James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an American actor, first on stage, then in film, best remembered for playing tough guys. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth...
Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, stage, radio and television. She made a total of 73 films, and...
General Tom Thumb was the stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton (January 4, 1838 – July 15, 1883), a short person who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to parents who were of average...
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter, generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television.
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American film actor and producer. He is famous for his performances as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy and the title character of the Indiana Jones film series. He is also...
Josiah Wedgwood (12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795) was an English potter, founder of the Wedgwood company and credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of pottery.
Alan Donald Whicker, CBE (born 2 August 1925) is a British journalist and broadcaster. He was born to British parents in Cairo, Egypt. After the Second World War, Whicker became a journalist and broadcaster, acting as a newspaper correspondent during the Korean War (during which...
Lon Chaney, Jr. (February 10, 1906 – July 12, 1973), born Creighton Tull Chaney was the son of famous silent film actor Lon Chaney. He was an American actor known for playing such characters...
Alan Donald Whicker, CBE (born 2 August 1925- 12July 2013) was a British journalist and broadcaster. He was born to British parents in Cairo, Egypt. After the Second World War, Whicker became a journalist and broadcaster, acting as a newspaper...
Yul Brynner (Yuliy Borisovich Briner; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born United States-based actor. He was best known for his portrayal of the King of Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, as Rameses...
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c 1040– 10 July 1099) was a Castilian nobleman and military leader in medieval Spain. He was called El Cid (the Lord) by the Moors and El Campeador (the Champion) by Christians
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.
Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier (5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967) was a British stage and film actress. She won two Best Actress Academy Awards for her performances as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBoisin...
Marc Zaharovich Chagall (7 July 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian artist associated with several major artistic styles and one of the most successful artists of the 20th century. He created works in virtually every artistic...
Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946), known as Sylvester Stallone, is an American actor, screenwriter and film director. Stallone is well known for his Hollywood action roles such as the boxer Rocky Balboa and soldier John Rambo....
Sarah Siddons (5 July 1755 – 8 June 1831) was a Welsh actress, born in Brecon. She was the elder sister of John Philip Kemble, Charles Kemble, Stephen Kemble, Ann Hatton and Elizabeth Whitlock, and the aunt of Fanny Kemble. The Sarah Siddons Society ...
Marie Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), was a Polish physicist and chemist who is famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the...
James Douglas “Jim” Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer-songwriter, best remembered as the lead singer of rock band The Doors. He died aged 27 in Paris and although no autopsy was carried out, it...
(2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He helped to put forward the argument for...
