Famous birthdays by month
Famous Birthdays in July
Who was born in July? Browse the best-known birthdays for every day of the month, then tap any date to see everyone famous born on that day.
The most famous July birthdays849
1918–2013Nelson Mandela
Anti-apartheid leader imprisoned for 27 years who became South Africa's first Black president and won the Nobel Peace Prize
PoliticsWould be 108
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1961–1997Diana, Princess of Wales
Princess of Wales and mother of Prince William and Prince Harry, admired worldwide for her campaigning against landmines and on HIV
RoyaltyWould be 65
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b. 1946George W. Bush
43rd US President who led the country after the 11 September attacks and launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
PoliticsAge 80
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1907–1954Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter celebrated for vivid, symbolic self-portraits exploring pain, identity and Mexican culture, and an enduring feminist icon
ArtWould be 119
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b. 1997Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani campaigner for girls' education who survived a Taliban shooting and became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate at 17
ActivismAge 29
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1883–1924Franz Kafka
Prague-born German-language writer whose unsettling works The Metamorphosis and The Trial inspired the word Kafkaesque
LiteratureWould be 143
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b. 1954Angela Merkel
Physicist turned politician who served 16 years as Germany's first female chancellor, steering Europe through repeated crises
PoliticsAge 72
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1856–1943Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American inventor who developed the alternating-current electrical system and the induction motor that power the modern world
TechnologyDied aged 86
View profile Photo (modified): Napoleon Sarony · Public domainJuly birthdays, day by day
- July 1
- Diana, Princess of Wales (1961) · Princess of Wales and mother of Prince William and Prince Harry, admired worldwide for her campaigning against landmines and on HIV
- Agnez Mo (1986) · Indonesian singer, songwriter and actress who became a child star and later pursued an international R&B career
- George Sand (1804) · French novelist who wrote under a male pen name, wore men's clothes and had a long relationship with Chopin
- July 2
- Hermann Hesse (1877) · German-Swiss novelist of Siddhartha, Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead Game who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Wisława Szymborska (1923) · Polish poet whose ironic, precise verses on everyday life and history won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996
- Patrice Lumumba (1925) · Independence leader who became the first Prime Minister of the Congo in 1960 and was murdered the following year
- July 3
- Franz Kafka (1883) · Prague-born German-language writer whose unsettling works The Metamorphosis and The Trial inspired the word Kafkaesque
- Julian Assange (1971) · Australian founder of WikiLeaks, which published secret US military and diplomatic files, freed in 2024 after years of legal battles
- Tom Cruise (1962)
- July 4
- Calvin Coolidge (1872) · Quiet New England Republican nicknamed Silent Cal who served as the 30th US President during the Roaring Twenties
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807) · Italian general whose Expedition of the Thousand conquered Sicily and Naples, a hero of Italian unification
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804) · American novelist of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, who explored sin and guilt in Puritan New England
- July 5
- Georges Pompidou (1911) · French prime minister under de Gaulle and president from 1969 to 1974, whose name is carried by the Pompidou Centre in Paris
- Jean Cocteau (1889) · French poet, novelist and filmmaker of Les Enfants Terribles and the film Beauty and the Beast, a leading avant-garde artist
- Clara Zetkin (1857) · German socialist politician and women's rights campaigner who proposed the first International Women's Day in 1910
- July 6
- George W. Bush (1946) · 43rd US President who led the country after the 11 September attacks and launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
- Frida Kahlo (1907) · Mexican painter celebrated for vivid, symbolic self-portraits exploring pain, identity and Mexican culture, and an enduring feminist icon
- Tenzin Gyatso (1935) · The 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, who has lived in exile in India since 1959 and won the Nobel Peace Prize
- July 7
- Gustav Mahler (1860) · Austrian composer and conductor of ten vast symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde, who led the Vienna Court Opera
