Happy Birthday Orson Bean-84 Óscar Aristides de la Renta Fiallo-80 Estelle Louise Fletcher-78 Terence Stamp-74 Giorgi Alex Trebek-72 Danny Glover-66 Don Henley-65 Willem Dafoe-57 John Leguizamo-48 David Spade-48 Colin Ferguson-40 Franka Potente-38 : 1934 – Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, “Public Enemy No. 1” John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
July 21
Happy Birthday RIP Don Knotts(1924–2006) ; Janet Reno-74 Cat Stevens(Steven Georgiou)-64 Robin Williams-61bJon Lovitz-55 Josh Hartnett-34 ; 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100
July 19
Happy Birthday George McGovern-90 Brian May-65 Atom Egoyan-52 Campbell Scott-51 Anthony Edwards-50 William Houston-44 Jared Padalecki-30 ; 1900 – The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
July 18
Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela-94 James Brolin(Craig Bruderlin)-72 Audrey Hamburg(Landers)-56 Elizabeth McGovern-51 Wendy Williams-48 Vin Diesel(Mark Vincent)-45 Kristen Bell-32 Christopher Chace Crawford-27 ; 1914 – The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving definite status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
July 16
Happy Birthday RIP Barbara Stanwyck(Ruby Stevens 1907–1990) Ginger Rogers(Virginia McMath 1911–1995) ; Phoebe Cates-49 John William Ferrell-45 Corey Feldman-41 Jesse Jane(Cindy(Taylor)-32 Kyle Kaplan-22 ; 1790 – The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the U.S. government
July 15
Happy Birthday Alex Karras-77 Linda Ronstadt-66 Arianna Huffington-62 Terry O’Quinn-60 Albert Upton(Willie Aames)-52 Forest Whitaker-51 Scott Foley-40 ; 1606 – The painter Rembrandt was born in Leiden, Netherlands.
July 13
Happy Birthday Sir Patrick Stewart-72 Harrison Ford-70 Richard “Cheech” Marin-66 Edith Bernstein(Didi Conn)-61 Thelma Louise Mandrell-58 Cameron Crowe-55 Robert Gonzalez(Robert Gant)-44 Deborah Cox-38 Terrence Steven McQueen II-24 ; 1923 – The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It originally reads “Hollywoodland ” but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.