Birthdays Date 1928 July | History by KabAstro

Jul 8 Norma Donaldson, American stage and screen singer and actress (Across 110th Street; Poetic Justice; The Young And The Restless), born in Harlem, New York (d. 1994)
Jul 9 Federico Bahamontes, Spanish road cyclist (Tour de France 1959; first to win mountain classification in all 3 Grand Tours), born in Santo Domingo-Caudilla, Spain (d. 2023)
Jul 9 Raúl Coloma, Chilean soccer goalkeeper (13 caps; Ferrobádminton, Municipal Santiago, Ferroviaros), born in Santiago, Chile (d. 2021)
Jul 9 Vince Edwards, American actor, director, and singer (Ben Casey, The Devil's Brigade, Matt Lincoln, Firehouse), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1996)
Jul 10 Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine auto racer and car manufacturer (De Tomaso Automobili), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 2003)
Jul 10 Bernard Buffet, French painter (Expressionism), born in Paris (d. 1999)
Jul 10 Jack Nel, South African cricket batsman (6 Tests, Western Province), born in Cape Town, South Africa (d. 2018)
Jul 10 Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2010)
Jul 11 (Carl) "Bobo" Olson, American boxer World Middleweight Champion, 1953-55), born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii (d. 2002)
Jul 11 Andrea Veneracion, Filipina singer, choral conductor (Philippine Madrigal Singers), composer, arranger, and educator, born in Manila, Philippines (d. 2013)

Frank Rosenblatt (1928-1971)

Jul 11 American psychologist and computer scientist (Perceptron), born in New Rochelle, New York

Jul 11 Marcos Calderón, Peruvian soccer coach (Peru 1975-79; Copa América 1975), born in Lima, Peru (d. 1987)
Jul 11 Nic Jonk, Dutch sculptor and painter (Jonas & the Whale), born in Grootschermer, New York (d. 1994)
Jul 11 Robert Washburn, American composer and teacher, born in Bouckville, New York (d. 2013)
Jul 12 Barbara Cowsill, American singer and rock band mother (The Cowsills - "Hair"; "We Can Fly"), born in Cranston, Rhode Island (d. 1985)
Jul 12 Elias James Corey, American organic chemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1990), born in Methuen, Massachusetts [1]
Jul 12 Hayden White, American "literary criticism" historian (Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe), born in Martin, Tennessee (d. 2018)
Jul 12 Kathy Staff [Minnie Higginbottom], British actress (Mary Reilly, Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours), born in Dukinfield, Cheshire, England (d. 2008)
Jul 12 Sir Alastair Burnet [James William Alexander Burnet], British journalist and broadcaster (News at Ten), Born in Sheffield, England (d. 2012)
Jul 13 Al Rex [Piccirilli], American rock upright bass player (Bill Haley & His Comets - "Rock Around The Clock"), born in Norristown, Pennsylvania (d. 2020)
Jul 13 Bob Crane, American DJ and actor (Hogan's Heroes; The Donna Reed Show), born in Waterbury, Connecticut (d. 1978)
Jul 13 Donal Michalsky, American composer, born in Pasadena, California (d. 1975)
Jul 13 Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz and session bassist (Shelly Manne; Teddy Edwards; Les McCann), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1999)
Jul 13 Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and informant, born in Palermo, Sicily (d. 2000)
Jul 14 Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, English artist and teacher, born in London, England (d. 1995)
Jul 14 Nancy Olson, American actress (Sunset Boulevard; The Absent-Minded Professor; Pollyanna), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jul 14 Ole Schmidt, Danish composer and conductor, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2010)
Jul 14 Pierre Olaf [Trivier], French actor (Camelot, Don't Drink the Water, Kraft Music Hall), born in Caudéran, Bordeaux (d. 1995)
Jul 15 Carl Woese, American microbiologist (defining the Archaea) and academic, born in Syracuse, New York (d. 2012)
Jul 15 Joseph Arthurlin "Joe" Harriott, Jamaican-British be-bop and free-form jazz alto saxophonist (Abstract), born in Kingston, Jamaica (d. 1973)
Jul 15 Pál Benkő, Hungarian-American chess player, author (Grandmaster; record 8 US Open Championships), born in Amiens, France (d. 2019)
Jul 16 Anita Brookner, English novelist (Hotel du Lac) and art historian, born in London (d. 2016)
Jul 16 Bella Davidovich, Jewish Soviet-American pianist (Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel), born in Baku, Azerbaijan
Jul 16 James Kilfedder, Northern Ireland unionist politician, born in Kinlough, Ireland (d. 1995)
Jul 16 Jim Rathmann, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500, 1960; Race of Two Worlds at Monza, 1958), born in Alhambra, California (d. 2011)
Jul 16 Ray Thornton, American politician (Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas), born in Conway, Arkansas (d. 2016)
Jul 16 Robert Sheckley, American sci-fi author (10th Victim, Mindswap), born in New York City (d. 2005)
Jul 16 Ticho Parly, Danish tenor, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1993)
Jul 17 Jean Muir, British fashion designer and dressmaker, born in London (d. 1995)
Jul 17 Joe Morello, American jazz drummer (Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Blue Rondo à la Turk"), born in Springfield, Massachussets (d. 2011)
Jul 17 Vince Guaraldi, American jazz pianist and composer ("Cast Your Fate to the Wind"; Peanuts TV specials), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1976)
Jul 18 Simon Vinkenoog, Dutch writer and poet, born in Amsterdam (d. 2009)
Jul 19 John Bratby, English painter and writer (Breakdown), born in Wimbledon, London (d. 1992)
Jul 20 Charles David Ganao, Djambala, French Equatorial Africa, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (1996-1997), (d. 2012)
Jul 20 Jan Meyers, American politician (Rep-R-Kansas, 1985-97), born in Lincoln, Nebraska (d. 2019)
Jul 20 Pavel Kohout, Czech-Austrian playwright (Poor Murderer), poet, novelist (I Am Snowing), and dissident (Charter 77), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia
Jul 20 Peter Ind, British jazz double bassist, born in Middlesex, England (d. 2021)
Jul 21 Chuck Low, American actor (Goodfellas; Once Upon A Time In America), born in New York City (d. 2017)
Jul 21 Sky Low Low [Marcel Gauthier], Canadian professional wrestler, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1998)
Jul 22 (William) "Keter" Betts, American jazz double bassist (Dinah Washington; Charlie Byrd; Ella Fitzgerald), born in Port Chester, New York (d. 2005)
Jul 22 Georg Dreyfus, German-Australian classical and film score composer, born in Elberfeld, Germany
Jul 22 Orson Bean, American actor and comedian (To Tell the Truth), born in Burlington, Vermont (d. 2020)
Jul 23 Bill Lee, American session double-bassist, and film score composer (Do The Right Thing; She's Gotta Have It), born in Snow Hill, Alabama (d. 2023)
Jul 23 Cy Young, American athlete and only US male to win gold in javelin throwing (1952 Olympics), born in Modesto, California (d. 2017)
Jul 23 Hubert Selby Jr., American author (Last Exit to Brooklyn), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2004)
Jul 23 Leon Fleisher, American pianist and conductor (Annapolis Symphony, 1970-82), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2020) [1]
Jul 23 Vera Rubin, American astronomer who discovered dark matter, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2016)
Jul 25 Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (The Rites of May), born in Pagsanjan, Philippines (d. 1988)
Jul 26 Elliott Erwitt [Elio Romano], French-American photographer (Gimme Shelter), and documentarian, born in Paris, France (d. 2023)
Jul 26 Hans Haselböck, Austrian organist and composer, born in Nesselstauden, Lower Austria (d. 2021)
Jul 26 Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet, born in Allahabad, India (d. 1980)
Jul 26 Joe Jackson, American talent manager (Jackson 5), and patriarch of the Jackson family, born in Fountain Hill, Arkansas (d. 2018)
Jul 26 Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician (10th Premier of Alberta), born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (d. 2012)

Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)

Jul 26 American director (2001 A Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove, Lolita), born in The Bronx NY

Jul 26 Tadeusz Baird, Polish composer (Four Essays; Psychodrama; Voices From Afar), co-founder of Warsaw Autumn festival, and educator, born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland (d. 1981)
Jul 27 Karloff Lagarde, Mexican professional wrestler, born in Zapotlán de Juárez, Hidalgo, Mexico (d. 2007)
Jul 27 Sakari Mononen, Finnish composer, born in Korpiselkä, Finland (d. 1997)
Jul 28 Adrian Ratiu, Romanian composer, born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 2005)
Jul 28 Anne Braden, American civil rights activist, journalist, and educator, born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2006)
Jul 29 Bidzina Alexandrovich Kvernadze, Georgian composer, born in Sighnaghi, Georgia (d. 2010)
Jul 29 Konstantin Orbelyan, Armenian pianist, jazz and classical composer, and orchestra leader (State Estrada (Pops) Orchestra), born in Armavir, Armenia (d. 2014)

Li Ka-shing (95 years old)

Jul 29 Hong Kong-Chinese business magnate and entrepreneur (CK Holdings), born in Chao'an, Guangdong, China

Jul 30 Eunice Muñoz, Portuguese actress (A Morgadinha dos Canaviais; Hard Times), born in Amareleja, Portugal (d. 2022)
Jul 30 Joe Nuxhall, American baseball pitcher and sportscaster (youngest MLB player at 15 years, 316 days), born in Hamilton, Ohio (d. 2007)
Jul 30 Valentin Muratov, Russian gymnast (4 gold, 1 silver medals 1952, 1956 Olympics), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2006)
Jul 31 Bill Frenzel, American politician (Rep-R-MN, 1971-91), born in St Paul, Minnesota (d. 2014)