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Famous People Born in July 1874

  • Jul 3 Āpirana Ngata, Māori New Zealand politician and lawyer known for promoting and protecting Māori culture and language, born in Te Araroa, New Zealand (d. 1950)
  • Jul 4 David Denton, English cricket batsman (11 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 104; Yorkshire CCC), born in Wakefield, England (d. 1950)

Eugen Fischer (1874-1967)

Jul 5 Nazi physician (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute), born in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany

  • Jul 5 Gerhard von Keussler, German composer, born in Gulbene, Latvia (d. 1949)
  • Jul 7 Erwin Bumke, German jurist, lead German Supreme Court under the Nazis, born in Stolp, Prussia, German Empire (d. 1945)
  • Jul 10 Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor, born in Verkhniye Karakovichi, Russia (d. 1971)
  • Jul 14 Abbas Hilmi II, last khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt (1892-1914), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1944)
  • Jul 14 Andre-Louis Debierne, French chemist and physicist (discoverer of actinium element, worked with Marie Curie), born in Paris, France (d. 1949)
  • Jul 24 Oswald Chambers, Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement minister and writer (My Utmost for His Highest), born in Aberdeen, Scotland (d. 1917)
  • Jul 25 Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev, Russian Chemist who invented the first commercially viable and mass-produced synthetic rubber, born in Lublin, Poland (d. 1934)
  • Jul 26 Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-American conductor (Boston Symphony, 1924-49), born in Vyshny Volochyok, Russia (d. 1951)
  • Jul 28 Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher and educator (Essay on Man), born in Silesia, Prussia (d. 1945)
  • Jul 29 August Stramm, German poet and playwright, born in Cathedrals (d. 1915)
  • Jul 29 James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician and pastor, born in Etobicoke, Ontario (d. 1942)
  • Jul 31 Clarence Kolb, American actor and performer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1964)