July 15: Today's Notable Birthdays

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July 15th was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

July 15th Birthdays: Famous Artists

American lyricist ("I Can't Give You Anything But Love," "I'm in the Mood for Love," "Lovely to Look at," "On the Sunny Side of the Street" and "The Way You Look Tonight") and scriptwriter (Annie Get Your Gun) Dorothy Fields was born on July 15, 1904.

Inigo Jones, British Renaissance architect (Banqueting House at Whitehall, Palace of Whitehall and Queen's House at Greenwich), stage designer and restorer of St. Paul's Cathedral, was born on July 15, 1573.

Willem Aadrian Paerels, Flemish painter (Le Dejeuner, Marine and La Lecteur) and graphic artist, was born on July 15, 1878.

Jean van den Eeckhoudt, Belgian painter (Arbre Devant le Mer, Arbre Rouge a Rocquebrune and Les Diseuses de Bonne Aventure), was born on July 15, 1875.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch etcher and painter (Abraham and Isaac, Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, Artemis, Belshazzar's Feast, The Blinding of Samson, Danae, Descent from the Cross, Night Watch, The Return of the Prodigal and The Tribute Money), was born on July 15, 1606.

July 15th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Kathy Kreiner, Canadian slalom skier and Olympic gold medalist (1976), was born on July 15, 1956.

July 15th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

American poet and author Richard Willard Armour (All in Sport, The Classics Reclassified, A Dozen Dinosaurs, Drug Store Days, Going Around in Academic Circles, Golf Bawls, The Happy Bookers, The Medical Muse, Nights with Armour, Punctured Poems, A Safari into Satire, Twisted Tales from Shakespeare and Writing Light Verse) was born on July 15, 1906.

German philosopher Walter Benjamin (The Arcades Project, Illuminations, Moscow Diary, The Origin of German Drama and Reflections) was born on July 15, 1892.

Clive Eric Cussler, American novelist (Arctic Drift, Atlantis Found, Dark Watch, Deep Six, Golden Buddha, Lost City, Polar Shift, Raise the Titanic, Sahara, Shock Wave, Skeleton Coast, Trojan Odyssey and Valhalla Rising), was born on July 15, 1931.

American educator and poet Clement C. Moore ("A Visit from St. Nicholas") was born on July 15, 1779.

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch, British philosopher and novelist (An Accidental Man, The Bell, The Message to the Plant, A Severed Head, The Time of the Roses, The Unicorn, and An Unofficial Rose), was born on July 15, 1919.

Richard Russo, American novelist (Bridge of Sighs, Empire Falls, Ice Harvest, Mohawk, Nobody's Fool, The Risk Pool, Straight Man and Twilight) and Pulitzer Prize winner (2002), was born on July 15, 1949.

July 15th Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders

American banker and businesswoman Maggie Lena Mitchell Walker, founder of the first African-American bank in the U.S. (Penny Savings Bank, in Richmond, VA), was born on July 15, 1867.

July 15th Birthdays: Famous Performers

Enid Bennett, Australian silent film actress (Ben Hur, Get Rich Quick Wallingford, The Little Brother and Robin Hood), was born on July 15, 1893.

Canadian actress Lolita Davidovich (Adventures in Babysitting, Blaze, Gods and Monsters, Harvest of Fire, JFK, Jungle 2 Jungle, Leap of Faith, Mystery Alaska, The Object of Beauty, Raising Cane and September Dawn) was born on July 15, 1961.

Scott Kellerman Foley, American actor (AUSA, Dawson's Creek, Felicity, Forever Love, Scrubs and The Unit), was born on July 15, 1972.

American actor Brian Austin Green (Beverly Hills 90210, Fantastic Four, Highway to Heaven, Knots Landing, Melrose Place and Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles) was born July 15, 1973.

Irene Marie Jacob, French actress (Au Revoir Mes Infants, Incognito, Londinium, My Life So Far, Othello, The Double Life of Veronique, The Secret Garden, Three Colors: Red and U.S. Marshalls) was born on July 15, 1966.

James George (Jesse Ventura) Janos, professional wrestler, actor (Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe, Batman and Robin, Conan the Barbarian, Demolition Man, The Master of Disguise, Predator, Repossessed and The Running Man) and Minnesota Governor (1999 - 2003), was born on July 15, 1952.

Brigitte Nielsen, Danish actress (Cobra, Red Sonia and Rocky I) was born on July 15, 1962.

American actress Marjorie Rambeau (20 Mule Team, A Man Called Peter, Broadway, Grand Canary, Min and Bill, Palooka, Primrose Path, The Secret Six, Slander, Tobacco Road, Torch Song and Tugboat Annie Sails Again) was born on July 15, 1889.

Linda Ronstadt, American singer ("Blue Bayou," "Different Drum," "Don't Know Much," "It's So Easy," "Poor Poor Pitiful Me," "Tumblin' Dice," "When Will I Be Loved" and "You're No Good") and actress (The Pirates of Penzance), was born on July 15, 1946.

July 15, 1944 Jan-Michael Vincent, Americanactor, Hooper, Tribes, Buster and Billie was born on July 15, 1944.

American actor Patrick John Wayne (The Alamo, Big Jake, Cheyenne Autumn, Donovan's Reef, An Eye for an Eye, The Green Berets, McLintock, Mister Roberts, The People That Time Forgot, The Quiet Man, Rio Grande, The Rounders, The Searchers, Shenandoah, Shirley, Sinbad: The Eye of the Tiger, The Sun Shines Bright, Tic Tac Dough and The Young Land) was born on July 15, 1939.

Forest Steven Whitaker, American actor (Bird, The Crying Game, Downtown, Ghost Dog, Good Morning Vietnam, The Great Debaters, The Last King of Scotland, Platoon, Smoke and Stakeout) and Academy Award winner (2006), was born on July 15, was born on July 15, 1961.

July 15th Birthdays: Famous Scientists

Scottish mathematician William Gemmell Cochran was born on July 15, 1909.

Eleanora Frances Bliss Knopf, American geologist and author (Structural Petrology), was born on July 15, 1883.

American mathematician Stephen Smale was born on July 15, 1930.

Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician, was born on July 15, 1865.

Russian mathematician Adolph Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich was born on July 15, 1906.

July 15th Birthdays: Famous World (and Other) Leaders

Frances Xavier (Mother) Cabrini, canonized Italian nun and founder of hospitals, orphanages and schools, was born on July 15, 1850.

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