- Ringo Starr (1940) · Drummer of the Beatles who sang Yellow Submarine and With a Little Help from My Friends and narrated Thomas the Tank Engine
- Marc Chagall (1887) · Russian-born French artist known for his colourful modernist paintings
- July 8
- John D. Rockefeller (1839) · American businessman who founded the Standard Oil Company
- Igor Tamm (1895) · Nobel Prize-winning physicist who co-discovered Cherenkov radiation
- Son Heung-min (1992) · South Korean footballer and captain of his national team
- July 9
- Tom Hanks (1956) · Two-time Academy Award-winning actor celebrated for Big, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away and the Toy Story films
- Viktor Yanukovych (1950) · Pro-Russian President of Ukraine who fled to Russia in 2014 after the Euromaidan protests against his rejection of an EU deal
- Donald Rumsfeld (1932) · Two-time US Secretary of Defense under Ford and Bush
- July 10
- Nikola Tesla (1856) · Serbian-American inventor who developed the alternating-current electrical system and the induction motor that power the modern world
- Marcel Proust (1871) · French novelist whose vast In Search of Lost Time, sparked by the taste of a madeleine, explores memory and time
- Mahathir Mohamad (1925) · Malaysian prime minister for 22 years who transformed the economy and returned to power at 92 in 2018
- July 11
- John Quincy Adams (1767) · Son of John Adams who served as the sixth US President and later fought slavery in Congress for 17 years
- Alexander Prokhorov (1916) · Nobel Prize-winning physicist who co-invented the laser
- Giorgio Armani (1934) · Italian fashion designer and founder of a luxury brand
- July 12
- Malala Yousafzai (1997) · Pakistani campaigner for girls' education who survived a Taliban shooting and became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate at 17
- Pablo Neruda (1904) · Chilean poet and diplomat of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair and Canto General, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Henry David Thoreau (1817) · American writer who lived in a cabin by Walden Pond and wrote Walden and the essay Civil Disobedience
- July 13
- Francis Drake (1540) · English sea captain and privateer who sailed around the world from 1577 to 1580 and fought the Spanish Armada
- Harrison Ford (1942) · American actor who played Han Solo in Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and starred in Blade Runner and The Fugitive
- Wole Soyinka (1934) · Nigerian playwright and poet of Death and the King's Horseman who became the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
- July 14
- Gerald Ford (1913) · 38th US President, the only one never elected president or vice president, who took office after Nixon resigned and pardoned him
- Ingmar Bergman (1918) · Swedish director of The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries and Persona, famous for intense films about faith, death and love
- Gustav Klimt (1862) · Austrian Symbolist painter of The Kiss and the gold Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer who co-founded the Vienna Secession
- July 15
- Rembrandt (1606) · Dutch Golden Age painter of The Night Watch and a famous series of self-portraits, celebrated as a master of light and shadow
- Jacques Derrida (1930) · French philosopher who developed the critical theory of deconstruction
- Walter Benjamin (1892) · German philosopher and influential cultural critic
- July 16
- Roald Amundsen (1872) · Norwegian polar explorer who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole in December 1911
- Larry Sanger (1968) · American philosopher who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001 with Jimmy Wales and later criticised its direction
- Gareth Bale (1989) · Welsh footballer who won five Champions League titles with Real Madrid
- July 17
- Angela Merkel (1954) · Physicist turned politician who served 16 years as Germany's first female chancellor, steering Europe through repeated crises
- Donald Sutherland (1935) · Canadian actor known for MASH and The Hunger Games films
- James Cagney (1899) · Oscar-winning American actor famous for playing tough-guy roles
- July 18
- Nelson Mandela (1918) · Anti-apartheid leader imprisoned for 27 years who became South Africa's first Black president and won the Nobel Peace Prize
- Hendrik Lorentz (1853) · Dutch physicist whose Lorentz transformations paved the way for relativity, sharing the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Priyanka Chopra (1982) · Indian actress and winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant
- July 19
- Petrarch (1304) · Italian poet and scholar whose love sonnets to Laura shaped European poetry and who is called the father of humanism
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893) · Russian Futurist poet and playwright of A Cloud in Trousers and The Bedbug who became the voice of the revolution
- Edgar Degas (1834) · French Impressionist painter and sculptor famous for his ballet dancers and the sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
