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Famous People Born in July 1876

  • Jul 2 Wilhelm Cuno, German Reich's chancellor (1922-23) and businessman, born in Suhl, German Empire (d. 1933)
  • Jul 4 William Farnum, American actor (Spoilers, Man who Fights Alone), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1953)

Harry Ford Sinclair (1876-1956)

Jul 6 American industrialist who founded Sinclair Oil and implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal, born in Benwood, West Virginia

  • Jul 12 Max Jacob, French poet and writer, born in Quimper, Brittany, France (d. 1944)
  • Jul 17 Maxim Litvinov [Meir Genoch Moiseyevich Wallach], Russian statesman, revolutionary and diplomat (People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs.1930-39, Soviet Ambassador to the US 1940-43), born in Białystok, Russian Empire (d. 1951)
  • Jul 17 Rosa Jackson Lumpkin, lived to be 115 years old, born in Flint, Georgia (d. 1991)
  • Jul 17 Vittorio Gnecchi, Italian composer (Cassandra), born in Milan, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1954)
  • Jul 19 John Gunn, English cricket medium pace bowler (6 Tests, 18 wickets, BB 5/76; Nottinghamshire CCC), born in Hucknall, England (d. 1963)
  • Jul 19 Joseph Fielding Smith Jr., 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1972)
  • Jul 20 Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician, journal editor (Mathematische Annalen, 1906-38) and university professor, born in Frankfurt, Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1944)
  • Jul 23 William Gillies Whittaker, English composer, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (d. 1944)
  • Jul 26 Ernest Schelling, American child piano prodigy, conductor, and composer (A Victory Ball), born in Belvidere, New Jersey (d. 1939)
  • Jul 29 Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian actress (The Wolf Man, Waterloo Bridge), born in Tula, Russian Empire (d. 1949)