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Famous People Born in July 1860

  • Jul 3 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American feminist, writer and lecturer for social reform, born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1935)
  • Jul 3 William Wallace, Scottish composer, born in Greenock, Scotland (d. 1940)
  • Jul 5 Robert Bacon, American politician (39th United States Secretary of State), born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (d. 1919)

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Jul 7 Austrian composer (Symphony No. 2 - "Resurrection"), and conductor (New York Philharmonic, 1909-11), born in Kalischat, Kingdom of Bohemia, Habsburg Empire

  • Jul 11 Johannes van Laar, Dutch chemist (thermodynamics), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1938)
  • Jul 16 Otto Jespersen, Danish linguist, born in Randers, Denmark (d. 1943)

Lizzie Borden (1860-1927)

Jul 19 American woman acquitted of the murder of her parents (gave her mother forty whacks), born in Fall River, Massachusetts

  • Jul 24 Alphonse Mucha, Czech Nouveau painter and artist, born in Ivančice, Margraviate of Moravia, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic) (d. 1939)
  • Jul 25 Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught, born in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1917)
  • Jul 26 Philippe J Bunau-Varilla, French engineer (Colombia-Panama), born in Paris (d. 1940)
  • Jul 28 Elias M. Ammons, governor of Colorado, born in Macon County, North Carolina (d. 1925)
  • Jul 28 Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, born in Peterhof Palace, Empire of Russia (d. 1922)
  • Jul 31 Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1940)