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Famous People Born in July 1844

  • Jul 1 Verney Lovett Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), born in Radipole, Dorset, England (d. 1894)
  • Jul 8 Mary Johnson Lincoln, American cooking teacher and author (Boston Cooking School), born in n South Attleboro, Massachusetts (d. 1921)
  • Jul 11 Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1903-21), born in Belgrade, Ottoman Tributary Principality of Serbia (d. 1921)
  • Jul 22 William Archibald Spooner, English Oxford Don and reverend and inventor (spoonerisms), born in London, England (d. 1930)

Thomas EakinsThomas Eakins (1844-1916)

Jul 25 American artist (The Gross Clinic), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Thomas Eakins
  • Jul 28 Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (Windhover), born in Stratford, London (d. 1889)
  • Jul 31 Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist and archaeologist, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1935)

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