Famous birthdays
Famous birthdays in July
Short answer
Pick a day of July to see well-known people born on it. Each date page lists names, what each person is known for and their birth year, built from Wikidata.
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The most widely known name for each day
- July 1: Diana, Princess of Wales 1961 Member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales
- July 2: Hermann Hesse 1877 Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter
- July 3: Franz Kafka 1883 Bohemian writer from Prague
- July 4: Calvin Coolidge 1872 President of the United States from 1923 to 1929
- July 5: Georges Pompidou 1911 President of France from 1969 to 1974
- July 6: George W. Bush 1946 43rd President of the United States
- July 7: Gustav Mahler 1860 Austrian late-Romantic composer
- July 8: John D. Rockefeller 1839 American industrialist and philanthropist
- July 9: Tom Hanks 1956 American actor and film producer
- July 10: Nikola Tesla 1856 Serbian-American engineer and inventor
- July 11: John Quincy Adams 1767 President of the United States from 1825 to 1829
- July 12: Pablo Neruda 1904 Chilean poet and politician
- July 13: Harrison Ford 1942 American actor
- July 14: Gerald Ford 1913 President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
- July 15: Rembrandt 1606 Dutch painter and printmaker
- July 16: Roald Amundsen 1872 Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole
- July 17: Angela Merkel 1954 Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021
- July 18: Hendrik Lorentz 1853 Dutch physicist
- July 19: Vladimir Mayakovsky 1893 Russian and Soviet poet
- July 20: Edmund Hillary 1919 New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist
- July 21: Ernest Hemingway 1899 American author and journalist
- July 22: Selena Gomez 1992 American singer and actress
- July 23: Sergio Mattarella 1941 President of Italy (2015–present)
- July 24: Simón Bolívar 1783 Venezuelan statesman and military officer
- July 25: Rosalind Franklin 1920 British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer
- July 26: George Bernard Shaw 1856 Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist
- July 27: Alexandre Dumas fils 1824 French writer and dramatist
- July 28: Hugo Chávez 1954 President of Venezuela
- July 29: Benito Mussolini 1883 Dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1945
- July 30: Henry Ford 1863 American business magnate
- July 31: J. K. Rowling 1965 English author