1ST OF JULY, A BRIEF HISTORY. 1481 – Christian II of Denmark (d. 1559) 1506 – Louis II of Hungary (d. 1526) 1534 – Frederick II of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig (d. 1588) 1574 – Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (d. 1656) 1586 – Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (d. 1630) 1633 – Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698) 1646 – Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716) 1663 – Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist (d. 1738) 1676 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729) 1723 – Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman and writer (d. 1802) 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French nobleman and soldier (d. 1807) 1731 – Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan British admiral (d. 1804) 1742 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (d. 1799) 1788 – Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (d. 1867) 1804 – Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist (d. 1886) 1804 – George Sand, French writer (d. 1876) 1807 – Thomas Green Clemson, American politician and educator, founded Clemson University (d. 1888) 1818 – Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician (d. 1865) 1822 – Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Vietnamese poet (d. 1888) 1834 – Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908) 1863 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English soldier and explorer (d. 1892) 1869 – William Strunk, Jr., American author and educator (d. 1946) 1872 – Louis Blériot, French aviator, inventor, and engineer (d. 1936) 1873 – Alice Guy-Blaché, American director (d. 1968) 1875 – Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1954) 1879 – Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1954) 1882 – Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian Freedom Fighter(d.1962) 1883 – Arthur Borton, British soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1933) 1885 – Dorothea Mackellar, Australian author and poet (d. 1968) 1886 – Gabrielle Robinne, French actress (d. 1980) 1887 – Amber Reeves, British feminist writer (d. 1981) 1892 – James M. Cain, American author and journalist (d. 1977) 1899 – Thomas A. Dorsey, American composer (d. 1993) 1899 – Charles Laughton, British actor (d. 1962) 1899 – Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek politician (d. 1987) 1902 – William Wyler, French-American director (d. 1981) 1903 – Amy Johnson, British pilot (d. 1941) 1906 – Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (d. 1992) 1906 – Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founded the Estée Lauder Companies (d. 2004) 1907 – Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971) 1908 – Peter Anders, German tenor (d. 1954) 1911 – Sergei Sokolov, Soviet marshal (d. 2012) 1912 – David Brower, American environmentalist (d. 2000) 1912 – Sally Kirkland, American writer and editor (d. 1989) 1913 – Frank Barrett, American baseball player (d. 1998) 1913 – Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician (d. 1979) 1914 – Earle Warren, American saxophonist and singer (d. 1994) 1915 – Willie Dixon, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (d. 1992) 1915 – Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001) 1915 – Jean Stafford, American short story writer (d. 1979) 1915 – Nguyen Van Linh, Vietnamese revolutionary and politician (d. 1998) 1916 – Olivia de Havilland, English-American actress 1916 – George C. Stoney, American director and producer (d. 2012) 1917 – Humphry Osmond, British psychiatrist (d. 2004) 1920 – Henri Amouroux, French historian and journalist (d. 2007) 1920 – Jean-Marie Fortier, Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 2002) 1920 – Harold Sakata, American actor and wrestler (d. 1982) 1921 – Seretse Khama, Batswana politician, 1st President of Botswana (d. 1980) 1924 – Florence Stanley, American actress (d. 2003) 1925 – Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011)
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