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Celebrity Birthdays
Sing a celebration song for these celebs, born on July 26: artist George Catlin, painter of American Indian scenes, in 1796; playwright George Bernard Shaw in 1856; Carl Jung, founder of analytic psychology, in 1875; novelist Aldous Huxley in 1894; poet/author Robert Graves in 1895; Tennessee Sen. Estes Kefauver, who led the 1950-51 Senate investigation of organized crime, in 1903; comedian Gracie Allen in 1906; actress Vivian Vance in 1912; actor Jason Robards and movie producer Blake Edwards, both in 1922; filmmaker Stanley Kubrick in 1928; storyteller Jean Shepherd in 1929; rock star Mick Jagger in 1943; actress Helen Mirren in 1946; tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis in 1954; and actors Kevin Spacey in 1959 and Sandra Bullock in 1964. July 27 marks the birthday spot for the following: French novelist Alexander Dumas the Younger, author of "Camille," in 1824; baseball player and manager Leo Durocher in 1905; actor Keenan Wynn in 1916; television producer Norman Lear in 1922; actors Jerry Van Dyke in 1931 and Don Galloway in 1937; singer/songwriter Bobbie Gentry in 1944; figure skater Peggy Fleming and actress/director Betty Thomas, both in 1948; and singer Maureen McGovern in 1949. July 28 has always been a big day for: Beatrix Potter, author and illustrator of the Peter Rabbit stories for children, in 1866; surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp in 1887; comedian Joe E. Brown in 1892; singer/actor Rudy Vallee in 1901; composer Richard Rodgers (Oklahoma!, South Pacific) in 1902; former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in 1929; Peter Duchin (pianist, bandleader; son of musician Eddy Duchin, in 1937; President Alberto Fujimori in 1938; former Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., in 1943; "Garfield" creator Jim Davis in 1945; actresses Linda Kelsey in 1946 and Sally Struthers in 1948; baseball pitcher Vida Blue in 1949; and actress Lori Loughlin in 1964. Magnificent Monday (July 29) birthday wishes are in order for: Grigoriy Rasputin, born in 1871; French historian Alexis de Tocqueville in 1805; novelist Booth Tarkington in 1869; Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1883; actress Theda Bara in 1885; composer Sigmund Romberg (The Student Prince, The Desert Song, Lover Come Back to Me, When I Grow Too Old to Dream), in 1887; actors William Powell in 1892 and Richard Egan in 1923; former Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole in 1936; TV anchorman Peter Jennings in 1938; actor David Warner in 1941; former second lady Marilyn Tucker Quayle in 1949; documentary filmmaker Ken Burns in 1954; country singer Martina McBride in 1966; and actor Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation) in 1972. These significant celebs all share a July 30 birthdate: English novelist Emily Bronte in 1818; auto pioneer Henry Ford in 1863; baseball player/manager Casey Stengel in 1890; English sculptor Henry Moore in 1898; Baseball Commissioner Allan "Bud" Selig in 1934; film director Peter Bogdanovich in 1939; singer Paul Anka in 1941; bodybuilder-turned-actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1947; Anita Hill, of the Clarence Thomas hearings fame, in 1956; and actors Ken Olin in 1954, Delta Burke in 1956, Laurence Fishburne in 1961, Lisa Kudrow in 1963, and Hilary Swank in 1974. The following birthday bigshots were brought to you by July 31-and the letter J: author and jurist James Kent in 1763; Confederate Army guerrilla leader William Quantrill, whose wartime raid on Lawrence, Kan., left some 150 people dead, in 1837; pollster Elmo Burns Roper Jr., in 1900; economist Milton Friedman and former TV talk-show host and columnist Irv Kupcinet, both in 1912; actor Don Murray in 1929; actress France Nuyen in 1939 and Geraldine Chaplin in 1944; singer Gary Lewis in 1946; Australian tennis player Evonne Goolagong in 1951; Bill Berry, guitarist for the rock band R.E.M., in 1958; and actors Wesley Snipes in 1962 and Dean Cain (Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) in 1966.
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