Birthdays Date 1922 July | History by KabAstro

Hassan II (1922-1999)

Jul 9 King of Morocco (1961-99), born in Rabat, Morocco

Jul 10 Herb McKenley, Jamaican athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 400m relay 1952; 3 x silver 1948, 52), born in Pleasant Valley, Clarendon, Jamaica (d. 2007)

Jake LaMotta (1922-2017)

Jul 10 American boxer (world middleweight champion 1949-51, immortalised in 'Raging Bull'), born in New York City

Jul 11 Eugene "Gene" Evans, American actor (My Friend Flicka, Johnny Ringo, Alamo), born in Hollbrook, Arizona (d. 1998)
Jul 12 Clark MacGregor, American Republican politician (involved in Watergate), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 2003)
Jul 12 Mark Hatfield, American politician (29th Governor of Oregon), born in Dallas, Oregon (d. 2011)
Jul 12 Michael Ventris, English architect who deciphered Linear B, born in Wheathampstead, England (d. 1956)
Jul 13 Anker Jørgensen, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (1972-3, 75-82), born in Copenhagen (d. 2016)
Jul 13 Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
Jul 13 Lois Kibbee, American actress (Edge of Night), born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin (d. 1993)
Jul 14 Elfriede Rinkel, German Nazi concentration camp guard at Ravensbrück concentration camp, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 2018)
Jul 14 Käbi Laretei, Estonian-Swedish concert pianist, born in Tartu, Estonia (d. 2014)
Jul 14 Peter Tranchell, British composer, born in Cuddalore, British India (d. 1993)
Jul 14 Robin Olds, American fighter pilot, flying ace in WWII and the Vietnam War, born in Honolulu, Hawaii (d. 2007)
Jul 15 Jef Houthuys, Belgian trade unionist (chairman Belgian labor union ACV 1968-87), born in Opwijk, Belgian (d. 1991)
Jul 15 Jiří Lederer, Czech journalist and anti-communist dissident (Prague Spring), born in Kvasiny, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1983)
Jul 15 Leon M. Lederman, American experimental physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988 - for research on quarks and leptons) and author (The God Particle), born in New York City (d. 2018) [1]
Jul 17 Donald Davie, English Movement poet and literary critic, born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England (d. 1995) [1]
Jul 18 Jean de Gribaldy, French road cyclist and team director (Frimatic - Viva, Miko, Sem - France Loire), born in Besançon, France (d. 1987)
Jul 18 Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (paradigm shift), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1996)
Jul 19 Al Haig, American bebop jazz pianist (Charlie Parker; Stan Getz; Chet Baker), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1982)

George McGovern (1922-2012)

Jul 19 American senator (South Dakota: 1963-81) and Democratic Party presidential nominee in 1972, born in Avon, South Dakota

Jul 19 Harold Camping, American evangelist and founder of Family Radio, born in Boulder, Colorado (d. 2013)
Jul 19 Rachel Robinson, American social activist and humanitarian (The Jackie Robinson Foundation), born in Los Angeles, California
Jul 20 Alan S. Boyd, American politician and transportation executive (1st US Secretary of Transportation), born in Jacksonville, Florida (d. 2020)
Jul 20 Ernie Wilkins, American jazz saxophonist, arranger (Count Basie, Harry James), and bandleader, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1999)
Jul 20 Karel Krautgartner, Czech jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, arranger, composer, conductor, and teacher, born in Mikulov, Moravia (d. 1982)
Jul 21 Kay Starr [Katherine Starks], American singer (Wheel of Fortune), born in Dougherty Oklahoma (d. 2016)
Jul 21 Mollie Sugden, English actress (Are You Being Served?), born in Keighley, Yorkshire (d. 2009)
Jul 22 Dan Rowan, American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), born in Beggs, Oklahoma (d. 1987)
Jul 22 Patricia Canning Todd, American tennis player (French National C'ship singles 1947; French doubles & mixed doubles 1948; Wimbledon doubles 1947), born in San Francisco (d. 2015)
Jul 23 Moses Rosen, Chief Rabbi of Romania (1948-94), born in Moineşti, Bacău, Romania (d. 1994)
Jul 23 Stefans Grové, South African composer (Nonyana, The Ceremonial Dancer; Cyclops; Glimpses), born in Bethlehem, Orange Free State, Union of South Africa (d. 2014)
Jul 24 Charles Mathias Jr., American Republican politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland), born in Frederick, Maryland (d. 2010)
Jul 24 Leo Kraft, American composer, born in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 2014)
Jul 24 Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer, born in Louiseville, Quebec (d. 2010)
Jul 25 John B. Goodenough, American materials scientist (lithium-ion battery), solid-state physicist and Nobel laureate in chemistry, born in Jena, Germany (d. 2023)
Jul 26 Andrzej Koszewski, Polish choral and orchestral composer, and musicologist, born in Poznań, Poland (d. 2015)

Blake Edwards (1922-2010)

Jul 26 American writer and director (10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany's), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Jul 26 Frank Price, CEO (British Waterways Board), born in Birmingham (d. 2017)

Hoyt Wilhelm (1922-2002)

Jul 26 American Baseball HOF pitcher (8 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1954 NY Giants; no-hitter 1958 Baltimore Orioles; Chicago WS), born in Huntersville, North Carolina

Jul 26 Jason Robards, American actor (A Thousand Clowns, Any Wednesday), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2000)
Jul 27 Adolfo Celi, Italian film actor and director (Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue), born in Messina, Sicily (d. 1986)
Jul 27 Bob Thiele, American record producer (Impulse! Records), born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York (d. 1996)
Jul 27 Lillian Hayman, American actress (Leslie Uggams Show), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1994)
Jul 27 Norman Lear, American Peabody and Emmy Award-winning TV writer and producer (All in The Family; One Day at a Time; The Jeffersons; Maude), and film director (Cold Turkey), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2023) [1] [2]
Jul 28 Jacques Piccard, Swiss deep sea undersea explorer (one of the first to explore the Mariana Trench), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 2008)
Jul 30 Henry W. Bloch, American businessman (co-founder of H&R Block) and philanthropist, born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 2019)
Jul 30 Zbigniew Wiszniewski, Polish composer, born in Lwów, Lwowskie, Poland (d. 1999)