- July 20
- Edmund Hillary (1919) · New Zealand mountaineer who with Tenzing Norgay made the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest in 1953
- Gregor Mendel (1822) · Augustinian friar whose pea-plant experiments revealed the basic laws of heredity, founding the science of genetics
- Carlos Alazraqui (1962) · Actor and comedian known for providing numerous iconic animated voices
- July 21
- Ernest Hemingway (1899) · Nobel Prize-winning American novelist of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea, famed for his spare style
- Robin Williams (1951) · American comedian and actor of Mrs Doubtfire, Dead Poets Society and Aladdin who won an Oscar for Good Will Hunting
- Erling Haaland (2000) · Prolific Norwegian striker who broke numerous Premier League scoring records
- July 22
- Selena Gomez (1992) · American singer, actress and producer who rose to fame on Wizards of Waverly Place and founded Rare Beauty
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887) · Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his research on electron-atom interactions
- Willem Dafoe (1955) · Versatile American actor known for Platoon and Spider-Man
- July 23
- Sergio Mattarella (1941) · Former constitutional judge who has served as President of Italy since 2015, re-elected in 2022
- Haile Selassie I (1892) · Emperor of Ethiopia who resisted Italy's invasion, helped found the African Union and is revered by Rastafarians
- Daniel Radcliffe (1989) · English actor who played Harry Potter in all eight films and won a Tony Award for Merrily We Roll Along
- July 24
- Alexandre Dumas (1802) · French author of adventure novels The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, among the most widely read French writers
- Simón Bolívar (1783) · Venezuelan military leader known as the Liberator, who led independence wars that freed much of South America from Spanish rule
- Jennifer Lopez (1969) · American singer, actress and dancer known as J.Lo, star of Selena and Hustlers and of hits such as Jenny from the Block
- July 25
- Rosalind Franklin (1920) · English chemist whose X-ray image Photo 51 was key to discovering the double-helix structure of DNA
- Elias Canetti (1905) · Bulgarian-born writer in German of the novel Auto-da-Fé and the study Crowds and Power, who won the Nobel Prize
- Gavrilo Princip (1894) · Serbian nationalist who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- July 26
- George Bernard Shaw (1856) · Irish playwright of Pygmalion and Saint Joan, a socialist and wit who won both the Nobel Prize and an Oscar
- Stanley Kubrick (1928) · American director of Dr Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining, famed for perfectionism
- Carl Jung (1875) · Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology and introduced the ideas of introverts, extroverts, archetypes and the collective unconscious
- July 27
- Giosuè Carducci (1835) · Italian poet and professor of Odi barbare who became the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1906
- Alexandre Dumas fils (1824) · French writer of La Dame aux Camélias, the story that inspired Verdi's opera La Traviata
- Fatima (AD 604) · Daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and mother of Hasan and Husayn
- July 28
- Hugo Chávez (1954) · Venezuelan army officer who led a socialist Bolivarian Revolution as president from 1999 until his death in 2013
- Karl Popper (1902) · Austrian-British philosopher who argued that science advances by falsification and defended liberal democracy in The Open Society
- Ludwig Feuerbach (1804) · German philosopher of The Essence of Christianity, who argued that God is a projection of human ideals and influenced Marx
- July 29
- Benito Mussolini (1883) · Founder of Italian Fascism who ruled Italy as dictator from 1922 and allied with Hitler in the Second World War
- Dag Hammarskjöld (1905) · Swedish diplomat who served as the second UN Secretary-General and was killed in a plane crash, winning a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize
- Fernando Alonso (1981) · Spanish racing driver who won Formula One world titles with Renault in 2005 and 2006 and still races into his forties
- July 30
- Henry Ford (1863) · American industrialist who founded Ford Motor Company and made cars affordable with the Model T and the moving assembly line
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947)
- Emily Brontë (1818) · English poet and novelist whose only novel, Wuthering Heights, with Heathcliff and Cathy on the Yorkshire moors, became a classic
- July 31
- J. K. Rowling (1965) · British author of the Harry Potter series, the best-selling book series in history, which began with The Philosopher's Stone
- Milton Friedman (1912) · American economist of the Chicago School whose ideas on monetarism and free markets won him the Nobel Prize and shaped policy
- Louis de Funès (1914) · Highly popular French comedy actor known for his energetic performances