Known as “W.G.”, he played first-class cricket for a...
Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG MBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to February 1974 and as Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975.
