Famous July-born gals
These famous women, one for each day of the month, run the gamut from sports and politics to entertainment and beyond. Consider both their first names and surnames for your short list.
July 1, 1967: Pamela Anderson, Playboy Playmate and Baywatch babe
July 2, 1986: Lindsay Lohan, Disney star gone wild
July 3, 1941: Gloria Allred, high-profile attorney for women's rights
July 4, 1998: Malia Obama, elder daughter of President Barack and Michelle Obama
July 5, 1985: Megan Rapinoe, former member of the U.S. women's national soccer team
July 6, 1931: Della Reese, jazz singer and Touched by an Angel actress
July 7, 1980: Michelle Kwan, Olympic figure skating gold medalist
July 8, 1951: Anjelica Huston, Oscar-winning star of Prizzi's Honor
July 9, 1964: Courtney Love, widow of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain
July 10, 1980: Jessica Simpson, pop star, reality TV star and fashion designer
July 11, 1975: Nadya Suleman, notorious welfare mom of 14 known as "Octomom"
July 12, 1951: Cheryl Ladd, TV actress of Charlie's Angels fame
July 13, 1927: Simone Veil, French survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
July 14, 1960: Jane Lynch, best known as Glee's Sue Sylvester
July 15, 1946: Linda Ronstadt, the "First Lady of Rock"
July 16, 1963: Phoebe Cates, topless star of Fast Times at Ridgemont High
July 17, 1935: Diahann Carroll, African American star of Julia and Dynasty
July 18, 1982: Priyanka Chopra, Miss World's 2000 pageant winner and Bollywood actress
July 19, 1860: Lizzie Borden, young woman accused (and acquitted) of murdering her parents with a hatchet
July 19, 1966: Nancy Carell, TV actress and wife of Steve Carell
July 20, 1938: Natalie Wood, Hollywood starlet who played West Side Story's Maria
July 21, 1968: Brandi Chastain, professional soccer player who stripped off her jersey in the 1999 World Cup
July 22, 1934: Louise Fletcher, best known as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
July 23, 1973: Monica Lewinsky, infamous White House intern who had a fling with President Clinton
July 24, 1951: Lynda Carter, portrayed TV's Wonder Woman
July 25, 1978: Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby
July 26, 1909: Vivian Vance, remembered as Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy
July 27, 1944: Bobbie Gentry, "Ode to Billie Joe" songstress
July 28, 1929: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, widow of President John F. Kennedy
July 29, 1905: Clara Bow, silent film star known as the "It Girl"
July 30, 1956: Delta Burke, former beauty queen who played Designing Women's Suzanne Sugarbaker
July 31, 1951: Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Australian tennis champion
Famous July-born guys
There's no denying that this fabulous assortment of well-known men provides some fantastic baby name ideas.
July 1, 1961: Carl Lewis, Olympic track and field gold medalist
July 2, 1908: Thurgood Marshall, first African American U.S. Supreme Court justice
July 3, 1962: Tom Cruise, movie star of Risky Business, Top Gun and Mission: Impossible fame
July 4, 1927: Neil Simon, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
July 5, 1950: Huey Lewis, frontman for 80s band Huey Lewis and the News
July 6, 1925: Merv Griffin, media mogul who created Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune
July 7, 1940: Ringo Starr, drummer for The Beatles
July 8, 1961: Toby Keith, country music singer and founder of the Mad Dog Nashville label
July 9, 1956: Tom Hanks, Academy Award-winning film star
July 10, 1956: Nikola Tesla, Austrian scientist who invented the electrical motor
July 11, 1920: Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor and star of The King and I
July 12, 1895: Oscar Hammerstein II, one half of the Broadway musical team Rodgers and Hammerstein
July 131942: Harrison Ford, action movie actor of Indiana Jones fame
July 14, 1918: Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director
July 15, 1606: Rembrandt van Rijn, brilliant Dutch painter
July 16, 1971: Corey Feldman, teen star of Gremlins and Goonies
July 17, 1763: John Jacob Astor, first American multimillionaire
July 18, 1937: Hunter S. Thompson, drugged-up journalist who penned Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
July 19, 1834: Edgar Degas, French impressionist painter
July 20, 1822: Gregor Mendel, Czech Republic research scientist and founder of modern genetics
July 21, 1920: Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist and mentor to Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma
July 22, 1940: Alex Trebek, Jeopardy! quiz show host
July 23, 1989: Daniel Radcliffe, aka Harry Potter
July 24, 1969: Michael Richards, best known as Seinfeld's Cosmo Kramer
July 25, 1967: Matt LeBlanc, played the airhead Joey Tribbiani on Friends
July 26, 1928: Stanley Kubrick, acclaimed director of 2001: A Space Odyssey
July 27, 1667: Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and inventor of calculus
July 28, 1945: Jim Davis, Garfield cartoonist
July 29, 1833: Benito Mussolini, fascist Italian dictator during WWII
July 30, 1947: Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Mr. Universe, actor and governor of California
July 31, 1919: Curt Gowdy, Hall of Fame sports broadcaster
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