Famous People Born in July 1883

Jul 1 Arthur Borton, English soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross, born in Cheveney, Kent (d. 1933)

Jul 3 Czech author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary

Jul 4 Maximilian Steinberg, Russian composer, born in Vilnius, Russian Empire (d. 1946)

Jul 4 American cartoonist who made the easy outrageously difficult (Pulitzer Prize 1948), born in San Francisco, California

Jul 6 Ralph Morgan [Wupperman], American actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London), born in NYC, New York (d. 1956)
Jul 7 Toivo Kuula, Finnish composer, born in Vehkakoski (d. 1918)
Jul 10 Johann Blaskowitz, German general (surrendered at Wageningen), born in Peterswalde, Germany (d. 1948)
Jul 10 Sam Wood, American communist fighter and director (For Whom the Bell Tolls), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1949)
Jul 12 Joseph Crehan, American actor (The Roaring Twenties, Meeting at Midnight), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1966)
Jul 14 Alexandru Zirra, Romanian composer (On the Plain of Moldova), and pedagogue (Treaty of Harmony), born in Roman, Romania (d. 1946)
Jul 17 Bart de Ligt, anti militarist theologist (Acting Peace)
Jul 17 Mauritz Stiller [Moshe Stiller], Swedish actor and director (The Saga of Gösta Berling, Erotikon), born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 1928)
Jul 19 Max Fleischer, Polish-American animator and film producer (Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor Man), born in Kraków, Austrian Poland (d. 1972)
Jul 23 Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, British field marshal, born in Bragnieres-de-Bigorre, France (d. 1963)
Jul 25 Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, conductor (Boston Pops, 1927-29), and composer (La Giara; Concerto Romana), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1947)

Jul 29 Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43), born in Predappio, Forlì, Italy