July 1: Today's Notable Birthdays

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July 1st was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

July 1st Birthdays: Famous Artists

Pieter L. Kramer, Dutch architect (The Amsterdam School), was born on July 1, 1881.

July 1st Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Cristyl Cranz, German slalom skier and Olympic gold medalist (1936), was born on July 1, 1914.

Frederick Carlton (Carl) Lewis, American track star and Olympic gold medalist (1984, 1992 and 1996), was born on July 1, 1961.

July 1st Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

James M. Cain, American novelist (The Postman Always Rings Twice), was born on July 1, 1892.

American novelist, playwright (Allison's House) and Pulitzer Prize winner (1930) Susan Keating Glaspell was born on July 1, 1876.

George Sand (Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baronne Dudevant), French feminist, novelist (Andréa, Consuelo, Horace, Indiana, Jacques, Jeanne and Mauprat) and playwright (Claudie, François Le Champi, Gabriel, L'Autre, Le Mariage De Victorine, Le Marquis De Villemer and Le Pressoir), was born on July 1, 1804.

American author (Boston Adventure, The Catherine Wheel, Collected Stories, The Interior Castle and The Mountain Lion) and Pulitzer Prize winner (1970) Jean Stafford was born on July 1, 1915.

William Strunk, Jr., American author (The Elements of Style), was born on July 1, 1869.

Wallace Henry Thurman, American playwright and novelist (The Blacker the Berry, Harlem, Infants of the Spring and The Interne), was born on July 1, 1902.

July 1st Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders

Wallace (Famous Amos) Amos, American cookie maker, was born on July 1, 1936.

Estee Lauder (Josephine Esther Mentzer), American cosmetics and skin care mogul, was born on July 1, 1906.

July 1st Birthdays: Famous Performers

Daniel Edward Aykroyd, Canadian comedian and actor (The Blues Brothers, Driving Miss Daisy, Ghostbusters, Saturday Night Live and Trading Places), was born on July 1, 1952.

Canadian actress Pamela Anderson (Baywatch, Blonde and Blonder and Scooby-Doo) was born on July 1, 1967.

Andre Braugher, American actor (City of Angels, The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Gideon's Crossing, Glory, Homicide: Life on the Streets, Poseidon, Primal Fear, Salem;s Lot, The Andromeda Strain and The Tuskegee Airmen), was born on July 1, 1962.

Genevieve Bujold, Canadian actress (The Adventures of Pinocchio, Antigone, Choose Me, Coma, Dead Ringers, Earthquake, False Identity, Isabel, Murder by Decree, Obsession, Swashbuckler and Tightrope), was born on July 1, 1942.

Robert (Bobby Day) James Byrd, American musician ("Little Bitty Pretty One," "Over and Over" and "Rockin' Robin"), was born on July 1, 1928.

French actress and dancer Leslie Caron (An American in Paris, Chocolat, Daddy Long Legs, Damage, Dangerous Moves, Fanny, Father Goose, Funny Bones, Gaby, Gigi, Is Paris Burning, Le Divorce, Lili, Nicole, The Glass Slipper, The Man Who Loved Women, Promise Her Anything, The Story of Three Loves, The Subterraneans and Valentino) was born on July 1, 1931.

James Cotton, American bluesman and harmonica player, was born on July 1, 1935.

American gospel musician Andre Crouch ("My Tribute," "Soon and Very Soon" and "Through It All") was born on July 1, 1942.

American actress (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Airport 77, Captain Blood, Gone with the Wind, The Heiress, Hold Back the Dawn, The Snake Pit and To Each His Own) and Academy Award winner (1946 and 1949) Olivia De Havilland was born on July 1, 1916 in Tokyo, Japan.

William (Willie) James Dixon, American bluesman ("Back Door Man," "Bring It on Home," "Evil," "Hoochie Coochie Man," "I Ain't Superstitious" "Little Red Rooster," "Spoonful" and "Wang Dang Doodle"), was born on July 1, 1915.

Thomas Andrew Dorsey, American gospel musician, was born on July 1, 1899.

American hip-hop artist Missy Elliott was born on July 1, 1971.

Jamie Farr, American actor (M*A*S*H), was born on July 1, 1934.

Deborah (Blondie) Harry, American musician (Blondie, The Jazz Passengers and The Stilettos), was born on July 1, 1945.

American actor (Battle Cry, Damn Yankees, The Golden Arrow, The Lawless, The Loved One, Man With Two Faces, The Pleasure of His Company, The Sea Chase, That Kind of Woman, They Came to Cordura and Track of the Cat) Tab Hunter (Arthur Andrew Kelm) was born on July 1, 1931.

Charles Laughton, British-American actor (Blue Bottles, The Canterville Ghost, Captain Kidd, Daydreams, Galileo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Passport to Destiny, Piccadilly, Salome, The Sign of the Cross, Spartacus, This Land Is Mine, Witness for the Prosecution and Wolves) and Academy Award winner (1934), was born on July 1, 1899.

British actress Jean Marsh (Upstairs - Downstairs) was born on July 1, 1934.

Sydney Irwin Pollock, American actor (A Civil Action, Changing Lanes, Death Becomes Her, Eyes Wide Shut, Mad About You, Michael Clayton, Random Hearts, The Player, and Tootsie), director and producer, was born on July 1, 1934.

American actor Alan Ruck (Cheaper by the Dozen, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Producers, Speed, Spin City, Star Trek Generations and Twister) was born on July 1, 1956.

Fred Schneider, III, American singer (The B-52s), was born on July 1, 1951.

American actor Ron Silver (Blue Steel, Chicago Hope, Enemies: A Love Story, The Entity, Kane and Abel, Married to It, Mr. Saturday Night, Reversal of Fortune, Semi-Tough, Timecop, Silkwood, Veronica's Closet, The West Wing and A Woman of Independent Means) was born on July 1, 1946.

American dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp was born on July 1, 1941.

Ashley Tisdale, American actress (High School Musical and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody), was born on July 1, 1985.

American model and actress Liv Rundgren Tyler (Armageddon, Empire Records, Cookie's Fortune, Dr. T and the Women, The Incredible Hulk, Inventing the Abbots, Jersey Girl, The Lord of the Rings, Stealing Beauty and That Thing You Do) was born on July 1, 1977.

July 1st Birthdays: Famous Scientists

Sir Robert Stawell Ball, Irish mathematician and astronomer, was born on July 1, 1840.

American environmentalist and Sierra Club founder David Ross Bell was born on July 1, 1912.

American physician, author and Planned Parenthood founder Mary Steichen Calderone was born on July 1, 1904.

Gerald Maurice Edelman, American immunoscientist, biologist and Nobel Prize winner (1972), was born on July 1, 1929.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German historian, mathematician and Rationalist philosopher, was born on July 1, 1646.

German scientist (Lichtenberg Figures) and satirist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was born on July 1, 1742.

Jean-Victor Poncelet, French engineer and geometrist (Introduction a la Mecanique Industrielle and Traite des Proprietes Projectives de Figures), was born on July 1, 1788.

July 1st Birthdays: Famous World (and Other) Leaders

French general Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau, who supported the colonial forces in the American Revolutionary War, was born on July 1, 1725.

Lady Diana Frances Spencer, Princess of Wales, was born on July 1, 1961.

Happy Birthday, July 1st.

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